Event Coverage: Driven 2013

With Driven in the books the 2013 show season is now “officially” underway in Calgary. Eager to get old man winter out the door this years driven took place a little earlier than last year which meant a few people had to scramble to get their cars ready for the show.

However 250+ cars ended up making it to the Calgary Oval even with the accelerated timeline and MikeĀ once againĀ did a great job of capturing the show in the artistic way only he can.

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Nothing but love for Hoosier’s stuffed in tubbed fenders
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I quite like the colour on this
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Everyone’s favourite poster car car covered ZR exotics livery
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Flexin’
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Down force in abundance
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Telling myself I don’t want a motorcycle is starting to not work
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Thankfully my wallet is still against the idea

Trucks

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Mike previously took some photos of this Mazda at the dropsciles sideshow and it’s still one of most unique minitruck builds I have seen out of Calgary
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This one, which is more traditionally done, is also pretty rad. Timeless look
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Hats off to whoever built both of these

VW

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Visually this car looks to be unchanged from last year but really what needed to be swapped?
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Mike is currently building a Ghia so I’m sure he loved this
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Absolutely beautiful build

BMW

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The universally loved e30 m3
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BRG E36 on Scnitzer wheels
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Mike’s been teasing me about feature photos on this awesome widebody e46 m3
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I’m still holding my breath Mike!

Mazda

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Not sure if this is dipped, wrapped, or painted, so many options these days.
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Micheal’s Mazda 3 with insane amounts of camber out back
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Very interesting tails on this FD

Scion/Toyota/Lexus

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Nice to see this car still making the rounds since it was built, I wondered if it would just end up in a warehouse somewhere
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One of the craziest AE86’s in Canada
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Underhood look at the beautiful Trueno
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Clean Supra on Meisters
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Money shot
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I have a love hate relationship with these, the hate begins around the rear quarter at certain angles. This one look great on VS-XX’s though
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2JZ GS on huge Rotiforms
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Turbo waiting to swallow small angry birds
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This LS was freshly bagged for the 2013 Driven show
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LS430 from “Poor Form” that was a favorite of mine from last year
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Love how much this tucks
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So proper
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Dope trunk setup too, wonder how it sounds

Honda

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Great looking Integra, the angle this is show at makes it seem like the wing is on this car but it isn’t
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Spotless EF
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Tidy engine bay
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Honda s600, I think I have seen one of this in person, ever.
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Such a beautiful roadster I would love to see more of them
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Beastly!
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Beautiful EM1, great fitment too, nothing crazy and flows great

Nissan

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Autodream.ca 240 with wheels that appear to go on forever
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The color of this skyline looks almost Arizona Ice tea inspired… I would love to see it without the roof box
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Dialed fitment
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Those whoĀ preferĀ a moreĀ subduedĀ colour scheme will probably find this right up their alley
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Looks to be completely spotless

Mike’s complete coverage of the 2013 Driven show can be found here on his Flickr account.

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