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Event Coverage: Squeaky Clean ‘Coffee’

In 2011 Matt ended his previous show series, Tuners Against Street Racing, to start his new endevaour Squeaky Clean. The first Squeaky Clean event had a bit of a luke warm reception (not helped in the least the weather) so for 2012 Matt started with an event focused on the cars and the people instead of awards.

BBS RS Love From Japan

Many regard Japan as one of a few meccas of automotive culture. Having never been I can't confirm or deny this fact but based on the amount of people flocking to Japan to take pictures of cars I can only assume it is at least partially true. Something I have always found interesting about Japan's automotive scene is the fact that while they often set the trends we follow here they also pick up on a lot of our styling cues and more often than not improve on them.

Guest Blog: Theme Tuesdays: Air Bag Love Pt. 2

One of the most unnecessary arguments in the automotive community, in my opinion, is the static vs air debate. I just don't get it, people should get down how they want to get down and that should be the end of it.

Guest Coverage: Fitted Fes 1

Late in 2011 I got a fairly larger order from a Takafumi Ebata, a Stance Is Everything reader from Japan. The first time I sent out the order I misread it and as a result a few things were missing, so to make amends I resent the entire order along with some freebies from the mystery box. Fast forward a few weeks and Takafumi showed his appreciation by sending through some photos from Fitted Fes 1 which took place January 22nd in Nagashima Japan.

Winter Wednesdays: Proof

A couple weeks ago a picture of Alex's Lexus SC at Blue Mountain made it's way to the fan page and two things about said picture were quickly disputed. One, that his car is Lexus SC (and not a Toyota Soarer) and two the fact that he does indeed daily drive it like it as it appeared in the photo. I'm not even sure why the first item is up for dispute, Alex owns the car so if he says it is a Lexus SC400 then it is a Lexus SC400, and for proof of the other disputed item he sent in some more photos.

WTF Friday: SC-ary

Posting a WTF Friday critiquing a donk might be a tad hypocritical or ridiculous after posting this awesome cartoon on the fan page earlier this week but it just so happens that this particular donk is a LOT of ridiculous. Now I can generally respect (or at least tolerate) a well built donk, but this SC.... Mangled fenders, missing center caps, and just an odd overall stance (even for a donk) make this car look quickly pieced together.

Theme Tuesdays: Favourite Shots of 2011

I had another theme ready to go today until I realized that this was the last Tuesday of the year and I should do something 'special' for the occasion. Going to events and shooting features for a year adds up to a large number of photos and since I have never really brought together my personal favourites before I figured that was enough of a theme to go with for today. These shots are in no particular order.

Theme Tuesday: Hydraulics, No Wires

Last week in jest I made the following comment when posting that clean Fiesta: "when was the last time you saw a car with hydraulic suspension that didn’t have wires?" After reading that a few people on the fan page urged me to look a little harder into the land of hydraulic (or Hydropneumatic) suspension to broaden my horizons. So I did. While I had guessed a few people outside of the traditional lowrider community were dabbling in the land of juice I was surprised to see how widespread the use of hydraulics is over a variety of platforms.

Aidan’s Year End Video

Watching Aidan's car progress over the past two years has been quite a treat and the work he has done certainly didn't go unnoticed in 2011. His season started off great with a high profile feature, and ended even better with the opportunity to showcase his car alongside Liberty VIP in the lobby at Importfest. Between working on his car, helping out behind the scenes at events, and bringing steak to grill on my BBQ Aidan also managed to squeeze in some time to do the following video with local videographer Misha Frolov.

Guest Coverage: Drift Ops Oct 30 2011

Drift Ops along with Cool Kids and sponsor Sailun Tires just wrapped up a successful season of drift events at local track Shannoville. In some cruel twist of fate I was busy every Sunday that they had an event this year, but for the season-ender Charles Spivak was able to make it out and he kindly offered up his coverage for the site.

Event Coverage: CSCS Finale 2011 Part: One

Yesterday marked the conclusion of what might may have been the best CSCS season I have attended. The addition of a new track coupled with very co-operative weather made this ninth year of the Canadian Sport Compact Series one of the most attended and therefore exciting. Though I woke up a bit under the weather there was no way I was going to let myself sit around all day and miss the season ender where people would be battling to find them selves atop their various classes.

Event Coverage: Nextmod BBQ 2011

Nextmod decided to be patient this year and hold their BBQ a little later than they had previous years. This patience was rewarded with a stellar turnout (as always) with the quality and quantity of cars coming out rivalling a lot of the local parking lot shows in the area. Everyone knows these BBQs are a good time because what can really go wrong when you've got great weather, great cars and free food?