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Cut and Break | Daily Life

Brought the camera to work at 714 Tires and decided to shoot around. Good thing I took the IS250 to work.

Crazy how all the things I had planned for this car years ago have finally come to fruition.

Got the Scaras finally rebuilt after my accident.

Rodney was cutting his Cressida’s hood for a vent today.

Came home to a sleepy Bushinka.

Decided to shoot some photos of the IS in front of my new fence. I can’t wait to paint the fence black.

So in love with my 78 Works tail lights.

Ending it with a photo of our game night with Sara, Vu and Nimo with Sara’s Nintendo Switch. Good night friends!

-NGUMINH

August 16, 2017

Beckystuff | Photo Shoots

We got new merch for Royal Origin/HOODRATstuff and we needed new photos for the site. I was able to convince Becky to shoot with us again, but first we had to stuff our bellys.

Julia and Becky in the “Dreams” hoodie and tee.

I got the shaken beef grilled cheese and we got the chicken and bacon waffle fries.

All of these photos are mostly bloopers you can check out the real photos at HOODRAT-stuff.com.

Best facial expression of the whole photo shoot.

“Dreams”coach hoodie which is water proof too.

Brought back coach jackets with the new “Underground Kings” coach jacket.

Also back is the “Basic” hoodies and tees.

Heritage dad hat still available also!

Red Room Concepts doing work.

One of my favorite tees is the “Forgiveness” tee.

Thanks for the help today guys! Make sure ya’ll shop.royal-origin.com.

August 16, 2017

SHUTTER SPACE | EVENT COVERAGE

Every year Toyo Tires hosts a photography gallery event called “Shutter Space”, where they show some of the best automotive photography. The event happened to be down the street from where I live, so me and some of the boys decided to come and check it out.

The parking lot was already packed with sick cars.

Steven’s

Rodney’s wack Cressida.

The gallery was poppin’.

Phaze 2 out in front.

Jerald’s Pandem RC350.

Pandem E46 on Work Meisters.

Noel’s infamous FRS.

Supra craze.

Toyo had this sick RWB in display inside of the gallery.

Our “Dreams” coach jacket available on shop.royal-origin.com.

We spotted a guy reppin’ one of the OG tees we did.

Pink never looked so good.

John’s crazy custom widebody NSX.

Clean FD on Enkei RPF1.

JDM love.

Spotted Louie’s Miata on the way to my car. So clean!

An even crazier FD hidden away in the huge parking lot.

Ending it with this crazy cambered Z3. Thanks for visiting!

-NGUMINH

August 16, 2017

SPOCOM 2017 | EVENT COVERAGE

Some photos I took of the past Spocom show in Anaheim. I wasn’t planning to attend the show, but Phat had some extra tickets and we happened to finish eating dinner in the area. We arrived right before they were announcing awards, so I was able to get some pretty sweet photos with little to no by standers in the way.

Clean Porsche bagged on OZ Futuras.

Phat’s Cayman stuntin at the Braum booth.

You already know what it is, IDL Design with that money line up. Starting with Jerald’s Rocket Bunny RC350.

You already know the original internet breaker, Noel’s Varis FRS.

Mikey’s famous Old & New Porsche.

Joey’s freshly painted Q45. Looking real classy.

How do I get into the bail business?

One of the sickest FD’s out right now. I didn’t know so much awesomeness could be packed into one car.

All my favorite shades of red.

RYWire Integra, Spoon USA Civic and Evasive Motor Sports S2000. All looking real good.

Toyo Tires always has the coolest cars at shows.

Pandem E36 on BBS LM wheels.

John Fob’s amazing NSX.

The craziest car at Spocom in my opinion would be this E36 with a GTR engine swap.

It’s been a while since John and Henry went to a car event, here they are looking hella confused.

Two completely different styles, both on AIR LIFT.

Wow.

The best part of a car show is the roll out. Glad we got to see it on the way out.

Ending it with the Central Pine Q45 scrapping in front of my Elantra. Hope you enjoyed the photos, thanks for visiting.

-NGUMINH

August 3, 2017

Adulting | Daily Life

Lately, I feel like I don’t have time to do shit because I’ve been remodeling my house. Go to work and then work that second shift when I come home to finish a part of the house, so I can still live in it. On top of that I didn’t realize how much debt I would be in just remodeling some parts of my house. Fuck this adult life.

Privacy fence for the SC.

Kiki is loving the new fence we put up.

Soon to be 5 spoke Lexus gang…

The Lexues of my life.

Went out with Vu and Shavi to shoot my SC, I’ve always wanted a video by Vu for one of my cars and this seemed like a good time to shoot the SC before it gets trashed.

A good dinner before work.

Vu working his magic.

Does it get better than this? I hope so.

Kiki excited for the video.

Thanks Vu for the lit video! Literally family.

-NGUMINH

July 14, 2017

Japan Again Part 4 | RO Explore

There has been one thing I have never done in all my years of going to Japan and it’s the Mario Cart tour. It’s a tour of the city, but you get to drive a go cart and dress like your favorite Mario Cart characters.

Abbitt chose the closest thing to his spirit animal.

We had a ton of fun driving around Tokyo and I would definitely recommend going on these tours as it is a great way to see the city.

After the tour, we split up from Abbitt and Krstina and went to Akihabara to check out some anime and sex shops for my wife. I only came to try this gyukatsu, which was fucking delicious.

Went back to Shibuya to explore some more and hopefully get some shopping in. I got the opportunity to show Julia my favorite spot in Tokyo. This is the entrance to the mall of my favorite roof top Starbucks.

This out door patio is so legit and romantic. I’m glad I got to take Julia here.

Find us in Harajuku.

We decided to regroup with Krstina and Abbitt for dinner at a pasta spot. Because Japanese pasta is so good. That is all.

Julia about to dive into some bomb carbonara. I’m about to dive into it too because I know she doesn’t finish her food.

The owner of the restaurant also made us some smores for dessert.

Woke up early on our last day to get some breakfast and get the last bit of Japan. The morning commute in Tokyo looks crazy.

Went to Cafe De Luca for pastries and coffee.

We ran into the guy that walks his cats every morning in Harajuku. All the cats looked dead af.

Tried a little snack at Harajuku Gyoza. Bomb and quick.

We said our goodbyes and I took Julia to try the last place to get good sushi at Narita Airport. The toro here is so on point and delicious.

Thanks for checking out our Japan trip, maybe it’s time to start going somewhere else…

-NGUMINH

July 14, 2017

714 Tires | Shop Life

I got some sweet stuff from NRG thanks to Jason and decided to post some photos of the install. I had the guys over at 714 Tires do the install because they knew how to wire the horn button.

NRG quick release in silver looks so good.

Decided to use the Trust steering wheel I bought on my first trip to Japan.

It took 5 different people to do this install..

Thuong ended up wiring the horn. Should’ve asked him in the first place.

Meanwhile a wide body IS rolls up for an alignment.

Also spotted this Civic that had a HOODRATstuff plate frame. Thanks for the support!

Took some photos of Max’s hardbody so he has photos to send to the junkyard that’s going to pick it up.

90’s forever.

Ashton brought the E36 over to get some suspension parts installed and an alignment.

I’m excited for this car to be done! This will be so sick when it’s all red.

Had to jack it up with our trolley jacks to get it on the lift.

Neglected.

Ly loves no name brand arms.

Alignment time.

Robros Customs roof wrap. Email robrostrading@gmail.com for pricing and an appointment!

Shout out to 714 Tires for hooking up the Civic and getting the arms installed on the E36!

-NGUMINH

July 13, 2017

Japan Again Part 3 | RO Explore

This past Japan trip I wanted to show my wife everything I have ever experienced from my past 7 trips to Japan and that meant I would need to condense 7 Japan trips into one week. We took the earliest train from Tokyo to Hiroshima so we could visit the Hiroshima Memorial Museum and be able to get dinner in Osaka.

Convenience store food is still the best thing about Japan.

I really like public transportation in Japan and the architecture at small train stations.

Hiroshima Memorial Museum. I decided I didn’t want to experience the sadness of the memorial museum again and opted to go explore around the area while the rest went to the museum.

Very relaxing and mellow mood around this area. Also loved the cherry blossoms everywhere.

Always a good time for some green tea soft serve.

After the museum, we headed back up north to Osaka and spotted this cross dresser with manlier legs than me.

I love capturing photos of people just going about their business here. I’m kind of a creep..

We got settled in our little apartment before heading out to explore Osaka. Damn this place was condensed.

Coffee trip 123109238 for Abbitt. Abbitt’s blood is mostly caffeine.

Spotted this Civic running a muck inside the small streets of Dotonburi.

Dotonburi for one of the best street food Osaka has to offer.

Gotta get a photo with the Glico man.

Abbitt wanted this soft serve because it looked cool, but it ended up tasting bad.

Everyone knocked the fuck out, except this American.

The next morning we went to Kyoto to check out the old architecture of Gion City.

Next on the list was the Inari Shrine, I’ve been to this place almost on every trip to Japan. This place still puts me in awe whenever I visit.

This lady was pushing her Shiba around in a stroller, so awesome.

The street food at the Inari Shrine is so good and affordable. Check out how much Yakisoba you can get for 400 yen.

Abbitt dying of food coma and decided to lay down while we wait for our train.

The Golden Temple. A must see and to get the green tea ice cream.

I love finding gems like this BMW wagon on SSRs on the way to dinner.

I found this place on Trip Advisor and I really wanted to check it out because the ramen is literally fire.

No ramen no life.

Love this shot of Julia, the bokeh is amazing.

Made it back to Tokyo and met up with Ryo and this girl he’s trying to get at for dinner. Super cute couple.

Krstina was trying to say his friend was cute by saying she was “kawaii”, but Krstina was pronouncing it “Kowaii” which means scary. So she was confused the whole night why this girl was calling me scary.

Thanks Ryo for dinner and it was great seeing you again.

Check back for part 4 of our trip..

July 11, 2017

Kiki’s Cars | Daily Life

The bosses over at 714 Tires recently purchased a Ferrari 360 and since I had to pick one of them up for work the next day he let me use the Ferrari for one night. The Ferrari was an impulse buy because it was so cheap, but now all it does is sit in the garage at 714 Tires.

Italian perfection.

Kiki running out to check the Ferrari out.

Kiki looking for the motor in the trunk.

“I can’t find it?”

I love my dog.

So cool to see both of my cars in good condition. It won’t last long tho…

It always amazes me what a wrap or a color change can do to a car. I never thought the SC would come this far after sitting for 6 years with the faded matte cancer black paint job.

Old and new wheels about to be built for the IS250..

Sara came to visit with her CR S2000.

Ketchup, mayo and dirty mustard.

Also I got my Elantra for sale 8.5k obo let me know!

Also a new addition to the family is this 96 Civic I got from Nimo. I bought it originally for my brother, but it’s been pretty cool to drive. I might just steal it from him…

-NGUMINH

July 11, 2017

Friends Turn Into Family | Daily Life

We decided to go up to Sacramento because Vinh Luong planned a river rafting trip for Memorial day weekend. That meant there would be a fun road trip up on the way up. We had a big group of 11 coming up for river rafting, but we all decided to go at different times. Nimo, Shavi, Julia and I ventured up to NorCal on our own, but first we decided to stop by our old stomping grounds Guppy’s Anaheim Hills for dinner.