Over the past few days, I've been finishing up our Mazda-themed editorials with photos from the race car dungeon underneath the Mazda R&D facility. The main reason I wanted to go to the facility in the first place was to shoot this particular car. As pretty much everyone who has read Speedhunters can tell, I'm a die hard Toyota enthusiast
The first time I spotted this car, I was out at Willow Springs with the yellow Nissan 370Z that I was test driving for my driving impression story on Speedhunters. There were a lot of Miatas at the track that day (obviously, because there was a Miata Challenge event happening at Streets), but in the sea of Miatas parked in the Streets of Willow pit
Step right up and get it! By request from Murs (you have to fulfill requests when members of Living Legends are requesting them), Turbo Tony Pham's good offset, fire breathing Miata is now available on the Speedhunters Desktops section for download! Handle it. -Antonio Alvendia
Here's another incredible car I found in the Mazda Motorsports dungeon... this one pretty much blew my mind, as I've never seen this car in person before. This is the Mazda/Racing Beat FD3S RX7 that set a land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Historic! This FD was originally built in 1991 by Takayuki Oku and Jim Mederer of Racing Beat
Photographer: Antonio Alvendia, Cipher Media Group Resolution: 1600 x 1200 Description: Tony Angelo's RX8 at Formula D New Jersey, Englishtown 2008.
To the RX8 fans out there... Tony Angelo's 787B-inspired RX8 has been added to the Speedhunters desktops section . Enjoy! -Antonio Alvendia
Photographer: Antonio Alvendia, Cipher Media Group Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Description: Tony Angelo's RX8 at Formula D New Jersey, Englishtown 2008.
I just wanted to post up some quick snaps of this car... when I spotted it, parked quietly in the back corner of the highly restricted access race car dungeon that lies underneath one of Mazda R&D facility, I couldn't quite make out what kind of car this was... however, if you look more closely, examining the hood, the bumper vents, and the
It's funny to think some Speedhunters readers were concerned that we had gone through our Mazda lineup of cars and forgotten about about Tony Angelo's RX8. Don't worry, we didn't. How could we forget? Everyone knows that Tony has been a devoted Mazda fan for a long time... does anyone remember his article in Wired Magazine that describes
Pit Crew? RS Aizawa? In Atlanta Georgia?! WHAT! Okay! (you have to read that part in Lil Jon's voice) It's hard for me to imagine I shot this car way back in 2005. After stumbling into it on the internet, I immediately made contact with the car's owner, Peter Brusa, because I knew I'd be going to Formula D in Atlanta, where the car lives