Category: webmining

Saving Stepho’s Toyota Site from disappearing

Stepho’s Toyota Site has been an indispensable resource for the classic Toyota community over the past two decades. Unfortunately his Australian provider Iinet stopped hosting their customers websites and therefore something important disappeared. Luckily enough I was able to retrieve 98% of its content from Archive.org and decided set up a mirror of Stepho’s Toyota…




Webmining: Paul Newman Skyline on the Fort Gates Ferry in Floria

One of my favorite tools to find new things is Google Images. I was searching for photos of a Paul Newman Skyline but bumped into a set of photos of Paul Newman with a red Nissan Skyline GT-ES Turbo at the Floria Memory site taken in May 1982 around the Fort Gates Ferry in Floria….




Webmining: Nissan 2000GT at Spa Francorchamps ETCC in 1972

Earlier this week I stumbled upon a photo of a Nissan 2000GT (aka Hakosuka Skyline or HLGC10) on a Japanese blog. The car clearly was the European 2000GT and not the Japanese Skyline: The url in the photo was no longer functioning, but after digging a bit I found their new website! 😉 The photo…




The other Nissan Silvia Super Silhouette racer

There is so much footage of the Hoshino Impul Nissan Silvia KS110 Super Silhouette race car that we tend to forget there was actually another car on the gird that resembled it: the Nissan Gazelle KS110 driven by Haruhito Yanagida! In the season 1981 Yanagida’s car resembled Hoshino’s car with its bodyshape, but Yanagida’s car…




Webmining: Nissan Laurel C130-EV

If you thought a 1973 pigsbutt Nissan Laurel SGX was one of the coolest cars of the 70s, behold the even cooler Nissan Laurel C130-EV: Nissan Laurel C130-EV Okay, I must admit it is not as good looking as its butaketsu brother but it certainly doesn’t run that hot! Nissan Laurel C130-EV This Electric Vehicle…