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August 6, 2010
Drift on the Beach!
By Karan Singh
StreetFire.net
Every once in a while I get an inclination to go to the beach like the guys in this video. The only difference is that I can’t drive my car out onto the sands of Santa Monica and drift around like the Subarus and Evos in this video! They must be at a dog beach though because there are entirely too many dogs running around!
Photo of the Day
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Today’s photo comes from duPont Registry’s Mirror Photography Contest on Facebook. Go take a look, they’ve gotten a ton of pretty cool entries.
Crazy Dutch RollGolf
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
This is awesome. Via Autoblog
Beautiful Rabbit TDI Conversion
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
This ’77 Rabbit is running a complete drivetrain from a ’98 TDI Jetta, and it looks to be an extremely clean swap. The newer harness and OBDII infrastructure is there as well, with the original Rabbit dash and switches all hooked up to the later-model wiring–no small task on a VW, I’d imagine. The seller wants $13K for it. See more pics below the jump, and the seller’s description at VWVortex.
Driving the Nissan Leaf
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Two years ago, Bob Lutz came to Seattle to tell us about the Volt. At that time I no idea Nissan was working on an electric vehicle and had never heard of the Leaf. Fast forward two years–both the Volt and the Leaf are very close to production and will be rolled out in a few states starting in December. But Nissan is getting a jump on the PR game by making their pre-production vehicles available to journalists. And for some reason they invited me to come drive one.
Continue reading after the jump!
Newera Imports AE86 Trueno
By Speedhunters
Car Culture At Large
It might be hard to believe but this very clean, and uniquely colored green AE86 has recently become a donor car for a rather special project. Miguel of Newera Imports, one of the most respected Japan-based car exporters, picked up the Trueno hatch a while back and as soon as he did I rushed to shoot it at one of his yards in the Tokyo bay. Laying eyes on it for the first time I thought it was the perfect hachiroku, clean inside and out and sporting very aggressive TRD N2 overfenders, something you don’t see on street cars so often. See more of this JDM beauty at Speedhunters.
-By Dino Dalle Carbonare
Tommy Ivo’s Tow Rig History
By Brian Lohnes
BangShift.com
Tommy Ivo is rightfully known as drag racing’s first great showman. He had awesome looking cars that ran up to their appearance, and even his towing equipment was top shelf. He understood that the show wasn’t just on the track, in fact, the show was 24/7. Phil Burgess penned an awesome piece over on his NHRA.com blog that details the whole history of how Ivo toted his race cars around.
Not taking anything away from Phil, but the fact that Ivo included several totally kick ass stories really knocked the piece out of the park. From the creepy single-axle trailers used to haul his earliest cars to the glass-sided trailers and later Dodge truck that would become a signature of his, Ivo always seemed to have a better idea.
We really dig the fact that, until he swapped to a fifth-wheel style trailer, he tugged everything around with either Buicks or Cadillacs. In more than a few of the photos, the big sedans that had pulling duty were basically bumper dragging with the weight of tools in the trunk and the weight of the trailer pushing down on them. He claims to have racked up 100,000 miles a year on those cars touring the country. He’d leave in the Spring and come home in the late Fall. Imagine those adventures!
Anyway, Ivo revealed in this column that his autobiography is coming out sooner rather than later. Trust us when we say that we’ll be first in line for that one! This is a great piece by Burgess and Ivo. Hell, the photos are more than worth the price of admission!
Link — NHRA.com — Tommy’s Towing Toys
Tuner Insight Parked on Seattle Street
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Someone apparently takes their first-gen Honda Insight pretty seriously, which isn’t surprising in a town that brought Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks into the world. The blackout tail lights and the headlight eyebrows are nice touches. And those canards–gee, I wonder if they do anything for the fuel mileage? Follow the jump for a couple more pics.
Caption Contest!
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!
Driving Test Scene From License To Drive
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
I’d forgotten how awesome this cornball flick was. This was from way back in the day when Corey Haim (R.I.P.) was just an adorable little kid and the California DMV apparently ran a fleet of 80′s Escorts and Chevettes for their driving tests. Love it!
