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I’ve posted some of Phils work before, and here i am back with more…. and with good reason, This boy has great skills with a camera. so here, for your viewing pleasure, the latest from Phil. set in the workshop of Roddisonsmotorsport.co.uk, Phil has managed to make a working garage an amazing backdrop, and made the fresh MAX5 race car look like a perfect trailer queen, she is not, she will be rubbing doors with the rest of the MAX5 race grid all season. Paint was done by the great friend of Combustionpunks, Painter Dave over at Deepcar Autobodies.

Remember, you can see more of his work on his flickr stream and on his website go and check it out, you will not be disappointed

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Phil has just posted some pics he took from the Autotronix Developments MX5Nutz rolling road day….. and once again they are amazing. Phil has some mad skills with a camera, and here are a couple he took of my beloved Bankruptcy

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I’m ever so envious of how smooth this guy is, no effort, no flapping arms or tugging on the controls, just smooth effortless control, the guy could be sat at home flicking the channels on his tv it is all so serine inside his nissan. And if you think the first vid is good, check out the (far shorter) second vid showing his precision too. A lot to be picked up from these 2 vids I feel

Precise….

I watched this and instantly wanted to find an old beat up s13 and rag it to death…..

I still havn’t got over it…

So I was brosing the web, as you do, and came across Mayday Garage on facebook, some insanely good pics on there but this one really caught my eye,,,, I really dunno why……

I’m lucky to know quite a few people with mad skills. One of these guys is Phil of PGDesigns.

He takes some amazing pictures, quite a few of which can be seen in his flickr galleries. Here are 3 of my favorite of his car pictures.

The first one is the one he took of my first MX5 for the MX5Nutz 2011 Calendar (She was Miss October ) The second and 3rd are of his amazing Mk1 MX5 turbo. This car was a very big influence in convincing me to start my own turbo MX5 project….. Damn you Phil!
Enjoy the pics, and go see some more of his work on flickr, well worth the browsing time

So i’m going to start posting web plunder, bit of the web relating to cars that i enjoy, and here we go with one of the first ones, Off seasons by Drift Alliance. Watch it then try not to grab the nearest RWD and start sliding around the closest bit of abandoned tarmac you can find. Enjoy Cant see the video? you may need to install flash player or get a better browser

off seasons from Drift Alliance on Vimeo.

You know that most excellent Rolling road shootout that Combustionpunks helped organise? you know the one, at Autotronix Developments for the MX5Nutz forum?
Well, the guys from Dropout Media came along, and they brought their cameras, and this is what they produced Quality through and through Spot Bankruptcy, shes in there

Nutz Dyno Day from DropOut Media on Vimeo.

Well I’ve had a busy few weeks, so theme development was delayed until yesterday, but a few good hours working on it got us to Combustiontheme 0.0.1a lol which looks a little like :-

Features so far:-

• Collapsable panel for login etc
• Outside sidebar pulls list of blogs on combustionpunks
• Outside sidebar pulls latest posts from Blogs on combustionpunks
• Inner sidebar is user configurable with widgets
• Menu is user configurable to show what individual blogger wants.

Upcoming Features:-

• User selectable banner image
• User selectable secondary colour scheme

Added to this, WordPress 3.3 is still on target for release this month, and along with that comes the new V5 of Simple:press, so forum should be live real soon too so its all go in the combustionpunks office (errr… ok, my attic)

This weekend is to be spent on adjusting the look of the blog   ok, it isn’t gonna get finished this weekend,  but hopefully monday we will be running on combustion theme 0.0.0.1