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The Trailhunter Gets A New Home (& EFI)

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No, I didn’t sell it. I admit the title may have been slightly misleading, but by ‘home’ I simply meant that, along with my chopped ’51 Kaiser, Project Trailhunter has a new garage. This required my absence not only from this site, but also from swinging wrenches for about six months, while my father-in-law and I literally […]

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Drifting By Hand: The Chairslayer 180SX

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One of the most common debates in auto racing and sports culture itself is whether or not race car drivers are athletes. Naysayers will argue that race car drivers are simply operating machines and shouldn’t be considered athletes. But the physical strain, necessary reflexes and hand-eye coordination needed for success in auto racing argues otherwise. If you’ve […]

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It’s Big In Australia

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Travelling around the planet with Speedhunters has made me more aware of this than I probably ever would have otherwise. It’s pretty amazing how different countries and cultures interpret what makes a great build and how different two of the same car can ultimately turn out, depending on where they are built. I think there […]

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A Classic Z In Dubai

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For me, this was especially true, even before landing in Dubai to witness Nakai-san of RWB complete his first triple build. I received messages across my social channels with guys keen to share their automotive passion with me, and day after day I had incredible cars to look at. When the timing worked out, I was able to actually […]

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800hp, 900kg: Daigo Saito’s D1 Corvette

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Saito is definitely a guy that likes to challenge himself and step out of his comfort zone, which is pretty much the opposite of what the vast majority of Japanese D1 Grand Prix drivers have done over the years. To me, the latter has really held the D1GP series back; aside from poor management and a backwards way of marketing, there’s never been anything new to keep […]

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The Hidden 880hp E30 At Players Classic

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Before you read on, there’s a caveat to this spotlight: there aren’t any full pictures of the car. Unusual as it might be, due to the positioning of the car, its proximity to others and its dark colour resting half in full sunshine and half in the shade, it made it too difficult to get […]

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Breaking The Mold

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It’s time for another I Am The Speedhunter submission, and this time around Dave Thomas takes us on a tour of a show-stopping, yet completely functional Mazda Miata from Ontario, Canada. At the sight of flares, CCW wheels and a big wing, some of you are likely already on your way down to the comment box to bemoan […]

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How To Build An LSX V8 GT-R In 2.5 Months

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If you caught Larry’s recent behind-the-scenes story on the filming of Battle Drift 2, you’ll know that Steve and his SB Motorsport team not only completed the task within an extremely tight timeframe, they created an absolute weapon in the process. From taking delivery of the R35 to applying the final livery, this short film from Monster Energy shows how it […]

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Project 2000 Gets V8-Swapped

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By the time that you read this I’ll have been flogged and exiled by Dino, possibly condemned to drive a Prius for the rest of my days. Even worse, they might put me in charge of managing Paddy McGrath’s Cutting Room Floor archives, or force-feed me supercar spotting videos on YouTube. Under such terrifying threats I’ll […]

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An FD RX-7 That’s Easy To Live With

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Even so, I didn’t look closely enough to appreciate exactly what I was looking at the first go around. While the car is definitely in excellent shape, if you’re looking from farther away it seems as if it’s sporting relatively stock trim. Certainly lowered with aftermarket wheels, but so are many other Japanese cars from […]

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Falling For A Couple Of Classics In Okinawa

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While baking under the powerful Okinawa sun at Cars and Coffee last weekend, I came across two beautiful classic machines exhibiting this phenomenon. Representing the USA was this Plymouth Satellite (which you can read about a little further down the page), and the other was a Mazda Savanna GT, representing Japan. Both cars were attracting a lot of attention, […]

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Two Turbos, Eight Cylinders & 275s

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To regular readers, the somewhat lairy BMW E30 in front of you probably looks familiar. That’s because our illustrious leader, Mr. McGrath, ran a small spotlight on it from this year’s Players Classic back in June. The car was tucked away in the Goodwood paddock, surrounded by onlookers and other cars, and while Paddy was able […]

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A Simply Irresistible Mazda RX-7

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Lap after lap, I watched on as this FD3S RX-7 tore up Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. It elegantly glided through the apexes and carved down the famous Corkscrew, taking bits of my heart with it as the power was reapplied. A distinct rumble on downshift and an absolute roar as the revs climbed; even from […]

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Oversized, Overfendered & Over Here

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This is England. We like cups of tea, pints of beer, football (no, not soccer), queueing, apologising, being humble and talking about the weather. Sorry. We’re a small island that generally keeps ourselves to ourselves. Apparently, we don’t even want to be associated with our neighbours any more. Although we generally like America – they […]

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Deep Inside The Drift Cave

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With the 2017 Formula D season said and done, teams are going all out to get their cars ready for 2018. Matt Field’s Drift Cave shop is no different, but it’s located in California’s Bay Area where there isn’t really an off-season when it comes to drifting. The evening I made my way to the shop it was full of Matt’s […]

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The RWB 964 With A Secret

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It was last year when Louis put me in touch with Kris Duggan to shoot his car, but only last weekend did the stars finally align for us at an OnGrid track day. Kris said his RWB 964 had never been featured anywhere before, and the car has had a wild ride since he picked it up in stock […]

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V-Hate: A Perfect 240Z

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It’s no secret that I love a good V8. Maybe I was brainwashed at age four by the exhaust fumes sneaking into the back seat of my uncle’s ’66 Mustang, but there’s something about a rumbling eight cylinder that just gets me going. When I find them where they don’t belong, I become even more excited. It’s not […]

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F11 M5R Touring: Building What BMW Wouldn’t

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I’ve always been a fan of fast estates. I might be biased because I live in Germany which is widely touted as the land of estates, but the allure of having enough room to lug half my worldly possessions and get from A to B like the world is going to end is hard to ignore. In the […]

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The Barrel Racer: $6,000 Well Spent

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In Hollywood, typecasting is either one of the best or worst things that can happen to an actor. From an optimist’s perspective it promises a steady stream of reliable work, but from a pessimist’s standpoint it’s a repetitive and boring way to make a living. A typecasting analogy doesn’t quite transfer 1:1 into the car […]

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The Turbo V8 Frankenstein Hilux

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While I was out at Holley LS Fest West earlier this month, I saw Josh Mazerolle from Vague Industries driving around in the unique build. The turbo sticking out of the hood – along with the intake and alternator – and wide-body is initially what caught my eye, but there’s a lot more to this Hilux than […]

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