Saturday 29th November was going to be another wedding ring window shopping day but a miracule happened on this day - we found a shop where Emi found an engagment ring we both liked, a wedding ring we both liked and... I found a ring I liked! The previous week I hadn't seen anything that floated my boat so we were both surprise I found something. So we ordered them and would go to collect them after they had been made.
Sunday we went to Fuji Speedway for the NISMO festival. NISMO is Nissan Motorsport, Nissan's official motorsport division and this year was celebrating 50 years since Nissan's first competitive event. There were many historical Nissan racing cars: IMSA winning sports prototype, British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) winning Primera, R390 which came 2nd, 3rd and 4th at LeMans in the late 90's and several GTR and 350Z Japanese Grand Touring Championship (JGTC) racing cars including the 2008 winning car. Even his royal highness Carlos Ghosn, Nissan/Renault CEO came along to make a speech.
Again I took lots of pictures, many of them poor (including perfect focus of a fence post when trying to catch a GTR JGTC car!) and also purchased something a little different. They were selling off all the NISMO 2008 merchandice but also used/broken racing car parts. There was quite a choice of 350Z JGTC front wings, broken GTR plastic windscreens etc but I was interested in the used wheels. I always wanted to make a motorsport themed coffee table using an F1 wheel as the base with a glass pane on top but F1 wheel go for £100 or more. This place were selling JGTC wheels for £50 to be picked up after the event of £25 quid if you took them there and then. So after spending £25 I had a pleasant 15min walk to the car with a 18x13" wheel. At 9kg it is light for a wheel that size but still 9kg of difficult-to-carry-wheel so i was 
pretty tired and my arms were aching for days!
pretty tired and my arms were aching for days!
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