Here’s some highlights from four locations of the Adelaide Hills Tarmac Rally over the last Friday/Saturday of May. I didn’t get a huge range of shots and my choice of focal length didn’t always match the car, but I had a lot of fun.
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What more reason to celebrate than a previously unreleased black and white photo of Wilson Keir, last year’s second runner up, negotiating the chicane in the R35 #120 (last year’s Mile results). Over 150 competitors have entered this third running of the event in the Hindmarsh Valley. For the timing geeks, the timing systems are by Tag Heuer, provided last year by the Southern Districts Car Club. (more…)
Some of you will know that the old school Toyota logo (often referenced as TEQ or TE7) is actually the word Toyota written in Japanese Katakana.
I thought I’d check out what it would look like if the word TWINCAM (tsu-i-n-ka-m) was written in the same style, thinking of eventually having a sticker put on the back of my car where the English twincam sticker used to be). Here’s some mockups of what it could possibly look like (from the first, which is pretty chaotic, to the most recent):
I haven’t worked out the best way to have the ‘i’ and ‘n’ yet… I found a way where they fit perfectly together but then the ‘n’ looks more like a ‘ri’, which makes it unreadable. There’s also still way too much whitespace.
Edit: on posting this, I realise that I should add the number 16 at the end…
August Boehm is currently back home in Australia, with interests in artistic technologies, speed sports, and martial arts.
