recent trust fund collection pilgrimmage.

in my youth my soulful investment into the world of automotive artistry began with eyes full of mysticism and a grandiose vision of the future. we didnt know it was the golden era then like we know now. nearly everything that i now admire, dream of, speculate, and seek…had already happened, or was happening then – in my youth, without me, while i was so very far away from it. since the inception this pursuit, very few new items, new machines, new ideas have been made their way through the haze to pique my heart. i always attempt to find what im looking for.

in those years, the first ‘new’ thing to see creation that fell in line with everything i was falling in love with, was the Z33 Nissan Fairlady Z. the very ‘big bang’ that began this for me wore the same Nissan crest and an HKS livery that made me feel like i was piloting a dragon in flight when I drove the HKS R32 GR. A machine in gran turismo. my love for the feeling that gave me lead me into Nissan’s Z car lineage, and a dream transpired seeing this beautiful finality in the S30 Z – I knew from then what I still know now, but that’s a story for the future. the Z33 was unveiled, and for the first time there was something on the horizon that was tangible. I vividly remember my first sight of one in person – still a kid, but now several years into this obsession but hardly ever getting to experience it in person – soon after release on a truck headed from a port to a dealership, and losing my mind. not too long after that, my father’s interest was piqued in the same machine, and he purchased an early model Z33. many years, experiences and a lot my childhood spend in that car after that, with some education provided to him by myself, he had the very fateful opportunity to purchase the vehicle above – a one of ~1600 350Z Version NISMO in bleeding Nogaro Red. graciously he offered to me to take it out of his hands once his time with it was done … and that time arose, and i forced the stars to align in my world to bring it home to me.

the Z33 chassis’ reputation has had a troubled history in the US unfortunately, but for a multitude of reasons has always been one of my favorite machines in the world, and I am forever joyed that I spent so much of my youth riding in this very one, experiencing much of life alongside it. long trips, youthful disappointment, loneliness, optimism, death, rain, sleep – the only other artifact of these things in my life has been my own sangre volume 001. nothing else will be able to capture such a pure timeline of my youth and my growth the way these two machines will forever be able to carry within them. these cars were brought to life in 2002, at the end of what is now considered the golden era of the Japanese tuning culture – post Top Speed shootouts of the 90s, post Mid Night Club, post FD RX7, MKIV Supra and R34 Skyline … this machine came into a world standing in the light looking for more of it. despite never being seen as such, this car took everything that was learned from that Golden Era and carried it forward in a way I dont believe many people have ever appreciated. the Version NISMO brought to life a closer to perfect vision of this chassis – one that is to this day I feel hard to compete with in aura with a factory vehicle. it blended a mix of special Nissan factory/Autech factory aero from vehicles of the past (S15 Spec R, R34 Altia) with their GT500 race machine aero to create one of the most beautiful factory vehicles of all time, and within the Japanese Market version, a special engine for not only homologation purposes but one that also assisted in the design of the R35 GTR VR38 engine that became the fastest production vehicle on Planet Earth for a time after this car was no longer even available. the Z33 is one of the Knights of the Future of Japanese Tuning, carrying the aura, the gleam, the heart – a sun on its back in a beautiful dress.

sangre derivation project. the BloodMachine’s gears turn…