March might be Theme Tuesday greatest hits month as I’m bringing back the ‘dat ass‘ Theme Tuesday for another go round, thanks to a throwback track I heard on my way home from work.
The last post was three years ago so I guess it is time.
In my latest office clean up I seem to have cleansed my list of future Theme Tuesday ideas so throw some at me in the comments.
It only took one trip for Detroit Autorama to obtain permanent residence in my favorite shows of all time list, and calling it one of the best all around events in North America is probably selling it a bit short.
As soon as I knew I wasn’t going to be able to make this awesome event for a second year in a row, I reached out to Jason Langley of Bacon Media / Detroit Style Photography for some coverage.
He came back with a whopping 300+ photos, of which I pulled sixty or so to post today.
The level in which the trucks at Autorama are built is second to none. Every style from your traditional mini, to re-imagined classics is worth a second or even sometimes third look to capture all the details.
Also known as ‘the basement’ this part of the show would be an awesome stand alone event of its own. Heck some people never leave this area the whole weekend and looking at the rides can you really blame them?
With builds literally as far as they eye can see, and a bit of something for everyone, the main hall is almost overwhelming.
Thanks again Jason for the 2015 coverage, hopefully my schedule frees up and I can make it out in 2016 and stop kicking myself in the butt with regret.
Jason’s full gallery of photos is ” target=”_blank”>availible here on flickr and here on facebook.
I get that drift missiles are a bit of a ‘thing’ right now (to the chagrin of many) but I think even the most carefree of missile pilots would see this car as a little ridiculous.
Aside from the turbo LS swap, which is in god knows what shape, very little on this car appears to be salvageable or mechanically sound.
I know I usually say LS in everything but perhaps not in this thing
Spotted in the ‘You’re Doing It Wrong‘ Zilvia thread which totally justifies the ever-increasing price of clean S chassis.
A couple weeks ago Gill from The Scraped Crusaders posted a rendering on Facebook and captioned it “I hope full liveries become a thing in Toronto”.
That comment instantly got the gears going in my head to dedicate a Theme Tuesday to street plated cars that have either slight, or full blown, race car livery.
While I’m not going to predict liveries as a trend for 2015, I wouldn’t be surprised if more than a few cars roll out this year with detailed race motifs.
The first time I spotted this car it was via cell phone photos embedded in a comment thread over on SpeedHunters. Instantly spawning a sub conversation of its own myself and many others were hungry to see more.
Not wanting to do this car the disservice of a two photo post I waited until a few photos of the interior and motor popped up before posting it here.
Patience turned out to be the key because Focus Geek and Yama-Channel spent a significant amount of time shooting this car at Osaka Auto Messe, and as expected it’s a through build from bumper to bumper.
If you want to see more photos of this car they can be found on Focus Photography, Yama-channel , and the Ultra Box website and Facebook page.
Another s2000 for the ‘category Dave keeps saying he will update more often but never does’. This one hails out of Australia and after spotting it on JDMrides.ca, I was able to track down its original source of Oh Fuck It’s Monday (amazing blog name).
Flared fenders, Amuse front bumper, Mugen hard top, Volk Racing RE30 wheels, BC coils and the all important 235/40 and 255/40 Federal RSRs enable this car to strike the perfect balance function and form.
The full feature is here if you’d like to know more.
This local car owned by @hemans4 popped up in my instagram feed thanks to Fitted Lifestyle and I knew it would be perfect for this week’s Winter Wednesday.
Not quite sure the wheels, but the specs are 18×10.5 with 225/35 all around et10 up front and -5 in the rear.
Static.
Drew a blank this week thinking of a new theme, so I’m falling back to familiar territory with part 4 of the ‘Lettin’ The Sparks Fly‘ series.
Today it’s true what they say, if sparks don’t fly you’re too high!
If you’ve missed the previous entries in this series you can view one, two, and, three right here.
Equipped Photography‘s Nate Powers sent over a few photos from a small meet he set up after Import Face Off in Gainesville Florida.
Mostly a small gathering of a few Team NVüS cars along with a very wide Subaru that has been popping up all over the place lately.
This very wide 2012 STI is the shop car of Florida’s own Elite Force Motorsports. In addition to the body work, suspension and CCWS it’s got a built motor and a GTX3082R snail.
The overall look of the car is pretty unique, and perhaps not for everyone, but it fits right in with 2015’s trend of up-sizing literally everything.
Thanks once again to Nate for sending in a bit of what is going on in Florida, you can check out his IFO coverage here and the full set of photos from his little get together here.
Next do the Swift Car Club Nokturnal has some of the weirdest vehicular creations to ever dominate the points based car show scene.
I’ve yet to come across any car with a Nokturunal banner that has been ‘par for the course’ so to speak, and one modification ‘Nok seems particularly fond of is putting Rolls Royce front ends on everything.
The first example of this was a RR clipped Monte Carlo spotted in 2012 at CSCS event in 2012, then again later at Importfest that same year.
In an effort out do themselves they recently did a similar front end swap to a Scion XB creating what they are calling the ‘Nok XB’.
This conversion flows perhaps slightly better looking than the Monte Carlo above, and if nothing else seems to be executed better as this time around the fenders and bumper are separate units.
The interior follows suit with the colour scheme, save for the steering wheel, buy I can’t help but wonder how uncomfortable those seats probably are.
All in all points for effort, as the work appears to be of decent quality, but aesthetically it’s a swing and a miss for me. You?
