I’m not the biggest fan of ‘exotic’ cars, not modern ones anyway. Sure they are amazing machines and that but a nice 30 year old retro banger seems far more interesting to me than a shiny red Ferrari, however after the usual browsing of all things car related on the Internet I happened upon an amazing picture, which led me to find out about the Orlando Exotic Car show. It is a yearly show organised by the American Ferrari club and it attracts a lot of tourists and is more of a non car people car show – a family would love it. So if you are on holiday in Florida one year near the 16-19th of April, why not get car hire to Orlando and check out an awesome array of expensive and fascinating supercars in the sun at the Celebration Exotic Car Festival (BTW that is the most epicly brilliant 90’s website ever!)

The photo that I came across is this picture of a Radical SR8, I’m not a big fan of Radicals but this pic is just awesome. The combination of how dirty and used the car is, the casual parking on a street, the uninterested passers by and the rather weak Radical Motorsports tent makes it seem like this isn’t at a car show at all and is just somebody’s car who is just popping out for some milk. Excellent!

These are some of the more interesting pictures I found of the rest of the show. All pics from The shows official website (link in above text) or Car Ninja’s Flickr

Amazing pictures of when British driver Hunter Abbott crashed his Ginetta g50 10 minutes into a British GT4 championship race. 100 mph into a barrier does not sound fun! Luckily Abbbot escaped without even a broken bone! Testament to how well built the cars and how good the marshal’s are at these events.

[via Motoring News]

Does anyone else think this year has been a bit slow on the van front? I mean we have had the usual trucks everywhere and very nice they are as well but where have all the vans gone? Japan are still going mental with them in their own crazy ways, although a lot of them do seem to be MPV’s rather than actual vans.

So first off lets remind ourselves of how they did vans originally. Roof chops, lake pipes, graphics and murals galore!

Garish, jacked up and just simply amazing!

Now what about the japanese, the often have a crazy outlook when doing cars so what do they do with vans? The VIP look seems to work well!

Of course they also do a pretty good job of imitating American styles as these pinstriped beauty’s show!

The different choice they have for retro vans makes for some pretty smart looking vehicles as well.

So what does the rest of the world have? Dubs. That is pretty much it apart from a few exceptions, that I will go into in another post because they are that special, so instead of bay windows or splittys, have a couple mega slammed T3’s!

Excuse me while I just browse for used vans, I think I have an idea…