Didn’t have a whole lot of time to work on the Spring Fling coverage last night so until I get a chance to put that up this evening (or tomorrow) I’m going to post this e31 on Work Emitz wheels I spotted on the Stance Works forums a few weeks ago.
I must say I never thought these wheels and this car would work together so well.
Being unique without having to resort to extremes or cliches is always appreciated, props to the owner who also happens to be a damn good photographer.
Back with the second and final part of the CSCS season Opener coverage with today focusing on the show & shine and Stretch & Poke Fitted showcase.
The CSCS show & shine is always an interesting mix of cars and I have tried to capture a lot of them here, I missed out on a couple between heading back and forth to the track and talking to people but there is a good mix of what was there in this coverage.
Chances are a lot of the cars present Sunday will be at later events so I’m more than certain I will get everything before the season is out.
Trying to pick this back up again because there is no shortage of weird, wild, stuff at car shows in the GTA.
Kimi Qin is reportedly the driver I dubbed ‘Racer-X’ in yesterdays coverage and in addition to the Mine’s GTR he brought out two Ferraris and 3 women in tight dresses.
They say money can’t buy happiness and while it’s true I never saw Mr. Qin smile he didn’t look mad either.
US based car club/show team Nokturnal made it out for the CSCS opener and brought along some of their more unique projects, new york guys seem to really love marble paint.
If I hung around the strip a bit more I probably would have seen a few more domestics.
Stretch & Poke teamed up with CSCS to have their first trophy show for 2012 at the CSCS season opener, while the turnout wasn’t as big as their meet the weekend before it was pretty good again considering the weather mans predictions of doom for the day and the fact that Spring Fling (coverage soon) took out most of the VWs.
I even managed to score some tire shine in the raffle.
That’s it for this round of CSCS coverage, the next round is June 24th at Grand Bend which is the same day as the Nine-O-Five Rides Truck & Tuner expo.
I’m looking to get coverage of both and I can only be in one place at a time so if you are in either Grand Bend or Niagara and feel like contributing footage from one of those two shows please shoot me an email (stanceiseverything at(@) gmail.com.
If you listened to the weatherman all week long than you are probably one of several people who skipped out on CSCS opener this weekend in fear of rain which is a shame because outside of a few quick showers most of the event was actually dry.
The drag strip was busy most of the day (which I was surprised to see) and the road course saw heavy use by both the time attack drivers and the drifters.
Today’s coverage will begin on said course, for this round of CSCS I was able to get a media pass and get right out on track which is something I have never been able to do before.
Something that had not occurred to me about shooting on course was the interaction between photographers on each corner, I basically tried to keep to myself and out of peoples shots, but getting prime territory was a hard fought battle and if you were in someones shot they let you know.
One of the photographers ended up putting his Go Pro where he couldn’t be in hopes it would get great footage but instead it got smashed into hundreds of tiny pieces.
The biggest buzz around the track at this round of CSCS was whether or not the unknown, rumored Chinese Grand Prix competition driver, would be able to take the track record (1:13.9) from Sasha Anis.
With no practice ‘Racer-X’ manged to get the fastest lap of the day (1:16.9) but wasn’t able to topple Sasha, I am sure he wasn’t two sad though as he brought two Ferrari Scuderia’s along with him and his own entourage of women.
Looking forward to seeing the battle for top spot continue at later CSCS events.
Show & Shine coverage should be up tomorrow, with Fitted coverage the following day.
Awhile ago the Topless Theme Tuesday came and went with not a single Miata in sight. Rightfully I was immediately called out for ignoring Mazdas good looking, and capable, little roadster.
Miata fans worldwide don’t fret, this snubbing wasn’t intentional and just a huge oversight on my part I plan to make up for today.
Before I jump right into ‘hard parked’ examples here are some that are setup with more of the boxes ticked in the function side than form.
The complete opposite of the above just because.
And now onto the ones that just plain look good
The next time Miatas make an apperance in the Theme Tuesday category it will be all local (or at the very least all Canadian) cars, then after that perhaps only swapped ones…
After the Hot Wheelz & Tirez customer appreciation show and shine Yudi (aka Kingpin) rolled his car out back so I could get a few additional pictures of his current wheel setup.
On the passenger side are the silver polished 19×9 -10/19×10 -6 Leon Hardirtt Waffle wheels you probably remember from his feature and on the drivers side are the similarly sized, previously gold, BBS LMs he had on at Megaspeed.
I say similar because I know he has plans to flip the faces and re barrel them so I am not 100% sure where they sit at right now.
Either way the new clear coated white primer look suits his car much better than the gold did but, this isn’t the final look either.
What is? Who knows other than Yudi himself.
Yudi has also started a new company called the Wheel Estate which is provides 24/7 tire sale pick up and delivery in the GTA.
If you are looking for a particular wheel chances are Yudi could also help you out there as well and should you have any doubt he can guide you down the right path in regards to fitment scroll back up.
Tons of event coverage coming this week.
Patina, as a car styling element, is an interesting thing.
Many feel that cars need to earn their patina through years of dedicated service, or in some cases neglect, like this 51 COE, and the Taylor’d 57, while others think it patina is something that can applied or encouraged, using home brewed concoctions and techniques similar to what was done to Rusty.
But what happens when you want to add some patina to a vehicle that looks old, but really isn’t, and is made of a material that doesn’t rust?
Well then you do what Todd Varble and Quebec based Oze Rod Shop INC did; drill it, paint it, and graft metal onto it until it looks like it was a car saved from someones driveway where a ‘for sale’ sign was slowly disintegrating behind the windshield.
This car isn’t all paint and mimicry though the suspension and chassis are genuine Ford and a hot rod worthy Chevy LS1 gets this reliable, yet dilapidated, looking rod moving.
The finished product is pretty awesome and a true testament to the fact that there are no rules to hot rodding just differences in opinion.
Of course the finished product isn’t without its controversy, the motor choice coupled with the exterior treatment caused people to send death threats to the Hot Rod Magazine office after it made the cover in 2006.
More info on this can be found here.
Car building is serious business I guess.
Got an interesting photo shoot lined up tomorrow morning (check the facebook page in the morning for updates) and on Sunday I will be at the CSCS season opener.
I will have t shirts and stickers on me so look out for me, my car should be in the ‘Fitted’ showcase.
Might as well take it back to last seasons CSCS opener.
Hopefully the weather man is wrong again this weekend.
Wrapping up the coverage from the first Fitted event today with some more Euros, Subarus, IS300s, VIP cars, Domestics, and Nissans.
Hats off to the crew at Stretch & Poke for organizing and hosting such a great start to their season, of course they have no time to sit back and reflect on their accomplishments as they are back at it Sunday at CSCS.
A couple European cars managed to make their way over to today’s coverage.
Unrelated to Stretch & Poke but the TSC Spring Fling is taking place this weekend in Burlington for all you Subaru heads.
Jeff and Blain are now on another level, I should start calling them the untouchables, two of the best looking G’s in the city.
Toronto’s Liberty VIP members on point as usual.
The amount of nice IS300s at this event was a little surprising honestly.
The next Stretch & Pokee event is this Sunday, where these are up for grabs.
Dammit Chris…
One of the most anticipated events of the first half of the summer season was the first ‘Fitted’ event and Downsview Park put on by Stretch & Poke.
Everyone expected it to be big but I don’t think I was the only one who rolled up and was shocked at the turnout.
I’ve been to a few events at Downsview before and the last one I can remember on anything close to a similar scale was probably Honda Tech in 2009, but that was so long ago my memory can’t be counted on.
The low/aggressive fitment crowd in Toronto has grown so much since the initial Stretch & Poke event at Dave & Busters that it is almost hard to comprehend, all those are wishing for this ‘fad’ to roll over and die are going to be waiting a few more years yet.
Coverage of this event will be broken into two parts with this is actually the lighter of the two.
As a title sponsor of the event all of the core idub.ca members came out in along with a number of other local VAG enthusiasts.
There were quite a few nice BMWs at Downsview last Sunday with Stance Factory having some part in a a lot of them. Jay’s car and his new ‘Lexington Steelies’ were quite a hit but the e30 m3 on HRE’s below?
Ridiculous.
This car was apparently finished hours before ‘Fitted’ was set to begin, and somehow I had never heard about this build prior to fitted.
Only one picture of this car because shortly after seeing it I got a chance to drive and FR-S thanks to Alex Pascua and Scarborough Scion which was an unexpected surprise.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been behind the wheel of a RWD car so I didn’t do anything to outrageous I can say that this car lives up to the hype behind the wheel.
The Scraped Crusaders get close out honors today, always doing things right.
That’s all for today but if you are wondering what more there is for tomorrow, here’s a peak.
Stay tuned.
This Tuesday I’ve opted to bring back the ever popular ‘Dat Ass’ theme but fill it with only cars that were at Sundays ‘Fitted’ event put on by Stretch & Poke.
Gathering this Theme Tuesday took second priority to capturing as much of the event as possible so I might have missed a few significant rear ends but there is still a good amount of variety and the last picture is sure to draw some controversy.
More ‘Fitted’ coverage to come… this is just the beginning.
I arrived in the Bloor-Yorkville area around 9:30pm and walked to the Park Hyatt hotel, where I believe the Gumballer’s were spending the night.
Three streets had been shut down across from the hotel to allow a U-shaped row for the Gumball cars to park and rev their engines for the crowd. Their cars were fenced off from the public, and rightfully so – the place was packed.
A few civilian cars managed to slip by and got turned back at the checkpoint. These cars included a Shelby Cobra, a Fisker Karma, and even a guy in a motorized wheelchair drinking a beer.
The cops didn’t seem to mind though and were actually pretty cool the entire night, one even cringed after the Nissan GT-R let the rear loose, she nonchalantly remarked with a bit of a chuckle that she thought he was going to crash.
Eventually the arrival area got too packed, so I went cut through the garage located between the two closed-off streets to find a new location. In the garage were a few intersting local cars like a Lamborghini Gallardo, LP-640 “Interceptor”, Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale, a stanced G35, and an Audi S8 with an R8 front end plus tons of Carbon Fiber.
Lots of other random nice local cars were in the area from other local patrons including imports, domestics, exotics, and even lowriders. There were also a lot of motorcycles that came out to the event and their exhaust notes echoing off buildings made judging the Gumballer arrivals a bit harder.
After shooting all the cars on the street, I took some shots from the roof and as I was heading down a garage employee ended up giving me a lift in his golf cart which put me at ground level just in time for the loudest arrival of the night by none other than, The Dudesons.
They arrived redlining their bright yellow “Dudeson’s Lifeguard” Nissan and hanging out the window clad in bright yellow monkey suits and swim gear.
Around 1:30 after all of the Gumballers arrived I packed up to head hone.
Overall, the night was fun and an awesome display of high-performance exotics, but it left me wishing I had $40,000 and a team of traffic lawyers to allow me to compete in the rally next year. One day.
Photos and Words By Scott Holmes (@Scrizzzzz)
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Thanks again Scott! I know the rich people envy feeling….
