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Greddy Pandem E36 | Wekfest Prep

Kevin recently collaborated with his parent company Greddy on his latest project BMW E36. The last build was the red Honda S2000 that we posted here often. The E36 will demonstrate the latest Greddy Performance products that are offered in the automotive market with the finalization of the build at SEMA 2016 in November.

You can always spot these Rocket Bunny Lexus pair at the Greddy Headquarters in Irvine, California.

Formula Drift driver Ken Gushi’s Scion Racing Greddy Racing FRS.

New Toyota Racing livery, which was first demonstrated at NASCAR in Sonoma, Washington.

The heart of Ken Gushi’s FRS is this Greddy powered 2JZ-GTE.

The raw Rocket Bunny Pandem BMW E36 parts ready to be fitted on Kevin’s car.

Enkei 6666 wheels. The standard for Rocket Bunny Pandem built E36s.

Kevin fine tuning the fitment of the kit to the car before cutting and paint.

Spotted a beautiful R32. Pretty common place now in SoCal.

Another day at Greddy HQ, and this time spotted one of two LC500, which is coming from concept to reality.

Looks good from the front, but the rear is quite questionable. Its here at Greddy HQ for some research and development since Greddy has a good relationship with Lexus.

Limited edition Takata x Rocket Bunny street reclinable seats going into Kevin’s E36 build.

Livery and stickers provided by AWstickers.

The awesome Greddy color way.

The Sung Kang x Greddy Racing collaborated 1973 Nissan 240z also makes it home inside the Greddy HQ.

The results of building this in about a month or so, which is pretty incredible. Ready for its first show case at Wekfest San Jose.

Truly love how the Rocket Bunny Pandem kit extenuates all the lines that were already standard to the E36 platform.

Looks good at all angles.

Vertex Racing steering wheel looks at home in there.

Good job to Kevin for working on this build in such a short amount of time. Many late nights went into this, and there are many more nights to come, especially with the next phase of the build being a 2JZ-GTE build. Also, congratulations for getting 2nd place best BMW at Wekfest San Jose 2016.

August 28, 2016

HOODRATstuff with The Track Burnaz | Video Shoots

A couple of weeks ago, Shavi and I were invited to come up to LA to shoot The Track Burnaz and check out the making of a music video for their song “Bad Tings” with DB Bantino. Which you can check out here..

https://soundcloud.com/rnbass/db-bantino-ft-the-track-burnaz-bad-tings

Sippin’ on lemonade and discussing music.

DB in our “Script” snap back and JDBT tee.

While we were here, there was another music video being shot.

HOODRATstuff in the valley.

They might have sky views, but these guys are the most down to earth people I’ve ever met.

DB doing his thing for the music video.

It’s a party when you have Squirt in the mix.

DB even jumped off the roof into a swimming pool. Anything for the gram.

Thanks DB, JB, Ruben and Briggz for having us at the shoot. Make sure you check out their new EP and buy it here..

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mia-2-lax-ep/id1131480834

We were starving after the shoot, so we decided to hit up Plan Check before heading home.

Delicious burgers and even hotter waitresses.

B Sweet for some ice cream and bread pudding.

Shavi knows how to be sweet.

Dessert is the best ending for a good day.

-NGUMINH

July 27, 2016

Stance Works Open House | Event Coverage

Stance Works, the creators of the most famous car on the internet, Rusty Slammington to having one of the top automotive photography sites still to date and now they have a garage right in the heart of Costa Mesa, CA. Stance Works recently had their open house and if you know Andrew and Mike, they’re always building some unique rides.

It’s legit.

Amir’s 911 still pulling off that vintage Porsche look very well.

If it’s a Stance Works meet, you know there will be an array of BMW owners showing up to support.

Aired out BMW 7 series on HRE 309.

This car has such a crazy story behind it, the history in all the rust and from being burned down to the rebuild, Rusty will always be one of the top builds during the “Stance” movement.

Perfectly executed, I wasn’t going to post this photo because I didn’t get the focus right, but damn this E24 is so sick!

Love the red paint and BBS RS combo on this E28.

Lawrence’s E28 on BBS RS as well.

That rear fitment!

Caught Steven on the way here and told him about this meet, I’m surprised he just cruised right on over.

Such a rare thing to see this old school Volvo 18 P130 Amazon in such pristine condition and even better this thing was bagged on step lipped Work Equips!

Chris drove his VW R32 on Work Seeker wheels all the way from San Diego for this meet.

I haven’t seen Edris’s R32 in a long time and it still looks great with these Brabus wheels.

Thanks Stance Works for throwing a fun open house, we hope you even more success in the future!

If you ever see Steven in the streets, make sure you race him.

-NGUMINH

July 23, 2016

Throwback to Vinh’s S13 | Royal Origin Member

Thought I make a post of Vinh’s S13 from when I shot it for Stance Nation. These are some of the photos that didn’t make it into the article. Check it out!

Wet.

I miss seeing this car.

Vinh tore this car down to the very shell and made this beautiful creation.

Henry lives up to his name.

It was awesome seeing this car scrape the roads of Orange County.

Work Equip perfection.

The sun set too soon for this car..

Still missing you everyday. Check out this video I made of some old clips of Vinh’s S13.

-NGUMINH

July 21, 2016

Shutter Space by Toyo Tires | Event Coverage

Toyo Tires annual Shutter Space car meet is no ordinary car meet, it’s a meet to celebrate automotive photography. The meet was held in a small photo art gallery where it displayed some of the best photography that best represents the Toyo Tires lifestyle. They also had a Pandem E30 and a RWB Porsche on display.

A good variety of cars in the parking lot today.

Starting to get use to seeing R32s at car meets now.

Lexus Gang.

Rocket Bunny V2 FRS supercharged and bagged on Work Wheels.

Mercedes wagon bagged on slant lip BBS RS.

The Spoon Porsche bros.

Riberty Walk A4 wagon.

Jerald’s RC350 on Rotiform SIX wheels.

So many sick cars in the parking lot of the warehouse.

The very special Pandem E30 on BBS RS wheels.

So good!

Spotted!

RWB

Love this Audi R8 bagged on Rotiform wheels.

After the meet, I had lunch with the wife at Umami Burger down the street. First time for her, so I had to pop that cherry.

Cars and burgers. What a life.

-NGUMINH

July 21, 2016

SPOCOM 2016 | Event Coverage

The last time Royal Origin was at SpoCom, we were showing Erick Wei’s S2000 with IM KING. That was back in 2011 and now in 2016 we’re here vending for their 10th Anniversary show. This year SpoCom rented the bigger hall in the Anaheim Convention Center and filled it! The hall was filled to the brim with amazing cars from all over Southern California and even better half naked models all over the show. There was enough eye candy to give you diabetes at this show.

Super packed.

We had Chris from Sterling Autocon show his Porsche 991 Turbo converted to full GT3 Cup Car.

Team Emperor brought out an array of fine EVO’s, I’m sure they took all the awards for the Mitsubishi class.

This Y34 was killing it on K Break Fiesta wheels from Style Sixty Three.

Jerod’s sick bagged Miata NB on Weds Bazerias.

Baller Mikey Cristi displaying his Spoon inspired Porsche recently bagged on Rotiform SIX.

Coming soon..

Spoon S2000 on Gram Lights 57C with a HKS livery.

I didn’t even know Tiana G was into cars, but I guess she owns this Lexus RCF on HRE wheels that was being displayed at Ark Peformance.

I remember seeing this crazy Genesis at Illest OC when it was green, now it’s even more bad ass with the satin black.

Ojay’s pristine K BREAK LS430 on Work VSXX.

Another K Break LS but this time on a LS460.

Mikey Dang’s Amuse 370z.

Yasu looks very excited to be here.

I think most of the spectators come for this part of the show, the model bikini contest hosted by a go go dancer. There was a rule of no twerking for some reason, but these ladies couldn’t contain their ratcheness.

Our friend Krstina was a contestant trying to win some money to take us out for shabu. She was the winner of this contest two years ago.

Rocking that upside down 1 very proud. The girl next to her didn’t even tell her she had it wrong.

Finally after some hand gestures from me and Abbitt she finally flipped it.

Not really sure how they judge this, but we all assumed the girl with the nicest breast would win.

At least Krstina got $100 enough for three people to eat at shabu. 😉

Krstina getting interviewed by a homeless person, haha just kidding. I’m not sure what show he was shooting for, but he seemed like a nice guy.

Back to the car coverage with this R32 on Work Wheels at the White Line booth.

The Pokemon GO craze is creeping into the car scene.

You already know what it is.

Infinitewerks in the house.

This Mercedes had a 2JZ with an IS250 interior. Insane!

Good night SpoCom! Thanks for having us and congrats on 10 years of success!

-NGUMINH

July 21, 2016

Vegas for a Day | Road Trips

Did a suicide trip with Shavi to Vegas, so I could surprise the wife. Thanks Shavi for being the real MVP.

The road to Vegas from Orange County.

Met up with Nick and Jeremy for Baby Stacks.

How Shavi looks after driving 4 hours. Check out that bokeh in the back.

Adobo Fried Rice.

Got back to Shavi’s house and checked out what Shavi’s working on for the M30.

Amazing that it can move at this height.

Vertex and camber forever.

-NGUMINH

July 19, 2016

On The Daily | Life

Shavi came to visit 714 Tires for alignment and we decided to go get lunch with John at Micks. While waiting we decided to get some photos in before John arrived.

Shavi’s M30, when the daily becomes un-drivable.

LowcooL.

I should probably get a daily too…

John arrived in his daily as well. Felt pretty good to cruise together, it feels like we haven’t done this in a long time.

Mick’s Onion and Swiss burger. Delicious.

Later on that night, I joined Abbitt and Krstina on their adventure to Churro Borrough for ice cream sandwiches.

Life is sweet.

-NGUMINH

July 18, 2016

Minh’s IS250 | Royal Origin Member

I went out today and looked at my car and realized I have a pretty neat car. So, I decided to spend the day shooting my IS250 at the park for memory purposes. Sometimes in the end all you’ll have are memories.

Loving my front bumper and headlights. I never thought I would be this far with this car, but thanks to Kyoei for helping me get my AIMGAIN front bumper.

Reflection eternal.

Also a big thanks to Ky for refinishing my wheels!

A big thank you to Rodney for helping me install all the small stuff on my car.

A big thanks to big Vinh for HID and air suspension help!

Building a car really does bring a whole bunch of people together. Thank you to my friends and family for getting me this far.

-NGUMINH

July 17, 2016

714 to 626 | The Daily

Some crazy things going on recently at Robros Customs. Jason is boosting his Wrangler, so he can drift it. Yup, a Jeep Wrangler for drifting. He outfitted his engine with a Prodigy Performance kit and upgraded from the stock brakes to Willwood Performance brakes.

The crazy guy and his project.

Jason has been talking about this project for two years and I’m glad I’m witnessing it first hand his dreams coming true.

A lot of time and hard work being put into making a Jeep a drift car, but I know Jason can make this happen.

Had lunch at By Chloe where everything is vegetarian or vegan. It was surprisingly good for something that wasn’t meat.

Later on that night, I met up with Angelo, Shavi, Justin and Bonnie at the KINOD meet. Angelo and I decided to be the odd bunch of the group and bring out 350Z and IS out.

Justin’s NC that he recently purchased. Not a bad buy.

Bonnie giving us the crazy eye because she was super hungry.

We ended the night eating Jazz Cat and hanging out at the “lair” where we use to hang out back then for hours.

714 to 626 in one day.

-NGUMINH

July 15, 2016

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