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May 10, 2010
Accord with Corvette Sawblades and Woodgrain Hood!
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Wow! What a combo! What do you guys prefer? Woodgrain hoods or rusty hoods? Via HellaFlush
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April 5, 2010
Hella Flush Cressida
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
It goes without saying that this wheel and tire setup would be murder on an aged Toyota suspension. But what do you think of the aesthetic? I’m on the fence about the contrast white wheels with the baby-moons–it’s a cool look in a one part foreign diplomat, one part craigslist beater kind of way. I might dig it with a little more sidewall. And how about that gearshift? More below the jump, via Hella Flush.
March 5, 2010
Hella Flush Miata With Gigantic Wing
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Ryan honestly thinks stuff like this is cool, but instead of making fun of him, I’m just going to post it. I’ve actually been noticing a lot of beater hellaflush treatments out driving around, often using cars like junk 90′s Civics. It kind of makes me wonder, how can a novice dirtball with no budget set up a car like this in his driveway without making it so the fenders shred the tires or the tires slip off the rims? I mean, not all of these things can be built by custom shops in California. Click through to Hellaflush to see video of the winged Miata in action. Kinda.
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May 30, 2009
Does Hellaflush Form Follow Function?
By John Naderi
StreetFire.net
Let me preface this by saying how much I love the look that’s being perpetrated by certain members of the TunerCarDomain. Guys like Marc Arcenal of Fatlace/Hellaflush fame and Speedhunters Antonio Alvendia and Linhbergh Nguyen who not only talk the talk but jock the look on their rides.
Perhaps you aren’t familiar with this (life) style that involves dramatically lowered rides combined with aggressively offset wheels and stretched tire fitments allowing the outermost lip of the wheel to sit (hella) flush with the fender. Of course the lo-los have been stretching Vogue radials over 14-inch Ds for decades now and as an Eighties mini-trucker I can attest to the existence of elastic fantastic Fuldas over polished Centerlines. Within the tuner world the look first gained prominence in select enclaves of the JDM and Euro tuner communities most notably within the underground world of J-spec drifting outside of D1.
As this style gains frame-scraping ground Stateside I often dream about rolling in a Rauh-Welt matte S15 poured over a set of Bright Chrome Super Advan Racing Ver. 2s. Although I would probably ruin the look by rocking a Tap Out hoodie over an Affliction T. Damn, even in my dreams I’m a dork. But there’s another reason why this dream won’t work for me – form must follow function in my world.
I prefer a car with a proper set-up. Good wheel fitment, rubber with a proper aspect ratio, corner-balanced alignment with the just the right amount of ride height and suspension travel. This is what stiffens my strut bar, if you know what I’m saying. But what do you say? Am I off base here or is looking good just as important as being good?
April 2, 2009
Hella Flush Civic
By Speedhunters
Car Culture At Large
I wonder if, in a few years, we’ll look back on the various “tight wheel fitment” cars which are popping up around the planet ATM and say, ahh yes those are “_____ cars.” It seems like this is a growing movement around the world, which crosses boundaries between both the Japanese (drift and VIP style) and Euro scenes. I’m not even sure what style to call this Civic: will a new term emerge?
One website which is completely focused on tight wheel fitment is HellaFlush. They fully subscribe to the premise that offset is everything. Do you agree? Read more at Speedhunters.
-Rod Chong
February 6, 2009
