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Sep 30 2011, 10:00 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 6 comment(s)
The other day I spotlighted a very high riding '55 Chevy gasser from Billetproof. Today I have another '55 from the show, albeit one that's done in an entirely different way....
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Sep 29 2011, 10:00 AM
by
Linhbergh
with 9 comment(s)
A good number of automotive related videos are watched on a daily basis at the Speedhunters offices. And lately, the influx of drifting related videos has sky rocketed. But when this film, from YAER Productions came across our desk, following Formula Drift driver, Ryan Tuerck, we were rather taken aback by its fresh take on a scene that has seen its fair share of videos.The film chronicles the moment when Ryan is waking in his hotel room, to the daily humdrum of the morning and finally, to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for a good bit of tire slaying.
Ryan is currently 6th in the driver's championship with one more round to go.
-Linhbergh
Speedhunters Formula D 2011 Las Vegas Coverage
Speedhunters Video Rolls
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Posted
Sep 26 2011, 10:00 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 8 comment(s)
I don't think it's any secret that I'm a huge fan of gassers. To me there's just this something awesome about these high riding machines that takes me back to the drawings I would scribble in my notebook in school.
At this year's Billetproof show, I came across an example of what I think might be the perfect gasser....
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Jul 28 2011, 10:30 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 32 comment(s)
With so many distractions in the present day, many of us are hard pressed to find time to actually sit down and let the brain breathe a little and relax. Yet, when those moments do happen, it's when you least expect it. It's always those quiet moments which gives us time to reflect on whatever our minds choose to reflect on. Some think about their childhood, others think about that amazing meal they had just a few days ago, or others, which have race gas pumping throughout their veins, think...
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Jul 11 2011, 12:20 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 40 comment(s)
The direction which North American professional drift cars are progressing into is a hotly contested topic. One thing is for certain, the cars are getting louder, they're getting faster and they're billowing out tire smoke by the metric ton. The faint twirl of a blow-off valve has been replaced by the almost defining roar of V8s with the top tier competitors' V8s packing the most punch and the most thunderous noise. British videographer, Stephen Brooks, couldn't get over the fact...
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Posted
Jun 15 2011, 12:00 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 12 comment(s)
Another one of my finds from the 2011 Cruisin' Nationals was this wild looking 1960 Chevrolet Station Wagon.
Wagons are universally cool, and for a cruiser with loads of style - this is as good as it gets....
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Posted
Jun 07 2011, 05:00 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 29 comment(s)
When I was born back in 1984 I took my first ride home from the hospital in the back seat of my parents' Chevrolet Monza.
Somehow, I don't think that Monza was anything like the one you see here. ...
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Posted
Mar 07 2011, 05:30 AM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 17 comment(s)
Coin parking lots are a way of life if you live in central Tokyo. With most back streets only wide enough to allow regular traffic to squeeze through, most of the time there is no way you can get away with dropping your car off on the side of the road. If you do, you will risk getting a ticket by the "men in green," jobsworth parking attendants that seem to pop out of nowhere and leave ¥15,000 parking fines in a split second. So sometimes forking out up to ¥800 an hour at one of...
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Posted
Feb 28 2011, 10:35 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 53 comment(s)
A few days ago, we looked at the detailed build process and saw what exactly influenced the exterior styling of the '70 Spectre Camaro. Now, here is the completed car. Quite a drastic change from the yellow car it once was, no? Let's first talk about the engine. The original motor was swapped out for an LS1, which was pushed back 1.75” by Campbell Auto Restoration. They added a set of headers from Patriot, a Spectre cold air intake and a Speed by Spectre HPR filter. This very popular...
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Posted
Feb 21 2011, 04:00 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 12 comment(s)
The Spectre Carbon Camaro didn't start out as the menacing wide-stanced monster it is now. When Amir Rosenbaum bought the car, it was like all projects, rough and parked in a corner for years while the team tried to decide what to do with it. The Spectre crew works with several talented fabrication shops on all their projects, and the team at Campbell Auto Restoration in Northern California took the Carbon Camaro from project status to finished race car. We spoke with Mark and Tom at Campbell...
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Posted
Nov 30 2010, 10:00 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 49 comment(s)
Like many other young boys, I grew up liking cars because of how they looked. In my ignorant, youthful eyes, some cars looked like spaceships, others looked like monstrous beasts and, of course, there were the cars that looked unexplainably cool. When that little boy transformed into a government certified automobile operator, the first thought was, of course, to buy a car and make it look as cool as possible. Driving functionality was secondary to visual aesthetics. This was the case with hot rod...
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Posted
Nov 29 2010, 06:00 AM
by
Linhbergh
with 5 comment(s)
Here's another from Bonneville Speedweek. This Chevy Cabover was the hauler of choice for the RSL Racing team, the team which brought out the LSR Ferrari Enzo. You can't get much cooler than hauling a Ferrari, let alone a salt flat racing Ferrari, in something like this. -Linhbergh
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Posted
Nov 24 2010, 01:45 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 4 comment(s)
When I was walking around the California Hot Rod Reunion last month, I came across another car that would make a perfect spotlight for Haulers and Sedans month. It seems the back in the '60s just about any body style could be built into a drag machine, and it wasn't all that unusual to station wagons out there on the strip. This '56 Chevy two-door wagon is a fine example of that....
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Posted
Oct 29 2010, 10:09 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 23 comment(s)
While walking the rain soaked ADRL paddock of Texas Motorplex, I saw many amazing drag machines. Many sported very bright liveries that were either airbrushed on or had some amazing paint work. But for some reason, this flat black 3rd generation Camaro stuck out to me as the most badass looking out of the whole paddock. It could be those dormant post-apocalyptic Mad Max fantasies bubbling up after seeing this car, or it could've been the dreary day that drew me to this murderous looking Camaro...
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Posted
Oct 15 2010, 06:00 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 18 comment(s)
The shear number and variety of cars that come out to the Irwindale drag racing event, Thursday Night Thunder, on a weekday night is astounding. This first generation Chevy Nova, tuned in the gasser discipline, was a car that resonated with the both Mike Garrett and I as we walked the line to see that night's drag offerings. I have to admit that I was never a fan of the gasser look until just recently. They didn't make sense to me. Someone would purposely raise their car? BLASPHEMY. When...
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Posted
Aug 15 2010, 06:00 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 56 comment(s)
Twenty minutes was all that I needed. Actually, scratch that. It was that first spirited corner which convinced me. The other nineteen minutes and fifty-eight seconds was a pounding-the-point-into-my-cranium experience. I was sitting passenger in a car that would normally cower at the brief mention of anything corner related. But not this 1968 Chevy Camaro RS. This particular lady, dressed-to-the-nines in Traffic Violation Red, has been completely redone from the ground up to do very un-muscle car...
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Posted
Apr 20 2010, 03:15 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 22 comment(s)
Boy do I love being a Speedhunter. Where else can I be writing about American LeMans series one moment, and writing about a '57 Chevy from hell the next moment.
I spotted this beast at Viva Las Vegas earlier this month, and just knew it deserved a spotlight here....
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Posted
Mar 16 2010, 01:58 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 17 comment(s)
I might be just a little biased in favor of the new Chevrolet Camaro. After all, it's the car that won me a hundred bucks.
No, I didn't win an outlaw street race. In fact I won the money long before my week-long test drive of the 2010 Camaro SS. ...
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Posted
Feb 09 2010, 07:19 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 24 comment(s)
So I was talking to Jeroen a while back and I mentioned my families new blog and he suggested I should write up some info and do something called a guest blog for Speedhunters. So I guess this is it, after seeing what was shown of Australian styling already I felt a tad ashamed that people might think we are a bunch of Ali G's with a spanner! I really don't know how to describe my family without coming out sounding weird as hell, I guess that's why it's taken me a couple of months...
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Posted
Feb 05 2010, 03:46 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 29 comment(s)
Hi folks,
Maybe you want to hear the story about a little Camaro driver…
After I got my license in 2001 and after a long time of searching I found my first automobile love, a Chevrolet Camaro RS with a 5L 170HP V8 built in 1990.
So in 2002 everything began. I started reading a lot of message boards, magazines and tuning books to suck in all the information I could get. After starting as a complete greenhorn I began to understand how a car works and what I have to do to make my car faster.
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