VIDEO> Return to ASB with Risky Devil!
Here in Southern California, we’re about to begin celebrating springtime – warmer weather and sunny days, driving with your sunroof open, checking out short skirts and whatnot… but I thought we should post up this cool video, as an ode to the Summer of 2009.
The Summer of 2009 was a great one… sure, it was hot as hell, and everyone was complaining about low fundage and a slow economy… but that didn’t stop all the super hardcore, super down, super low, super dedicated drifters from all over the country from gathering at the Ziptied/JustDrift All Star Bash in the middle of the freakin desert, California. In case you don’t know what All Star Bash is all about yet, I suggest you click this link to get an education on it.
It’s like Woodstock for drifters, but instead of getting together to smoke joints and listen to music, the All Star Bashers get together to smoke tires and listen to engines bounce off their rev limiters!
Big ups to our Tim (aka T2Films) from our Windy City family for finally releasing this video! (And yo, sorry I kept forgetting to send you my footage – I failed like a mofo on that.) Nuff respect to Just Drift, ZipTied peeps, Risky Devil, Pink Godzira, Instant Party, Mulsanne, and ALL the other drivers who made it out to All Star Bash, regardless if they were in a crew or not.
:: Antonio Alvendia
PS: I love the street footage of the cars just driving around randomly on the street. Hell yeah!
VIDEO> Risky Devil Puts the "Fun" in Funyuns
Fresh off the press! Here’s the newest video from Tim Tulov of T2 Films and AJ G. of the infamous Chicago drift gang Risky Devil. The two collaborated on this video to bring you what is probably the funnest Sunday ever! From hanging out with bums, to smashing into stuff, to paying off security guards…this video delivers. Definitely give this video a gander, but I have to warn you this video contains some explicit language and it’s probably best to say its not work safe. Enjoy!
::Dax Rodriguez
VIDEO> Roegge Devil
Will Roegge just posted up a short edit he made from his visit to Chicago with our friends Risky Devil. I know street drifting is supposed to be bad (mmmkay)… but there is something about slammed out drift cars doing their thing against a raw urban cityscape that just warms my heart.
Take a look.
:: Andy Sapp
WEBMINING> WSTO BMW 135i
Not many people know this, but I work at a BMW shop called WSTO. We bought this BMW 135i back in September and I LOVE it. It's not the most extreme build, but for a streetable daily driver it hauls balls and I think it looks dope. Read more...
COVERAGE> All Star Bash Weekend Pt.3
So here you go... enjoy the photos! Read more...
COVERAGE> All Star Bash Weekend Pt.2
And now, on to the photos... THIS IS GRASSROOTS DRIFTING! Read more...
NAME DROPPING> All Star Bash Summer Vacation
DISCLAIMER: I know everyone’s waiting for Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6 of our Just Drift/Ziptied All Star Bash Summer Slidetacular Drifting Bonanza coverage… but I just wanted to post this up real quick to say I’ll post more images later tonight, so sorry to make you guys wait!
I just got a few calls and texts from some of the Chi Town and Southern Cali homies in this picture (Can you spot anyone you know in the pics? How many names can you drop? haha), and since they’re out in Cali on summer vacation, they said they want to check out some of the dope LA grub and gear spots today! Right now we’re going to figure out where we’re gonna go… Barracuda/Sportie LA on Melrose? Undefeated? Proper in Long Beach? Bowls in SGV? Versailles Cuban garlic chicken with fried plantains? Or maybe Hawaiian food like lau lau, lomi lomi salmon, kalua pork and Hawaiian iced tea? Or maybe Koreatown for all you can eat KBBQ and a hostess-slash-coffee shop-slash-house of ill repute? LOL. I dunno… it’s up to the guys.
As for the other Motor Mavens Crew… Andy Sapp has just gotten back to ATL from the North vs South drift event at VIR this past weekend, and Dax Rodriguez got back to AZ late last night, and is now at work in the 100 degree heat… so I think it’s safe to say we won’t have an update until later tonight til Dax and I can go through all our photos and edit/post them! (And Andy is going to need some time to go through all his video footage from VIR)
So yeah, I’m gonna “call in sick” to hang out with my out-of-state friends, because the Motor Mavens philosophy puts priority on chillin out with friends! Check out Allen Chu‘s photos on Jtuned or Mike Garrett and Linhbergh‘s photos at Speedhunters if you want to look at ASB coverage immediately, as we were all hanging out at the track together this weekend. Oh snap, there I go name dropping again.
But make sure to keep your EeePCs, Macbooks, and iPhones locked onto MotorMavens.com for more ASB photos soon!!! We love all our grassroots drifting friends and we love ALL STAR BASH! Thanks for the support and THANKS FOR ROCKING OUR STICKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big ups to Risky Devil. Our Chicago famalam!
:: Antonio Alvendia
COVERAGE> All Star Bash Weekend Pt 1
Willow Springs is in the high desert - the Mojave Desert to be exact. It's two hours north east of Los Angeles, and the summertime sun just seems to sear anyone or anything it sees. As I write this, the event is far from over! In fact, we're about to leave the hotel in a few minutes to get back to the track, where the course just went hot - literally and figuratively.
This weekend's All Star Bash was exciting because there were drivers and cars that came from all over the United States just to drift with California's best. Cars came from as far as the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pacific Northwest, Arizona, Las Vegas, Chicago, and even South Dakota! Read more...
WEBMINING> Risky Devil IS300 is Back!
Being a web junkie I search the outer boundaries of the web looking for cool content and most importantly cool cars. With the internet train making a regular stop at Risky Devil’s blog I was greeted with some new imagery from AJ of ILL Photography. After ending the hiatus of one of my favorite Risky Devil cars and sporting a new front lip got me really wanting to make a trip to Chicago and meet up with these guys. Who wants to see me do a photoshoot of the Risky Devil cars? I sure do!
:: Dax Rodriguez
VIDEO> Summertime in Chicago
summer chillin from Tim Tulov on Vimeo.
Ahh… summertime. We love warm summer nights… hanging out with good friends, washing your car, and then cruising out to kick it. We know this video is kinda old, but who cares? It’s dope. Even though this video isn’t long at all, our boy Tim from T2 films brings it back to basics and does it again, capturing the essence of why we love summertime… Enjoy!
:: Motor Mavens
VIDEO> Last night in Chicago…
So I was talking to my homie Tim from T2 Films on Facebook, and he linked me to this video from LAST NIGHT. Screw the soundtrack… listen to the pure SOUND of street drifting!
Raw and uncut, this footage of AJ from Risky Devil reminds me of the Japanese underground street drifting footage that my Japanese friends would send me on VHS tapes… this was like 10 years ago…
Respect, Chicago! Now THIS is dope.
:: Antonio Alvendia
