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.
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It was a special day here at Illest OC. Pandora One finally arrived and will be displayed at the shop.
Pandora One.
Now fitted with a double decker wing and 500hp.
Your home for next couple of months.
Kevin fitting some wheels on his car.
Vu’s new ride. Big plans for this car.
Vu and Nimo, never been so Royal Origin today.
That rear tuck doe.
Kevin’s s2000 in it’s entirety.
Decided to go to Snow Monster for some bomb ice cream on belgian waffles and on the way I got some pretty cool rolling shots of Shavi’s car.
The mother fucking prince.
Snow Monster is where I learned how to play my favorite game card game of all time. Monopoly Deals.
Will doing a ricer drive by while flicking us off. Very impressive he was able to multi task.
Nimo about to go HAM(hard as a mother fucker).
All Nimo.
Jimmy looking very jealous of Nimo’s diabetes.
Rica so focused on winning in Monopoly.
Shavi gave up and started to play connect four by himself.
Vuzoku.
The vinhnumber.
Neems.
Love bokeh.
As some of you know, I started working for Illest Orange County since June and now Big Vinh works there as well. Mark Arcenal was down here visiting the shop, so we had to show him Big Vinh’s S13.
Mark was pretty excited to make an Instagram video of Vinh’s car.
Vinh’s S13 was very bright and shiny today.
Mark in Instgram mode, check out that stance for steady sliding videos.
Another Marc came to visit us too. The fucking limo of BMW’s.
Jay wanted to see Vinh’s tattoo really bad and couldn’t wait for him to take off his shirt.
Our new Set the Sun bumper sticker. You can get it here.. http://shop.royal-origin.com/product/set-the-sun-box-sticker
Crazy how a set of wheels can change a car so much. Vinh’s car was pretty cool before with the Varrstoens, but with the XD-9’s it totally changes the way you view this car. I don’t know if it’s the design of the wheel or the color, but Vinh has made me fall in love with his S13.
After chilling a bit, we decided to roll out to the uselesss meet at Beach Burger.
Edris is always telling us DBAP and come out to the meet. If you don’t know cool internet lingo, DBAP is “don’t be a pussy”.
John couldn’t find parking… Yeah that’s three parking spots on the left.
Man these cars are TC… (too cool).
Jimmy’s car looking good on the Work Equips.
O WHALES.
Jimmy had a Cosmo mag in his car… He actually reads it for the articles.
Elvis singing in a empty room.
Royal Origin street racers. Coming soon…….
Good night, I had fun with you today.
Once again we will be making the 400 mile journey from Southern California to Northern California for the traditional Wekfest SF in San Jose, CA on Saturday, July 27th 2013. This year we are official vendors at the event and will be having even more cars on display. So, please come check out the Royal Origin area as well as our other friends at Wekfest SJ. We will be making it rain with goodies to all the attendees, so don’t miss out.
And for everyone not making the journey to Wekfest SJ, come check out Played Out by Rotiform and the Players from United Kingdom. This is the second annual Played Out in Sunset Beach, CA on Saturday, July 27th. We will also have a few cars there showing support.
So mark your calendars and make time for either event. You will not be disappointed.
See you guys at Wekfest SJ and Played Out.
-Shavi W.
Photo set of Boss Company Vinh’s LS430 before he parts it out :(.
Photos by keychain aka Keith Cheng.
With car shows in full effect, everyone is getting their cars ready with their newest mods. Yogi from Fatlace recently started his Lexus GS430 project and already it has changed quiet a bit.
The never ending projects stay never ending.
Thanks
-Shavi W.
It was one of those days where all I wanted to do was check out cars all day long. I decided the night before that I would go to all the car meets on Saturday which included Cars and Coffee in Irvine, LTMW in El Monte, and Fast Autoworks in Arcadia. I met up with Dat at Cars and Coffee because he planned to drive the Fatlace FRS to all the meets. Since he planned to go to the LTMW meet after, we caravanned to Charles’ house where everyone met up before the LTMW meet.
BMW 3, 5, and 7.
Yoshi, leading the pack.
Gautam and Marc met up at Charles’ house too. Note that all three beemers have mesh wheels. It’s going to be a common theme throughout the post.
All Marc needs is a front lip to set this thing off.
LOL BOTTLE CAPS.
All static here.
Celebrity car, the Fatlace FRS.
Gautam’s M5 on dem purps.
Haven’t seen Armand in a while; he’s still riding hella fucking flush.
I wonder if that Go-Pro is there to check out the reactions of people when he drives by or to see his suspension travel when he drives.
Keith came out to play.
Bagged 5 series on Waffes. Awesome.
Dumped CRZ rolling through.
The more I see these newer Honda Accords modded, the more I want to take Jennifer’s Accord and slam it with my Scaras.
S2K with some meat fitment on Mag Blue Volk TE-37.
Time Attack EVO 8.
Prepare for a bombardment of BMWs of all series on either mesh wheels or TE-37’s.
BMW owners love their TE-37’s and mesh wheels.
Something different, Courtney’s F30 on SSR SP1’s.
5 Spoke goodness.
This guy is everywhere…Sam’s Civic, also on TE-37’s. I guess he can fit in with this crowd.
Yoshi and Sam.
Releasing the monster.
I always see this E36 on tumblr. Glad to be able to see it in person for the first time.
Fatlace FRS, posted.
Another person I haven’t seen in a while is Jose and his Audi A3.
The paint on this VW is so crazy. Brown and greenish color.
Speaking of green, Jose’s Audi A3.
LTMW E90 was displayed in the middle of the lot.
Sick blue CCW’s to fit this wide monstrosity.
Going to end it with this model, who dressed pretty skimpy. She looked pretty out of place, modeling at the Stance Wheels booth. Anyways, thanks LTMW for throwing a fun meet and for the free food! Check out the rest of the photos in the gallery.
-NGU ASS
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.
Filmed & Edited By: Shavi W.
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We weren’t sure how this meet would turn out and honestly thought that the first spot we picked would be sufficient enough. Reason is because we used to have meets at Tastea and that lot is way smaller than the Genki Living spot. Nimo, Jennifer, and I were still on our way home from Vegas that evening and by 8:30PM, Alex texted me that the parking lot was already getting packed. I just told him that we’ll figure it out when I get there, thinking it couldn’t have been that bad. I was so wrong.
The parking lot was so packed that it was difficult to even walk around. It was a cluster fuck of cars.
As soon as we arrived, we decided it was time to move to the second spot, which was M&M Donuts.
Garden Grove’s finest giving tickets. They gave our friend Anthony a ticket for jaywalking…mother F.
Only photo I got of a car was this Yellow Type R in front of Genki.
The streets were packed, filled with modified cars everywhere.
LS460 that was coming late to the party just followed us to the next spot.
Pogi Fresh leading the way; it was like a parade of cars heading to M&M.
Damn, our meet only lasted 20 minutes before it got rolled.
The M&M Donuts lot was 5 times bigger than the Genki spot and we filled that up quick too.
Quick shot of Mikey’s xB rolling by.
Leighton got a sweet spot in front of the entrance.
Boss 7 Series.
Sweet color combo on this 8th gen Civic.
EK looking for a parking spot.
Guys were surrounding John’s car and asking him 21 questions about his life and his car.
Neel debuting his Work Emitz, which he kept on the down low and didn’t even tell us about it.
Minh’s Junction Produce IS250.
Spotted some Royal Origin supporters. We’ll have stickers for sale again, just be patient!
Clean EVO, I believe it’s owned by Daniel Leung’s brother.
Speaking of Daniel, here’s his Subie.
Alex’s Camry getting some attention from future housewives.
I always see this IS250 at our meets. Thanks for the support homie!
Mother fucking Lux Life, son.
Business in the front, party in the back.
Reminds me of the late Jon Pham’s E30. Rest in paradise, homie.
Bringing business to M&Ms.
Vincent’s Miata looking fine as fuck.
Mark’s big booty hoe.
It was cool that most of the cars here were slammed and we didn’t have to tippy toe to find anyone’s car.
Sweet beetle.
KSANCHEZ and KJOHNSTON.
This spot ended up getting rolled on too; they gave Angelo a ticket for being too low and this time they put non-correctable. Might be a $500 fucking ticket.
Useless crew came out to kick it.
S2K’s on the roll.
Clean Miata. I am in love with the red paint!
We moved to the third spot just in case the cops wanted to shut down M&M’s too. This time, we only invited close friends to Tastea.
Amir’s 911, recently featured on Stance Works!
Clean SC.
I don’t know who invited Thao to come…
Wes’ GS with a bumper that I heard he fabbed up in his backyard.
Brendan’s E30.
Not sure who these guys are, but they brought the heat with this NSX and 350z.
Swerve GS, reminds me of Big Vinh’s GS back in 2009.
Merry Christmas guys!
One more shot of Vincent’s Miata.
Jeff, hard parking the RSX.
Chris showing up fashionably late.
The Vegas peeps tried to surprise us & left Vegas 20 minutes after us so they can catch up, but Chivas ended up having oil filter problems and got stuck in Barstow. We ended up driving back to get them with an oil filter. Nice try guys, it was the effort that counts.
Nice shot of Gerald’s Work Equips.
Another shot of Minh’s IS250.
Side front face shot of Nimo’s IS300. Doesn’t even look like it was taken on a 2,000 mile road trip.
Mark lighting the way.
Jay Crayyy.
Bobby finally got bags for his GS. Now he can pick up all his baby mommas.
KJohnston’s S2K.
Nicul was afraid that we were going to move to another spot, so he didn’t air down.
Hey there Mikey.
Sloppy crusin’ out because he found out Tastea doesn’t serve alcohol.
Time for some 350z porn. Here’s Angelo’s $500-ticketed 350z.
John Park just recently traded his Equips for some Meisters. Looking good!
Another wheel whore, Christforeman sittin’ on some new Weds LX-Zs.
Miguel couldn’t afford new wheels, so he just powder coated them.
Wish I had a wide angle lens…
350z galore.
All the RSX’s were jealous of the 350zs and wanted to park next to each other too.
Man was Sam late…
I always get cool photos of Matt’s S13.
Thanks everybody for coming out and dealing with all that bullshit from the cops, assholes doing burn outs, and bitches speeding in the parking lot. We’ll find a better spot where we can regulate the traffic and not get kicked out by the police. Peace!
Words by NGU ASS
Photos by NGUASS, Rocky T Wong, and Angelow
Here are a fresh load of more pictures from the Style Over Comfort event at VIP Modular in Garden Grove, California. If you missed our first post on this event, look here: http://royal-origin.com/2012/12/31/soc-a-wocka/
