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Nov 02 2009, 03:20 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 114 comment(s)
VIP Style... Drift Style... Hella Flush (?) style... Lux Style... Time Attack Style... JDM Style... These are all different labels which have been thrown around the US import car scene in the past few years. Once a style gets solidified, a rule set gets made and standards are created for what one should and shouldn't do with a car build. However, every once and a while a car will come up which makes you scratch your head. This 2006 Nissan 350Z is certainly Hella Flush approved, but it's clean...
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Posted
Oct 27 2009, 02:53 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 18 comment(s)
Tucked away in a small industrial area of Gardena, California you'll find one the most legit drift shops on West Coast - Garage Boso. While I was there on Saturday shooting photos of Ross Petty's S15, I also spent some time checking out the shop itself and the nice selection of toys that can be found there. I always get all giddy when I visit a shop full of cool projects, and Garage Boso more than delivered....
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Oct 26 2009, 02:26 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 24 comment(s)
Last weekend at the Formula Drift awards banquet, an award for "Best Looking Car" was given out. I'm not exactly sure what criteria was used in the judging, but I don't disagree with the results. As part of our Driver's Month features on Speedhunters, we figured it'd be the perfect time to do a feature on the "Rossta" S15. On Saturday morning I took a short drive over to Garage Boso in Gardena where co-owner Frank Siharath showed me around the shop and rolled out the infamous multicolored S15 for some photos....
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Posted
Oct 22 2009, 05:06 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 21 comment(s)
The GT-R is linked in every way possible with the famous Nürburgring, so for a lot of owners of this car it is a once in a lifetime experience to be able to drive this circuit. Not for the guys I saw today because they are regulars and meet up with other GT-R owners to share their experiences. It's all part of the package when owning this car, it's not just the car it's a community you live in now....
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Posted
Oct 22 2009, 07:06 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 11 comment(s)
Sometimes it's really hard to believe that the high tech R32 Skyline GT-R is now over 20 years old. The R32 is just one of several iconic Japanese cars that recently have crossed the 20-year mark. Others include the S13 Silvia and the NA chassis Mazda Roadster.
Surely these cars will be the "nostalgics" of generations to come.
The car in the photo is the Auto Gallery Yokohama R32, seen at Tsukuba Circuit last year.
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Oct 10 2009, 11:27 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 39 comment(s)
While we were in Imola as guests of the BMW WTCC team last month, we shot a film about former multiple Touring Car World Champion, Andy Priaulx which we'll be releasing shortly. He's also been writing a guest blog for Speedhunters about his twin BMW racing weekends at Imola and Road Atlanta, but right now he's in Australia racing at the Bathurst 1000 kms.
It's one of these marque international events that we'll need to Speedhunt one of these years. In the meantime, here's a great vintage video from Bathurst showing the R32 "Godzilla" showing the competition how it's done!
:R
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Posted
Oct 08 2009, 07:30 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 15 comment(s)
Just because you guys asked for it, I've collected some more shots of the cars at the Nurburgring Nordeschleife parking lot. This is the area where people wait, before entering the track for public hotlapping. The first car is this Alfa Romeo 147 with Sportec wheels that looks spot on. I noticed that there were several Alfa's but they were older types like the Alfa 75 and 33. On the way to the track, I spotted this AE86 in Adenau, we didn't had time to stop and photograph it but luckily...
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Posted
Oct 07 2009, 07:40 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 13 comment(s)
You asked for it, so here it is. Head to the Desktops section to download either the widescreen or standard version. -Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Posted
Oct 06 2009, 11:15 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 68 comment(s)
It isn't every day you come across a car like this, that's for sure. It all happened during a driving expedition my friends and I organized last fall, something we have been doing for years now. The idea is to all meet up at the Hakone Turnpike, one of Japan's most well known driving roads, and drive up into the mountains and down into the Izu peninsula through the appropriately named "Izu Skyline" pass. Which is precisely where I first saw this impossibly spotless Nissan Skyline...
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Posted
Oct 05 2009, 04:32 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 35 comment(s)
Yesterday I went to the Nürburgring again to witness on off the latest ‘touristenfahrten' weekends. We have two more to go but after that the track will be closed until March next year. I got in contact with Stephane Benini from Clash Production , he offered me a ride in his newly acquired BMW E36 M3. Off course I immediately said yes. But before I will tell you more about that experience I wanted to show you guys the diversity of cars that you can find on the parking lot that surrounds...
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Posted
Oct 01 2009, 08:40 PM
by
Casey Dhnaram
with 26 comment(s)
5:30am wakeup , days like these days mentally give me the motivation to rip the donas off my bed with a passion and a attitude that thrills my body. Tuesday mornings are normally a 7:00 wakeup with the worst attitude, due to school but today was going to be different. I headed out with the same bunch of guys again, such a high quality bunch of mates, always up for a laugh and better or not, a track day! The day was magnificent maximum of about 31 degrees and not a cloud in the sky all day, it was...
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Posted
Sep 29 2009, 05:34 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 41 comment(s)
The guys at the JDM Style Tuning forums featured this car with an interview and more photo's. This car looks brand new inside and out. It has a reworked SR20 with a host of upgrades; on the outside we see some Wise Sports fenders and Wedsport wheels (18x9.5+10F, 18x10.5+12R)....
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Posted
Sep 18 2009, 01:32 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 1 comment(s)
A nice view of the recent JDM All Stars event at Silverstone through the eye of Al Clark.
Plenty of BMW's here to stay on theme as well...
Enjoy!
-Mike Garrett
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Posted
Sep 14 2009, 01:15 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 26 comment(s)
Every year in the UK, Japanese car enthusiasts get together for the massive Japanese Auto Extravaganza, better known as JAE. The 2009 edition of JAE was held this weekend at Wicksteed Park in Northhampton.
Photographer Rich Sams was kind enough to send us some photos from the event....
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Posted
Sep 14 2009, 10:32 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 11 comment(s)
Today (Sept.15) in Japan, Mr. Yutaka Katayama - better known as "Mr.K" will be celebrating his 100th birthday. Nissan enthusiasts should immediately recognize the name, but if you don't, Mr. K is the man responsible for both bringing the Nissan brand to the United States, and for the creation of iconic Nissan/Datsun cars like the original 240Z.
Here's sending our birthday wishes the Mr.K!
-Mike Garret...
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Posted
Aug 30 2009, 01:15 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 25 comment(s)
This will happen if your tire blows out at 240km/h. It happened when Daijiro Inada tried to beat the high speed record in the Silver State Classic held in the state of Nevada. His goal was to break the record in the unlimited category. It was powered by an VQ35DE engine that had been stroked to 3.8 liter, with the help of a T88 turbo it managed to reach 800bhp. Check this video on youtube for the crash as it happened. -Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Aug 28 2009, 04:30 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 36 comment(s)
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Kazuhiko “Smoky” Nagata for many years now. Nagata-san is of course the founder of the legendary tuning shop, Top Secret. Going beyond that, he is also a bit of a worldwide motorsports celebrity, in fact he is a rather unique example of a motorsports star. Not many people can claim celebrity driver status while having no professional motorsports affiliation as a driver. To understand the mysterious Nagata-san it may be a bit easier after some background....
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Posted
Aug 18 2009, 11:10 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 11 comment(s)
You know, I get the sense the Bonneville car builders are all closet inventors; each with their own home brewed speed secrets learned from many years or even decades of running on the salt. For these constructors there are no boundaries... the only limit to a build is their own imagination... At Bonneville it often seems like the crazier the design and the more outlandish a engine transplant, the better. So whenever I came across a rear wheel drive Japanese car at Bonneville, I was usually expecting...
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Posted
Aug 17 2009, 03:02 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 16 comment(s)
At the recent Concourse event in Pebble Beach, Infiniti revealed the first renderings of the all new 2011 M Sedan. Using a clay model with projected with computer images, Infiniti certainly chose a classy place to show off their new flagship. With a bold new styling and more displacement under the hood, the new M should improve on what's already one of the best performing Japanese luxury sedans around....
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Posted
Aug 15 2009, 09:20 AM
by
Rod Chong
with no comments
It's about time that we started getting you people some high rez shots of the grandier that is Bonneville. So here's a shot of the McMeekin Brothers S13 to grace your computer screens... head over to the desktops tab to download. enjoy! :R
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