My name is Gavin and I’m currently living in Upstate New York outside of Albany. I’m just some punk kid that that has a passion in automobiles and driving way too fast. When I was a little kid my father had a 92’ GMC Sierra with a 5 speed that changed my whole life. Fast forward to 2001 when the Fast & Furious movie came out I've followed the car community with some close friends ever since. I’m currently attending school full time working part time to feed my addiction. I’ve been through a few cars and love spending time and money on them. All of my close friends and family have ties to the car community which we all feed off one another for ideas. From drift missile 240's to lifted TJ's and everything in between.
I spent my entire senior summer between work flow cash and
graduation money desperately trying to acquire a project car. I was originally going to lift my Tahoe and wheel it, but i wanted something more practical too. I went from EK civics, 240sx, e30s, older fox's and so on. I really wanted a BMW because of the RWD and the scene points. I did find a slew of POS
neglected E34s, E28s and a couple E36s. My dreams were performance with
luxury like an original Euro Spec //M5 but without real money it just was not feasible.
A few years earlier I found my first set of Stance Works articles, and Mike's famous E28 was my obsession. I was some freshman loser drooling over this 25+ year old car, surrounded by Lamborghini and Ferrari addicts of my generation, not even the cool ones like the F40 or Countach for gods sake. Finally getting my long awaited license without real money for performance, low&slow became the name of the game. Now before every JDM fanatic, elitist Eurotrash, and V8 F-Body owner comes at me bro, I’ve come to accept the fact at 18 and in college I cannot afford an unreliable race car, it is simply not practical. I decided to take the less expensive route and I found myself behind the wheel of a B5.5 Passat test driving it. Instantly fell in love but my mother was not helping me buying another car that was going to nickel and dime me like my truck was. So the next day my mother and I went to a dealer and she closed the deal on what lays before you, a sort of negotiation for my safety and well being. She is by no means anything special, unique or “Break Neck” status. Hell she's all but a wildly stock and unmodified plain as day B7 VW Passat.
A few years earlier I found my first set of Stance Works articles, and Mike's famous E28 was my obsession. I was some freshman loser drooling over this 25+ year old car, surrounded by Lamborghini and Ferrari addicts of my generation, not even the cool ones like the F40 or Countach for gods sake. Finally getting my long awaited license without real money for performance, low&slow became the name of the game. Now before every JDM fanatic, elitist Eurotrash, and V8 F-Body owner comes at me bro, I’ve come to accept the fact at 18 and in college I cannot afford an unreliable race car, it is simply not practical. I decided to take the less expensive route and I found myself behind the wheel of a B5.5 Passat test driving it. Instantly fell in love but my mother was not helping me buying another car that was going to nickel and dime me like my truck was. So the next day my mother and I went to a dealer and she closed the deal on what lays before you, a sort of negotiation for my safety and well being. She is by no means anything special, unique or “Break Neck” status. Hell she's all but a wildly stock and unmodified plain as day B7 VW Passat.
Now you can say what you want but I love every bit about
this car. You can say I'm sponsored in part with the help of my parents,
whatever. I'm not spoiled and work off whatever it is that I have, but I'm grateful and not hiding anything. Especially living in a town where kids are handed Audi's, Merc's and
BMW's like candy. I’m about as open as ever on peoples perspective or
opinions with
regard to their car, I’m not here to openly bash or would want anyone
else too.
I want the scene to be as forgiving and open as most people are quick to
hate when peoples builds cannot reflect everyone's opinions and that sucks. I’ve been through
Honda's
to American small block 350s and now on Eurotrash. So I’m here for the long haul at this point.
My close friend Michael took time out of his weekend to help shoot these, and hopefully the rest of the photos for this blog, because well, I couldn't keep a photo in focus if I wanted. Thanks Mike. Check this fool out on facebook - Michael Corcoran Photography.
My close friend has also been through a 2002 Audi A4 and
2013 Honda Civic Si. His feature will be relatively soon weather permitting, hes got a good looking SI, with a twist. We were always about that 10 second supra chase and danger to manifold. I don't think we'd ever change that.
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Thank you for reading. Stay tuned everyone for features and hopefully meet ups, I really want my car within the year to be lower and help anyone’s car that’s not getting the recognition they deserve.
Thank you for reading. Stay tuned everyone for features and hopefully meet ups, I really want my car within the year to be lower and help anyone’s car that’s not getting the recognition they deserve.
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