We know it's a strange idea that car people have other hobbies, but some play video games while others are professional Internet trolls. However, we don't think there's a guy out there with blood flowing through his veins who hasn't watched at least one Bruce Lee movie.
The master of movie martial arts is respected in America, but in China, he's on an entirely different level. Some consider him a role model, a national symbol and it's easy to see why.
The guys at Vossen Wheels recently traveled to China, where they were invited by their local retail partners to shoot at an exceptional location: Bruce Lee Paradise Park.
Eight Vossen-equipped rides stood in a large courtyard with a 50-foot statue of Bruce Lee watching over them. If that's not overwhelming, nothing is. We wonder what kind of car Lee would have liked if he lived today.
Situated in Jun’an, the hometown of Bruce Lee, the Bruce Lee Paradise Park is surrounded by more than 20 green hills with lush vegetation. The statue is the biggest in the world to depict the martial artist and stands 61.7 feet (18.8 meters) tall. Created at a cost of nearly 2 million yuan and requiring about two years of effort, the title King of Kungfu is carved in the statue's foundation along with a summary of Lee's life.
Even though nearly all the cars were recently made in Germany, they look right at home in this setting.
"With a statue of Bruce Lee towering over the courtyard where we parked the cars, it was safe to say that we’d likely never get to replicate this setting again, so we took advantage of the scene the best we could!" say the Vossen photographers about this epic setting.
Before Guangzhou, Vossen also visited Beijing and checked out the famous Bird's Nest, an edifice built for the China Olympics several years ago.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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