Nostalgic 2 Days - Japan's Ultimate Oldschool Car Show. (Patreon)

The other weekend I made my way out to NOS. As someone who absolutely loves classic cars, this was a must see for me, and it was a beautiful day for it.

You always see some pretty cool cars driving around in Japan, especially any day there's a show on. I didn't have my zoom lens on but I still managed to catch these two itasha across the intersection.

Getting straight into the show with one of the best Hakosuka restorations I've ever seen done by Sakamoto Sangyo, a well renown restoration house here in Japan. But they also happened to be sharing a booth with Banzai Racing Wheels who I make a habit of visiting at each show I go to because they're some great people to hang out with.

The show was a little smaller than Tokyo Auto Salon, maybe only a quarter the size, but even so it was jam packed with all sorts of extra goodies. So before looking at all the full scale cars that I could get distracted over for the whole day, I started off with all the small scale ones.

They had absolutely tonnes of old model kits and small diecasts. I could easily have lost all my money here but the other reason I do this at the start is so that I don't buy anything knowing I'll just have to carry it around all day.

I also happened to stumble across my car again in HotWheels form. It's always so cool coming to these shows and spotting them.

Moving around we got to the Veilside booth. Yokomaku-san had his absolutely pristine Cedric and S30 out on display. This Z actually belongs to Sung Kang and the engine has been completely rebuilt by Veilside.

Across from the Veilside booth was the Nismo booth where they were showcasing their own engine kits for the Fairlady Z, along with this awesome kaido styled Rx3 and some tasty Datsuns.

This show was a great place for me to geek out over engines since there were a good amount of FJ20's in the show, so you know I was getting as may close up photos as possible trying to figure out where half the lines on mine are supposed to go.

Another fun one was this S14 facelift running a custom 3.1L L28 engine.

And right across from it was the Autozam AZ-1 that I missed at Auto Salon. I was so happy to see it here, thing is so silly looking haha.

The juxtaposition you get in shows like this is unreal. One second your looking at a cute little mazda that's as wide as it is long, and the next your staring at a full carbon Hakosuka, slammed to the ground and running some enormous wheels.

Then some early RWB track driven Porsches for good measure.

This booth was a special one for me. The Utilitas Skyline, this exact one that I'm standing in front of was a huge part of the inspiration behind me buying my own FJ20. I saw this engine in a magazine and how beautifully restored it was and that was definitely the moment that set me down my path for 6 years of headaches trying to get it to run.

A very sick Fiat Giannini.

And then of course there was a Mitsuoka Le Seyde hiding in this show as well. For anyone unfamiliar, Mitsuoka build a whole bunch of radical body conversions, this one, the Le Seyde is probably one of the most common. Underneath it's a regular S13, and for a while there was one of these on Trade Me back in NZ going for cheaper than a lot of other drift S13s, leading everyone to wonder if it was just going to end up as a drift car..

There was another S13 at this show, this one slightly more normal but still not quite as it was running an EV conversion. It feels like a lot of people these days have some sort of opinion about EV swapping cars like this, and I think it's cool as hell, do whatever you want with your car. I like EVs.

A little Suzuki Fronte Coupe. I love these cars, there's one I saw in Japanese Nostalgic Car that the owner used as a race car and it had such an unbelievably cool look when done up in race trim.

This one threw me. I took a good few photos before I noticed this wasn't even a Porsche. This is actually a Daihatsu Copen built by the students at JEC. A truly impressive conversion.

And right next to it was another kit car, this time a third gen Toyota MR2 done up as a GT40. Obviously having my own MR-S build I was sure to talk to the owner about it and exchange information. This conversion is so much better than I think I could manage, and even had a completely different windshield in it which has me a bit stumped on if I could have done that with mine and still had it road legal.

There were a few other kit cars and replicas, on that stood out was this super silhouette styled R30. Always loved the Tomica one, I hope to get a chance to build something like it one day.

There were plenty more cars at the show but honestly I wasn't even really planning on taking photos as this was more of just a chill day for me to walk around and meet people. I chatted with a whole bunch of owners and even some fans of my builds came up and said hi which is always so cool. I love getting a chance to get out and meet you guys.Since I was in the area, I decided to stop by Nissan HK again in Yokohama and see what cars were on display. This time is was a trio of Nissan Marches, definitely giving me some motivation for my own Suzuki Twin build.I'll finish the post of with a few pictures of them.

In other news I'm just wrapping up the next video on the MR-C which is going to be my last video on it before I return to NZ for a couple months and do something about my neglected Mx5. Can you believe it's almost been a month already.