The year was 1983. Michael Jackson was atop the Billboard charts, MTV was still watchable, National Lampoon’s Vacation was opening in theaters, The Jedi had returned and Ronald Regan had a brown suit on.

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If you don’t put ketchup on your hotdog you cray.

Character study for an author as well as initial logo sketches for the publishing house.

Everyone has a list of cars that they want to drive, except of course those that do not have a list of cars they want to drive.

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But it’s still nasty.

On my way to Mishimoto I spotted a familiar shape out of the corner of my eye. I asked John to make a stop as he was driving me back home so I could take a closer look.

Now I have not seen many GT40’s in person and even fewer in the wild so I my eye was not keen enough to discern if this was the real deal. So I walked into the shop it was parked in front of to talk to the owner.

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Mishimoto is an american company that specializes in cooling systems for cars.
I had been in talks with John Petty at Mishimoto to lend them my car for development of a radiator and oil cooler for the E46 M3.

Luckily I have not had any issues with my stock cooling system but a few times at the track I had seen temperatures get a bit warmer than I would like.

So I was happy to hear from John that they were ready to take my car in for development.

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I ordered some items from a company in New Jersey. Apparently it was too much for them to handle as they shipped the package short two items with varying quantities despite being given a typed and number list.

I called to inquire about the missing items and was met with rudeness. I was instructed to email part numbers this time (as if numbers in a different array would prove to be less challenging to the dim witted fellow on the other end of the line). I did so and this is the result. Enjoy, I did.