Dropped

Similar to how I did a one two VW MKII and MKI combo a couple months back I've decided to do the same with e30s by following up the second E30 Theme Tuesday with the second E30 M3 Theme Tuesday. When I was looking at the official list of cars for GT5 I was pretty shocked to see that the e30 m3 was not included. Polyphony had better fix that by December 25th when I get my copy of GT5 as this is the only way I'll be driving one. Probably.

I'm not sure where I got these pictures from, and I know they are not new, but really when it comes to a car with as much heritage and race chops as the 911 Carrera RS looking at one for the 1000th time isn't really bad. Much respect goes out to the owner who showed lots of restraint and didn't go overboard on this car in any regard. Kept things nice and clean.

Most of the cars on the street right now are on stock wheels, or steelies due to the weather. A few brave (and fortunate) people rock a second set of aftermarket wheels but for must of us it's basic, narrow, black steelies. Steelies covered in snow and salt in the winter don't look good, in fact they look like crap, but painted, polished and widened in a valley with now snow and look pretty damn good as the following Scion Illustrates.

Rally racing is one hell of an automotive sport. Elevation and road surface changes are par for the course and when combined with unpredictable weather, driver fatigue, blind corners, and lots of horse power you are left with an spectacular participant and spectator sport. However you are also left with a question: Who's got more balls? The drivers running the course, or the spectators on the course?

I can't believe I have only done one e30 Theme Tuesday prior to this. As a former owner and current member of a number of BMW/E30 forums this is down right shameful. Not to mention that the the e30 is such a classic and versatile chassis, they look great dumped and kitted on low offset wheels, but also respond great to functional modifications when let loose on the track.

This car is easily one of my favorite EG's in the area. I followed the initial build closely on jdmrides.ca (actually the main reason I joined the site) and have continued to watch the car evolve from daily driver/track car to track car/daily driver as the years have gone by. Over the winter Spenser plans to do even more function oriented work to the car so that next year it's even more of a contender out on the Shannonville Track.

Almost any car that I choose to post after an intense two weeks of SEMA coverage is bound to look pretty tame so instead of putting someone's ride directly up against all those high dollar, very sick, builds I figured I might as well put mine up first. These pics were taken by my girlfriend about two weeks ago, the night before I converted my ride to winter mode, and now looking back at them I have realized just how long of a winter it is going to be 🙁

Well, I've finally reached what is going to be the end of the 2010 SEMA coverage. Hopefully you guys have enjoyed all of the coverage as much as I have enjoyed posting it. I hope after seeing these photos you are now devising a way to get to next years show as I think it's something every enthusiast should try and get out to. As much I have tried to share here it's really, really, hard to explain what it's like until you've been, I've never been so exhausted from taking in so much automotive eye candy.

The last two cars I will be posting as Showstoppers from the 2010 SEMA show are cars that I had to revisit a number of times in order to get clear photos due to the fact that each had sizable crowds gawking virtually any time I passed by. Both of these cars lie somewhere between show and street-able in the sense that the owners probably drive both of them quite a bit but wouldn't dare risk daily driving as getting into a fender bender with one of these would be a travesty.

This is going to be the second last set of coverage and it's pretty substantial, 50 plus photos from the outside of the show so if you are on a phone or a stressed connection give it some time. Imagine the net worth of all the cars on the convention center grounds during the week? That's a lot of money.

Outside of the Las Vegas convention center SEMA was held at Meguairs's put on a little something they called the Car Crazy Showcase . It was a collection of mostly muscle, classic, and hot rodded vehicles and was really quite interesting. I spent a lot of time in this area and this batch of coverage contains most of the shots from there. Thinking back I know there are a few I missed so those will show up in the rest of my outdoor coverage.

The last few SEMA Showstoppers I've posted have been fairly involved, very custom builds that don't really represent what most people do in their own garage, so today I decided to post something a little more reasonable built buy the guys and gals over at Holley Performance. This C-10 is the type of resto-mod you could see someone do to the truck they rode in as a child with their mother or father, and that's probably why I like it so much.