I have just received a couple new videos of the Buttonwillow Raceway track outing.  The first one was made by the the infamous Craig Lieberman (of Fast and Furious fame) and the second was done by Thomas Ramies who is the father of the professional driver that drove our GT-R.

I would like to thank everyone at the track day that sent me footage. I would also like to thank South Side Performance and Cobb Tuning for their support and getting parts to us with a quickness.

We should also be getting some new parts for the GT-R this week so expect to see a post on that soon.  Happy Monday!!!

GTR Battle: FINAL from Craig Lieberman on Vimeo.

Michael Ramies Driving the ZCG/SSP GTR at Buttonwillow 12/29/08 from Thomas Ramies on Vimeo.

I have made arrangements with Canepa Design to have a private veiwing of the entire museum, the restoration shop, and possibly the very exclusive Canepa customer storage area.  This is truly going to be a trip that will be burned into the memories of all who attend.

We plan is to meet at the shop on Sat. the 24th of January at 9:00AM.  We will provide some form of breakfast deal (coffee, doughnuts, bagels etc.) followed by some time to check out the cars and talk GT-Rs.  The plan continues on with a nice drive through some senic roads (exact route TBD) down to Scotts Valley and finally arriving at Canepa Design around 1pm or so.

I could write for a couple more hours here trying to describe my last experience here but it is much better to come down and experience it for yourself.  For those of you who won’t be able to make it, I will have an entire event report hopefully the evening after the meet.

For more info on Canepa and photos of the museum click on the link below.  This place simply blows my mind.  For instance, last time I was there I counted more than seven Porsche 959s.  We were even enlisted to help push one more that arrived via semi during our tour.  The quality of vehicles at Canepa are almost unparalled in the US.  Simply amazing.  Didn’t I say I wasn’t going to talk about it?  Oh well.

We can make plans for what do after the museum tour as the event nears, or we can make none and all split off on our own separate ways.  Either way works for us.  If you have any other ideas feel free to email me through ZCG by sending it to Rob@zcargarage.com or by clicking on the link to a thread that has already been started on the North American GT-R Owners Club (NAGTROC.org) forum.  I’ve also started a list on the thread for those who plan on attending.  Thanks and we hope to see you soon.

More updates to come as they are formed and pictures of my last trip should be up tomorrow (sorry.)

Link: Canepa Design

Link: NAGTROC Meet Thread

As promised here are a few shots of how we lined the cars up this year.  This show is always a little strange for us because we don’t have a booth like usual.  We just display the amazing things we can do with an automobile.  I will have more detailed pictures of the entire show over the next few days; these were just snapped as I finished prepping the cars this morning.  Enjoy

I’ve confirmed our plans for the GT-R cruise on the 24th. I’m putting this teaser out there because I need to head down to the Silicon Valley Auto Show to take care of a few loose ends. I’ll have some pictures of where we are headed on the drive and some pictures of the show when I get back.

I also want to mention here that we are inviting all Skyline GT-Rs of the past to the meet and drive as well. We would love to represent as much of the Skyline lineage as possible.

I’m still waiting to hear back from my connections about the GT-R meet here at ZCG on the 24th so to hold you over here are a few videos of our GT-R.

The first one is of professional driver Michael Ramies putting the car through it’s paces around Buttonwillow Raceway at the GT-R only trackday last month.  The next couple of videos were shot while the car was down in LA after the trackday to do some more R&D for our up and coming GT-R product line.

I’ll post up more about the GT-R meet as I get more information.  There will also be some photos coming today of the Silicon Valley Auto Show.  We took eleven cars this year, only one of which is a repeat from last year.  We make some pretty cool cars here, in case you were wondering.  Enjoy the videos!