I felt like banging my head against a wall when I first saw Dean Meeson’s Lotus Esprit, that was at the Retro-Rides Gathering back in August. I’d known of it’s recent completion having seen the car on a forum thread, but as we all know the real world is so much better. So why was [...]
I’ve long been of the opinion that if I was pushed in to buying one standard car to use for everything, that it would be an Audi. An RS4 Avant to be precise, a car that is good in all weathers, I can carry most anything I need, tow something with it, do a track day and sleep in it. These are just some of things that I need my cars to be able to do for me. That’s no small admission given what I do for a job either, but yes, I think an Audi would fit the bill. I’ve never owned one though, limit myself to just one car? Are you insane?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls welcome to the first ever full feature shoot winner of the #FEATURETHIS program. Okay so the fanfare might be missing and this isn’t a game show, it’s Speedhunters. But the reality is our choice of Chaydon Ford’s N-Spec kitted AE86 represents a step forward for us and we’re going to celebrate [...]
Can you imagine how good that sounds? Blasting through the low, mid evening sun as it casts a long shadow over the Killarney Raceway in South Africa. Located just outside Cape Town, it’s a pretty cool place to be sat on a Friday evening as drivers roll in and practice for tomorrow’s Ford and Friends race and [...]
I’m sat on the third storey of a building that’s roughly ten metres by fifteen. The row of high glass windows that are in front and to my side show me roughly seventy five percent of the Killarney Raceway in Cape Town, South Africa. Directly below me is the start/finish line with race cars randomly passing in a practice session. Opening a window and picking up my camera, I go for a few shots, but one car is moving faster and requires more precision than others. That car is Martin Richard’s Datsun 140Z and this is the first picture I took of it.
When did you first become aware of Japanese culture? It’s a serious question and one that I’ve asked myself, hence passing it on to you. If you’re Japanese or based in Japan, then excuse this line of questioning although I’d hope the resultant answers will be of interest. I was grown in a land of Ford [...]
If you’re completely honest, participating in some form of motorsport will have crossed your mind at some stage. Today we can drive the Nurburgring before ten AM from the comfort of our bedroom thanks to console games, whilst watching coverage of the most obscure forms of motorsport from around the globe online. In reality, very [...]
It’s early 2010 and Romain can now speak English. He was firmly in the UK and he wasn’t going back to France. As he explains, “We’d rented the dyno at Eurospec in Guildford, so I ended up coming to work here. I do their rolling road work and mapping.” That was two and half years [...]
Have you ever questioned your levels of dedication? Quite often a project will put you to the test, whether there is a particular engineering problem to solve, or maybe it’s a case of putting in extra work hours to just get the funds together, ultimately the responsibility is yours and yours alone. Nobody made you [...]
Hard mechanical, analogue sounds are all around me. Compressed air pumps through a windy gun somewhere nearby as wheel nuts are driven off their threads at speed. The whir and chirrup as they are released is about as modern as it gets here in the pits at the Le Mans Classic. The cars competing are [...]
Can you imagine eating pasta, pesto, cheese and bacon every day for the next twenty-two years? Trust us, with some green beans thrown in and bit of crème fraiche it’s a pretty good two pot meal. But everyday? No thanks. So for those of us who haven’t been able to own a car for that [...]
Introductions are important, but I don’t want to use up valuable space with analogies or stories that subtly introduce you to the subject. No messing around, this is Roarin’ Rat. A 700bhp big block and blown legend, originally built in 1978 when it was just 21yrs old. It runs low 10s on the quarter mile [...]
Righto, well that was the month of May. It’s been quite the crazy thirty-one days which has seen the Speedhunters crew attend just under twenty events worldwide and published one hundred and fifty stories. But before we welcome aboard June 2012, we thought to take a few minutes to sift through our archive of unused [...]
We’ve got a great selection of desktops from this week’s car features to share with you guys. Here they are. First off we have a selection of images from Bryn’s VW Vento shoot. Dino has some shots from the time he spent with the Toyota 86 on the beautiful roads of Japan. He’s also included [...]
How do you choose a project? Some might argue that they choose you, I know it’s true of mine. They’ve all been bought when I wasn’t looking, right time, right place kind of thing. The ones that have stayed in the garage longest are also the ones you wouldn’t have expected to have staying power. [...]
