Bagged

Looking through my ever growing folder of photos I noticed that I had accumulated more than a few c30 photos over the years. Since the 3 and the C30 are such close cousins I have, on...

While catching up on a few of my favourite build threads over the weekend it hit me like a ton of bricks that Theme Tuesdays very rarely touch on fabrication. That sucks. So wasting no time this weeks post is dedicated to frame/chassis fabrication and I'm sure I am not the only one who will be left thinking that it's almost a shame to cover these up with a body when everything is said and done.

Previously best known for their commuter cars and soccer mom moving compact sport utility vehicles, Hyundai placed their bets on quite the roll of dice when they released the Genesis line of vehicles in 2008. Faced with a seriously uphill battle convincing the general public --never mind enthusiasts-- that they could produce a luxury car, and a sports coupe, they had to come out of the gate swinging to grab any sort of market hold.

While on the Los Boulevardos forums getting my fill of builds that are too late, too low rider, and too custom, I came across this really cool 61 Ford Pick up build that was cross linked to the Hokey Ass Message Board. Originally intended to be a shop truck this build snowballed after the animal faeces were removed and things turned out to be a little rougher than the builder thought.

On Sunday I had the 3 out in it's first real 'storm' since it's been on air and it honestly took it like a champ. No frozen lines, ride pressure and height stayed consistent, and she was as sure footed as a mountain goat.

Found myself over on Street Source the other day where I came across this pretty cool Chevy Luv build. After a long period of ignoring his Luv, builder Daniel Maxwell decided that when the truck was fit for the streets it needed to be body dropped. The problem was he decided this after already putting a decent amount of work into it.

A few days ago Ollie sent over a photo of a radial aircraft motor sitting innocently under the hood of a C10 knowing that I would set off trying to find more info about the truck. After Google-ing every conceivable configuration of "radial engined powered c10" I realized that there just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information on the truck.

I always get a kick out of low cars I am not exactly familiar with, and this Skoda Felicia Family is a low car I'm not exactly familiar with. I came across this one while collecting photos for a completely unrelated Theme Tuesday and was instantly intrigued by the little white hatch.

On the way back from H2O the odometer on my 2004 Mazda 3 clicked past 216,000 which means that I have now traveled roughly sixteen thousand kilometers on my Air Lift Performance suspension set-up. Since my switch to the 'darkside' via the final production prototype of Air Lift's Mazda 3 kit I've been repeatedly asked a few of the same questions about my suspension.

This Courier ended up on my screen a couple months ago while gathering photos for a Theme Tuesday and quite honestly blew me away. I'm not sure I have ever seen a Courier before (stock or otherwise) so happening across this was pretty rad, more rad is the fact that it is an Ontario build.

The car that undoubtedly stole the show at Eurokracy 2013 was this teal, right hand drive, MK1 Rabbit. Built by Quebec City based Unix Performance this no holds barred, no expense sparred, beauty was hidden behind a wall of slack jawed on lookers almost the entire show and personally I stopped by the car on three different occasions in a vain attempt to take in all of the details.

I'm generally pretty lucky when it comes to scheduling events around personal commitments, for the most part things just kind of work themselves out. There are a few exceptions to this however and one event that seems to consistently fall on a weekend I'm busy is Vanfest.