Because of my move the previous day my time at the show was short and sweet and while I didn’t show up during it’s peak but I was still able to get a lot of shots of the action and, thankfully, the time I showed up it had cooled down slightly as it was a scorcher.

Random Stuff

Last year I saw a girl manhandling a hog and this year I saw a bike burnout.

Bikes create a lot of smoke in a short period of time

My gf pointed out this sticker, I like it

Not really random, but the only Accord I shot all day, it really caught my eye

Non Honda

Like any good car show Honda Tech draws out all car owners.

Nice Subaru I saw near the entrance

Loved this paint, gotta find out the code

Immaculate looking Skyline

Super clean RHD RX-7 on Wedsports

Drop dead beautiful e36

Mr Ing pushed in his splitter from the last time I saw him, looked good before, looks great now

Toronto G35 owners really have their fitment game on point

Super clean

Beautiful bug, which had the melons sticker from above on it

Clean setup

Honda powered AE86

I've seen this car a few times but never noticed the Nextmod flameboy here before

Clean, dialed, and proper

Kinda hard to see here but this Supra basically had a drain pipe for an exhaust

And for good reason look at that giant ass turbo!

The full package

Acura’s

For the Acuras this is just easier than breaking it up by body style

Dumped RSX

Widebody RSX that has been shot by Dougboy

I used to want a DC dumped on GSR blades so bad

The Mugen DC that was at the Nextmod BBQ

Beautiful JDM Type R

Nice and clean

Another great looking Type R

This car is on point

Somehow I almost walked past this NSX

Civics

Last year I broke it up by generation but this year I am just doing it by name.

Dara actually rides the bike you see on the rack

The last set of Fitapaldi's I saw was on Jay @ Stance Factorys e30

Clean eg infront of the Teknotik booth

Actually met Chester this time! Had some stickers for me

k-Tuned eighth gen

Perhaps the GTA's most loved SI

Every time I saw this car there was a crowd around it

It was very clean and that cf lip was fire but the real feature was the bay

Which was cleaned up then done up with graffiti

One of the cleanest civic's of this generation I have ever seen

Beast

S2000′s

The S2000 scene in the GTA seems to be expanding rapidly

RPF-1s, timeless, functional

Another car that has been shot by Dougboy

Flush

and more flush

Arc Magic

Msequence was spinning beats at the event, he also changed his rim color

Make sense for a DJ to have a clean I.C.E. setup

All of these shows involved a some sort of crazy vehicle that made an awesome toy but not an awesome 1:1 vehicle. Thank god for people with money, skills, and determination because two of these vehicles regardless of their practicality have come to life.

He-Man Land Shark

When I saw this on Topless Robot (a great blog for 80s nerds) I could hardly believe my eyes. Of all the toy lines the vehicles from He-Man could easily be considered the least practical to make into a 1:1 scale replica (well G.I. Joe had some bad ones too) and yet here it is.

The owner of this Land Shark says it was commissioned by Mattel originally but no one has any idea what for. My personal opinion is that someone had it commissioned on their last day at the company as some sort of elaborate joke.

Or Skellator really exists.

Yes for the curious the mouth opens and closes

Imagine the guns shot tennis balls like American Gladiator? Also note the car from Viper in the background

LOL, first diamond plate steering wheel I have ever seen!

Note the toy on the hood, this thing is alarmingly accurate

I wonder if fake tank tracks are in the works

This car is currently being restored by Unique Movie Cars Las Vegas and I am not sure when it will be complete but if it is half as awesome as the video below it should be great!

TMNT Party Van

I am sure a lot of you saw this one on jalopnik, but I have been waiting for more photos of this car since I did the first ever Theme Tuesday on Vans. At that point I could only find one picture but thankfully now there are a few more.

Naturally this 1:1 replica is based on a VW bus and really makes me wish I kept the one I had as a kid.

Not sure why the Turtle looks so bad when the rest of the build is so good

Gotta live the stingers

The interior is spot on, and the memorbilia inside, epic

Again attention to details

Site Updates

I’ve got an idea for a spring themed post that will involve a bunch of my favorite independent bloggers (ie most my blog roll) so I am going to work on emails to send to some of you guys this weekend.

Other than that I am going to bug my gf to clean up those stickers so I can send them off to Seche Media.

Oh I also plan to weigh in on the big Hella Suck debacle that’s going on right now as well.

Flashback Friday

I am going to be posting some updates on basically every local build on Monday so for this Flashback Friday I decided to throw it back to my original Build Thread post.

A few of these builds I have not checked in on in awhile so I’ll probably check a few tonight and become reacquainted.

Knightx's build is still one of my favorites, I hear its going full track next year

For the past two winters JDMrides.ca has stepped in with a valve cover build off contest to help kill of some of the winter blahs.

While this years entries trickle in lets take a look at some of the best from last year.

They are all pretty creative and I am not sure how many Honda followers I have but hopefully this post inspires someone somewhere.

Land of the rising sun

Land of the rising insurance rates?

It makes me sad that this is done so well as I despise Hello Kitty

My personal favorite, can

Not a JDM rides member but amazing none the less

If you want to get in on this contest head over the discussion on jdmrides.ca, and if you just want to look at more valve covers check out this thread on nwp4life.com

Thankfully the one year old thread was bumped recently and the pictures were still live so I can now share this ride with a larger audience.

Jake Blackman’s Civic SI’s exterior is perfect example of the oem plus tuning style that Derek Kreindler is so fond of, and under the hood hides a big surprise.

Looking at this car how much horse power do you think it makes? 150? 200? 250?

Just looks like someones clean daily driver

Under the hood is a b16 with a giant snail...

....Tuned by full face

Proof is in the pudding

Well if you guess 900hp, could you please guess some lotto numbers for me as well? When I first saw this dyno sheet I stared at it in awe and amazement for a good five minutes.

I’ve heard of a wolf in sheep’s clothing before but this is on an entirely different level.

In track trim the car looks a bit different but still I can just imagine a few unsuspecting car owners just getting obliterated by this car.

Racing a car with this much power on the streets would be ludicrous so he does it at the track

In a more updated photo this car looks a little less sleeper ish but no less mean

Jake Blackman’s 9.577@159.25 run

Super stiff plus super low = three wheelin

Spotted on JDMrides.ca