December 29, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 35e, angular, architecture, art museum, bridge, building, campus, cities, city, cityscape, cityscapes, cloudy, contrast, dark, downtown, evening, fog, foggy, frank gehry, freeway, gehry, glow, haze, highway, i94, icon, iconic, image, junction, landscape, light, lights, long exposure, metal, metro, minn, minneapolis, minnesota, mist, misty, mn, mpls, museum, night, nights, northern, photo, photography, photos, picture, pictures, reflection, saint paul, scenic, skyline, skyscraper, skyscrapers, stairs, stairway, steps, structure, style, traffic, train, transit, twin cities, u of m, university, uofm, urban, view, walk, wander, washington ave, weisman | Leave a comment
December 16, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: bird house, bridge, bridges, building, buildings, city, cityscape, cloudy, dam, damm, downtown, drain, fixture, floating, flowing, flows, focus, fog, foggy, grate, haze, ice, iceburg, iceburgs, iced, icey, icy, iron, island, light, lights, main, metal, minn, minneapolis, minnesota, mississippi, mist, misty, mn, mpls, nicollet, path, photograph, photographer, photographs, photography, pic, pics, picture, pictures, pole, river, saint anthony, sky, skyline, skyscraper, skyscrapers, smoke, snow, span, stack, stacks, stairs, steam, steps, stone arch, town, truss, twin cities, urban, view, walkway | Leave a comment
July 21, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 180, 2014, 20th, air, animate, animated, animation, art, artwork, ave, avenue, awesome, bank, banked, bars, board, brick, building, charcter, cheese, city, colorful, curb, dead end, deadend, deck, doing, doing it, face, fakie, flip, gate, get there, getting, gif, grab, graf, graff, graffiti, graffitti, grafitti, grind, guys, heavy metal, heavymetal, hm, hot, inner city, innercity, july, kick, land, landed, landing, merica, metro, midway, midwest, minneapolis, minnesota, moton, mpls, much, mucho, mural, nose, nosegrind, ollie, pro, rad, rail, ride, riding, road, rotate, rotation, saint paul, scene, skate, skate or die, skateboard, skateordie, skater, skaters, skating, slick, slide, spin, st paul, stairs, stairway, step, steps, street, streetart, streets, summer, tail, take flight, train, trick, tricks, turn, twin cities, twincities, uni, university, urban, wall, youth | Leave a comment
July 5, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 17-50mm, 70-200mm, barge, barges, beetle, bench, bend, bends, bluff, bluffs, boat, brick, bugs, building, buildings, burial, camera, canon, capitol, car, city, cityscape, classic, color, daisies, distance, downtown, dragonfly, east side, f2.8, field, flower, flowers, flowing, foreground, fountain, high ground, hike, hydrant, image, images, insect, insects, invasive, japanese, landscape, lens, lenses, lime stone, limestone, lush, macro, marlin, menace, middle america, midwest, minn, minneapolis, minnesota, mississippi, mn, mounds, mpls, park, path, paved, pavement, photo, photographer, photography, photos, picture, pictures, pigseye, pink, point, portrait, purple, Rambler, recreation, red, river, saint paul, scene, scenery, scraper, scrapers, sculpture, shade, sigma, sky, skyline, skyscrapers, st paul, state, statue, stp, t4i, tamron, tc, telephoto, trail, transparent, tree, trees, tug, tug boat, twin cities, twincities, two cities, urban, vantage, view, walk, walking, wander, wild roses, wings | Leave a comment
July 5, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2014, 4th, 4thofjuly, american, andor, andor 2000, andor2000, bang, blowing up, blur, boom, building, burst, canon, capitol, celebration, color, colors, crop, cropped, display, explodes, exploding, explosion, explosions, fire works, fireworks, flash, flashing, foreground, fourth, friends, frogtown, holiday, holidays, hps, i94, july, launch, launching, light trail, light trails, lights, long exposure, merica, middle america, midway, minn, minnesota, mn, mortar, parking lot, people, photo, photograph, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, picture, pictures, ramsey county, rondo, saint paul, scenery, shots, sigma 30mm, st paul, st.p, stp, street, t4i, tamron 17-50mm, view, xsi, zoom | Leave a comment
May 10, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2014, above, andor, angle, art, barge, barges, blog, bridges, building, cars, city, clouds, color, colors, downtown, engine, flowing, freight, graf, graff, graffiti, grafitti, images, industry, looking, march, minn, minnesota, missippippi, mn, mounds park, photo, photograph, photographs, piece, rail, rails, river, saint paul, shots, sight, skyline, smoke stack, smokestack, spring, st paul, stationary, stp, street, streetart, tc, track, tracks, train, trains, twin cities, twincities, urban, view, yard | Leave a comment
I headed south of town to see some friends and have a peak at the drift truck one of them is building. Destination: Modern Automotive Performance, which has a nice shop for doing fabrication and modifications of many varieties. Several drift drivers work here, among other mechanics with different taste in cars and style. Personally, I like walking into shops like this. Older cars, made to be clean, show quality machines. New sports cars being upgraded, custom builds of all kinds, even on motorcycles. About two dozen cars packed into a not so small work space.
There were several incarnations of Evo’s, in various states. While most were street cars, with light modifications. Some were clearly drag cars, parachute brakes and all. The black, carbon fiber laden Mustang was pretty nice looking. As was the old Celica, pictured from the front, with it’s hood up.
Below, is Andrew’s Chevy S10 pickup truck, which is being rebuilt from the frame up. Quite literally, the frame, shock mounts, structure, and wider fenders have all been cut out and made from scratch. Having already gone with a Nissan 240sx with the engine from it’s japanese variant, as well as a v8 fox body Mustang and a 1jz in a Nissan pickup, He has opted to use a turbo-charged Toyota 2j-series engine. I am quite curious to see how this truck does on the track once it is assembled. It will certainly look and sound interesting.
March 16, 2014 | Categories: Automotive Photography, Random Thoughts | Tags: 1j, 1jz, 240, 240sx, 350z, 7, 8, 9, american, auto, automotive, back, bike, bmw, boxer, buggie, buggy, build, building, built, camaro, car, carbon, carolla, cars, chevrolet, chevy, classic, clean, constructing, cooper, coupe, craft, custom, customized, dirty love, dirtylove, drift, engine, evo, evolution, exhaust, fab, fabricated, fabrication, fender, fenders, fiber, ford, front, garage, german, good, gt, hachi, hand, hatch, hatchback, import, is, is250, is300, japanese, jdm, lancer, lexus, lift, m.a.p., m.a.performance, map, maperformance, metro, midwest, mini, minnesota, mistubishi, mn, mod, modern, modernautomotiveperformance, modification, modifications, modified, modify, motorcycle, mount, mr, muscle, mustang, nice, nissan, performance, pick, pickup, pipes, pontiac, pro, ps13, radiator, rear engine, s10, s13, sedan, shock towers, shop, side, sports, ss, station wagon, subaru, toyota, transplant, truck, tuned, tuner, turbo, twin cities, under, under-carriage, undercarriage, underneath, up, usdm, vehicle, wagon, work, workshop | 3 Comments
I’ve Missed My friend Ryan. Three years ago He moved to California, but now He has come back to Minnesota. Just bought His first home too, a garage. There is a house next to said garage, but it’s really all about the garage..
I was sad when, just before moving back home, He sold His drift car and started buying cars from the 1960’s. I do love classic cars, but there is a lot less fun involved when compared to drifting. For Me anyways! This guy does seem to enjoy the laboring that brings forth functionality, so fun may be a relative thing in this case. Happily for Me, Ryan suddenly bought a 240sx hatchback. The guy He got it from had it in parts, so there was assembly required. Two days later, everything had been put in place, connected and ready to roll. He re-assembled the suspension, adding the ‘knuckles’ which allow the extreme turning angle that smoke crazed drifters love. But when Ryan started the car up, FAIL. .. … Engine was no good. Viewing under the valve cover revealed a lot of gunk built up and one of the cams had been worn in more than a millimeter.
Naturally, Another engine was found and applied to the car. This time, It worked great. Idling very smoothly, and not blasting a large cloud out of the exhaust like the one it replaced. I guess this car was once owned by Scooter’s brother, so it even came with a classic crew sticker on the back window. It’s not a monster like His last two cars, but who knows what is to come? Things are looking good at Opposition Motors.
November 27, 2013 | Categories: Automotive Photography, Photography, Random Thoughts | Tags: 240, 240sx, angle, assemble, below, blown, build, building, bullet hole, car, cheiftain, classic, custom, engine, fabrication, fender, friend, garage, gearhead, glass, go-to guy, hanging out, hatch, healthy, homie, inside, intercooler, knuckles, midwest, minnesota, mn, motor, nissan, old, opposition, pontiac, rotor, rps13, rust bucket, ryan clemens, s13, s14, shattered, shop, spark, sr, sr20, sr20det, steering, suspension, swap, tmfoppsition, turbo, twin cities, under, valve, valve cover, window, working, wrenching | Leave a comment
