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  • RO in Japan | Osaka

    RO in Japan | Osaka

     While we were in Japan, Sara gave us a tip that we should go meet up with her friend Ty from Hectopascal in Osaka. Ty is someone to hit up if we wanted to go around Japan doing bad things. We woke up early and took the first bullet train to Osaka to see the south style of Japan.

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    Ty was cool enough to come pick us up in his shakotan S14.

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    That rear fitment is insane. I can’t believe we were going to try to fit 4 guys in this car..

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    Ty’s friend, Hiromitsu was nice enough to be the extra car to take us back to Ty’s shop.

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    A quick drive over some bridges in Ty’s car took us what felt like a minute to get to his shop.

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    Ty’s shop, Hectopascal stocks tons of cool State wide stuff from Hawaii to California.

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    You can see clothing brands such as Illest, Moral Fibers, JSPIRIT  and Inf4mation at his shop.

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    He also has his own shop brand of t -shirts.

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    Cool a play on Hawaii vehicle inspection stickers.

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    He even has the mounts to make it look legit on your car. I should’ve bought one when I had the chance.

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    Neel copped one for the LS400.

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    American soap brands, license plate frames and air fresheners.

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    Wondering how he got this Chevron light up sign and made it look cool.

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    This clothing stand setup is pretty sick. Hopefully, soon it’ll be our t-shirts on that stand.

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    Coilovers to display t-shirts?!

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    OG Illest rugs.

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    Parked in front an S13 on Work VSKFs just chilling.

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    Hiromitsu’s E36 is pretty damn clean and the fitment all around is perfect. Hiromitsu use to own the Minty Evo on Work Cr-Kai’s. Crazy I took a photo of it when I was in Japan last year at United Royals..

    http://royal-origin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/837-610×407.jpg

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    Blingage.

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    That rear fitment…. So good.

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    All dat ass.

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    Another day in Osaka. After doing some bad things, we departed from the awesome shop for Osaka Castle.

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    Majestic as fuck…

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    It was my first time seeing a castle like this or a castle at all actually. Made me want to go fight someone on the roofs crouching tiger hidden dragons style.

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    Definitely a place to check out when you’re in Japan.

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    For lunch, we stopped by a food truck festival where they sold a bunch of Japanese street food.

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    About a week in and we never had the chance to try some authentic takoyaki.

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    or an okonomiyaki. They were both delicious and we were craving both as soon as we left to the next destination.

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    As soon as we stopped at the next train stop, we found another takoyaki spot to eat at.

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    Vinh so mesmerized by the smell.

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    All for him.

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    The baes.

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    Some Japanese hipster facebook profile photos.

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    Emotionless when eating his favorite foods.

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    Beautiful.

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    Let’s get lost.

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    I really wanted to check out this line of store, but they weren’t going to be opened for another two hours.

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    I love the city lights here in Japan.

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    I just want to make it to the top.

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    There were a large amount of cats for some reason in Osaka, but they seemed pretty chill.

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    “Feed me Takoyaki”

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    I live for these walks in the park.

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    Thanks Osaka for a memorable day. I will come back to you soon…

    -NGU ASS

     

     

     

  • Street Faction Welded Nights

    Street Faction Welded Nights

    Some of you may know, when working on cars there’s always a bump in the road to complete your project. Those bumps in the roads usually lead to customizing and cutting things that you didn’t expect. Thankfully we have someone like Matt from Street Faction to help us out. He’s an upcoming fabricator and welder that builds pretty sick drift cars and stylish bash bars that replaces your stock crash bar.

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    Where the magic happens.

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    A lot of swag points are accumulated when you can weld as nice as Matt.

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    Matt checking out John’s coil over to see what needs to be done.

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    Welding and pipe fun.

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    The necessities to make some cool bash bars.

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    Some Banksys inspiration for when you’re welding.

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    Coilovers which will probably be fully customized too.

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    Feliz Navidad, buy a bash bar from Street Faction for your loved ones.

    http://streetfaction.bigcartel.com/

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    Matt getting to work on John’s coilovers.

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    Cutting half of the coil over mount for extra low.

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    The things we do to go low.

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    That’s a whole lot missing from the shock mount now.

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    All in the prep work.

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    Matt looks more excited to weld than hanging out with Thao.

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    John observing the welding process, even though all you see is a bright light.

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    The light.

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    Finished product.

    ************************************BONUS ROUND************************************

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    Here are some photos I took for Matt’s Speed Hunters feature of his current project.

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    Everything is connected somehow.

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    That side roll cage and his doors and fenders come off fast for quick access or just to make the car look gangster.

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    I am definitely bringing my SC here to get a bash bar made.

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    Dem Cosmis Racing in black chrome…

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    Matt used a piston to hold his steering column. Genius!

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    Dual brake calipers!

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    Make sure you check out his feature on Speed Hunters here…

    http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/11/iamthespeedhunter-the-creators-theme/

    -NGU ASS

     

  • SUNDAY MEATS

    SUNDAY MEATS

      Things have been pretty busy around here, we’ve been planning future events and future moves for 2015. It’s been a little stressful, but we still managed to plan a meet with Air Runner and still drop our holiday HOODRATstuff line which you can now buy on our online shop.  Sorry to everyone who didn’t get the time change, when we planned this meet a month ago we didn’t account for day light savings time to be in effect. So, we moved the time an hour earlier and ended the meet when it got dark. Still.. thanks to everyone who came out to hang! It seemed like everyone was doing “hoodrat stuff” left and right at the meet if you know what I mean..

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    Air Runner as usual had a variety of VIP cars that they’ve worked on for display like this Toyota Previa bagged on SSR SP4s.

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    VIP cars cruising left and right at this meet.

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     With all of our meets we like a little variety. Seeing the same style can be boring at times.

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    Daniel’s Lexus IS300 with some new fender flares and a TRD Neo V2 front bumper. Just needs some height adjustment and this would look king.

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     I love seeing slammed IS300s. I kinda miss driving static.

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    Whistlers vs Rotiform?

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    First time seeing some Fifteen 52 Tarmacs on a Prelude. Looks pretty clean.

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     My childhood friend Johnny’s E30. Crazy how we haven’t seen each other for like 10 years and was reconnected through cars.

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     The internet made an appearance today.

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     If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this little feature we did of Yogi’s car.

    http://royal-origin.com/2014/10/29/yogis-lexus-gs-of-death/

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    Adam brought out dailow V2 his newly acquired S13.

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    Thank you to the Red Bull girls for hydrating everyone and getting everyone super wired.

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    The Pure VIP fam came out to show us support. Thanks for bringing out your nice rides!

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    I loved it when Johnne had the Infinite Werk Wheels, but damn these Leon Hardritt Waffes is what made me fall in love with his car when I first saw it at a LTMW meet. Glad he brought this look back!

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    Jineane’s super clean IS300 wagon. Single parent and still able to have a sick car. Props to you Jineane.

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    When one parking spot isn’t enough.

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    When two parking spots isn’t enough.

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    Liberty Walk Z4 made a quick roll through of the meet.

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    Brian recently purchased an Integra Type R. Must be nice.

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    Jay was nice enough to do vinyl installation for people who bought stickers that day.

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    Photo shy.

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    More of the Air Runner line up.

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    It started to get real packed thankfully, there was over flow parking across the street.

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    Interesting color setup on this Mini Cooper.

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    Mazda Dreams.

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    This Genesis was rolling pretty hard static and tucking OEM wheels.

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    This Civic wanted to do the opposite.

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    Rarely see a Maserati modified like this, looks pretty sick.

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    West Collective crew was also in attendance, thanks for always coming out to our events!

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    Erik and his always perfect EP3 on black chrome TE37s.

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    Robert’s RSX on Rotiform TMB’s. Check out this photo set of his car if you want more details.

    http://royal-origin.com/2014/06/25/west-coast-collective-photoset/

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    Thanh’s simply clean E92 on Volk TE37s.

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    Drift style IS300.

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    Parked in the furthest lot, thought you weren’t going to get any car coverage. You thought wrong.

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    We need to see more of these Nissan 300zs done up. Wide and low is my kind of style and this car is the perfect embodiment of that.

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    Vincent’s new A7 on Avant Garde M580.

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    Audi R8 on HRE S104.

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    This GTR was also rocking a set of HRE wheels, but this time the S101.

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    This car reminds me of the late Jonathan Pham’s E30 vert. R.I.P. buddy.

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    The homie line up.

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    Abbitt’s STI on some Rotiform bottle caps.

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    White car club from different aspects of car culture. Track, daily, and VIP.

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    Man I hate seeing these CRXs and not owning one..

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    Pretty slammed Accord, I think this is the one that made Nimo want to build another one.

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    Kyoei’s LS400 that is for sale hit them up at info@kyoei-usa.com for more information.

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    California Grill Truck providing some delicious KBBQ fries and grilled cheese sandwiches.

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    Tommy from Infinite Werk’s KBREAK LS460.

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    My old wheels look pretty good on Max’s GS. Too bad the cup kit doesn’t go as low.

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    Damn shadows.. The Phaze 2 guys ahrd their own corner of MBN cars.

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    Noel’s Varis FRS on SSR TF1.

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    When you think you have a nice car, Phaze 2 reminds you that you don’t.

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    Jimmy aka Mr. MIA finally took the time to come out and hang.

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    Angelo’s 350Z, he releases air from his tires to look lower.

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    Bonnie laughing with Carol about their boyfriend’s GT wings and discussing the aerodynamics and down force theories.

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    John day dreaming about an AIMGAIN kit for his car.

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    John finally finished his air setup, so I let him park next to me.

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    It would look super fucking extra on John’s GS300.

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    My car would not mind acquiring a kit as well..

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    Stumbled upon a couples circle, probably talking about car stuff while the girls just nod and smile.

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    This meet Air Runner, Kyoei, JDM Chemicals, VIAIR and yours truly had some great free raffle prizes. Casey smiling in the back because he won the JDM Chemicals care package.

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    Nimo with dem films. Weird not seeing live coverage of this meet on Instagram.

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    Our first time using our new 10×10 canopies. Makes us a little bit more legit.

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    As the sun was coming down it made for some pretty cool photos.

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    Boosted S2000 on SSR SP3.

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    Angelo getting prepared to do a reverse exit, so he won’t mess up his front bumper.

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    Dat Royal Origin Sunset sticker doe with a sunset in the background.

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    Pristine paint job on this GS300 rocking some MRR wheels.

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    Audi on CCW classics.

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    Thanks for reppin’!

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    Sean’s ever so classic LS400 on Koenig Monster wheels.

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    Kevin’s LS400 on Work Schwert SC4.

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    ~goodfeelings~

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    Lexus SC300 on Weds Kranze LXZs.

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    The Bae Mobile. Nicole’s Genesis Coupe on 57 Getter.

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    Derek’s back to black and looking sporty on Cosmis Racing wheels.

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    Thankful for all the homies that helped out today. It would’ve been a bad time if I had to do this all alone.

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    Thanks to Shin from Air Runner for providing us a spot to throw a meet and for giving away great raffle prizes. There’s like 173 photos to go through in the gallery, so help yourself.. Until next time…

    -NGUASS

  • Donut Runs

    Donut Runs

    If you know how we are, we like to do everything last minute for some fucking reason. We had this meet for my friend Tai from Hectopascal and Sara who I don’t really know. It was a pretty decent turn out for a meet that was promoted four hours before hand.

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    This is an S2K.

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    This is a Cayman with an S.

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    These donuts match the color of the skin of these people.

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    Sara loves these blueberry donuts just as much she loves wearing rugs for sweaters.

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    When bae says we’re on a diet.

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    Three cars.

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    Two Camrys.

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    Japan X Korea.

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    This Audi A5 from Pure VIP shows a drop and wheels can make your car a x100 beetter.

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    Dat phone case..

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    Foodgasm is an understatement.

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    This ain’t Beach Burger and Edris if you’re reading this “HAHAHAHA” -Shavi.

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    This car is so lowcool.

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    Fire works for a romantic setting, getting laid for sure.

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    Nimo fucked up.

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     That 70’s show showed up.

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    John finally got his wheels to fit with a front bag set up.

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    Check out this bag set up, custom plastic lines.

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    The ultimate UCI college Asian girl car now modified.

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    You know you’re an alcoholic when you take photos of yourself with an Absolut Vodka bottle.

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    Das the bae.

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    This is concave. Dem stickers doe.

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    You’ve been seeing a ton of s2000s because they all wanted to meet the S2K Queen Sara.

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    Baesic.

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    Not so basic. Henry where you at?

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    Not a Miata.

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    King of Fitment.

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    Fan boys taking photos of Sara and her rug.

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    Crazy how cops will kick us out when all we do is bring customers to businesses.

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    When bae won’t kiss you because you’re too short.

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    Fuck the police.

    http://shop.royal-origin.com/product/ftp-ticket-sticker

    -NGU ASS

  • The Chronicles Year Six

    The Chronicles Year Six

    Seems like not long ago I was writing a post for Joey’s anniversary for his website, The Chronicles. Crazy how fast time passes and now we’re almost at the end of the year waiting for the next season of Formula Drift and car show season. Good thing there are events like Joey’s Year Six and SEMA to fill the void during the winter season.

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    Early morning, we met up in Anaheim hills the birth place of the red unicorn.

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    The Red Unicorn.

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    Erik’s EP3 on black chrome TE37s.

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    The Chronicles is well known for covering mostly Honda content, so the VIP parking area was filled with sick Hondas like this EF sedan and Civic Hatch.

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    There were still some cool non-Honda cars at the event like Amir’s 911.

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    Sang from Project Zero’s J’s Racing S2000 drove all the way from San Diego for this meet.

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    More crazy S2000s from Project Zero like this slammed Berlina Black S2000 that is also right hand drive!

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    Hiding among the herd of Project Zero S2000s is Jamie’s Impreza Wagon.

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    Always nice to see this Project Zero Amuse S2000.

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    Low problems, they had to hold his bumper up just so he can reverse without ripping off his bumper.

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    Kyle’s crazy TSX on CR Kiwamis.

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    Another Kyle in the building and this time in the famous super low S13.

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    So much tuck.

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    Yogi’s internet breaker GS430.

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    Yogi and the heart breaker, Mateo.

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    Joey’s Aimgain Q45 on SSR MS3s.

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    Ray giving all of the cars in our line up a good detail.

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    Too bad that won’t fix Shavi’s front bumper. The ground was too high for Shavi’s front end.

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    Wide body all the cars!

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    The No Rush crew brought out a plethora of cars that had a distinct type of styling.

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    They all build their cars for time attack and have Japanese nostalgic influence.

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    Damn, that guy has a nice hat.

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    Ray’s ultra clean Integra on Sprint Hart wheels.

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    Ryan’s immaculate E30 on Volk TE37s.

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    This CRX is ready for some late night canyon runs with that light beam.

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    Cool little setup they had going on here. Doubles of each car.

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     Mikey pulled out a mission and a half to get his car ready for this event. Picked up his Integra the night before the show and came back in the morning to little to no sleep.

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    Thanks for reppin’ home slice!

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    The back lot was pretty filled with supporters of The Chronicles.

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    Aron’s freshly painted Glacier Frost Mica M35S on Avant Garde wheels.

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    Dat cloud porn.. The weather was unusually pleasant today and made it perfect for an outdoor car event.

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    Vegas to OC.

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    Probably talking about Mizu or something.

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    Jeremy came with no car, but still gets some coverage.

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    You know you love your car if you have a canopy for it.

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    Mugen everything.

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    I love this tracked out RSX.

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    Gonna end it with this group photo of people I don’t even know. Good times were had today and we hope for more future success for The Chronicles!

    -NGU ASS

     

     

     

  • Yogi’s Lexus GS of Death

    Yogi’s Lexus GS of Death

    A little bit of effort and patience can go a long way, check out Yogi’s GS430 which he has been working for most of the year.  I remember him showing me the render at Krispy Kreme right after we just checked out the unveiling of the Ark Performance Genesis. Crazy how that was in the beginning of the year and now the year is ending and his vision has come to life.

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    I love the paint, Buddha Concept Design did an excellent job.

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    The wheel accents and the headlights match. Loving the blue tint that contrasts well with the car’s paint.

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    Gigangtic APR wing and an even a bigger diffuser to go with the sports aggressive look.

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    This rear end is too fucking nice.

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    I like how the fender snuggles the tire in so perfectly.

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    Meanwhile in the basic parking lot…

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    How Instagram broke the past couple of days..

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    Kudos to Yogi with the vision to create such a sick build and amazing work by Buddha Concept Design, I hope one day I can afford to get some work done at their shop too.

     -NGU ASS

     

  • 88 Rotors Anniversary Meet

    88 Rotors Anniversary Meet

     Last Sunday, we ventured out to City of Industry to celebrate the 88 Rotors 10 Year Anniversary Meet at MRR Wheels. That’s a pretty impressive feat to be in the industry for 10 years and still doing well. 88 Rotors pulled out all the stops for this meet, they had free tacos, bacon wrapped hot dogs served for free, giveaways including an IPhone 6 and a Go Pro Hero 4 and awards for a free car meet. The turnout for this meet was crazy and was already filled up before we even arrived.

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    Arm needs to wash his car.

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    A rare old school Fairlady/Datsun Sports 1600 on Enkei mesh wheels.

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    Free tacos? I’m there.

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    10 years of hard work and you can achieve this.

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    and get a cool ass cake.

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    Those gladiator wheels tho.

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    Favorite car at the meet, hands down. I usually just walk by cars, but for this S2000 I actually took the time to look all the details.

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    They ran out of parking inside the lot, so people made the effort to park like show cars in the fire lane.

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    We were still hungry and decided to kill some time in DTLA and get some brunch at Egg Slut.

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    The long ass line for Egg Slut.

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    Phat went to get a weird baguette hot dog to eat while we wait in line.

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    They yolk each other off all the time.

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    I got the Guacho which is a tri tip steak burger.

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    Yolk porn.

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    We walk around the market area for a bit for some ice cream, spotted this pile of pork that I wanted to dip my face in. Acne for days..

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    Insert some quote about light and dark and how being lost is cool.

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    McConnel’s minht chip hit the spot.

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    This market is pretty cool.

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    Jay just wants to go back to the show to see if he won Best of Show.

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    On the way down an old lady asked us for help, her car died and needed a jump start. LA people are assholes. They were getting mad that we were helping this old lady because we caused slight traffic. I hope you fuckers never get help when your car dies.

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    “I want to clamp this to your nipples”

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    On the way back we spotted a Supra and tried to race it in the X5.

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    Turning in, we saw that most of the cars in the lot were already leaving.

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    Bae low.

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    After I saw Carl’s car, I literally went home.

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    Thanks 88 Rotors for the hospitality and always hooking it up on parts! We hope you guys more success in the future!

    -NGU ASS

  • Rise Lantern Festival 2014

    Rise Lantern Festival 2014

    These past two months, I’ve been blessed to experience beautiful things. I was in Japan for a month with close friends, I saw my favorite artist, The Weeknd perform live and now I end this amazing month with the Rise Lantern Festival. The Rise Lantern Festival is a festival where you release sky lanterns into the sky. Doing this alone is pretty cool, but just like eating at your favorite restaurant the experience is always better when you do it with some of your friends or in this case with 10,000 people. The event was held in the middle of jean dry lake bed, so just 20 minutes away from Las Vegas.

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    First stop we made as soon as we arrived was at Bachi Burger. Sadly, I was too hungry to remember to bring my camera in for some food porn, but here’s a photo from when I went to Instafame.  The grass fed Miyagi burger is always on point.

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    Crazy how I’ve been going to Vegas since I was 19 and never really stopped to take a photo of this famous sign.

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    New friends Ashlyn, Mark, Leo and Denise that met us at Bachi burger. Strangers at first, but connected really quick over the love of food.

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    After a night of Fat Tuesdays and exploring we headed off to the Gold strike where our shuttle would take us to the the dry lake bed. Waiting in the long line wasn’t that bad because of the cloud porn.

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     “Yeah, go have fun bae”

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    As the sun started to set, the clouds looked even more beautiful. People in line were getting distracted by the sky and forgot to move forward.

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     Professional cloud photographer.

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     After about 30 minutes of waiting in line, we were extremely excited to be on the shuttle.

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    The walk to the festival felt like a scene out of a horror movie.

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    We missed the thousand candle welcoming, but they had these cute signs to greet us.

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    Hayle with dat photo bomb.

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    Glaiza the Explorer.

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    It was pretty cool that they had yoga mats for us to sit on while we waited for the first release.

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    Leo and Denise setting up their area.

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    Writing down wishes and dreams to aliens.

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    Amazing what one torch could do.

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    You could feel the excitement all around us when we were told we could start lighting up lanterns.

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    They said you need 4 people to light up a lantern, three to hold it and one to take a photo of the three.

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    The first lantern!

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    The first release!

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    The best part of photography is capturing a person’s authentic emotions in that moment.

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    The first release was fucking crazy. It actually made me put down my camera for a moment and just enjoy it.

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    So many  “Oh myyy gaawwwdddd!”

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    “Look at all of these fucks I give.”

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    This photo of Kristine and Ashlyn enjoying this special moment is by far my favorite photo that I’ve ever taken. I am very envious of these two, they were the couple of the weekend and reminded me how fun being in love can be. I saw the past me in them back when I use to dive straight into love, without a life vest and worries about how cold the water would be. Now a days I only test the waters with my toe.

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    I saw too many beautiful things on this night that my eyes were starting to have eyegasms and water kept on coming out. Thank you Rise for the memories.

     On the way back from the event we were waiting in this ridiculously long line to get back on the shuttle, apparently the people who were suppose to work the shuttles just left, so it turned into chaos. The group decided that walking would be quicker because someone said it would only be a 4 mile walk? It ended up being 6 miles. The walk was nice because we were able to see the stars and I’ve actually wanted to go star gazing for the longest time, so the walk was enjoyable for me. Make the most out of every situation.

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    The next morning, we made our way up to Red Rock for some hiking and landscape photography.

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    The leader of adventures.

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    These rocks look like naan bread and cinnamon buns.

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    These guys are crazy..

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    Leo thinking about rocks and stuff.

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    Jasmine thinking about how she is going to catch Leo in these slip ons.

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    Hold on to someone while your climbing down rocks, so if you fall they come down with you.

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    Welcome to my crib MTV!

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    Having revelations and stuff..

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    There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in my life that had a positive effect on how I view the world. Rise Lantern festival has made it on my list, but it wasn’t the festival itself that did it. It was the adventure with some strangers that turned out to be awesome friends that did it. I’m going to miss waking up to laughter every morning and planning the next place to eat after we just ate. Hopefully, there will be more adventures in the future!

    -NGU ASS


  • RO in Japan | Royal Origin x All That Low Daikoku Meet

    RO in Japan | Royal Origin x All That Low Daikoku Meet

    There was a little bit of excitement for me on the way to Daikoku PA. All day Zee and Kevan said there were going to be a ton of people going to the meet. Literally, everyone they knew was coming out for this meet and when Kevan informed us that the lot was already full before we got to the meet, that shit blew my mind.  I’ve been to Daikoku before and it is huge.

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    As soon as we found a parking spot, we immediately got to work and saw awesome cars. These NSX’s were parked on the side in the back looking fierce as hell.

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    NSX x TE37 is a dream come true for Japanese car enthusiasts.

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    Why are nice things so expensive?

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    Jam packed with cool cars.

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    Man that tuck on this Altezza.

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    Drift style GS.

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    A plethora of Chasers were present at the meet. It was exciting to see cars that we normally don’t see in the states and they were all heavily modified.

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    New friend Koki’s Evo VIII riding extremely low and almost tucking half of the rim in the back. Crazy how this thing is static!

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    Compton came to visit us in Japan.

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    Wild style.

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    The static VIP game here is so ill.

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    Civics done right.

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    It was tough finding parking for people who came a little late. Our friend Jon Poff said it’s been a while since he had to wait on the freeway ramp to get into Daikoku.

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    This van provided music for everyone with classic American tunes like Britney Spears and Green Day.

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    Finally got to see some sick Soarers. Everytime I visit Japan, it always gives me motivation to go home and work on my own cars.

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    Crazy to see old folks that could be the same age as my parents at our meet driving awesome cars.

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    How is this even static?..

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    The lot was too full and started to cause tons of traffic. The cops ended up kicking everyone out.

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    FTP.

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    At least they were somewhat nice about it and helped guide everyone out of the lot.

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    Except one of the cops got into Brendan’s face trying to kick him out while we were waiting for our driver to come.

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    These guys roll so hard.

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    It was great to see Colin’s Miata out at the meet. Crazy how I met him at a small meet Zee took us last year and now we’re here again at another parking area meet. Colin’s photography for DOHC Research has been an inspiration of mine since I discovered it. Thanks for the tips on how to be an awesome photographer Colin!

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    After finding Zee, most of the cars split into two spots for a back up car meet. Crazy how we shut down Daikoku PA in an hour and now have to find a back up spot for the meet.

    There was one spot where most of the expensive cars were headed to and there was one under Yokohoma Bay. We decided to go to Yokohoma bay because it would in a cool underground parking structure which will be in the next post.

    -NGU ASS

    As always there are more photos in the gallery.

  • RO in Japan | Royal Origin meets Zen Garage

    RO in Japan | Royal Origin meets Zen Garage

    The gang woke up extra early for this day, it was our first day of doing car related activities.  We were to be picked up by Kevan and Zee and had plans for Up Garage, Mine’s Tuning and at night it would be the Royal Origin x All That Low car meet at Daikoku, so today was going to be filled with Instagram worthy photos.

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    We hooked up Kevan with a FTP shirt and a Hoodratstuff beanie, he put it on quicker than a 40 year old virgin putting on a condom for the first time before sex.

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    Royal Origin meets Zen Garage and me eating a chicken wing.

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    This super clean Datsun 280z rolled up to the Family Mart parking lot and took everyone’s breath away.

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    What were the chances that we took a break at this Family Mart and a sick classic car would roll up and park right in front of us.

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    First stop Up Garage! The Autozone of gangster used Japanese car parts.

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    JDM wheels everywhere….

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    An aisle just for used coil overs. Some of you guys on springs need to be shopping in this aisle.

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    Suspension braces and sway bars for days.

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    I wish I had a car that could run these Equips.

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    We were so tempted to buy a seat and ship it home, but it was only the first 2 days and didn’t want to spend all of our money on seats.

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    Matt and Justin checking out these crazy colored racing belts.

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    This particular Up Garage is a GT Up Garage where they store specific parts this one has mostly drift parts.

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    “A couple of Nissan SR20’s would pull a premium one week before race wars”

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    More awesome seats.

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    Robert and Neel checking out the variety of shift knobs.

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    Next door was a used car dealership that sold some pretty awesome cars.

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    It also had some modified cars that belonged to the owner.

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    Tucked away in the back were the real gems.

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    The shop’s track AE86 and EVO.

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    Under the sheets was a classic Hakosuka.

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    Slammed xB on Work Meisters.

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    Across the street was the Up Garage GTR dealership, where they literally only sold GTR’s.

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    I would rather buy an R34 than buy a newer car.

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    Midnight purple R33 for $15.9k.

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    Pristine R32.

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    The crew taking a break from all of the amazing things we just witnessed.

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    Next was Mine’s tuning! We had to take the freeway there and without having a rental and getting free toll passes, this would’ve been an expensive trip. It would’ve taken at least $80-150 just to get from where we stayed in Tokyo to Mine’s tuning.

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    This freeway architecture doe.

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    Going full throttle in a tunnel like this must be fun, too bad we were in a stock 2014 Corolla.

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    Mine’s Motor Sports.

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    Everyone trying to take in where we are right now.

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    The President of Mine’s Tsuzo Niikura. He was extremely nice and greeted us all individually.

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    A little look of the show room.

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    R32 getting a heart transplant.

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    Everyone going ape shit over this Mine’s GTR.

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    So photogenic.

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    Kevan talking to one of the mechanics about the GTR.

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    Brendan having a chat about car stuff and probably about how to get more HP out of Brendan’s Supra.

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    Man this building is cool.

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    Niikura san looking so holy under the light.

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    It was now off to get some dinner. Poor Vinh had a long day…

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    A walk through down town Yokohoma.

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    It was kind of weird that we were going to a Shakey’s because we never go to the Shakey’s in the States, but Zee told us it was good and all you can eat.

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    Zee was right this totally shits on the Shakeys in the States.

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    Everyone destroying this restaurant. Every time they put a new pizza out we just took the whole thing to our table.

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    This little Japanese girl trying to flirt with the crew.

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    On the way back we spotted this G Sedan on Vossen Wheels.

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    Back in the Garage we spotted this R32 on TE-37s. White on white is so good.

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    Our new friend Shingo decided to park his Legacy right next to the R32. Good thing he’s on bags or that parking speed bump would rip off his body kit.

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    “SPECS BRUH?!”

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    Rolling through the freeway tunnels with Shingo was fucking tight. I wish I recorded a video instead of taking photos..

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    Next post will be about the meet.. So stay tuned!

    -NGU ASS