Beer Baron

haha indeed. bye bye. a good banning always brightens the day.

Ok here are some pics of how some people live in tokyo. This is the appartment of my friend. I stay there when he is over here in sydney. It's in Azabu which is adjascent to Roppongi and just near Ebisu. Excellent location except that it's down the street from the russian embasy which means every bloody weekend Japanese Nationalists come and protest and the riot police close down the street. The protestors come in their black vans and have the most insanely loud megaphones which is not the best thing to wake you up whilst you are sleeping off the night before. It freaked me out the first time as I had NFI what was going on. They are protesting about a small island to the north of japan. It is currently part of Russia but the Japanese nationalists want it returned to japan. they are most un-happy it seems. This pic is taken from the bedroom balcony so you can see how close they are. You can see the police have a special little concertina road block and they have a van with a look-out on top. When he sees them coming he gives the signal and they close the road. On the left just out of the picture is a small bus packed full of riot police just sitting there waiting for things to jump off. It must take a lot of cash as the police are there every day. here they are at the ready: This is the appartment. this is the kitchen and lounge room. I am standing just near the door to the lounge room balcony (it's behind me). to my right is the plasma, to the left the couch. then kitchen, down the hall the first door on the left is the toilet room (just sink and toilet) opposite it is the door to the bathroom (very big, has shower and bath and seperate vanity unit). Then next door on the left is entry door. On the right is a little alcove with washer/dryer and the door to the bedroom which also has a balcony. view from the lounge room balcony. Day time view. Looking at Roppongi. The big building is the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. the lobby. Everything is state of the art of course... even has a fancy name.

ok, this next set is from a big day at Fuji Speedway. There were two events on this day. A drift event on the drift course and a time attack (run in part by Garage Saurus) on the circuit. Fuji-san. Such a great sight. One of my favourite 32 GTRs. I was lucky enough to have a good chat to the owner about this car and it's certainly pretty special. It runs 9.2s at the circuit and is a registered and street driven car (I actually drove back with him on the freeway). He wouldn't tell me his circuit times, but it looked bloody quick. It has lots of nice touches such as the custom one-off panasport G7s. The rears are 18X11.5 running 315/30/18 Pirelli semi slicks!!! ouch. Other little touches are the HKS T51R which was custom modified by Saurus. Big endless brakes and all the good gear. It's is such a fine car. and the owner was very friendly and modest too. But I would say his car was wearing the number 1 for a reason, and it's probably not because he was first in with the entry form.... Now some other cars at the time attack: Crazy R33. This one had a massive wing support under the rear boot lid basically connecting the rear wing to the chassis. Very cool. another white 32. this one a little tamer with a T04Z instead of the T51 in the other white 32. That's if you can call a T04Z tame... I dunno why but I quite liked this S14. It was very quick too. a shitload of cool cars at this event. yet another very nice Saurus GTR. GTR up the inside... noice. 34 GTT looked pretty cool too. one of my favourite was the little doer. He was not afraid to play even though he didn't have a fancy pants GTR. This GTST was pretty sweet though. Brembo brakes, nice rims, lots of gauges and no doubt some good suspension and engine bits too. The owner was baffled as to why I had walked away from all the hard core cars in the garages to come and take photos of his GTST. until I told him I had one too.

Ok this post is all 2007 Tokyo Auto Salon pics. I will edit it and add more pics as I go along. one of my favourites. the URAS GT kit on a 180sx. very nice.

here is the other side of the drift coin. a sort of wannabe tokyo drifter doing a burnout in a rest stop on the wangan. he then tried some little drifts around the parking area much to the horror of my friends who's Top Secret built R34 GTR was parked there.

ok, I'm going to get off my lazy, lazy butt and get some up. Starting with one of my favourites. This photo was taken by me in early 2007 on the togue at Tsukuba mountain. It's an awesome place. At this moment it's freezing cold (so cold I'm shaking half the time). but it's a beautiful clear night and all you can hear is up to 30 cars screaming up and down the mountain. It's insane you can hear them coming long before you see them. My friends and I are standing on the inside of one of the long sweepers on the inside of the corner. Worryingly for me there is no guard rail between me and the cars and they are entering here in 3rd and 4th gear with I'd estimate somewhere around 140kph road speed. The next corner down the hill is where the main 'gallery' is with probably 50 spectators watching from behind the safety of the guard rail on the outside of the corner. I'm shocked that so many people trek out here as it's a good few hours drive out of tokyo and it's the middle of no where. It was hard for me to get pics as I didn't want to seem like a knob with the constant flash photography blinding drivers trying to stay on a narrow piece of road so I only got a couple. One of my favourite nights out from all the japan trips. pic 1 (the downhill).

That is an awesome site laurance. is it yours? Either way it's nice that someone took the time to do something like that.

I hope you have been saving your pocket money. you will probably find just japs estimate was pretty well right. also, if you do plain on emailing top secret do us all a favour and write your words out in full.

all I want to know is if you were 17, 3 years ago, and you're 18 now then can you please direct me towards the fountain of youth you have. also, "dose" is a colloquial term used to describe catching a variety of STDs....

lol, if by mines tuned you mean does it have a mines sticker? then the answer is yes.

you are a strange man b-man...

yep rear diff is 2 way mechanical (ie, Not viscous) LSD. front is not LSD.

nice work on catching the dirty little thieves. I hope you make the fkers pay for your car. as for the mountain bikes? what mountain bikes? I don't remember any mountain bikes in your backyard...

and a round nissan badge on the bonnet instead of the S badge. and yeah, you were the butt much.

boring race. maclaren smashed them lapping everyone up to 4th. massa was a long way back and the rest... well the rest were at least a lap down. webber's car broke again and kimi was buried down the order and couldn't seem to pass anyone. oh, and thanks a bunch channel ten for delaying the telecast so you can rip off halfwits who text in for your fking big brother quiz. arseholes.

post the differences butt munch! this one looks ok: http://www.carsales.com.au/used-cars/priva...matchallpartial this is the one for sale on UAS too. A bit less desireable I reckon as it has twice the kms and more mods. http://www.carsales.com.au/used-cars/priva...matchallpartial

btw, one trap I fell into. it seems the R34 holes are 14X1.5 NOT 14X1.25... d'oh. can anyone tell me off the top of their head is the R32 bolts 12X1.25 or 12X1.5?

it depends a lot on size (20ft, 40ft) and where it's being loaded, and who is doing the loading etc, who is preparing the bill of lading and how many items are on it (with a car just 1 obviously). all that stuff costs $$. there are heaps of associated costs with container shipping parts/goods/etc. when the time comes around best to just start getting prices from K-line or mitsui. both very good.

meh, I've been team wang for long time. It's not all that. BTR is way better. no doubt. corrine, I'll take a BTR sticker. better put johnny down for one too. and waye and ron probably too. and please tell me talk is spelt t a l k?

R33GTS25: Just to clarify something here. I am assuming that you are NOT offering to pirate a copy of someones copyrighted work for xanavinismo. That would be strictly against the forum rules and would incurr account suspension. I will assume that you mean you have a copy of the 33 manual and invited xanavinismo to pm you so you can tell him how and where you purchased it so that he can do the same.

stephen, that's for container with car inside. if it's for your general stuff/parts etc there will be other associated costs. general rule is budget around $80 USD per cubic metre for consolidated cargo. plus that $1300 doesn't include clearance, customs, duty. You will find the actual shipping portion of roro is only about $700 or $800.

lol, I'm pretty sure kero was joking guys. I'm sure shanons will be fine. if you don't have hire car in your policy I wouldn't get one and hope the other insurer will pay. They may not in which case you'll be out of pocket. I have only ever made one claim against my own insurance and that was with shanons and they were excellent.

basic things to look for are: rear number plate surround does not have reverse lights either side outer rear brake lights are also the indicator and have an orange lense they have the under car coolers too, but these have sometimes been removed Marcus will be able to tell you what makes an Aus GTR an Aus GTR. I saw one for sale in NSW not so long ago for around $40K. It was stock.

corrine, I think you will find paul was trying to be funny.

nice work giant and james. james, I was sitting by the phone all week waiting for my call up as co-driver but there must be something wrong with my phone as it never rang