Here is a snapshot Jon from DSTROYR sent me from the other night. I am in Daijiro Yoshihara’s Discount Tire S13 that we released how to build on Monday at Wrecked Magazine. Jon is in the DSTROYR x Van Halen IROC.
So I found this old NBA Jam cabinet advertisement from Midway and it has me super jealous about my setup. Mine has a black finished side and is missing the NBA/basketball vinyl seen in the photo above. It sounds like a vinyl project I am going to have to take on soon.
Vaughn Gittin Jr. swung by our house before having a meeting with an advertiser as he makes his round through Southern California. He brought over a 2010 Mustang convertible in my favorite color grabber blue. Here it is in the driveway next to Project350z!
Just before Vaughn Gittin had arrived my Christmas present finally came in. It’s a full NBA Jam arcade system which can play up to four people. We had some intense battles on the sticks before he finally had to head over to his meeting for the day.
A quick snap before he left of the Mustang and 350z from the front as well.
I made a list of My Road Trips I took in 2009. With two rallies, one move, and several OEM car manufacturer tests it was quite a busy year. Gumball 3000 was by far the most memorable trip I made this year over seven days in May. These were the 10 best trips I took and remembered for the year. Thanks everyone who came with me on these adventures and hopefully we can do 20 for 2010.
February 2009: Atlanta, Georgia to Los Angeles, California
May 2009: Gumball 3000 from Santa Monica Pier to Miami, Florida (Gumball3000.com)
May 2009: Dubai, United Arab Emirates (You can only do public transit maps on Google Maps here so I just marked some places I went on a drive)
July 2009: 2010 Ford Mustang Road Trip (Red Rock Canyon, Formula D Las Vegas)
August 2009:2010 Hyundai Genesis Road Trip (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle)
August 2009: 2010 Nissan Altima Hybrid (LA to SF)
September 2009: 2009 Targa Trophy Rally: Los Angeles Leg
October 2009: 2010 Mitsubishi RalliArt Sportback Evo (Lima Ohio to Los Angeles, CA)
November 2009: 2010 Chevrolet Camaro (San Diego Beaches & PCH Cruise)
Decmeber 2009: 2010 Nissan 370z Vert. (Salton Sea, Joshua Tree Ntl. Forest, Hover Dam)
Here is a compilation of my encounters with the law in 2009. That would be 8 total that I can remember, one pull over wasn’t covered since it happened late at night in Oregon.
May 2009: Bentley Continental GT (Arizona)
Gumball+3000+-+Cops+Take+Our+Bentley+License+Plate
May 2009 Scion tC (Grand Canyon Area)
May 2009: Bentley Continental GT (New Mexico)
July 2009: Scion tC (Los Angeles, California)
August 2009: Hyundai Genesis (Somewhere in Southern Washington)
October 2009 – Mitsubishi Evo (Nebraska)
Will Roegge snapped this photo of me pulled over in Nebraska! You can see me sitting in the cop car.
December 2009 – Nissan 370z (Laughlin, Nevada)
December 2009 – Nissan 370z (State Highway 95)
So on our convertible Nissan 370z drive we found ourselves spending the night in Laughlin, Nevada. Ricky Cervantes and I came up with the most amazing game ever. We played roulette at every casino on the “Strip” in Laughlin with a system. The first person to lose $20.00 at the table (you start with a $20.00 bill) we have to walk away and leave. The only casino we ended up never reaching this point was River Palms where we played for around two hours and were both up so we left. Here is how I stacked up and we plan to head that way again so let me know if you wish to join.
2009 Laughlin Roulette Crawl Results
Harrah’s: -$20.00
River Palms: +$30.00
Golden Nugget: +$60.00
Pioneer: +$20.00
Colorado Bell: -$20.00
Edgewater: -$20.00
Aquarius: -$20.00
Riverside: Tables Closed (Weak!)
Tropicana: -$10.00
I went to the 2009 JEGS Engine Masters Challenge in Ohio earlier this year to shoot some video and photography for Mobil 1 Racing oils. They had these hero cards out featuring my photography at Performance Racing Industry (PRI) this month in Orlando, Florida. Jason Small grabbed some for me at the Mobil 1 booth and they look fantastic. My photograph of BES Racing Engines had a great feature photography I took above with their LS7 that made 719hp all motor.
I put this together to show a client the work we did in Slide America. I thought the quick 10 page look book came out pretty cool so I decided to upload it here on my blog. It’s got magazine coverage from Turbo Magazine, Import Tuner, HCI, and S3 Magazine along with our New York Times review and IGN.com stories. Let me know what you think!
I went to the NHRA Museum and watched the Bergenholtz Racing CRX get inducted to the museum. Here is my 1991 CRX DX lined up at Silver Dollar Raceway in southern Georgia. I owned four CRX’s in my life and looked up to the Bergenholtz Brothers drag car for years. Here are the four CRX’s I owned.
1989 Honda CRX – Nitrous D16
1991 Honda CRX Si-B16A
Tried to make this swap look as factory as possible and it worked pretty well. It was a pretty clean B16A swap with a S1 transmission.
1989 Honda CRX
1990 Honda CRX Si
