INTRODUCING: Noah

In the throes of COVID lock downs in Victoria, I had already purchased one of my bucket list cars – a white Toyota Echo named Barry (I haven’t done a blog post about him as he’s completely stock at this point in time and hasn’t seen a race track). As a big fan of white […]

BROADFORD: Private Test and Tune Pt 2 – Trials and Tribulations

My only previous experience attending an open pitlane event was once at Wakefield a few years back. I have a fond memory of completing 25 glorious hot laps with the Echo and only coming back into the pits because I was physically tired. Without defined sessions or groups, it was hard to know when too […]

SUCC Logic Centre: The return of Red

With the RS4’s on Perry well and truly at the end of their life, I had decided over summer to purchase some new tyres for our Nug Nats event at Winton later in March. In the mean time, SUCC had announced another track day at MTA which a few of us had decided to go […]

GRAPE KINGS: Black Limited Edition.

As the end of the year rolled around and track days thinned out, we reverted back to what we usually do over the Summer and rallied the usual suspects for some drives through the mountains. On one of the drives, Human Perry’s debuted his new AE86 with his recently aquired SSR MK II’s. It’s been […]

AUTUMN DRIVE: Coffee to go

Anticipating that this might be the last nice weekend we had before Winter was upon us, a last minute drive was organised to enjoy the beautiful Autumn weather. Perfect subject matter for a perfect day. A typical drive for us involves a bonnet up. This time it’s Ruthran trying to troubleshoot his boost “problem.” Adam […]

All Toyota Winterfest 2016

Monday 13th June, 2016. It was Queens Birthday long weekend which also happened to coincide with one of the two car shows I attend in the year, Toyota Winterfest. Conveniently held in the suburbs at Sandown Raceway, I enlisted the help of Brett to drive the Echo so I could get both my cars down […]

GRAPE KINGS: Last week PB’s, this week RB’s.

After the excitement of last weeks track day with all members of the Grape King’s PB-ing, it was nice to enjoy our other cars this weekend. With Charlie’s fresh RB25DE conversion more or less complete, it was time to baptise it with it’s first Grape Kings drive. Read about his build here: Jzx Garage Thanks to Tony’s […]

MOTORKHANA: Porsche day

As I had some business to attend to on the other side of town, I stopped by for an hour at the Porsche motorkhana day to see if Tony (who does not own a Porsche) had blown up his diff yet. Thankfully he had not! If you squint and rub butter into your eyes it sorta […]

GRAPE KINGS: Good Friday – Datsun Breakdown Roulette

I had flown back into Melbourne on Thursday, and few people had asked why I wasn’t staying in Sydney for the Easter long weekend. This was the reason why. Charlie, Tony, Adam and I had planned on finally going on a much discussed drive to Mount Baw Baw before Winter set in and Good Friday was […]

PROJECT RATTLESNAKE: #5 Wrecking and Research

Nothing terribly exciting happening on the rattlesnake front a part from wrecking and research. As it would turn out, wrecking cars can be quite interesting. Reversing all the engineering that went into a car 12 years ago is quite therapeutic. You also gain an interesting insight into the previous owner(s). I did this just to […]