Rolling LMC ‘Cuda nails Enzo!

I was sent a link to the vid, and then followed more links from there until I got the whole story.  This thing is simply insane!  We often see muscle cars getting rebuilt and the most common thing I hear about them is that yeah, they make power but you still have to cruise coz an old V8 won’t handle.  Even with a new trick suspension system fitted you never see them playing on the track.  I drool when I watch Overhaulin’ and see Foose and the crew building the hottest cars ever.  Some get serious engines too, and I always wonder how they’ll be to drive.  Well the chaps at Legendary Motorcar Company answered my question.  Ok, so it’s not quite a V8, there’s two extra cylinders under the hood with a healthy addition of boost, but it was still a ground-up rebuild.  A rebuild with speed AND handling in mind.

This was on their site: “The culmination of almost two years of hard work by the team at Legendary Motorcar, the Cuda’ is the successful realization of a seemingly impossible goal. Can Legendary Motorcar build a resto-mod muscle car that will rival the world’s most exotic super cars?  The television show Dream Car Garage, which can be seen each Saturday on SUN TV, has followed the construction of the Super Cuda’ from a rusted shell to show car and track star. This week’s show is the season finale, featuring the exciting shootout between the twin-turbo V10 powered Super Cuda’ and an Enzo Ferrari. Peter Klutt, President of Legendary Motorcar, and Chip Foose debuted the Super Cuda’ at the SEMA convention in Las Vegas . The car was an instant hit but it had yet to achieve its most important goal, to match the performance of an Enzo Ferrari and to goover 200mph.  It all came together on Tuesday December 1st. The Super Cuda was cleared to run on the track. Grey skies and the threat of snow gave way to sun. As the track warmed, speeds increased and the Super Cuda’ punched a hole in the air topping 208mph with still more power to spare.”

The best thing you’ll hear in the vid?  When Peter says “above 200 the Cuda’ was running out of aero… and I was running out of cohones”.

Here’s a few build pics, you can check out the rest of the pics here.

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Money can’t buy brains - GTR crash ends in fraud!

Yup, some people really shouldn’t be allowed to sponge oxygen.  I mean if you’re gonna do something completely stupid, like street race at night, then make sure there are no cameras around with footage that can be used as evidence.  Added to that, if you’re gonna be stupid and street race, then make sure you can actually drive properly.  The Nissan GTR is one of the best handling cars out there, but in the hands of a plonker, it’s just another car.  Brainy brother and sister Jay and Tracy Chen from Southern California were arrested on suspicion of insurance fraud after investigators found a YouTube video show their crash during a street race.

“Investigators say 21-year-old Jay Chen and his 29-year-old sister, Tracy, both of Diamond Bar, California initially gave conflicting reports about what caused $76,000 in damage to Jay’s 2009 Nissan GT-R. After the video was discovered on net, prosecutors charged Jay Chen with six counts of felony insurance fraud and his sister with one count.  They were booked March 5 and both face prison time and fines if they are convicted”.

Lol - just lol.  There’s more info here and here.

The Race-ist Premieres

It’s no joke!

It’s been a while time since I’ve had to wait this long for something, I’m made to think of waiting to get my drivers license and waiting for my Matric results to come out. And that was a long time ago but the sense of occasion is just as great.

For the last 18 months we’ve been involved with the conception, planning and production of the first motor racing based film to ever come out of South Africa – The Race-ist.

We’ve been bombarding the web and the magazine with info and details on this local feature film for a while now. We watched as the initial casting took place and stood by as fast cars got chased down the closed off roads of lower Jo’burg in the wee hours of the morning. We also shared in the disappointment of not being able to see a December premiere materialize and realigned our targets as the release was bumped a few months further down the line.

As with my Matric results and my drivers license, the wait eventually ends and one is reminded of the proverbial “Good things come to those who wait.” The wait is almost over. With the investors happy and the crew finally at rest, we can unequivocally say that The Race-ist will hit cinemas on the 1^st of April. No, it’s no joke, it’s for real this time! Make sure that wherever you are that you get yourself to a cinema to experience this digital landmark occasion firsthand.

To get ready for the festivities, the official The Race-ist website is giving away a Sony Playstation 3. Direct your browser to www.race-ist.co.za or your cell browser to www.therace-ist.mobi to enter the competition. There’s tickets to the premiere up for grabs as well. Not only will you be able to enter the competitions but you’ll be able to watch the trailer and other snippets even if you’re browsing from your cell phone. Check out the wallpapers and read up on the directors blog about the finer details of the film.

This movie promises to be exciting, funny, moving and inspiring and the cars are just as hot as the ladies! From insane Toyota Supras and Nissan Skylines to American Muscle and tricked out Sciroccos, there’s a car in it for everyone.

The Race-ist stars:

Craig Palm

Nicole Smart

Johnny Pienaar

Ian Roberts

Kurt Darren

Brandon Auret

Murray Todd

DJ Fresh

Brad Wood

Mark Stent

Strini Pillai

Gaositwe Getyes

And the creative team of:

Executive Producer Andre Marich

Executive Producer Mandy Wilmot

Co Executive Producer Leon Kriel

Writer & Director Andrew Revthump Wilmot

Screenplay Iain Paton

1st Assistant Director Chris van Latum

Director of Photography Hanro Mohr

Editor Christopher Grant Harvey

Composer Geo Hohn

Composer Nathan Winkler

Sound Technician Dino Costaras

Sound Engineer Jim Petrak

This is one you just can’t afford to miss! Make sure that you check out The Race-ist – premiering 1 April 2010 at cinemas nationwide!

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The Race-ist Cast Teaser Trailer

Check out this teaser for the local feature film, The Race-ist.

Movie premieres 2 April at Nu-Metro cinemas nationwide!

The Race-ist Cast Teaser Trailer

Local larnies lose it!

Yup, even local SA larnies cock it up every now and again.  Sometimes, these rare cock ups involve supercars, and in an even rarer instance, this monumental cock up features TWO supercars!

According to Tanya Waterworth’s report on  IOL,  “Two expensive supercars crashed into each other, causing extensive damage, during a VIP wedding reception at the quiet town’s local sports club last Saturday afternoon, leading to confrontations with residents.”  That certainly must have been something to behold.  I know if I was there I’d have either a Canon SLR and a rapidly filling memory card or a cell phone working overtime to snap pics and vids, obviously in between bouts of laughter!

You can see from the pics, (jacked from Wrecked Exotics) both the Lamborghini Murcielago and Ferrari F430 can be repaired as the damage isn’t too bad.  From the alleged information about the events that transpired, I’m, thinking there may just not be an insurance payout here, well most certainly not for both cars.  The owners may just have to reach deep into their pockets to fix these things.

Tanya  goes on to say: “While there was speculation that the two cars were “dicing” down the town’s main Kangella Street, Captain Tienkie van Vuuren said the drivers had told police that Mbambo was giving directions to Sibiya, which were misunderstood.  “The two drivers said they were looking for a nearby dam where wedding pictures were being taken. “According to them, Mbambo signalled to Sibiya to turn, but Sibiya took it as a signal to overtake, and the collision occurred.”     Even though no one was injured in the accident, Tanya found out that one man was allegedly assaulted, while cellphones with cameras were seized and a local journalist, Larry Bentley, was threatened when he took photographs.

This story went out worldwide, it’s even listed on Jalopnik…

Famous Porsche tuner missing in SA?

It would seem so from reports on a few local new sites.  It seems the main man behind German-based tuning company, Gemballa, headed off to SA over week ago and hasn’t been heard of since.  Authorities are being very clever here too, they’re not divulging his travel plans, so obviously no one can keep an eye out for the man anywhere.  No wonder our crime rate always rises… Anyway, after checking out a few international sites, it seems that the man could possibly have gone to a country in the southern part of Africa, which as we know is different to South Africa.  The rest of the world seems to think we’re one big happy place though.

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Potholes? It gets worse, whole lanes messed up!

Yeah, it gets worse, just take a look at the pics.  These are roads that I take to work and back, and the scary thing about what you see here is that there are larger potholes up the street but I couldn’t get pics because there was no safe place to park Allanah.  Even scarier is that this is the “good” road to take!  You can see in the pics that to avoid these holes you have to go into the oncoming lane, but that can usually be timed right to dodge cars too.  What about that section of road that’s completely washed up?  You can’t just go around it, you need to be in the oncoming lane for around 80-metres, that’s some distance!

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SNS at MPH ‘10

Yeah, we were there with a huge kick-ass Rockford Fosgate trailer pumping some wicked tunes.  Kris Budnik’s E46 M3 that was featured on the cover of Issue 101 was on dsplay as was a wicked ICE’d out Series 4 RX-7 and an airbrished, HellaFlush carbon fibre-bodied Opoel Corsa.  At the back of the stand we had A.S.E’s insane Subaru WRX STi hatch as well as a sweeeeeet new Skyline GTR in a fresh light metallic blue paint, a complete change from the factory colours on offer.  Read more

Happy New Year!

Yup, it’s another new year here in SnS land and we’re hoping it’s gonna be a
great one. We hope to see more purpose-built drag and track cars, we hope
to see new stupid horsepower figures hitting the rollers, we hope to see the
fuel price and the price of imported performance parts drop, we hope to see
the times on the strips and circuits tumble but most of all…

We hope you have a great New Year and that everything you want to happen,
well happens. Welcome back dear readers, happy 2010!

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