Those of you who are members of the facebook group will recognize this truck as the thumbnail for the group, it’s stance and license plate made it a perfect fit. The last time I saw this ’87 was at Extreme Invasion in 2009 and in that post I said it was probably one of the cleanest Blazers I had ever seen.
At that show I only took three pictures of the truck even though it deserved plenty more, thankfully Mike Joe from MikeJoe.ca made up for my short comings and snapped a number of awesome photos of this truck from Performance World 2009, check em out.
This truck owned by, Sean Johnston of Keswick Ontario who is part of COMMON GROUND.
I like that the owner kept the body line on the truck instead of shaving it offLayin rocker like a champShot of the rag up top, rag tops are serious commitmentThis interior is just a tad bit better than what came factory in 86Really it makes sense this truck has one of the cleanest interiors I've seen in a BlazerThe suspension setup is covered by this window which is on actuators, its an awesome way to show off what was doneLast but certainly not least
The last time I can remember thinking “cool” and “Bonneville” (not salt flats) in anything remotely close to the same thought was when a friends brother had one with a giant dent in the fender that he was going to fix in auto shop. I thought ‘cool’ because I knew years later I would be in that same class.
My friends brother was lazy and never did a damn thing about that dent, but the owner of this Bonneville isn’t lazy and has dropped this Black Onyx sedan on BBS Super RS’s via custom suspension and updated the front end with BMW e39 headlights.
I’ve gotta say for starting as a ho hum family sedan this turned into a car that looks pretty clean, I bet you could hide a huge system in the giant trunk as well.
This car gets low via DIY coilovers up front and custom springs out backWhile the headlights didn't just drop in they look great now.RS FTWNo wheel gap, but still lots of ground clearance, interestingWell played sir
A big hats off to the owner for putting work into a platform which most people would have easily dismissed as ‘not worth it’.
Well, once again I would like to thank everyone who entered for another successful contest. I was able to draw out a few of you lurkers as well as find new blogs to put into my own personal reader.
The three winners from the December give away are: Brent, Jen, and Ken. Check your in box for an email from myself regarding shipping. If you didn’t win this time don’t worry this won’t be the last time SecheMedia.ca and I are hoping to do bi-monthly and eventually monthly giveaways, now onto the WTF!
High Hoppin Rabbit
I have to admit I am a little conflicted here. Part of me knows this is wrong and that I shouldn’t like it, while another part of me knows it’s wrong and thus wants to drive the living hell out of it.
The drapes over the suspension is a little weird...Aside from the lack of lights it looks streetable with that low mounted bumperAny 4x4 guys able to identify what this sits on?
What kind of ships are these
I’ve been working on a ‘Land Yacht’ Theme Tuesday and in the process I’ve realized that my knowledge of large American vehicles is pretty sparse outside of your typical muscle car fare so I decided to give you guys a crack at identifying these.
I am sure this won’t be a challenge for some of you so the first correct responses win a set of url stickers.
This car is beautifulParallel parking this would be a bit of a task
Site Updates
The biggest update I have site wise is that in the last 30 days this little blog that could received just shy of 100 thousand page views, using up 400GB of bandwidth in the process, which means it was number 1 with a bullet on my hosting companies radar.
This is booth good and bad, good in the sense that I’ve been able to provide something interesting to read for a ton of car enthusiasts world wide, and bad because now I have to work out a new hosting package deal.
Thankfully my current host (ParaFx) is great and has been kind enough to give me a nice grace period to figure out what the heck I am going to do.
My goal is to have the transfer to a new hosting be as seamless and pain free as possible, and don’t worry this blog isn’t going to die.
Flashback Friday
With the holiday season officially here I am looking to do another round of ‘The 12 Autoblogs of Christmas‘ I am not sure whether or not I am going to do one post again like last year or split them up into 12 parts leading up to December 25th (if I do go this route I should probably start compiling a short list soon).
Anyway here is last years edition if you missed it.
If you are going to find other autoblogs you might as well find them from me 🙂
Some people win and some people lose and the 034Motorsport crew is a camp that likes to win.
After a very successful year in 2009 with a time attack A4, and a decent run in 2006 with another MK4, they decided to put the two in a blender and come out with this mid/rear engine 2.7T Audi powered Mk4 Golf which likes to go out on the track and hunt down more standard game (ie Miatas).
Porsche 996 turbo Twist wheels 18×8 Front and 18×11
Porsche 996 turbo brakes front and rear, upgraded disc’s up front
And now, because pictures are worth more than words, behold:
Audi V6 motor bolted to a FWD 6 speed trans, in a Porsche subframe.This, is, awesome.So beautiful it could bring a tear to a gear heads eyeAmazing fender work to get those Porsche Twists to fitI've still never been able to catch a flame on film...Epic doesn't even begin to describe what is happening here.
If I were to guess I would say I have had these pictures saved on my hard drive for at least 8 months and never posted them.
Why I never posted these pictures before I can’t say but what I can say is this MK5 looks fantastic sitting on AMG Aero II wheels looks great. Carrying the wheel color to the front bumper is a good look.
Ride low park lower.Badgless with the hood notch filled, done rightOne brands trash, another brands treasureWell executed.
Last night I attended a Winter Driving event at Grand Prix Kartways put on by Canadian Tire. The overall mission of the seminar was how to be prepared for winter driving, in short get winter tires, have a snow brush, top up your fluids, and brake early.
While I knew these things already it’s great to see that Canadian Tire is trying to educate more people so the chances of getting wrecked in the winter is much less. As a bonus we all got some free laps on the track at GPK, along with some other schwag.
Being the only auto-blogger in the house it was mandatory I podium-ed. I held it down at second place, and I will get first next time I swear.
For this weeks Winter Wednesday here is a Porsche getting busy in the snow, completely safe of course.
I would love to take a Porsche out to the mountain to snowboardBut by the looks of it I wouldn't make it out to the hill...
Snow skipped Mississauga somehow but everyone else got dumped on ha.
Similar to how I did a one two VW MKII and MKI combo a couple months back I’ve decided to do the same with e30s by following up the second E30 Theme Tuesday with the second E30 M3 Theme Tuesday.
When I was looking at the official list of cars for GT5 I was pretty shocked to see that the e30 m3 was not included. Polyphony had better fix that by December 25th when I get my copy of GT5 as this is the only way I’ll be driving one. Probably.
Lookin’ good
M3’s lookin good sitting still.
Best of enemies, Best of FriendsLocal hotnessThese side mirrors look a little out of place on the standard e30 but great on the MI'll never get sick of BBS wheels.Another shot of the same car, I just wish it had the standard kidney grillsFor whatever reason green is a fairly uncommon e30 colorThis picture is pretty ridiculousThe dark side never looked so appealingMore DarthNürburgring vetKiller color and wheel comboBMW art cars > most all other art carsNext time you are around BMW people ask them how to say Hartge because I have no ideaThis e30 m3 is stance famous, if there ever were such a thing
Put to task
Because the m3s heritage is in racing some track shots are mandatory.
Look at the smiles on those guys faces...This car looks beautiful out there on the trackThis cars cornering pretty damn flatReverse stagger?Older brother putting the younger to task
I’m not sure where I got these pictures from, and I know they are not new, but really when it comes to a car with as much heritage and race chops as the 911 Carrera RS looking at one for the 1000th time isn’t really bad.
Much respect goes out to the owner who showed lots of restraint and didn’t go overboard on this car in any regard.
Kept things nice and clean.
I don't think anyone wouldn't want this in their drivewayLow enough to sit right, high enough to still be thrown aroundI dig.
For the eager today’s Theme Tuesday will also feature a car with a lot of race heritige.
Most of the cars on the street right now are on stock wheels, or steelies due to the weather. A few brave (and fortunate) people rock a second set of aftermarket wheels but for must of us it’s basic, narrow, black steelies.
Steelies covered in snow and salt in the winter don’t look good, in fact they look like crap, but painted, polished and widened in a valley with now snow and look pretty damn good as the following Scion Illustrates.
This box is remarkably clean and while the camber in the rear might be a bit much for some I think the over all execution of fitment makes it worth while.
I love seeing well fitted cars with fenders that are still clean…
Damn sooonI love shots where all you can see is dish.Anyone recognize where this is? Not to familiar with my barren backdropsSimply clean.
For December I’ve teamed up with SecheMedia.ca (my sticker manufacturer) to give away three sticker prize packs containing a minimum of 6 stickers each from both stanceiseverything.com and SecheMedia.ca stores.
This contest will take place from Monday December 06th 2010 to 10pm Thursday December 9th 2010 with the winners being announced at this weeks WTF Friday.
Prizing
Each of the prize winning sticker packs will contain at least the following stickers:
Prize package #1Prize package #2Prize package # 3
Entry
Entry is simple, this contest is open to everyone (but limited to one entry per email address), and the winner will be chosen via random mathematical draw.
To keep things in the holiday spirit enter by finishing the following sentence in the comments of this post.
“All I want for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/The Holiday’s is…”
As an added little twist none of the winners will be informed of which sticker package you will receive to make it seem just a little bit more like a gift.
