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For the love of drift.

Capital Drift round 5 is over and done with but was one of the most intense events so far. This will just be a prologue of the post to come. I didn't realize I could get as sick as I am right now. The battles between Matt Tregear and Grant "G penny" Koziur were intense and seeing the impeccable Duane Dickinson go door to door with G penny made it a night to remember. Pete Schroeder's car got a face life thanks to the folks at OZ Designs and looked spectacular. Keep an eye on the OZ Designs/Neptune D folks,...


Measurables.

Lada VFTS (1) Box flares, check, sideways check, rooster tail check, co-pilot and full cage, check. Seems like a pretty serious rally photo. Some real shizz is going down in the seat (no pun intended) of that rally car. Well your right, it is a serious rally car, and the VAZ 2101 is a perfect candidate for some oldskool rallying. Although Group B was the golden era of Rally racing for fans, there is still a strong group of followers of the true oldskool of rallying, the light...


You Must've Benz Crazy

Someone was, someone was right nuts. More and more as I dig in I notice the impact of the World war on automotive culture. Money was no object when the world was split in two. Much of the technologies developed for the war found it's way into cars. t80-2 Late at night, browsing my collection of obscure cars I've saved photos of on my hard drive, I glanced upon a rare Gemballa 560SEC Mercedes Benz. Gemballa the famous Porsche tuner, built only a hand full of these wide body cars for...


DMCC Toronto, East baby, East.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe-BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE", I screamed. Pull the f$%#ing E-brake! I was frustrated by the lack of e-brake action. Some say it's a cheat and treat it negatively, but really those cable actuated drum brakes on the back of your Turfity is an art form waiting to be explored. I watched a video once that was the convincing steak into the vampire heart of my handbrake hate. An ae86 in the rain, hair pin, 3rd gear, hand brake up, glide, glide, glide, glide, glide. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1023" caption="BRE 510, homemage. "]BRE 510, homemage....</p>
      
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I love you Peggy!

I have happily and excitedly watched this blog grow over the past few months and wanted to thank the small but growing team of contributors for their creativity and work. Thanks again Quinn, Aaron, Andrew and Robbie to name a few. I'd like to thank our readers for helping this small blog start growing at an almost staggering speed. If you like what were doing let us know, if you want us to shut up let us know, we love hearing from everybody...almost everybody. Lastly I'd like to thank the communities...