Tag: Benz

  • Boden Bash 2016 | Event Coverage

    Boden Bash 2016 | Event Coverage

    Boden AutoHaus a premium air suspension specialist shop in Costa Mesa, California put together a car meet that had a cars and coffee type vibe with a good variety of makes/models coming together to share their Saturday morning together. These are the cars that caught my eye.

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    DSC07888Matt’s GS400 equipped with 326power and Black Magician kit on SSR Professor SP1.

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    After Boden Bash 2016, we head up to 714 Tires to meet up with John to hangout while he gets an alignment since we were getting lunch together after that.

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    DSC07895John’s C6 Corvette on Rotiform LVS.

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

  • Formula Drift Long Beach 2014 and Offset Kings Show Case

    Formula Drift Long Beach 2014 and Offset Kings Show Case

    I feel like I’ve been covering Formula Drift Long Beach for a while now. Not much has changed, maybe different cars but the same vibe. Seems like every year I get less and less content because I end up having other priorities on my plate. This year it was the first time I was working with a company that had a booth in the vendor aisle.  So my deepest apologies if there isn’t that many photos.  Just kidding, I don’t really care what you think. Enjoy the photos though.

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    The trance style lives on through Angelo’s Z.

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    The Barney mobile.

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    Thao coming out hard with the new Cosmic Racing wheels.

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    The talk of the show. Static FRS with superb fitment from Street Faction.

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    This car is so hot we needed to put a water bottle in front of the car to cool it down.

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    Now for some bad quality photos of some drifting..

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    Back to the vendor lifestyle…

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    Me and Vinh doing work at the JDM Chemicals booth.

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    Todd’s Minty XB. His first time at Formula Drift Long Beach. I’m glad I was there to share this special moment with him.

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    Mike’s crazy GS300 front bumper from Thailand I think.

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    BMW of the year.

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    The show area was packed full of fan boys.

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    Styling on you fools.

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    Very clean Audi on 3SDM wheels.

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    RWD DAILOW.

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    NSX from last night.

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    The amazing Boogs.

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    Baller ass wheels..

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    Back to more crappy drifting photos…

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    Vendor village.

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    A cop posing for this guy’s Subaru. We should stop hiring models and just bring out the whole PD. They seem to get more media attention haha.

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    Started with Angelo’s Z and ending it with his Z. Because I can.

    -NGUASS

     

  • AMG x M3

    Spent the day hanging out with Lowballers Japan, and took them to a location in Orange County to shoot some pictures. Here we have Erick’s AMG and Navith’s M3. Made this strictly to share on Instagram.

    Filmed & Edited By: Shavi Wijegunaratne

    Instagram:
    @ShaviW
    @RoyalOrigin

  • Wheel Wednesday

    Wheel Wednesday

    Finally had a day off work and it was spent putting in work on cars. Shavi met up with me early in the morning because we both had to go to Rotiform. I was going to be dropping off my Junction Produce Scaras to get the faces milled down to fit an aftermarket lip and Shavi was going to order some Air Lift products through Jason.

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    Weird seeing this car more often now, Shavi’s MS3 use to be the rarest unicorn.

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    As soon as we reach Rotiform, Orbit was there to greet us.

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    You can always expect some cool rides over at the Rotiform parking lot like Brian’s S4 on Rotiform INDs.

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    Rotiform INDs look perfect on any big body cars.

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    Right next to the S4 is Jason’s Mercedes CLS 55 AMG on their new Rotiform WRW.

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    Very cool design by Rotiform.

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    After our trip to Rotiform, I drove by the Boss Company garage to see what they were up to. 141

    Jimmy was taking out his Work VS Mesh face and replacing it with a Work Equip face.

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    Adam had Vinh’s S13 in the garage for a full detail job.

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    Kevin and Vinh were working on putting in some KW suspension for Kevin’s S2000.

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    So many parts laying around..

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    In the midst of it, an ice cream truck was chased down by three grown ass adults.

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    I regret nothing.

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    Adam’s lipless Subie.

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    For the past month, while I wait for my Scara’s to be rebuilt, Vinh has been kind enough to let me rock his Weds Bazerias. 20’s don’t look too bad on my car, but it only fits my rears.

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    Installing the Mugen front lip.

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    That mirror finish..

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    Adam made it look like it just came fresh out of the paint shop.

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    You can see the details of Vinh’s shelf through his paint. If anyone needs a detail job from Adam you can contact him at Adametayeb@gmail.com.

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    Thanks to JDM Chemicals for their awesome products!

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    I love bokeh even if there isn’t a subject to focus on.

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    Jimmy’s final product.

  • Video Timeline 2012

    I recently decided to compile all my footage from 2012 into a timeline video. While I was doing this, I thought it was cool that I took the time and effort to create a video nearly every month of the year. Great way to learn from my mistakes and improve; at least I hope I am improving. In the end, I do this for fun as an additional hobby to my obsession with cars. I hope you guys enjoy a look into my 2012.

    Royal Origin – Timeline 2012 from Shavi Wijegunaratne on Vimeo.

    Also available to be watched on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REwX1LIbA0U

    Thanks for watching.

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    Filmed & Edited By: Shavi W.
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  • Royal Origin Summer

    Royal Origin Summer

    School is out and summer is here, so we got our short shorts, rounded up the homies, and went to the park for a BBQ. David, being as generous as he is, planned the event and bought all the food for us. He grilled some delicious burgers and Korean BBQ for us. We had a good time and there were good vibes. Some of us got friendly rounds of basketball in and even played tag. We haven’t seen each other as often as before because of our busy lives, so it was nice that everyone came out. A meet up with Royal Origin also means a car meet, so the parking lot at the park looked like a full blown car meet.
    Here is Jimmy’s fresh-to-death Civic…

    Charles took out the Q45 for a tan along with Nick’s SC400. Nick’s SC was lowered the next day, so watch out for that! Should look sick.

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  • Wheels N Meals 3: FoodElement

    Wheels N Meals 3: FoodElement

    I always told myself, that I would stop by and check out Wheels N Meals if it was going down when I was in town. Coincidentally, the first two times occurred when I was back home, but my lazy ass didn’t want to drive out two miles to attend. I guess the 3rd time’s the charm. I was home for Spring Break and saw that it was happening, so I decided to finally check it out.

    So basically, Wheels N Meals is just a Food Truck Meet in Milpitas, CA. The food trucks come and customers show up in their cars. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to a Bay Area car meet. Wish I had my car with me to take out for a cruise. All good though! I went to the meet to eat some good food, and also ran into a old friends.

    This clean Benz from SF Wekfest (sorry, it’s blurry), still clean though!

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