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Mar 18 2010, 10:24 AM
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Speedhunters
with 45 comment(s)
For my 3rd build feature I really want to change it up for you guys. Personally, I love it when people take a car and modify it in the complete opposite direction to what the manufacturer initially intended. So how about taking a car that was built with cheap mass-production and basic transportation in mind, gutting it, and transforming it into a track warrior? Well, that's exactly what Liam from my home city of Melbourne, Australia is doing. The car in question is an X3 model Hyundai Excel ...
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Mar 12 2010, 01:30 PM
by
Speedhunters
with 40 comment(s)
Hello Speedhunters! My name is Romas Tamulevicius, I’m from Lithuania, and this is my work in progress - or as I like to call it – my money pit! :D Everything started with just an idea floating in my head that I needed to build a drift car for myself. Just for fun on the weekends and to have a car that could take a beating. As I’m a total gear head, as well as a Toyota fan, the choice was narrowed quite quickly to a Corolla – which is a pretty rare sight here! So while the...
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Posted
Mar 09 2010, 11:31 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 28 comment(s)
Hello Speedhunters my name is Mathieu van den Oever and I am from Utrecht in The Netherlands. After I had stopped skateboarding due to injuries, my love for racing and drifting took over and it has not stopped since. Things got even worse after my first trip to Japan where I got introduced to cars and products I could only dream of before....
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Posted
Mar 08 2010, 11:55 AM
by
Speedhunters
with 26 comment(s)
The first build I showed you was pure American muscle, from the body, to the frame, to the guy's working their magic on it. For this next build I'm not gonna go all JDM or Euro on you, but the engine choice does come from the land of the rising sun. I know how much you guys love the Japanese stuff (as do I), but I do try to feature some of the more obscure builds to keep it interesting and fresh. This next car is a 1966 Sunbeam Minx in the stages of receiving an F20C transplant and 4-link...
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Posted
Mar 05 2010, 07:07 PM
by
Speedhunters
with 44 comment(s)
It's been a while since we have seen a Japanese Supercar on US shores. While we were all excited to see the new Nissan R-35 GT-R, rumors were circulating that this car was so electronically advanced that it could not be modified. Here at AMS we were intrigued by this notion and so was Chuck Hannold of the popular GT-R forum board Nagtroc . As time passed tuners including ourselves have been finding ways to improve the GT-R but Chuck was looking for something more. Chuck established a lofty goal...
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Posted
Mar 04 2010, 02:27 AM
by
Speedhunters
with 17 comment(s)
Greetings fellow Speedhunters readers, my name is Anthony Crivelli and I hail from Melbourne, Australia. Like most of you, I'm a young gear-head who reads Speedhunters every day with my morning coffee. For around a year or so I've been running a little blog called Build-Threads.com which focuses on the build process of all things automotive, whether it be cars, bikes or even garages. When Rod offered me the opportunity to write some guest blogs on Speedhunters, I jumped at the chance (who...
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Posted
Feb 26 2010, 10:41 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 18 comment(s)
This article is dedicated in memory of Tyler Slak, a great member of our community who passed away at the far too young age of 22. Diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer but a month ago, Tyler demonstrated a degree of courageousness and fortitude that made us all proud to have had him as a member of our community....
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Posted
Feb 25 2010, 12:40 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 22 comment(s)
Hello world! My name is Kenny Lam and I live in Melbourne, Australia. This is the story of my journey into the world of track days and club sprints accompanied by my 2006 Nissan 350Z, affectionately known as GorillaZ....
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Posted
Feb 25 2010, 09:21 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 35 comment(s)
Hi Speedhunters! My name is Mike Reyes and I'm located out in Glendale, CA. This is "Butch", my 1973 Datsun 240Z. ...
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Posted
Feb 23 2010, 12:43 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 23 comment(s)
Hi there Speedhunters! I found this car on my last trip to Japan. I haven’t seen many tuned Soarers on Speedhunters in a while so hopefully you will appreciate this one......
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Posted
Feb 22 2010, 12:03 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 62 comment(s)
Hello Speedhunters. James here, a 25 year old ordinary dude who is engineer from Sydney. I first purchased this car for roughly 2 years now heading into 3 years. As many may know it is Toyota JZX100 Mark II Tourer V. It is my JDM car of choice in this era we live in....
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Posted
Feb 18 2010, 10:15 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 44 comment(s)
Hello Speedhunters, my name is Claudio Jacuzzi and I am the owner of the RPS13 you see here. I picked up the car back in 2008 with the idea of preparing the car with a true and authentic JDM feel, something that is hard to find in Italy where I'm from. So the first thing that had to be done is get rid of the stock CA18DET and replace it with an SR20DET black-top from a damaged S14 I had found. This not only gave me an immediate boost in power but opened up a huge potential for modifications....
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Posted
Feb 18 2010, 11:28 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 81 comment(s)
How many of us were taken through the streets of childhood in a minivan? I was, and I hated it, I couldn’t dare be seen in it. At the tender age of six my family bought a 1993 Mazda MPV and used it for everything from towing the boat to shuttling our stuff across the border during our move from Canada to the States. Ten years later when I got my driver’s license, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that I would inherit the dreaded minivan......
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Posted
Feb 18 2010, 09:29 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 88 comment(s)
Hey Speedhunters! Love the site, been sifting through for a few years now, love how it effortlessly moves through such a variety of cars and related culture, from traditional rodding to flushed out drifters.
This is my '73 Plymouth 'Cuda, my first car, a long term project, and my introduction to working on cars.
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Posted
Feb 17 2010, 01:08 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 37 comment(s)
Hello Speedhunters, my name is Robert G and I roam the streets of the Portland Oregon area. I bought this 86 Mitsubishi Starion as a wounded animal, miss treated and abused. I saw it as a blank canvas to paint my dream car and could not resist. This would be my 3rd 1986 Starion, 3rd time's the charm I guess. I gave away my first two to fellow Starion addicts, but I still see (and maintain/modify) them regularly. I am addicted to cars, and Mitsubishi Starions are my drug of choice. They are understated, and sophisticated. They are bold, and confident, without being too ostentatious. Just my style....
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Posted
Feb 16 2010, 10:18 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 15 comment(s)
Planted on an artificial island 350 metres offshore of Doha's West Bay Lagoon, The Pearl- Qatar is the first of its kind allowed in Doha. When completed, the Pearl will be the first land in Qatar allowed for purchase by non-nationals. Now although I wish my visit to the pearl today was for the purchase of some land, it isn't. What really brings me here today is honestly the interest in picking up some clothes from some of the finest stores in the world. When walking past Armani, Gucci, I find a Rolls Royce store!...
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Posted
Feb 15 2010, 01:39 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 35 comment(s)
I’ve been apart of Chicago’s car culture for around five years now. I do my part of staffing local drift days and putting together meets. The one thing the city is rich with is car crews. Crews like the famous Risky Devil to the forefathers of Chicago drifting, the Grip Gamblers, but this article is about a few members from two younger crews… Tipsy Turtle and Ooo Dang....
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Posted
Feb 12 2010, 04:20 PM
by
Speedhunters
with 45 comment(s)
This project began to take shape back in 2005 when Pedro Carvalho, who always had a soft spot for the old Corolla TwinCam, bought an old red hachiroku. The car was now on its 7th owner... ...It was looking tired and had been poorly maintained with some evidence of a front collision. He didn’t drive the car a lot, in fact disassembly began the day he bought it. The body was fixed and straightened and in 2007 it was finally painted in Toyota’s Super White. In 2008 the now absolutely mint...
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Posted
Feb 12 2010, 12:03 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 22 comment(s)
Hello fellow Speedhunters! My name is Brian Bogan and I live on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, about an hour south of Ocean City, Maryland. OC is the home to several car shows and cruise ins a year, most notably H2O. This show has become one of the premier VW and Audi shows in the country, ballooning to over a thousand show cars, with several thousand cars in attendance over the two day show. This was the 12th anniversary of this show, and by far the biggest and wettest....
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Posted
Feb 11 2010, 12:32 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 33 comment(s)
Hi Speedhunters! My name is Ying and this is the tale of my 1990 Toyota Starlet GT EP82 from Melbourne, Australia.
My story begins late one night in 2004 on an almost empty freeway. I saw some headlights approaching incredibly fast. As it flew by, I caught a glimpse of the two letters that would shape the next few years of my life. A glowing “GT” badge fixed in the middle of the tailgate. I drove back home intrigued. What the hell was that?
A few hours later, I discovered this little car was called a Starlet GT. The car weighed 830kg and was powered by a 1.3 litre turbo engine. Huh, starlets come in turbo models?
Whilst there is a small turbo starlet community in Australia they aren’t a common sight on Melbourne roads.
Having never driven one, sat in one, or known anyone that had owned one, I decided to buy one....
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