Features

feature vehicles get put in this category, requires detailed photos of the car/truck/bike including exterior-interior-engine bay- so on along with a article about the car and owner

  • Features

    Audentes Fortuna Iuvat

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    The day before the article is scheduled to go up and here I am jamming to some Hans Zimmer (Intersteller OST), a scratch notepad with random jotted down thoughts, and the second monitor full of photos of the feature car. I mean, I can’t break tradition at this point right? Some of my “best” work happens when I procrastinate and stay up late and pay for it in the morning. I dabble in sarcasm if you havent picked this up yet. When catching up with Hector, I realized it can be a little crazy when you’re able to measure how long you’ve known someone by going over the car’s theyve owned over the years. It’s never “Oh man, I’ve known this guy since what…2010?”, but more of a “Oh yeah you had the E46 Sedan, then this other car, then an M3 for a while…”. Car people, am I right?
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    A Horse of a Different Color

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    When it comes to American Muscle Cars, you have your 3 big names: GM, Dodge, and Ford. Then you can break it down to the variety of models made by each: The Camaro, Trans-Am, Charger, ‘Cuda, and then you have the Mustang. From person to person you’ll find differences in where these names rank on a list. I’m not sure when it happened, or why, but before John was enjoying a “casual” drive in one at an airport runway, before Sean was dropping an RB motor in one, before Memphis was boosting one, the Mustang was always my go-to choice for the best muscle car.

    (Bonus points if you can name the movies.)
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    Stay the Course

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    There’s a love/hate relationship I have with writing, as with most of my hobbies at this point. I love how sometimes things just click and I know exactly what I’m going to write about when I finish up with the feature shoot, but most of the time I put it off to the end. By this point I’ve stared at these cars for countless hours, zoomed in at over 200% in Photoshop making sure pixels that nobody else but myself might even care to think about are “perfect”. And then I sit down and I start replaying things in my head that the owners and I talked about, picking up little snippets of a conversation that can snowball into something bigger – something that I hope ties into everything and most importantly, is relatable. That’s my process so far, is there a better way? Definitely. Will I learn? Big ol’ “nah”.
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