Sitting in a Westfield Lotus Eleven 
Sitting inside a Citroen SM 
Miata Gang! 
Strapping in 
Tom Matano kindly signed my glovebox for my Miata! 
Shaking hands with Peter Brock! 
Chatting about the Hino Samurai. 
Getting Peter Brock to sign my race jacket! 
I met Derek Bell! 
Hanging out with the person that helped start my obsession with cars: My mother!
When I was just a small boy, I was sitting inside my mother’s old Jeep Cherokee at a gas station in the suburbs of Washington D.C. At the time, I thought all cars pretty much looked the same: boxy, bland, and uninspiring. That was until a low-slung, menacing red car rolled to a stop and bellowed until the engine shut off. It was a Lamborghini Countach, and up until that point, I had no idea cars could look or sound like that! Soon after, the driver let me sit in this beast of a car while he turned it on. From the smell of the high-octane fuel and the sensation of the V12 engine rumbling like rolling thunder; I was hooked! From that point on, I became obsessed with cars.
Since then, I’ve had many adventures. From being a 13-year-old watching Paul Newman spin out at the first-ever Porsche Rennsport Reunion, to shooting behind the fences of Laguna Seca, my journey is far from over. I originally started this website as a portfolio for some of my best work when I first started photography. Now, it’s evolved into a monument for my obsession.
With Corkscrew’d, I want to share this obsession with anyone whose pulse quickens whenever they hear a V12. This is a website dedicated to documenting car culture in the Bay Area and its evolution from the golden age of V8s and carburetors to lithium batteries and AC motors, and beyond.
I hope that this website will feed your obsession too.
Wayne Torres-Rivera,
Author, Photographer, and Creator of Corkscrew’d