Check out all the amazing cars from the first JDM Style Tuning x Downshift Aus x Euro meet that was held at Queensland Raceway this week! With a big secure parking lot, the QR short track to be exact, it was the perfect hassle free meeting spot for everyone!
Sometimes the most amazing things in life are so simple. It amazes me that as people that spend so much time, money and agony on high performance cars we can gain so much fun out of something as basic a tricycle with plastic wheels on the back. If you haven't seen these things before, you're in for a treat because huffy sliders are an insane amount of fun.
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Despite everything being against us on the day, the first Excitement! Car Magazine | 2012 Street Meet had a great turn out! Check out all the photos from the day. Comment and let us know what can be done better for next time!
Recently I was in Japan for a holiday and on the 18th of June I was incredibly privileged to attend an Event at YZ Circuit in Gifu that was held by Nozomu Sakai, the owner of MotorFIX.
Just this weekend past I took a flight down to Sydney to cover the World Time Attack Challenge. Having missed out on last years first annual event, I was very eager to make my way down this year! With cars from Japan such as the Pan Speed Rx-7 and Cyber Evo competing against Australian, New Zealand and American cars it made for a very exciting event!
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Once again the lads from Streetkarnage grouped together on a lazy Sunday afternoon for an awesome huffy slider session. Even though this session didn’t seem to last as long as the first one, the attendance was just as large!
Whether it has two wheels or four, maybe even only 3 sometimes, it will pretty much have my interest. So when I heard about the Gold Coasts largest motorcycle exhibition, I was off to get amongst it. Held at the Gold Coast Exhibition Center, patrons were able to stroll through the displays from all the large manufacturers as well as stalls by local build shops and other third party groups selling things from riding leathers to jet skis.
Well… It was bound to happen sooner or later with all the slider sessions that have been happening lately; I am now the proud owner of a very cool huffy slider! With many thanks to Aerron Gough from Streetkarnage! Today’s slider session was just as amazing as the previous event from several weeks ago.
This time armed with my trusty GoPro I managed to get some fairly awesome footage of all these guys powering down the hills as well as some in car (on slider) footage of me going down the hill. Hold tight for the full set of images from the day as well as all the footage in the next week or so!
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This week, a bunch of mates and I have been busy hitting up the hills. Even though we love to do that on any occasion, we pushed to do a few more runs this week as we have been visited from our Tasmanian contributor; Sean Jarzynka.
The last event was awesome, I cannot wait for this one!
E!CM
Last Friday night Queensland Raceway opened the track back to the public to its newly refurbished track. As eager as any drifter heading out for the night, I brought out the camera to snap the action.
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Scott Mitchell has come back from the February Hit and Run Drift Club day with some absolutely awesome footage. Check out the all the wild S13s, Ke70s, Chasers and the even more wild V8 S14.
I have to say that Foster The People Sounds rather awesome behind drifting noises too.
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We can’t wait for the 2012 World Time Attack Challenge to come around, so here’s just a bit of a teaser from last year.
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Not much has been going on this week, so to make it up to you guys here’s a photo of Jayrad’s rather sacked GS300 Lexus. Hopefully a photo to come some time soon if he ever has time for it.
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It’s funny how those of us who toil with track specific cars still insist on owning fun daily drivers. It’s like a disease that we can’t seem to shake. Despite the many years of owning my Corolla it has always been a must for me to own a daily that can make me grin from ear to ear. Even my last daily; an automatic MX73 Cressida with, get this, working air con had its kicks. Sounds boring right? Wrong. That grin still came from the chassis rails almost kissing the ground at a mere 25mm.
I have just recently had a bunch of film rolls developed so I thought I would share some of the shots that didn’t make it to the CJSS post last year.
Of all the rare cars in the world that I have seen I would not say that a Lamborghini Gallardo is one that I typically leap over fences for. They are an impressive car, yes, but there is something about them that lacks when you compare it to the big brother Murcielago. With that said, they are still a sight to see. Especially when you happen to spot one floating on top of Arthurs Seat in Victoria like I did a few weeks back.
Downshift have done it again to bring Brisbane its largest JDM and Euro meet, attracting 500+ cars out to Queensland Raceway for an afternoon of mingling and ogling the multitude of Japanese and Euro cars on display. So as to not to be caught out with lack of space and light like last time, the event was held earlier, in the large QR car park and on the weekend, making it easier for a larger amount of people to attend.
The FORGED Audi was an absolute show stopper. I had to get a bit pushy and clear the area so that I could get a shot without some mug walking up to it and getting his head in the way.
Over the past couple of weeks we have seen some very impressive content coming from local Brisbane photographer, Chez Watts. With his moody style of photography, we have been seeing a side of car meets that we have not seen before. Chez will be bringing you lots of cool events as he gets to them; but for now look forward to his feature on the Downshift x JDM x Euro OPEN MEET & GYMKHANA in the next few days.
E!CM
Here’s the collection of our final images from Streetkarnage Slider Session that was held on the Gold Coast.
Chez Watts has just sent me though these amazing photos of a Porsche track day that was recently held at a rather saturated Queensland Raceway. It’s not often I manage to get out to any sort of track day like this, so I was ecstatic to hear he had this content.
All the best car builds start from very humble beginnings. A rolling shell, a rusty old socket set and big dreams. For my good friend Aaron Squires, that is exactly where his Ae86 is starting.
Director | Editor-In-Chief:
Grant Scott
Contributing Photographers:
Josh Dobrik
Sean Jarzynka
Henry Phan
Kory Leung
Nathan McKenna
Chez Watts
Cooper Macmillan
Contributing Videographers:
Scott Mitchell
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