No way, Nexus Productions & The Theory. This is awesome.

(... pls take a look at The Theory's "Address Is Approximate" as well.)

Due to the fact I am living in Hamburg, I am—to be honest—bored by Porsche 911. It is not the car that bores me to death, it is more the fact that I see too many dumb*sses driving around in a 911. Every day. So I am blanking Porsche out. Nearly almost.

Some weeks ago I stumbled into a video, in which Magnus Walker (Serious) races a 1971 Porsche 911 down the freeway. This video made go "... hmm ...". And when I came across the Tamir Moscovici's "Urban Outlaw" trailer, one sentence doesn't go out of my mind: I have to free (at least) one Porsche 911. Soon.

Magnus Walker via John Straub.

No words needed. Enjoy.

Great you picked this one up, Luke.

No tiny digicams, no fancy cellphone filters: Bonneville Speedweek on Super 8.

Love it, Mrs. Lier!

David Dolores Frank (played by Marylin Manson) gets ... err ... music lessons. Awesome. Ow wait – multiple uses of explicit language. Of course. Watch chapter 1 here. 

Quentin Dupieux (Mr. Oizo) via mashKULTURE.

"It's about getting confidence from somewhere".

Please make sure you have seen the whole "Pass the Bucket" series. It is awesome. 

Due to my personal addiction to cruise in classic cars I have not driven too many modern sport-/super-/hyper- or racecars. Furthermore, I am really, really awfully bad in things like motorsport. Both, if you want to chat with me about Formula whatever, and local stuff like 24 Hours Nürburgring. But you know what's funny, Chris? The Artgega GT – you and Ben picked for your latest "Rent4Ring" masterpiece – has been amongst the cars I had the priviledge to cruise in.

Your drone- and quatrocopter work is a killer. And I am really sorry I have not found yet a project where we are in cahoots with each other. 

Love it. Perfect soundtrack.

Nicolas Devenel via Vintage Racers.

This one is for Eric.

718 Cyclery by Show Love via 8negro.

You probably remember the Ferdinand GT3 RS by Han Lan. May I introduce – the Fahrradi.

Auto Guide via Designboom.

"Skateboarding totally changed my life". Does it need more to describe a philosophy? I don't think so. 

Darn it, Jeremy! Sorry it took me so long to publish your latest work. Btw, your brilliant work reminds me once again – as always – I still need a motorcycle. Yeop, I know. I am a loser. I said that x-times before ...

Andy Carter (Pangea Speed) via Jermy Miller.

I just received an email from Josh Clason: "How are things going? It has been a while. You may have seen but we hit the road and now are traveling around. I started releasing Season 02 and thought you might be interested." 

C'mon, Josh. I was hopeful you chucked your work in after finishing Season 01, 'cause your style and skills always let me go green with envy.

Kidding aside, Josh. One word: Awesome.

Allan Anderson via Josh Clason (Depth of Speed). 

Mike, brilliant presentation.

I think it is obvious we have tremendous respect for the hot rod spirit. There is a simple reason for that: We are living in Germany. Well, on the one hand Deutschland has all its fingers in every pie regarding all worldwide highest desirable automotive brands – Audi, BMW (MINI, Rolls Royce), Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volkswagen (Bugatti, Bentley, Lamborghini) –, but if you think about a unique culture which is driven by passion and individuals … there is none. At least not if you compare it to the American hot rod culture, which started in the late 1930s.

Maybe we Germans are overall too square to respect people who modify their vehicles by themselves, maybe the creativity which is needed to build a car to one's wishes is not valuated that high. Not to mention the fact that the whole trailer-queen adoring and producing tuner society in Germany gets seriously derided for their work. For a good reason, btw, if you ask me – they should rather prove their competence by building street legal race cars instead of distorted plastic funfair sculptures. 

Ok. I run off the track. In the early days of Chromjuwelen.com we featured a 1952 Mercedes-Benz W 191 170 Sb, which got rodded by Heiko Sude. At the Race 61 in Finowfurt we ran into Niko Kahn's chopped and channeled Mercedes-Benz W 189 300 d "Adenauer". In the meantime Ingo Recktenwald debuted with his 1939 Mercedes-Benz W 136 170 V. And a few days ago our friends form the excellent Stipistop presented us another Mercedes-Benz 170 S hot rod.

Enough already. I am hooked. I want a Mercedes-Benz hot rod. With a supercharged AMG M113 5.4 L "Hammer" V8. Or – even better – with a 7.3 L V12 SL 73 AMG V12. You think this would is blasphemy? No. It would not. This would be the perfect German Engineered hot rod. 

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