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Stumbled upon this Honda Accord wagon a few days ago and while the ride height is quite low its the wheels that made me 'right click save as'. They are most certainly not the type of rims you would expect see on an import but they actually don't look too out of place on this wagon. A little different but not bad at all in my opinion. I wish I knew the specs, but I am going to say fairly tall 18s or higher judging by the amount of camber needed to get them to fit.

I love hot rod guys, something about their mentality makes them different than the rest of us. It's this mentality that allows them to create the cars I like to drool over then take them out in the snow just to blow my mind. The first car I am posting today probably doesn't see much winter driving, the second looks like it was just parked for the winter and then snow fell on it, but the third is reported to be a daily driver.

Lexi? Lexuses? Toyotas? I think it's Lexuses but that sounds funny (like Flanderses) so I am not really sure. Anyway the reason I am talking about this is because I found photos of these six Lex sedans while pulling together the IS300 Theme Tuesday. I'm having a hard time deciding which is my favorite, the red one on Equips or the purple one on Meisters.

Clean Civic's always seem to resonate with me because I'm so used to seeing them either riced out, rusted out, or a tragic combination of the two. This particular Civic has been a resident of my hard drive for some time now and I've skipped over posting it time and time again, but not today. Looking at this car again overall I admire it's simplicity and that is the reason I saved it to my 'automotive' folder in the first place.

When I was doing a little bit of research on the Code Red Firebird I happened to stumble across videos of muscle/classic cars shredding autocross courses at both Good Guys and the Hot Rod Power Tour events, I became a fan nearly instantly. People often say that old American cars don't handle well and are meant for cruising or drag racing. While often this can be true, it seems that there are a number of American car owners who are willing to push their creations around the autocross course with reckless abandon.

I know I am not the only person who likes BMW M1s (I'm talking the original ones not the new concept) because I know for a fact a lot of you like the Countach and thanks to Lamborghini's hand in the design these cars share very similar profiles. In street trim these cars look a little castrated and out of place but that's only because where they were really meant to be was out on the track getting pushed to their limit.

This might be the coolest Civic Wagovan I have seen since Bisimotos 700hp D16 beast or the one in the famous Wagon Attack 2 video. If these things didn't rust to hell so easy there would probably be quite a few cool ones around. Oh well I guess the best thing to do would be appreciate what we've got left. Big fan of this one.

It appears that when men were men they drove the snot out of open wheel cars in open faced helmets with not a care in the world. I have no idea what sort of race series these photos came from, and no idea what type of cars they are but I know they needed to be shared with more people.

If I were to guess I would say I have had these pictures saved on my hard drive for at least 8 months and never posted them. Why I never posted these pictures before I can't say but what I can say is this MK5 looks fantastic sitting on AMG Aero II wheels looks great. Carrying the wheel color to the front bumper is a good look.

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.