Tom Conkright’s 1970 Pontiac Firebird

Tom Conkright is the owner and mind behind the below 70′s Pontiac Firebird, and as you can see the car is far from the normal restored classic.

The blog post from on eGarage includes the reasoning behind the look and performance the Tom was looking for. All I know if the car looks amazing and I had to share the complete car on here.

As well as having the perfect stance and presence, under the ‘hood’ sits a 1200bhp 7.8l (475 cubic inch) twin turbo V8 built by Brian Moat/All Speed Customs, based in Muskegon Heights, Michigan.

The car is an amazing example of retro styling perfectly mixed with modern day technology to create a one of a kind tarmac munching monster.

 

1970 Pontiac Firebird1970 Pontiac Firebird rear1970 Pontiac Firebird side1970 Pontiac Firebird Interior1970 Pontiac Firebird Twin Turbo V8

Check out more photos from the shoot here.

Cutout-n-Keep – Scissors Need Not Apply

Spotted this video while wasting time today. Though it was a pretty cool idea. I used to love models when I was young, and have had a go at a couple of these kind of things in the past, but its a nice idea to give you full control over the design and they will just print and ship the final product over to you to cut out.

Cutout 'n' Keep

Cutout 'n' Keep

Cutout n Keephave an active Facebook page, but their site is still under construction. I will be keeping an eye on it to see what it is like when its all up and running, and to see how much each Camper costs.


Bil Baldwin – Balls of Steel, Beard of a Man

Flag marshal Bil Baldwin at Formula Drift Long Beach has become some what of a celebrity over the last few weeks, which the below video propelling him into Internet fame. Bil Balwin is a marshal at the Formula Drift series at Long Beach and is famous for having nerves of steal and a beard that most men would die for. Bil has stood in the same spot at each race on the Long Beach track and doesn’t even flinch when a car is drifting only millimetres away.

Bil Baldwin, Beard of Courage

Bil Baldwin, Beard of Courage

The video below features Bil explaining why he stands inches away from the action, and why he has been flung into the limelight.

 


The Perfect Use For A Spoiler

These days, a car with a large spoiler is often dismissed offhand as being ‘chav’ or ‘barry’, even when the car came out of the factory with said spoiler (i’m looking at you Evo’s).

Well, fear not, as there is a new use for massive spoilers that is so awesome you can’t help but love them once again.

Of course I am being silly, but the following car is far from your typical chav wagon, even though it has a wide-arch kit, bonnet vent and a massive spoiler.

The car is owned by Jon from jon-olsson.com and is a mean looking, wide carbon fiber arched Audi R8 with a rear spoiler being used to prop-up a carbon fiber ski box.

As words say a thousand words, enjoy them below, and for more info on the car and the ski box, check out the jon-olsson site.

Jon Olsson Audi R8Jon Olsson Audi R8 FrontJon Olsson Audi R8 Back

Photos by Bakke

StanceWorks HRE Vintage Series Video

I know I am from the past with this one, but I re-watch this StanceWorks video covering the creation of the new HRE Vintage Series wheels and just couldn’t not post it up.

HRE Vintage Series

As most of you will probably already know, the wheel maker HRE have created a new range of wheel to pay homage to the most popular ‘Vintage‘ wheels of days gone by, but with slight updates to the designs. Unlike your normal replica BBS Split rims, the new vintage series wheels from HRE are top quality and have been made with as much, or even more love and attention to detail than many other top quality wheels on the market today.

Now, I wonder if they do them in 14×8′s for the Rocco :)


Car of the Week – Supercharged Mk1 Fiesta

Why visiting the Retro Rides forum today I stumbled across something really rather good.

 

The Mk1 Fiesta in question belongs to Neil Davies and has recently been featured within Fast Car Magazine. The Fast Car site has a nice little write-up of the car, but in short, its a complete refurbished mk1 Fiesta with a 2.0l 16v supercharged engine pumping out 285 bhp through the front wheels.

 

Overall the car looks great and sounds like it commonly upsets some much more expensive cars.

 

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