Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational- Nov 9, 2013
OUSCI is where some of the world’s best pro-touring and exotic performance cars (and drivers) get to show their stuff.
We have a total of 159 images divided into 2 groups (pages). We will also upload a number of short video clips that give a great feel for what this event is really like. Continue reading
Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational, Nov 3, 2012
Attending this competition is more involved and a bit more expensive these last 2 years, but it is still well worth it to see some of the nations best built pro-touring, resto-mods, and customs compete for the crown of Ultimate… Continue reading
Formula-1 U.S. Grand Prix, Austin, Texas, Nov 16, 2012
My trip to the inaugural Formula-1 U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas was an exciting adventure. Although I had previously driven through Texas several times and spent 6 weeks at Fort Bliss in El Paso (many years ago), this… Continue reading
Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational – Nov 5, 2011
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Held on the Saturday immediately after the Las Vegas SEMA Show, this is the fourth OUSCI event held at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada. Unusually cold temps arrived on the last day of the SEMA Show, and some OUSCI participants braved snowy conditions while driving over the mountains to Pahrump, while most others took the longer, low-elevation route. Continue reading
The Strip at LVMS – NHRA Heritage Series – May 28, 2011
The Saturday of Memorial Day weekend 2011 brought perfect temperatures to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and some strong tail-winds probably didn’t hurt the ET’s either. I was disappointed with the small number of rods on display, but there were plenty of nice drag cars to make up for it. Continue reading
Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational – Nov 6, 2010
Held on the weekend following the close of the Las Vegas SEMA Show, this would be the third OUSCI event held at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada. It’s always nice to see highly modified and meticulously detailed muscle cars and big-buck customs on the track and sliding around the autocross pylons. Continue reading
Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ – July 30th, 2001
A few pix shot in 2001 at Englishtown, New Jersey’s Raceway Park. Included are some outstanding creations from Ida Automotive. These images were shot with my first digital camera, a 2 mega-pixel point-and-shoot.