Well, the new issue of Retro Cars Magazine dropped last week, so I can finally post up some sneaky B-roll from the build up feature! Make sure you check out the mag for all the detail, but for now get a load of this:
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17
May
12
Project Herald: The Cover Brake
You may have heard of a little website that goes by the name of Speedhunters? Well, I’ve been showing my support by having them in my blog roll for a while now and a couple of weeks back I got a call from Bryn (Musselwhite – Speedhunter’s newest features man and my long-term media crush) saying they wanted to feature the KP: AWESOME.
After we cancelled once due to the rain, there was only one other date we could do it…and guess what? It was raining, though just the term “raining” doesn’t really do justice to what felt like all the water in the world being thrown at a quiet corner of the Cotswolds where the shoot was taking place. The KP has only be wet about 4 or 5 times in 7 years, so I held back the tears and went for it. Luckily when I arrived there was the full Speedhunters service: Car wash and coffee.
Despite the freezing deluge it was an awesome day and, as always, a laugh with Bryn. Here’s a few “behind the scenes” pics. Bryn’s barns hold a number of cool cars, parts and memorabilia – worth a SH feature on their own!
Thanks again to Bryn and Speedhunters! Check out the full feature here:
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A couple of weeks back I headed over to Compomotive wheels with Si from Retro Cars and Elliot from PVW to shoot a feature. I don’t usually post these things as they are going in the mag, but I thought I’d flash a bit of B-Roll because the place was AWESOME. Make sure you check it out in Retro cars and PVW: British engineering alive and well!
It’s that time of year when all the mags round-up their years worth of feature cars and let the public vote for their favorite, and Retro Cars is no different. I was stoked when I got my copy and my car had been nominated! Even cooler than that is so has Yuta’s 240 (getting my vote!!!). It was a great feature, beautifully shot by living legend Linhbergh (still one of my favorite ‘togs).
It’s a great mag this month and among a load of great writing, photography and feature cars is Ramon Portugal’s ’72 TE27. It’s perfection with 20 valves and those TRD wheels.
Jan 2011 out now – go buy!
20
Sep
10
Fast Car Magazine x KP30
Racer86.com: Curing Fast Car editorial staff erectile dysfunction since 2005.
Monster shows like this are regularly attended by big-name scene celebrities; here’s a couple of exclusives I snapped:
Simon Jackson
Elliot Roberts
Ed the dog
Chris Pollitt
That kid who totalled his Escort.
Racer86.com: Like Heat magazine but on the internet and with cars n’ stuff.
In between work and house moving chaos I took a day out to head down to Retro Cars HQ in Kent for a decent catch up, some office based shenanigans and a track day!
Magic Happening:
Firstly I have to own up on selling out; I took the Roadster…Maybe I’m getting soft but with a 4 hour each-way journey and an evening of track action I took the quieter comfy way out (if coilovers and a bucket seat is a comfy way out…)
The track day was organised by Motorsport Vision (massive thanks to Nick for the hook up!) and was held at Brands Hatch. Now I’ve never even visited Brands before, let alone driven it so I was suitably brimmed with fear and excitement as I noise tested, signed on and bagged a pit garage! Now the Roadster did qualify in the at least 20 years old “Retro” band, but compared to some of the entries I was pretty embarrassed. The quality and mix of cars was insane! I wish I had more time to run round with the camera but, well, I was having too much fun!
It was an open pit event so you could have as much fun as you and your car could take! I did about four fifteen minute sessions, taking Andy and Simon (as if you don’t know I mean Team Retro Cars) out for rides. Disappointingly they were pretty unshakable, though I’m sure there was some twitching doing on as we hit Paddock Hill bend sideways! Talking of the track…WHAT A TRACK!!! Paddock Hill bend is amazing; like a roller coaster: off the pit straight, on the brakes, down to 3rd, hang it out, straighten up, power on through the compression at the bottom (the Roadster sump guard was catching the ground at the bottom shooting sparks out the back!), then it was back on the brakes for the hairpin! The old girl did me proud, not only passing some more expensive/ better cars on track, but not missing a beat over the whole weekend!
The track action only makes up about 2/3 of these events for me. The atmosphere in the pits, the chance to chat to other drivers, check out the cars and catch up with the Sothern contingent gold plate the whole affair.
Massive thanks as always to Si and Andy from Retro Cars, Simon and David from RSM for the pics and Motorsport Vision for the hook up! Good to see you chaps and I can’t wait for the next hang out!
More pics can be found on the RSM FlickR Account.
Sideways @ Druids
Race car low
I got buzzed a link over to this awesome feature on the KP courtesy of Crank and Piston!
They’ve been supplied the pics from my Retro Cars shoot by the legend that is Mr Lipman. Make sure you check out his site as, following a revamp, it’s more awesome than ever!
I’ve be desperate to whore out these pics, so now they are all branded up, I’m going for it!
21
Mar
10
I <3 StickrGeek
I love post. Not bills and junk mail, but interesting post. This Friday I received a card-backed envelope full of love from Stickr Geek; the best kind of post!
’80s Hero!
Geek-chic.
Split rims, box-fresh Etnies dunks and Vinyl. Could this post be any more “scene”?
Head over to the StickrGeek blog for all your dope vinyl content and pick up your own slice of the action at the StickrGeek.com shop.
