...OK, a PCK Studio sticker is running 10's. On a killer car.
However, the irony is that since that little piece of adhesive-backed vinyl goodness was slapped on the rear glass, Blake's Firebird has run quicker and quicker. Coincidence? Yeah, more likely than not. But an opportunity to post new video of the mighty Poncho from Tejas? Fantastically correct indeed...
Check out the latest video here (the 10-second run is at the end.... but it's fun to watch this monster tear off of the line a few times, too.
Blake's mighty 'bird has been a stand-out in the PCK Studio stable of good friends' rides, and you may recognize it from both the site here, as well as the feature in PHR, where at the time, the mad Poncho was laying down mid-10's. Bear in mind, this is a home-built car that is show-worthy (having scooped up multiple awards at the Houston Autorama and beyond), and what's even cooler is that Blake uses the car for what it was built to do: HAVE FUN.
Friday morning, as I updated my site and a few posts here, I hopped on good old YouTube for moment, and saw a link to Rancid’s new video, and gave it a look… Good deal, good tune…
...or at least something better than that "screamo" crap you're listening to, anyway.
After digging on Christian's post over on the Motorburg forum concerning some "singing F-1 cars" (ever heard an engine belt out "God Save the Queen"? You owe it to yourself to.), I had to share a slightly related piece here.
I've been working with some pretty cool projects lately, a few in particular began with the terms "pushing the envelope" and "extreme", and it did nothing but flare up the urge in me to go fast. Granted, this is bit on the opposing end of the spectrum frrom earlier posts, where we looked at subtle modifications, and really praised the "less is more" school of thought, but the sheer thought and engineering in an F-1 car is mind-blowing, and certainly fits here. What pushes it to the outer reaches is the awesome power (OK, and noise) created by one of these monsters. And in my opinion, they are a textbook example of "extreme". Dig on one running all-out:
I’m browsing a couple weeks ago, and came across this video:
A field FULL of transmissions. Man, it’s a veritable shitload of transmissions. Is this collection still growing? Is this a mounting problem? A planetary disaster waiting to happen?
Perhaps this guy’s just really in synch with his collection... He may have been in the sun too long, a bit unstable, or maybe he blew a gasket, but that’s just my input. Seems to be an almost sealed case after filtering the evidence. But, if his family banded together, mounted an effort, and pumped some energy behind it, perhaps their pressure would result in a clutch situation, and things would run smoothly, almost fluid, if you will. Hopefully they can get this moving before someone passes another regulation.
I mean, what his yard needs is something more than a quick pickup... any dipstick can see that. Unloading that collection would really get his financial wheels in motion, and convert his neighbors to happy campers, versus being so tourqued-off, and switching their pitch to a more pleasant output... before someone throttles him, or chokes him with a length of cable, and winds up in the joint. I know it has me geared up.
I was going to remain neutral about this guy’s crop of transmissions, and not get on his case, but after seeing the video again, and all of those cores parked there, I’m reversing my position. I can’t imagine his neighbors adapting to the situation... they’re probably thinking “Hey Jack, we’re not taking this anymore. We’ve put our cause into overdrive, and calling the housing committee, in the hopes that they'll provide leverage, so don’t get all shifty with us. Property values are slipping! We shudder to think of where they’ll be in a year!”
Foaming at the mouth, they’ll drive him out of the community before things get too low, I’d imagine…. just a matter of pushing his buttons, and getting the county to seal his fate. They’ll have to hire a toploader to get those things over to the rock crusher, and that’ll be a lot of manual labor.
Hey… this stuff won’t happen automatically, you know.
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