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Pro-Stance Presented by T-Demand | Event Coverage

It’s been a while since the last time we went to a car meet, but we felt like the Pro-Stance car show would be a great time to come out and see what’s new in the car scene. Pro-Stance is a car show brought to you by the guys over at Central Pine. They have a good relationship with T-Demand Japan and got the guys over from Japan to judge a VIP car show. Shavi and I went at different times, so our photos will be a little bit different. Make sure you check the watermark to be sure who took the photo!

Caught Rilber rolling up in his wide body Audi.

U.S. VIP brought to you by Jay and his LS400.

Clean GS parked in front of the show.

More of Jay’s LS400…

Jay’s LS400 is bagged with some serious T-Demand suspension to get that negative camber with the Emitz.

Anything with T-Demand parts, you should expect some crazy camber.

The head boss at Central Pine, Sam’s Q45.

Taylor’s LS400 on Rotiform ROC.

Karuma in full force, a clothing brand by our good buddies.

Taylor and Paul holding it down at the booth. Peep that IS250 rear end tee..

Two Sick IS’s from Pure Lex.

Black is VIP.

Hot S14 with crazy camber from PURE VIP.

The father of EURO VIP, Johnne Sou’s Job Design E60.

A wild Cressida with a Chaser front end conversion looking like it came straight from Japan.

A car that literally came straight from Japan is this Toyota Crown with that ridic camber on SSR TF1.

Mike Vo’s more crazy than ever LS with that new vinyl wrap and Black Pearl kit.

Sick T-Demand parts to get that extra low and camber.

This GS is probably my favorite from the T-Demand line up.

Wild E46 from Violent Clique.

Shout out to Central Pine and T-Demand for throwing a sick car show!

After the show, Ky, John and I decided to go to the Oyster Bar at the Artic.

Their ‘House Special’ Clam Chowder and Pan Roast. Bomb!

Later on went to A La Minute for some nitrogen ice cream!

What a life.

Photos by @nguminh and @shaviw

-NGUMINH

June 23, 2017

LA Lights | RO Explore

Ever since I’ve had good melt off the spoon brisket, I’ve been wanting more and better tasting brisket. Shavi said Bludso’s BBQ made the best brisket he’s ever had in his life, so we decided to head out to LA. Abbitt and Krstina came along to see if it even comes close to Texas BBQ.

Anti Abbitt Abbitt Club.

Foodgasm.

It’s crazy when you’ve had something and you thought it was the best ever and then something else tops it. This is what Bludso’s BBQ did for me. What a life. I can’t wait to try some Texas BBQ in June. Let me know if you have any suggestions!

Kyren getting real nice with a strand of meat.

We are releasing a new HOODRATstuff slap. The black glitter slap is available at shop.royal-origin.com.

There’s always room for dessert.

When you walk in the club in unison with your squad.

Who makes eating dessert look the best?

After dessert, I wanted to do a shoot at the high way pass that over looks the freeway. Abbitt trying to show Krstina something related to stickers probably.

That leg lift.

You find love in strange places.

Krstina has content.

We were close to the US Bank tower sky space, so we decided to go ahead and check it out. Abbitt living in the moment of a moment.

Krstina has more content.

Whenever I’m high up like this, I just think all the problems we stress about are just so small when you look at the big picture. Maybe you just have to live for the small things like the feeling you get when you bite into a piece of brisket or laughing so hard that you accidentally fart and make all your friends smell it in the backseat. Maybe those feelings are the only things that matter at the end of the day.

We all got a lot of content on this trip, but Krstina especially.

What a life.

-NGUMINH

March 8, 2017

Princess Choi’s Birthday | EMC Dinner

We had a birthday dinner for Sara at EMC Seafood. As in Minh fashion, I came late and trolled her that I was at the LA one because she lived closer to that area.

Abbitt stretched the legs on his Porsche tonight.

Sara can drink six shots without barfing now. Meanwhile, I can only drink one.

EMC has some great seafood munchies.

I’ve taken more photos of Sara than anyone ever. Yup, even more than my family members…

Now kith.

Sara loves the cupcakes that Krstina and Julia got her.

So much that she that she rubbed it on her face.

Sara Choi in real life all the time.

AW Stickers delivers stickers in their company Porsche.

Fuck Thieves tee still available on our online store! SHOP.ROYAL-ORIGIN.COM

I wanna wish the happiest of birthdays to my good friend Sara. Thank you for your years of friendship. I’m glad I have a friend that was down to fight Abbitt’s EX at Drai’s Night Club because you thought she was trying to fight me. Love ya and you need to show me around Hawaii soon fuck.

January 4, 2017

Photo Booth Drop | RO Christmas

December 22, 2016

Eibach / NWP Reboot Meet | Event Coverage

Within the Honda community there have been a few recognizable Honda specific groups, with such being NWP aka NWP4Life. NWP started as a close group of local Honda enthusiasts, who hang out at North Wood Pizza (where the name comes from) and grew from there to have a strong Honda specific forum, which is where the internet came together to share tasteful Honda platforms. And so through the years and years of being around they decided to throw a reboot meet at Eibach Springs, which welcomed all makes and models, but of course hella Honda platforms.

Got the chance to tour the Eibach Springs Headquarters in Corona, California; which showed the process of transforming the raw materials into springs, coilovers, sway bars, spacers, and everything in between. Definitely an awesome experience and tour.

Thanks

Shavi Wijegunaratne
Instagram: shaviw
shavi@royal-origin.com

September 15, 2016

Late Evolution | Video

Two years ago my friend Jordan was trading his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X for Keith’s Lexus IS300, and he wanted to capture his long time love before giving it away. It took me awhile to finish the video because of other side projects and some laziness. So, fast forward to the present day, where I have finally finished putting the video together, Jordan doesn’t have the IS300 anymore, and Keith still has the Evo X.

Here is the video captured two years ago when Jordan was still in possession. Enjoy.

Shavi Wijegunaratne
Instagram: shaviw
shavi@royal-origin.com

September 4, 2016

GMR CRUISING | Canyon Runs

From time to time, we like to go out in the canyons for a nice cruise and today I got a chance to ride with John and see what his Corvette can do. He’s gone away from being a stance/fitment guy and now is all about how his car is going to perform and wants to eventually take it out on the track.

John’s Corvette with Forgestar wheels.

We got a heavy breakfast at Anepalco Cafe before heading out. Eating all of this Mexican food was a bad idea before going into the mountains…

Mountain running.

John killing the turns with his Corvette.

We also met up with Jun and Angelo before going ham into Glendora Mountain Road.

Good times hanging out in the middle of the road.

Bonnie really enjoying this cruise.

Had to take this opportunity to take photos of John’s Corvette.

After the end of every cruise at GMR, we always go get Donut Man. Strawberry donuts are the best way to end a fun day.

-NGUMINH

July 14, 2016

Zion | RO Explore

My favorite thing to do is be out in the wilderness where mass murderers and bears can come out to kill you without any way of calling for help because you know in all movies police or any government aid in the wilderness are pretty much useless. But for my wife’s happiness, I risked my safety and we planned a trip out to Zion National Park with Chivas, Shavi, Nimo, Derek, Polly, Angelo and Bonnie. Most of my photos will be covering the second day of the trip, since I wasn’t able to make it to the first day where everyone went off-roading.

429 miles, 6 hours and going 110 MPH thanks to my wife’s driving.

Crazy how they were able to build these roads through the mountains.

We made it to Zion late, but everyone still had a lot of energy to cook dinner.

Here we have Chivas over cooking a marshmallow.

Omelette.

Julia is the crazy hiker, who hears something scary and goes and check its out.

Me and my wife Julia.

Beautiful waterfalls all over the park.

Shavi getting one for the snappy snaps.

Chivas at peace with himself.

Everywhere is a toilet in the wilderness.

Shout out to Julia for carrying the heaviest backpack known to mankind.

Secret photo shoots with Polly.

Taking it all in.

It literally said “Danger Beyond This Point”, but she wanted to go further out for a better picture..

Couple stuff.

Threesome stuff.

Chasing waterfalls.

The people who didn’t bail.

It was suppose to rain all weekend, but lucky for us the rain cleared and the sun came out.

Just beautiful..

Homeless Instagram photos with Nimo.

Homeless Instagram photo with Angelo.

The 4runner did some work yesterday.

How do I even coffee?

Bacon and Eggs burger at MeMe’s Cafe.

Chicken crepe.

BBQ pulled pork and onion rings.

At night, you could really see the stars so clear, so we decided to venture around the park for some star photos.

Ending the night with some smores.

Shavi looking good for a person who slept in the car all night.

Chivas ready for his close up.

Shout out to this crew for cooking, being fun and not bailing. It was a fun time!

Chivas with the photo bomb.

Man this place is beautiful..

Shavi smooth.

Angelo’s face when he sees a nice ass.

Champion.

Nimo all HOODRATstuff out.

Amazing jumping abilities by Nimo and Chivas.

Chivas took us to this mountain where there was a huge crack in it.

RO OFF-ROAD.

We ended this trip on a good note with Baby Stacks!

Definitely one of the most memorable camping trips I’ve been on. Thanks Chivas for planning it and everyone else for the good times. We definitely need to plan the next one soon!

-NGUMINH

July 13, 2016

Zion | RO Offroad

It hasn’t been long since some of us have fallen in love with off-roading, which really compliments our love of all things car, and exploring the world we live in. So, we decided to plan a Friday to Sunday camping and off-roading trip to Zion National Park in Utah. With Zion National Park only 2-3 hours away from Las Vegas, Nevada, and 6-7 hours away from Southern California; it was far enough to change the scenery dramatically. The first day was just filled with getting there, and setting up camp so we could off-road till the sunsets.

The primary off-roading vehicle; Chivas with his Toyota 4Runner overland build.

The secondary off-roading vehicle; Derek with his Jeep Wrangler Sport.

There was a light rain fall earlier, but cleared up perfectly in time for first day.

It felt like the cartoon movie “Cars” out here. The beautiful iron-filled surroundings gave the awesome rich red color to this area.

Just taking a dip.

Chivas leading the way on the off-roading trails.

It was the most fun I have had in the longest time being in this car and ripping through the creeks and streams.

Derek, Angelo, and Nimo were about to do some shenanigans.

Ripping through the stream with Angelo as a hood ornament.

These cows eventually blocked our path at one point. Until Angelo told them to “mooooooo-ve.”

You can just imagine a bunch of dinosaurs running across this area like Jurassic Park.

This ain’t a study area no more.

YOTA BOYZ.

So photogenic out here.

Here is a video of Chivas ripping through this area and hitting the rev-limiter:

That was pretty much day one of exploring and enjoying Zion National Park. Check to see what we did on our second day there.

Shavi Wijegunaratne
Instagram: shaviw
shavi@royal-origin.com

July 11, 2016

Wekfest LB 2016 | Video Highlight

Just another Wekfest at Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA, however, this time around this is the last one at this location. Nonetheless, they put together Southern California’s finest automotive builds together once again. Here is a video highlight from some clips Nimo capture, and I decided to quick edit together. Enjoy.

Shavi Wijegunaratne
Instagram: shaviw
shavi@royal-origin.com

June 10, 2016

Category: Life