Yearly Archives: 2015


We love Toyota. So much so that I named my youngest daughter after Toyota’s long running compact sports car, the Celica. Now Toyota has reciprocated, naming their most production ready concept from the Tokyo Motor show after my eldest daughter. We are honoured. And you thought I was just bullshitting when I told you that I my wife’s family was […]

Hinata Concept


It’s pretty quiet in here, but car life is busy. I recently discovered Instagram, and have enjoyed it as a an easy place to share images from my activities, with minimal dialogue, and none of the political bullshit that rules the rest of social media. Follow me HERE.

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I have heard anecdotes about arranged marriages that result in true love. I believe those stories. I do not mean to imply a belief that all arranged marriages can result in true love. I merely accept the idea that the act of loving can result in a feeling of love. I also accept that many arranged marriages likely result in […]

Leaving a Legacy


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Philosophically, ZN6 nearly requires four throttles IMO. Three years in though, and I don’t think that anyone has actually done it right. By my reckoning, Toyota’s D4-S system is mission impossible for all the major standalone systems. And since ITB’s typically run off a MAP sensor and all the commonly available individual throttle bodies are cable operated, then relying solely […]

4連スロットル



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My life has been full of cones. My first enounter with a cone was as a 7-year-old goalkeeper. Because when kids are too small to use a full sized soccer pitch, you make a mini-pitch and mini-goal with cones. Despite all of the lines painted on high school gymnasium floors, basketball practices are still littered with cones that define space […]

Cones.


The Solo season is essentially over, it snowed yesterday and leaves are starting to turn. Winter is almost here, and I’m trying hard not to demonstrate the symptoms of being sick in the head. My FRS is ok, but I want another car: a real Subaru. When I owned this car, I acknowledged that it was the greatest car I […]

In Veneration Of…