Justin Cashmore

@eneosusa / @pitandpaddock invited me out to shoot LA BRUTE with @renz.jpg . We ended up at the iconic Lower Grand DTLA. Every photo he took looks like a poster. Absolutely amazing job my dude🙏🙏 A lot more to come.............😎 #carsofinstagram #lowergrand #toyotires #toyor888r #renault #midengined #felgenfactory #carbonfiber #WIDEBODY #wilwood #sillygoose

Quick hot stop with my dude after the @semashow 2024 roll out. #sema #carsofinstagram #toyotires #toyor888r #renault #midengined #felgenfactory #carbonfiber #datsun #skyline #hakosuka #oldschool #sillygoose #labrute

@eneosusa @pitandpaddock this is my 1960 Renault Dauphine that I'm submitting for the #showcarcontest24 . I pulled her straight out of the desert in 2017, and she is 100% garage built by me. Here are her 5 main modifications. 1- Full custom chassis with a bumper to bumper cage. 2- Bespoke push rod/cantilever suspension front and rear, with NASCAR swaybars, and @wilwooddiscbrakes . 3- Midengine VR6 swap with a 6 speed 4- Righthand drive converted with a custom interior. 5- Handmade carbon fiber widebody that is 22" wider then the original body. Thanks for you consideration 🤙 #carsofinstagram #toyotires #toyor888r #renault #midengined #felgenfactory #carbonfiber #WIDEBODY #wilwood #renault #sillygoose #showcarcontest24

Day nine of the 5,000 mile 1.4T swap road trip adventure! This marked Fred’s last day in California. With so much to do and so many people to meet, his stay went by fast. Before hitting the road toward Cedar City, Utah, he stopped by @fontana_motorsports to meet Rory, the owner, along with @oxtaco , who fabricated his own Renault Dauphine featuring a carbon widebody and a supercharged VR6 powerplant. Let’s just say the build is pretty amazing. Despite a few small issues with the pickup, it still isn’t running at its full potential but it continues to carry Fred across the country! Friday, Fred should be at @_vancafe_ in Fort Collins for a get-together organized by Mike, so if you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and say hi! Next week, he should be in Helen, Georgia for a couple of days, so if you’re from the area, know any shops he should visit, or just want to link up, make sure to let us know!

More fun than fuel! #carsofinstagram #toyotires #explorepage #renault #carporn

To this day one of my favorite photos of @oxtaco back at irwindale

Dauphine « La Brute », a french car like no other. Pre-order this 1/18 resin modelcar in limited and numbered edition. 👉 #ottomobile #118scale #modelcar #labrute #renaultdauphine

Dauphine La Brute BOS Sema Show 2024 1/18 scale Pre-order it now 👉 #ottomobile #118scale #modelcars #dauphine #semashow

Car District Block Party.... 6th street and Anderson in los angeles @oxtaco @vintagemotorunion @leencustoms @bigtimebigtimebigtimebigtime

Another man’s trash is someone else’s treasure. Meet @oxtaco ‘s Renault Dauphine powered by a VR6 and built to boogie. This thing is sooooo awesome. I remember seeing this at SEMA. So many cool things to see with this build. So awesome that it’s just sitting outside of @vintagemotorunion . #renaultdauphine #vr6swap #semabuild #vintage #classiccars

From an abandoned French economy car to a mid-mounted Cayenne VR6 with a custom chassis and carbon widebody, it’s hard to believe that this car even exists. Who looks at a Renault Dauphine and decides to build something like this? For Justin Cashmore (@oxtaco ), the vision came first. The drivetrain, the chassis, the entire concept was already mapped out. The only missing piece was the car itself. As Justin puts it: “The Renault is just where the roulette ball landed; it could have very easily been a SIMCA, DKW, Fiat, or Alfa.” It was listed on Facebook Marketplace by an elderly woman clearing out her late husband’s desert property. The car had been sitting in the same spot since the late 1960s. Bullet holes, broken glass, no floor, no engine. It was perfect. Construction began in late 2017, with nearly all of the work done by Justin himself. The car made its SEMA debut in 2019, then slowly evolved into something far more usable. In 2023, he took things even further, designing and building a full carbon fiber widebody from scratch. When these photos were taken for Volume 5, Issue 2 of Avants magazine, it was making around 230 horsepower, up from the original 32. Today, with the addition of a supercharger, the Dauphine is pushing around 360 horsepower. The result is a raw, visceral canyon car that turns heads everywhere it goes. “It doesn’t really fit anywhere,” Justin says. “I would say it’s part track car and part death trap, with a sprinkling of old-school JDM and Group 5 vibes.” 👉 Read the full story by Evan Griffey on Avants.com/magazine (link in bio)! 📸 Photography by @coachworksmedia #Avants #DriveEverything

Such a crazy build by @oxtaco he’s 1960 supercharged renault always seen it in IG now in person took some shots 📸 so 🔥🔥🔥 this was at @calicreaming event in LA