SPEED HERO Blog — mitsubishi

Seen around town

Saw this parked outside of a hotel downtown.  I thought it was pretty rad. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="720"] Please note the reversed "Intercooler Turbo" sticker on the lip.[/caption]   [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="720"] Awesome rear speakers.[/caption]   [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="720"] Well worn Nardi and the wrong logo on the horn button.[/caption]  


Burnt Toast

Engine fires are a matter for the courts! Toaster vans existed in North America at some point, and to be honest so few noticed. Victoria is littered with old Toyota Vans. Maybe that was the problem; names. The Toyota Van was literally the name they were sold under, Van was uncreative but a utilitarian approach the Japanese companies took to tell North Americans they were making mini-vans long before the Caravan....wait, there's more? The fact is Toyota was not alone on this venture into cheap people movers,...


More Goats, the same mountains.

An acquaintance of mine recently gave me a jeering cheer for his new winter beater; An Eagle Summit. Now some of you with functional anus's may be clenching them, forcing the exit into your throat, others have run for their 'plugs'. But don't get into a messy huff yet. The Eagle brand was complete shit, rebadged mashup of bottom of the barrel Mitsubishis' and Chryslers. However, the summit is pretty darn bad ass, unlike, oh it hurts to say...Eagle Vision, an ironic name at best. However, over the...


Prallytype PX33....yes!

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...