SPEED HERO Blog — ford

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Hate me all you want, but I love the visual intentions of the Mercury Sable.[/caption] Although execution of the idea was brutal. Often the accountants have a huge affect on the final look of a car, the intended look of the Sable was desirable. I'm hoping to focus these posts a bit more on appreciation and observation of style. I hate to start off with a favorite, but wrap around lights, and glass are a...

Riding the high of last posts South American trend we begin our Journey on an odd ball. The Dardo F1.5. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="691"] Looks like a Porsche Fiat? You got it, an X1/9 Fiat, with an 928 headlight setup. Brazil, you're my hero.[/caption] Let's continue this adventure of Wedges. The Hofstetter Turbo. Another VW chassis fiberglass kit-ish car. Few of the Brazilian cars really had a refined, well balanced, proportioned look. The Hoffstetter...

So today's journey into the abstract began with a memory of a vehicle in passing. The Ford Everest. A version of Mazda's B-series pickup. Sold to the middle eastern and Asian markets. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Ford Everest. Just another version of the Mazda B-series pickups.[/caption] This then reminded me of a vehicle I'd seen in passing long ago. Another version and probably the successor to the Everest. The Mazda Proceed. It's neat to see SUV versions of pickups I'd never associated with such...

I think I dream of a social situation where I'm free to study and practice the art of shape and form. Independently come to a conclusion of well documented discovery of beauty, share findings. I wish I could study these things, and report to the world with my own mind and personality as the filter of my report. As a lowly work-a-day fella, this seems like an alternate universe of an alternate reality. Some call it maturity to tone down your imagination, accept life as it is, and live it out till the end in a quaint humbleness. This reality...

I like boxy 80's cars, and to be honest, my first slide, albeit terrible, was in a Foxbody mustang.  Most people don't know that the Boxfody....err, it's even got a boxxxy name, wasn't just a mustang. There's the Fairmont Futura, Zephyr, Capri, Thunderbird, Cougar, Granada, Continental, LTD, Marquis, Mark VII. There's one missing and we'll get to that.... Not until recently did I make the connection, sure I knew it was a foxbody, but for some reason I didn't even notice that the...