It’s All In The Details: Shannon Kobashigawa’s AE86 Levin Coupe.

There’s a lot of things that are disappointing in life. Missing out on that job opening you had your eye on, finding out that the girl you have a crush on now has a boyfriend, even pouring cereal in a bowl in the early morning only to find out you don’t have any milk (put some water on it) are definitely a few examples of being disappointed. We’ve all been there. But one thing that really annoys me are internet cars or “e-famous” cars that disappoint you when you actually see them in person. I won’t name any specific cars, but if you’ve ever seen cars online and said to yourself “damn! That’s so clean!” and then saw that same car at a meet and didn’t see all of the misaligned body panels, curbed up wheels, missing interior pieces, then you know what I’m talking about. It’s all about the details that people seem to miss. I’ve experienced this too many times to count. Thankfully, Shannon Kobashigawa’s AE86 Corolla doesn’t disappoint.

Rise and shine! This Levin opens it's eyes to the cool morning Cali breeze

Sweet Geezuz, that's a sick 86

Shannon is a vampire, so you can understand his urgency to run from the sun as fast as he could.

"ever thrown a toothpick in a volcano?"

Nostalgic Wednesday: The Back to the Future DeLorean DMC-12

To Celebrate Back to the Future’s 25th anniversary, we are going to bring this weeks Nostalgic attention to the legendary time traveling DeLorean built by Doctor Brown in 1985. First featured in the original Back to the Future, both Doctor Brown and protege Marty McFly drove this stainless steel beast to the past, future, and back.

The Original

The Original

Powered by a small block v8 and capable of 0-60 times of 10.5 seconds, the Delorean DMC 12 was not the fastest car on the face of the planet. However, Doc Brown had some improvements for his beast. You see, the Doc wanted to time travel in style, and that is why he chose the DCM-12 to be the body of his time traveling masterpiece. With the addition of his patented Flux Capacitor he really had no need for more power, this was due to the time traveling reaction that happened 88mph.

Serious Business

Serious Business

The after effect

The after effect

Coupled with the Flux Capacitor was a Plutonium drive that helped generate the 1.21 Jiggawatts of energy needed to propel the machine through time. Down the road however Doc Brown upgraded his plutonium drive to a recycle drive. (The guy was green WAY ahead of the curve)

The Heart

The Heart

Nuclear Reactions from Beer, now that is recycling!

Nuclear Reactions from Beer, now that is recycling!

Another quality about the Delorean was that it shared a similar suspension setup as the old Lotus Esprit with a four-wheel independent suspension. Protege Marty McFLy clearly showed the DMCs handling abilities when running from Libyan terrorists in the Pine Valley Mall parking lot. With a few drifts and sprints he easily hit 88mph to avoid disaster with the terrorists.

These guys WILL come after you if you attempt to pass off pinball machine parts as a nuclear bomb FYI.

These guys WILL come after you if you attempt to pass off pinball machine parts as a nuclear bomb FYI.

88mph no problem!

88mph no problem!

Also note the reactor coolers on the rear of the car, a must for preventing a meltdown.

Bitnit.

Bitnit.

When traveling back to the future Doctor Brown had converted the 80’s style axel and wheel system to a complete 21st century hover setup. Amazing what you can accomplish when you are a tuner at heart. I am not sure what numbers he put down to the air when the Delorean was in hover mode, but I assume it was quite a bit.

Some trust here.

Some trust here.

"Where we're going you don't need, roads"

"Where we're going you don't need, roads"

25 years later and the DeLorean DMC-12 created by Doc Brown is still wayyyyyyy ahead of its time.

One day.

One day.

We of course would supplement those 1.21 jiggawatts for 1.21 jizzawatts….just sayin..

– JohnP

Happy Halloween Folks!

Just wanted to take this opportunity to show you guys a couple of snaps I took at the last Planet Zero Monthly Meet. We’ve recently had our eye on a particular Mercedes Benz Wagon, and while the wheels and stance were pretty much on point, what drew us was when fellow photographer D_Fan came up to me and asked me if I had seen the MB Wagon up close that night.

The freaks really DO come out at night.

VIP curtains? What's so intriguing about this MB Wagon?

LOL, hell yeah! Nothing like carrying the dead as cargo!

.....I meant the undead.

I asked the driver for more information about the coffin in the back...

When I didn't get a response, I looked into the rearview mirror. HE'S A ZOMBIE! I don't speak zombie.

Don’t drink and drive or you’ll end up like these two!
HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!
–Team MaydayGarage–

OTWeb Video: MotorMavens/Justin Shreeve Films FD Finale.

Storming the interwebs this past week is a video released by MotorMavens and Justin Shreeve Films that has been shared again and again all over car forums and Facebook. This drift video filmed by none other than Justin Shreeve is exactly the type of videos I love, the type of drift video where you get to hear all of the sounds made by the cars- the tires squealing, the crowd cheering, crash crunching sound that a lot of other videos seem to dub over with rock or techno music.

Sit back and watch.

MotorMavens | Formula Drift Finale | Irwindale from Justin Shreeve on Vimeo.

–David–
David@maydaygarage.com