1988 Nissan A31 Cefiro

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This hot rod was much better presented than the other two, but with a blown V8 up front, it was just as deranged.



By this point I was getting quite tired from walking around and holding my camera, so I decided to head home, snapping a few more shots on the walk back to my car.

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Gotta love tough 57 Chevs.



The next week, I was able to do a little bit of work, taking hospital interior photos for the architecture company my Dad works for. It was nice being in a hospital as a worker and not a half-dead patient, as well as being paid to be there. I found a good park next to an R33.



After a couple of hours shooting, I went into the city to Atkins Technicolour, the professional photo lab where I get most of my stuff printed. With the engagement party coming up, I'd ordered a canvas print with a photo for people to write on.



With that safely stowed in the back, I headed for home to rest.

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Our actual engagement party was held on the 12th of November which went really well, with 150 or so family and friends helping us celebrate. After a couple of very low days during the week, I was fortunate that the Saturday was a really good day, so I was able to hang around and talk with people, although I started getting very worn out later in the afternoon.

A couple of friends made an insanely cool engagement cake for us. We knew the concept, but the execution was stunning, with everything right down to the last detail on the camera's buttons and dials.



















While pretty much everyone there knew I was very unwell, I think some didn't realise quite how drastic my problems are, and assumed I just have trouble eating and am allergic to lots of foods. Making a speech before cutting the cake, there was an audible gasp from several people when I said that the engagement party date marked my 400th day of not being able to eat.



Here's the aforementioned canvas print, nicely personalised with lots of messages scribbled all over it.




We ended up with quite a nice haul of presents, more than enough to fill the Ceffy's boot and backseat.

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My brother tried sitting in the front seat with the canvas, which didn't really work too well.





With the Ceffy full, I backed the Civic up so more stuff could get packed in for the 1 minute drive home.

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A few days later I went back up to Sleeka Spares, from memory to pick up my other A31 novelty plate.

Kelly's Cefiro looked pretty good in daylight too, although the front bar had seemingly gone walkabout.











I'm tempted to try and track down some of the same style of headlights, I quite like the look of them.

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Another few days passed before another hills run, although I mostly concentrated on driving, not taking photos of the car.

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:lol: I'm not surprised, their cake made the example cake I sent her look like it was made by a 5 year old.

And yeah I'll keep the current headlights, I think those would look a bit too plain on my car.

Haven't updated this thread for a little while so here's some more recent stuff.

After the hills run I went down to Port Adelaide to play around with taking some more off camera flash photos. Unfortunately the main camera I used had some weird issue on the day where anything white had a haze and streaks around it, which messed up most of the photos, as well as me playing around with the flash zoom settings too much, but here's a few anyway.

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Coming into summer the air conditioning badly needed to be re-gassed, so I went into Jaustech to book it in, after looking at a couple of import spares/wreckers for fun.











Always a different lineup of interesting cars whenever I go past.











After partaking in a fairly violent and highly entertaining drift demo at Gazzanats a few weeks earlier, Anthony's blue Cefiro was looking very secondhand.

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After booking a time for early the next week, there was some more random driving...





Followed by a short hills run to Camelot castle for an engagement photo shoot with our wedding photographer. You can see her blog post with the photos here, she's pretty awesome: www.angelsmithphotography.com.au/2012/01/sally-rohan-engagement-story/







My dad was nice enough to drop the Ceffy at Jaustech on his way to work in the morning, so I picked it up later that day with air conditioning that was now cooler than the air outside the car. Still not great, but I don't think Japanese cars designed in the 1980s were made to deal with Australian summer heat.





On the way back down Grange Road, there was a drag VL on a trailer in front of a workshop, getting ready for the drag racing event at Adelaide International Raceway that weekend.