HardPark 2017 Part 1

This year, we attended the annual HardPark Car Show event at the Riverbank Car Park in Lower Hutt. The event is hosted by Speedmagnet, an awesome bunch that create automotive content just like us.

The event drew thousands of car enthusiasts with an equally impressive number of cars and trucks to the big car park with a diverse range of vehicles spanning many different manufacturers and countries.

Anyway, here is some excellent footage from HardPark 2K17!

First up is this incredibly wild and definitely not mild Nissan 180SX. The car is fitted with a Rocket Bunny widebody kit all round and a really nice light blue paint job. Grunt is delivered via a Chevrolet LS V8 engine that had a very lumpy and healthy growl.

Next is this similarly wide Nissan Skyline wagon. This car sports a custom made widebody kit with boxy arches that feature nicely with the wagon's rectangular shape. Interestingly, instead of being powered by the RB30E Single Cam straight 6, the car runs the legendary SR20DET Twin Cam 4 Cylinder engine instead. Very cool.

This Nissan Skyline R30 was a pleasant surprise as there aren't many left of this model. This one was heavily modified and featured a V8 in the front that came right back to the firewall. I couldn't get a shot of the front as there was a large crowd of people in the way.

Parked not too far from the previous cars was this Toyota Hilux that had this awesome set of Individual Throttle Bodies poking through the bonnet. The dark grey paint job was complimented by the shiny metal ram pipes on the top of the intake.

Another interesting V8 swap was this Nissan Skyline GTS-X. It had a 4.1 Litre Nissan V8 fitted instead of the RB20DET Turbo Straight 6 that it came out with.

Now that we're on the subject of engine swaps, this CA18DET was swapped into a classic KP Toyota Starlet. By the looks of things, this would probably make the Starlet an insane little monster to drive!

This Toyota Corolla SR Coupe was also packing a Nissan engine, an SR20DET to be exact. This car also featured on NAC Car Culture in Episode 1 of Season 3 which is easy to see why as it is amazingly well built and looks perfect in the black and orange colour scheme.

Hiding amongst the Evo's and Integra's was this lone MK1 Ford Escort. The bodywork on the car is absolutely magnificent and dead straight and the colour scheme is to die for. The Esky had a nice set of Minilite wheels on it that suited the car perfectly.

Lurking next to a bright Yellow Mazda wagon was this Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 2 looked very tidy and ready to race with the replica rally livery looking very exquisite on the car.

This tidy Toyota Soarer is packing a mighty 1JZGTE that has been converted to single turbo. I have seen and heard this car driving and believe me, it sounds good.

This Lancia Delta Turbo was an interesting sight at a car show that is predominantly JDM. The seat design and Nardi steering wheel just scream Italian appeal.

Last but not least is this interesting build. I'm not too sure what to say about this one, a Mazda MX5 that has a strange combination of colour shifting paint job and twin exit Bosozoku exhaust pipes!

This concludes Part One of our HardPark 2017 feature. Stay tuned for Part 2 shortly!