Hi, I'm Ian. I'm preoccupied with cars and driving them to the limit.
I keep a photo blog of my favorite car images at motomania.tumblr.com »
Listen to some of my favorite driving music at stopthedisco.tumblr.com »
My wife keeps a fun food blog at bentobloggy.blogspot.com »
See the fun cars I've hooned »
In My Garage:
1999 Mazda MX-5 turbo (NB)
1999 BMW M3 (E36)
1985 BMW 535i (E28) ChumpCar project
2001 BMW 530i (E39)
Past Project Cars:
1994 Mazda MX-5 (NA)
1988 BMW 325is (E30)
1987 BMW 325is (E30)
1987 BMW 325is (E30)
Shopping List:
Honda S2000 (AP1)
Mazda RX-7 (FD)
Porsche 911 (993)
Viva Grassroots Motorsports! »
$500 race cars? We're not kidding »
Countdown to the Petit LeMans
Special thanks to United BMW and 2011 champions BMW Team RLL for a great pre-Petit event tonight. Mingling with the crowd I ran into three of my old 24 Hours of LeMons teammates and even a certain Mike Burroughs with his StanceWorks E9. This is shaping up to be an awesome week.
September 27, 2011, 9:26pm Permalink
Vicki Butler-Henderson gushes over the new BMW M3 GTS
If your girl doesn’t understand why you love to drive, show her this :p
Cars that keep me skimming the classifieds:
BMW M3 (E46), from $12,000
With 333 horsepower on tap, the third-generation BMW M3 made 104 hp/liter on the way to an 8000 rpm redline. Though larger, heavier and more refined than its predecessors, the E46 M3 was much faster—hitting 60 mph in under five seconds and running the quarter mile in the low 13’s. An exceptionally comfortable and capable street car, it is just as at home smoking its brakes and tires around a race track. While not cheap to maintain or insure, this is one hell of a car for the money. (Photo Tom Daem, via motoriginal)
February 14, 2011, 3:43pm Permalink Reblogged from Motoriginal.December is here in force, bringing freezing tempertures with it. My turbo Miata went into the garage a few weeks ago - my winter beater is an old BMW M3.
Every time I start daydreaming too much about a new car, my wife reminds me that I’ve got it pretty good already… then I remind her that both of my cars together cost us 2/3 of what hers did ;)
Autocross
“Often seen as an entry level motorsports racing event. However, the race is between drivers of street cars and a clock, and as anyone that has done this before knows, the clock always wins.” — Uncyclopedia
“The ALMS M3 is perfection – everything is right on target. It has the perfect balance of power, braking and handling. Everything just feels in perfect proportion. It’s almost like they made a work of art and then decided to turn it into a race car. You just want so badly to do a good job and do what the car is capable of.”
— BMW factory driver Bill Auberlen (via motomania)
Classified of the week: $6700 E30 BMW w/ E36 M3 Engine
1989 BMW 325i with 3.0L M50 engine, five-lug swap, coil-overs and plenty of other track-friendly goodies. DO WANT.
June 23, 2010, 3:14pm Permalink
