A nice fat, wide set of tires have always been popular with the enthusiast crowd for obvious reasons. Even stretched tires have had their place in our hearts since the 60’s and 70’s (Countache and Stratos, anybody?). But the audacity to run these setups on a daily driven street car, let alone one engineered to [...]

“JDM” is a funny term. Like any trend based around a single ideal, the core of that ideal will be diluted and worn away as more and more people latch the trend and don’t stick to the original intent of the idea. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just a natural progression.

Well, when your life gets turned upside down you tend to neglect the things that mattered to you for a while. That’s what’s happened here, my life was thrown into utter termoil for a bit, and only now 3 weeks later am I getting my shit together properly.

Sometimes there’s a definite plan or mod-route in mind when a serious project car is undertaken. Sometimes, there isn’t a plan at all, and it’s the result of years of evolution and tweaking and fiddling. Stephen’s Honda falls into the latter category. Perhaps it’s the definition of this category…

“Hey Chris wanna shoot a GTR? It’s an R35 in red.”
“Uhhhhhhh… yes please” was my obvious reply…
What else do you say when you get the chance to poke around a fresh GTR? I’ve never seen the red one in person before, so I was intrigued. I personally hate the signature silver colour these come in, [...]

Paolo and I had been talking since what must’ve been early in the summer about shooting his car, but waiting for a few final bits to go on. A Civic would have to be somewhat special to stand up to some of the other cars on this site – GTR, Lamborghini, Aston Martin – these [...]

Henry and David contacted me last week to shoot their cars, and having never had one S2000 to shoot – let alone two of them – I was more than happy to oblige. The problem as I see it with S2000’s isn’t so much anything with the car in specific. The problem is now that [...]

Ok, so I know it’s not modified or tuned and maybe it’s not really Dan’s, what would you do if someone said “Wanna come shoot a Lambo?” Dan was nice enough to bring out “Il Toro” for me and a friend to take a few pics of before showing up at our weekly Subaru meet [...]

Well, here’s the final poster design they came up with. I’m happy they chose this photo, it looks pretty cool I thought. I threw in a few more photos after the cut from the day of the shoot, some behind the scenes stuff, and another rigshot angle. Check it out…

I came back to work after a lunch of beers late last week and ran into this little monster sitting outside my office on the street. A little poking around and I could tell something was up with this Celica. It clearly wasn’t your average run of the mill example. What looked like an oil [...]

Went to Mosport this past weekend and shot the regional finals. It was pretty dead really and I heard the organizers had a tough time with a promoter prior to the event resulting in a split between the series’ that were supposed to be featured. They wound up splitting the GT1/2/3 and 4/5/6 cars into [...]

Occasionally you’ll hear about a project someone’s doing and it’ll resonate with you as being full of potential. You’ll forget about it – perhaps assuming that like so many before it the project got shelved for lack of funds, interest – whatever. Then a month later you’ll hear through a friend of a friend who [...]

UPDATE: Woo! Looks like Subaru Canada decided to use a pic of mine after all for the poster. I’m not going to post it up since I don’t want to ruin it if they want to keep the picture a surprise until the event, but I’m stoked they picked one in the end! Hell ya! [...]

When it comes to modifying a car, no matter what level your car is at – full show car or weekend project – you’re always going to look at your own project much differently than someone else will. You may only see the ideas that only worked out 95% as well as you hoped and [...]