minh’s is250 – Royal Origin

Familiar Faces | Daily life

We got a familiar face that visited us this week, all the way from North Carolina. Big old Vinh. He was in town for his mom’s birthday and had time to hang with us. We decided to go out to Garden Grove Main Street for some matcha foam tea.

Late night hangs like we use to do.

Laugh at the guy that’s gonna have BMW problems soon..

Rodney’s Cressida has been looking real good with the rear bumper on.

Biggie and smalls.

Underground Kings available on shop.royal-origin.com.

Andy brought out the GS and traded me players in fantasy football. What a great man.

I brought out the IS to flex a bit tonight.

In love with my leaking headlights.

Make sure you shop.royal-origin.com

-NGUMINH

October 5, 2017

Early Mornings with Cleopatra | Royal Origin Member

I had to wake up early to take my wife to work, so I decided to take advantage of the empty streets for a photo shoot with the IS250.

AIMGAIN kit provided by KYOEI USA. Hit them up for all of your VIP needs.

January 25, 2017

714 to Shavi’s Birthday | Daily Life

Finally getting my life organized after moving to a new place. Glad to say I reached my goal of buying a house this year, it’s not much, but hopefully me and my wife will build our dream home one day. I also started working at 714 Tires, so my schedule is little bit hard to get use to. Let me give you a quick glimpse of my daily life…

6AM I wake up to let my dog out to pee. This gang of cats wait outside every morning to get a chance to bang my wife’s cat.

Just collecting dust everyday…

I feel like when I say I’m done with my car, there’s always something more I want to do. I don’t know why, but my car looks plain to me.

Came into work at 714 Tires and everyone was hard at working installing suspension arms left and right. Hit them up if you guys need any coil overs or suspension arm installations!

Jason recently got a RB20 from Ben at Greddy. He’s planning to put this thing in his S13 coupe.

Tightlox lug nuts, another venture for the RO bros. Available at 714 tires and soon on our online store.

Later that night, we celebrated Shavi’s birthday at Star BBQ.

Happy Birthday to our favorite Sri Lankan!

-NGUMINH

December 16, 2016

KevinChow x PhotoMD x NGUASS | Car Feature

It’s always great to put names to faces, I have always seen the water mark “Kevin Chow Photography” and followed Kevin on Instagram for the longest time, but we’ve never met. Kevin recently hit me up and said he would be in town and wanted to meet up. We got together and did what normal automotive photographers do and we shot some cars.

Mikey Dang met us up and brought out his Amuse 370z. We took Kevin to the famous TK Plaza where the Fast and Furious was shot.

Mikey’s Amuse 370z on Volk TE-37 SL.

It was nice meeting Mikey aka photo_md for the first time too.

The Slow and Calm.

It feels nice to be driving a car that doesn’t have any problems for once.

Kevin’s IS on magnesium blue Volk TE-37. Sad, we didn’t get to shoot his car, but there’s always next time.

It was nice meeting you guys and shout out to Kevin for setting this up!

You can follow Kevin and Mikey on Instagram here..

Kevin – @kebinchow

Mikey – @photo_md.

-NGUMINH

July 2, 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

Memories On Shuffle | Photo Dump

Some photos I forgot to post of Ryo’s last day in America.

Also check out this bag we made for the HOODRATstuff line.

You know this post is old when you see John’s GS .

The homies.

We’ll miss you Ryo!

Felt like shooting some photos of my car before it goes into another make over..

Sad days aren’t permanent. .

July 23, 2015

Night Magic

First like, first comment, first post this post will be all about the first of everything for 2015. Rang in the new year doing our usual hoodratstuff and basically got nothing done.

When the sun comes down the hoodrats come out to play.

I’ve been wanting to go out to take photos of stars for the longest time. Hanging out in Jordan’s neighborhood gave me the motivation because Villa Park neighborhoods are pitch black with no street lights. Perfect for star gazing.

This reminds me of a great poem I saw the other day.

You were red. You liked me cause I was blue. You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky and you decided that purple just wasn’t for you.

After some failed attempts to take photos of the stars, we decided that it would be fun to try to light paint. Of course, we never come prepared, so we had to figure out some hoodratstuff.

We had the power of two IPhone 5S with 11%-30% battery life to help us light paint some cars. Even though the first couple of trials gave us some horrendous outcomes, we finally got it together in the next couple of shots.

Pretty good I do say so myself for someone who can’t afford lighting equipment and never really light painted.

For some reason, we thought it would be funny to shoot this photo. JDM sideways parked trashcans are cool right?

Went down the street and just light painted anything that had wheels on it including Shavi’s daily M30. This car has some crazy stuff coming soon and I’m glad that Shavi will use this photo for transformation Tuesdays one day.

Next car was Jordan’s dad’s Mercedes, Jordan sent this photo to his dad and his dad didn’t even recognize his own car and said it was a pretty nice Mercedes.

Derek’s car was probably the worst car to light paint with it. The black adsorbed all of the light lines and that shit took forever to photoshop out.

Final result. Derek’s car is still ugly.

Double light painting! What does it mean?! (2 IPhone 5S and 2 IPhone 6 were used for this shot)

I want this to be our thing so bad. Shooting product photos on top of a trashcan.

Not bad eh? I would promote buying this plate, but we already sold out.

We decided that Derek needed an album cover for his beat mixes and maybe a new facebook profile photo.

Reppin HOODRATstuff til he stops working at a Thai restaurant.

Check out dem beats on soundcloud here…

https://soundcloud.com/dembeatss

Well, ta ta for now. Here’s to more meaningful posts in the future.

-NGU ASS

January 8, 2015

The Impossible Will Take a While Part 2

How did I end up here? I promised myself I wouldn’t do this to myself, but here I am with two modified cars; both not being able to get into my favorite Dim Sum restaurant plaza. Both cars demanding the attention of my wallet and are both equally important to me. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a relationship with two controlling bitches, hopefully I can turn these hoes into domesticated housewives..

This photo is an accurate summary on what’s going on with my SC400 aka “Dirty Diana”. Always something to fix..

My IS250 aka Cleopatra has been pretty good to me until of late when she decided that she didn’t want to wear shoes anymore when running..

How she looks currently…

One night when we were working on my car, we forgot to torque the wheels down and when I drove off the wheel just flew off. The wheel hit another car before flying into a random neighborhood. I had to run at least 30 meters before finding my wheel just chilling on a curb in front of someone’s house.

The sheer absurdity of sprinting after your own wheel, like some bizarre relay race, makes for a story you’ll never forget. But in the moment, all you can think about is the damage—both to your car and the unlucky vehicle caught in the wheel’s trajectory.

It’s a sobering reminder of how small mistakes can lead to bigger consequences, and how easily they can spiral out of control. Thankfully, no one was hurt this time, but not every incident ends that way.

When accidents escalate, especially those involving other vehicles, the fallout can be overwhelming. This is where someone like Mathew Minsky becomes a vital ally. Whether you’re dealing with property damage, insurance disputes, or potential liability, having an experienced car accident lawyer on your side can turn a nightmare into something manageable.

Mathew’s expertise ensures that the legal and financial complexities are handled professionally, allowing you to focus on moving forward.

I was really surprised I wasn’t angry at all about what happened. It was probably because my headlights were tinted that day and they looked so damn good.

Time and money will always fix a broken heart… or anything that is broken.

I have to admit my rear end has never looked so aggressive.

Some photos of another person who kind of went through the same thing as me. John had a little accident as well with his quarter panel. Looks good right now, but before it looked like the Hulk punched his quarter panel.

Thanks to Tho’s Autobody for working on John’s car and mine as well. They’re currently welding me a new quarter panel. Check them out here.. http://www.yelp.com/biz/thos-auto-collision-westminster

-NGU ASS

May 15, 2014

YEAR V

Last Saturday, we celebrated Joey Lee’s fifth year of running The Chronicles. If you never heard of his site then you probably don’t know what porn is either. In which case I suggest to check out his site stickydiljoe.com and xvideos.com. I’m a big fan boy of Joey’s work because he always has really good content on his site and gets great coverage at every automotive event. So, if you love cars and need a good read after being on xvideos his site is the place to go. Vinh, Keith and I showed at Year V with some of the Vegas guys, it was pretty exciting because Vinh and Chivas who both had to rebuild their engines would be debuting their cars at Year V.

Ray’s Integra from Vegas.

Sick matte red S2000. It had everything I would’ve done to a S2000.

Ariana Grande is back and now a bit faster. Fully built with Tomei parts and is now pumping 425 ponies.

VIP styling from Hawaii.

Joey’s meet had it all! Cool cars from different makes and models, food, DJ and even a marriage proposal. Congrats to Jay from JDMEGO!

One of the coolest awards I have ever seen. Not made with that plastic bull shit either.

Engine bay poppin’ all day.

I love capturing people in awkward stances.

Jay’s beautiful FRS. Quality parts all around from the suspension to the exterior.

Jon with his swagger walk.

S13 wearing some Barramundi wheels.

Mikey supplying the meet with some Virgil’s soda. Every single flavor is so refreshing! Definitely a must buy at Whole Foods.

Chris’s Rabbit and Jon’s GC.

Full function Integra Type R.

Mark’s M5.

Sucks I couldn’t get a better photo of this crazy LS from Hawaii.

Noel got his car wrapped in this cool yellow.

The yellow bumble bunny.

Loi Spec Integra’s are so sick.

Yogi’s GS.

Another well done S2000. I believe this belongs to my buddy John.

Mr. Armand’s Devil MR2.

First time seeing someone put food on their lips to show how many inches of lip they have. I was about to take it and eat it.

Michael Mao’s NSX.

Pretty clean TSX in the spectator parking lot.

S2000 on CCW LM-5 T.

My favorite S2000 as of now. The color is really doing it for me.

Crowded.

Street race car on some fat ass slick tires.

Tires were so fat that it pushed the front bumper off.

Keith with a complete make over on his IS300. Vertex all around and some 5Zigen wheels.

Another build that came back from the dead is Chivas’s EM1. Now with a color matched engine bay.

John missing his Integra.

Ojay’s Previa and Mike’s GS300 with a new black wrap job!

This EK is so damn clean. I want one!!

Mikey’s LS400 on Rotiform BLQs.

Joey’s Q45 on SSR MS3s.

Sloppy’s Fit seems to always be the car to get ratchet in.

God damn that camber.

Love seeing our stickers at meets.

This S13 was a bit late..

After the meet, some of the guys decided to meet up at our lair for some good old instagram photo shoots.

My IS250 and Shavi’s MS3.

Jimmy raised his car. Can you tell?

Instagram famous people.

Jon Jacob’s Jetta on 3SDM wheels.

NA Hero. Thanks Brendan for letting me drive your car! It was pretty difficult parking it because of the wide body.

Charles aka the King of Fitment.

Another shot of Jon Jacob’s car.

Man I love the side vinyl that Abbitt put on my car. Makes it look so cool.

The prince of Royal Origin.

Instagramming gets real serious around here.

Friends that become family.

November 7, 2013

The Pursuit 3.

The Pursuit 3 hosted by Longo Lexus is one of the biggest Lexus gatherings. The Pursuit is like Eibach for Lexus owners. Every year, they offer free drag racing for the day, In-N-Out and thousands of dollars worth of raffle prizes it’s a no wonder that people from all over the United States come to attend this meet. Lucky for me it was only a 30 minute drive to get there and I got to roll hella deep with Erick, Daniel, Berlin and local Club Lexus members. The first thing I saw was an onslaught of Lexuses, felt like I was at a dealership and all the cars were modded.

and yes, your vision isn’t going bad that is a PINK IS300.
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October 19, 2011

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