Tag: hachi roku

JAF 2013: The first impression

Unlike last year I wasn’t a visitor at the Japanse Autosport Festival in Assen as my Carina was present on the paddock between the various sportscars. This year AEU86 decided to ask for a club spot on the paddock and we were granted a large spot in the mid-center of the paddock! Awesome! We managed…




Count the hachis!

No I’m not dead yet… Just a bit overloaded at work. Last week finished up a Dutch MySQL User Group meetup, preparations for my presentation at the Percona Live conference (subject Performance monitoring for MySQL) in April so there was little time to post here. Anyway, today I found this beautiful picture posted by RGEris…




HaCHiRoCK 2012: the arrival!

This is the last posting for HaCHiRoCK Festa 2012 and no: we’re not doing everything backwards. 😉 Actually I already posted up some pictures from this source yesterday, but the great thing is that he photographed all hachis arriving at the HaCHiRoCK! Yes, that means that you can find about 200 hachis in 28 gallery…




Count the 86-es!

Nori Yaro just posted this awesome video up on Youtube where about 150 AE86-es and Toyota 86-es are mixed together on a two lap parade on Fuji Speedway (FISCO) held on the 6th of August this year. It is a good thing Alexi put a couple of fast-forwards in the video! And at the end…




Fifteen years ago: yellow Hachiroku

Fifteen years ago this yellow Sprinter Trueno AE86 GT Apex was king of the mountain and the Honda in front of it king of the desert! Now which one would you choose as your daily transportation? Minkara




Hachi Rock 2011: The first pictures have arrived!

I have been searching on the interwebs since last sunday and patiently waiting for any photo of the best yearly meeting ever: Hachi Rock Festa! The first photos arrived this morning when Chillin and Hachiroku posted up his trip to this meeting. As you can see from the length of the line of AE86s he…