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Win free passes to Performance World 2011

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DaveT
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The first show after a long, snow filled, Toronto winter is just a few days away and thanks to SIC RYDE I’ve got a pair of passes to give away to one lucky Stance Is Everything reader.

Last years Performance World Show was the first time I met Sic himself, after seeing him riding low for years, so it’s very fitting that he is contributing to this years give away.

If you and a friend would like to attend the 2010 Performance World car show for free all you have to do is correctly guess the number of times the SIC RYDE slogan ‘sic ryde.  pass it on‘ will appear in the SIC RYDE display area.

Here is a little background info to help guide your answer:

  • Each SIC RYDE stanchion has 4 slogans per side, which is 8 slogans per belt
  • The SIC RYDE show area for 2011 is 150 feet by 20 feet
  • There are going to be 13 SIC RYDE cars at the show
  • The slogan will appear on each car at least once
  • The slogan will also appear on each vehicles sign board at least once
  • Last year the SIC RYDE show area had 254 slogans in total, this year Sic plans to outdo that number

For those of you who have never seen a SIC RYDE show setup before here are some photos of his displays from Performance World 2010 and Importfest 2010:

Sic Ryde's 2010 Performance World display
How many mentions of Sic Ryde do you see?
An example of the sign boards Sic brings to shows
Remember, Sic plans to go over the top with marketing this year

Prizing

The person who guesses the number correctly walks away with two passes to Performance World. In the event two or more people guess correctly the winner will be decided at mathematical random of those who were correct.

In the event no one guesses the exact amount the person who is closest without going over will be declared the winner.

In addition to the passes the winner will also receive a pair of SIC RYDE key chains.

Sic Ryde key chains

Rules

This contest is open to anyone who is able to attend Performance World 2011.

The contest is open from today Monday March 7th 2010 and closes Thursday March 10th at 10:00pm EST (Contest now closed)

The winner will be announced Friday morning at 9am EST and the tickets will be available at show open 10:00am Friday March 11th 2011.

Once the winner is declared they will be contacted via email with instructions on how to collect their prizes.

One entry per email address and you can only enter by commenting on this post with your guess.

Good luck, to all the entrants. See all of you at Performance World and be sure to stop by the SIC RYDE area to check out all the merchandise (t-shirts, hooded sweatshirts, hats, stickers, and towels) he has for sale in 2011.

This contest is brought to you by:
sicryde.com
sicryde.ca
stanceiseverything.com

WTF Friday: Winter towing fail 2011

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DaveT
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This has got to be the funniest towing fail I have seen since the one where a bunch of clowns remove the back of a car trying to get it out of a snow bank.

If your wondering how this truck ended up upside down in a frozen lake your guess is as good as mine. However one take away from this video is never under estimate the power of a front end loader.

Thank god for camera phones as we all would have missed this awesome without them.

Just saw this so I figured I would throw it in. This is one of the many reasons why you do not tow with a Mazda 3.

According to RFD this was on the Southbound 404 @ Davis

Site Updates

Working out the final details of a Performance World ticket giveaway for next week, I don’t want to give away too much but it’s looking like it should come together.

Car wise I ordered a different set of camber arms for my car to give me more adjustment range which means my old, never installed, Megan Racing set is for sale if anyone is interested.

I’ve also started polishing one of my wheels. I’ve sanded out the curb rash up to 400 grit now I have to work my way up to 2000 before breaking out the polisher.

A lot of work left to go but I started with the worst condition rim first.

Flashback Friday

Without giving away all the details of the potential upcoming contest lets just say that re-familiarizing yourself with Sic Ryde and his Ryde probably isn’t a bad idea 😉

Sic's LS

See you guys Monday, it’s a bmx weekend.

Marco

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DaveT
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Seeing the positive reception of that little winter Lupo I posted last week was very encouraging as I’ve got a decent amount of small, fitted, VWs on my hard drive.

Today’s car is an example of what happens when you take a US spec Polo, shave a few things, bring the fenders closer to the wheels with an air ride setup, and stretch 185/45s and 195 45s over 15×8 and 15×9 wheels.

Since quoting Charlie Sheen is the thing to do this week, this Polo: Winning!

Damn that's some poke
I've got this thing for rear 3/4 shots, get me every time
Winning over here, and winning over there
Reminds me I have a lot of polishing left in my future
Nankangs have to be one of the most stretchable tires

The build is here on edition 38 and I believe photo credits are to the owner chrispy9 as well

Winter Wednesdays: Harley in the snow

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DaveT
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Some of the long time readers, or those of you who have looked through the Theme Tuesday archives, may have noticed I have a bit of an attraction to VW Harlequins.

I like these cars because you don’t see them often and when you do they can’t be missed.

Seeing one thats winter driven never crossed my mind until I saw rabriolet of vortex not given a damn and pushing his through significant accumulation.

The white makes the multicolored panels pop even more.

That... is a lot of snow
Personally days like these are when I become a hermit and play ps3
Pushin along
His previous winter mode used these Schmidts, glad he got some other winters 🙂

Bonus!

Here are some pictures of yesterdays COE being badass out in the snow

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So amazing
I would plow my drive like this every day
I mean why not right?

All the heating and cooling cycles this winter have made the roads pretty rough so be easy out there.

Irrelevant?

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DaveT
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This first time I came across this 51 Chevy COE it was posted on another stance blog where the writer stated that it was fairly irrelevant to the forms of stance they normally showcase.

That statement struck me as odd because to me flush, poke, tuck, drag, lowrider, vip, whatever your suspension alteration poison happens if at the end of it all it’s awesome that’s all that matters.

This thing just looks fun to cruise, and judging by the owners photos all over The Netherlands, it is.

The truck now sits on a A 1972 1/2 ton GMC Pickup chassis
A Buick big boy 455 engine sits behind the stubby nose
Shot of the rear end of this magnificent beast
The truck is also, obviously, bagged all around
Look at all those Swiss troopers out at what looks to be a cold rainy show
Slammed at Sunset

More pictures can be found at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diedelsonkustoms

Wonder what kind of sparks it throws…

Theme Tuesdays: Wekfest favorites 2011

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DaveT
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Everyone I’ve had a chance to chat with via email or twitter says Wekfest 2011 was a crazy this year with lots of cars and even more people. One day, if I’m lucky, perhaps I’ll plan a trip around attending one and make a vacation out of the whole deal. Or if I am really lucky someone will fly me out (ya right).

Until then I will just have to settle for living vicariously through the lives of the people at The Chronicles, Canibeat, Night-Import, LimestandPhotography, Ivy League East and Oh you speak english.

The following photos were taken by Yuta Akaishi from Oh, you speak English?

The more I see this car the more I like it
On that note I would like to also see more of this car
Mark's Skyline that is full of win
Awesome clean, function based, s2k

The following photos were taken by DJ Murdok which I found via Night-Import.com

STI on LMS <3
I just today found alexisthemovie.com it is a good time
This Starlet = fantastic
VS-XX plus Subaru also = great

The following photos were taken by the man behind Limestand Photography

Alex is rolling in
Clean Z, trailer worthy obviously
This has no cars in it but was to priceless not to post

The following photos were taken by Mod Lyfe photography

FTW
Noel from Can I Beat

The following photos were taken by Cristian, John, and Noel from Canibeat.com

Gorgeous
Go with Solo... love the hood treatment need more pics of it
Very clean, functionally set up CRX
Boss status
If I recall this is an naturally aspirated Supra which is different

The following photos were taken by Joey from The Chronicles… whose coverage is still ongoing.

More of that Subaru
and coincidentally more Starlet
I think this is the first time I have posted an Insight
I would love to know some more about this Mini
Infinit wheels pushing CRX fitment
More Subaru VS-xx love
Love this particularly the industrail/primer gray paint
So dope

The guys at IvyLeaugeEast.com also through together this video of the festivities.

For those of you who did go how long did you have to wait in the line? It looks like that thing was as crazy as the cars…

Funky cold Mondeo

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DaveT
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It’s always interesting the differences in the car markets across the globe. Cars that are mundane in one area will excel in another and the Ford Contour, aka the Ford Mondeo, is a prime example of that, seeing as how it was (according to Wikipedia) Britain’s third best selling new car from 96 – 98.

Here in North America they are just another ho hum family hauler. I’ve seen a couple modified here and there (mostly SVTs) but none done with some Euro flavor, that is until this one.

These cars actually clean up fairly nice and fit wheels wider than I would have ever thought, interesting.

I never really liked the front end on these cars before this one
Rollin clean
Air ride gets this car where it needs to be (bag over coil)
Diamond stitched interior is no doubt better than what it came with

They look way better like this than in Tekken livery that’s for damn sure.

As always respect to those working with harder platforms.

Spotted a couple weeks back on the StanceWorks forums, where more info can be found (it’s on 195/40s up front on 9s and 205/40 on 10s out back if you were wondering).

WTF Friday: Under Konstruction

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DaveT
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On the way to Pennsylvania last week, traveling by Aztec (great road trip vehicle oddly enough), we stopped at a bunch of random places.  One memorable stop was a gun store where we were informed that over 950 women in Pennsylvania have the right to carry a concealed weapon which is sort of scary.

On what would have been a more standard stop for gas I noticed what appeared to be a convertible Neon in an empty lot across the road, naturally curiosity got the better of me and dodged two lane traffic to get a better look.

Once I got closer I realized that the empty building the car was in front of used to be an aftermarket shop, and if this is the type of work they put out it’s no real surprise that they went under.

Check out all of the mad custom work here hidden by black paint
If Under Konstruction didn't let you know it was a work in progress
This sticker should
Clean roof cut for sure...
Cleanest engine bay ever!
Part of me wanted to grab that tach for a garage decoration
Roll bar looks like a monkey bar
If you're looking to get some work done...

Someone should pick this up for a 24 hour of Lemons car though.  It would be good for a laugh.

Site Updates

I’m looking into getting a small run of T-shirts made with profit from the stickers, when I know a little more I will share a little more but the plan is once things reach a nice round number to get some shirts spun off.

Car wise going to hopefully finish rebuilding my skid plate this weekend so I can get it off my work bench and start polishing up my Equips.

I am also thinking of picking up a Mothers Powercone so if anyone has any experience with it let me know.

Flashback Friday

I’ve been on maxbimmer a lot lately keeping tabs on a blogging contest (if you are wondering I’m not really pushing to win anymore for day job reasons) and remembered this pair of E90s I posted in 09.

H&R sports plus 20inchers work great here.

I should follow up and see whats new in 2011.

Fat and Flush: STI

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DaveT
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They say the first step in managing an addiction is admitting you have an addiction so I am going to admit this one to all of you:

I’m in the early stages of what is no doubt going to become a full blown addiction to cars that are set up fat and flush.

Like my addiction to the other various forms of stance this is basically out of my control so the best thing I can do at this point is give fat and flush it’s own category.

I found this STI lurking in the ‘Ultimate aggressive wheel thread…‘ on Mazda 3 forums which is the same place I found the speed3 that started my little addiction.

This is one mean looking pig nose
I need to attend one of these gatherings of race built cars
This STI is using up every inch of those flares
Functional camber

I might also have a general Subaru and Evo addiction but we will see what happens there…

Can’t afford, do want.

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DaveT
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I could use this title a thousand times over for cars I post here on a regular bases but I think it suits this Benzo to a tee.

While I wasn’t able to find the original source of these photos or a mods list with exact specs, but I don’t really need either to appreciate what’s been done here.

This car looks absolutely fantastic.

From hood to bumper this car is perfect
The flush mounted caps on these wheels is a great small detail
Retaining the chrome around the belt line was a good move
I like these wheels because they are nothing too crazy head on
But then the dish makes them pop
Simply top dollar

If anyone has more info on this I would love to know it, working with nothing here 🙂

Update: Got some info from a friend of the owner who commented with the following:

Mods include a Wald front lip, Lorinser front fenders, a Carlsson rear lip, AMG exhaust tips, rear quarters pulled, SL style front grill, Renntech lowering module, lowering links, and the wheels are D2Forged VS7 20×9.5 and 20×10.5

Again, such a nice car.

Photo Credit: Dan Walker

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