As I’ve said time and time again, the greatest thing about being a Speedhunter is not just getting the chance to photograph and write about the coolest cars in the world. It’s getting the chance to meet their owners, hear their stories and make plenty of new friends along the way. And as so often [...]
As strange as this might sound, this story from my visit to the Toyota Automobile Museum in Aichi, Japan is not going to contain a single Toyota. As I touched on in my introductory post about the museum, a fair portion of the enormous facility is dedicated to telling the global history of the automobile, [...]
Plastic covers and even carpet cover modern engine bays; they’re a barely concealed no entry sign. You are not welcome. There’s a glorious technological openness about older cars, and especially vintage automobiles. You open a bonnet and might get spattered with oil, but you’ll see an engine in its rawest form. But the problem with [...]
If you caught my first project car post, you’ll know that I’m currently up to my elbows in the ‘modified restoration’ of a 1983 Toyota Trueno GT Apex. Winter has just kicked off here in New Zealand, so over the next three months I’m planning on plenty of progress being made out in the garage late [...]
If you’re like me, then you probably can’t get enough of seeing the awesomeness that always shows up at events like the idlers Games. As we have seen over the last few days it is very much all about the passion for racing, how people approach it and what they do with their cars. It’s [...]
“Hi Freddie! How’s it going?” It was a Sunday afternoon in May, I was back in Norway preparing for the Gatebil season opener and I had just picked up a call from an unknown number. It was my Formula Drift team boss, Stephan Papadakis. He likes to be on the cutting edge of technology and [...]
After taking a look at the colorful mix of big and small cars that were hard to ignore at this years idlers Games in Tsukuba, I’m going to continue things with a second Spotlight-O-Rama, starting off with the Outer Plus with Ti Lotus Exige S. Yes yes I know, I have promised I will visit [...]
Japan for some reason manages to do grassroots racing so much better than any country I’ve seen. It might be the incredible mix of cars, the balls-out and skilful driving, the way in which they don’t seem to give a damn about tuning and losing authenticity for the pursuit of speed. Actually, it’s especially this [...]
Now that I’ve given you guys a broad look at Wekfest LA 2013, it’s time to close out my coverage with a Spotlight-o-Rama featuring some of the most interesting cars from the show. The result of my hunt has brought a mix of clean street cars, mad stance machines and some cool engine swaps. Let’s [...]
The weather’s heating up, the days are getting longer and if you needed any more confirmation that Summer is truly on its way (at least for the Northern hemisphere), the echoes of screaming engines bouncing off rev limiters, tortured tyres screeching round corners and the occasional Scandinavian fan trying to start a chainsaw coming from [...]
During my five years of working as a Speedhunter I’ve had the opportunity to visit lots of auto museums, both in the United States and in Japan. From large factory-owned facilities to smaller privately-owned collections, I’ve been able to see it all. I have to say that so far nothing has been quite like what [...]
Now that the big gravel parking lot next to the space used to hold the Street Car Nationals has been fully resurfaced, we might as well think of it as the show’s annex, such is the selection of cars that you can run across. About an hour before the show was due to end I [...]
Although it’s something that I’d love to be able to do, there is literally no way you could shoot every single car at the Mooneyes Street Car Nationals before the event closes at 3pm. So this year – like every year – it was all about being selective and concentrating on the cars that exhibited [...]
Rumors of a new Toyota Supra have been circulating for some time now, and new reports are suggesting that the reborn Supra might be a result of Toyota’s collaboration with BMW. According to a story from Motor Trend, a new mid-size sports car is being developed as part of Toyota and BMW’s tech-sharing collaboration, and [...]
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If you missed a certain American flair in the previous Spotlight-O-Rama from the Mooneyes Street Car Nationals, then this selection I’ve put together should balance things out quite nicely. What better way to get things pointing in the right direction than by taking a look at a couple of traditional hot rods – the rawest [...]
