Young Money

The other night, I went out to get my car’s transmission fluid swapped by Young. His workplace looked like an awesome place to shoot, so I got him to bring out his car for a little shoot while he worked on my car.

Under major construction…

Bringing the beauty in.

 The back view of rim tucking.

 Daily driven, no air bags, no second car; just tucked all day.

Lexus all day.

It really doesn’t take much to make a clean car. Slam it and put on some wheels. DONE.

Veteran in the Marines and in slammed rides.

Favorite shot of the night.

Thanks Young for helping me out with my SC! More photos in the gallery.

-NGU ASS

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Heather Truong for Royal Origin

 Sweat ran down my fingers as I gripped a hold of my Mark 2. Today would be my first time ever shooting a live model without someone guiding me. It was nerve-racking, waiting to meet up with her, like going on a first date without the dinner and movie. We still had to get to know each other and see what kind of style of photography we are comfortable with. As the photographer, I quickly had to learn what to focus on in the model. I was afraid that I would not be able to recognize and highlight the features that bring out the beauty in her. My first model shoot was with Heather Truong. I met her a couple of years ago through mutual friends and one of the many cool things about Heather is that she is genuinely into cars. We talked a bit over the internet and she was down for a shoot. Decided to meet at Tastea and talk about what we were going to do. While we were there, I spotted Polo’s NSX from IMKING.

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Sunday Fun

Just another Sunday with the friends before the work week. Cruised around with goodfeeling in the morning and ran some errands with them.

Big Vinh and Ky from goodfeeling.

That camber!

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ARQRAY USA – BMW RHD 120i

Arqray, the Japanese performance exhaust manufacturer, produces superior performance exhaust systems that improve your vehicle in these key areas. For more than 30 years, Arqray has conducted dyno and road course testing to continually improve their high quality systems.

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Filmed & Edited By Shavi W.
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The First Wash

That feeling of doing something for the first time with your car is something special. A bond was created with this first wash and will be the start of many memories together. David loves treating his babies right, always giving his cars that special treatment, whether it involves car washes or getting the cars an endless amount of air fresheners.

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Whiskey Devil

I really don’t know that many people who are as down as this guy right here. Just give him a little whiskey and the next thing you know, he’ll be driving his car into a baseball field. Introducing my friend Brandon, the “Whiskey Devil” from Factory and his black onyx IS300.

Brandon drives a black onyx IS300 with white Work Emotion 11r’s. He dailies it to school, work, and the mountains. That’s right, this fitted IS300 takes on Glendora Mountain Road aka GMR on the weekends.Back when Brandon and I first started modding our IS300s, we were lurking a lot on the forums. One of our favorite IS300′s was AJ’s from Risky Devil.  Our group of friends would joke around and call him the “whiskey devil” since he loves alcohol and the Risky Devil crew so much.

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Kids Being Kids

This past Thursday, I got a tip from a friend that Mr. Chris Foreman just got new wheels for his Z. After class, I rushed over to Ladera Ranch to see these bad boys in person for the first time. When we arrived, Chris had already begun to adjust his car to fit his impossibly wide setup. Full feature soon when his car is cleaned up and dialed in.

It was the day of the monthly Thursday night Euro meet down at the Laguna Hills Mall, so Chris was anxiously getting everything ready for the meet.

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Unusual Underground

Welcome to the GG Underground, a place for Royal Origin and friends to go to when we want to relax after enjoying a day with each other, and just want to shoot some cars to end the night. We met up with Chris Foreman and his friends from Ladera Ranch, and Jomar and Josh from Temecula/Murrieta at our favorite place, Tastea, before heading to our late night spot. Check out my video below and our pictures from that night.

CRZ surprisingly had enough room in the trunk for two people to play cards in it.

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Thank You Lauren!

Hey guys! Let me start off by introducing myself. I am Jimmy Lieu, and I drive the black 8thgen Civic Coupe!   I recently shot my friend Lauren’s EJ8 coupe because SHE planned on raising her car, after commuting to school with it looking like this for a few years. As you are reading this, she has already raised the car up and put stock hubcaps back on. I just had to share this with you guys because it has barely gotten any recognition, and of all people, I think Lauren deserves it. She has helped me and a couple of members of Royal Origin get our cars to where it is now by getting us the parts we needed! Thanks Lauren!

Sitting nice and low on Function Form Type 1 Coilovers.

 Lauren swapped out her taillights to the 99′ tails for a cleaner look without the ambers.

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Formula Drift: Long Beach 2012

Finally, the Formula Drift season was here! I was getting bored of going to car meets and shows, seeing the same thing over and over. I really wanted to do some motor sports kind of photography. This year, there were many new sights at FD, such as the Scion FRS that Ken Gushi drove, and Daigo Saito from D1GP competed and brought his Lexus SC430 mated with 3.4 liter Brian Crower stroker 2JZ-GTE. There was an in-car video on youtube of Daigo driving it on practice day and it sounded insane. Got me super excited to witness the monster in action. As soon as I arrived at the parking structure, I could smell the burning rubber and hear the screech of tires drifting. It got me giddier than a high school girl who just got  asked to the prom.

Saw the Megan-racing AE86 on the way to the entrance.

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