The Beast Lives

Small little post, sadly last week during the Shannonville run, Pat was experiencing fuel delivery issues and the car was getting starved for fuel, it sounded to me like it was most noticeable at high RPMs. Thankfully, all seems to be settled now and the beast is running, I'm praying to see it in action.

CYRIOUS PRODUCTIONS - THE BEAST AWAKENS from Cyrious Productions on Vimeo.

It's (needless to say) a Toyota AE86 coupe, running a turbo F20C (Honda s2000 engine) putting out 300whp.

~Andrew Gregg~

DriftStream & Slide America

Quick little mention, for all drift fans checking this out might wanna scope out a couple of things that I"ve been watching while updating things on here, one being the Formula D DriftStream, featuring live coverage of Formula D for it's entire span of event. You can watch at, http://www.livestream.com/formulad It covers the live event as well as has the the events saved for later viewing. The Next live feed is June 4-5.

As well as Slide America an approximately an Hour and 40minute DVD covering grassroots drifting in the United States, you can pick it up from the site above for $9.99 USD and is definitely worth the purchase. A short trailer for you all, enjoy.

Slide America Trailer. from Andy Sapp on Vimeo.

~Andrew Gregg~

Gumball 3000 at Shannonville

Last Thursday the Gumball Rally hit up Shannonville and Toronto, Pat Cyr from Drift Posse was nice enough to give me a lift out for some DMCC car testing and to scope out some rare cars.

Another Toyota MarkII, pretty sure it's the same one that was being sold at DMCC last year.


Sadly not to much was going on, DMCC drivers were working out the kinks of their cars, sadly Pats car was really not looking good, it was being staved of fuel so he wasn't gonna risk the car by running it, it's thankfully been sorted out since then.

Brad Carlton rocking his much cleaner looking 240sx, seems to be running considerably better then in '09 hoping he does well and establishes himself a good place at DMCC this year.


The shooting conditions were less then great, it was very windy that day and just made shooting overall a hassle, the drifters stayed quite late and then DMCC guys took us all out for dinner, went and chilled at Kelsey's, had some good food, good laughs and overall was a great night. even though we got home quite late.

Peter Chrisikopoulos rocking his Silvia through the last turn of Shannonville, loving the colour and volume hes getting out of this machine.


Tania Bourbonnais working out the kinks in her Pontiac GTO (Rhys Millens old car before it was sold to her) hoping she does well this year at DMCC.


Unfortinately I'm not sure who this is, quite like the car though, a JDM Toyota Soarer, hoping I can find out the owner since I'd like to get a shoot with him, or the guy with the silver Soarer. (photo below)


A lovely pair of JDM Toyotas.


A car that needs absolutely no introduction, but if you are not aware, this is a Bugatti Veyron, its worth more then everything you own most likely


Another highly expensive machine, this being the Lamborghini Murciélago SV.


As usual check out my flickr for higher res photos as well as more photos from this set and more.

~Andrew Gregg~

Toronto International Autoshow

Overall I gotta say I was fairly disappointed with the autoshow this year nothing blew me away, got to see a few interesting things, but nothing that overall wowed me with the exception of a Ferrari 599XX, but couldn't get any solid photos of it based on its position.

A very nice concept I liked very much, I don't believe it had a model name but I can see it being the successor to the current G37 down the line if made.


There was a few interesting concepts lurking around, the Infiniti above blew me away more then any, but there was a some cool stuff from Ford, Lexus, Honda and more. Unfortunately not as much interesting as in 2009.

An interesting car from Lexus, that was recently seem undergoing road testing. Personally a nice car I'd say, but seems to be something that should be coming from Toyota and not from Lexus, but an interesting car none the less.


Was disapointed that "Red Zone" wasn't there this year where they had some more unqiue things from some drift and some imports, but ya was taken out this year sadly.

A shot of a Ferrari California and the 599XX, sadly from this angle as you can see the California was blocking the 599, and there was a pillar directly in front of it so, this was near the only chance for a shot. Even asked if I could go in the sectioned off area for photos but understandably I couldn't.


A cool thing I wasn't expecting was a Shelby display with pretty much every car the lengendary man was involved with, was a great chance to see alot of automotive history.

My favorite version of the McLaren SLR, even love it in roadster form, typically something that I don't really go for. Very much looking forward to the new cars from each of these companies the SLS from Benz and the MC4-12C from McLaren.


The successor to the SLR, and Benz developed SLS AMG, parts about it visually I prefer to the SLR but also prefer the SLR in the rear.


Quite like this photo, and an absolutely beautiful car. My favorite Maserati without question


Adore the lighting on this photo, on one of my favorite cars in the world.


Was certainly not expecting to see one of these, let alone 2, the true Ferrari slayer. A little back story for those not in the know. This is a Ford GT40, back in the 60's Ford was planning on purchasing Ferrari, Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari founder and owner) had agreed to the deal but at the last second Enzo pulled out of the deal insulting Henry Ford. Ford decided it was time to go to war, and would take the war to Le Mans, where Ferrari was the force to beat. after some trial and error with the car, 2 years after it came out it took the 1966 Le Mans victory, and then subsequently took victories in '67, '68 and '69 insulting Ferrari. The car even managed at least 1 1st, 2nd, 3rd place finish. Easily one of the most famous race cars in the history of motorsports and certainly made it mark is history.


Never been a big fan of side profile shots, but this came out quite well, wasn't expecting much from the photo. This is an MK4 GT40, the last iteration of the car before it was discontinued.

As usual check out my flickr for higher res photos as well as more photos from this set and more.

~Andrew Gregg~