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Nov 18 2009, 06:00 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 38 comment(s)
What has always fascinated me is that a hunk of metal can make a person do the most irrational or illogical things. Why is it that many of us would get up at the most ungodly of hours only to climb in to a car and spend a day's festivities surrounding none other than cars? Or what is it that makes us wake up so eagerly for a car, yet we have to literally pry ourselves out of bed on most other mornings? Or to even drive a car with literally zero creature comforts across the country, just to spend...
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Posted
Nov 12 2009, 12:00 PM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 85 comment(s)
From the moment, I pulled up to the Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport in a Z11 Nissan Cube and met Rod Chong in a stripped Jacket followed by a ‘dude-awesome-rice’ comment by Linhbergh, I knew an adventure had begun. I grew up in London and moved to Houston nine years ago. For the past 4 years, my wife Deneice and I have owned a Japanese Arcade here called Planet Zero Anime Center; a place where video games, cars, anime and Japanese pop culture come together. I love what I...
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Posted
Nov 11 2009, 07:41 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 46 comment(s)
If you were to try and create a demographic history of VIP Style car owners in the USA, it's likely that most of these guys (and gals?) would've previously graduated from some kind of a sport compact car. It's a well established pattern; the owner would have spent some time modifying front drive cars (probably Hondas) and has now graduated to the ranks of large, stately Japanese sedans. Texas resident Zeem Choudhury definitely fits this mold. He's an ex-Honda guy who wanted a new...
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Posted
Nov 09 2009, 06:00 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 23 comment(s)
While out running a few errands around Southern California, I spotted this Imperial Jade Mica Lexus LS400, with a Youzealand SS kit, in the parking lot of a local electronics store. I noticed it had a "Goodfeeling" vinyl in the rear window and instantly recognized it as a local Orange County hard park crew......
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Posted
Nov 05 2009, 02:30 PM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 15 comment(s)
You guys asked for it, so here it is. There really isn't much else that can be said about this car that already has been said throughout the interwebs. So, head over to the desktops section for a selection of these three wallpapers....
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Posted
Nov 04 2009, 02:30 PM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 146 comment(s)
Let's put all the cards on the table: this car is ridiculously stupid. The build quality is shoddy, the care that has been given to this car is questionable, and the ride height is by no means produced by a human with a single ounce of rational thought. Why would you take a prized relic such as this Nissan 240z and completely ruin it, turning it into some pretentious piece of metal that serves no function other than itself? The first thing you notice about this car is the rusted hood and the...
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Posted
Nov 02 2009, 09:22 AM
by
Andy Blackmore
with 10 comment(s)
Welcome to Slammed Month on Speedhunters! Linhberg captured Vinh Vo’s Lexus IS350 at the recent Access Zero 42 show in Houston. Standard and wide screen versions of the calendar can be located in our desktop section. -Andy
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Posted
Oct 28 2009, 05:00 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 50 comment(s)
Irwindale came, and Irwindale went. The tire smoke has settled and the modern gladiatorial spectacle known as Formula D has ended, but the ink is still drying from the tales written in the FD history books. However, there was one particular gladiator that stuck out from the rest. It was a story of "David and Goliath" proportions, retelling the classic children's book The Little Engine that Could. A student from San Diego California and the only privateer with zero sponsors, Matt Powers...
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Posted
Oct 23 2009, 05:45 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 144 comment(s)
I'm currently sitting in the lounge area at the Planet Zero Anime center in Houston, Texas overseeing a room filled with JDM import arcade machines. The sun is going down and I'm working away on updating the Speedhunters website while Linhbergh is out shooting two amazing super-slammed Nissans. We've come here to shoot a raff of dropped cars in preparation for November's "Slammed" theme and Texas seems to be one of the best places to source this style of car. We're also...
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Posted
Oct 23 2009, 07:00 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 24 comment(s)
With the passing of the last round of the 2009 Formula D season, Irwindale will go down into the history books as an event of many great memories. Moments of great jubilee, celebration, quiet reflection, and, of course, moments of disappointment. But this was the moment. The moment when Chris Forsberg rolled back into the pit area with his team mates, drivers, and media personel running towards his car to congratuate him on the ultimate intangible. He got out of his car, quickly removed his helmet...
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Posted
Oct 03 2009, 07:50 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 31 comment(s)
The sky was already emptying out its emotions when we arrived onto the track in the morning. Water literally flowed down the parking lots and access streets around the circuit, and as Rod and I hurried into the media tower, we tried our best to walk around deep rivers and ponds that quickly formed from the morning down pour. As we stepped into the dry and warm building, the sensation of wet socks was the first thing that greeted us. I looked down at my watch, and it wasn't even 7am yet.... The...
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Posted
Sep 26 2009, 07:05 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 10 comment(s)
When you have the time to actually witness a professional racing team do what they do throughout the course of the day, you can't help but to feel intimidated. I had the honor of being a guest with the BMW American Le Mans team and had the opportunity creep, snoop, and stalk the team and their drivers throughout the course of the weekend. This being my first real motorsport and the first non-rice event I've shot, there was a bit of a culture shock as I started to experience the world of real...
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Posted
Sep 26 2009, 02:30 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 16 comment(s)
There's only so much practicing or rehearsing you can to before a big day. And today is a big day for the multitudes of teams that will be competing in this year's Petit Le Mans. Come back throughout the day for periodic updates and galleries live from Road Atlanta! -Linhbergh Nguyen...
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Posted
Sep 25 2009, 11:35 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 4 comment(s)
A lot of you guys requested this shot as a wallpaper, so here it is! Head on over to the desktops section to add the spice of BMW slam to your everyday computing. -Linhbergh Nguyen
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Posted
Sep 25 2009, 07:30 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 6 comment(s)
Watching race cars getting flogged through a race track during the day is already a pulse pounding experience, but watching the same cars getting the same amount of abuse during the pitch dark is a completely different sort of visual, and audio sensation. All your senses are on edge as you wait for each car to fly through a corner at full speed. You start to identify the each car by their headlights and each cars' signature engine note as they pass through your corner. It is a truly an extraordinary...
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Posted
Sep 24 2009, 05:43 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 19 comment(s)
...a nice helping of some sweet BBS, then pop it in the oven for 45 minutes, and out comes a very capable drift machine that is also drop dead sexy. This past weekend, I was a spectator at Daijiro Yoshihara's Drift Academy, at the old El Toro Airforce base in Irvine, California. The pit lane was filled with usual mix different of S-chassis. But when this BMW E30 rolled up into the line for the intermediate drift course, I knew I had to take a photo of this car. This month has been filled with...
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Posted
Aug 31 2009, 08:00 PM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 8 comment(s)
The first impression you get when stepping onto the Salt is that the place is eerily clean. It feels sterile, serene, like you've stepped onto another planet. So, as we close up speed month, let's take one last look at the Bonneville salt flats. The design of a lot of these land speed roadsters remind me of World War 2 fighter planes. They're simply amazing. Early mornings are easily the best time of day to be out on the Salt. There are barely any spectators out, and the only thing you...
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Posted
Aug 30 2009, 03:00 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 60 comment(s)
When you're at Bonneville you see all sorts of crazy contraptions while walking (and driving) around the five mile long pit and spectator area. You witness things that can rocket to speeds just shy of 400 miles per hour to things that are created to look the best while flossing at 20 miles per hour. Basically, you see the whole spectrum from pure performance to pure hardparking. It's phenomenal to be able to to be able to take all of this at a single event. With such an eclectic mix of cars...
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Posted
Aug 26 2009, 01:00 PM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 36 comment(s)
As we start to wind-down the summer of 2009, and gear ourselves up for the autumn and holiday season to come, let's take a look back at one of the greatest ricer events this year: the Just Drift/Ziptied All Star Bash '09! This event is more than just a mere drift event. All Star Bash is a weekend long party celebrating tire smoke, horse power, grassroots drifting style and flare, and a just enjoying sport for what it is --pure fun. It is also a weekend of celebration to the grassroots US...
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Posted
Aug 26 2009, 07:00 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 15 comment(s)
I had the very fortunate honor of being a guest with Chris Forsberg and his team for the 5th Formula D round in Seattle. I had the opportunity to follow and document the day of competitions with Chris. The day started with Chris rubbing the crusty from his eyes, to the day-to-day race operations, then a quiet moment of self reflection with him and his car before the top 16, and finally, to stand on the top step of the podium! It was quite the experience to be a 'ghost' and follow the team...
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