SPEED HERO Blog

The relevance of this scene is mind bogglingly accurate to that of the off beat burnout culture...... If your new to the best episode of the simpsons ever, then let me lend you a link to the scene: Here. Although both countries love their burnouts, they treat them very differently. Australia has the burnout competitions at most drag events, the biggest as far as I know, at the Super Nationals and other massive events.

I wish I knew more aboot these Frenchyyyy Hosers, but they got the missiles down pat. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vsq3EbWRv0&feature=player_embedded]

There was a group of cars designed by Shoji Takahashi for Nissan as a 'Back to the Future' project in the late 80's. Bringing vintage styling to a then, modern times. In my mind it was very successful, enough to have imported one myself. The Nissan Figaro, Pao, BE-1, and S-Cargo were all vintage styled models with modern mechanicals. I was curious to where he got some of his inspiration, and while browsing today, came across accidentally one of those influences. As you can see the Gutbrod Superior, the world first fuel injected car, is a striking resemblance to the...

Not to many people are aware that there in fact was 3 Cannonball run movies. The 3rd was actually my favorite, but for years now, I have not been able to find a copy, or torrent. I've downloaded so many partial versions with no success. I finally found a good working version of it and figured I'd share. Get it here! If you don't know about Cannoncall runs, you may want to stand in the rain and let lightning hit you until your cool. 

Today's Lesson? It is not safe to hand crank start an engine with a rachet.

Does it work? Very much so.

Will I ever do it again? Probably not.

My wrist hurts...