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WTF Friday: April Fools

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Today is April Fools and while I have already been a part of a few pranks here in the office (and avoided any being done to me) I don’t really have any to pull on all of you.

I had a few over the top plans of elaborate site pranks but procrastination, laziness, and life basically put the end to that.

Instead here are just some very questionably styled cars I found online, one of which was famous around these parts for awhile.

Oh. My. God.
If you must put a keyboard in your car this is probably the nicest way to do it
Kind of rare to see someone take a Jag this far
Red and yellow hardly ever works...
Lots going on here.
Poor cat
Anyone know if this Van is still around? It used to get spotted like crazy
Have to love the attention to detail, right down to the plate covers

Oh, Josh just sent me this, I am going to post it on facebook as well but it should be here too. Totally relevant to Tuesday’s post.

Site Updates

I’ve got a rare completely free weekend coming up so either I am going to work on a few things for the site I have planned or play ps3. If you want to keep track of which just stalk me on twitter.

But personal car wise my camber arms have arrived from Dominant Engineering which is terrific, and my wheels are being picked up for a complete refinish from a local company Curbed.ca

I threw in the towel on polishing the lips myself after I realized just how much work (and chemicals) are involved in removing an anodized clear, which I didn’t know I had until part way through the first lip. At least I succeed in getting rid of all of the rash on one wheel before bowing out.

Once I get them back you can expect a full quality before/after review of the entire job. Really looking forward to having like new wheels and the color I picked for the centers should look pretty nice…

Flashback Friday

Speaking of Curbed the first time I saw their Scion was at the first Stretch and Poke event last year. So here is a flashback to Lyndsey’s guest coverage of that event.

Lyndsey takes better photos than me

Big Blue Buick

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DaveT
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Yep, I’m back on that Land Yacht vibe again and while I am not really familiar with Cor Forged Wheels if the majority of their clientele does their rides up like this than it’s a brand I need to pay more attention to.

This bagged 65 Buick Riviera looks absolutely killer laid out and I only hope drive height is really close to park height because you know, drive low, park lower.

Significant amount of those 20s is tucked up under those wells
Almost equal amounts of tuck out back
Personally, I wouldn't change a thing about this car
Another car I would drive until the wheels fell right off.

Why I want a Subaru #141312

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DaveT
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I Found this Subaru on bikeguide, a bmx message board, with no link or info. Google searching Eric Tong, and Joe Dantone lead me their respective facebook pages where I noted that these photos were taken in October of 2010.

While that doesn’t make this photo set new by any means, there is simply no way I couldn’t post photos of this car.

The exterior is clean, the stance is on point and the photographers captured the car beautifully.

I’m sure this car also has quite a bit going on inside that shaved engine bay as well which I know some you Subaru heads will appreciate.

Fender to wheel clearance, perfect.
Always been a sucker for slightly raked ride heights
Killin' it
Love the fitment on this car, everything just seems perfectly balanced
Another custom plate win
Snail
The polished components look great in the shaved bay
Fin.

Photo Credits
Eric Tong
Joe Dantone

If you are curious I am ‘The_Trail_Pimp‘ on both bikeguide and bmxboard.

Theme Tuesdays: Slammed Big Rigs

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DaveT
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Last week I played things pretty safe with the Vintage JDM Theme Tuesday This week I’ve decided to not go as safe and finally post up a Theme Tuesday I’ve been working on for awhile:

Slammed Big Rigs.

Sure slamming a big rig is kind of a silly thing to do but I wouldn’t complain if I saw these on the road hauling McDonalds patties.

If nothing else it would make mundane commutes much more exciting.

This one was sort of hard to pull together because I had no idea where to start looking and often ended up coming across the same trucks over and over again when searching via Google. Last night I made enough progress to call this one a wrap.

Hopefully you guys enjoy it.

Murdered out rig
Shop? I hope not
This truck would make a speed bump it's bitch
Another bump destroyer
Seeing this at your local gas station would be alright
Obviously
This truck is so dialed
I'd love to see trucks like these rollin the streets
Now... if they could lower the trailers to match...
I wonder how quick these can go down the quarter mile
Dumped big rig wrecker
Slammed cab overs were hard to find
Probably not for hire.
This is pretty damn bad ass
Almost too clean to hook up a trailer too
Tough choice...

A full feature of the above truck can be found here.

This video below has footage of the convertible Peterbuilt driving and dragging:

On a somewhat unrelated note does anyone else remember the show Highway Man? According to wiki I’m too young to actually remember when this show was on pre-syndication but I do remember seeing it somehow. As I have fairly vivid memories of it.

The Highway Mans truck/helicopter contraption

Highway Man, combined with the obvious Transformers and Optimus Prime, are probably the reason I have a desire to see more modified big rigs.

Something more normal next week, maybe 😉

Papermate

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DaveT
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Hat’s off too anyone who’s rocking a white on white setup well, the constant up keep that is required combined with the fact that there are so many different shades of white to contend with makes it much harder to ‘white out’ a car then black one out.

Those are the excuses I use for not doing it anyway. Never the less when properly executed the look is hard look to beat.

The British Columbia native who owns this car actually had this color combination dialed with his previous setup, but for 2011 he decided to go a little more aggressive and slapped on a set of 17×9 Work Emotion CR-Kais.

The cars on 17x9s all around and the wheels are a positive 44 offset, but he is using 5mm spacers in the rear to bring the offset down to a nice 39.

Tires are: 235/40/17, while the suspension is KW Variant 2s and the front is rolled while the rear is pulled.

No crazy slam, no crazy poke, still on point
Clean through and through
Rollin right
One of the owners personal favorite shots

Hopefully I look half as good this year. Full thread here.

Photo credits:
RCubedPhotos
Visual Arts Studios
Derek Leung

Guest Coverage: El Paso Solo Championship

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DaveT
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My mindset is still somewhat performance driving oriented this morning after spending the day out on the track yesterday for the first time (more on that later this week) so I figured I would roll with it and post some photos from March 6th – 1st Solo Championship in El Paso Texas submitted by reader Aaron R. Jackson.

What he sent through is just a small sampling of the cars that came out but nonetheless it shows that the auto cross community in Texas is not only thriving but also encompasses a variety of different cars.

I think an auto-x event is certainly next on my list of to dos this year, cash pending of course.

Aaron's 2009 Civic SI
Clint Gessler & Korey Gessler's S2000, Husband wife team
David Pike's 2010 Black Mini Cooper S
Bob Wilkinson's 2005 Blue Mazda Miata, really nice looking for a later model
Bill Walker's 1974 Silver/Blue Porsche 911, so sick.
Brian Burghart's 2006 Honda S2000
Philip Becker - 2006 Black Chevy Corvette Z06, I hear these do exactly what you want them do when driving
Greg Nemcek's black Miata
William Jacobs drive this FD on Hoosiers
Duncan Del Toro's 06 Evo
Group shot of some of the field
Another group shot
Kart ripping around the track, is that a helmet mohawk?
Wow, good to see one of these older Civic's still kicking

Thanks a lot Aaron for sending in the pictures.

If anyone else has some cool event photos they would like posted feel free to send me an email at [email protected]

WTF Friday: The tip of the iceberg

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DaveT
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I found a thread last night so full of WTF Friday content that I couldn’t help but share a few of them on twitter last night. I couldn’t believe the ‘quality’ of some of the cars lying within. The amount of work people without lots of taste are capable of astounds me.

The thread in question has been bookmarked for later use because it’s seriously packed with gems like today’s car which started as… um, something and was turned into something with a fish tank in the boot.

If you can prove to me what this is consider a set of url stickers as your reward.

Prince of Persia?
That's right take it all in
Could have at least slammed it 🙁 and what's with the turnbuckles on a stationary lip?
The Play station wheel on the dash is an interesting touch for sure...
Screens ahoy!
Behold! The fish tank

Site Updates

Previewed these stickers a little bit on facebook last Sunday but now I finally have enough to toss in the store so consider this the official announcement of the ‘Tellin’ it like it is’ sticker line.

The concept around these stickers is that you can purchase as few or as many as you like and combine them to say whatever you want.

Please note these stickers are the ones the test batch (hence rough cuts)

The words currently available are “Flush, Low, Slow, Clean Fast, Loud, Stance” and by popular demand “Winning“. and they are $2.50 each printed on matte white Avery vinyl and available now in the store.

Currently 2 of each word is in stock but they will be printed on demand as I do them in house for now. If popularity necessitates it production will be moved to Seche Media where more colors will become available.

Also I will be taking part in the Sweetie Girl Racing Advanced Driver Training event I mentioned a few weeks ago this weekend so expect some coverage from that next week.

Looking forward to it actually, should be a departure from just driving my car from here to there.

Hopefully nothing lets go haha.

Flashback Friday

Had Rat Rods/Vintage Rods and summer on the brain so lets take a look back to the Street Classics Pre 1955 show. I hope they do another one of these soon.

So period correct, and so damn nice

Is this real life?

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DaveT
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Not sure how or where I came across this car, and I have not seen it anywhere since. Even typing a few search terms into Google didn’t really return anything relevant (to this car at least). To make things more bleak I renamed the photos as I saved them so who knows what they were originally called.

If I only had one photo saved I would have sworn it was a photo shop, but since there are three…

Let me know more if you know more…

Looks pretty killer, and I like he was able to keep the side markers in
Wonder what wheels ended up on the Bent
Really gives the RX-8 a classy/sporty look

Ed Sutch hooked up the original thread here on vagowners.co.uk. Nice car Jack!

Out of the box thinking ftw.

Featured Ride: Jon’s 350z

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DaveT
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A few years ago I saw a Volkswagen Mark II with a sticker on it that read “CCM – Clean Car Revolution” and while I’m fairly certain that at this point the owner of that car, and whoever coined that phrase, has moved on the revolution continues to live through cars like Jon’s 2004 350z.

Clean might be a word I use far too often on this site but it’s the perfect word to describe Jon’s car because it looks simply amazing without the need for a wild body kit, loud paint, or camber that’s practically horizontal.

Once Jon was introduced to altered ride heights and flush fitment he knew exactly how he wanted to build his car: low and clean.

Building off those two words he succeed perfectly at putting together a car that draws peoples attention whenever he cruises the streets of New York.

Jon’s Z is sitting on Stance coil overs and Work Varianza T1S (with stepped lips) that measure in at 20x 9.5 and 20 x 10.5 +0 all around, and his tire sizing is 225/35/20 and 255/35/20.

Jon is more or less done with the exterior of his car but he does have a few plans for the interior that will only add to the cars overall appeal.

Personally I think he’s done an excellent job so far, and if the pictures above didn’t prove that perhaps these ones below will:

Way to keep it clean and represent the Empire State properly Jon.

Jon would like to thank the entire Leg1t crew for support, and Ronnie Corado for the photography.

Winter Wednesdays: Too soon junior

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DaveT
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Last week the weather got fairly mild with a few double digit days and since this happened right at the end of winter (according to the calendar) people got excited.

However this always happens late March and as soon as you have your car back to summer mode it snows the following week just as reminder that it’s not over till it’s over.

So I did nothing, mid to late April for me, never before!

This STI is sick all year however, lucky guy.

If we got this much snow in late March I would be pissed, glad we didn't
I bet a lot of fuel was used 'efficiently' this day

Photo Credit:
slowcivcseth

A new featured ride coming a little later today.

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