By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

This car show in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood had been held for years, and it’s become a favorite of local residents, gearhead and non-gearhead alike. While no cars are turned away from this event—there’s no GoodGuys-style pre-1972 rule here—there certainly wasn’t any junk on display. Along with a ’60s-era Ferrari 250 GT, there were a couple of classic Rolls-Royces, a ’30s Dodge truck sporting a new Viper motor, and plenty of sweet custom jobs. All in all, it was a great show, and since it was free, we couldn’t complain about the price. Head over to the events section to check out the photos.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

This little Fortwo is getting Hayabusa power! See the progress so far on Matthew’s ride page.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

So, remind me again why Ma Mopar decided not to do a Chally vert… More pics at JEANANDSONS’ Dodge Challenger ride page!

By John Naderi

StreetFire.net

Mainstream Productions, the creators of Import Showoff, presented the Mega Matsuri on August 22nd in collaboration with the Nisei Week Festival in Downtown LA’s Little Tokyo district. You might be wondering what, exactly, is a Mega Matusuri? Matsuri is Japanese for “Festival” and is derived from a verb which means to attend to or to entertain. And mega is, uh, mega. The intent of the show to add a street culture twist to the standard car show fare with such features as a Best Offset contest, JDM garage sale, Ruckus Display and a “Lifestyle Alley” where trendy hipsters could buy street wear and fixed gear bikes and accessories. Sadly, the cars and the crowds never materialized giving the event more of a “Mini” Matsuri kind of feel. Get to clickety clacking on the gallery images to see some of the cars of Mega Matsuri.

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Although there’s nothing funner than traveling around shooting pictures of cool cars, I have to admit I’m looking forward to the break I’ll have this weekend after five consecutive weeks of events. Perhaps my Miata will get a much-needed wash? Maybe a drive in the hills? Anyways, before the end of the week, I wanted to wrap up my Formula Drift Sonoma coverage with one more batch of random photos from the event. Continue reading at Speedhunters.

—Mike Garrett

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

For this clip, Speedhunters said to hell with cinematic montages and went for a pure visceral experience, and we love it. Hop into Vaughn Gittin JR’s Mustang for practice laps and runs against McNamara in Atlanta!

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Lots of the diesel performance guys strut their stuff on the drag strip. We’re completely entertained by 7,000lb trucks that can outrun late-model Mustangs and totally humiliate most everything that lines up next to them. That being said, there is another arena where these trucks really put on a show and that’s at the truck pulls. The “super stock” and “pro stock” type pulling divisions have exploded in popularity as diesel performance has spread like wildfire across the land.

As cool as it is to watch a truck running 100 at the strip, watching it snort, strain, rumble, and groan while attempting to pull a sled weighing tens of thousands of pounds is even cooler. Those type competitions are total drivetrain stress tests. Every piece of every assembly on the truck is being worked to within an inch of it’s life. You simply need a bombproof rig if you want to win.

This is one of those rigs.

It’s a 2000 Ford F350 dually that has been beefed in lots of ways, but still retains the stock, 173,000 mile 7.3L Powerstroke that it rolled out of the factory with! That’s amazing stuff. The rest of the truck has been wrenched on with stuff like a monster Dana 80 axle being put in the rear, a custom 4-inch-diameter driveshaft, and custom suspension among other extensive modifications.

For us the best part of the whole deal is that the thing looks like a stocker. No wild paint scheme or weirdo graphics. A true wolf in sheep’s clothing! Click here to see the ad.

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Okay, last week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge kinda fell flat on its face. Maybe too open-ended? And in reviewing past challenges, we quickly realized that we haven’t yet made a Japanese car manufacturer one of the endpoints of a challenge.

So to make up for last week, a typical challenge. And to make up for the last five months, a challenge involving a Japanese company. Let’s pick Nissan. And let’s also pick its third-place counterpart in the U.S., Chrysler. I know you can connect these two in six degrees or less. But how obscure can you make the connections?

The rules, as always, are simple: A connection consists of one company owning another, merging with another or sharing another’s parts. Explain your connections, and if you need examples, check out our previous Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenges.

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

We heard about the crazy contact that happened while Ryan Tuerck and Katsuhiro Ueo were battling during Formula D  Vegas, but this is the best footage we’ve seen of it. Apparently, Tureck was just inches from Ueo when he jammed on the brakes, and the resulting collision caused all four wheels of his Pontiac Solstice to leave the ground. In the post-run interview, Tuerck tells commentator Miki Taka the car jumped four feet in the air, and while it looks closer to two feet, it must have felt pretty wild.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

You know the drill: Come up with a caption for the picture below by noon PST next Thursday. If you submit the funniest one, we’ll send you some CarDomain swag. Three entries per member max. Good luck!