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 pointClean through and throughRollin rightOne of the owners personal favorite shots
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 SIClint Gessler & Korey Gessler's S2000, Husband wife teamDavid Pike's 2010 Black Mini Cooper SBob Wilkinson's 2005 Blue Mazda Miata, really nice looking for a later modelBill Walker's 1974 Silver/Blue Porsche 911, so sick.Brian Burghart's 2006 Honda S2000Philip Becker - 2006 Black Chevy Corvette Z06, I hear these do exactly what you want them do when drivingGreg Nemcek's black MiataWilliam Jacobs drive this FD on HoosiersDuncan Del Toro's 06 EvoGroup shot of some of the fieldAnother group shotKart 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]
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 inCould 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
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.
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.
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 inWonder what wheels ended up on the BentReally gives the RX-8 a classy/sporty look
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.
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'tI bet a lot of fuel was used 'efficiently' this day
A few weeks ago, before Japan was devastated by intense tsunami’s and earthquakes, my friend Aidan put forth the suggestion that I do a post on vintage JDM rides and even sent in a few pics to get me started.
Japan’s had a lot of influence the way we tune our cars here in North America and are thus held in pretty high regard. What’s happened there currently is terrible but I have no doubt in my mind that years down the road, once it’s all cleaned up Japan will emerge stronger than ever.
I've always wondered what fender mirrors are like to drive withGTRs have always had an aggressive look to themDo want this garage, and it's contentsA few drastic body mods away from BosoMan, what happened with the CelicaThey used to be such a great looking carFat and Flush contenderToyota 2000gts remind me of classic British racing carsI don't know a lot about the Mazda SP but I like this adHonda N600Perfect Corolla SR5Rigged GTRWow, just wow.Couldn't do this without throwing a 510 in SlidinTake your pickFatlace Ken MeriI love this Civic 1200s, doesn't hurt it has an extensive track historySuper Street FTW
I’ve yet to touch on the topic of donating to Japan as I’ve just been doing it whereverr and whenever I can. If you want to donate but haven’t yet you can do so via your local Red Cross.
For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to build a proper mini truck so throughout high school I spent countless hours thumbing through the latest issues of Mini Truckin’ and Sport Truck magazines.
Chances are pretty good that at some point in my search for slammed truck inspiration I was looking at photos taken by today’s very talented, and several times published, featured photographer, Johnny O.
I’ve posted this truck a few times and I had no idea Johnny had shot this
Johnny is a ten year veteran of the automotive photography field and in that time has done most of his work in the print as a feature editor, and contributing photographer, for Tailgate Magazine and Street Trucks Magazine in addition to his aforementioned work for Sport Truck and Mini Truckin’.
Mr. Foose at a product shoot
Knowing that you don’t get as far as he has without an exceptional eye for location Johnny has become one of the best in the industry at finding new unique spots to shoot his subjects because often the difference between a great photo and an exceptional photo is location, location, location.
Beautiful 32 down an Alley in Kentucky
In addition to having an eye for spots working in the print industry for so long has also made Johnny an extremely efficient machine with the ability to crank out features at a lightning pace without sacrificing any quality of the final result.
Johnny is not just an automotive photographer
Johnny’s got a trio of lenses (28-105mm, 17-40mm, 30-300mm) which he spins on and off his Canon 7D depending on the situation, and when the settings call for it he uses a Manfrotto tripod. Finally, his post processing tool of choice is Photoshop CS5.
Billards anyone?
It’s a real honor to be able to feature Johnny O’s work here today considering all of the other high profile work he’s done.
Tandem axle dodge shot in a lot I just walked by in Vegas without a second glanceBeauty 64 CaddySome dub loveThe exact kind of picture I would have been looking for in high schoolAnother nice Caddy shot by JohnnyDrop cars not bombs63 Chevy Studio shot for StreetSource.com
It was really hard not to post all of Johnny O’s work in this post so I recommend you check out the his full portfolio at Johnnyophoto.com and if you want to follow his every move he’s also on twitter @JohnnyOPhoto.
Well, at least I think they are pretty hilarious, though I’ve had a long week…
So... your suspension is where now? Actually never mind..Optical illusion or is this bowing near the backYa, well you still have a small.... winch
Site updates
I need to order stickers for the store, a lot of them, so I am going to get on that this weekend and then Mat at Seche Media is either going to really like me or really hate me. Not sure.
I’ve fixed the rash completely on one of my wheels and it’s all cleaned up and ready for polishing which could start as early as tonight. Got a little ambitious with this wheel, the next few won’t get nearly as much sanding.
I’ve also picked up (thanks Aidan) the fender roller and finisher from Nextmod so I can get my roll on tomorrow. Fingers crossed my paint doesn’t crack from all the times it has been repainted back there.
Here is the rest of the Performance World coverage I was hoping to have up yesterday before the day spiraled wildly out of control. There are enough pictures in this post to warrant two but I decided to just get them all up at once instead of having you guys wait even longer.
The mini trucks and classics make up most of today’s post with a few random images dropped in. If you thought Performance World this year was lacking that just means you didn’t spend enough time in the vast section of classics.
For those who didn’t attend this is only some of the cars that were at the show.
Random stuff
I've seen things similar to this online but this was a first in personThis was bizarre, the bottom half was a cut out but the top half an animated talking screen
Day2Nite
I’m not sure if you guys remember but I met James at a Canadian Tire Street Classics event last summer and since then I’ve seen him showing at a few different events. Each time I see him we chat a fair bit and I learn a little bit more about whats gone into this truck over the years that he’s owned it.
He’s got a lot of hard work in this truck and this year Performance World took notice and gave him a spot in the center hall. Congrats James.
If you were wondering why the truck is called Day 2 Nite you just have to look under the hoodLots of time went into this display but it looks like it was worth it in the endLittle bit closer on the airbrushing in the bayIf you look close you can also see the airbrushed speakers
The stands were all custom made, like those wheels which are 1 of 1
Common Ground
Common Ground is a local truck club here in Ontario that always comes out to shows in pretty large numbers. This year they had a row in the second hall that was packed so full of trucks and people it made taking photos a little tricky.
Second gen laying bumperI think I've seen this truck before, but I wasn't sure because...... I think I would have remembered this suspension setupI liked this truck a lot, looked good and had a bunch of performance modsThis dualie was getting some pin striping done to the gate that is why the rear wasn't all the way down
Trucks throughout the rest of the show
Very little of this truck was left untouched5.7L in between the fender tubsThis beautiful interior really updated the interior of this truckThis S-10 had a walk through, something I have not seen that in yearsIt also packed some heat under hood, a GM 6 LitreI saw this 77 Scottsdale the same day I met James and oddly enough he was parked close by in the main hallCrazy amounts of airbrushing all over this truckThis truck, Wedding Crasher, had my gf wondering if the owners significant other got a weddingDon't see these often, it was pretty wild with the motor right between the seatsThis Ford 100 was probably a farm truck at some point in it's lifeOne lucky shop has this as it's truckAwesome, awesome, awesome.Tire to bed rail clearance, not something I ever thought of rubbingLittle bit of a closer shot on the details
Classics
The ‘meat and potatoes’ of Performance World, is the wide variety of classic cars that come out, from top dollar shop builds, to home built garage builds it’s all here.
GM powered XK 140 known as 1CrazyKatIt was a favorite of photographersThe LMC Super Cuda in all its gloryI should have taken more than one shot of this Lamborghini Miura, not sure what I was thinkingTaylor'd Customs brought this '60 Meteor with a 900hp FI 557 Ford big blockTried my best to get a shot of the Pro Charger setupThis Impala was called Leather and Lace and had detail work everywhereThe under carriage was heavily detailedWould hate to see a pump fail in this immaculate trunkTop fuel cars are really, really long in personA replica of Revelles Chi-Town Hustler, it's actually going to run locally this year. The owner owns an original as wellTraditionally styled 32 called the Blueberry kidNice 33 Ford Roadster, interior matches the exterior very nicely1927 Model T built by Kustoms By Watson. Thats a 351 Windstor between the Chevy railsAll Gold metal flake paint, and classic American Racing 5 spokesSweet looking Turbo Chevy II1950 FleetlineTroy was a featured builder last year, this 1956 Chrysler 300B is a great example of whyThe engine bay that all others now must live up to?This club build Bullits of every generation Mustang in case a sequel is in the worksFord GT40 needs no introductionNor do ShelbysGassers might have one of the most iconic stance configurations ever, all functionSome history here I bet, someone share a link on this PackardLooks like it would be one hell of a handful to drive
RPM
RPM – Hot Rods came from Warrendale, PA and lived up to their slogan “Lower, Louder, Faster”. They are another builder whos entire fleet I wouldn’t mind a close look at.
Shop vehicle, family hauler, and hopefully someones dailyI love resto mods, like this 62 Bel AirClean, two toned engine bay featuring a Chevy 502This RPM Camaro is an exceptional looking drag carI can only imagine what type of times it puts down on the stripWith a turbo that could swollow a small rodent
The Tomahawk
This build, know as the Tomahawk, started as a 62 Pontiac (Catalina?) and has been chopped, channeled, and dumped to the floor.
The paint and body work done by to this car was amazing.
Pinkish white, under lights, is a hard color to captureEvery time I went to this car their was a significant crowdWould you believe that the driver and passenger seats are from an Acura?I'd love the opportunity to view this one a little closer
And now that’s that, another Performance World show in the books, I hope you guys enjoyed the pics as much as my hosting company is going to enjoy the bandwidth spike.
Thanks to everyone behind Performance World for getting me motivated for another season.
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