By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Yesterday Autoblog reported on the wreck of a Lexus LFA in Germany, which took the life of Toyota chief test driver Hiromu Naruse. Read more about this tragic collision at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

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!

By Mark Gearhart

powerTV Media

Most of us have, at one time or another, considered undertaking a project that was likely beyond our abilities. Maybe it was a muscle car too far gone with rust, but its rarity and completeness convinced us to give it a shot. Or perhaps we tried to build the ultimate man-cave, and instead wound up with a shed for the kids’ pool toys. But gearheads are a dedicated bunch, and for every half-baked idea and half-finished project, there is a car that defies the odds and is resurrected by those with the gusto to do so.

Tim Roi at SCT put us on to a project on the Greater Toronto Area Mustang Club that even we would have dismissed as a total loss. But Jeremy Clutterbuck and his father Larry saw this John X Cobra kit car, which was involved in a fire, and they saw a potential project they could do on the cheap.

Jeremy and his father have always been car guys, but tended to fall in the “cut a check and have someone else do the work” category. “I have a Mustang convertible, and I’ve paid to have bodywork and suspension components put on it. But I never did any of the work myself, so I never really formed an attachment to it,” he said. Jeremy wanted to do a project with his father that they could do together, themselves. Carpenters by trade, they figured that if they could build a house (and a four car garage for the Mustang and their Corvette).

For the full story, check it out on StangTV.com.

Pictures: Jeremy Clutterbuck

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By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

This week’s win goes to drewstoycam for “Just trying to get rid of that “new bag” smell.” Nice work! Tune in tomorrow for another goofy caption contest!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Today’s very cool pic comes from Jake’s ride page for his ’95 Firebird. As Jake points out, “The whole Firebird-Mustang rivalry does not exist in my family, obviously.” Nice!

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

Yesterday I registered my ’66 Impala for this Saturday’s 18th Annual Greenwood Car Show in North Seattle.  Greenwood is hands-down our best community-style car show, where city streets are shut down and cars parked on the diagonal over a long stretch of the main drag. After a sold-out event in 2009, they’ve now expanded the show to encompass over 20 city blocks of Greenwood Avenue.  With room for more than 1000 hot rods, customs, classics, muscle cars and stockers of all makes, there’s bound to be something for everyone.  As if that wasn’t enough, they’re also going to have have vintage hydro planes, city buses, Seattle police cars, steamers, electrics, motorcycles and more all together with live music, beer gardens and a variety of local merchants making the Greenwood Car Show one of my favorite days of the year.  If you’re anywhere near Seattle, this is a show you won’t want to miss.   You can see a few pictures from last year’s show after the jump and more under the CarDomain Events section.

More information at www.greenwoodcarshow.com

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By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I’m totally jealous of CarDomain member LN7_NUT, who pretty much has my dream junk collection, including an ambulance, an old Fairlane stock car, a vintage bus, a sweet tow rig, and even, yes, a 1st-gen Escort variant–but this incredible ’59 Apache limo built by Stageway Coaches stands out as the jewel in this particular rusty crown. He saved “The Hugeness” from the crusher in Montana back in ’08, and has finally completed the red-tape ordeal of importing it to Canada. Now that it’s home, I’m hoping to see some great progress on this deserving rig, but he’s clearly got his work cut out for him–stop by his ride page and offer some encouragement!

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, last weekend’s Cars & Coffee event had a large showing of old school Nissans. There were a few Skylines imported from Japan, a couple 240Z’s, and a few Datsun 510′s – one of which really caught my eye. It looks like this particular 510 has been built with a mix of tuner car and retro elements, and surprisingly, it works. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Mike Garrett

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Hubert Platt’s Georgia Shaker III is one of the more interesting door slammers to come out of the mid-1960s. Platt was a southern match-bash star who had tasted the sweetness of a factory deal in the early 1960s with Chevrolet. It was then that the legend of the Georgia Shaker name was born. The first was actually a 1963 Z-11 Chevy. Platt’s name is linked to Fords and that makes sense because after the Z-11 it was all blue ovals.

In 1964 he would run a Ford Thunderbolt and his name would appear frequently in the pages or regional and national drag racing publications. He was one of the best four speed men in the country and was every bit the competitor as Ronnie Sox and others of his ilk. When Ford built a few Falcons with SOHC engines in them for the exploding A/FX class, Platt naturally requested one. He was denied, but not defeated.

Platt proceeded to construct his own A/FX car in the basement of his house. As the legend goes, the working space was so confined that he actually had to roll the car outside to assemble it. The car you’ll see in the gallery is that car. The Falcon was a stock wheelbase machine when first built, but later Platt moved the rear axle forward to complete the AWB look that was so popular in this era.

Interestingly, Platt’s car was powered by a 427, but not a SOHC motor. He had to build his own wedge engine. Topped with mechanical fuel injection and backed by a four speed transmission, the car was a wheel standing terror that quickly outclassed the mighty SOHC powered factory cars. Continue reading at Bangshift.com

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

This is burning money, defined. Not one, but two fires have been reported on I-95 that involve a Lamborghini in the past few months. Is there something to this trend we should know about? Maybe there is a heard of pyro-gnomes with a vendetta towards the Italian manufacturer. Yep, that’s it. Read more at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.