Not sure why it took me this long to do a Theme Tuesday dedicated to e36s but it did, so without further adieu here is something for the e36 lovers. Warning you will see lots and lots of style 5’s in this post, but that’s not a bad thing.
I also included a few local e36s in the mix.
Local Boys
Let’s start things off with a few of the local e36 guys who are doing things right
Out of towners
As usual cars from all over the great internet
That’s it for now but ti fans don’t worry, I have started collecting pics for an e36ti Theme Tuesday all ready.
Maybe it’s just me but I have always thought these cars looked like shoes, not to say they are not capable of looking good or performing well (as this post proves), but they still look like shoes.
This is really weird, a member on JDMrides had a CF DA hood for sale that 11 people said they would but all flaked out for one reason or another. So instead of throwing it in a corner and waiting for a new buyer the seller got frustrated and filmed himself destroying the usable hood.
There is something to be said here about the western society and waste but that’s for more sophisticated blogs, here I just say WTF.
In completely un-related to automotive wtf but still pretty crazy is that it would appear as though hop flairs are taking off in BMX now…
Harry Main’s Hop Flair drop in
Craig Mast’s hop (bump jump) flair…
…and I still can’t flair 🙁
Site Updates
Got a feature in the works soon with a local lifestyle blog on a car that should start quite a few conversations so I am really looking forward to that.
The facebook fan like page is at 150 people (at posting this) with only 11 being my friends so thank you to everyone else who has signed up.
Eventually I plan to do some exclusive FB content there to make it a little bit more enjoyable.
Flashback Friday
This is the car that REALLY changed my view on stance and one of the first posts I ever made here…
When I was working on last weeks e30 touring Theme Tuesday I came across this really nice e30 coupe. These pictures are nowhere near new since I have seen them before (2001 2002 maybe?) but I don’t like this car any less now than I did then.
This e30 just goes to show how far ahead Europe was (and arguably still is) and that nothing is new these days just old stuff done differently.
I’m going to assume these pictures originally came from e30.de but I found them on vortex.
I’m not sure what’s going on so far this year but I sure hope it continues as this is the third clean, local, s2000 I am posting in the past two weeks. Last year I can’t really recall devoting a post to even one.
If the past two weeks have been any indication of the caliber of cars that are coming out of the GTA this summer than it’s going to be a hot one, I can’t wait.
JDM rides member, xxbvanxx, hosts weekly Sunday night meets in the Square One mall parking lot here in Mississauga. This year the kick off meet was promoted about two months in advance and highly anticipated.
As Sunday April 25th finally rolled around the weather looked like it could be a problem, but it eventually cleared up long enough for 200-300 cars to gather for about 20 minutes before being told to leave by the local Police department.
Essentially every message board and car ‘club’ in the GTA had heard about this event which made for what could have been one of the biggest free, spontaneous, meets I can remember going to since the days of the ‘Rona’ meets in Woodbridge.
Had we been allowed to stay it could have been a pretty good meet but with the tomfoolery that eventually went down it’s not hard to see why we got the boot (see list of things not to do at a meet at the bottom of this post).
The most ironic thing about the Police kicking us out is something that JDM rides member Pistol Pete said:
I find it hilarious the 5-0 wanted us to leave, Because you know….having 300+ cars on the road is much better then having them all parked in one spot.
It’s funny cause it’s true, anyway, enough talk for now, here are some pics:
What not to do at a car meet (if you don’t want to blow out the spot)
-Race into/out of the parking lot
-Pop your blow off valve every 2 seconds (ya you’re boosted we get it)
–Blast Beamer Benz, Bentley or any other commercial drivel (actually don’t blast anything at the meet itself)
-Leave your alarm on if it’s super sensitive to bass/exhaust (as people ignore the things above and will set it off over and over)
-Chirp other people or the cops when hidden by the anonymity of being in the crowd (tough)
-Act like your car makes you better than anyone else there
-Sit on / lean on / suspension push test anyone’s car without permission
-Be a douche
It would be really awesome if one day the ‘tuner/jdm’ crowd had a weekly free place to meet like the Applewood Plaza muscle car crowd does but as long as a few idiots keep doing the things above it’s not going to happen any time soon.
I’m going to admit something today, I know next to nothing about Mitsubishi’s, however I do know when a car looks good (at least I think I do), so with little more than a love for nice/mean looking cars and an internet connection I complied today’s Theme Tuesday of proper looking Lancers/Evos.
Some of you might remember this e46 m3 I threw up awhile back in a post titled “Just Right“.
Well this time a non M owner has come through to show us that with this chassis sometimes less is more.
Every modification done to this car has been executed with the oem plus look in mind and therefore the final look is nothing but class.
The owner of this believes that he has struck the perfect balance between daily driver, head turner, and occasional track rat and by looking at these pictures and *mods list I am inclined to agree.
*Mods:
-OEM MTech2
-Bilstein PSS10
-VMR V713 Wheels, 3.62 LSD
-Smoked LEDs/Corners/Sides
-Gruppe M Style Intake
Shadowline Trim
-Matte Black Kidneys
-OEM M3 Steering Wheel.
It looks like Toronto area s2000 owners have something to prove because this is the second s2000 I have found in as many weeks sitting on dope ‘real’ wheels.