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A Mazda MX5 And My Rubber Fetish

September 7, 2011 in Japanese | No comments

Ooh er misses and all that. But anyway Stanceworks have just featured a very cool little Mazda that has pretty much every box ticked to make a bad ass car including dish, arches, and a hard top. However me being the weird little man I am the main thing I noticed was the awesome looking tread on the tyres. It’s all in the details and everything contributes to the look but I’m probably still a bit weird for picking out the tyres as my favourite part of a car. Ah well I embrace the weirdness (probably explains my own car…)

Anyway look at the Stanceworks feature here and check out some of the pictures below and please tell me you agree that the tyres look ace!

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Ford Fair 2011

August 17, 2011 in European, Event Reports | No comments

I was going to post a few of the pictures of Speedhunter report for the recent Ford Fair at Silverstone on Tumblr but I decided their were just too many pictures that were awesome so had to do a pic dump here instead. Enjoy some sweet Fords.

Tumblr Pic Of The Day

August 9, 2011 in European, Pic Of The Day | No comments

I love the Abarth versions of Fiats little cars, even the new Abarth 500′s are cool and it’s not often you will catch me saying a new car is cool!

This little Abarth Berlina 750 Corsa from 1958 ticks all the right boxes for me. Lovely stuff.

From here

Blog Love – JJizzle.com

August 4, 2011 in American, Event Reports | No comments

One of the blogs I have in my reader that I’m always excited to see new posts from is a guy called Jimmy who runs JJizzle a blog full of awesome cars and great event reports from his adventures to shows all around Sweden. It is definitely worth checking out and you will want to subscribe to it!

It’s always good to see how people from different countries are doing it as most stuff I see is British/American/Japanese so seeing how alive the Hot Rod scene is, in Sweden, is awesome!

His latest post is about Classic Car Week, which is a week long car show in a small town called Rättvik and the pictures he got look brilliant. Sweden seems to love their old American vehicles! Below are some of the pictures from the show.

No Denying It

July 19, 2011 in European | 1 comment

Mike Burroughs can make a car look damn good. With Rusty dead (or going through a massive rebuild it would seem now) Burroughs needed another car to cause waves with on the internet. Well he seems to have done it and he has even managed to do it without being outrages, edgy, rusty, or anything resembling over the top car styling.

He found himself a decent condition 1971 BMW 2800CS and pulled out a set of BBS RS from his, I would imagine, ample wheel collection and BOOM he suddenly had a ridiculously cool car on his hands. Obviously it helps that the E9 is a stunning car to start with but this does show that Burroughs has a keen eye for cars and can show restraint in his modding style as well as his more flamboyant style of certain previous cars.

Now, I wonder how much E9 Bimmer prices will rise…

The Local Hero – Cruising Big Style

July 12, 2011 in Hot Rods, Video | No comments

Japan really does know how to create a good car of any style. Why do I not own a rod? I NEED one!

Check out some more on The Local Hero site or FaceBook page

Mad Mikes Madbul RX7

July 7, 2011 in Drift Cars, Drifting, Video | No comments

Mad Mike has just unveiled the latest incarnation of his mental RX7 drift car and by gosh it looks insane! It looks like the kind of car you draw as a child, all big wings, big wheels and big bits of engine sticking outside of the bay.

Apart from the most obvious change, which is the paint and graphics, you can also see the big filters and trumpets hanging out of one side of the engine bay. This hints at the monster 4 rotor concoction that is fitted into the engine bay. The engine isn’t brand new as we saw a video from it a while back as it was testing in the old style shell but it is now more ‘complete’. The noise and look of the car now is just amazing. The video below shows the engine in the old livery, but is worth watching just to check out the flames!

Red Bull have released a short shake down video of Mad Mike in the car and he talks about a few of the things he had to do to get it ready and shows how he has tried to make the backwards entry more of a possibility.

He has also done a more comprehensive write up on Speedhunters, which shows just how much work has gone into this 5th gen version of the Madbul. Once back in his shop after the last drift season he proceeded to chop the front and back completely off the car and make up a spaceframe from scratch. Wall taps this year shouldn’t be so much of a problem now!

Worlds Coolest Company Car?

June 28, 2011 in General Motoring, Hot Rods | No comments

Everyone knows that company cars are the best car you can ever drive along with rental cars because you don’t ever have to fix them yourself but I would happily treat the Sibs Hot Rods company car with respect! One of the best things about working for a company that makes awesome Hot Rods for a living is the company car is going to be something slight different to the normal Prius or Mundano. While big companies have to struggle with their fleet management and sorting out who is driving what on certain days, the only thing Sibs Hot Rod employees will be doing is fighting over who is going to take the T for a coffee run in the morning!

Sibs Hot Rods will take on most Hot Rodding projects a customer would want and what better way to prove their skills than to have the company car as a very cool, period correct (to the 50′s) Model T with a proper 1951 Flathead. The Rod gets used every day (weather allowing – it has no bonnet or roof!) and gets taken to find lunch, run errands, take customers for a ride and was built to be as reliable as possible with it getting many miles put on it every year; just how any Hot Rod should be.

It may not be the flashiest of rods around but I love the simple working look of it and it must be great fun to drive and it looks like they had a fun build with it!