Spikes new web site is up at www.samuri.eu use the navagation at the bottom of the page as the top did not work when I looked.
Interesting - look forward to reading the book.
Great photo -
.....and what great taste in cars that man had, Datsun Z's & Toyota Celica's
is that Lens yellow car
what's the deal with the samuri legacy then?
If someone wrote the another 'story', that of the S30 other than in the Anglo-Saxon world, perhaps we'd all be the wiser..........too easy to nail up those who digest what is presented to them
SeanDezart said:- alternatively speaking, don't slag off pigs for eating swill whenit's all they're offered - they'd eat fillet mignon too - the question is - would they appreciate the difference....
SeanDezart said:Samuri was there - then, doing it and the Brits love an under-dog.
Well, nobody wrote anything in English for me. I had to make it my business to try and find out what I wanted to know, and which I could easily see I wasn't being told. Once you get your nose around the door you can easily see that the story is a whole lot bigger than what you have been presented with.........
I hesitate to join you in your analogy of "pigs", but I wonder if those "pigs" can imagine that Filet Mignon even exists before they go one step further and dream of eating it ( would that not be cannibalism anyway? ). That's the point here; It seems to me that many of the people who are avid fans of the Samuri Conversions story - as well as some of the key players in the story - have little or no interest in finding out about what was going on elsewhere, or even very much at all about the story behind the cars that the whole legend was pinned on. They can tell you what inlet and exhaust manifolds were used on a typical ( ha! ) 'Samuri' 240Z, but they could not tell you who actually designed the engine that they were fitted to. Now to me that seems somewhat upside down......
No denying that Samuri were 'there', and 'doing it' - but can we get that into a little bit of perspective, please? Much of the 'there' was happening years after it had already happened elsewhere. I'm not trying to belittle the achievements or make fun of the people involved, I'm just pointing out that - in the grand scheme of things - this was actually quite a lot smaller a story than it is sometimes painted as.
curmudgeon