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Seaside | King of Fitment Meet

A last hoorah for Charles was a Seaside donuts meet in Newport Beach. If you don’t know about Seaside Donuts, it’s a doughnut shop open 24/7 and serves some of the most delicious ham & cheese croissants.

As usual, before I go eat somewhere I have to eat something before hand.. A burger from Grinders.

When we arrived, there were already a bunch of cars in the parking lot. Sick GS300 on classic Ordens.

Central Pine representing.

The booty of Allen’s IS300 on ENKEI NT03.

S14 on some nice Work VS-XX.

Got that light setup for Daniel’s IS300. It seems to be missing a couple of pieces to the car.

Arm’s Vertex style IS300 on MB Battles.

Vinh’s STI on Rotiform BWE which are for sale.

Putting the final touches to John’s new Corvette.

Ammurrrriccaaaa.

Most likely talking about dicks.

Jineane’s IS300 wagon.

Seduction faces from Team Caramel Skin.

Still talking about dicks.

Looking up dicks.

Dukdiks caught looking at dicks.

Thinking about dicks.

Oh a nice E36.

July 31, 2015

The Wek Bowl | Wekfest San Jose

Wekfest is what I believed to be one of the top shows in the United States right now. That’s one of the reasons why we attend, display and vend at this show. It’s strictly all about the love of cars and nothing more. That’s why we fuck with you Wekfest. We start the day with us coming in 3 hours before the show starts to get the booth ready for the attendees.

Cars were still being staged 3 hours before the show.

A line up of colorful cars.

Chromed out Rocket Bunny GTR from R1 Concepts.

Slammed Integra on Avant Garde wheels.

It still amazes me to see Type R Integras for some reason.

Karl drove the Porsche from LA to San Jose to show with Crooks and Castles.

I’m really digging the new color set up on the Work Meisters.

I remember seeing this S5 at SOWO! It’s crazy how some people drive their cars all across the country for car shows. Maybe this will inspire us to do the Royal Origin world tour.

I first fell in love with this GS last year at Wekfest, glad to see it is still in good condition despite it being a drift car.

This Sienna is fucking cool. Laid out with a nice matte orange vinly wrap and nice fitting wheels, it’s pretty much perfect.

Now time for some expensive builds.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this blue RWB before and it doesn’t look like it has a name either. Either way it’s nice to see a RWB without the sticker bombs.

Rocket Bunny GTR on the new Rotiform Watanabe inspired wheels.

I see Yasu everywhere..

Cool to see more of the older style Mercedes in the VIP game.

Jessy’s LS430 is always flossin from socal to norcal.

Vinh’s STI was the car that welcomed you into our row.

Kevin’s S2000 was looking proper with the new Gram Lights.

Waseem’s static CT also showed with us. Sucks that he had to drive for like 3 hours to get his gas down to 1/4 tank. #hybridlife

Jason’s beauty of an IS300.

Booth setup on point that someone needed an aerial view on their go pro.

James Tran’s boosted RSX on Volk CE28n.

Homies.

That side vinyl was installed in 20 minutes.

This looks like a 2nd best crew award.

Jimmy’s wide LS400, he drove all the way from Washington to be at this show.

The flares look great on his LS and I love the way the wheels fit.

Wow, extremely aggressive lines on this GS from Pure VIP. Pretty fucking cool.

A Martini edition Porsche 911 out of no where.

Vankulture bringing out all of the coolest vans like this Previa.

Josh’s award winning IS, I wouldn’t be surprised this car coming home with some plaques.

Jeremy’s SC430 looking real loud with the new wheels.

VIP Modular’s Liberty Walk Challenger.

A Lexus RCF on Infinite Werks Wheels.

Sick EVO on CCW classics running our Royal Origin license plate frame. Thanks for the support!

I think all of the Liberty Walk Challengers from California were present at this show.

Floss Design unveiled his S13 Rocket Bunny at Wekfest.

The green and orange mix is an interesting color way and definitely makes it stand out among the other Rocket Bunny S13s out there.

This IS300 is super crazy sporting a BN Sports kit on some flares to fit a nice set of Work Equips and to power it all is a LS1. One of goals was to do an LS1 swap into my old IS300.

Erik’s EP3 made the long trek up here from OC.

Most of the West Colletive guys journeyed up here as well.

Best looking Genesis Sedan I have ever seen.

Wekfest awards and they had new merchandise for sale.

The next few posts will be just wide bodied cars at Wekfest starting with the blue RWB from earlier.

The Rocket Bunny GTR again.

Liberty Walk Challenger.

Vollkommen Design Subaru.

This Lambo is already wide..

Can’t go without the Rocket Bunny FRS.

My favorite car in Wekfest. The paint, the wide body kit and the height is perfect.

Straight out of Initial D.

Concave.

Beach boys.

Shout out to everyone who came by the booth for some HOODRATstuff.

Look how filled up this place is compared to the photo I took in yesterday’s post.

Highlight of the festival was when we took a break and got some Ike’s sandwiches.

Sandwich porn. Get a Lex Luthor and eat it by yourself.

Hayle was showing Kyren around to his first car show. Hope you enjoyed it Kyren!

Getting ready for the group shot and Hayle steals the show.

Thanks Wekfest for the award and thank you to everyone for the continued support without you guys we wouldn’t keep on coming back to Wekfest San Jose. Also a huge thanks to Derek, Aron, Vinh and Clinton for working the booth. Nimo is looking high af in this photo. Check the gallery for more photos and come back for the roll out shots.

July 21, 2015

Roll In and Gas Out | Wekfest Roll In

The roll in and set up for a car show is always interesting to see, you can see how a big convention center hall gets filled from side to side with cars and vendors. I am always thankful when a setup time for a car show isn’t before 9AM, so it seemed like today would go pretty smooth for our staging time…

Spotted some Honda hatches chilling in the parking lot before roll in.

This SPOON CRX is a work of art.

Slammed Odyssey from Vankulture.

While other people were rolling into the show, half the cars that we brought up had to burn gasoline because of 1/4 fire hazard rule….

Rocket Bunny FRS on CCW LM-5T and a S14 on Work Meisters rolling up together.

Jason Lau was nice enough to bring his slammed static IS300 to show with us.

Speed Element Subaru on Advan GT wheels.

That line to roll in..

Ryan is always down to show when he has the time, now his EVO is looking more colorful than ever.

Didn’t get to meet the owner of this IS300, but his friend Tim drove it out to show with us.

James Tran’s RSX Volk CE28s also showed with us.

Oh the perks of being bagged. No driveway is dangerous to us.

But hearing Jason’s IS300 scrape all the way to the staging area made me miss being static.

Tilted.

HOODRATstuff in the back.

Homies.

Our two support vehicles.

The calm before the storm.

This AIMGAIN IS250c from Texas seems to be at all the California shows.

Cars are scattered everywhere during staging. It has to get ugly before it becomes beautiful.

A close up of the S14 earlier.

It was finally time for us to setup and good thing we’re veterans at this because we got out in 20 minutes.

Vinh’s Subie ready to sit pretty for the next 48 hours.

Vollkommen Design Subaru rolling into the venue.

Roll in for the show would last all the way to the evening.

We were finally off to go eat at Pepper Lunch and while waiting we discovered that Hayle and Rica were cousin’s cousin’s of another mother’s cousin’s uncle related. Amazing how they look so similar! Definitely related.

Everyone getting ready to devour their food.

Shavi got two plates that shows you how good it is or how small the portions are..

That’s when Jerald realized he fucked up. He ordered a bento box for some reason..

Hayle excited to try Pepper Lunch for the first time because of how much we hyped it up.

Finally got mine and I couldn’t wait for it to cook and ate most of it pretty rare.

There’s only one Pepper Lunch in the United States and it’s in Milpitas. They are also the only one in the world that has garlic butter.

Afterwards we got some Mexican ice cream and chamangos from there we decided to go back into SF to go check out Muir woods.

Trees are cool and trees are cooler when they’re super tall, but Muir woods wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. I’m actually not sure what I was expecting, probably the monkeys from Planet of the Apes to come out and try to kill us or something. At least it was free.

I would go here for portrait shoots, but no one was looking pretty today or wearing HOODRATstuff.

It’s fun to do bad things.

Oh hey, Hayle.

This will be good photoshop material.

Derek contemplating on what he should buy me for dinner.

Hayle thinking about what to eat next.

Shavi from Diamond Supply doing some Diamond Exploring.

When the crew pose on fleek.

The main reason I wanted to go to SF was to eat ice cream and we finally got it at Mitchell’s ice cream.

Dog backpacks, now that’s new.

Mitchell’s sells their own ice cream in half gallons. Pretty neat.

Shavi approves.

Hayle also approves or she got hit in the eye with something and she’s trying to get it out with her thumb.

Even when it was cold, people were still in line to get some ice cream here.

What is different about Mitchell’s is that they make you get a number and then they call you up to be serviced. Actually works a lot better than a line.

Hayle can’t wait to eat some of Kyren’s shoulder.

It was finally our time to shine and of course we tried all of the flavors.

Beautiful.

I actually forgot what I got, but all the flavors there are really good and the consistency of the ice cream is superb.

We met up with Vinh and the rest of the group and drove up to the hills of Milpitas to do some HOODRATstuff and check out the view.

Check back tomorrow for coverage of Wekfest!

July 20, 2015

Before the Wek | San Francisco Adventures

Every year for Wekfest San Jose, we try to come up a day early before the show to have time to go exploring around San Francisco. This year we came up with some of the noobies of the group, Aron and Jerald and this time we took the show cars into San Francisco.

Vinh NORCAL edition a.k.a the faster Subaru.

Vinh’s STI is looking fabulous with the WORK T7R.

Getting the Subaru washed before roll in tomorrow.

Vinh’s TRD Tundra on TE-37s.

Aron’s M35 aired out on Weds Kranze Bazerias.

Aron made it to San Jose with no issues, he was having bad luck with his car for a long time. He would go get gas and get rear ended, go to the paint shop and get rear ended, go take a piss and get rear ended. Glad there was no rear endings this time.

Jerald’s Lexus RC350 on VIP Modular wheels.

Kevin’s S2000 is looking better than ever on Gram Light 57DR and with the help of Street Faction he was able to get more camber in the rear.

Concave and bags are a winning combination.

We grabbed breakfast at Bill’s Cafe before we headed out to San Francisco.

Eggs Benedict.

Steak and eggs.

Kevin’s diabetes.

The breakfast burrito.

Sausage and eggs. Overall Bill’s Cafe was good for a breakfast spot. Would come back to see if the sticker we left under the table is still there.

Our first stop in our adventure today would be the Sutro baths where a fuck load of Chinese tourists were visiting.

There was no dim sum here.

The view from inside the tunnel of the Sutro Baths.

JAYCRAY X THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.

Sunflare porn.

Jerald and Aron are so down. Glad that we were able to capture some cool shots of their cars next to the Gold Gate bridge.

The new FTP snap back available in on shop.royal-origin.com.

Stay Simple Stay True.

Vinh sporting the new FTP snapback and new script tee.

Amazing what men can do.

The sun flares in this one is ridiculous.

Our next spot would give us a grander view of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Clean Ferrari that cruised up this hill, the owner probably wanted to watch the sunset.

We followed this guy past the fence to get a better view of the bridge.

Fire.

So serious.

Infamous fence photo.

When you’re afraid of heights, but want a shoe look down photo.

Waited an hour for this shot.

The final spot would be Twin Peaks where we got a fantastic view of the city.

Bokehful… Check back for roll in coverage of Wekfest tomorrow..

July 18, 2015

Forest Feels | RO Explore

Bomb breakfast and hiking. What more can you ask for on a Sunday? Today, I’ll be continuing our adventures in Vegas and like the weird people we are, we go to Vegas to go hiking at MT. Charleston.

Start the day right with some coffee at Babystacks cafe.

Seduction faces.

Neel with that fresh cut.

Ryo with the signature Japanese murder smile.

Hayle looking normal for once.

Babystack’s pan cakes!

Loco moco.

Chivas, Aron and Nimo on that Filipino time.

While they waited for their table, we went to another Filipino spot for halo halo.

An hour of driving later, we made it to Mt. Charleston where it was the perfect cloudy weather for a hike.

Hayle enjoying the nature vibes.

Father and daughter dance off.

There was an earthquake..

After years of being in America, Ryo finally realized his love for me.

Gay marriage is legal now.

Squad shit.

Chivas the sloth.

The Wizard of OZ re-make.

We’ll be the first strip club that’s in the forest and all the poles are tree branches. We’ll call it “Morning Wood”.

Follow me to Morning Wood.

Hayyyyyyyyy lee.

A random wooden tee pee.

Find Ryo.

Sexy poses with Derek.

I told Derek, if he stood by these trees it would make for a good photo. HAHAH…

This wooden fence would make for excellent facebook/tinder profile photos..

Pizza after a long hike, we deserve this. Meat lovers at East Side Pizza.

Buffalo Chicken.

On the way back home, we decided to stop on the side of the 15 freeway to capture some astrophotography.

The stars were so lit. I wish this was my view every night.

Caught some light streaks of some shooting stars.

That orange light would be the moon.

I have never in my life seen the moon so bright and orange.

When I set my exposure too long on my camera, it made the area seem like day time.

Back to reality.

June 30, 2015

Gerald’s Baby Shower | Baby King

When Jesus was born in the Bible, three wise men came to give him gifts. Well when Gerald’s first baby, eight of us traveled from California to Las Vegas to give the first king essentials for his infant life.

We left right after Ryo’s bonfire, so we were able to catch the sun rise on the way to Vegas.

Finally made it, we were all a little weird from the long trip.

First stop would be Egg and I, where things get pretty eggciting with all of their breakfast dishes.

Eggs Benedict.

Corn beef hash.

So angry, I just wanted a photo of you guys.

That tongue.

Derek’s satisfied look.

We stopped by HNRS to drop off our Summer HOODRATstuff collection. Stop by the shop and cop some gear!

We finally made it to Gerald’s house where it looked like a little car meet in front.

They even hired a guy to detail everyone’s car for the day.

Sean was hoping there would be a taco guy and he was beyond ecstatic.

The lighting and the way Ryo was sitting was perfect for some eHarmony photos. Shout out to Hayle for giving us all new profile photos.

Soda cute.

Chicken curry was what Neel was thinking about..

Yellow chicken curry was on his mind in this photo.

When bae says he’s gonna eat the booty like groceries.

“I don’t want to smile.”

Think about JennQ.

Are we really getting ice cream after this?

“I put my glasses on and then I’m gonna fuck somebody’s wife. Long dick style..”

or eat some tacos.

and choke a bit.

Ryo – “Look that girl isn’t wearing any underwear”..

She’s on her period.

Still eat it.

Hayle’s turn for some IG content for her fans.

Alright..

I hope Gerald’s son won’t be addicted to Hennessy as he is.

I thought the colors were fucked up in this photo, but nope Gerald was just really drunk.

Check out that yellow green bag tho..

Bucket Heritage hat. Much rare.

Afterwards, we found this Filipino style ice cream shop called Eis Cream Cafe. Get it? Eis and Ice? haha….

All puns and jokes aside, the ice cream here is no joke. All of the ice cream was rich in flavor.

Cronut ice cream sundae.

Hayle’s impressed face.

Derek’s impressed face.

and the day ends..

After a 2 hour nap, we woke up because of the call of our stomachs was too strong. Hayle’s waiting for a table stance. So fierce that we got our table within ten minutes.

Ryo would be ordering everything here since it’s all Japanese bar food.

Takoyaki!

Delicious.

I love these kinds of photos. The enjoyment of food and company.

We decided to check out down town Las Vegas since Hayle, Derek and Ryo have never been. It’s actually a cool place to be just extremely ratchet.

Followed the Boys 2 Men crew into the dome.

Such wow.

Much amazement.

Derek was more into picking his boogers.

The lighting in here made for some cool photos as well.

It turns into a party real quick at this free style rap set up.

Happy that I’m alive for another day of RO Explore.

June 14, 2015

Food and Lines | Photo Story Telling

June 13, 2015

Ryo’s Farewell Bonfire | Family Over Everything

I’ve been dreading this month, it’s the month where Ryo will be returning to Japan after living in the United States for two years. We decided to throw a beach bonfire for Ryo’s going away party at Corona Del Mar beach.

I’m going to miss seeing Ryo’s Q45 rolling slammed in the streets of OC. I’ve seen it go from demon camber to the lowest of lows and seen this car go to crazy places. This thing has been a trooper.

The first group to arrive. Shout out to Sparkle and Ann for coming early to get us a pit.

The center of attention.

Going to miss these awkward poses.

Everyone getting their last photos with Ryo. Jeff and Ryo.

John and Ryo.

Tanya and Ryo.

Wonderful Black STI SOCAL Vinh and Ryo.

Ryo and I.

Sparkle Dreamer and Ryo.

Ryo and Shavi approved.

Marq and Ryo.

Rocky and Tina sandwich.

Only Ryo looks happy in this photo with Kevin and Leslie.

Pogi bois.

Pyro maniacs. Weird how you can only use coal in this pit, it doesn’t last as long as wood and coal is much more expensive.

Rock the fire tender.

Snackin’.

Ryo enjoying his last bonfire and Shavi enjoying Ryo.

Becky and Ryo.

Ryo and Regina.

Ryo and Phat.

Stay warm.

Your panties are suppose to drop when they give you this look.

Ryo and Nimo.

Brendan and Ryo.

Brendan, Ryo and Tim.

Thao, Ryo and Matt.

Keith, Ryo and Regina.

The good times fade.

Had to take some feels photos since so much feels was happening.

Double prison gang group photo.

Afterwards we cruised on over to Cauldon Ice Cream for dessert even though we ate a shit load of s’mores at the beach.

Keith’s EVO which is now on sale.

Sparkle’s E92.

Marq’s 7 series.

The Choi brothers with a special appearance.

Ice cream so good, you can see it in Shavi’s expression.

Hayle met up to swoop on the left overs.

Ice cream seduction.

Hayle was sad she couldn’t make it to the bonfire, so we did a small set up in the parking lot for her.

Family.

Straight outta Santa Ana.

The “Keith”.

I’m going to miss you Ryo. The two years you were here, you turned from friend to family to Royal Origin. I’m going to miss all the times where you experienced something crazy here and would always go “this is Amuurica” or the time you knocked out in the back of my CRV for five hours. Now my CRV is going to feel lighter and my heart emptier when you leave. I wish you success in Japan and hope all of the gay stuff you learned from us you can use in Japan. Thanks for always helping us get parts from Japan, providing us the latest Stance magazine issues, being our Japanese model, face timing with us at 2 AM when we got lost in Japan, connecting us with visitors from Japan and teaching us Japanese culture. Thank you for everything Ryo. No good byes here, it’s always going to be see you later.

June 11, 2015

AYCE | Food Adventures

Work, eat and sleep. I feel like that’s all I ever do now a days, making enough money just to go crazy on my food binges. Right after Wekfest LA, we decided that we all deserved some all you can eat sushi. Our destination would be Sake 2 Me in Tustin, where they have the best rice to fish portions.

Instead of rice on the outside, its just more fish!

Heaven on a plate.

If Hayle was a Sim’s character she would only have two statuses. She’s either hungry or getting hungry.

We kinda over ordered…

Not real sushi, but Ryo can dig it.

The waiter knows that we’re fucked.

It just kept on coming…….

We started to argue who would eat what..

In the end, our stomach’s came in clutch. Derek the master of the bills.

Spotted Chris’s LS430 while we were on the way to get dessert.

I just remembered he was coming from the late Jon Pham’s 3 year memorial. Sad that I couldn’t make it because of work, but I will never forget all Jon did for me to get me as far as I am in the car scene. R.I.P JONES.

Becky extremely excited for ice cream.

The cute girl laugh when on a date.

It doesn’t work for Vinh.

Alright…

Ice cream porn.

The “Keith”.

When you find out Caitlyn Jenner is actually Bruce Jenner.

Damn do these wheels look good on Vinh’s STI.

BONUS ROUND AT BRUXIE

June 8, 2015

Street Faction Grand Opening

Seeing progress is one of the best things in life, especially when you see it in your friends. Matt and Thao from Street Faction have come a long way from working on cars on Matt’s driveway to welding inside of card board boxes. Present day, they finally opened up their own shop where they can do full custom fabrications for any car and of course we had to come out to support them.

Vinh making Derek miss his Subaru.

Squat crew.

S-chasis all day here.

and some colorful folks.

Rarely see a first generation GS done up like this. Very nice.

V formation squad roll up.

Packed house, glad to see there’s a ton of support for Street Faction.

The boss lady herself, Thao.

I’m the only guy at a meet taking photos of other guys.

Matt secretly loves it though.

Young Choi coming out of hibernation to hang out even though he was late.

Glad to see him in another Lexus IS300.

He’s expecting his first daughter in August, congrats Young!

Congrats Street Faction on a successful grand opening! I hope it will transcend into your business. Hit up Street Faction for all your fabrication needs.

Some bonus photos…

June 7, 2015

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