SPEED HERO Blog — Automotive Life

Le Trashy

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]


Baby Benz and Friends

From Zee's to Bee's that end in Zee's. I enjoy finding new obscure and rare cars. Want another car that doesn't have a wiki page? The Mercedes Benz 190e 2.6 Compact. More pictures below! The 190e 2.6 Compact was apparently built by Schultz Tuning, a company I just cannot find any information...


Baby Zee

My love for African car culture continues to grow. Just a small tidbit, but apparently South Africa specifically received the 140z and 160z! Based on the Datsun Sunny, these were the affordable African alternative to the famous 240z. Featuring L14 and L16 motors and some interesting alternate styling. It's so obscure there apparently isn't even a wiki page for them. Go figure, thanks to this Random CarDomain page.


The Art of Ute

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"]Chevrolet El Camino Pickup[/caption]
I can't say my work is quality, but I do proclaim to be one of the biggest fans of truck conversions. Car based trucks has always been a curiosity of mine, as a mix of rarity and obscurity, function and form the 'ute' is a concept that is uncommonly embraced for it's logical approach. The idea is simple and although Japan and many other countries received the ever so perfect Kei-trucks we were not as lucky. The next best thing is to achieve this...


Tiny Nerds

GeneRally is a free and pretty fun little game. There's a huge following with it as well, from a vast amount of cars, to plenty of tracks too! The cars are limited to 40 Polygons, keeping the game quite quick on older machines, and you can build your own cars and tracks fairly easily! Heck, I even made a copy of Nikko circuit in about 15 minutes.