I’ve been dropping hints that this Theme Tuesday was coming for awhile now and I’ve finally pulled together a collection I’m happy with (at least for a part one).
Most of these pictures come from hanging around the H.A.M.B. and the Yellow Bullet forums where they love cars new or old that can put their front wheels in the air via monstrous amounts of torque.
There’s a mix of vintage and more recent stuff here so I’ll start with the more contemporary then fade into the past.
Got an email from Jesse over at Airsociety/ Eurokracy today with the vitals about the third year of Canada’s Finest European Automotive event, Eurokracy.
The 2013 Eurokracy show date is June 29th and it takes place at Napierville Dragway located at 233 Rue Charles, Napierville, Quebec, JOJ 1L0.
I’ve never been to a Eurokracy event myself but from I’ve heard great things, and since they are entering their third year I’d wager the rumours are true.
I hope to be able to shift a few things around so I can attend this year and for any of you who might be on the fence yourselves check out this teaser video below:
https://vimeo.com/59378891
You can also check out last years coverage by contributing photographer Neil Kates.
2JZ motors remind me of the LS motor because, like the Chevy V8, people love to shoehorn Toyota’s straight six into any engine bay big enough to hold it (and a few that are not).
Other imports, domestics, European cars, and even a couple trucks have all been given 2JZ heart transplants over the years.
I found this ’83, 22 tucking, bodied, 2jZ, powered Ranger on s10forum last night (while hunting for something else) and was instantly floored.
This build looked pretty promising and caused quite a stir when it was brought out to an Art of Noize show under construction around 2010. The reason I say it ‘looked promising’ is because the build dropped off in 2011 and since then I can’t find anything about the truck… at all.
Finished, scraped, stored, abandoned, I have no idea.
Really wish this build was completed, more so after watching this video.
I’m sure by this point in time most of you are well aware of my automotive A.D.D. This ailment is the source of most of this sites content and lately it has pointed me towards blogs, forums, flickr groups, centred around over the top creations from the 60’s and 70’s.
I find that era of car modification incredibly interesting because back then people were not scared to do anything to anything. Case in point this hot wheels-esque, four motor, four wheel drive, ‘Mustang’ funny car.
Dubbed the Mach IV, this quad 351 Windsor powered behemoth was built by Gary Weckesser over the course of 8 short months simply because he could.
Each motor puts out about 250 horsepower a piece and sits back-to-back which required the two forward motors to run reverse ground cams. Somehow all this mechanical margic ran through a single clutch to all four wheels.
While the Mach IV was predominately used as a show car it could, and did, run the occasional 7 second quarter mile.
The car was terribly expensive to run (surprise surprise) and eventually Gary had to mothball it, however it appears he never got rid of it as it pops up at shows from time to time.
There’s a bunch of video of it sitting around on YouTube but here are some of it kind of running sans fibreglass body.
Doubt it will ever see 1/4 time again but still cool nevertheless.
More info can be found here and here.
I read on instagram yesterday that the civic below is no more. That’s a shame cause I quite liked it.
Photos are from the 2010 Performance World coverage.
I swear there was a brown look alike of this car at one point but perhaps that was just a Photoshop…
With the Fast Six trailer dropping Super Bowl Sunday, and an extended trailer taking flight later in the week, it’s hard not to think back to the early days of the franchise.
Looking at the ‘car stars’ from first instalment it’s hard to say which vehicle the movie did more of a disservice; the Mk2 Jetta, The Toyota Supra, or the Mitsubishi Eclipse/Eagle Talon.
In my opinion the DSM community suffered the worst of it (because no one wanted to replicate the Jetta and Supras were still fairly expensive) resulting in several replicas of the ill-fated green Eclipse roaming the streets. This forced the clean ones into hiding for some time but recently they are making their way back out onto the street.
Two great examples are Eric’s which I posted to the Fan Page on Tuesday and this one below from the bay area that looks stunning rolling.
Couple more rollers here on Stance | Works.
Sorry about the terrible title pun.
After last weeks Winter Wednesday featured the first Avant in this post long time reader Phil was practically begging for me to post more Avants here on SIE.
Being the nice guy that I am I’ve decided to honour his request.
I didn’t really stick to any one generation or trim model as I’m not fully versed in the Audi lineup and it’s just easier this way.
Ford Escorts came in several very different flavors. There was the North American Escort, the superior European Escort, and then the Escorts second cousin twice removed the Ford Orion.
A quick peek at the wikipedia page reveals that the Orion was a four cylinder motivated, UK only, saloon version of the Escort hatchback that didn’t sell particularly stellar or make much of a splash.
This Orion is far from standard kit though as it’s been resprayed, fitted with colour matched BBS RMS, KW V1 coils, a new interior, and custom bumpers made up of Renault and MK7 Escort parts.
All said and done it’s a pretty tidy example of a platform I was completely unaware of until I spotted it on Suck Squeeze Bang Blow.
Photo Credit:Â Konzepteuro – A feature is there also, though it is in Spanish.
When Honda introduced the CRX SI in 1985 they had a campaign proclaiming it to be a rocket. This campaign hinged on a 16 second commercial that showed it blasting off into the sky via cutting edge 80’s video technology.
The owner/builder of this CRX was obviously deeply impacted by this commercial because he saw fit to equip his CRX with a gas turbine engine from a small helicopter.
According to a poster on ‘Vortex this car was seen at a show once in 2007 (Honda Tech) and then drove off loudly into obscurity.
Some digging located the builders cardomain page were he described the vehicle as follows:
It is a 1990 Honda CRX with a Garrett GTP30-67 Gas Turbine engine installed in the rear of the car. The car is driven by a Hydrostat Transmission coupled to a later model Honda civic 5 speed transmission up front, the body is completely stock for now.
I have driven it just over 1,000 miles so far. It is fun to drive and also fun to watch peoples faces as they think a JET has just landed on the street.
I think ‘fun to drive’ would be a bit of an understatement, video below:
The Fan Page is steady creeping on 20,000 fans which is pretty mind blowing. Thanks for the support!
Trying my best to keep the interesting content coming both here and there.
Remember the Allison powered Isetta? Aviation motors in the hands of car enthusiasts is a bit of a dangers combination.
Since my last post about COR Wheels I’ve had a chance to speak with their marketing manager and things have taken a very positive upswing.
We both agree that the best way for COR to rebuild their reputation in the community is to face the topic head on and as such they have offered an exclusive interview with their CEO.
I’ve got a few questions in mind but it would be rude of me to not ask for some input so here is your chance. Very little is off limits so feel free to suggest anything that might be on your mind.
Here are a couple ideas to get things rolling:
I plan to submit the questions early-mid next week and ideally run the interview the week after.
Look forward to your suggestions!
I’m not much of a slush fan. It’s dirty, wet, cold, ruins shoes, sucks to slide around in, and generally makes everything a giant grey soppy mess.
Thanks to a fair sized snowfall Monday, and steady increase in temperature to today’s high of 14° C, the city of Toronto is currently abundant with the watery slop.
Of course my issues with slush really have nothing to do with this Norwegian A4 Avant I spotted on Nick’s Car Blog a few weeks back which (unlike slush) is pretty solid.
I’ve actually somewhat considered the A4 as a future vehicle choice but I’m not sure I want to get into an actual wagon from a hatch…
You can find more of it here. His previous car isn’t too bad either.
