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Featured Photographer: Nathan Powers

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Nathan originally submitted his work a few months ago but due to a very busy event and feature season it took a little bit longer than usual to make it up on the site.

Now that things have calmed down I am very happy to have the opportunity to present a small sampling of the work done by this quick learning, self taught, Gainsville Florida native.

Out of school Nathan originally wanted to become a mechanic but all that time around cars lead to an interest in automotive photography that Nathan hopes will evolve past a hobby and into something he can do professionally.

Until that happens Nathan can be found pointing his Sigma 70-300mmD equipped Nikon D3000 at cars all around his home town in Florida.

A small sampling of his automotive work is below and more of his work can be found on his flickr account.

Nathan Powers Photography

Looking to get this category going again during the show off season so if you have some work you want shown off send in an email to [email protected] and we’ll see what we can work out.

Lost Coverage: Meeting of the Mazdas 2011

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DaveT
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M.O.M is an event that prior to attending I had heard nothing but good things about and with Stance East making the trek from New Brunswick to attend both M.O.M and Importfest I figured 2011 was as good a year as any to attend for the first time.

Besides someone had to show Will around.

M.O.M. was an extremely laid back, quiet, outdoor, event, the complete opposite of Importfest the day before and exactly what those of us who had been at IF needed (in addition to sleep).

The crowd was mostly made up of of Toronto Protege Club and Toronto Mazda3 guys but there were a few 6, Rotary, and Miata owners in attendance as well.

Proteges

As one of the hosts of the event TOP made sure to have a decent showing.

Tasteful Protege sedan
Vadered out
When are light sabres going to become a reality?
Shinzo Media handy work all over this car
Anson, a long time Protege scene vet
Tim showed up just in time to participate in the show and shine
I see a lot of untapped potential in this platform

Mazda 3s

I rolled up with the Mazda 3 guys and on the way I was able to get a rolling shot of my car taken by Rylan Strongman.

Shortly after this shot I doubled back to tell some of the lower cars about the entrance
Said entrance...
This wheel and tire setup is currently for sale quite cheap if anyone is interested
EVO wheels suit this car very nice
Dave's car looking uncharacteristically clean...just kidding Dave.
DGR coils vs Prokits
Will clocked a lot of KM that weekend
Which resulted in shorter mudflaps no doubt
Plaid guts in this Speed3
Shea pimpin his 3rd place IF trophy he's currently looking to go more aggressive next year
Showing along with Shea and Nextmod at IF was Azumi

Rotaries and Roadsters

Spinning doritio center caps, nice touch
RX-7 gone wiiiiiide
Dope lookin' FC
FC rear end
Or FB?
On the way out I was followed by this Miata, driven by a girl scraping all the way out
Gave this car my vote for Miata
Top always down
Epic sticker time
I literally stopped on the way out to take pictures of this RX2 as somehow i missed it all day

Nextmod

Sat on these pictures so long that Peters car has changed quite a bit since these photos were taken.

The lip and wing are now old news but I really liked this look
Boss status

Apologies too the local Mazda community for taking so damn long to get these pictures posted.

My bad.

Not Quite Winter Wednesday

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DaveT
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Go figure that the day I finally decide to post these photos of Neil’s bagged MKV in winter mode it starts to snow a little here in the Toronto.

Neil basically got the jump on all of us this year in regards to winter preparation because his car has been setup like this since September.

Though if my winter mode looked this good I wouldn’t feel too bad about being extra early with the switch over either.

Of course the real reason for the early switch was more necessity than vanity because Neil splits his time between here and England so he needed the car to be ready for the slippery white stuff when he returns.

Until then it just on the floor waiting.



Neil also sent a couple pics of upcoming modifications for 2012 and based on what I saw (and his previous car) I think a 2012 shoot is in order.

If it really snows next week feel free to blame me for jumping the Winter Wednesdays gun.

Theme Tuesdays: Nissan 300zx (z32)

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DaveT
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Back in high school (grade 11ish) a classmate picked up a 300zx and my first thoughts were how the hell did he afford that, and how long will it be before he wrecks it.

I never did figure out how he got the coin to buy one but I do recall lending a hand replacing the clutch about two weeks after he got the car.

Rumor has it not long after that it was wrapped around a pole or hopped a curb, whatever the case I never saw it again.

That story doesn’t have anything to do with the tea in china or these cars but while I was under the car I became pretty interested in the Super HICAS system as other than an early Prelude it was the only other car I worked on that had any sort of all wheel steering.

I digress.

Get things started with reader Darren's ride
Becoming a huge fan of Panasport G7s
This car came up a couple times... nice build
TE's still on errrthang
Love the fitment on this, the rear especially
I am on the fence about wing or wingless with these cars
Same car as above different wheel finish
Pylon inspired wheel color
The rear bumper/add on looks great on this car... hides the mufflers well
Top down windows up makes this look like it has a bed
Slideways
Anyone know what wheels these are?
This car was pretty much love at first sight with me
I think this might have made one of the rolling shot Theme Tuesdays
Lovely
Excellent fitment on those VS-XX
Luv fitment
I'm considering a work in progress Theme Tuesday and I love this pic for that... this car is too damn nice not to include
End things off with some guy named Steve's Millen's Z race beast

Did I miss your 300zx or a bunch of awesome ones? Feel free to let me know at [email protected]

Guest Blog: Pleasurism

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DaveT
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Back in February I stumbled across a Japan-born video on YouTube that features four impressive, VIP-styled JDM Honda Odysseys. Craving more, I did a bit of digging, and soon found myself flipping through a photo gallery belonging to Hoda — the owner of the red Odyssey in the video. Armed with the video and photo gallery, I made a tip that soon after popped up right here on SIE for your viewing pleasure.

Along with Hoda’s photo gallery there is one more thing I found: His Twitter account. I followed him. We started talking. And when I made plans to visit Japan to see family, I wasted no time asking Hoda if he was interested to meet in person, he nearly instantly responded “yes”.

Thursday, November 10 was the big day. Hoda met me and my girlfriend in front of the Kyoto train station and by foot we went to grab some lunch. You always hear about how nice Japanese people are and Hoda is no exception; he drove over an hour to meet me, was unbelievably friendly, and paid for the delicious, expensive sushi we had for lunch.

After lunch we hit the subway (and he also paid for my subway ticket) to head to the closest lot that he was able to drive his Odyssey into.

He has to park this far out because he can not clear the block out back

JDM Odyssey at last! I was only equipped with your average point-and-shoot camera, so my photos will never do justice, but believe me when I say it’s a jaw-dropper.

Oh, and this is his first car. FIRST CAR.

Hoda's lip is as deep as the I Like Em Dropped sticker is tall!

I walked around his car. Looked top to bottom. Couldn’t find any real flaws except for a few stone chips on the front. We hung out talking in the parking lot for a while and even after fifteen minutes I was still laughing at how ridiculously clean this Odyssey is.

Once I finally got to ride inside the car the ride quality was surprisingly good. Whenever the Odyssey tackled a few bad patches of road that resulted in some nasty sounds I’d look over to Hoda and he’d just give me a “that’s just how it is” shrug and a smile.

I had to catch a Tokyo-bound bullet train and was limited on time so we ended up pulling over on the street to take some photos.

Driving around The Odyssey gets a lot of looks. We had the windows down and at a red light a few ladies complimented the ride. I would have suggested picking them up — as it is a van after all — but he said he doesn’t ride with more than two passengers to spare the rear end the pain of bottoming out.

Hoda is a regular SIE reader and was excited to get some stickers.

The meet went great and I caught my train back to Tokyo on time despite bad traffic. Special thanks to Hoda for showing a stranger from Canada a good time. Next time I visit Japan hopefully I’ll make it out to Hoda’s hometown.

Until then…

Text and photos by: Josh Shohei

WTF Friday: Canutuck?

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DaveT
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It has been a long time since I’ve thought about ‘the worlds lowest blazer’ (at least five years) but for whatever reason it popped into my head while pulling together last weeks WTF Friday post.

This truck is a great example of the extreme measures people were (and still are) willing to take to get their ‘perfect stance’.

I remember a lot of things about this truck (the extreme body drop, the fender humps, and the Fiero wheels) but a couple of the other details completely slipped my mind.

For example I forgot the owner had to build a tube frame for the truck because he drug the previous frame to smithereens, and most surprisingly I somehow forgot that the whole rear clip of a Fiero was thrown out back making it a mid/rear engine truck.

It’s a good thing the hilariously dated 2004 tripod page detailing the build is still live and while the pics I pulled from it are postage stamp sized you get the jist:

Makes more sense to get in through the roof than the doors
Tubular A-Arms, fuel cell, flip forward front
Fiero rear clip, wedged between a slightly widened Blazer rear
Fiero rear clip, wedged between a slightly widened Blazer rear
No need for a roll man when you have no bumper
Tucking almost every lug up front
Tucking... every single lug out back
The proportions look quite odd with that much of the bottom missing

I have no idea if this truck was ever finished, or if the Fiero motor ever moved it so to the older minitruck guys reading this if you know what happened to this truck or have pictures please share.

Site Updates

Lots of user submissions again this week, going to sort through them on the weekend and figure out how to incorporate them all.

Hopefully something cool from Japan next week as well in addition to another upcoming feature that will probably close out the year for features.

Finally as it’s Black Friday today followed by Cyber Monday I’ve added a discount code of ‘BIGDEAL‘ to the store which will get you 30% off anything currently in stock, good enough for you Mathew?

Flashback Friday

Since I am talking about trucks anyway here are some JDM Minitrucks.

Still sick

I should go hunting for these again.

Oh if anyone is hitting the Rally Of Tall Pines this weekend with an SLR shoot me an email. Not sure I will be able to make it out.

From Russia With Low

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DaveT
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It’s been a great week for videos, first the Level One video popped up, then Aidan’s IS300 video was dropped, and now I’ve got this great video of a low MKV GTI to share all the way from Russia.

Both the car and the video are simple and to the point, and while dimaekimov didn’t attach much info about the car he did include a few static shots of it from the video.

Take a look.

Spy cam angle
How long do you think it took to find a building with poles that matched the wheels?
White on pepto works pretty well actually

Digging the global submissions lately, I would really love to see some low cars from Jamaica…

Be sure to head over to dimaekimov‘s vimeo channel for a few more flicks.

Featured Ride: Phil’s Cobra

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DaveT
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Not everyone’s got the balls to go up against the modification ‘norms’ of their platform because doing so invites the opinions of naysayers and know-it-alls.

But what if the end product is a combination of function and form comprised of parts only from reputable manufacturers, then what?

Well then you have a car like today’s Mustang, one that provokes conversation and stands out amongst its peers.

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Phil started this build right where the Ford factory left off by installing a group of go fast modifications to the already supercharged Cobra from manufacturers such as: BilletFlow , JLT, Bassani, Steeda, LFP  and Innovative.

Now the car now puts down a healthy 480 or so horsepower which means that the same people quick to share their dislike for this car on other blogs and forums secretly wish they could run with it on the highway.

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Suspension wise the home built, no corners cut, Accuair/Ride-tech air install is sure to not only satisfy the ‘moar lows’ crowd but also please those who live by the phrase built not bought.

This suspension, which is the most recent modification done to the car, was carefully researched before hand to ensure that it both looked and performed better than the Cobra coupe suspension that preceded it.

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Finally the aptly named CCW Classic wheels are sure to keep the wheel aficionados at bay because the timeless design of these high polished wheels suit the car perfectly, and the 275/295 tires that wrap these18x9 and 18×11 inch wheels are a direct nod to this Cobras performance roots.

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If this car were described only by it’s stand out features, the CCWS, air ride, and boost would a Mustang be the image most conjured up? Probably not.

Does that make this car any less impressive? Definitely not.

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Phil’s desire to head somewhat off the beaten path while still creating a car that is very much functional is exactly the type of thing that keeps this hobby interesting and I for one welcome more people willing to challenge the norm.

I would like to thank Phil for not only giving me the opportunity to feature his car, but also for being a long time reader, and putting me in touch with talented photographer Jeremy Alan Glover who handled the lens work for this feature.

Modification List

Interior/Exterior

  • GG&G “F*ckin’ Fast” shift knob
  • Innovate G3 Air/Fuel ratio gauge
  • Paint-matched CDC lightbar
  • Bullitt Mustang side scoops
  • Cobra grille emblem
  • Black vinyl bumper letter inserts

Suspension/Wheels

  • Accuair e-level air suspension kit with touchpad
  • 5 gallon tank
  • Dual chromed Viair 400C compressors
  • RideTech CoolRide bags and plates
  • Maximum Motorsports front Strut Tower Brace
  • Kenny Brown Performance Extreme Matrix Subframe System
  • CCW Classic 18×9.5 front with 275/35R18 Nitto INVO (post shoot)
  • CCW Classic 18×11 rear with 295/35R18 Nitto INVO

Motor

  • JLT Carbon Fiber CAI
  • Stock TB and plenum ported by Stiegemeier
  • 2.76″ BilletFlow blower pulley and 100mm idler
  • Bassani stainless steel catted X-pipe
  • Steeda stainless steel catback
  • LFP Dual Pass Heat Exchanger
  • LFP Supertank intercooler reservoir
  • Innovate LC-1 wideband O2 sensor
  • SCT XCalibrator2 with custom tune
  • MGW short shifter

Aidan’s Year End Video

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DaveT
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Watching Aidan’s car progress over the past two years has been quite a treat and the work he has done certainly didn’t go unnoticed in 2011.

His season started off great with a high profile feature, and ended even better with the opportunity to showcase his car alongside Liberty VIP in the lobby at Importfest.

Between working on his car, helping out behind the scenes at events, and bringing steak to grill on my BBQ Aidan also managed to squeeze in some time to do the following video with local videographer Misha Frolov.

If you have seen this car in person you know that photos don’t really do it justice so seeing it get shine time like this is awesome.

Like a lot of us Aidan has a few plans up his sleeve for 2012 but I am not about to spoil them (unless he gives me the green light).

As for the man behind the lens Misha is gearing up to do more video work and judging by this and his last video I can only assume he will be busy next year.

You can get in touch with him via his vimeo page: vimeo.com/mishafrolov or mishafrolov.com.

Theme Tuesdays: Women And Cars Part 2

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Time again to do a pretty straight forward Theme Tuesday post, the kind you could find on any other blog.

Sorry this is not as creative as some of the previous ones. I’m not even sure you guys will like it….

/sarcasm

Warning: Potentially NSFW unless maybe you work at the Brass Rail or just DGAF.

Lucky guy owns an e30 m3 and has company like this
I think Rotiform had a full set of photos just like this one
She is not stoked
I recently read that Camels humps are in fact not filled with water (filled with fat)
Why so serious
Drop two letters from the sign in the background
Art form indeed
Add this to the list of reasons to own a GTR
I'd like to see her try and get out of that car dressed like this
Party wagon
Impala needs to be lower, nothing bad to say about the person in front of it
...
A little something from the folk at seriouswheels.com
The power of Mopar?

Bonus women and Bikes!

ATGATT
Women and Bikes Theme Tuesday some day?

Off the top of my head the various blogs and forums that I used for this post were: Motor Models, Stance|Works and JDMRides assume all of these direct links to be NSFW as well.

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