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Border 2 Border: another tour of the Canadian automotive blogs

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Welcome back to our semi regular tour of the Canadian automotive scene. The Canadian International Auto Show is in full swing in Toronto, which is a good thing. Not so good for many is the fact that the only real stars of the show this year are cars of the vintage variety. Outside of the Shelby exhibit, the baby Auto Union above might just be the coolest car at the show. Inside the Shelby exhibit is likely the largest collection of historically significant Shelby cars ever displayed in Canada. To be in this room, soaking up the good vibrations of racing history is worth the price of entry all by itself. As for the rest of the show, your level of enjoyment may vary.

While I’m still feeling the vintage vibe, we should begin our travels with a visit to Classic Car Adventures where Warwick Patterson talks about the differences between shooting video on film as compared to digital. Backing up the story is a must see film shot at the 2006 Rolex Invitational at Lime Rock by Dikayl Rimmasch using vintage cameras. Very cool.
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Border 2 Border: a tour of Canadian auto blogs

Gary Grant ⋅ B2B ⋅ , , , ⋅ 2 comments

A new week and the time has come for another lap around the Canadian auto blogs. First though, I thought I would put up a bit of a challenge. Who can tell me what this race car is? Of course the folks who went to the 2010 NAIAS may have a bit of an advantage as I believe it was the only race car (other than a Patron Highcroft ALMS show car) at the show. Did anyone other than me even notice it was there?

Last week was a bit challenging for automotive events, as the Audi booth at NAIAS was struck by an overhead electrical fire which caused the evacuation of Cobo Hall and the Scottsdale Auction had a bit of a wind problem. On her Facebook page, Nika from Racerchicks said there had been reports that they had been hit by a tornado. The main tent actually ended up on a nearby highway. Philip Powell commented that once the mess was somewhat dealt with, the auction continued on Sunday. Over at Classic Car Adventures, Warwick has gotten his hands on some video of the tent coming loose.
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Border 2 Border: a tour of Canadian auto blogs

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Some time ago, I created the Carnival of Wheels at The Garage. The idea being that sharing some love with other auto blogs was a great way to bump some traffic at both sites by exposing readers to other sites they may not have found before. As Driven Wheels is new, it made sense to create something similar to showcase some of the great Canadian auto blogs out there.

I haven’t even thought about a logo for B2B yet, so I thought I’d share a photo from the 2010 North American International Auto Show. This glowing ball of sex up above is the Lexus LF-CH hybrid concept. Regular readers over at The Garage know that I don’t have much love for hybrids, but this 4 door hatch is just too hot looking. I want mine in exactly that colour.

All of these creative minds are friends in the real world, so there is no particular order to this, just working across my browser tabs!

First up we have my neighbour (ok, so next town) Jil McIntosh who has been writing about cars since before online media was even thought about. Like many of us, Jil was at NAIAS earlier this week and picked up what may be the coolest press kit ever!

Without embarrassing him, I think it would be fair to say Philip Powell is the Grand Pappy of Canadian auto writers. The older folks among our readers might remember him as Phil Murray at Canadian Track and Traffic. Philip has just launched a new blog about classic cars and remembers that before there was a Cobra, there was an Ace.
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