Edward's Corner

So I hit my first Super Car Sunday here in Los Angeles. I used to drive down to Irvine for Cars and Coffee, but I’m planning on making that into special trips as it is ~45min away. SCS (Super Car Sunday) I plan on making more of a regular thing.

SCS happens every Sunday from 7am - 10am at the Westfield mall parking lot off of Topanga just north of the 101 freeway. It was a pretty quiet turn out today according to regulars, but there were some cool cars none the less.

This camaro arrived just after me. I heard it coming and thought, hmm looks pretty low key but sounds mean. I was walking around and 15 minutes later still heard the car cooling which I thought was odd and hinted to me that it was not naturally aspirated. Walked up to it and see it has two turbonetics turbos.

420 Cubic Inch running 10psi through the turbo’s. Said he hadn’t put it on the dyno yet, but was in the 600hp - 700hp range. Not too shabby considering he could easily crank the boost to 14psi without too much additional stress on the car.

So I’m sitting there just finishing my conversation when in the distance I hear a very loud car. I see a spoiler in the distance and think to myself…no…it can’t be…I blogged about it not too long ago (the 2nd car at the end of the post), but would someone here really street their…

and sure enough, he turns the corner

Ultima GTR.

He was running an LS1 putting down something along the lines of 600hp, but more impressively is the fact that the damn thing weighs 2300lbs. That car must be absolutely insane.

Some other fun stuff and notable mentions

Love the mini bike in the mini pickup

Damn thing is sitting on 44inch tires!

And the best part…

Full spare!

This guy showed up with a brand new GT500. I wasn’t aware it was even out yet.

What definitely caught me by surprise when he opened the hood and I saw it was the same exact 550hp supercharged V8 from the damn Ford GT!

For those of you that dont know what the Ford GT is, it is the yellow car in the background behind this Viper.

Overall it was pretty cool. Met some awesome people that know tons about cars and mechanics which was great to be around again :-D Looking forward to more.

So i’ve recently seen an Atom on Wilshire a few times in the Santa Monica area. (stock photo above)

As soon as I saw it about 3 blocks away I was like, “Holy illegal Batman!”. But I did some research online, and found an ariel atom owner who streets his Atom, and apparently there is a California DMV code called the SB-100.

“The SB-100 gives 500 vehicles a year the opportunity to be sequenced specially constructed. The DMV gives 500 vehicles a chance by giving away the numbers 1 to 500.”

http://www.andysatom.com/legal.html

Interesting. Ariel atoms are great track cars, but I’d never grab one for the street, let alone Los Angeles. If I were to wait in line for hours on end at the beginning of the year looking to get a kit car permit, I’d go for something completely insane. Like the Ultima GTR with 1000hp

Girl would probably be extra, but you may be able to negotiate her down to “just friends” if you give her a ride and invite her to dinner and drinks

I’d probably drive to San Fran and back along the CA-1 every weekend.

Hope I run into the actual owner. Would be cool to see if this is the tactic he used to get it on the road.