Happy 4th Anniversary to Doing Donuts With Bernie

I really do look like my logo... except my head isn't as big.

In 2010, I had a crazy idea to start my own automotive blog. Four years later, I'm still blogging and covering car shows. Although it hasn't been easy, I'm still here. This year, I plan to remain injury free (I learned that trying to blog with a concussion isn't fun), but most importantly, I'll be attending some great car shows. Aside from some car shows in Atlanta, I have my eyes on covering car shows in Miami, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and of course..... I have to go back home to New York.

To honor Doing Donuts With Bernie's fourth anniversary, I wanted to recap the top 10 blog posts based on pageviews with some updated captioning.


10. All Black Everything... A Chevy Avalanche by CarTunes of Atlanta and Butler Tire.

2014 is the final year of the Chevy Avalanche. Thankfully one of the owners of an Avalanche decided to bring it to the guys of CarTunes of Atlanta and Butler Tire. Honestly speaking, I'm not a fan of pickup trucks. Never have been, never will be. However, this particular Avalanche looks great.

9. Young Dro's Cadillac Escalade EXT

Grand Hustle rapper Young Dro customized one of his vehicles- a Cadillac Escalade EXT. His purpose was to make his Escalade stand out as much as he could... and he did. Not only did he change the chrome trim to rose gold, he added Asanti Wheels, an Asanti Grille with his logo in the middle, and added his name on the truck. I haven't seen Dro in a looooonnnnngggg time, so I honestly don't know if he still has the Escalade.

8. Dub Magazine Releases Their 2012 Car Show Schedule.

The shows already happened with a lot of success. However, if you're wondering if the 2014 Dub Car Show tour will be coming to a city near you, well check out their updated schedule by clicking here. P.S. I wonder what ever happened to The Situation.

7.  Just When Justin Beiber Was Doing So Well...

Atlanta's newest resident, Justin Beiber, did the most tragic thing and purchased a Smart Car and customized it. The customizations look great, after all West Coast Customs did it, but it was done on a Smart Car. Why????

6. Kim Kardashian's Serious "Kar" Game.

This was a complete breakdown of Kim Kardashian's White Range Rover Sport Supercharged that Platinum Motorsports customized. It looked great, I wished the customizations were taken a step further with the interior instead of leaving it stock.

5. Shop Review, Reme Designs of Long Island, NY.

My first shop review, and I decided to go back to home to Long Island and interview one of the most well known (and respected) customizers. Since then, Reme has decided to reunite with his former boss, Will Castro, and now he's back at Unique Autosp-- I mean-- Unique Designs.

4. Interesting Customization: Justin Beiber and his Chromed Out Fisker Karma

This was the beginning of a big customization trend- having your car wrapped in chrome. Since then, the colors of the chrome have expanded, but the trend has died down. Seriously- it's hard to photograph a chrome vehicle outside, with the sun bouncing off the car

3. Darth Vader's Ultimate Car by West Coast Customs

Lucas Films requested West Coast Customs to customize a VW Jetta for Darth Vader's. This episode of Inside West Coast Customs is one of their most popular shows yet.

2. Wide-Bodied Dodge Challenger Courtesy of Forgiato Wheels

Very popular post, and how can you not love a Dodge Challenger with a wide body kit on Forgiato wheels?

And the number one post....

Tragic Customization: Snooki's Cadillac Escalade EXT

I'm so happy Snooki sold it. My opinion on this Escalade hasn't changed...


Here's to another year of Doing Donuts With Bernie!!!! Thank you for reading and there will be more to come...

Platinum Motorsports Shows off the Customization of Kanye West's Lamborghini Adventador

Photo borrowed from RallyHaus.com

Well after everyone and their mother had something to say about Kim Kardashian's generous gift to her boo, Kanye West, Platinum Motorsport releases two videos showing the blood, swear, and tears behind the customization...

The first one is the video of the complete customization, the second video is the same as the first, except it's a timelapse. It doesn't matter which one you watch, either one will show the work that was done to please their favorite client.




Remember folks: The only thing that Platinum Motorsport wraps are presents, they don't wrap cars.

Revisiting Kim Kardashian's Luxury Custom Car Game

I think this photo is cute...

Yes they make an interesting duo and yes, in some ways they do compliment each other. However, we're not here to talk about that, we're talking about the cars... No hate here. In fact, I love it. In a way, she made him a bit more happier in the public eye...

Kim's personal car customizer and the one she extremely trusts with her high end vehicles, Platinum Motorsport, added their personal touches to two vehicles for them... within a month. The first vehicle was Kim's birthday gift to Kanye- a Lamborghini Aventador that was given to him. She didn't get him a Gallardo... thankfully since the Gallardo is the most produced Lambo to date. Some thought was given to the gift because the Aventador is a new model (code for not that many people have it). Then Kim bought for herself a new Rolls Royce Ghost in black, and got rid of the white one.

So what did Kim do?

She went to Platinum Motorsport, ordered some black matte paint or wrap for both vehicles. And the end result, which is the only thing we care about...

And if you want to see Kanye's upclose....

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Update: Scott Disick's Chrome Audi R8

Scott Disick is the only one in the Kardashian Klan who is brave enough to battle Kim on who has the best cars. About two days ago, Kim tweeted "Who needs a mirror when I'm driving Scott Disick's car." Accompanying this tweet was this following photo...

The guys at Forgiato did a little digging and found some more photos and info about the car. Scott took the car to Calabasas Luxury Motorcars and changed the color to chrome and added Forgiato Monoleggera Freddo-M 20 inch wheels finished in all gloss black.

This is more of an attention grabber than the Rolls Royce. Now I'm wondering what Scott will pick for his next car. I'm sure he'll buy another car before the birth of his next child.

Update: He's selling the car.

Platinum Motorsports Shows off Kim Kardashian's Ferrari.

Several weeks ago, I released a post about this, and now I had to bring it back once again. Kim Kardashian's car customizer, Platinum Motorsport, has released official (not paparazzi) shots of her Ferrari 458 that's been getting buzz all over the internet. According to PM, Here is a closer look at her New Ferrari 458 Italia wrapped with Agetro M140's on her feet 21" front wheel 22" rear wheel.

Check it out...

Every time she steps out of a car, it's just free advertisement for Platinum Motorsport. At the end of the day, you have to admit that Kim has a very impressive fleet of cars. Don't hate.

(Note: I like the Kardashian girls as much as everyone else does, but to me, red lipstick doesn't look good on them. Sorry, girl moment)

Kim Kardashian's Wedding Gift: A 2011 Ferrari 458

Oh, you think I was kidding.

Everyone and their grandmother knows that Kim Kardashian got married a few weeks ago. Apparently as a wedding gift, she received, not purchased, a brand spankin new Ferrari 458... one of 27 that habitat in the United States.

(Her actual Ferrari)

Kim treated this car like all the other ones and took it to her friends at Platinum Motorsport. The Ferrari has carbon-fiber interior and accessories, $15,000 Agetro wheels,” as well as a “see-through glass engine compartment in the rear.”

Final Cost???? A mere (well for her anyway) $530,000...

Rob Kardashian is unloading the keys to his Range...

Following in his older sister's footsteps, Rob decided to sell his vehicle on ebay. It's a 2006 Navy Blue Range Rover Sport HSE. This 4WD SUV was customized by Platinum Motorsport in Cali.

Let's go over customization specs:

Wheels are 24" 3 Piece Strut Wheels that were color matched to the body of the Range. The Strut wheels are wrapped in Pirelli tires.
Strut grill package, front main grill, lower bumper grill, side fender grills and Strut badge on the rear trunk.
Custom Sebring exhaust.
Rear tail lights are smoked.
Multiple parts of the vehicle were custom painted to match the navy blue.



Let's hope that he has better luck than LaLa.... I'm sure he will though.

Revisiting Kim Kardashian's Serious "Kar" Game, Part I

Just by looking at her, you wouldn't think her car game would be that serious. But it is... When Keeping Up With the Kardashians first started, she drove a white 2007 Range Rover Sport Supercharged. Let's talk specs real quick cause I really like this SUV.


510 horsepower LR-V8 5.0-liter supercharged Engine, with 6-speed automatic transmission. (I'm bad with my 275 that the 'Voy gives me, imagine what I can do with 510...)
0-60 in 7.2 seconds
Top Speed- 140 mph
Fuel- 12/18 mpg
Body- Length: 195.7 inches Width: 80.1 inches Height: 73.4 inches
Wheelbase- 113.3 in

MSRP- $95,000

Kim’s customizations were gifts for hosting a “House of Hype” Grammy party where Platinum Motorsport, Strut and JL Audio were sponsors of the event. They used her Rover as a display piece at the event. Lucky her...



This is what she had done
Changed the black "Range Rover" lettering to pink
Added a Strut Grille Package, in which the Grille was painted white with pink accents.
The wheels are 24×10-inch Platinum PT1s laced with Cooper Zeon XST 295/35R24 tires with pink “princess” logos on the wheel’s center caps, pink emblems and color matched pink Brembo brake calipers.
Platinum Motorsports also provided Kim’s pink Range with a fully customized exhaust system



In the back, the audio system boasts two JL Audio 500/1 and one 300/4 amps, two 12-inch W6-V2 subwoofers, and two pairs of 6.5-inch component speakers.

It was Kim's idea to have the pink added to her Range Rover because she was tired of people asking if she was driving her boyfriend’s car and not hers. “I’ve always had the coolest cars, which sometimes seems like a guy should be driving them,” she says. “I wanted a car no boy would ever want to drive and for people to know a girl is driving such a cool car."

I wished she would have taken it a step further and do the interior as well instead of leaving it the factory black and white... C'est La Vie.

But she auctioned it off on Ebay along with some of her clothing. And she replaced this SUV for a Black Bentley Continental GTC and a Black Range Rover, which will be explored later...