Hoodratstuff – Page 2

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

Stick Em Up | Shop Royal Origin

I just felt like taking some photos of our stickers for the online store and thought I share it here because the colors in these stickers are so awesome.

Gold leaf with our Cursive HOODRATstuff.

The dual layer HOODRATstuff script sticker. Only a few left!

The ever so popular license plate. We re-stocked it with 4 different colors; gold chrome, chrome, white and brushed silver.

Thank you for all the support!

-NGUMINH

April 2, 2017

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

Sushi with John and Ashton | Taurus Birthdays

It’s always fun when there’s a birthday party, especially when people actually care about these people and come out to celebrate. It was Ashton, John and Angelo’s birthdays and we decided to go to Sake 2 Me for their dinner. Angelo couldn’t make it, so we celebrated his birthday in spirit for him.

“Where the bitches at yo? Bruno Mars can not be seen without any hunnies in between these two arms.”

I swear John always closes his eyes in every group photo.

Sang’s sick ass Cayman, I’ve known him since he was a troll on MY.IS.

Waiting to be seated for a group of 24.

Spotted Phi’s Civic on Air Runner suspension.

The parking lot of Sake 2 Me became a little car meet.

Shavi’s M30.

John’s Corvette on Forge Stars.

Ashton about to get white girl wasted.

John’s been working out, so he’s not much of an alcohol drinker anymore. Good thing I’m here to eat his desserts.

Happy Birthday boy knows he’s coming home to sex after dinner.

Happy Birthday to my favorite Tauruses, may you guys find good fortune and happiness in your future endeavors.

-NGUMINH

June 27, 2016

Night Fun | RO Drift

I’ve always wanted to learn how to drift my SC, but I never had a push to go out and try. Recently, my friend Brandon started to come around and convinced me to take my SC out to the mountains with him to learn how to slide it.

Brandon’s IS300, this car has been through some shit since I’ve seen it last. The last time was four years ago…

Whiskey Devil

All black and ready to go.

We met up with Rodney at Cha2O on the way to Angeles Crest.

Rodney got these cool 90’s Forever stickers made.

After a long and fun winding drive, we got to the drift spot and met with Brandon’s friend who also drove an IS300.

The stars were definitely out tonight.

After some rounds of burning rubber, we decided to try and light paint.

Rodney’s attempts on drawing Saitama from One Punch Man.

I decided to max out the ISO on the Sony A7SII and man it’s so impressive. This photo was taken at 1:36 AM.

It looks like broad day light, so amazing!

Got some shots of Brandon’s IS300. Sorry Brandon, I was too lazy to photo shop it so your car would look good.

I am now addicted to drifting…

-NGUMINH

June 27, 2016

The Track Burnaz | HOODRATstuff

As some of you may know, Derek aka “DUKDIKZ” made a career choice to go into the music industry. He got his shit together, went to the Musicians Institute in LA and recently, he got an internship with Rodney Jerkins. Derek got a chance to be the main sound engineer for The Track Burnaz and upcoming producing group from Miami. They saw Derek wearing the HOODRATstuff gear and thought it would be a great idea to collaborate with us. Derek set it up so we could meet at the studio and discuss the collaboration.

Derek’s GS300 is still intact even after living in LA for the past year. Amazing what air ride could do for a car.

Check out those bags under Derek’s eyes, this is a guy that’s been working hard in the studio.

Always reppin’.

One of the artists that The Track Burnaz and Derek has been working with is DB Bantino. DB is a writer, producer and rapper from D.C. and has some tracks that’s been used by a lot of artists.

The Track Burnaz and DB just recently released a song together that they made the day we met. Check it out here..

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

DB, Briggz and JB laced out with HOODRATstuff.

DB feeling himself.

DB laying down some lyrics.

HOODRATstuff in the studio.

JB feeling the wave.

The Track Burnaz consist of JB, Briggz and Ruben all from Miami.

JB getting that work in.

After the studio meet up, we had dinner with Hayle at EMC Seafood.

Salmon capriccio.

$1.50 oysters.

Hayle and Shavi are about to order the whole happy hour menu.

Soft shell crab sliders.

Most of the happy hour menu.

We decided to go back to the studio to kill some time, since going home from Calabasas to OC would have been a 2 hour drive because of traffic. We caught Derek and Ruben vibing out to some new beats.

DB putting the finishing touches to the song.

Hayle was feeling the song so much that she wanted to moon walk.

Shout out to Derek for putting this meeting together, we will definitely be doing some more stuff with The Track Burnaz, make sure you check out their Sound Cloud and Instagram!

The Track Burnaz

June 27, 2016

Nemo’s Garage | Grand Opening

It’s that time of the year in Southern California, where the blistering heat and car meets align. This weekend took us to the Nemo’s Garage grand opening in Ontario, California. And as you will see they are new, but veterans of experience and knowledge in the automotive realm; big with the Honda platforms.

Thanks.

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

June 18, 2016

Customizing with Rhino | Car Nights

Lately, I’ve been spending most of my time at Rhino Customs where Rodney works. We’ve been doing small stuff to my IS, so it could look presentable. Rodney has helped me mount tires, install bumpers, grills, headlights and so much more. Thanks Rodney for all the help! Building a car really does bring friends together.

Rodney applying some black vinyl to my fenders to see how it’ll look. It didn’t look good…

Almost perfect.

Loving my new 78 Works tail lights and AIMGAIN trunk spoiler courtesy of Kyoei USA and Ryo.

Looking better everyday.

The shop car is a LS swaped S14 that they plan to compete in drift events for shop exposure.

That logo..

I thought it would be cool to do some light painting in the shop, little did I know I really suck at light painting.

We also spent some time putting each other’s cars together. Like installing Abbitt’s lift for his truck.

Bruno Mars loves cars.

Rodney teaching Abbitt how to mount tires.

We also had to install Rodney’s coil overs and mount his tires.

None of us knew how to stretch tires and we did the only thing we know how to do. Apply a little #HOODRATstuff to it.

and a lot of brake fluid and a torch..

Googling how to stretch a tire…

We ended up figuring it all out and actually got all the tires mounted.

The power of team work.

Looking good Bruno.

Family dinners after a long day of fixing cars.

It’s also fun to play with fire.

Not bad, not bad at all.

You can follow Rodney and Rhino’s Customs on Instagram here..

Rodney – @rod_knee

Rhino’s Customs – @rhino_customs_detailing

-NGUMINH

June 18, 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

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