The 12 Auto Blogs Of Christmas

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Dec 24, 2009

I’ve been meaning to compile a list of some of my favorite automotive blogs for awhile now and sadly this idea for the ’12 Auto Blogs of Christmas’ hit me after I could have done it for the twelve days leading up to Christmas. But I decided to not let a little thing like time stop me and went ahead and compiled a list of the 12 auto blogs I visit regularly in no particular order.

EK Hatch’s Blog

I’m not really sure how I originally came across Noah’s blog but chances are pretty good that it was via the blog roll of one of the the other eleven blogs posted today. Noah has a diverse hatch fetish that causes him to post cars that I have heard of or seen before in addition to cars I thought no one else liked.

Noah is also a really down to earth person with a big heart who is using his blog as a way to raise money for someone in neeed. Check out the Melissa Project and lend a hand if you can it’s a great cause.

Who else but Noah could find a pic of a sick looking Yaris?

Noteworthy posts:
Got You Some Book Learnin’
Split Personality : Scirocco
There’s Honda Clean

Full-Lock

It’s always cool when worlds collide (unless your last name is Costanza) and that’s what happened when I found Full-Lock. Logan and I both ride BMX and love cars, the difference is that unlike me Logan is just as crazy behind the wheel of his car as he is on his bike.

When he’s not sliding his car or blasting airs on his bike you can find Logan writing about awesome cars of all sorts on: Full-Lock.

Logan putting in some work at full lock — Logan Putting in some work at Full-lock

Noteworthy Posts
Performance VW Mag
Aspen White
D-Day 3

Slamburglars

Slamburglars is a crazy crew out of Santa Barbara who like their cars low and live by the handbook. A few rules from the handbook should give you an idea of what these guys are about:
1. Shock travel is for bitches.
14. We like our girls how we like our cars, HAMMERED.
29. The home of bad taste and poor geometry.

While not for everyone I dig this crew and their blog.

Noteworthy Posts
Miater
Slamburglars hot girl of the day!
Preview: The Making Of Rolling Shots

Up-shift.net

Up-Shift.net is written by the working class car nut for the working class car nut. Written by a group of authors with years of industry experience Up-Shift is the place to visit for industry news, product reviews, and car recommendations.

In 2010 Up-shift is going to launch on a new platform to match their new content (which can currently be found here), personally I am looking forward to the ask an officer column, who else has that?

Jon from Up-Shift's Dynamic Duo — Jon from Up-Shift's dynamic duo

Noteworthy Posts
Porsche Panamera Part 1 – North American Debut in Monterey
Auto Americana – Why The American Auto Culture No Longer Inspires Buyers
Ford and Fiat – The Automotive Saviors?

Chris Hoare – Auto Exposure

Ever known a photographer who’s work you can’t seem to get away from? They are just so good that their photos are posted on every local forum you visit? That’s Chris.

Chris is an amazing GTA based automotive photographer who uses his connections in the scene to shoot a unique collection of cars and events. Being winter here in the GTA updates have slowed a little but expect big things this spring.

Chris went out the the 09 Rally of Tall Pines event and true to form took some great shots

Noteworthy Posts
Rally of the Tall Pines 2009
Socal Subie style crosses the 49th parallel
Forumala Drift @ Irwindale

Cars X Girl

Meg is a die hard car girl who happens to be married to a car guy, between the two of they they have three cars two of which belong to her and are big followers of the function follows form school of thought. This doesn’t mean that their cars look bad though, it means is that the cars in their family are equal performers and lookers.

Meg is currently in the middle of a SR20DET swap in her 240 and has promised that when it’s done stance and flush is next on the agenda in the mean time she writes in depth thoughtful posts from her perspective as a female tuner.

Noteworthy Posts
Most girls just don’t get cars
Wrenches and Fashion, can they mix?
Last official autocross of the year

The Chronicles

The Chronicles is a big, big, reason why I started my blog. I was jealous of the fun it seems like Joe is having with his. Joe noticed something missing in the automotive blog sphere (a Honda/Acura focused blog) and capitalized on it and I am trying to do the same with a stance/gta based blog.

Being a freelance writer for a few Honda publications also allows Joe to do things like go to SEMA, shoot cover cars, and have a large audience diverse audience willing to listen to him talk about Saved By The bell, lucky.

Noteworthy Posts
Long Beach Represent
Do you understand the consequences of your actions
Super Autotoyz Philipenes diaster relief wash and meet

MotorMavens

MotorMavens is similar to Up-Shift in that it’s written by a collection of car mavens (connoisseurs). The MotorMavens crew sure do get around since their event coverage and featured cars are at a level that which can only I hope to one day achieve.

They also do an excellent job of combing the internet for unique rides to post in their “webmining” category while I check this blog daily I have yet to see any Canadian content, a bit of a bummer, but hey that’s where I come in.

Noteworthy Posts
Car Spotting Sick Stanced STI
Antonio + Bugatti Veyron= Ticket
COVERAGE El Mirage and Land Speed Racing

Phils Car Blog

I don’t really know much about Phil as his blog contains no about page. But from what I can tell from reading his blog and the fact that he named every car in a WTF Friday post without batting an eye is that Phil really knows his cars. His short to the point posts are always a pleasure to read.

Lancia Delta Integrale! Not too many people talk about these, Phil does though

Noteworthy Posts
R31
Satin Blue
Dirt Trackin’

Buildthreads

Before I found Buildthreads I used to spend a lot of time hopping from board to board looking for long in depth build threads wishing I had the time and money to do one myself. Now that I have found Build Threads I spend less time looking and more living vicariously through others.

I can relate to Anth in the fact that he’s a guy that just wanted to blog about something he enjoys and the fruits of his labor have paid off since he recently got featured in Performance VW , awesome.

Noteworthy Posts
Project 510 puts in work
Good Samaritans still exist
Slammed Mini Clubman on air

HellaFlush

Next to The Chronicles HellaFlush was probably the second biggest influence I had to create this blog, it’s just a really awesome, well designed, well done, and well run blog that posts flushed (and occasionally slammed) cars from all over the internet. Getting mentioned on this blog means a lot to me and I’m proud to say that I have not done it once but twice.

Noteworthy Posts
E30 with some dish
It’s All about making it in the GTA
A reminder

Speed Hunters

It’s been a long time since I have played any version of Need For Speed but that doesn’t stop me from liking speed hunters. Another combined effort Speed Hunters is similar to Motor Mavens in that it covers “the car culture at large” everything from Rally to Lead Sleds can be found here and if you respect and enjoy the car hobby you will easily lose hours of your day at Speed Hunters. I am hoping to one day be able to contribute to this blog somehow… fingers crossed.

Noteworthy Posts
The Sacrilegious 350z
That 240z
Slamburglars steal the sparks

Well that’s it for the 12 blogs of Christmas but that’s hardly it for my favorite Automotive Blogs, I look for new blogs almost daily since each new blog I find helps make S.I.E. better as each inspires and motivates me differently. So expect another post or two like this in the future as I find new blogs everyday.

Have a safe and happy Holidays and if you have a chance drop by tomorrow, it will be worth it 😉

Readers Rides: Friendly Rivalry

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Dec 23, 2009

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Adrian and Will are two friends (and S.I.E. fans) from Tucson, AZ, Adrian whips a slammed Accord while Will pushes the dropped bug on phone dials I posted in one of the first readers rides. The two of them got together to do a photo shoot sent the snaps my way via twitter. When I asked who’s lower it seemed the topic was up for debate between the two but a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone.

willbug — So many good things going on in this picture, I dig the sticker the lower sticker cluster

Accords are pretty hot right now and Adrian's is one of the reasons why

Adrian says depending on where you measure from he is lower, Will says he is, looks about even to me

Adrain's sticker cluster, I want that boobies sticker pretty bad. — I need that boobies sticker, and the cheap wheels one

In addition to sick cars both of these guys also have pretty rad flickr accounts (Will: flickr.com/photos/eseph/, Adrian: flickr.com/photos/fundillo/) that are worth a gander.

I noticed via some twitter creeping and it was Will’s Birthday yesterday so happy belated dude.

Thanks for sending in the pics guys, keep me updated on the rides.

Theme Tuesdays: Pics with attitude

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Dec 22, 2009

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The concept of theme Tuesdays here on Stance Is Everything is simple, every Tuesday I pick a theme and post a collection of vehicles with that theme that meet the stance criteria (modified suspension that suit the vehicles intent). This weeks theme Tuesday topic is: Pictures with attitude

Today’s theme is inspired by the following picture posted on Speedhunters yesterday:

To me this picture says 'I know you think this is wrong and I don't care'

As soon as I saw this photo I knew that I had a theme for all the cool photos that I had sitting on my hard drive that immediatly stood out to me but I was not sure what capacity to post them in.

All of these photos have great looking cars but what these photos really do is caption the passion and attitude of the car, club, scene or event and cram it down the viewers throat.

Another sparker that took the internet by storm last week, shouts to stanceworks/fluid motor union

Sure his car probably still stinks but somewhere in there someone is smiling — Sure his car probably still stinks like burnt rubber but somewhere in there the owner is smiling

attitude3 — I love that sticker, doesn't hurt the owner is getting awesome

Imagine walking down the street doing some mundane shopping and seeing this?

Sure you guys can hop in but my girlfriend gets shotgun, note the rubber chicken

Nah mean? — This s2000 is amazing, nah mean?

This pic reminds me of when of my cats hops over something to get the other — This e30 looks like it's on the hunt for slower vehicles

One day I have to go to a Stateside minitruck show, these dudes get loose

attitude11 — With this shot I assume she is the owner, you should too

I've always liked M1s so to see a picture of one given er on the track is a treat

attitude13 — You know I have still never seen this in person?

attitude14 — Few quick runs then it's off to the grocery store, I love a car that can do both

Looks to me like a lot of fun was had in this photoshoot — Looks to me like a lot of fun was had at this shoot

Always fun to roll with similar car owners, I'm sure the van owner wonders if he drove onto a race track by mistake

I enjoyed this one, probably going to start collected for ‘Pics with attitude part 2’ tonight.

Size doesn’t matter

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Dec 21, 2009

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I’m not really sure where I came across this Mini but I’m glad I did. This Mini is wears a set of CCW rims and wears them quite well. CCW rims have to be one of the more popular wheel choices of 2009, I’ve seen them on almost everything and I’m not mad at that.

mini1 — I'm not up on my Mini knowledge but I'm sure there are some aftermarket tricks in that bumper

mini4 — This car looks mean as hell and yet fun as hell at the same time

Indecisive

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Dec 21, 2009

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I’ve heard of indecisiveness before but this is pretty crazy. Wicked Mayhem from s10forum.com is a pretty crazy guy who works faster than most people and always has more than one project in the works at any given time. One guarantee with Wicked is that no matter what vehicle he drives it’s not going to stay stock height, but it might be both lowered and lifted during his ownership.

Wicked bought this Blazer to replace his first and promptly lifted it, and mudded it, then get got bored… so he dropped it and notched it. During that time he also went through three or four sets of rims, and an equal amount of stereo setups. Then suddenly he decided he was done and sold it for a profit.

Lifted

My friend likes Rangers, I like Fords, so I had to include this one

Dropped

I wanted a set of these Iroc Replicas so bad when I had my Blazer

Vette Calipers peeking out from those Chrome Irocs

indecisive12 — This would make a nice daily, clean and to the point

Silvarado

Using the profit from his Blazer he decided to jump into a full size so he picked up a Silverado. This time he started out by immediately slamming the truck as far as it could go without bags. This time his indecisiveness kicked in before he had a chance to go wheel shopping because the truck is now lifted and he swapped out the factory tires for something a little more aggressive.

Call me crazy but I think Full size trucks look sick slammed

Raised

Lifted on mudders, sadly, it looks kinda typical like this — Lifted on mudders, sadly looks kinda typical like this

However Wicked Mayhem is not one to have a typical truck for long so I have faith this will get much sicker

What I find really odd about all of this is that Wicked Mayhem has a large number of tattoos which you wouldn’t expect from a guy who can’t make his mind up about which way his trucks go. It would seem that his indecisiveness stops with trucks.

I wonder what his tastes in women is like…

WTF Friday: One to make you laugh one to have you guessing

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Dec 18, 2009

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Since I’ve got a new batch of stickers made I figured it was worth having another game of ‘WTF kind of car is that?’ this Friday. I’ve also got a funny Gremlin motivational picutre as well just to keep things amusing, it’s Friday after all.

Swing Up Door Gremlin

I can quite honestly say that I have never seen swing up doors on a Gremlin and I am not sure if I ever want to see it again:

To the owners credit these doors swing up farther than a lot of show cars

I spotted these photos on an old favorite anti-rice.com

WTF kind of car is this?

This car was local to Ontario at one point in time, not sure if it still is, but whoever correctly identifies it in the comments wins a free set of S.I.E. stickers.

The owner seems to know that his car is hard to identify

Bonus!

If you can tell me what car this started as you will win TWO sets of stickers, however since I have no idea what kind of car this started as you will have to prove it.

The best joke would be if that blower actually worked.

Diamond plate, a resourceful DIYers best friend

Site Updates

I am going to be setting up a page on PASnation this weekend to try and get myself a feature in the Performance Auto and Sound print magazine. While I am at it I might also set up a flickr account since I have been loafting on that for quite some time. The flickr would be more active in the summer though so I might keep being lazy…

If you have not already start following me on twitter as well @PerfectStance, I add random photos and commentary on there quite frequently and I am following quite a few interesting people.

Christmas/work/NHL 10 has me slipping a bit with sticker shipping but I will get the latest batch out tonight.

I have not run a feature in a little bit so if you want your ride or photography featured drop me a line at [email protected]

Pat is getting cyrious

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Dec 17, 2009

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My drifter friend Pat Cyr has decided that next year is his year to go hard, all this time I thought he was going hard already so now that he says its really time to go hard I am a little worried for the competition. With his new mindset he decided that his trusty AE86 needs a full rebuild and a new heart for this season, lurking on facebook has allowed me to keep track of what he has been up to. Serious things are going down.

It’s no secret among the automotive community that AE86’s are great drift platforms and Pat just further proved this fact by putting his through its paces this year in various drift competitions. His AE most certainly took a licking and for the most part kept ticking.

I like the somewhat recently added over fenders

As you can see the car needed a little bit of love during the off season so Pat figured why give something a little love when you can give it a lot of love instead? Since Pat already hand built this car and this sick bagged wag we know he is no stranger to fabrication and hard work.

Every section of the car is getting attention

I don't know about you but solid floors make me happy

Out comes the boosted 4A-GZE in goes an f20

I’ll be sure to keep you guys updated on this build as it comes a long.

Winter Wednesdays: Winter Stretch Union Style

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Dec 16, 2009

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We haven’t had much in the way of accumulation so far this week but since there was black ice everywhere last night making an average 20 minute highway rip take me over an hour I figured a Winter Wednesday post was justified. This week we have something from UNION Auto Club, ever seen stretched winters tires?

Clearly not a club that believes in winter downtime UNION is at it again. They successfully stretched 215 winter tires over 9.5″ MB battles and threw them on a 240. No winter drift videos yet but I feel quite confident in saying they are coming.

It's actually kind of funny to see winter tires stretched

Wet snow is the worst and (and heaviest) kind of snow) — Wet snow is the worst (and heaviest) kind of snow

Edit: More pics in this thread on JDMrides.ca

Lots more winter yet to come, I have not even taken my snowboard out of the bag yet…

Theme Tuesdays: Clean Civic EG Hatches

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Dec 15, 2009

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The concept of theme Tuesdays here on Stance Is Everything is simple, every Tuesday I pick a theme and post a collection of vehicles with that theme that meet the stance criteria (modified suspension that suit the vehicles intent). This weeks theme Tuesday topic is: EG Hatches

I have Joe from The Chronicles to thank (blame?) for this Tuesdays Theme, he recently did a photo shoot of a pretty unique EG Hatch that got me thinking that EGs would make a good theme, today’s clean Civics are such a nice change from the rice buckets of yore.

The attention to detail on this car is as crazy as it not having headlights, be sure to head over to The Chronicles and check out the rest of the pics

I can't believe this gauge actually exsits!

Pulling off steelies is easy, ad a healthy does of slam — Pulling off steelies is easy, add a healthy does of slam

This red eg is straignt sunk on gold Work Equips — This red eg is straight sunk on gold Work Equips

The color of this car and the color of these wheels compliment each other nicely

Though oem these rims are still somewhat uncommon — Though oem I don't see these rims often

Authentic spoons or rotas? I can't tell — Authentic spoons or rotas? I can't call it

I've got lots of respect for anyone keeps their white rims gleamin

I think this car really comes together nicely and it looks like it coulg go pretty good — I think this car really comes together nicely and it looks like it could go pretty good as well

This car shows what a nice paint job, drop, and unique set of wheels can do to an EG

I'm normally not a huge fan of cf lips but it works here

I knew a guy with an EG sedan this color and I thought it would never look good, eggs on my face! — I knew a guy with an EG sedan this color and I thought it could never look good, eggs on my face!

Is it me or does this car look like it has an evil grin?

Saw this one on Noahs blog (EK Hatch) dig the color match and it's got a unique hood too — Saw this one on Noahs blog (EKHatch.wordpress.com) dig the color match and it's got a unique hood too - edited to clear up confusions...

Phaze 2, perhaps the original fitment crew

Ending this off with some local flavor, nice eg cruisn the Gardiner Expressway — Ending this off with some local flavor, nice eg cruising the Gardiner Expressway

Want more EG hatches? Check out the EG Inventory Reduction sale over on EKhatch

Got an idea for a Theme Tuesday? Let me know in the comments

Sticker’d

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Dec 14, 2009

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As most of you know I did the first free run of 50 stickers not too long ago and the demand for them was much higher than I expected. When I got the first batch done I figured that 40 would go locally and 10 world wide but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Most of the stickers went outside of Canada and into the United States, and one set even went to New Zealand. As I’ve probably said before it’s an awesome feeling knowing that people all over the world are down with this blog and want to help represent it, here are some photos of people doing just that all around the world.

Meg || CarsxGirl

Meg from Cars X Girl was one of the first people to claim a set of stickers and if I recall correctly I sent her four since she has three cars in her two person family and I wanted to make sure she had a few options for all her rides. Since her 240 is currently under the knife for a motor swap she sent photos of her Miata which she drove to rookie of the year honors in her local auto cross club, sick!

Never seen a purple harness before looks great

This photo shows the stickers true color way better than the ones I took

Nicholas Heintz’s Corolla

Nicholas sent some pics of his Green Corolla rocking a matching S.I.E. sticker. He’s doing a budget build and it looks like he is off to a great start with this clean base. I love budgets builds as they are far realistic to my wallet than high priced magazine build so hopefully he keeps me (any by association you) updated with the progress, since he already has his stance addressed fitment is next on the bill.

Julian aka Sleep Wagon

Julian is reppin S.I.E. in sunny California and since the weather in Toronto recently has dipped solidly below zero I really wish I was in Cali with him. Currently Julian continues to rock stock rims harder than any other car I have seen solidifying the fact that Stance Is Everything. else rock them and he I’m a huge fan of this car and super stoked to see my stickers on his ride. Once he settles on a new set of rims… game over.

New Batch

I’ve had a new batch of stickers run,this time blue has been dropped in favor of gun metal and gold, pink, white, green and black remain.

Since the first round of stickers was on me I have setup a pay pal donation button to cover the cost for the third round of stickers.

My goal is that the money from the url stickers just goes back into more url stickers until I get around to making a few designs that will hopefully fund the production of url stickers entirely then they can go back to being free.

To get a set of the new stickers click the button below and make a donation, once you have made the donation email me with your shipping address, color preference, and the email your donation came from and I will ship out your stickers.

There is no minimum or maximum donation so feel free to do whatever you like, I’m not looking to make a profit I have a job for that.

If the iframe above does not work for you click here to go straight to the donation button.

I’m going to set up a page specifically for ordering stickers soon so once that’s up I will throw the link here and on the homepage.