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In celebration of the fan page surpassing the 8k milestone (thanks) I've decided to debut a new category on the site called 'Olivers Travels'. Who's Oliver you might ask? Well Oliver (Ollie) is a long time reader and knowledgeable enthusiast who has submitted a few things here and there before.

About a week ago Will from Stance East (who is known to rock SIE shirts in the club) asked on the facebook page if low riders ever tip over after I posted a pic of an Impala hoping. I messaged him later saying the farthest I have ever seen one get is parked up on it's bumper or dragging bumper in a three wheel. However, it would appear that if you three wheel a square body s-10 blazer there isn't really anything stopping you from going ass over tea kettle while bending them corners.

Minitruckers are no strangers to wild front end swaps, some turn out great and some turn out not so great. I stumbled across this s10 Blazer with a c10 front end when I was pulling together this weeks 'no shine' Theme Tuesday and thought it was worthy of a post of its own outside of that due to how unique it is. This front end manages to be a huge departure from the standard Blazer front end but not look entirely out of place once you get over the initial shock.

2010. That post was made up of mostly black cars and with a couple cars switched out it could have easily passed for a 'murdered out' Theme Tuesday. This go round I took a little more time picking out the cars to include and pulled together a wider variety of cars including modern, euro, and the cars mysteriously missing from the last post, classics.

If this truck could talk prior to becoming part of the Taylor'd Customs fleet it would have told the same stories any other 54 year old truck would. Tales of journeys to and from work or the farm, first dates, and perhaps a trip to a hospital for a child birth (or two) are nothing out of the ordinary of a truck this vintage. Dragging frame from from Ajax Ontario to Ohio though? That is a little less typical and a welcome turn of the page in the history of this awesome 57 Chevy 3200.

The year coming to a close means that one of my favourite threads (most hacked/ugly shit ever seen) on s10forum is also coming to a close. Yesterday while giving the thread one last read through the following incident randomly jumped from the recesses of my mind. Since it happened in 2009 I forget the exact chain of events I read at the time but the pictures do a great job of filling in the blanks.

Two weeks ago sifting through what seemed like endless amounts of Hot Import Nights coverage I stumbled across a photo in my reader posted by eyegasmic cars that caught my eye. Intrigued I set out to find the original photo and more on the car. After tracking down photographer Scott Kroeker I was able to not only get permission to re-post the photos but also obtained the contact information of the builder Brent.

I've been posting the odd classic truck (50s to early/mid 80s) both here and on the fan page for the past few months but for whatever reason I have never really posted them in mass. Today is the the day I change that. Quite a few of these trucks are fat fender Chevys or squared up C-10s but don't take that as a sign of me being a Chevy over Ford guy.

I'm all for one of a kind bodies on top of existing platforms because people have done incredible things with this formula for years. Sadly (in my opinion) this particular example might be the worst thing to happen to the outside of a C3 Corvette since Corvette Summer. This once Vette known as the Scorpion (not to be confused with the Skorpion) is the result of 6 years of work and made up of a combination of fiberglass and hand crafted sheet metal. The craftsmanship seems to be there but the eye for an appealing end result? Not so much.

It has been a long time since I've thought about 'the worlds lowest blazer' (at least five years) but for whatever reason it popped into my head while pulling together last weeks WTF Friday post. This truck is a great example of the extreme measures people were (and still are) willing to take to get their 'perfect stance'. I remember a lot of things about this truck (the extreme body drop, the fender humps, and the Fiero wheels) but a couple of the other details completely slipped my mind.

Time again to do a pretty straight forward Theme Tuesday post, the kind you could find on any other blog. Sorry this is not as creative as some of the previous ones. I'm not even sure you guys will like it.... /sarcasm Warning: Potentially NSFW unless maybe you work at the Brass Rail or just DGAF.

When the subject of wide bodies comes up in the circles I travel in people rarely ever mention American examples. Probably because euro and JDM widebody builds are much easier to find online, at shows, and on the track, but if you look hard enough American builds are plentiful. Several of them dating back to when fuel efficiency wasn't considered and there was no replacement for displacement.