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You Must've Benz Crazy
Someone was, someone was right nuts. More and more as I dig in I notice the impact of the World war on automotive culture. Money was no object when the world was split in two. Much of the technologies developed for the war found it's way into cars. 
Late at night, browsing my collection of obscure cars I've saved photos of on my hard drive, I glanced upon a rare Gemballa 560SEC Mercedes Benz. Gemballa the famous Porsche tuner, built only a hand full of these wide body cars for...
DMCC Toronto, East baby, East.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe-BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE", I screamed. Pull the f$%#ing E-brake! I was frustrated by the lack of e-brake action. Some say it's a cheat and treat it negatively, but really those cable actuated drum brakes on the back of your Turfity is an art form waiting to be explored. 
I watched a video once that was the convincing steak into the vampire heart of my handbrake hate. An ae86 in the rain, hair pin, 3rd gear, hand brake up, glide, glide, glide, glide, glide. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1023" caption="BRE 510, homemage. "]
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Illusion of Speed
Carbon Fiber, Titanium, Nitrous, and other space age materials are really interesting stuff, expensive stuff. Such things seem to have a very high numerical value, numbers number numbers. Closet Accountants, time slips, bank accounts. It is all 'speed'. Can you tell me what is fast? 
Can you tell me, what is illusion? Speed in the automotive world is defined simply as the feeling of traveling fast. Long long ago, people began hopping behind the wheel of cars, bikes, planes, etc and competing against each other to measure, or judge each...
V-Dubbin' my own lyrics over your beats.
Canned Goods are the bomb! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800" caption="All Bro'd out."]
[/caption] Sean aka 81Cabrio from VWarmy.net let me at his photobucket account to share with you some pictures from Boarder Bash event in Windsor this past Sunday. Check it out! 
Seans a pretty rad dude, him and I met in a typical DQ way, I was in reverse. Pulled along the side of the highway on my way out to Guelph for my young lady. A blacked out, phone dialed,...
Hand Stamps and Wrist Bands
Wow! What a strange week. We spent 60 hours building up a Lexus V8 MA61 Supra to go drag racing on Friday night.... [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Pat Cyr owns Ontario"]
[/caption] So, 60 hours into rebuilding the brakes, redoing the entire wiring harness, new fuel lines and other basic maintenance. Roll it out to the track....BANG POP POW! The 1uzfe sounds so good coming out the poorly welded cherry bombs that a bunch of muscle car guys come over to give props; hand shake, fist bumps and head...