1974 must have been a good year for cars, this Toyota Corolla would have cost a less new than a run around would today and yet this car does have a class of its own; it has lines curves, chrome, proper paint and not mod cons.
Yet in some views this could be a classic car, but it’s not, this is show car that has taken five years to build so far and it still r
For Cenk Ocakoglu his first set wheels was a Rover 220 Turbo, a good old British build that made its way to Turkey and was his first experience of tuning and racing cars. This stayed with him as he travelled to California to study for an MBA.
Now it was the Toyota Supra that took his fancy as he believed that these were better than the Nissan Skyline GT-R
The Toyota Corolla is probably one of the most overlooked cars that ever come over from Japan, its association with non racing owners, means that it simply drifted through its years of production only to disappear from the face of the earth.
However, occasionally there is someone who can see beyond the Toyota image and goes on to create something that is breath taking and wonderful all at the same time. It takes someone like Sean Ig
During the eighties for reasons better known to themselves Toyota put both their sports together in one cool package the Toyota Celica Supra and for his birthday Jason Poco was given a 1985 model, sure it needed some work doing but what would anyone expect.
Luckily there happened to be a spare 7M GTE engine lying around as they do, this was the perfect heart fo
This is not your ordinary street car and considering that this machine is capable of delivering 1,497 hp which is not something that can taken lightly, in fact the that sort of power is difficult to comprehend for the average driver.
Blitz are the number one drag team in Japan, but drag racing has had a hard time over the past few years could the sport have lost its hold over the fans? In Japan that would somewhat strange considerin
The car is based around $600 3T-GTE, with a 2T-GE block and 3T-C that came from a 1984 Corolla that was based in a scrap yard. In addition, a further $600 for the turbo and ECU, he fashioned his own exhaust and pipes.
The turbo had to be tuned and once that had been done, he had a great run around to get to work and back, this was fine until things started to
