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With all of cars lately that have sticker covered body panels, roof racks full of whatever, rust, crazy paint and extreme amounts of stretch and poke I think sometimes people over look how great a car can look with clean paint, the right wheels and perfect stance. Julian's wagon has been one of my favorite Subaru's since the first time he sent me pictures of it, his show room clean paint, and dialed ride height allowed him to rock stock rims better than damn near anyone else and I now that he has retired his stock wheels in favor of Work 11R in 17x9 wheels his car has never looked better.

Gilbert, Matt and the rest of The Scraped Crusaders made their way to the 24th annual June Jitterbug in Niagara Falls last weekend and judging from the pictures had one heck of a good time. Here are the photos Matt took at the show with captions written by Gilbert (the lead blogger over at The Scraped Crusaders) who's not a VW aficionado but a stance lover none the less.

It's been awhile since we've have played the guess this car game and as soon as I saw this car it would make a perfect candidate. Having been interested in cars most of my life it's fairly rare for me to come across a model of car by manufacturer I have never heard of before (kit cars aside). Noah and Phil are normally pretty good at posting models of cars I have never seen before so chances are they might have an idea what it is, and so might Ollie as he knows his fair of oddball cars as well. Regardless this contest is open to all of my readers and if you figure out what today's car is you win your choice of url stickers, let's get to guessing.

It’s been quite awhile since I last featured a photographer here on Stance Is Everything so I am very happy to be able to showcase this photographer’s work today. Matt Berenz hails from the Durham region and rolls with The Scraped Crusaders, which means that he never has to look far for a clean dropped ride to shoot, but Matt talents are not restricted only to automotive photography. His natural gift allows him to shoot a number of different subjects with ease and he is also very capable videographer as well.

Mr. Borges dropped me a line recently to let me know that his V.I.P. IS300 build is moving forward full steam ahead. If you remember last we left this build the car was looking pretty stock and he had a pile of parts sitting in his basement waiting to go on. Fast forward to today and we will find that most of the parts have made their way onto his ride. Let's take a look at what's been done.

I've always liked VW Corrados, probably because I like Sciroccos quite a bit as well and they share a similar feel. While their reliability might be up for question but their ability to look good dumped on a clean set of rims isn't. It's a damn shame that they came fwd as a sliding Corrado would be a treat.

This weekend was the 5th Annual Voice Coil Meltdown and Tuner Jam Show put on by Division R Performance and hosted at Selective Sound in Mississauga. Since I had missed this show all four previous years I made a mental note to attend this one even before Sam had invited me out to the event to cover and sponsor it. The show had a great turnout and for the most part the weather cooperated, here are the photos from this year and I hope to make it out again next year.

Last Sunday I decided to treat my dad to a classic car show for Fathers day and with the 'Classics Against Cancer' show being the same day I figured it was meant to be, unfortunately even though the show was scheduled until 4 a lot of the cars started rolling out at 3:30. While I was quite disappointed my dad seemed to enjoy the show regardless of the fact lot of cars had already left. Since a lot of the cars were gone by the time we arrived today's coverage is a little different than my normal fare but if you like anything on wheels you will enjoy.

This has been a crazy week for the Toronto area, the upcoming G8 and G20 summits have turned the downtown core into a media and security frenzy. In close proximity to the summit you have a mix of people who don't care, people who care too much, and police in riot gear all milling around, and as if things were not volatile enough mother nature decided Wednesday would be a great day for an earthquake. The ground shaking must have jarred some things loose in this local nut's brain because he was caught cruising around in Hyundai with a crazy home made container on his roof filled with weapons, details inside.

Shortly after I spotted this A3 at Summer Sizzle 2 the owner, Pedro, shot me an email with photos illustrating the transformation it's gone through since he has owned it. Much like his fellow Division R members Mike and Sam Pedro's car is clean and to the point. No outrageous paint jobs or body kits to be found in these ranks.

I have always loved good graffiti, not crudely draw penises and crappy tags, but large murals full of vibrant color and intricate designs. When I look at these pieces I wonder how much time goes into them and how they evolve. It's probably very similar to building car, some artists go in with an end goal in mind while others just wing it and see where they end up. Maybe this is why cars and murals seem to go together so well, thankfully Toronto has lots of great murals which more often than not they can serve as an awesome backdrop for great looking cars. Which they have done today for a pair of Subarus.

A twitter friend of my @AhmadBrown is a serious RSX nut, one of his more recent tweets that said 'Just got another RSX today. Good thing I'm not married or else my wife would freaking kill me.' tipped the scales in the favor of the RSX/DC5 being the subject of today's Theme Tuesday. The scale didn't need that much of a tip however since I seriously considered getting one of these before I got my Mazda 3. In the end I opted for the Mazda 3 because it could carry more bikes and people at once than the RSX.