I must be feeling a little nostalgic with the next Fast & The Furious around the corner because it occurred to me the other night that I’ve never done a Theme Tuesday on the Mitsubishi Eclipse (Eagle Talon) before.
In my opinion the first two generations are the best looking so they make up the bulk of today’s post but a fourth generation did manage to squeak in there.
Tyrese ruined the third generation.
Early last week Buni sent in a few photos of his m3 converted e91 Touring and Iended up posting one of them on the Facebook fan page.
Buni’s touring was incredibly well received and is proof that of the nearly universal appeal of a OEM+ styled wagon.
Afterwards Buni sent the full shoot on by and I was incredibly impressed at how well the car photographs at all angles. A tasteful build through and through.
I’m also pretty jealous of the ‘shoot location…
Photo Credit: Andreas R Altstätter / Felgen Outlet
Growing up the neighbour directly across the way from me bought his daughter a Pontiac Fiero for her fourteenth birthday. The intent was that on her 16 birthday, when she got her license, it would become her first car.
Having already filled the garage with an vast motorcycle collection the car sat outside, unmoved, as her sixteenth birthday came and went. At around 18, when the car had faded from a vibrant red to a Pepto Bismal pink, the daughter finally decided to get her license.
Sadly it was about 95 or 96 when this happened and the 84 Fiero had fallen out of style so it was eventually sold and she later picked up a Honda Prelude.
This chain of events marked my first exposure to the general public’s apathy when it comes to Pontiac’s foray into mid engine sports cars.
It wasn’t until a few years later, while I worked on a few kit cars in high school, that I came to know of people who actually genuinely liked these cars.
As flawed and quirky as some years may be these Fieros have amassed a strong following and people have been known to put quite the variety of motors behind the seats; Cadillac Northstar V8s, 350s, and supercharged Buick v6 3800s to name a few but Volkswagen motor swaps are new to me.
Both of these cars were built by a fellow by the name of Dave, and his own is powered by a VR6 while the second, belonging to his wife, is propelled by a TDI motor.
The vr6 one, seemingly built just because, uses an AFP VR6 from a wrecked 2000 Jetta and was started in 2007 and mechanically complete in 2008.
Despite lots of urging from the Feiro community the VR6 remained relatively stock while the exterior got VW wheels and some… interesting paint.
The TDI powered Fiero started life as an ’88 Formula and again the motor comes from a scrap ready 2000 Jetta, this one is also largely stock and was built to be a cheap to run commuter.
The build thread for the VR6 Powered car is here and the TDI build on is here.
Of course there is video as well:
Going out to do a shoot tomorrow morning of the latest project from Switches N Thangs. Looking forward to it, first outdoor shoot of 2013!
Curiously enough this was the last Fiero I posted in the Non Traditional, Traditional Lowrider Theme Tuesday
There’s a Fiero build thread on Stance Works I really ought to catch up on…
In stock form the Exige is a pretty enticing package; weighing 2,015 lbs, and equipped with various mid mounted power plants ranging from 175hp to 250+ hp any model of this nimble Lotus is more than enough to get most people on the wrong side of a radar gun within a few minutes.
Of course more than enough to some isn’t more than enough to all and with Exige people just love to push the envelope.
One well known example is the Hennessey Venom GT and another just so happens to the the Composite Works Extrema.
What’s the Extrema you ask? Well it’s a LS9 powered Exige project currently in the works by Italian tuning company Composite Worx.
Powered by an LS9 the Extrema can fly through 0-62 mph in a hair under three seconds and rips to 100 mph in about seven.
If you keep your foot in it –and have a stretch of road safe enough– the Extrema will make it’s way all the way up to 200mph before a governor kicks in and questions your better judgement.
Composite Works, as the name suggests, steps in with a few Carbon fiber body pieces and full carbon seats.
More info, more photos, and hopefully video of the car are soon to be released at compositeworx.com and facebook.com/Composite-Worx
I’m off to buy a lotto ticket.
This weekend I was watching Donnie Brasco and the Cadillac vs Lincoln debate combined with the sheer number of Caddys used in the movie set today’s Theme Tuesday in motion.
No real year, or model sub theme just a small collection of low cars adorned with the Cadillac emblem.
For whatever reason I’ve always found cars not available here in Canada intriguing regardless of what their actual build quality or reputation is. One such example of this are Opels, this isn’t the first time I’ve posted an Opel of this vintage, and probably won’t be the last.
Somewhat bland at stock height Commodores start to look a whole lot better lower to the ground and fitted with a tasteful set of wheels.
I particularly like the fact that the red pinstripe was retained on this example and how the orange manta 400 wheels somehow manage to work with the plush looking red (velour?) interior.
The door lock pull is pretty rad also.
Spotted here on motorfacts.de via Suck Squeeze Bang Blow.
One of the things I like most about hot rodding is that (unless you are building a traditional) there are no rules. Motor, chassis, wheels whatever, all up to the owner.
This Caterpillar hot rod is a perfect example. No one says you should build a Hot Rod like this but at the same time no one is going to say you shouldn’t.
Started in 2010 and completed in 2012 this plus sized hot rod was built in a two car garage by the resourceful owner.
The motor comes from a Caterpillar C-12 and is backed by a 10(!) speed Eaton transmission followed up by a 293 end gear.
The frame is comprised of frame rails harvested from big rigs as are the suspension and braking systems. The body is reportedly a from a thirties or so Studabaker.
The grill, nose, headlights, and paint come for a Cat and I have no clue where the giant hitch ball originated from.
The C-12 motor doesn’t pump out an obscene amount of horsepower (about 450ish) but given that it’s now in a vehicle much lighter than where it started it’s got more than enough power to lay some rubber on the road:
No build thread but there is a video with lots of progress shots:
Thanks to Just A Car Guy for peaking my interest on this build.
Still working away at getting the car ready for spring and starting to line up a few features for this season as well.
Is anyone out there selling a set of faded Work lug nuts? I’ve got something I want to try but I need a set.
This truck reminded me of a few things from the untraditional low Theme Tuesday.
One of the goals I’ve set for 2013 is to develop more partnerships with local, like minded, businesses and enthusiasts.
So far this year I’ve been fortunate enough to work with Air Lift Performance and today I’m happy to announce a partnership with Meguiar’s Canada and their Car Crazy Canada’s Best Contest.
The contest –which is in it’s third year running– is part of a global Meguiar’s International Car Crazy Showcase competition that gives a builder/owner from each region (in this case Canada) the ‘ultimate car guy package’ consisting of a trip to Vegas with their winning vehicle for SEMA 2013.
The format is fairly simple; event organizers choose ten cars from each event (World Of Wheels Calgary, Megaspeed Custom Car & Truck show, World of Wheels Winnipeg, and the Salon Autosport Quebec) to be quarter finalists and people like yourselves pick the final winner by voting on canadasbest.ca starting May 3rd.
Along the way special promotions between media partners (such as Stance Is Everything) and Meguiar’s will be announced so stay tuned.
In the mean time here are the finalists from Megaspeed and Calgary.
As someone who likes to take photos it’s only natural that I like to look at photos and today’s Theme Tuesday is a partial list of photographers who inspire me in some way or form.
This isn’t a ranking of the best of the best –and I know a lot of you take photos– so by all means feel free to drop some names and galleries in the comments I may have missed.
I’m always up for more inspiration.
If you read the site even somewhat regularly you are probably already familiar with Mike’s work because I post it as often as I can.
I’ve been watching Mike progress as a photographer since we first got in touch and he’s consistently improved at his craft. He’s also got an awesome attitude about basically everything which makes working with him an absolute breeze.
View more of Mike’s work on mdmvisuals.ca or his flickr.
Charles, like many on this list, is local and every time we shoot the same event I am completely flabbergasted at how his photos differ from everyone else shooting the same event (see RX-7 photo below taken in the middle of the day).
While many photographers congregate around the same corner Charles can often be found practically bushwhacking in an effort to get the creative shots the rest of us can only hope for.
View more of Charles’ work here on his facebook.
Chris is the only photographer on this list who doesn’t watermark his photos in anyway shape or form. I once asked him about it and he explained that he feels watermarks take value away from the final product.
Sound reasoning and there’s no doubt his work looks exceptional free of any sort of manipulation.
He’s also really good at shooting at night.
View more of Chris’ work on his Flickr.
I met Steve in the hop pit and Scrape By The Lake in 2010 and between the calamity of bumpers hitting the ground we said our hellos and have been friends ever since.
He’s quite the perfectionist and I practically had to twist his arm until it broke to get him to release the now famous photos of Rob’s International because he didn’t think they were good enough.
View more of Steve’s work at Equals:22 on facebook
I’ve been following Matt’s progression as a photographer since I featured his work in 2010. Between then and now he’s kept himself busy shooting for the Scraped Crusaders and a various European auto magazines.
Recently he got a job at Pfaff Tuning which has given him an incredible selection of cars to shoot and he seems to be producing work faster than ever.
Another previously featured photographer who can basically shoot anything he wants is my old riding friend Nick Busato. Up until recently I thought he did most of his work track-side but he seems to be doing a few Auto-shows as well.
In either environment his work is great, but he’s always hard an enviable work ethic and drive to succeed.
View more of Nick’s work on his Flickr.
The first non Canadian resident on this list, Larry shoots predominantly for a little (sarcasm) site called Speed Hunters and when I met him at SEMA I mumbled over myself explaining to him how much of an influence the site and his photography has on Stance Is Everything.
Seemingly able to shoot anything, and living the dream, getting anywhere near where Larry’s level of talent would be awesome.
View more of Larry’s work on SpeedHunters.com
As one half of a lot of the photo-graphical content coming from the S|W camp Mike seems to excel at outdoor shots with a bit of a vintage vibe to them.
Of course a stark white studio also doesn’t phase him either.
View more of Mike’s work on Flickr or Stance|Works
Dylan is perhaps best known for his expert light painting technique and odd Flickr handle (mojocoggo) but he’s also got a great eye for angles, composition, subjects, and locations.
I also love his work with vintage Japanese tin.
View more of Dylan’s work on his flickr or his new site originalplate.com.
I can’t remember how I stumbled on Brett’s tumblr originally but it’s the only one that’s made me consider signing up just so that I could leave a non anonymous comment explaining how much I like his photos.
Not only do I want to shoot like Brett, I want to attend the events he does, always such variety.
View more of Brett’s work here at brettcreates.tumblr.com
Back when the site was in its infancy one of the first people outside of Canada to submit photos was Julian. Known online as Sleepy Wagon Julian owned an immaculate low, flush, Impreza wagon that always sat perfect no matter what wheels were under it.
Currently Julian whips an Lexus LS400 and in his signature fashion it’s not only low and fitted, it’s exceptionally clean.
Julian’s previous wagon:
His LS400 looking classy in champagne and low as hell on prototype Function & Form Coils.
It’s nice to see that throughout the years Julian has not lost his taste for low, stock bodied, cars on well picked sets of wheels.
More photos of his car can be found on his flickr account and his built is right here on wrong fitment crew.
