THE CAR:
Make: Toyota
Model: Corrola
Year: 1989
Engine Size: 1.6

Jean-pierre’s toy has a 7 colour flip paint, custom front and rear bumpers, smoothed sides and flushed boot. Custom 90mm drop with shortened shocks and a bad boy bonnet with a subaru style bonnet vent for air into the throttle bodies. 15″ mags to allow for a bit of looks as well as to keep it a quarter mile car.

Most people take a nap after enjoying their Sunday lunch. Now, with summer knocking at the door, most of us will be heading down to the beach, only if you stay near the coast. Not the Cape Town petrol heads! Sea Point parking lot, one of two parking lots, is the home of “Show Off” rides on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The other parking lot is at the beachfront in Gordon’s Bay. This is where I saw “Strawberry Milkshake”, pulling up with the …

We received an email the other night asking about how one can respray their brake calipers a different colour. So being the nice guys we are, we pulled out the old pictures of when we repainted the golf callipers. It’s really not that hard a job, all it takes is patents and a nice relaxing day of your weekend. Ohh and the engine/brake paint. We added the brake painting DIY article to the forum for those of you that want to check it out for future reference.
You can find it …

So we have been looking to add a new face to the AutoModified’s writing team, a few names were thrown around and we decided to approach Calvin from Dragon Customs in Cape Town. One thing that we loved about Calvin, was that he like us has a dream and is perusing it,  and it seems as if he has come out on top.
We asked Calvin to but together a small introduction about himself and his business, well it seems to be a bit more than a “small intro”.
This is Calvin’s …

Guys we just to quickly thank all of you that have helped us reach our target of 1000 facebook fans before the end of the year.
We would just like to thanks the following people for going the extra mile for us:
in no specific order
Team Thunder GP (Willie)
Marlize Hoon
Jaco Venter
Tim Terblanche
Corné Searle
Johann De Waal (Jo)
Joe Klein (JK)
Natasha Laubscher
And every body else we forgot to mention.
THANKS SO MUCH GUYS, REALLY APPRECIATED!!!
Here is to a whole bunch more..

So it’s voting time boys and girls. We are trying to make the website a little bit more interactive for you guys, so over the weekend we came up with the idea of letting you guys decide on what kind of content you would like to see more of on AutoModified, for example some of you feel that we are not covering enough of the Tech stuff and someone else dropped us a mail last week enquiring about paint calipers. So this got us thinking, well to be honest it …

Hi guys we have added a new section to the forum for those of you that are building race cars, drift machines or even show cars.  Adding your build to the forum will not only benefit other forum member but people can then offer there advice on certain topics that might come up. So far we have 3 build threads started. We have my Golf Mk1 2L Trackday build(still need to finish uploading pics) We have Darrens Alfa 2000 Junior and Pico performances 200Sx drift machine.
lets see if we can …

Now that we are officially in spring it time to whip out the rides and enjoy the weather, but 1st we need clean rides

Apparently in Australia they have bikini car washes running as legitimate businesses.. how cool is that hey! The owners must make a killing.