Every year Toyo Tires hosts a photography gallery event called “Shutter Space”, where they show some of the best automotive photography. The event happened to be down the street from where I live, so me and some of the boys decided to come and check it out.
The parking lot was already packed with sick cars.
Steven’s
Rodney’s wack Cressida.
The gallery was poppin’.
Phaze 2 out in front.
Jerald’s Pandem RC350.
Pandem E46 on Work Meisters.
Noel’s infamous FRS.
Supra craze.
Toyo had this sick RWB in display inside of the gallery.
It seems like every year I’m always going through a mundane cycle. Every year I would be attending the same shows and see nothing different in the car scene. This year however I haven’t been to any shows, so everything looks crazy to me. Something crazy in particular was floating around the internet weeks before SEMA was a render of Mikey from Phaze 2/IDL Design’s Porsche in a new body kit by Old New JP. The design got rid of the Porsche’s headlights and added some vents to the front fender with all of the lights being mounted on the front bumper. To be honest, the render did not look good at all when I first saw it, but when Mikey invited us to come out to the unveiling BBQ, we saw something completely different than the basic render.
We got to witness the first Old New JP Porsche in the states. This car is so well put together from the fitment of the wheels to the interior setup. Everything is literally on point.
The front end grows on you instantly like weeds in a garden.
Phaze 2 is known for breaking the internet with their cars. Make sure after this post you go reset your modem.
This rear shot is so money. Deep wheels and a fat ass.
Some of the guys and our girlfriends came out to the BBQ to see the sea green beast.
Darren’s GT3 with the Spoon inspired livery taken off.
Karl’s Ferrari 360 on Rotiform LSR.
Phaze 2’s new hang out spot is huge!
On the other corner Jerald was getting his freshly painted and kitted RC350 polished for SEMA.
Jerald just got the new Work Meisters and Pandem kit to display at SEMA.
This shop had so many colorful cars on Rotiforms.
Charles was in town all the way from Amsterdam and decided to come out to the BBQ.
Outside in the streets, Phaze 2 had a bunch of friends with nice cars roll to the unveiling, like this RWB.
After the BBQ, we went to MJ cafe for dessert and drinks…
Henry’s GS on Konig Monsters.
Thanks Mikey for having us at your unveiling! The cars are looking sicker than ever!
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.
This day happened because Dax from the Street Sweeper Gang saw my photo of John’s Integra on Instagram. Dax was going to be in town for Formula Drift Long Beach, so he wanted to shoot John’s car before FDLB. In Royal Origin fashion, we caravanned with 3 slammed cars to meet up with Dax.
Vinh’s car looks amazing rolling.
Perfect front fitment.
The star of the show. All glammed up and ready for the shoot.
Vinh’s here to take some of the spotlight.
On the way to the shoot, we encountered some problems…
Vinh got stuck on this 3-inch bump.
Back on the road again.
We found this small strip of the highway that overlooked the freeway. It made for some crazy long exposure freeway shots.
Wish there were more cars on this freeway.
Stole some light from Dax while he was shooting. I even timed my camera at the same time as him. Haha.
Before Dax was ready to shoot, Kevin and I played around with light painting and got this pretty cool shot. I had to leave right after the shoot to go meet up with Yogi and Taryn. Taryn was visiting all the way from New Zealand and Yogi wanted to show her some neat food places.
It also turned into a mini car meet with some familiar faces like Daniel’s STI.
Yogi’s bagged GS.
Whoring out my car a bit.
Random van. We weren’t too sure whose car it belongs to.
Front lip/bumper is a bit crazy for my taste, but I definitely can appreciate the work put into this xB.
1st and 2nd generation Lexus IS.
Yogi, showing off the air controller.
Noel’s FRS is so cool. I could take photos of it all day.
We weren’t sure how this meet would turn out and honestly thought that the first spot we picked would be sufficient enough. Reason is because we used to have meets at Tastea and that lot is way smaller than the Genki Living spot. Nimo, Jennifer, and I were still on our way home from Vegas that evening and by 8:30PM, Alex texted me that the parking lot was already getting packed. I just told him that we’ll figure it out when I get there, thinking it couldn’t have been that bad. I was so wrong.
The parking lot was so packed that it was difficult to even walk around. It was a cluster fuck of cars.
As soon as we arrived, we decided it was time to move to the second spot, which was M&M Donuts.
Garden Grove’s finest giving tickets. They gave our friend Anthony a ticket for jaywalking…mother F.
Only photo I got of a car was this Yellow Type R in front of Genki.
The streets were packed, filled with modified cars everywhere.
LS460 that was coming late to the party just followed us to the next spot.
Pogi Fresh leading the way; it was like a parade of cars heading to M&M.
Damn, our meet only lasted 20 minutes before it got rolled.
The M&M Donuts lot was 5 times bigger than the Genki spot and we filled that up quick too.
Quick shot of Mikey’s xB rolling by.
Leighton got a sweet spot in front of the entrance.
Boss 7 Series.
Sweet color combo on this 8th gen Civic.
EK looking for a parking spot.
Guys were surrounding John’s car and asking him 21 questions about his life and his car.
Neel debuting his Work Emitz, which he kept on the down low and didn’t even tell us about it.
Minh’s Junction Produce IS250.
Spotted some Royal Origin supporters. We’ll have stickers for sale again, just be patient!
Clean EVO, I believe it’s owned by Daniel Leung’s brother.
Speaking of Daniel, here’s his Subie.
Alex’s Camry getting some attention from future housewives.
I always see this IS250 at our meets. Thanks for the support homie!
Mother fucking Lux Life, son.
Business in the front, party in the back.
Reminds me of the late Jon Pham’s E30. Rest in paradise, homie.
Bringing business to M&Ms.
Vincent’s Miata looking fine as fuck.
Mark’s big booty hoe.
It was cool that most of the cars here were slammed and we didn’t have to tippy toe to find anyone’s car.
Sweet beetle.
KSANCHEZ and KJOHNSTON.
This spot ended up getting rolled on too; they gave Angelo a ticket for being too low and this time they put non-correctable. Might be a $500 fucking ticket.
Useless crew came out to kick it.
S2K’s on the roll.
Clean Miata. I am in love with the red paint!
We moved to the third spot just in case the cops wanted to shut down M&M’s too. This time, we only invited close friends to Tastea.
Amir’s 911, recently featured on Stance Works!
Clean SC.
I don’t know who invited Thao to come…
Wes’ GS with a bumper that I heard he fabbed up in his backyard.
Brendan’s E30.
Not sure who these guys are, but they brought the heat with this NSX and 350z.
Swerve GS, reminds me of Big Vinh’s GS back in 2009.
Merry Christmas guys!
One more shot of Vincent’s Miata.
Jeff, hard parking the RSX.
Chris showing up fashionably late.
The Vegas peeps tried to surprise us & left Vegas 20 minutes after us so they can catch up, but Chivas ended up having oil filter problems and got stuck in Barstow. We ended up driving back to get them with an oil filter. Nice try guys, it was the effort that counts.
Nice shot of Gerald’s Work Equips.
Another shot of Minh’s IS250.
Side front face shot of Nimo’s IS300. Doesn’t even look like it was taken on a 2,000 mile road trip.
Mark lighting the way.
Jay Crayyy.
Bobby finally got bags for his GS. Now he can pick up all his baby mommas.
KJohnston’s S2K.
Nicul was afraid that we were going to move to another spot, so he didn’t air down.
Hey there Mikey.
Sloppy crusin’ out because he found out Tastea doesn’t serve alcohol.
Time for some 350z porn. Here’s Angelo’s $500-ticketed 350z.
John Park just recently traded his Equips for some Meisters. Looking good!
Another wheel whore, Christforeman sittin’ on some new Weds LX-Zs.
Miguel couldn’t afford new wheels, so he just powder coated them.
Wish I had a wide angle lens…
350z galore.
All the RSX’s were jealous of the 350zs and wanted to park next to each other too.
Man was Sam late…
I always get cool photos of Matt’s S13.
Thanks everybody for coming out and dealing with all that bullshit from the cops, assholes doing burn outs, and bitches speeding in the parking lot. We’ll find a better spot where we can regulate the traffic and not get kicked out by the police. Peace!
Steven’s
Pink never looked so good.
Clean FD on Enkei RPF1.
