This year felt a bit different at Formula Drift Long Beach, it’s usually the time of excitement to show off our new car builds, but this year we were on the other side of the Firestone bridge. For 2015, we decided to be vendors and only displaying a couple of our cars, but we were still able to catch the roll in for the show portion of Formula Drift. Nothing better than seeing a line of slammed cars roll into a show and it gets even better when the roll in is during golden hour for some crisp photos.
Aired out Golf on Messer Wheels.
Jon Tran’s Hyundai Genesis coupe looking fire on VIP Modulars.
Buddha Concept’s RX-7 sitting pretty on some gold Panasports G7.
The Fatlace MK7 face lifted with a Voomeran kit on Work Wheels CR2P.
Nice Porsche bagged on BBS RS.
European cars leading the line.
Entering the show in clean fashion, Dapper’s Audi A4 wagon
Noel’s VARIS FRS late as usual, but still gets that VIP treatment.
Following Noel’s FRS, Mark’s M5 with that Filipino time roll in.
Sick RHD Subaru on Klutch Wheels.
Line full of fitment.
Sean Rosendahl the G35 Static King.
Project Zero reppin San Diego.
Boogie’s E46 with the new “Polizei” livery, always striving to be different.
Big Boogie Butt.
Honda CRZ slammed on Work VS-KFs.
Low n Slow E90 bagged on Blitz wheels.
David and Mike praying for the basics.
The “Riberty Walk” Audi A4.
Such crazy fitment on this FRS!
One of my passengers on my feels train, Jonny Ocean.
So good. Can’t believe this was painted at home.
More photos in the gallery, stay tuned for the event coverage tomorrow!
Wekfest has become one of the best shows in the nation. The Queen Mary is probably the most over used spot in Southern California for a car show with that being said Wekfest has always been able to give a sell out crowd with lines that would reach a mile long. That’s pretty impressive considering how saturated car shows are in southerm California. To me Wekfest LA is like a big party where all the friends that you wanted to be there actually show up and are there on time. We try to go to all of the Wekfest shows when it’s in our vicinity and this time to start off the first event in California, we threw a collaboration pre meet for Wekfest LA. Thank Kenneth for giving us the opportunity to host the Wekfest LA Pre Meet and for having us at the show.
Being a vendor we had to be at the venue at 7 AM. Crazy to see all these people awake and energetic so early in the morning. Some of us only got 2 hours or no sleep.
This Miata is pretty awesome. Crazy back story on these wheels. These are the same wheels that were stolen off of Tina’s Miata. When shit gets stolen from you, don’t expect the cops to get it back for you even if you have proof and a police report. #FTP and #fuckthieves.
Some throwback Thursday with this IS300. Same color combo as my old IS300.
JDM hipster Nimo.
School boy Marq bringing out the couch.
Bonnie first time trying a Vietnamese spring roll. Best 6 inches she’ll ever have in her body. Sorry Angelo.
Chivas finally made it to Wekfest. He was happy all day.
Jimmy reminds me of a Chinese piano player for some reason.
Editing a Wekfest video at Wekfest. Boss.
Thao trying to get up the driveway to the staging area. She deserves the not on air plate.
Rear bumping came apart as well.
The Wekfest staff were very helpful getting the car up the driveway and helping taking off the bumpers.
Fast Autoworks FRS cruising through the vendor area.
They have a sticker for everything now a days.
Low N Slow rolling up.
Ribler’s Audi displaying at the Avant Garde booth. Always looking clean.
Sick finish on this Avant Garde F431.
A better look at the most famous FRS.
A clenched my butt for this one.
Chivas killed the work wheels trend.
Mikey’s freshly built Integra. This car had the internet raving for days because of how fast it was built.
Miata goodies.
Probably the least non-show queen car here, but it still caught a lot of attention in the midst of all the fresh paint jobs.
So much going on in this picture, a guy vaping, a sick Liberty Walk BMW wagon and a dude wearing some Red Octobers. If you’re looking for vaping products, visit the Indacloud website.
Timeless Integra.
The blue on this RWB is doing it for me.
Life goals is to be driving a VIP sedan and have my wife driving a bagged mini van.
Great line up over at the Style Over Comfort booth.
So cool to see people rocking the FTP shirt. Thanks for the support!
How many fingers can fit up your buttholes? The answer was two.
No fingers can fit in between the fender and wheels Mark’s M5.
One of the sickest S2000s in SOCAL right now.
I heard this guy drove all the way from Texas for Wekfest. Crazy dedication.
This bagged GTR is so sick coming from the Airrex booth.
Only reason to drive get a Prius is if it looked like this.
I’m going to take a moment to appreciate how stylish John Zhang’s hair is.
Ray making love to the lowballers nobori flag.
The best VIP build at the show.
NSX porn begins now.
Keith late as ever. That’s what happens when date models.
This rear is so sick..
#wekfestprep at Wekfest.
The quality of cars at Wekfest was so over whelming. Not a single moment was I like “why is this car here?”
Thanks to everyone who came by to support us!
JDM Chemicals booth showing Wekfest the right way to clean your car.
Keith ended up winning 3rd best IS of the Festival. Congrats!
Thanks to Kevin for showing with us last minute.
Model selfies.
Hayle looking sloppy and Slops looking cute af.
The vogue look.
Caugh Elissa Alva ordering food. She knew I was taking a picture of her and turned around real quick.
Nimo trying to get that shout out from her while she was in line.
The crowd waiting for people to do stupid shit like burn outs and donuts while leaving the parking lot.
WFC cuties.
Sea of cars and car enthusiasts.
-15 camber all around apparently. So crazy.
This GS from Platinum VIP was giving a pretty crazy light show the whole day.
Royal Flush crew in a full house. Get my play on words? or am I just that lame?..
I love this Porsche.
Sleeping beauty Angelo.
First Place IS of the festival.
The kit isn’t really attached it’s just placed there..
Runner up of Best IS of the festival is Carl’s Aimgain IS250.
G35 hoodless crew.
Marcus Cooke’s immaculate G35.
My drug dealer’s EP3.
Project Zero crew.
Thank you Wekfest for the award. We honestly didn’t expect this because there are way more cooler crews at Wekfest than us. Anyways, shout out to all the homies at the event that made it a memorable time. Until next time… oh yeah there are like 300+ photos in the gallery.
Water rolled down our faces, and our worst fears became reality when the rainy clouds appeared. All week long, the summer rays were shining bright as ever, but on the night of our meet, nature decided that it was thirsty for some rain. Hours before the meet, we were still debating whether or not we should have the meet or postpone it because at 9pm, the weather forecast predicted thunderstorms. Like all of our previous meets, we decided last minute that the meet would continue and we didn’t really care who came out because we had to get our Peach Me Sweatea fix. I rolled up early and to my surprise, there were already a gang of cars. I didn’t know there were people as down as us to kick it even during thunderstorms.
Cars were constantly coming through; the Tastea lot was overflowing with rain and cars, so people started parking in the fire lanes and handicap zones.
Finally, the Formula Drift season was here! I was getting bored of going to car meets and shows, seeing the same thing over and over. I really wanted to do some motor sports kind of photography. This year, there were many new sights at FD, such as the Scion FRS that Ken Gushi drove, and Daigo Saito from D1GP competed and brought his Lexus SC430 mated with 3.4 liter Brian Crower stroker 2JZ-GTE. There was an in-car video on youtube of Daigo driving it on practice day and it sounded insane. Got me super excited to witness the monster in action. As soon as I arrived at the parking structure, I could smell the burning rubber and hear the screech of tires drifting. It got me giddier than a high school girl who just got asked to the prom.
Saw the Megan-racing AE86 on the way to the entrance.
This past weekend was the Wrong Fitment Crew meet in Santa Monica/Venice Beach. It was a highly anticipated meet since many websites, blogs, and forums were promoting the event. We all planned to meet up bright and early so we could all roll deep together to the meet, but that did not happen. Some of us met in Irvine and others met in Walnut. Fortunately, I live in the Walnut area, so I thought I could wake up 10 minutes before the meet-up time & still make it. Well, that was not the brightest idea. Since I woke up late, everyone else who was caravanning with us ended up being late as well (sorry everybody), and on top of that, the fact that I have an unfunctional car did not help. We had to take two extra freeways because I could not use the normal 10 freeway (sorry again). But, after all the hecticness, we finally arrived in Santa Monica.
We arrived around 10:30 A.M. Once we got there, our caravan was lost. There were so many cars coming from every direction, so we had to let people in between us. We waited about 15 minutes on the main street that led us to the parking lot, but we all ended up waiting for nothing because we soon found out that the parking lot was full, and the police were not letting anyone in. We somehow all managed to meet up again and parked in a parking lot across from the event. (more…)
A couple of days ago Tony Lee of Its JDM Yo hosted a competition/car meet to promote his 2 year anniversary car show. When we first heard of “So You Think You Can Stance?” We thought hmm… that sounds pretty cool something different and out of the ordinary.
So We got to the event early to setup and check it out. It did not take too long for the parking lot to get packed. Lots of flashy cars, and a couple of vendors with their booths up trying to sell/market their merchandise. Just an overall fun event with our various friends again.
KEYCHAIN!!!!!!
It is rare to see fully built AE86 coupe these days let alone a clean stock one… (more…)
“Are you so low that it takes an hour to angle up that slightly inclined driveway that even my 90 year old grandfather can wheel chair up by himself? Do you think you have the best technique and style for getting up that fucked up driveway? Then prove it!”
At the first ever Its JDM Yo – You Think You Can Stance? competition a variety of vehicles came to check it out and accept the challenge.
Most people have heard of 1013MM or more like seen their photography work. In actuality, 1013MM is only one man, and that man is our good friend John Zhang. John Zhang produces amazing work in automotive, event, and life style pieces. In celebration of John Zhang’s birthday, he held a well-organized meet on 10-13-2011 that brought out high-quality cars and good times with friends. Check out the photos and video to see the many people that came and John Zhang. Happy birthday again John.
We were in full force that night, we haven’t met up in a while and it was good to see everyone all together.
More photos in the gallery, stay tuned for the event coverage tomorrow!
