SPEED HERO Blog — Automotive Life

So, hey...I want a rally car, you know, to run across the desert. I love the Paris Dakar and since people are building 2CV's I've got to be just a bit more obscure. So the Japanese, they had cool war time vehicles too apparently. the PX33 pictured above was a prototype for military use only, 4x4, a project that lasted from 1934 till 1937. But owning one just isn't enough. Browsing through Rally24.com looking at all the various piles of rally cars the europeans have...

I've been on a huge 70's Van kick lately. Check out this awesome thread of old ford vans!

Victoria is the land of old Toyotas. Since my feet have hit soil the old yota's have been flocking to me! Here's some snaps of ones in my general area.

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I'm not sure most people know what a hot rod really is? Do people realize that the strength of the hot rod culture is not a style, but rather a function? Technical specifications define a hot rod: A motor from a heavier vehicle retrofitted into a smaller automotive chassis. I wish there was a more obvious divide between the idea of Hot Rod's function and style. Junkyard boys, throwing, hucking, chucking pieces of scrap together. Allowing the over engineering of other individual designs to be combined in...