Everyone has their reasons for skiing or snowboarding.
Some want nothing more than to carve perfect c-turns down a groomed trail, while others dream of floating through deep, untracked powder. There are those who think of nothing other than zipper lining moguls or straight lining steep pitches. Many spend entire days in the park riding rails, table tops, and half pipes. Parents look forward to reconnecting with their kids without having to compete with the TV or internet. I know a few people who make a couple quick runs and then go to the resort parking lot and party for the rest of the day. Fair enough…Â Details
Rich Mahrle paid less than $10,000 for his bright red Italian roadster. Martin Gruss got his by bidding nearly $5 million at a major international collector car auction on California’s Monterey Peninsula.
But the point of the 19th annual Copperstate 1,000 vintage sports car rally wasn’t the price of your car but the enjoyment it provided on a 1,000-mile (well, actually a 1,010-mile) four-day tour of a good portion of Arizona.
The Copperstate 1,000 is staged by the Men’s Arts Council of the Phoenix Art Museum. The men’s council was organized in 1968 to provide volunteer night guards for the museum. It has grown to become the largest annual financial contributor to the museum…Â Details
Earlier this week, Hyundai Motors, one of drifter extraordinare Rhys Millen’s primary backers in the 2009 Formula DRIFT racing series, invited us out to experience first hand the Genesis coupe-based race car Millen will campaign in this year’s Formula D. The tire-smoking fun starts this weekend in Long Beach at the site of next week’s Grand Prix of Long Beach IndyCar season opener.
As we previously highlighted here on MT’s WOT blog, Millen’s RMR Racing team metamorphosed the Hyundai Genesis Coupe into a full-blown drift combatant. Based on the automaker’s “Art of Speed†concept shown at last year’s SEMA Show, the car is powered by a fully-tuned, 560-hp, turbocharged 4.1L version of Hyundai’s Lambda V-6… Details & Pictures
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