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Surprising our SUBSCRIBER with his DREAM CAR BUILD! (Full Transformation): 2014 Subaru BRZ

  Alex was recently announced as the winner for throtl Dream Build #2! As the winner of #throtldreambuild2, Alex got his car shipped out to San Diego California to be fully modified by the throtl team. When Alex's car arrived, it was a mostly-stock 2014 Subaru BRZ. As soon as the car arrived at the throtl headquarters, the team immediately got to work on some modifications. Alex's car got the works with some new interior, exterior, and performance-based modifications. Interior Modifications For the interior of the BRZ, we installed a custom black suede headliner, throtl shift knob, and a new audio system from OEM Audio+. The OEM Audio+ system sounds significantly better than the factory audio system. This made it way more enjoyable to listen to music in the BRZ. The Opelite Optics headliner had a space theme with led shooting stars that lit up the roof of the BRZ, adding a nice bit of style to the interior. The new throtl shift knob was the cherry on top for interior modificati...
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FAST 8 ICE CHARGER: THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS

WE TAKE A MOMENT TO HANGOUT WITH DOM’S FAST 8 ICE CHARGER AT VEHICLE EFFECTS

It is guaranteed that each time a new Fast and Furious movie is released, that there will be some mind-blowing custom cars, that our screen characters get to roll the streets in. For me, I think that the original movie back 15 years ago, had cars that became legendary in the global car culture. From Dom’s insane Dodge Charger, to Brian’s Toyota Supra. (full article on Superfly-Autos.com)

Since that very first movie, each director has been tasked in making the next cars better than the last and so our journey of the biggest movie franchise in history, brings us to the eight movie. Having watched closely some of the car builds for this latest movie, there was one in particular that caught our attention back over a year ago.

It was when we were visiting Dennis McCarthy, who is the owner of Vehicle Effects in Los Angeles, where we got to see the car being built but were sworn to secrecy. I remember being shown the drawing on the side of a toolbox to then turning to where the car was at the beginning stages of the build. Just back then we could at just how insane this build was going to be. Think a mix of Ken Blocks Mustang and a car from the Mad Max movie.

When we arrived, we met Dennis who took us inside his garage where all of the Fast and Furious car are being housed, including all the ones from the latest movie. When we walked into the main room, there were six Ice Chargers! As with all movies, Dennis creates more than one, just in case one breaks and lucky for us, Dennis had the original Charger that was built for the movie and so we took it out into the sunshine for some photos.

The result, well you can just see how it looks mind-blowing and it was the reason we came back to Vehicle Effects a month prior to the films release to capture these photos and put it on video. Now the first thing that struck us with a question…Is that turbine in the rear a fully working one? Unfortunately it isn’t and is only a movie prop, which on set, jet sounds are added.