Event Coverage: CSCS Opener 2011: Pt 2

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Jun 9, 2011

Finally managed to make it to the end of my photo stack from last weekends double header. Including this post I have uploaded over 100 photos in the last four days.

As much as I love going to events, hanging out, and documenting sometimes it’s hard to find the time to sit down and edit the photos I take.

This problem becomes more apparent when it’s nice outside & work is kicking my ass. However the show must go on so here are the pictures from the CSCS opener show and shine.

Nextmod

As usual Nextmod is doing a tour of all the major events with CSCS being one of the first stops.

subaru_nm — Sniped a shot from the drag stands

subaru_nm_2 — Couple new mods added to this car since I saw it at S&P

Focal Point Concepts

FPC is the perfect example of a group of friends who happen to just all love cars.

honda_spens — Spensers hatch on it's new 5 bolt suspension

fpc_subaru — This car took home a well deserved best graphics

fpc_honda — I see this car randomly all over the place

Nine-O-Five Rides

I’ll be hanging with the Nine-O-Five Rides crew at the end of the month at their Niagra Tuner & Truck Expo Sunday June 26th.

toyota_soarer — Nine 0 Five Rides Soarer

subaru_white — Erik's roomate has a nicely done low Subaru

crossfire_srt — This swap should look familiar from a few weeks ago

Domestics

pontiac_fiero — Lip on a flipped lip. Different.

chevy_s10 — This trucks paint does all sorts of cool things in the sun

chevy_james — James parked out front of the Meguairs booth

chevy_s10_interior — Not sure about driving with that shifter but it brings the theme together

Nissans

nissan_300zx — Interesting wheel choice on this 300zx

nissan_skyline1 — The colors on this car compliment it well so I keep taking pics of it

nissan_silvia_santi — Santi's car lurkin' in the infield

nissan_350z_rear — This picture doesn't really do it justice but Sam's car has a nice subtle gold flake over the black now

nissan_350z_trunk — He has also added a min ibar to his trunk

nissan_350z_int — and has also added a new dash table

Mazda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Lexus

mitsu_evo_graf — Graphiti took care of the wrap on this car. Lots of wraps in 2011

mazda_wb — First time I have seen this RX-7 outdoors, wonder if it drove in

mazda_az1_2 — Thanks to you guys I now know this is an AZ-1

lexus_is250 — I've always like the white Lexus uses

hyunda_gen_andrew_2 — Although it just got out of the paint shop with a new front Andrew says it is mid make over

hyundai_gen_andrew — The rear is going to get a bit fatter in the weeks to come

Hondas

acura_dog — Well that's one reason to bag your ride

honda_kjohn_wagon — KJohn has gone for a more in your face look this year

honda_civic_ef — Saw this hatch while I was up in the grand stands too

honda_civic_adam — I have been running into Adam every 4 or 5 days either at a show or at the skate park

honda_hood_2 — I've been following the build on this car, got a chance to meet the owner nice guy

honda_hood — An angle grinder, some clear coat and some creativity created this look

honda_civcs — Really like the color of this first hatch, and always dig the one in the back

honda_accord_vsxx — Accord on Work VS-XX

honda_v6_civic — V6 Powered Civic under new ownership with some new mods

honda_s2000 — I am sure none of you have forgot this car

Euros

bmw_seb — Sebastian's worked over e46 showing with Division R

bmw_seb_trunk — Bass rattlin' like to midgets in the trunk wrasslin

vw_jetta_bagged — Sick looking Jetta laid out near the front of the show and shine

That’s it for CSCS this time around, see you at round 2 July 17th at Mosport.

Also Chris and I from CSCS are going to be bouncing some ideas off each other for some give a ways so keep an eye out for those!

Event Coverage: CSCS Opener 2011: Pt 1

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DaveT

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Jun 8, 2011

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The Canadian Sport Compact Series kicked of their season with one hell of an eventful day last Sunday. Mr. weatherman finally blessed CSCS with a glowing, scorching, rain free, forecast that lead to a spectacular turn out.

In fact it was the best turn out I’ve ever seen at CSCS since I have been attending. The distance I had to park from the action was a clear indicator of just how many people came out to enjoy a day of motor sport.

The Show and Shine drew a number of cars, the road course was well utilized, and the drag strip saw heavy action all day. Some of that track action is what I will be posting today.

The Rollover

May as well get the elephant out of the room right from jump street….

Locals and facebook fans already know a lot about this (as well as autoblog readers) but for those of you who don’t the driver of the Subaru below (who is reported not to be the owner) came out of the turn leading into the long straight at TMP and clipped a hay bale which sent him ass over tea kettle.

Unfortunate? Yes. But no one got seriously injured and it serves as a good reminder to how dangerous tracking can be and makes me very glad I did thatTeam SGR clinic my first time out.

upsidedown_1 — After the dust settled this was all I saw

upsidedown_3 — The track actually got cleared off fairly quickly considering

Spectator video via youtube:

Road Course

Because I was watching so much drag racing I missed a lot of the open lapping (other than the obvious above event) and time attack. But I did manage to snap a few shots as the time attack was ending and drifters were about to take to the course.

pete_1 — Pete putting Spencer's old K1s to good use

track_2 — Gotta have decent bank to track a late model BMW like this... or just be really confident

Drag

It was awesome to see the drags running all day. Probably the most drag racing I have ever seen done at TMP. Cars, bikes and snowmobiles all took their trip down the quarter mile and many of which were quite fast.

It’s also way easier to pan drag racing shots so it was good practice.

drag_nova — This Nova was pretty serious

drag_mustang — This turbo fox could also move like the wind

drag_burn_out — Civic heatin up the rubber

drag_3 — Subaru getting away from an Acura

drag_2 — Almost lost this Civic, he lost his competition

Panning shots getting a bit better as the day went on

drag_1 — This is my favorite panning shot of the weekend.

Drifting

A few new (to me) faces on the scene this year which is great to see. Props go out to Liam from Dorimoto for having a stellar day.

drift_1 — Funny I was just wondering where this Volvo ended up

volvo — It's V8 powered and sounds beastly

coolkid_2 — Headlights remind me of Johnny Five

chillin — My RPF-1 obsession lead me to this car

drift_4 — Don't recall seeing this car out last year

drift_6 — That car up front there was kicking up some of the most smoke all day

drift_9 — Laim following Fiddy in a tandem

Show and shine photos should up tomorrow provided I don’t just end up riding my bike all night tonight…

Event Coverage: Fleetwood Cruize In Part 2

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DaveT

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Jun 8, 2011

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Continuing the Fleetwood Country Cruize In coverage from Monday I have got 40+ more photos of classic, mostly American, metal to share with the class. This show being my first outdoor classic show of 2011 might have spoiled me and set the expectations a little high for the rest of the year but I am still looking forward to checking out more classic events.

As I have said again and again my favorite part about the classic events is the atmosphere and the conversations I have with the car owners, many of which who have owned and worked on their cars for longer than I have been alive.

Just to give you an idea of how big the show was this is a shot of just one of the fields where cars were on display.

overview_1 — I think if I had an even wider lens this would be more intense

The Plunkett Collection

Steve Plunkett is a huge Cadillac enthusiast who luckily enough has the coin to support his passion. His personal collection is fairly robust from both a car stand point and memorabilia stand point. I didn’t take too many pictures of it because it was packed inside but if you want an in depth look at his collection just give his site a visit.

caddy_alley — Imagine this was your personal show room? Some people have all the luck

inside_caddy — This was the only one of his Caddys I shot, a custom 58 Deville on an 86 chassis

Lifted stuff

All of these went up in a big, big way.

lifted_mpg — This gets 2 miles to the gallon and costs $1500 to fill...

lifted_ford — Sweet lord this is a high truck

lifted_blazer — Props to this guy for keeping a K1 cancer free

VWs

Not really too many VWs at the show which isn’t unexpected being the type of show that it was but here are a couple.

vw_bug_sale — This bug was for sale, 10.5 fairly reasonable actually.

Group Shots

I took a few group shots just to make my editing life a tiny bit easier.

group_3 — Classic metal as far as the eye can see

group_1 — Huge fan of this pair, daily one weekend the other?

group_4 — The black and yellow motor I posted yesterday lived in this

group_5 — The truck in the background had some TV time on the local London station promoting the show which is weird cause I think he is from out my way

Random and interesting

This show had a lot to offer outside of customs and traditional Hot Rods, here are a few more of interesting vehicles that caught my eye.

deleoran — No Mr. Fusion or Flux capacitor 🙁 BTTF poster inside though

norton_850_commando — My neighbor has one of these in many pieces in his garage right now

dodge_Fargo — Mighty straight looking Fargo on Foose wheels

models — I needed to see this collection of die casts like I needed a hole in my wallet. Lucky I had spent all my cash by the time I saw it

rat_dans_hump — Dan's humpback, pretty crazy

chevy_chevelle_leguna — The owner of this Laguna bought it new and had a child born in the front seat then married in the same seat years later. Few people keep cars this long now.

studabaker — Studabker front ends are pretty much love, put me on the love side

smaller_smaller_smaller — This car has been replicated several times all the way down to Hot Wheels scale

green_hornet_1 — A lot of work was put into this Green Hornet replica

green_hornet_3 — I don't think the rear mounted artillery did anything but the front were paintball guns

green_hornet_2 — Shot of the interior and the various switches and knobs. Oil slick anyone?

Just Fast

A few cars that would test your manhood when you stomped down on the loud pedal.

speed_sport_special_1 — Speed Sport Special 2: A Canadian built airplane motor powered altered dragster

speed_sport_special_2 — Closer look at that plane motor

ford_pinto_2 — This Pinto had no specs listed but I think the tires and wheelie bar speak for themselves

ford_pinto_1 — Bet this scoots down the 1/4 mile right quick

caddy_sheboomgonewild_2 — She Boom gone wild, 1500hp of chop topped fully custom Caddy

caddy_sheboomgonewild_3 — The lip of that rear wheel looks to be the width of my wheels.

Traditional rods and classics

So many incredibly built traditional hot rods and immaculately kept up classics at Fleetwood.

dodge_challenger — The first car I snapped a photo of on Saturday, hats off to the owner it's very clean

ford_classic_highboy — This look can be done 100000 times and I will still love it

ford_purple_demon — Parked out in the front of the lot this midnight blue Ford looked menacing

ford_flathead_2 — Closer view of the detailed flathead

ford_28_t_truck — Great looking 28 Model T truck

ford_rear — One of the many cars I wanted to hear roar check out those pipes

ford_pickup_house — This was parked near the front of the compound which made for a pleasant back drop

Customs

ford_galaxie_500 — Galaxie 5 with beauty paint

willys_green — Beautiful Lime green Willys

chevy_nova — The motor from Monday's set belonged in this Nova

chevy_belair_green_2 — And this is the Green Bel Air

chevy_belair_green_3 — Such a nicely done air management setup in addition to the awesome under hood and exterior

That’s it from Fleetwood 2011, however I recently signed up to The H.A.M.B so don’t be surprised if I end up hanging around a few more large scale classic events before the summer is out provided I can fit everything in.

CSCS coverage will be coming later today as long as I can sneak a little bit of lunch time to polish up the post.

Theme Tuesdays: Dat Ass Part 2

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DaveT

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Jun 7, 2011

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If you Google ‘Dat Ass Car, Dat Ass Stance, Stance Dat Ass’ and so forth the first result you get is my last Theme Tuesday. While that’s pretty awesome it made finding cars for the follow up a little harder than usual as I just kept ending up back here.

But whats life without it’s challenges right? A little changes in what I searched for and I was able to put together Dat Ass Part 2. Enjoy.

datass_13 — E30 ass shots are always sick

datass_12 — Scions are one of the vehicles I don't mind with tons of camber...

datass_9 — Look at the hips on this Porsche

datass_8 — *side steps obvious 69 jokes*

datass_5 — A very distinctive looking rear end

datass_2 — Someone should send me a link to a bunch of Soarers... just sayin

Event Coverage: Fleetwood Cruize In: Part 1

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DaveT

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Jun 6, 2011

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Since I had never been to Fleetwood Country Cruize In before I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I figured it would be pretty good at least being affiliated with The Speed Channel and Meguairs’ Car Crazy, but I really had no idea just how big of a classic car event this was until we were on our way to Dorchester the night before and we passed classic after classic on the highway.

This was easily the biggest car show I have been to in Ontario with vehicles sprawled all over the ginormous Plunkett estate. It was a sight to behold and worth the trip if you were ever debating it.

Because the show was huge and a lot to take in I decided not to go too crazy with the photos just and enjoy the beautiful day (violent morning hail storms aside) and amazing cars. Most of today’s photos are just of cars that interested me in general, some of which don’t really have a lot of crazy modifications when it comes to suspension and wheels but were interesting none the less.

Even though I tried to ‘take it easy’ on the photos I still ended up with around 90 in total necessitating multiple posts for this one event, whoops.

Artistic shots

I try to keep the photos around here pretty straight on because I consider myself someone who takes pictures and not a photographer but occasionally I like to try a few different style of shot and a couple of my favorites are below.

artsy_5 — I've always had a fondness for hubcap shots, but I find it hard to keep myself out

artsy_2 — Did a better job of keeping myself out of the picture here

artsy_3 — Headlight reflection are also pretty cool

artsy_4 — I saw a lot of pin stripping over the course of the weekend, which makes me want to do some

artsy_1 — Cool decals like these need to become prevalent again, but I suppose the cars would need to be cool to match...

Amphibious Cars

While we were walking around the show Lyndsey suddenly exclaimed ‘a car just drove into the water!’ to which I replied ‘ya it’s an amphibious car’ before realizing that this was actually the first time I had ever seen an amphibious car in the water, in person.

Pretty cool little mechanical marvels and looking back on the day I kind of wish we waited out the line for a ride in one.

amphi_car_sitting — So I suppose you need a both and car license for one of these?

amphi_car_launch — In she goes, one of the other drivers just gave er full speed into the water

amphi_car_cruise — While not very fast at all they look damn cool

and speaking of watercraft there was this fast boat sitting not too far from the amphibious cars, If I recall it goes about 130mph and makes 1200hp on pump gas

fast_boat_1 — Probably be a lot of fun out on the water...

fast_boat_2 — Imagine the conversations you could have with this behind you? Ha none.

Oddities

Almost to the lowered cars but these cars also really interested me. That automotive A.D.D. one day I will get it under control I swear…

spirit_zimmer — Zimmers were made in Florida and based around Ford 302s. Only 8 convertibles of this one in the foreground were made

other_happy_car — I have seen this red car on the left before, but I can't remember where... Oh and happy car is happy.

fraken_car — The owner say this car is made up of over 40 different cars, I believe him.

nissan_firgo — A Nissan Figaro first time I have seen or heard of this car

nissan_firgo_2 — This roof reminds me of Baur e30s

nissan_firgo_3 — This plaque was pretty neat

corvette_summer_1 — Mark Hamill is that you?

corvette_summer_2 — Follow through, this car has it...

mini_truck_1 — A mini pulling a small trailer. I may have seen it all now...

mini_truck_2 — Ok Ollie have you ever seen this before?

Under hood shots

I don’t take enough pictures of motors I have realized, I am going to make an effort to change that.

underhood_nova — This sat inside a sick Nova which I will be posting tomorrow

underhood_mustang — The exterior of this car is bright and colorful but the engine bay is simple and clean

underhood_mustang_2 — Forced induction Mustang bay

chevy_belair_green — I will be posting the rest of this Bel Air tomorrow as well, until then here is a taste

group_7 — This Corvette engine bay had a lot of cf accent pieces to set it of in black and yellow (repeat x4)

In the weeds

About time I get to some cars with low ride heights eh?

chevy_biscayne — Biscayne hittin' switches

chevy_gmc_100_weeds — One of the vehicles we passed on the highway

la_selle_weeds — Pretty sure this was a La Selle, making it the first I have seen in awhile

mercury_montego — Bagged Mercury Montego, never seen one of these modded before

chevy_truck — I'm a sucker for old trucks like these, the rally wheels really suit it too

chevy_green_foxs — Fond of this truck also, though not so much the huge stacks it had in the bed

chevy_impala — This had some of the best looking paint I have ever seen

chevy_tetnus_1 — This was absolutely bad ass

chevy_tetnus_2 — If you look close you can see the outline of the child seat in the rear.

chevy_tetnus_3 — You just have to appreciate a car with this much patina

tomahawk_exterior — You guys might remember this Catalina, known as the Tomohawk, from Performance World

tomahawk_interior — One of the things I couldn't do at Performance World was get a good shot of the inside, that was no problem here

tomahawk_exterior_rear — I am one hell of a fan of this car, even if it is basically pink

Rat rods, Fargos, Pintos, Studabakers, and more in the next installment from Fleetwood.

WTF Friday: Not sure what to make of this

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DaveT

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Jun 3, 2011

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Chances are that if I said I was going to post a carbed, rear wheel drive, Honda Accord the vehicle in this video wouldn’t resemble what you were picturing in your head. It just makes more sense for a Honda fitting that description to be powered by an American power plant, after all it’s been done before.

However the two men behind this build decided to take a road much less traveled and throw a Honda J33 T6 motor in the back of a stripped out Honda Accord with fiberglass panels and call it a day.

It’s not pretty by any means but it makes over 200hp and weighs next to nothing so as a drag car it’s pretty effective.

The video below has a bit more information though the curious side of me would like even more:

Site Updates

My car is now ‘complete’ and all that’s really left to do is take some proper pictures of it on the new wheels. A few photos have appeared online from Stretch and Poke but none really do the center color justice including my quick snaps below which make it look like I am just riding on lips:

This was right after a wash, claybar, and polish so it was starting to get quite dark

No stickers on the hatch glass so far this year...

Shooting my car isn’t really top priority right now but I will get around to it eventually.

Site wise I will be at two events again this weekend. The first is a huge classic/hot rod show in London Ontario that is supposed to bring in over 3000 cars and has the potential to be awesome provided it doesn’t rain.

While the second event I am going to on Sunday is the CSCS season opener which I am looking forward to because I get to check out a couple of the dorimoto drift builds.

Finally some bad news. The Canadian Postal Service is on rolling strike starting today. This means that getting stickers mailed out is going to be a crap shoot. If you ordered a sticker any time between May 20th and now I can’t really say when it will arrive as the mail system has been moving pretty slowly while they decide what to do.

I am going to put an announcement on the store this weekend but until then just be patient. I will keep packaging up all the orders that come in so that when they are off strike they will be ready to go.

Flashback Friday

It only makes sense today to kick back to the first CSCS event I ever went to which was actually the 2010 season finale.

You know I don't think I have made a .gif since these

Expect lots more event coverage next week!

Guest Coverage: Summer Sizzle 3

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DaveT

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Jun 2, 2011

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I didn’t mean to leave you guys without any new content yesterday but things have been a bit hectic at work which means more time spent there and less time spent elsewhere, however thanks to Mike Branco I’ve got even more event coverage from this past event filled weekend in the Toronto area.

While I wasn’t able to make it out to this years Summer Sizzle put on by Pur Secretz Mike happened to be showing at the event and was nice enough to snap a few photos for use here.

Like last year this show took place at Vonn Cycle where they had the ability to shut a few streets down and line it with cars.

Bikes and Vonn Cycle

Since the show as at a motorcycle shop there were bikes on display (along with cars) inside and outside of Vonn Cycle.

ducati — Wish I knew a little more about bikes...

ferrari_2 — Ya, I guess that is a nice car to have in your showroom...

Domestics

Seeing cars like these makes me super excited for the Fleetwood Country Cruize In I am going to this weekend.

nova — Quite used to seeing this Nova standing out in a sea of imports

Euros

Not familiar with this e30 hopefully I'll catch it in person sometime

Imports

mike — Mike's personal ride, VS-XX wheels looking damn clean

rx8_2 — Interesting color choices here, not bad

rx7 — This was the RX-7 that showed up to Stretch & Poke

rsx — I think I've seen this wide body RSX before but perhaps on different wheels

protege — RX-8 wheels are a common mod for 3s but a little less common for Proteges

nissan_1 — See this car sliding Sunday maybe?

nissan — If I am not mistaken this car has had a wheel swap since I last saw it

focalpointconcepts — Focal Point Concepts, Call of Duty fans it would seem

celsior — This looks like the Fast Wheels Chaser

boosted_civic — Nice two tone turbo hatch

Some of you might remember Mike’s work from last year where he covered Stretch and Poke 2 for the site, don’t be surprised if you start to see his name a bit more around here as he approached me recently with some pretty cool ideas for the site.

Mikes entire Summer Sizzle photo set can be found here.

Event Coverage: S&P May 29th 2011: Part 2

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DaveT

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May 31, 2011

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Here is the second batch of photos from the first Stretch & Poke meet of 2011. Over 150 cars turned up to this meet which actually dwarfed a few of the shows that day.

I am really glad you guys chose Euros for Part 1 on the fan page because it gave me a chance to edit the rest of the photos I took for todays much more photo intensive post.

This meet had quantity and quality.

Domestics

Obviously not imports but I didn’t have these photos edited for Part 1.

pointiac_g6 — This was the car with the I should have bought a VW sticker on it.

I actually don't know for sure what make this bike is but I will post it here again cause it is sick

Mazdas

Surprisingly there were not that many Mazdas at S&P, an RX-7 and RX-8 showed up just as I was leaving but I think I might have been the only Mazda driver for quite awhile.

mazda_3_works — First time I got to see the color of these wheels in person, very nice

car2 — I tend not to take pictures of my own car at meets so I borrowed this from stretchandpoke.com

Infiniti

I swear there were more Infinitis at the meet but I only ended up with photos of these two.

infiniti_g35_coupe — This car was on air but never aired up once, drove in that low, drove out that low

Lexus

The Lexus camp was well represented with VIP and no VIP offerings.

lexus_is300_aidan — Aidan was obviously in attendance

Officially, official — Officially Liberty

lexus_is300_2 — Painting those wheels was such a good choice

lexus_is300_1 — So far Chris is at 80% of the things I am at

Nissan

All these Nissans have me looking forward to seeing some drift action at CSCS this Sunday.

pinky — Pinky and the brain? (What's up Neal)

Mitsubishi

The Mitsubishi crowd was represented by this silver duo.

mitsuibishi_lance_lownatics — The fade to cf on the lip was a very nice touch

mitsuibishi_lancer_lownatics2 — Both of these cars were with the Lownatics as well as a few more below

Subarus

None of these Subarus helped my urge to purchase one next, bank account still says no.

subuaru_jp — JPs ongoing project, been a fun build to follow

subaur_wrx_nm — Nextmod came with a pair of Subarus

subaru_sti_nm_2 — More on this car soon....

subaur_gil_1 — First time I've seen Gillbert's car in person since the make over

subaur_gil_u_mad — When life gives you lemons paint that ish... purple?

subaur_chu_front — This car is lower and wider than last year

subaur_chu_rear — and is pretty crazy looking in person

subaru_chu_wheels — Closer look at the clearance

subaru_wrx_lownatics — Really liked this stance, fairly meaty but nice and flush

subaru_wrx_lownatics2 — The Lownatics crew is going to be a serious problem this year

subaru_sti_lownatics — As all of the cars they brought out were top notch

Hondas

Finally the Hondas, at one point during this event I didn’t think the s2000s would stop rolling in.

honda_civic_carving_starks — Carving Starks! Props to this owners unique taste in wheels

honda_civic_steezy — Dave's Civic looking just as clean as last year

honda_civic_hatch — BBS'd Civic number 1

honda_civic_bbs — and Civic BBS number 2

honda_civc_bbs — And fast forward a few years to BBS'd Civic number 3

honda_s2000_white — There were so many s2000s at S&P it was insane.

honda_s2000_game_ver — I have posted nearly identical shots of this s2000 every time I have seen it

honda_s2000_game_over — However never before have I shot this car on CCWS

See you at the next.

Theme Tuesdays: When in doubt, BBS

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DaveT

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May 31, 2011

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Wasn’t really sure what to run this week and I didn’t have a whole lot of uniformity to the the cars living on my hard drive so I decided to go with a solution that normally always works: BBS wheels and a healthy drop.

Classic BBS mesh wheels will never be played out in my eyes nor will LMs. However I did try and toss a few other BBS designs in there to mix things up a bit.

bbs17 — If you are on the facebook fan page you know I am currently in love with this car

bbs13 — Not sure if Rudy still has these RF (design 500)s. But on another note do Scorchers stretch?

bbs11 — One of the many reasons why I read The Chronicles...

bbs12 — Never thought I would like this combination of colors

bbs9 — The colors in this picture reach out and smack you in the face

bbs6 — I've had this picture and the next saved for a long, long time

bbs — I love this shot even though you can't really make out the wheels

More Stretch and Poke photos later today!

Event Coverage: Krown Lakeshore Show & Shine

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DaveT

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May 30, 2011

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Before Stretch and Poke I swung by the Krown Lake Shore Charity Show & Shine put on by a friend of mine and fellow Toronto Mazda 3 member.

The show was family run and family focused so it had a real positive vibe to it, and it’s always great to see automotive enthusiasts getting behind Sick Kids Hospital as they do incredible things (I am living proof).

The sun was just starting to come back out when I had to leave for Stretch and Poke and the event was really just getting started. From what I’ve read the whole thing went off without a hitch which is great to hear.

Goings on

Like any good show their was food and side entertainment.

atmosphere_entrance — Cars posted up out front of Krown

breakdance_1 — These guys were brave, that is seriously rough ass pavement.

breakdance_2 — They put on another show later that was apparently also ill

Classics

vw_beetle — Always love to see a clean beetle

A few classic guys had rolled up prior to my arrival. I have not spent nearly enough time around classics yet this spring/summer.

chevy_camaro — Well I guess we know who wears the pants!

ford_t_bucket_1 — This cool T bucket pulled up just as I was leaving, couldn't leave it out

ford_t_bucket_3 — One thing I always wondered is how it is to drive with the wheel like that

ford_t_bucket_2 — Next weekend I will be at a huge classic show 🙂

Modern

Being organized by a Toronto Mazda3 Member means that there were a lot of 3s in attendance but some other late models also came out to support the cause.

mazda_3_dave — Dave just beat me out on picking up these Work Wheels about a year back

toyota_mr2 — This car and the RSX above are never too far apart at shows

toyota_camry — Clean Camry on Volks... err Corolla of course..

mazda_3_riftler — Look my old suspension!

mazda_3_jon — Probably the cleanest early gen hatch on Toronto Mazda 3

mazda_3_floodgatez — Gabe's 2010 with it's devilish grin

mazda_3_flipdaddy — Joe is still dialing in the fitment of those Volks but should look great all said and done

mazda_3_chris — The event organizers personal chariot

mazda_3_2010_sportlines_2 — This is what a 2010 Mazda 3 looks like on 04 Mazda 3 sportlines

mazda_3_2010_sportlines — More people need to get on this...

Hopefully Chris does another next year and I can stick around a little bit longer.