Last year I had the opportunity to meet Paul and Chris Andrews while filming a promotional video for their collection. The are both truly authentic car guys and I could defiantly tell that they love to collect cars together. But what was extremely awesome is that they love to go on tours and rallies together. One of…
The Villain is a custom built 1968 Ford Mustang. Jason Engel and his amazing staff at Classic Recreations in Yukon, Oklahoma are behind this prototype SEMA build. Thanks to Khan Media, I was able to have the car on loan for a couple of days to shoot and test-drive it.
It was the Monday after Monterey car week, and my crew and I left early in the morning to head from Pebble Beach to Morgan Hill. Morgan Hill is about an hour and half south of San Francisco. We drove through the blink-and-you'll-miss-it main avenue on our way to the industrial park where the Dinan main research and…
1965 must've been a very busy year for Carroll Shelby and Ford! In this picture we see Henry Ford II and Shelby getting ready for a cruise around the lot in the brand spanking new GT40 Roadster. Don't mind all the pony cars in the background.
Sometimes you start a project and life gets in the way. That's exactly what went down in the case of the award winning 1929 Model A hot rod "Wicked In Suede". Johnny Martinez grew up looking up to his local hot rod builders. Used to ride his bike down the street to sit outside a garage while the neighbor was…
Last year was my first visit to the Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance and I was floored by how awesome the event is. Bill Warner has been organizing the event for the past 18 years. Each year the event honors a race car driver as the grand marshall. Racing legends like Sir Stirling Moss, Brian Redman, Vic Elford and…
Zeke and Ed Justice were a pair of forward thinking business men that just happened to be at the right place and the right time. "Like Forrest Gump they always seemed to find their way into historical situations," said Ed Justice Jr. They were the first sponsors of a NASCAR team. They produced the first NASCAR…
Sector 111 is tucked away in the mountains between San Diego and Palm Springs. It's not a place famous for hot rods or auto shops but Shinoo Mapleton set up shop over ten years ago and has been thriving ever since. Shinoo has a deep passion for lightweight sports cars. He started Sector 111 as an aftermarket part…
After five minutes of talking with Jonathan Ward you can fully grasp the depth of his automotive passion. It's infectious to hear him discuss his love for the aesthetics of a bygone era. The love he has for the masters of industrial design. People like Raymond Loewy get him excited and he perks up in his chair to tell…
When you meet Magnus Walker you instantly know he is passionate about the Porsche brand. He walked me around his collection animatedly discussing the different models he owns and why they are important to him. Each car has a character, or better yet a soul that is deeply connected to him. Everything Porsche is very…
At first glance, Ron Griffith is just your average guy. He owns an automotive repair shop in California City deep within the Mojave desert. On a normal day, he can be found under the hood of Vegas-bound tourist's car that didn't quite make it through the desert heat. But Ron and his pals have a hidden passion that…
Zelectric Motors is the brainchild of passionate VW fans David Benardo and Bonnie Rodgers. In 2011, they decided to put their east coast creative agency in their rearview mirror and head back home to California. With a lifelong affinity for the VW brand and decades spent working with tech companies, they envisioned a…
JT Nesbitt is an artist and a craftsman. The kind of person that dreams up something tangible and spends the next six years figuring out all the details before he sets out building it. He isn't afraid of something he doesn't know how to do. He just spends time learning with the goal of getting an obstacle out of his…
Gary Wales started his career as a New York stockbroker in the 1960s. Single and dating, Gary was always trying to impress. One night while driving a blind date to dinner, he crashed and confessed that he didn't know much about cars. The very next day his date introduced him to a friend that had an Allard L-Type for…
I meet a lot of passionate people every day and I've been working with some of the best in the automotive world. So when I received an invite to attend Lamborghini's Veneno event in Monterey, California I couldn't resist the urge to drive up the coast and check out the latest super car from one of the most passionate…
I was never a huge fan of G.I. Joe but in the 80s when M.A.S.K. came out I was hooked. I remember watching the cartoon while playing with toys named Rhino, Slingshot, Detonator and Goliath. The vehicles were based on real world counterparts like the Corvette, Bronco, and Jeep. And the best part was that they…
It was a scorching hot August summer day in the San Fernando Valley. I was driving my brand new 1991 Ford Escort GT through an industrial area to a muffler shop. A friend of mine told me that they could lower my car for sixty bucks. I pulled into the work bay and a guy with a welding helmet climbed down into the pit…
In the summer of 1988 my sister started dating some new guy. Like any younger brother I hated her boyfriend for merely existing, but that quickly changed when I saw what he was driving. I remember the first day I heard the exhaust note from his brown 280zx revving around the corner and barreling into our cul-de-sac.
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