Tonight is Halloween night. While many people spent the night trick-or-treating or braving haunted houses with ghosts, graveyards, cobwebs and RIP signs, there appears to be an all-too-real RIP sign in the ground for our friends at RiceboyTV.com. It hasn't been officially announced yet, but a lot of people in the industry have been talking [...]
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As I write this, I am reliving my victory three weeks ago at Irwindale Speedway during the final round of Formula Drift, firstly I just want to say WOOOOOOHOOOYAAAA!!!! For me this victory was long awaited and well deserved if I don't say so myself. I've won two prestigious drifting events in the past: the [...]
Wow, where exactly has the time gone? It seems like it was only a moment ago that we were announcing Porsche month for September and then SoCal month for October and now… November has arrived! So this is my last SoCal-themed story. I'm very busy right now prepping for SEMA, Super Street Super Lap Battle, [...]
Okay… here comes a big one… blog that is. Prepare yourself, as I am about to touch on some drag racing, time attack, SEMA stuff, and drifting… yes, you read correctly… drifting. Let the Speedhunting begin! So some have you may or may not have heard through the rumor-mill that I have been out at [...]
Most of the members of Team Falken will tell you that 2008 was a pretty tough year for them. Mechanical gremlins and delayed race car builds certainly pushed their stamina limits over the course of the season. None the less, they continue to be one of the most popular teams in Formula Drift. Go to [...]
The first time I saw this car, it was at the Toyota booth at SEMA. Since I spent soooo much time drooling and just plain jocking this FJ45, I was obviously very happy to run into it again this year at JCCS. This car is a definite head turner because at first, you’re really not [...]
Last weekend when I was checking out the rotary meeting at Fuji Speedway, I spotted a car that stuck out like a sore thumb among the sea of FD's and sprinkling of RX8's. As I got closer, my suspicions came true. It was a Lotus Europa that came to Fuji Speedway from Yokohama. Considering the [...]
I was just talking about first gen Lexus GS300s (JZS147) with my good friend Chris Manacop; soon after our conversation, he emailed me a photo he shot of this black JZS147 GS300, which has been refreshed with a new black paint job, Wald aero kit, and Japanese OEM Aristo 3-piece taillight conversion. Very nice – [...]
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When I mentioned to my good friend Felix Tang that I'd be interested in shooting some garages and car shops that were relatively close to where I live, he mentioned that I should check out Smoothlinez, which is in San Gabriel Valley. I had never previously heard of Smoothlinez, because apparently the way they get [...]
I just wanted to share this photo with you guys before I forgot… check out this old school Toyota Century that I spotted at JCCS in Irvine. I really dig this car – it has all the makings of an awesome old school street cruiser. This Century's low stance, gold Enkei 92 mesh wheels, and [...]
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One item that was quite noticeable while touring the SO-CAL Speed Shop was that most of the guys working on the cars looked like they should be on MTV abusing musical instruments. At what point in time did all the new school hot-rodders start to look like rock stars? Somewhere along the line, wrenching on [...]
Before moving on to some other things, I wanted to wrap up my coverage from the D1GP finale at Fuji Speedway with a few more photos. Up above we have another view of Kenji Takayama’s R-Magic-built FD3S RX7 as he makes one of his qualifying runs on Saturday, This is surely one of the coolest [...]
I don't think there is race series that Manabu "Max" Orido hasn't tried his hand at. The latest addition to his resume is driving a factory-backed Chevrolet Lacetti in the FIA World Touring Car Championship. In stock form the Daewoo-based Lacetti is not high on the the "desired" cars list and in fact it is [...]
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I moved to a new apartment in a different city not too long ago, and it seems that there are some serious BMW affiniados here. I have seen a lot of BMW 02's lately, I have really started to like these cars. I remember Antonio found a BMW 2002 when we were in Spa to [...]
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