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by Alvin G @ 7:07 pm on February 20, 2013
Historic Japanese Car Gathering is hosting their 2nd vintage meet on April 20, 2013 in San Leandro, CA. They were the masterminds behind the fabulously successful Bayline show last year:
To find out more details about the April show go to the HJCG website or Facebook and read their message below:
Hello everyone HJCG will be hosting a Car Show for Oldschool Japanese vehicles. This will be our version of meals, wheels and Car Show. We have also contacted some local food vendors to come out so this event should be a good one!
Registration will be $10 per car open to all Classic Japanese Cars. This event will also have a swap meet section and it will cost $15 if you would like a spot. For swap meet information and signup email hjcg_jamesv@historicj.com
This Show will be held on April 20, 2013 at the San Leandro Marina, 40 Mulford Point Drive, San Leandro, CA 94577. Start time is 10am and will end at 5pm.
Hopefully you guys/gals can attend. If your cars are currently not running, restorations in progress or fully built track cars just bring out whatever you have and come support the classic car community.
Registration will be open March 5, 2013
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by Alvin G @ 10:54 pm on February 18, 2013
Interested in a fun cruise through beautiful backroads in March? ZONC fun runs are great and we have enjoyed running them many times. You can find more details on the official Cruise Flyer and also on the ZONC homepage.
Congratulations to Scott Smith for winning the SPEC Z racing series with the GreenZ!
After earning his SCCA license Scott started competing in the SPEC Z series with his silver race car and eventually prepared the GreenZ to finish the season. Scott had a small team consisting of himself and his sidekicks Al and J. You could catch these three practicing at open track days like Thunderhill or Laguna Seca trying to dial the car in and find weak spots(see wheel bearing failure below!).
Here’s a video clip from a SPECZ race at Thunderhill:
Scott would like to thank Z Car Garage, William’s, CityTech, Evil Genius, NISMO and BFG. Great driving Scott, we are proud of you!
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by Alvin G @ 11:13 pm on February 10, 2013
We had an enormous turnout on today’s fun run to the coast. I think we left ZCG with a caravan of 20 cars of all years and makes. A few more cars joined us in downtown Saratoga and we were all off to enjoy some twisty roads up HWY9 and Skyline. Though it was cold, the sunny sky and great visibility provided some impressive views of the Bay Area and coastline:
At our first vista point off Skyline I noticed all of the late-model machinery in our caravan including Eric’s FR-S, Meghan’s Z33, Kurt’s C5 Z06, a Z34, Michael’s Vortech Mustang, and Scott’s Z32TT
I was so happy to see how many vintage Datsuns showed up too! We had 9 Datsun roadsters, 2 510 coupes, 1 510 wagon, 2 S30s and a’77 S130. From left to right: Mike’s ’68 SR20(he drove from SoCal!), David’s 67.5 SRL, Mike B’s ‘67.5 SPL, Rob’s 67.5 SRL, my 67.5, Eddie W’s ’66 SR20, Stacey’s ’70 SRL, Ken’s blown KA SRL, Tony’s flared turbo L-series 510, Matt G’s Turbo KA 510, Matt D’s 510 wagon, Rico’s 240z, Randy M’s 240z and Lou’s RHD FairladyZ:
Whoa! Now that is alot of Datsuns! You know you are driving something special when the Ferrari and Porsche guys whip out their fancy cameras to take a picture your DATSUN 🙂
We motored on past Alice’s restaurant and headed west to the coast via 84 to Pescadero beach. 84 is one of my favorite roads with endless turns. After lunch at Duarte’s Tavern remaining drivers drove up Pescadero Rd and back to Skyline/Hw9 for one last stop and a nice photo-op:
Huge thank you to everyone that braved the chilly morning to come out and enjoy the ride today. With spring and summer around the corner you can count on more fun runs to come!
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by Alvin G @ 12:17 am on February 6, 2013
Our Datsun friend Tony F. is visiting from Georgia and we thought it would be a good excuse to take our Datsuns out for a drive and enjoy the ride with him. Let’s do a quick fun run this Sunday morning, 2/10!
We will start at Z Car Garage in San Jose and drive up HW 9, 35 and take La Honda to the coast. From there it’s less than a mile to Duarte’s Tavern for lunch/brunch.
More twisties back home via Pescadero Rd.
Meet/Start: Z Car Garage: 140 Archer St, San Jose 95112
When: Sunday, 2/10 at 9am
