Euro, Nostalgic Wednesdays

Nostalgic Wednesdays: MBenz 500SE Coupe AMG Widebody.

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June 6, 2012

Don’t you just love random sightings; its like finding a dollar in a parking lot.  Sometimes you come a cross an old school car and admire its well kept paint, crisp interior, how it sounds, the old leather smell, and specially meeting the owner and the story behind the car. That’s one reason why I love classics. The passion and time spent to maintain them is priceless.

Last Friday, my wife and I decided to stop by Freebirds around the SW side of Houston, since she has not been to one. After dinner, we walked to my car and i noticed an old big-body Mercedes coupe parked at the other end of the lot. I decided to drive by it and check it out; and to my surprise, it wasn’t just an ordinary 500SE Coupe, it was an AMG Wide-body (I WAS STOKED). Paint was I believed to be original, body was straight, staggered AMG Penta wheels, it even had the OG color-matched emblems. I wanted to wait for the owner but we had to catch a movie, so I just had to quick snap with my phone so pardon my raw unedited photo.

I shared the picture on my wall and a good friend commented that this is a type of car that the average person would not notice. I’ve seen more F430 Scuderias and CLK63 black series rolling around Houston but spotting a SEC500 AMG Widebody was definitely a treat.

From the AMG catalog but not a Wide-Body.
Wider option…of course i’d take it.

-Mark

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Event Preview: Wek’Fest LA!

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June 2, 2012

Just got back from a beautiful day at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California and I’m about to hit up Downtown LA with lots of friends, but before I do, I wanted to share a few photos I randomly picked!

Rolling hard together

The owner of this S14 patiently awaits his turn to leave the premises

A beautiful S2000 at the JHP booth

This particular Civic Coupe had one very unique setup, and was ultra clean

My favorite stateside street S13 coupe in the flesh!

Come one, come all, if it's clean, you'll see it at Wek'Fest

Wheels are like asses. You can never see too much

Ryan, Sam and Jonathan love to photobomb my photos.

More to come!
–David–
David@maydaygarage.com

Nostalgic Wednesdays

Nostalgic Wednesday: Black Limited “eight-six”

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May 30, 2012

 

If you’re in the market for an 86, good to you finding a clean unmolested chasis. With the 86 synonymous to drifting, you will probably find a fender bent, stripped down, tracked out, zipp-tied, sticker bombed hachi-roku. Sometimes you will get lucky and find a clean PineTree smelling, grandma driven, low milage, Walmart runner; and sometimes find that dream corolla hatch and soon to find your friends laughing cause your funny sounding 86 was really a single-cam carb’d 85 (Initial D: Itsuki’s Hachi-Go).

To make your hunt more challenging, back in 1986, Toyota released the “Black Limited” Trueno Hatch.

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Nostalgic Wednesdays: Opel/Vauxhall/Chevy/Holden Calibra DTM

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May 23, 2012

 

 

Produced from 1989 to 1997, the Calibra was branded with different manufactures in different regions; from South America, Australia and UK. Built from the Opel Vectra’s chasis, designer Erhard Schnell created a mid-size contender against the Japanese sports coupes. An interesting fact about these cars is that it was the most aerodynamic production car during its time. It held it’s title till the Honda Insight and Audi A2 was released.

One reason why I love the Calibra is because of its participation in the International Touring Car Championship in 96. The conversion of the sports coupe to a full race DTM race car earned recognition by winning the best team and driver of that season.

After the victory, the Calibra was withdrawn from motorsports and production ended the following year. In my opinion, the Calibra is definitely one of the well designed AWD, eye-candy DTM race cars ever built.

-Mark

Events, Hard Park, Maryland

Event Coverage: College Park Tuning Spring Meet.

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May 16, 2012

A few months ago, I got an email from a guy named Keith Maddock who has been following our blog for some time and knew that I had just recently moved to the East Coast. In the email, he informed me that he was one of the founding members of the University of Maryland’s car club, College Park Tuning (CPT) and that he wanted me to come and check out this year’s springtime meet held not at the University of Maryland, but at Bowie Baysox Stadium in Bowie, MD, near D.C. He went on to tell me it was a huge meet, and that it would be well worth my time because a lot of the cars get cabin fever and strut their stuff at this meet.

Kirk Curran's Swaggin' STi

Hot shit. A very subtle NSX with some key performance upgrades will always catch my eye

What it's always been about. Cars, friends, food.

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Cressida brothers

If you don't find this cute, you have no heart

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Keep Drifting Fun! The Movie!

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May 16, 2012

Let me start out by saying that we’ve been waiting for this video FOREVER. It features drifting from all over the United States, including Texas! The awesome guys Will Roegge and Joshua Herron have put together a half hour eyegasm that emphasizes the most important but also the most overlooked aspect of our automotive culture – to have fun. It features local drifters such as Team Silhouette, Chelsea Denofa, Stewart Leask and a host of other guys that we’ve come to known through our blog.

JohnP and I also got a chance to catch up with the KDF duo when we visited Atlanta, GA at a local drift event which is captured here as well. If you have some time, check out this epic video, and share it with your friends, it’s definitely worth your time.

–David–
David@maydaygarage.com