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Creative Director @petrolicious
Creator of @car.tales

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And…here’s some 35mm film photos from the @petrolicious shoot on the Proteus Jaguar D-Type that @beelinemotorclub takes care of. A fun couple days shooting with @paololekai(@car.tales)

📷: Canon F1 & Contax RTS w/Kodak Ektacolor Pro 400🎞️

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Proteus Jaguar D-Type medium format b&w film shots taken on the @petrolicious film shoot last month with @beelinemotorclub and @car.tales

📷: Pentax 6x7 🎞️

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Your dose of Sunday Serenity, featuring the Lamborghini Diablo GT in its element, carving through corners with the unmistakable soundtrack of its naturally aspirated V12.

No music. No commentary. Just the sound of Italian engineering at full song.

Directed by: @paololekai

Watch the full film, hit the link in bio.

#lamborghinidiablo #diablogt #petrolicious

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I need to make it a point to make it up north more often!

📷: Canon F1 w/Kodak Kodacolor Pro 400🎞️

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For Bailey Clayton, the act of painting can become almost meditative.

After years of practice, the conscious effort gives way to muscle memory. His mind quiets, his hands take over, and he finds himself observing rather than thinking.

He compares the sensation to sitting beside a pond, watching fish circle beneath the surface. The simple act of following their movement brings a sense of calm, allowing him to slip into a flow state where time and distractions seem to disappear.

It's a state of mind that allows Bailey to spend countless hours immersed in the painstaking process of recreating the historic racing livery of a 1956 Ferrari 500 TR.

Directed by: @paololekai

#ferrari500tr #handpainted #signpainter #petrolicious

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No cones. No timers. No cell service. Just 90+ pre-2000 cars, Central California backroads, and a whole lot of campfire hangs. 🔥

Back in May, we joined the @drivingwhileawesome crew for their 18th rally, kicking off at Morro Rock and setting up base camp at the V6 Ranch in Parkfield. Days of canyon roads, oak-covered hills, and dry lake beds. Nights around the fire with people who’d become friends by Sunday.

This is what car culture is supposed to feel like. Pack a tent, check your fluids, and go drive the thing. 🤘

Full story at the link in bio.

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Pebble beach concourse on film @pebblebeachconcours #pebblebeach #pebblebeachconcours #carweek #carweekforever #carsonfilm

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Nic Cuarta knew the D-Type before he knew the man who owned it.

Years ago, while cutting his teeth at his family’s vintage Jaguar shop in Florida, the car came through the door. Nic never worked on it. He just remembers standing there thinking how cool it was.

Years later, after starting Beeline in Santa Cruz, the same D-Type turned up again, this time only a couple of blocks away.

Today, its owner Jay is a mentor and advisor to Nic, and the D-Type has become a familiar presence at the shop.

It’s a replica, built from period Jaguar components and later versions of what Jaguar engineered at the time. An XK straight-six makes around 300 horsepower in a car weighing roughly as much as a ’71 911. There’s a monocoque chassis, a trellis subframe up front, disc brakes at all four corners, Webers that still need sorting, and very little separating its occupants from any of it.

The headers sit directly in front of the passenger. The exhaust exits on the same side. Intake roar, backfires on the overrun, a sport-bike-sized windscreen and sidewalls working underneath you.

Nic has put people in the passenger seat who wanted out after three miles.

But on Highway One, with fog coming off the Pacific before the road disappears into the redwoods, it starts to make sense.

“It’s way more fun to go slow and technical than it is fast and perhaps heroic,” Nic says. “You’re behind a sport bike windscreen. It’s motorcycle loud. You’re in the environment.”

Watch our latest film and read the full story on Petrolicious.com.

Directed by: @paololekai
Featuring: @beelinemotorclub

Drive Tastefully®

#drivetastefully #petrolicious #jaguardtype #dtype #proteus

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Take the time.

(cc: @retrogrademotoring)

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What a fun weekend. @snowboarder54 was fully honored and celebrated by the best. Some really cool stories were shared, some great food was ate and the best roads were driven. Thank you to all the new people I met over the weekend. Between @crocgt4, @sharkwerks and Ralph I have made some awesome new friends that I hope will last a lifetime time. I’ll try to tag everyone but If I messed it just tag yourself! @drivingwhileawesome @911jawns @joss_lumens @sharkwerks @cmharrell @_rick_navarro_ @000magazine @greatytnorth @biffudo @jutzsc @fidelighted @dear_nhu @9werks_lee @flt6spd

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