Random Dope

Hat's off too anyone who's rocking a white on white setup well, the constant up keep that is required combined with the fact that there are so many different shades of white to contend with makes it much harder to 'white out' a car then black one out. Those are the excuses I use for not doing it anyway. Never the less when properly executed the look is hard look to beat.

Not sure how or where I came across this car, and I have not seen it anywhere since. Even typing a few search terms into Google didn't really return anything relevant (to this car at least). To make things more bleak I renamed the photos as I saved them so who knows what they were originally called. If I only had one photo saved I would have sworn it was a photo shop, but since there are three...

Since last weeks WTF Friday was a little wordy (that guy is blaming tweet-deck ) and I'm going to assume you have all seen the Lamborghini destruction already I've decided for today I am just going to post two hilarious jeeps and one hilarious Hummer. Well, at least I think they are pretty hilarious, though I've had a long week...

Here is the rest of the Performance World coverage I was hoping to have up yesterday before the day spiraled wildly out of control. There are enough pictures in this post to warrant two but I decided to just get them all up at once instead of having you guys wait even longer. The mini trucks and classics make up most of today's post with a few random images dropped in. If you thought Performance World this year was lacking that just means you didn't spend enough time in the vast section of classics.

I had every intention of finishing off the rest of the Performance World coverage today and then work just kicked the living crap out of me and is continuing to do so. Good thing I had this gem tucked away. I first saw this eg on eyegasmic cars and immediately popped the watermark into google to find more photos. After a bit of clicking I found the source (flickr.com/oncam) and more photos of the car.

Since Jalopnik has over 50 thousand fans on facebook and over 18 thousand followers on twitter I am going to assume some of you may have already heard a little about this story but I feel the need to talk about it anyway. Two days ago someone tweeted from the Chrysler corporate account "I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity and yet no one here knows how to fucking drive", today the person responsible for the tweet no longer has a job and Chrysler didn't renew their social media contract with this company.

Awhile back I was pointed in the direction of a bunch of well done 9th generation Corrollas by reader KN tee. Once I got through looking at the photos and links he submitted I starred the email with the intentions of getting back to it later. 'Later' quickly turned into forgotten until last night when I was parked behind a 9th gen in traffic and it all came flooding back to me, dive intervention perhaps. Here is one of several Kn sent my way.

When I had my e30 I drove it all year round, like all of my cars, and I found that they are quite capable winter vehicles if your heat works well, you have winter tires, and a little weight in the boot. It also doesn't hurt if you can stand to watch them get covered in salt half of the year and not cringe. I suppose the same can be said for most any car I suppose but seeing an e30 covered in salt is quite tragic as they are God's Chariot after all. This e30 was posted in one of several 'Post your car in the winter' threads I follow and it's doing a pretty good job of blending in with its surroundings.

Went relic hunting again on my hard drive and pulled out this Civic deep from the archives. I'm fairly sure i pulled it from a Honda-Tech thread one of the seven or so times I've actually browsed the site. Nothing on this car is particularly in your face but it's clean, simple, and low and comes together quite nicely which makes for a nice easy quick post after a busy weekend. 🙂

This has got to be the funniest towing fail I have seen since the one where a bunch of clowns remove the back of a car trying to get it out of a snow bank. If your wondering how this truck ended up upside down in a frozen lake your guess is as good as mine. However one take away from this video is never under estimate the power of a front end loader.

Seeing the positive reception of that little winter Lupo I posted last week was very encouraging as I've got a decent amount of small, fitted, VWs on my hard drive. Today's car is an example of what happens when you take a US spec Polo, shave a few things, bring the fenders closer to the wheels with an air ride setup, and stretch 185/45s and 195 45s over 15x8 and 15x9 wheels. Since quoting Charlie Sheen is the thing to do this week, this Polo: Winning!

Some of the long time readers, or those of you who have looked through the Theme Tuesday archives, may have noticed I have a bit of an attraction to VW Harlequins. I like these cars because you don't see them often and when you do they can't be missed. Seeing one thats winter driven never crossed my mind until I saw rabriolet of vortex not given a damn and pushing his through significant accumulation.