SoWo Or Bust: Georgia Does Wörthersee
Have you ever heard of Helen, Georgia? Probably not. It’s a small, one-horse, Bavarian-themed township tucked away in the Appalachian mountain range in the northern part of the State. The total...
View ArticleWhat Were You Thinking? A Vintage Benz Adventure
It seems to me that we acquire our project cars in one of two drastically different ways. On one hand there are those who know exactly what car they want. They spend months scouring classified ads,...
View ArticleA Fast Friday Night In Middle Georgia
Once a week, in a small rural town about an hour south of Atlanta, an event takes place. One where the heritage runs strong and a standard drivers license and a set of wheels is all you need to join in...
View ArticleThis Is Caffeine & Octane
I’d like to talk East versus West for a second… When I announced I would be leaving sunny Los Angeles to move back home to Atlanta, I received a great deal of skepticism from my peers. It sounds crazy,...
View ArticleThe Dark Side Of The Moon
Hello, my name is Matt Jones, and I am a 26-year-old picture taker currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. For the 99 per cent of you who have no clue who I am, it’s a pleasure to meet you. And to the...
View ArticleThe Miata You Wish You Built
When I first started my freelance career in the automotive scene there was nothing more fascinating than an engine swap. Now, I’m not talking your semi-standard ‘upgrade’ swap, like replacing your...
View ArticleWelcome To Dixie
I’ve been searching far and wide in an attempt to find anything and everything out of the ordinary that could possibly involve four wheels, an engine and an individual insane enough to pilot it, all in...
View ArticleThe Atlanta Motorama
Compiling and reporting event coverage is probably one of the most challenging tasks for me as a contributor to Speedhunters. Maybe it’s because I generally struggle to find an out of the box angle,...
View ArticleOffset Kings Drops In On Atlanta
The second round of the 2015 Formula Drift series took place in Georgia two weekends back, but the drifting wasn’t the only hectic thing that happened at Road Atlanta at that time. The Offset Kings...
View ArticleGridlife South: Bringing The Noise To Road Atlanta
There is no event in the United States that I can compare Gridlife to, because it’s that unique. And everything about Gridlife South held at Road Atlanta, Georgia two weeks ago was new to me when I...
View ArticleZ1 Motorsports: Late Model Z-Car Heaven
At every Nissan-centric event I’ve been to, I’ve always tended to focus more on the early models. S30s are a favorite, the S130 chassis can definitely be cool, I like a nice 300ZX, and I always try to...
View ArticleA Few Z-Cars Showed Up To Road Atlanta…
This is just my opinion, of course, but I think many – if not most – reading here will heartily agree. This is Speedhunters after all, and a race track is the quintessential home of speed. It’s the one...
View ArticleOne Of A Kind: Street Or Race
It all started in 1958 with a Volkswagen Beetle on an autocross course. From there, Bob Sharp went on to pick up a 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite for his college years. Or, perhaps more accurately, this car...
View ArticlePurist Hunting At The ZCON Car Show
This is doubly so for single make meet-ups, but when the name ZCON was associated I threw out any connotations of dullness. Seeing as how I passed up the concours event earlier in the week to get a...
View ArticleBlasphemy Or Brilliance: ZCON’s 240Z On Air
Still, people love to express their own bias when it comes to this sort of thing. Without a doubt, the best way to communicate your vision is to simply build it; everyone has a certain leaning and...
View ArticleIgnored No More: The Z32, Z33 & Z34
The FR layout is the best. Not because it actually is, but for the vast majority of us this is the performance-oriented chassis platform that we experience the most. While new offerings and the overall...
View ArticleKeeping It In The Family: The 500hp 240SX
Kyle Shaffer acquired his drivers license around the same time the early Fast & Furious movies came out, so it was only inevitable that he would own something Japanese and modified. Thinking of...
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