SEMA LIVEstream….
Yep, starting Tuesday Nov 3rd until Friday morning SEMA will be Livestreamed from the showfloor to the late night parties..
Your guides will be John “Nads” Naderi and Jarod DeAnda giving you some insight to the infamous SEMA trade show in Las Vegas, come and be part of it and ride shotgun with John and Jarod at SEMA Live Stream…
Open the window, let it play, watch and listen to the SEMA SHOW 2009!
November 2, 2009 – 3:37 pm | No Comment | submitted by jarod
KEN BLOCK is doing whatever he wants!!!
Love this dude!
EDIT:
The official press release…
November 2, 2009 – Vista, CA – On the heels of Ken Block’s insane Gymkhana videos and the groundbreaking snowboarding/rally part to close out DC’s MTN.LAB 1.5 video, the DC Co-Founder and Rally Team Driver has joined with Subaru to make the world’s fastest cat track operation automobile for backcountry access for snowboarding. Dubbed the TRAX STI, a new teaser video from the test session for the highly-modified, snow-ready (to say the least) car is up on YouTube, and check out “0-60 Magazine’s” Web site for an interview with Block and photo gallery featuring the best photos from the session.
The TRAX STI is an experimental automobile that starts with Block’s competition-ready Subaru WRX STI before ditching the tires, adding snow cat tracks, and upgrading to some next-level suspension to create the ultimate backcountry shred car. Prepared by Vermont SportsCar, performance modifications include 400-hp and features Group N competition rally dampers made by EXE-TC and a KAPS 5-speed close-ratio dog-engagement gearbox. Under the hood sits a 2.5 liter, 4-cylinder, turbocharged and intercooled STI engine tuned with a MOTEC M800 ECU.
Completing the TRAX STI is a sleigh to be pulled behind the car, designed to hold four snowboarders, their snowboards, and all their gear. The sleigh’s body is 100 percent custom designed and constructed of hand-laid fiberglass—though the sleigh is not seen in this teaser video, look for it in future videos next year. Altogether, this is one car ready for backcountry access and snowboarding.
“The TRAX STI is a very fun project for me,” said Block. “It combines a two of my favorite things in life: driving a rally car in the snow and snowboarding in the powder in the backcountry. Having a house in Utah (the DC MTN.LAB), I get to enjoy lots of sliding around on the snow, but this project takes that to a whole new level as I can now hit up the backcountry in the fastest snow cat ever. It’s incredibly fun having the ability to push the high-power Subaru on the slopes and to backcountry spots that normal cars could never go!”
Though the project was top-secret, the TRAX STI got blown up online way before it was supposed to—it was first caught and posted on YouTube in April 2009 by a random fan with a low-quality video recorder. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0akfZWNp…
But that was just the beginning. The new video posted this morning shows what went down in just one day of testing and driving the car. It shows the car in all it’s high definition glory, as Block puts it through its paces up snow-covered mountains, down them, and even around un-expecting snowmobilers filmed at the DC MTN.LAB and Guardsman Pass, both in Utah. Stay tuned for more video to emerge as the car gets used more and more.
“0-60 Magazine’s” interview has all the behind the scenes on the TRAX STI, including the exclusive photos of the car. It’s the place to learn more about the car, how it performs, and why Block had the darn thing built in the first place. View it here: http://www.0-60mag.com/online/?p=20459. The next issue of the magazine will have a two page spread featuring the car.
Coordinating with the launch of this new video, DC is releasing new items from Block’s TeamWorks Collection. Added to the already wide assortment of product inspired by Block and his rally racing endeavors, new items include a puffy jacket and a leather jacket. View the fresh goods now in the DC Online Store at store.dcshoes.com. http://store.dcshoes.com/family/index.js….
November 2, 2009 – 10:07 am | No Comment | submitted by jarod
Hope everybody had a safe and fun Halloween, my birthday month has come and gone and SEMA buzz is looming…
Here’s what’s up in my Halloween world, things that make you go vroom and some other goodies from ELM Hat Company…
ALSO, BE SURE TO SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM FOR SOME TEASER PICS OF THE MUSTANG RTR
Yoda…. Treat or trick…
Our Halloween chariot for the evening…
The host with the most!
The obligatory, “I’ll show you this when you get older and you’ll laugh” pic…
rolling deep…
The 1st Trick or treat…
What???
Yoda and Belle…
I thought I had a big head…
Uh Oh!!!
Sweet backyards come standard in this neighborhood!
Late night debauchery…
Then I got a package from Elm Hat Company goodies, Thanks Justin….
Lastly,
Here’s the MUSTANG RTR designed by Vaughn Gittin Jr…
The blue one is the street version RTR…
The other one is the RTR-C the “halo” version!!!
ALL CARBON FIBER!!!! See both at SEMA…
October 30, 2009 – 1:50 pm | No Comment | submitted by jarod
I LOVE Halloween aka All Hallows’ Even – e’en
Have a safe fun one…
Here’s the past week, hanging with friends, family and having fun, keeping it local…
How about this awesome fall weather!!!!
Trying on a potential Halloween costume…
Guess what I’d be, minus not such a baby PJ…
Parker getting some medicine in his Darth Vader mask..
My homie Eric and I had some banging Japanese food! Yum!
Parker & The Pug, sounds like a childrens book..
PJ dressed up as Yoda to school and his teacher…
Peep the old Datsun 1200 truck thingy…
My In-Laws came into town, 1st stop is food at Joe’s Farm Grill, yum!!!
Martinelli’s is the BEST apple juice ever, i love the apple shaped bottles.
They used to be glass this one was plastic, yum!
Plan your weekend!
If your in San Jose….
San Jose Tattoo Convention with REBEL8…
SMOOVEBERT a friend of my friend JacobChills of which I met some time ago is a BMX fiend from LA now residing in NYC…
He has a good eye, good designer and just an all around good guy…
Smoovebert posted a video of an amazing Garage/Shop FILLED with classic BMX parts, bikes, memorabilia, etc. owned by Brian P. you gotta see this to believe it!!!
BTW, Smoovbert was into sidehacks before they were on Fantasy Factory and was supposed to be in that episode as a matter of fact!
Unreal!
BTW, I grew up riding Redline’s, Diamondbacks and more with Skyways standard! My dad owned a bike shop when I was growing up in the bay area…
This Friday and weekend in the Bay Area San Jose to be exact…
Keeping it in the Bay Area REBEL8 will be attending, displaying, selling and even creating a limited edition Tee and poster for the San Jose Tattoo Convention, Oct 30th- Nov 1st
The one and only artist behind R8, Mike Giant will be available to sign your tee or your poster, Joshy D. says bring a silver Sharpie of course….
Only 168 of these tee’s, I might need to make a call for somebody to get one for me…
$20 for the poster, GET IT before they’re all GOT!
Then if you’re in my neck of the woods in Scottsdale, AZ!
Come out to the bike ride bar crawl, it’s soooo much fun! RAGE CYCLES in Scottsdale, AZ is organizing it they rule!
My boy Kenta (Tokyo Drive) asked me AGES ago about featuring me in his new magazine that’s coming out, fast forward to some magazine title name changes and months later they present Axel Speed Magazine from Japan from makers of Daytona Magazine…
Thanks Kenta, my son and wife were stoked…
Seeing how the Bimmer is gone as of tonight, it’s nice to have documentation of the whip and fam of course…
Here’s the cover featuring Travis Barker and GUMBALL 3000, again good company and projects I worked on…
Here’s my feature, I have NO IDEA what it says though, haha
Then the AWESOME family portrait, the cars, the house and the familia…
