Meet Tim. He’s responsible for the Shmee150 supercar channel on YouTube. Tim has quite literally made a living car spotting. He travels around Europe to capture the most elusive of exotic cars on film to put on YouTube. Here are his highlights from this past year:
This is the story of a soft-spoken man named Ivan Jaramillo who lives in San-Francisco. He loves cars and has impeccable taste. Ivan is the owner of two of the stalwarts of the Nissan Skyline Legend, a KPGC-10 Hakosuka Skyline and a C110 Kenmeri Skyline. You can tell he’s a real car buy because he’s not afraid to drive these classics in the rain, refuses to install stereos into them and calls them the best purchase decisions he’s ever made. The best part of the video is listening to the triple Mikuni carburetors in both cars drive by the camera.
This is more HD footage of trials motocross of Toni Bou at what appears to be a Spanish outdoor trials event. He showcases the skills that have made him so dominant in both indoor and outdoor trials motocross for the last several years. His mastery of the sport is on par if not greater than Michael Schumacher was to Formula 1 and Sebastien Loeb has been to the World Rally Championship. Also, whoever made this course is demented.
The guys of Club JDM in Sweden take a trip down to Holland to bring us coverage of the DUMP’d 2012 show. Some pretty cool cars and some *NSFW* language at the very end.
When you think of American hot-rodding, the Meyers Manx probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. The brainchild of Southern California surfer, Bruce Meyers, the Manx formula is putting a great looking fiberglass body over a dune buggy with VW running gear. The original intent was to give people a kit where they could build a little piece of surf culture in their garage with their own hands. You build it yourself and you add whatever flavor you want to it. That’s the essence of hot-rodding. The Manx started off as a design success because it looked cool and then continued to be popular because they also worked awesome for desert racing and autocross. What a cool little nugget of American car culture.