Cao su14:s

Summer 2014

Exclusive Places to Drive Top 10 Donuts 5th Floor FIDM

Richard Avedon A Portrait of an Artist

The Z/28 is Back Rated Fastest Track Car

Everything You Need to Know

New Summer Products

Know all about the best

Miles compares the newest fastest cars to the older models. And yes, of course has girls, but not just models the girls who actually race.

The real deal. Every issue will be a mini history lesson if you will, but all about your favorite thing, cars.

miles

Miles 2

miles magazine Miles.com

Contents Summer 2014

Features 12

“Old Habits Die Hard” the Z/28 is back Know all about the new 2015 Camaro Z/28 exterior to interior all the specs

18

“Essentials” spoil your girl, she deserves it Absolutely necessary items for your ride that you will fall in love with

20

“Richard Avedon” A Portrait of an Artist The iconic photography that will forever be legendary

Departments 3

Editors Letter

7

Top 10 Donuts in LA

9

FIDM 5th Floor

11

Places to Travel

Miles 4

Hello Readers

Celese Cao was born within Orange County in the city of Anaheim with something to do every weekend including car meets. She attended her first meet at the age of ten with her father showcasing classic cars of early 1900s. Her father growing up loved cars just like any other car guy, he actaully wanted to one day become an engineer surrounding himself with vehicles. His first car was an Altima which was his fathers and then the first car he bought himself was a 300z with pop ups and an engine that was loud enough to wake the entire neighborhood everytime he left late at night or came home right before sunrise. From there he settled and began a family trading his car in for a 1995 Acura Legend which he gave to Celese when she moved out.

Having the Legend as my first car I happily zipped around corners pressing on the gas pedal and gunning through straight aways. The open sun roof was always down let my hair go wild and then abled me to have the either the sun or stars right above myself. I took this car with me to Temecula Tuesaday Car Meets not caring if the paint was completely ruined by being faded or that it was such an old car I always had to deal with the check engine light flashing on and off.

Miles is a magazine that helps people enjoy cars the best of different aspects of vehicles and then of course remember the cars that did the best in the past. This magazine helps drivers around the country to know the best places to go, best things to buy, for the best cars. Every issue will have a insight into the lastest car that is number one for a certain reason. Such as this summer’s issue featuring the 2015 Chevrolet Z/28, the interior and exterior is all included for the specifics and of course explaining it comparing it the odler version of the Z/28.

Miles 5

Miles 6

Throttle

Munchies|5th Floor|Roads

Donuts to Go

Photographed by Chris, Tamara, Nick + Elyse They say sex is like a doughnut: Even at its worst, is it ever really bad? Well, once you consume, in rapid succession, as many doughnuts as we have in the last few weeks, you start to believe it can be.

Randy’s Donuts

BabyCakes

By Ali Trachta

So as an act of public service, we scoured the city for the best doughnuts around, all worth the sugar crash you’ll inevitably experience later. Turn the page for our list of the Top 10 doughnuts in L.A. Maggie’s Donuts: There’s one main reason to swing by Maggie’s, and that’s the custard-filled iced chocolate bar, which is so, well, custard-filled, it’s literally bursting.

Served split down the middle, you get a peek before you eat at the erupting cool vanilla epicenter, which couples perfectly with the soft and sweet doughnut shell. 2612 E. Sixth St., Los Angeles; 213-383-1511.

Spudnuts: Out of the chains around L.A., Spudnuts is our top pick. Even better, though, is the vanilla cruller, which is only lightly glazed, but manages to pack a really bright vanilla flavor. 2775 Van Nuys Blvd., Los Angeles; 818-896-4678 Du-Par’s: Du-Par’s certainly isn’t a doughnut shop, but if you’re near the Grove location, it’s worth braving the highly congested parking lot to sample one of the few varieties this diner has on its menu. The bear claw isn’t your run-of-the-mill, boasting a delicious almond filling that’s reminiscent of baklava. And the fact that it’s served warm certainly doesn’t hurt.

6333 W. Third St., Los Angeles; 323933-8446.

Randy’s Donuts: From blocks away, that massive doughnut structure on top of Randy’s beckons you, and on your way home from LAX, which is when many people see it, it’s hard to say no. But out of these classics, the jelly doughnut is our top pick. Maybe we’ve maxed out on food porn lately, but doesn’t that hole through which it’s stuffed look like it’s puckering for a kiss? The jelly inside does not taste like it was made from muddled organic raspberries and sweetened with agave. No, it tastes like pie filling loaded with additives. But you know what? It’s delicious. And on the topic of fillings, be aware the “creamfilled” is actually custard-filled, which turns out to be all the better. 805 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood; 310-645-4707.

Miles 7

Throttle

FIDM’s 5th floor windows celebrate the surreal work of Elsa Schiaparelli

BY Hamish Bowles

“Madder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word ‘genius’ is applied most often,” Time magazine wrote of its cover subject in 1934. Coco Chanel once dismissed her rival as “that Italian artist who makes clothes.”

Indeed, Schiaparelli—“Schiap” to friends—stood out among her peers as a true nonconformist, using clothing as a medium to express her unique ideas. In the thirties, her peak creative period, her salon overflowed with the wild, the whimsical, and even the ridiculous. Handbags, in the form of music boxes, tinkled tunes like “Rose Marie, I Love You”; others fastened with padlocks. Monkey fur and zippers were everywhere a one of a kind look that truly helps to represent the creative striving students of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Love of trompe l’oeil can be traced to the faux-bow sweater that kick-started Schiaparelli’s career and brought her quirky style to the masses. “Dare to be different,” is the advice she offered to women. Pace-setters and rule-breakers waved that flag through the sixties, the seventies, and beyond.

Photocredit Portrait: Irving Penn Windows: photographed by Carlos Diaz

Miles 8

Munchies 5th Floor Roads

Windows into the Surreal

Throttle Munchies|5th Floor|Roads

Big Sur Central California

Miles 10

“Young people were living in cars and under the bridges,” says Don McQueen, recalling the 1960s in Big Sur, the 90-mile stretch of California coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains plunge into the Pacific Ocean south of Monterey. “Once, I saw smoke coming from a field just north of here and went up to find two dozen hippies, their naked kids running around, and fires going.

Fire’s always a danger in Big Sur.” McQueen, 80, is a commanding figure—6-foot-8, size 15 boots. “Some of the newcomers were worthless,” he adds, “but some were OK. We were so stuck in the mud around here. The new people shook things up.”

Despite the fact that Big Sur’s lone existing dirt track was hazardous and often washed out in rains or mudslides, a hardy few managed to pass this way. Among them was the poet Robinson Jeffers, an East Coast transplant who came to Big Sur in 1914 and built two stone houses on a wild spit of land near Carmel, today a National Historic Site. Jeffers, who would be thought of as the poet laureate of the environmental movement, called Big Sur “the noblest thing I have ever seen.”

By James Conaway

Essenti Samsung GPS perfect for travelling so you can have all the fun driving without getting lost.

Spider Attack Cover Seats go great for any car with leather seats no more burns.

Borrect Rims help suspension of the wheels grip to the ground for full experience.

Hammerjack Toolbox every tool that you will ever need and they will never get lost all fitting perfect in this box.

Miles 12

ials

Absolutely necessary items for your ride that you will fall in love with

Spoil your girl, she deserves it.

Sony Stereo has great sound system and even custmoizable in multiple ways to suit yourself.

Samsung Phone Holder enables you to need a bluetooth and you will never have to keep looking down while driving.

Coil Overs Kit allow adjustment of ride height and preload, to your desire.

Bentley Car Cover your car will never get ruined it will be like unwrapping a present for yourself each and everyday.

Perfect wheel cover when it is hot and unbearable.

Royal Pine Car-Freshner keep your car fresh and scented at all times.

Miles 13

Miles 14

Miles 15

O The Z/28 is B

by Ralp

Incredible stopping power Camaro Z/28 features BremboŽ Carbon Ceramic-Matrix™ rotors and fix monobloc calipers like those used on high-performance supercars. The huge 394 mm x 36 mm front rotors are paired with 6-piston calipers, while the 390 mm x 32 mm rear rotors are paired with 4-piston calipers, helping to save even more weight. The combination of tire grip and braking power enables Camaro Z/28 to achieve 1.5 g in deceleration, and standard front brake cooling ducts allow for continuous track use.

Miles 16

Old Habits Back Die Hard

ph Kramer

xed,

Miles 17

[

]

simply, the Z/28 is designed to dominate the track, lap after lap.”

T

“Put

he legendary Camaro Z/28 is back. Originally introduced in 1967, Camaro Z/28 was designed specifically to compete in the Sports Car Club of America’s Trans-Am 2 class. Lightweight, nimble and incredibly powerful, the original Z/28 was built to rule the road racing circuit. The 2015 Camaro Z/28 track car carries the same racing credentials, incorporating a performance-first design philosophy that takes advantage of state-of-the-art, race-proven technology. Put simply, the Z/28 is designed to dominate the track, lap after lap. Purposeful chassis upgrades, advanced aerodynamics and the grip of Pirelli® PZero Trofeo† tires help to keep the Z/28 glued to the track, enabling 1.08 g in cornering grip.

Brembo® carbon-ceramic brakes provide up to 1.5 g deceleration and limit brake fade to enhance driver confidence lap after lap. Z/28 has been made lighter throughout. From the lightweight LS7 engine to an ultra-thin rear window and stripped-down rear seat, Z/28 weighs 300 lbs. less than ZL1.

The Camaro Z/28 track car features a number of suspension enhancements that help provide unmatched control and grip around the track. Stiffer front and rear control arm bushings, increased spring rates and specifically tuned anti-roll bars are all optimized for the demands of the specific wheel and tire package and lower center of gravity. The result is maximum grip during intense braking, acceleration and cornering. Dynamic Suspension Spool Valve (DSSV®) dampers are the stuff of racing championships, which is precisely why they’ve been added to Z/28. Revolutionary in design, spool valve dampers are factory-tuned and feature independent control of high- and low-speed compression and rebound, providing stiffness without affecting ride comfort.

Developed by Multimatic, the techniques used to achieve this impressive vehicle control were derived from variMiles 18

ous areas of motorsports, including F1 racing, making Z/28 the first volume production road car to feature this advanced technology. Z/28 is designed to excel on road courses, and Performance Traction Management helps achieve just that. With five driver modes to choose from, this system adjusts to just about any driver capability or road course condition.

Working in tandem with the uniquely tuned Z/28 chassis and dampers, Performance Traction Management delivers unparalleled vehicle control. Intended for drivers of all skill levels on a wet or damp track surface (not intended for heavy rain or standing water). Active Handling is on and engine power is reduced based on conditions. For use by less experienced drivers

of or more skille drivers learning a new track. Dry conditions only. Active Handling is on and engine power is slightly reduced. For use by drivers already familiar with a particular track. Dry conditions only. Requires more driving skill than Mode 2. Active Handling is off and available engine power is slightly reduced. For use by skilled drivers are already familiar with a particular track. Dry conditions only. Requires more driver experience than Modes 2 and 3. Active Handling is off and available engine power is still limited to match.

With a new appearance and new features introduced in 2014, the Camaro lineup rolls into 2015 focused on delivering the balance of style, and of performance the top Chevrolet cars.

What she's made of

Safely in control Standard on every Camaro, antilock brakes and the StabiliTrakŽ Electronic Stability Control System with Traction Control help you keep in control during emergency maneuvers. The StabiliTrak control module compares your steering input with the vehicle’s actual response and, if necessary, activates the brakes to help you keep on track.

Tremec TR6060 Aluminum Six-Speed Transmission

Flat bottom steering wheel and short throw shifter are wrapped in sueded microfiber

A hand-assembled 7.0L LS7 engine is the heart of Camaro Z/28

Miles 19

Z/28

“I told ’em on the radio that I was pulling over a Z/28, and they said they don’t make them no more,” the cop says with a drawl straight off the pages of Faulkner. “I told ’em, ‘Whatever it is, this is a bad-ass car.’ ” This member of Alabama’s finest claims that Dick Knoll, Camaro lead integration engineer and driver of the Z/28 I’m riding in, put a wheel over the yellow line a mile back on Interstate 20. Knoll doesn’t dispute it because it’s already evident that no tickets will be written today. This is a fan-boy shakedown. The officer barely glances at Knoll’s driver’s license before collecting his take. Cell phone already in hand, his question is rhetorical: “Do you mind if I take a

[

and the widest front tires on a production car, Chevy’s Camaro Z/28 is a Boss 302 fighter raised on growth hormones and testosterone.

How to make a 7.0-liter V-8 look small? Put it in a Camaro. The cold-air intake is one of the few changes GM made in transplanting the LS7 engine from the outgoing

Corvette Z06.

The Pirelli P Zero Trofeo Rs are essentially street-legal racing tires so tacky that, during development testing, they occasionally stuck to the pavement better than to the wheels they were mounted on. To keep the Pirellis

]

“I told ’em on the radio that I was pulling over a Z/28, and they said they don’t make them no more.”

few pictures?”

The Z/28 is not the quickest, the fastest, or the most powerful Camaro, but it is the most expensive at $75,000, or more than three times the price of a six-cyl-

from slipping around the rim, the wheels on production Z/28s are media-blasted to increase friction at the mating surface, a common practice in racing.

The massive front tires are the same size as the rears, a remedy first used on the 1LE to address the Camaro SS’s penchant for understeer.

Here, though, the rubber is sized up to 305/30 and mounted on smaller, lighter 19-inch forged aluminum wheels. When warm, the tires stick to the pavement like four wads of melted Wrigley’s. In Barber’s long, mid-speed corners we saw as much as 1.06 g of lateral stick, despite a damp track and temperatures struggling to top 40 degrees.

The Z/28 is neutral and responsive at the limits, and the Torsen-type limited-slip inder model. Its only clear-cut competi­tor is the $49,990 differential prudently doles out power on corner exit. The Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca that Ford stopped build- flat-bottom steering wheel has the same heft and on-cening last year. And even then, the parallels exist in conter sharpness as the Camaro ZL1’s. Unfortunately, it cept, not execution. With a 7.0-liter V-8, carbon-ceramic lacks the stimulating feedback experienced in the best brakes, damper technology borrowed from Formula 1, sports cars.

Miles 20

And yet Chevy made great efforts to keep the Z/28’s tires firmly in contact with the ground.

The front splitter, the wheel-arch extensions, and the rear spoiler are all part of a functional—if not beautiful—aero kit that makes 150 pounds of downforce at 150 mph when an accessory Gurney flap is screwed onto the back of the spoiler. Chevrolet stripped its gold bow tie off the front grille. In its place is a hollowed-out emblem, cheekily called the “flow tie,” allowing extra air into the engine bay at the rate of 88 cubic feet per minute. The cross-drilled carbon-ceramic brake discs are clamped by six There are, of course, stiffer springs and bushings, and the downsized wheels allowed engineers to drop the center of gravity by 1.3 inches and use smaller and lighter anti-roll bars. The cornerstones of the suspension are four spool-valve dampers, a technology used by Red Bull Racing as it claimed four Formula 1 championships between 2010 and 2013. Until now, the closest these shocks have come to a production car is Aston Martin’s $1.8-million One-77.

The car still has carpeting, a headliner, full interi­or trim, and (lighter) rear seats. The wide Recaros are allday comfortable rather than track-day snug.

Other than the flat-bottom steering wheel and rescaled speedo and tachometer, from the driver’s seat the Z/28 could easily be confused for a six-cylinder Camaro. If you want to convince someone how serious this car is, you’ll have to pop the trunk,

where there isn’t a single piece of plastic trim or carpet.

Or drive the Z/28 on the track. Because that’s really the only way to show off cornering this flat, why this car is number one on the market for track grip this abundant, power this ­visceral, and a car this bad-ass.

Miles 21

Richard

A Portrait of an Artist

O

Fahey Klein presents a major retrospective of the photographers work.

By Kely Smith

What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common? They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters has made him one of the premier American portrait photographers.

[

]

“All photographs are accurate.

None of them is the truth.”

–Richard Avedon

As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportunities to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves. Many sought out Avedon for their most public images. His artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and authority to the portraits.

More than anything, it is Avedon’s ability to set his subjects at ease that helps him create true, intimate, and lasting photographs.

Throughout his career Avedon has maintained a unique style all his own. Famous for their minimalism, Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white Miles 22

backdrops. When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed. Within the minimalism of his empty studio, Avedon’s subjects move freely, and it is this movement which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images. Often containing only a portion of the person being photographed, the images seem intimate in their imperfection. While many photographers are interested in either catching a moment in time or preparing a formal image, Avedon has found a way to do both.

Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon has collaborated on a number of books of portraits.

In 1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that documented some of the most famous and important people of the century. Observations included images of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West. Around this same time he began a series of images of patients in mental hospitals. Replacing the controlled environment of the studio with that of the hospital he was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later he would again drift from his celebrity portraits with a series of studio images of drifters, carnival workers, and working class Americans.

Throughout the 1960s Avedon continued to work for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he collaborated with James Baldwin on the book Nothing Personal. Having met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for more than thirty years. For all of the 1970s and 1980s Avedon continued working for Vogue magazine, where he would take some of the most famous portraits of the decades. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney Museum brought together fifty years of his work in the retrospective, “Richard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted one of the ten greatest photographers in the world by Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Today, his pictures continue to bring us a closer, more intimate view of the great and the famous.

Avedon died on October 1st, 2004.

Miles 23

Improve high speed stability by adding the carbon fiber spoiler to the hood of your car.

Made from light-weight cross woven fibers with minimal range impact.

Fog lamps cut through fog and illuminates obstacles on dark roads with LED fog lights that can be controlled through the touchscreen.

Miles 24

Solar panels that the car runs on that is completely ecofriendly and efficient for a fuel free vehicle that helps everyone is any position.

Wall connector designed to mimic the fluid and overall idea of the futuristic Model S. The fastest and easiest way to charge your Tesla at home.

Wall connector can go into any outlet, even the easy accesible ones in your own garage. Easy to read and m

Smart air suspension automatically levels and adjusts stiffness for oprimum performance and ride of road surface. Using the touchscreen suspension is adjustable.

Miles 25

Miles 26

Miles 27