And so another year ends, and what a year it has been for me! I’ve travelled all over the country covering events, to different continents even! So I thought a little look back would be good First stop is back to Ross Mccracks Altezza Shoot in January February and Wallace Performance HQ Ghostly Murdo was busy welding away The first SXOC drift day was in March and there would be a few more throughout the year! Kinghorns impreza got a full shoot April brought the Granite City R

As promised, the JDM and “Stanced” cars that rocked up at Coffee and Cars in Houston. First up is this BNR34 something I really didn’t expect to see especially in the US. Some New York state R34 Skylines were recently publicly impounded for breaching US import laws, the basic’s of it are all cars imported to the US have to be type approved similar to the UK’s SVA. If they aren’t obviously you and your Skyline can end up in hot water. Ce28’s in gun-metal work well with the bla

After reading the Mayday garage blog, I have really wanted to attend this event for sometime. The complete mix of all things automotive enticed me and so luckily this time in Houston i was able to get down to Vintage Park to see this event first hand. I kinda thought I knew what to expect, with the event running 7am until 10am like all great UK car meets no one appears until 7.10/7.20 so I left the house at bang on 7am for the 20 minute journey down US249 and into Vintage Par

I recently shot Big Niks S14a and finally it made it into Total Nissan Magazine! Here it the cover And the full 6 page spread here – http://noonefresher.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/big-niks-total-nissan-biznez/ #aberdeen #international #photography #thacko

When I passed my driving test I purchased a Vauxhall Nova, it was super cool back in the day but was nothing to the daddy of all Vauxhalls at the time ….. the Cavalier GSI 2000. The current owner of this beauty is a guy called Morgan, I work with him daily and after a short term owning a VR6 Golf he decided to go back to his routes and a Cavalier was thee car to do it! Morgan had 3 in the past, to say he knows them pretty well would be a understatement! So only the best would

With the Time Attack out of the way, now its time to concentrate on the show cars and EDC. The EDC was going on in between the session of the Time Attack, it consists of qualifying and a final round. I didn’t pay much attention to the whole “competion” as it’s a bit of a farce IMO, however sideways cars is something you should never get bored of. Local driver Keiron Cameron and his V8 Ps13 were representing, the all yellow colour scheme makes it easy to pick out when twinning

Well its been a while since i last brought you an update on how the strip/rebuild is going, this has been mainly to me working some overtime and not having the chance to head over to Wallace Performance but hey ho this update will be worth it! As you can see from the first picture, it now resembles a car once again The majority of running gear is back in place, the engine is being finished off and will be engine dyno’d before its shipped to Wallace HQ. The radiator is now in

Onto another day of the build, well i say day but obviously for the guys at Wallace Performance its been weeks! The car is now starting to take shape with some of the bodywork being put back on The back quarters are being smoothed over to meet the new wider Voltex kit And the lightweight fibreglass doors seen in part 2 are now in place Mike also showed me the new improved engine mounts Aswell as the Can for the dry sump system they will be running on the car Some nice welding

Another day, another part to the story of the 2011 Wallace Performance Time Attack Build. First up the car/shell itself. A full custom cage is now welded in place, Mike previously had a bolt in custom cage but this year he has decided to go the whole hog. The cage comes pre fabricated but needs to be put together piece by piece. Mike and Murdo welded the cage in place. As you can see some nice work has gone on The second part of today though is all about the goodies! Mikes ne

The last SXOC Drift Day of 2010 and a rather wet and cold one at that! I spent the whole day snapping, hiding from rain and having soaking wet feet lol But for the levels of skidding it was worth it! The day started with a 7.45am meet, followed  by a leisurely drive down the A90 to Forfar for a MCd’s Here we met up with Cam Dunkz and Ryan and his JZX100 MkII, Awesomeness in true form! Then off to a wet  Crail Once there alot of the drivers hard a hard time with the conditions

Well over the next coming months you will see alot more of this! I’ve been asked/volunteered to get the strip and rebuild of the Wallace Evo, hopefully you guys will get to see a absolutely awesome project appear in front of your eyes but for now a couple of snaps 17/10/10 This is how i saw the car after my holidays in the states, unfortunately the engine and some of the bodywork had been removed 23/10/10 A week later and I popped in to see how Mike and co were getting on ………

Went along to the MLR RR Charity day at Wallace Performance, was an excellent day out with some serious cars plus I got to scope out Wallace’s new premises. Highest BHP was Philyerboot’s Evo VI with 780bhp on E85 fuel, a fair amount of power for a “little” Evo LOL Lewis’s Evo V was rocking his new Volk TE37’s P33W33’s Evo 9 was looking good, unfortunately it had some fuelling issues, which didn’t help it produce the figures it should have Regional organiser Steve Donald’s Evo

Just got sent this from the MFC #thacko #skyline #mintofruit #club #mint #bhp #scotland #jdm #international #aberdeen #brandwhore

Driven by Fiona Kindness this GTR is a full on track machine!! This car competes mainly in Time attack but is also used for alot of track days throughout the UK. Being a co-owner of http://www.trackscotland.co.uk gives Fiona alot of time behind the wheel of the GTR. With such a track focussed car alot of body panels have been replaced for fibre glass, the doors,bootlid and bonnet are all made from our itchy lightweight friend. The weight loss doesn’t stop there perspex window

Dunno what it is?? Its THEE biggest Japanese only car show this side of the world, stretched over 3 days it’s a must for any true JDM fanboi. JDMtas.com were there once again and because we live in Aberdeen (500 miles away) the trip always starts early So here we are at 5am Thursday morning A blast down the A90 and onto the M74 to meet the southern members at Abington services. Most of us needed fuel, driving turboed imports isn’t good for fuel consumption lol Then just anoth

Crail raceway was the scene for another SXOC drift day, i started the day off in usual fashion, a 6am wake up call, then into the car to meet up with friends and onto the drift day……………………………. Mints car got alot of attention throughout the day with alot of trialing of parts, we ended up stripping the whole front end just to run 8 1/2″ watanabes with R888 toyos to stop the understeer! which resulted in a MX5 missile dori mobile! dovboys S14a was shredding tyres in its usual fa

Done by my own fair hands on my 7D Enjoy #thacko #mintofruit #club #mint #scotland #jdmtas #jdm #international #aberdeen

Well where do i start ………………….. 5am?? yeah 5am Sunday morning my alarm goes and its time to get up. Get all my camera gear together and load it in to my Evo. Setting off out of Aberdeen I grabed some fuel then it was non stop to Edinburgh. The reason for waking up at this ungodly hour?? The MLR Sprint Series ……………….. An Evo onlyish Sprint Series run by the worlds largest Evo Forum, Cars attended from local areas and further a field some competitors driving 500 odd miles to go

Thought i would post some pictures from the first ever MFC™ BBQ! For once the weather was good! Pretty much all the MFC™ were there bar Cam and Kyle. Mint was fashionably late as ever lol, although he said he was “Working Late” and we all know that aint true lol Kinghorn was rocking the Carlsberg ……………….. And the MFC™ “WAGS” were there to add a much needed feminine touch So all in all a mighty time was had by allllll #thacko #dori #mintofruit #club #mint #mfc #photography #bh

Onto what i looked forward to most! Time attack has always been a draw for me, seeing extremly well prepared and extremly fast “tuner” cars go against the clock to find out whos the fastest! Within Time attack there are 2 classes Club and Pro, they pretty much speak for themselves lol but alot of different cars now enter time attack Strange seeing a Porsche being chased by a mega wide arch Pulsar lol Oldskool machinery was accounted for aswell! Along with some of the best Jap