Attention all Datsun racing fans! The Vintage Sedan Racers Group(VSRG) is hosting the 2.5 Challenge and the opening season event will be at Laguna Seca 3/23-24. This is a great opportunity to witness classic Datsuns driven in anger. Come out to ‘Seca and support your local racers!

Several fun events coming up starting with the ZONC Contra Costa Cruise this Saturday!

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Don’t forget to sign-up your vintage car for the April 20 Historic Japanese Car Gathering in San Leandro, CA. Register HERE

Pictures of last year’s Bayline gathering

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The Marin Sonoma Concours D’ Elegance will be held Sunday, May 19. This is a fun event and important for Japanese classic car fans: in addition to celebrating Corvette and Lamborghini 50th Anniversaries there will be a Japanese Manufacture category! Don’t forget the Historic races on Saturday!

This comes from our dear friend Forbes, thanks! Nismo released a short video highlighting their racing wins as seen on Jalopnik:

NISMO also shows off beginnings of its new headquarters:

http://youtu.be/qwRn3mtRrfY

Great news for Nissan Motorsports!

Congratulations to Patrick Chio for his 2nd place finish in the Unlimited RWD class at the 2013 Redline Time Attack race. Besides running his awesome CityTech track day group, Patrick is a heroic Nissan 350z driver on the track:

Here he is running his personal best and Time Attack winning lap time of 1:58.517 at Buttonwillow:

He was also selected to run in the SuperSession with top drivers from each class:

He brought his Porsche orange Z to us early last year for an UPREV tune. To be more competitive he came back to ZCG last month for more engine tuning and track-spec alignment in preparation for the Redline Time Attack racing series.

We installed a new and improved Kinetix SSV intake plenum and replaced his failing MAF/intake with a JWT POP charger and stock MAF intake pipe. Rob re-tuned the engine and the Z was corner-weighted and aligned. Icing on the cake was a Z Car Garage windshield banner 🙂 Great work Patrick! You are a beast behind the wheel and ZCG looks forward to working with you and getting that 1st place trophy!

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