In the past few years, there’s been a revival…a resurrection of the past. This revival definitely has strong support throughout the automotive world, from carbureted engines to cafe racers. Newer generations of gear heads in search of their roots in order to pave the road for the future. This is exactly why I love events…
Every Labor Day Weekend, the VW Club of Hawaii shows off Oahu’s best at their Annual Shaka Weekend (see my photos from last year here). This year the celebration started on Day 1 with a pre-show meet at the iconic Rainbow Drive-In; an appropriate venue for a gathering of classics cars whether in the 1960s…
Here’s a few more random photos from the past 2 days. I’ve been fighting this fever and migraine headache for the last 3 days which has somewhat put me out of commission. I’m hoping to get better as we have our annual family vacation coming up and will need alot of energy running around after…
Every now and then you can expect special events being hosted at Illest OC in Costa Mesa, California. Recently we hosted The Fendarolla to come roll some fenders based on appointments only. Adrian aka Fendarolla is one of Southern California’s leading fender rolling experts, and his work that day was on point. FatlaceTV – Illest…
Recently I was invited to goto the annual Auto Fashion Imp Euro event in Osaka Japan. The builds were incredible and the amount of complete builds were amazing. You can really appreciate how much attention to detail everyone puts into their builds in Japan. Here’s part 1 of the show photos I took. Here’s the…
Looking back on the past few weeks, I am reminded of something that I wrote in my first post on Fatlace from over a year ago…”Automotive Aloha”…this idea is bigger than shows and awards, features and fame, Facebook shares and Instagram likes, etc. It’s about passion and community; events like the Team Foreign Objects’ Euro…
Had to share this with our audience. Check out Jack Olsen’s awesome garage and his frankenstein Porsche 911RSR. Poet by day, car enthusiast & racer by night. One Car to Do It All from Petrolicious on Vimeo. Words from Petrolicious.. “More often than not, classic car owners deliberate whether to use their cars as daily…
I caught up with Nakai in Oregon as he was completing phase 1 of his build with the guys from Rothsport Racing. Phase 2 will consist of completing the interior, a 4.0 engine build, and fine tuning the suspension to fit the car to RWB Spec. With no signs outside of the building, you wouldn’t…