Thanks for visiting mikemartinelli.com. Here you will find a TON of ascMcLaren and Mustang SVO pictures, videos & information. In addition to asc McLaren and SVO stuff you'll find pictures of my Dads mint 1987 Ford Mustang Lx 5.0. He's got a ton of stuff done to his car too and loves to race it at ATCO raceway where it goes deep in the 11's at well over 120 mph.
Most recently added is a gallery and information on my newly acquired 1986 Ford Mustang SVO. The Mustang SVO features a 2.3L Turbocharged 4 cylinder engine with 200hp. Also standard for SVO's was 4 wheel disk brakes and 5 lugs.
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Make sure to keep an eye on the news section as it's constantly updated when new content is added.
I hope to continue to add tech articles as I perform more work and make repairs but so far I only have 2 articles. I've gotten a lot of feedback on both which is good - hopefully they help and motivate other's to work on their cars.
My love for cars and racing started when I was young - when I finally got on web in college I knew I wanted to some day design my own "ascMcLaren brochure" and have my own website. With a copy of some design software from a friend in 1995 I've been designing ever since. My first attempt at a website was something I did using Netscape's web design software. It was crappy but hey it was a start! I was using a friends Drexel University account for space and the url was real long and impossible to remember; but it was free and I was finally on the web. That long goofy url actually still re-directs to mikemartinelli.com to this day!
Once I started to learn HTML and the basics I started to put together a real site. It took a while but I finally got it looking good and was able to go live. At the time, "frames" were "in" so the original site was a frames page. It felt good to be up with a "real site". Everyone loved the site and the car, things were great! As the car progressed, I also started to think of new ideas for the site, but updating everything was a pain so I quickly started to work on a new design and a new dynamic image gallery to make things easiery on myself. But, between my new full time job and playing with the car I wasn't getting very far. V1.0 lasted a long time and served me well but was badly in need of a makeover...hence the beta site seen below...
This was the beta site that actually never made it live. It featured a similar but reversed design and the image gallery was completely dynamic and super easy to update. The header of the page also rotated through pics of my car. However, I tweaked it and tweaked it but just never got it off the ground. I was learning so many new things at the time and just couldn't settle on what I liked. It was however a good building block for the current site and who knows maybe V3.0 will be a spinoff of the beta site
This is a spin-off of the beta site above - or officially V2. Just a lot cleaner. Features include a flash intro, a dynamic image and video gallery along with random rotating images up top. I'm very happy with it. It's already gone through it's share of tweaks and additions such as a revamped database, a news section, a tech section and a fancy home page image slideshow. I've also moved everything over to my own server. Things are MUCH faster and easier to update now I love it! Stay tuned however, there is also more to come for V2.
It's a long way from long goofy redirecting URL's and frames pages that's for sure! I hope you've enjoyed the ride as much as I have. Now, with the SVO even more content will be available and things will only get better at mikemartinelli.com. Visit back soon!
