The Irish motor festival was the brainchild of the guys at Drift games, they managed to secure Punchestown as a Drift venue once again and use of the massive exhibition hall which is right next to the drift track. It’s great to have another show on the calendar each year and we’ve always loved Punchestown.
This has been a fast year. It seems not so long ago when we covered the Annual Toyota meet in Cork last year. I really enjoyed this meet because you never know what comes out of the wood work. Even the machine we came down in is worthy of a picture, (TRD Camry which you see here). You can also see Flip using his best shammy cloth to clean the flies.
What started out as a bit of a Joke on the Internet the other day ended up luring us out on a freezing Friday night standing around in the dark with friends. We were almost excited at the fact this “Cruise” was going down.
“Cruises” have been a part of car culture for as long as I can remember, in all shapes and sizes they have always happened. Its a different kind of nightlife.
With it already pushing towards october, 2011 will go down with many as one of the most terrible years for a summer ever. You have bad weather and an even worse state of economy nocking on your door, many people are hitting the ejecto seato left right and center but aside from all that bullshit you get a day every once in a while which makes you happy, makes you proud that your from Ireland without having to leave the countr. We all have them days, the days that you think to yourself “hey, its not such a bad place when the sun comes out”. Cruising down the N25 we were graced by the sun which as rare as it has become these days it popped out to say hello. As as a gift the sun was, a beautiful example of a ST205 was gracefully driving along next to us, It was then that I had one of those moments the moment where you smile and say fuck this can be a nice place to live one the sun comes out! The sunset against gleaming black body of the GT Four is a memory ill have for some time to come.
So it has to be said Heatwave 2011 actually turned out a lot better then we had expected. Its no secret that Ireland is filled with nice cars. Properly built clean cars exist and many times over the years going to shows these cars would never be on show, in fact most of the time it would be the exact opposite, with only a handful of cars on display which would make you look twice. Not taking away from the work of some people but the car scene has definitely changed and it was only a matter of time until the shoes would reflect this. It was certainly a different line up of cars compared to lets say 2005!
With every decent car Event Ireland, it usually means a somewhat decent selection of cars that have been driven to the event by you, the car enthusiast. This time we went lurking the car at Prodrift Fermoy to see what you guys showed up in, its a g glimpse into what the scene is like at the minute and most of the time we find some good and some bad gems lurking amongst the crowd.
Enjoy this clip of Hideo Itakura in his RA28 Celica, … especially the final entry. It never gets old!
