Fast Car September 2017

Marmite. You either love it or hate it, right? The thing is though, I don’t mind it. I don’t vomit at the thought of having it for breakfast. Neither would I pass on a full English to eat the divisive yeasty spread. What’s this got to do with anything? Well Marmite’s love-it-or-hate-it reputation applies to this month’s cover car. There’s no denying the modifications are top notch and the execution is also flawless on Kevin Cham’s Subaru Impreza. But that chrome wrap just isn’t going to be everyone’s flavour. Damn does it get attention though – and that’s what cover cars have to do. If you’re reading this now, it’s worked, especially if it’s your first time. Anyway, you can decide whether you’re a lover or hater after reading the…

Modify Everything So it s been a couple of months, maybe even years, since we last had a Modify Everything in the magazine but this was just too good not to show. This is what happens when the main man behind one of the UK’s best automotive trimmers, d:class, mangles his fingers – a fully customised arm sling. We might get them to make one for the boss’s broken leg! Genius. Coming soon… With the show season now in full swing there are amazing cars being built and launched every week. We will find and feature the best ones from around the world and this utterly stunning stanced Honda S2K will be in the magazine very soon. Watch this space… “‘THE GOOD OLD DAYS!’ THE WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE A…

The iconic Festival of Speed has evolved significantly from its humble beginnings in 1993. What started as a low-key event with a handful of classic race cars, sparse straw bales and money collected in buckets on the gate, has transformed into a four-day motorsport colossus, with 150,000 fans turning up to revel in a mind-blowing, dazzling array of diverse cars, bikes, riders and drivers. Everything from 100-year-old smokers to contemporary Formula One cars, battle-scarred rally heroes to classic Le Mans racers is covered, along with representatives from every automotive niche you can think of. NASCAR, dragsters, cutting-edge supercars, you name it. There’s even a full-blown rally stage up in the forest. The thing that really marks the show out from the rest is the high-octane drama. This is no static…

“I have always had a passion for cars. From an early age I would push Matchbox cars around the front room” You don’t have to be a professor in psychology to deduce that the key touchpoints of your childhood inform the adult you grow up to be. If you had an outdoorsy upbringing, always climbing trees and splashing about in rivers, you’re more likely to end up working for the Environment Agency than the kids who spent all their time playing Cool Spot and Zool, who’ll now be designing apps on Brick Lane. Sometimes these childhood influences manifest themselves in less than subtle ways, and we reckon it’s pretty safe to assume that when Kev Cham was at school, he was the kid with the luminous Stabilo Boss highlighters in…

STYLING Chrome Blue wrap; +60mm wide arches with polished bolts; custom front bumper with Chargespeed foglight ducts; carbon-fibre canards; custom splitters, debadged front grille; Hella horns painted in Stabilo Boss luminous green; custom headlights with projectors and painted inserts in black; carbon-fibre vented and scooped bonnet; smoked indicators; Japanese carbon-fibre racing wing mirrors; Chargespeed side-skirt extensions; custom rally Spec C roof vent; rear window vents from USA; rear upper window spoiler; custom black exhaust surrounds with matching bolts; Battle Aero rear wing with custom wires and bar; flushed boot with Spec D rear spoiler; JDM rear LED lights – handmade with custom indicator sweeping; rear diffuser with corner extensions. TUNING EJ20 flat-four, fully forged with nitrided crank, MD3210T turbo; American-made hard-pipe with big ram filter; reverse inlet manifold with quicker…

Our pals behind the Players show franchise are clearly doing something right. With their long-standing September show, held at Essex’s North Weald Airfield, getting increasingly popular, five years ago they added a second show to the calendar. And Players Classic, as you can probably see from the pictures, has gone on to become one of the best shows of the year in its own right. Held at the height of the summer in the stunning grounds of Goodwood Circuit down on the south coast, Players Classic is a modified car show that simply oozes class – something reflected in the invite-only metal that’s on display in the grounds. With an appreciation for anything slammed, race-based, classic or just plain interesting, the show is a fascinating mix of everything from hydro’d-out…