You must be tall.

Ooh! Very nice, although I would consider sourcing a passenger side mirror for the car. I too have a soft spot for these cars, even though I read a comment somewhere about the brittle plastics they used in the interior. I'd take mine in orange, though. Brown doesn't work for me on most things that aren't chocolate, though I dig how it matches with the tan interior.

Caprice trim, orange on tan interior, moon caps and trim rings. Gorgeous.

Hey mzs,

That bit about your sculpture, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and your face in that picture perfectly encapsulates pretty much every feeling an artist has for their baby ;) Were you all right after you found out? It looks to be a pretty complex piece, what was the white carvings made of?

Thanks for the kind words and blessing, I think I have a good head too (if I do say so myself...) but it's just getting that confidence to start talking to people and working to show what I've got. I'm navigating that jump between a good studious child going to school and hard-working adult making good decisions and getting paid. Currently walking the plank, hesitant yet eager. It's a strange time. I just did a large project that ended up not-so-successful, I'll show it when I'm done putting a retrospective together, maybe in the forum. Stay tuned!

That's one weird suspension...one side lengthens, the other shortens, keeping the car level. Put in some undulating bumps and *whack!

Oh but that one (a J's Racing s2000 that holds some Touge Battle victories, I guess the crown jewel of their performance shop) actually has the performance chops to go with the looks. This is what you're looking for:

Image courtesy of Canibeat(tm) http://www.canibeat.com/2012/03/amuse-ment-ride-k...
"The major piece of Kaan’s plan though was that his S2000 would feature an Authentic Amuse GT1 wide-body kit, which was ordered before the car was even purchased."
Yeah. To Each His Own.

I'm going to defend it, not because I love it but because it's so involved, it's an art. We can't deny the level of mechanical work it takes to physically align a car so the wheels land just above its fenders. We can't deny that it is a very distinctive style. It sounds tough to do; tolerances seem pretty small. Do they look kinda ridiculous out of the ordinary? Yeah. Do they look good in pictures? Yeah, tons of professional photography with these cars as subjects. Do they have a rabid following and people who love the fact that they are in the group? Yes, it's a new culture.

I hate that word, culture. Style. The phrase, developed a culture. It means 50 years down the road a balding middle-aged professor would be lecturing about the social implications of Hellaflush in the most boring, monotone voice possible in Art History 101. While half the class is sleeping. Rebellion? Cool? In? Ha. Hellaflush and Stance will be going down in history books and kids will be forced to write uninspired crappy papers on it on the day it's due. We'll have the last laugh. I had to learn about Hot Rods and Kustom Kars in 50's America and I bet those hot rod guys would've been rolling their eyes so hard the way we were trying to define and analyze it. Really have to be there, they sound like genuinely fun guys.

C'mon, the donor car was pretty cool, too:

(shame about the plate...)

I distinctly remember riding in the front seat of another Nissan competitor, the Cedric, and it being a four-on-the-tree car. It remains the only manual column-shifted car I've ever ridden in.

Ah, I've finally figured out what my life needs more of:

Toyota Comfort GT-Z Supercharged. The Toyota Comfort's like the Crown Vic of Asia; it was an old Crown that was so popular with fleet use that they never stopped making it, making the new one alongside the old. You can still buy one new today. It's usually a taxi or limo. Very spacious, lots of head and legroom, despite its relatively compact size.
And they took that marshmallow and fitted it with an engine out of an MR2, then supercharged it. Add suspension, sport seats, floor shift. Mmm...
(Actually, this car only makes sense over there; it needs to mix in with the regular models to be comparatively special. So anyways, cool car, but don't bring it over here 'cause it won't perform all that spectacularly and no one would get it. I'll have what Tomsk's having.)

I'm sure Horatio Pagani would build anyone a brand-new Huayra with the right amount of money...

Speaking of Oz, are there a lot of people pining for Mopars in your beautiful land? We, apparently, desperately want your Commodores and Falcons even when we have our Camaros and Mustangs, is there a similar want for our Chargers and Challengers? (Or late 60's Chargers? Plymouths?)