Just for anyone who has any thoughts or ideas they want to share.
car or non car specific or both is all good.
 
Im in Okinawa Japan and if you ever plan to visit the Japanese Isles
consider the weather and seasons are very specific for activities.
Theres always something on somewhere but be careful of the weather
as summer is too hard to enjoy in Asia with all the humidity.
Just before and after summer is awesome but if you plan to go to japan
in Summer I suggest Hokkaido up north for its dry summer heat and
beautiful traditions that time of year that co-incide with the good weather.
 
If you plan to go to its southernest Isles in Okinawa avoid july, august, sept
as its typhoon season with heavy heat humidity etc.
 
Winter is great in the sub tropics, we have Sakura season here still atm.
Late January to mid Feb etc.

Wow great things for a great cause and keeps you healthy as well
make sure you use hoes and rake hoes to save your back.
Got my first expensive BMX (exxy for a paper delivery waged kid)
back in 1978 an all steel Bennet which jumped everything I saw,
went down stairs in housing commission stairs, dirt roads in
South America as well when Dad took us there due to work was
quite weird to be the only BMXers (brother as well but he had a soft
weak 3 piece cranked H&F BMX) in 1979 in country towns with
200-300 year old buildings and yesteryear settings. When I got back
to Oz in 1983 I managed to lay buy a Redline but with the chrome
steel cranks not the dream Profile cranks that still have eluded me.
I found over the years these are the best tools for moving soil, gravel
and ripping up hard compacted ground with more ease than shovels
and buckets along with a lightweight wheel barrow or garden trailer.
The hoe I use is thin walled but tough stainless while the rake hoe is
just cast iron but used for tearing up any sort of ground cover.
 
I just do up junk and discarded bikes found in the larger towns
and bring them back to my small farming town for those that
could not afford a bike and in return always get fruit and veggies
from these poor farmers which suits us fine.
 
Bikes are ahead of cars for me but just scored a TVR speed eight
over in the mainland in Osaka via Auction. Its a 4.2 75 dergree
very light (121kg) 360hp / 320lbs, Al Meling designed v8.
Not into big engines but this thing is tiny and light with lighter
flywheel, no air con and power steering pump I can get rid of
another 15kg so close to F1 engine weight just need to get a
TVR 2500M from America in the future and mod the body to
look like an earlier griffith 400 with the upside down cortina tailights.
 

 

 
The 2500M model is cheap and has the longer 92inch wheelbase the windsor v8 powered griffith lacked and made it unstable. FRP is the best body material I can deal with in Okinawa as the air is salty here and a hardtop with the speed eight engine instead of the all cast iron 2.5L straight 6 triumph grenade will bring back the weight to the 650kg mark and improve its handling dramatically as it will be 90kg lighter in the nose and more midmount location.

Here is my bikepacking rig. I have a '14 Giant Anthem X 29er. We (the missus and myself) love the Snowys so we do a few trips up through there when we have time off together. Train it from Melbourne to Bairnsdale and then set off to Canberra and finish at Goulburn to catch the train back. 
 

Fully loaded it comes in just over 25kg with another 5-8kg in my back pack for a 10-14 day trip. I threw some road tyres on it once to try it out for the ride to work and canned it after one day...went back to the commuter. Just felt to weird without all the gear.

We have a big steel bar like what you are describing.
 
Pointy on one end and has a small bend on the other end.
The bend makes the bar into a leverage beast.
 
Yeah the CZAR has a steep steering angle.
It made every trail i rode new and challenging.
Still did rock gardens on our decending trails, just felt scarier.

Yeah, i think i would prefer the NS to have a slightly higher bar set up.
 
Might look into a top load bmx stem in my bar diameter down the line to raise the bars around an inch or so. And play about with headset spacers to fine tune my stack height.
 
Had a fun day today building a decending trail that both flows and is awkward at the same time.
 
Off camber trail tread, loose rocks, drop offs mid way through steep tight corners, angled logs buried into the trail tread to break your wheels predictable traction etc.
 
Didnt get pics today sorry.
 
 
Do have one from ages ago of a rock wall we made to keep a constant inclune through a switch back on a two way XC trail for you D.

 
All hand built and we made 3 in a row.
Rocky area to be building in. 

Im sure your coupe would be happy with it instead of a heavier v6
Still only halve the cylinders of your v16 caddy