Category: Editorials

Prior to Motorama 2019 a friend posed the question “What Makes a Build?”. When he asked this question it wasn’t to criticize or provoke, he simply wanted to start a discussion. I read through the answers, and was inspired to respond, but by the time I saw the status everyone had moved on. Despite being…

Here we are at the end of another year, and I’m sat in front of the computer the night before New Year’s Eve wracking my brain in a somewhat vain attempt to recall exactly what happened in the last 365 days. 2018 has been one of the busiest years of my life; both automotive media…

Despite often being depicted as such building a car isn’t easy. This is a reality that I have become intimately familiar with as I fumble through of my own build, Project Why Wait. No matter how you slice it building a car is a form of skilled labor, and there’s a learning curve to every…

Here we are, just shy of 365 days from where we began, at the end of 2017. 2017 marks Stance Is Everything’s seventh full year in operation and seven years is a long time, practically eons, in internet terms. In those seven years several similar sites have come and gone and the staying power of…

If you’re anywhere within earshot of the minitruck community then you are likely already well aware that fabricator/celebrity Jesse James gave mini-truckers the label of ‘dipshits’ in a recent Instagram post. Whether or not he meant the entire community, or specific individuals, doesn’t matter at this point because he’s achieved his goal of gaining publicity…

I’m old, not that old, but certainly ‘older’ in the internet based automotive community. I am part of the generation that’s been around long enough to experience first hand how the internet affected the automotive landscape. When I got my first car it was during a transition period where internet forums/message boards really started to…

The rise in popularity of Rauh Welt Begriff, and its creator Nakai-san, has been interesting to watch. Introduced broadly to North America in late 2008, the RWB aesthetic instantly had people talking. Some were, and still are, hopping mad about the cars. Others like myself enjoyed what we saw and a third group of skeptics…

There has always been a divide between those that build their cars and those that don’t. This divide has been discussed, debated and argued about hundreds of times over. Many words have been written about the topic, and admittedly we may not need more. However after becoming quite familiar with the Ridler competition this year I…

When Common rapped “if I don’t like it I don’t like it that don’t mean that I’m hatin” he wasn’t talking about the car community, but with enthusiasts being branded as ‘haters’ for simply expressing an opinion that differs from the majority, he easily could have been. Today it’s not all that uncommon for someone, who for…

I know, I know, I need to stop with the sensationalist titles, but I’ve heard and read variants of “there are no cool cars in Toronto” for years and usually they are precursors to the blanket statement that there are no cool cars in all of Ontario. Whenever these discussions start, be it Facebook, Instagram,…