Felt like stretching the old girl’s legs today and decided to cruise with Nimo to Johnfob’s Tuner Fridays meet in Mission Viejo.
Red girl Fridays.
John Fob’s new flame.
Some pretty nice cars out.
Pretty cool that they do a free raffle every week.
I had to leave early because we had a camping trip the next morning. This is my GX in full camp mode now with my new Summit Racing wheels.
Time has literally been my enemy lately. I’ve been juggling work, off-roading trips, my wife, weddings and more! There seems to be no time to just go cruise in my car and take some photos. I had one open Saturday and decided to hit up Phat and Ashton to shoot their cars with their new Kansei Corsa wheels.
We got some sick rollers on the way to the location. Phat’s Cayman looks badass rolling.
Best side roller of Phat’s Cayman.
Ashton’s E90 M3 is a beast of a car.
Sunset with two best friends.
Ashton’s E90 M3 is so subtle, but looks aggressive as hell.
Phat’s Cayman is the total opposite. No subtle asian traits here.
Meaty fitment is the best fitment.
The Kansei Corsa wheels fit perfectly on Ashton’s E90.
Everyday is a battle.
Ashton needs tighter clothes, Phat needs bigger clothes.
-NGUMINH
We were invited to attend an Influencer’s Artist meet at Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum. It was pretty cool because we were able to setup so many sick photos on the air strip, check them out below!
Andy’s GS on Weds Vishnus.
Johnny’s 370z on Carbyne Design Sprints.
Math modeling in our “time is the only enemy” tee!
If Sang’s Porsche was a helicopter.
This goes so hard.
Si-mon’s MR-S on Volk Te-37S.
The owner of the museum flew the helicopter over out photo shoot for the perfect photo.
I wish the sun wasn’t so harsh for this photo, but we can’t have everything perfect. Literally every style of modifying a car in this photo.
I modified this for me, it’s too hard for you too handle.
-NGUMINH
I’ve been to Toyama many times, but I’ve never been here with Ryo. When we decided to go to Japan during golden week, Ryo offered us a place to stay in his hometown of Toyama. We didn’t want to miss the chance to live in the countryside for a couple of days and see the life of the Lowballers Japan.
Masao bought this Verosa for like dirt cheap. I think it was $500 because the owner thought it had a transmission problem. It ended up being an easy fix and now he has a 1jz equipped vehicle for $500.
Ryo’s Lexon GS430, so cool to see this thing roaming the streets of Toyama.
We made our way to a okonomiyaki(Japanese pancake) place where you make it on your own. This place is kind of like a Denny’s to the locals.
Hiroki and Masao showing us how it’s done!
Math and John mixing and laying out the pancakes to cook.
The finished product. Bone apple tea.
We slept over at Ryo’s parents spare house and it had a legit Hawaii theme throughout the house.
Woke up to Ryo starting up his Integra that he hasn’t seen in months. It still looks super clean.
We wanted to get some photos in before the day started of both of Ryo’s cars.
We met up with Hiroki and they took us to this amazing park with a river going through it.
This was rated one of the most beautiful Starbucks in the world. I’ve never seen such a long line for Starbucks before.
This was rated as one of the most beautiful friendships in the world.
Hiroki and his family.
For lunch, we went to a curry spot that is famous in Toyama.
I shit you not, this was the best curry I have ever had in my entire life. Seriously perfect in every way! I am literally drooling looking at this picture.
Next stop was Super Autobacs, we wanted to go to an Up Garage, but all of stores were closed for Golden Week. I don’t even know what kind of car this is.
Clean S13 on some Advan TCIIs.
Big boss Job Design LS460.
Julia so over this car shit.
Getting around in Ryo’s GS felt so cool.
For dinner, we got sushi and for the longest time Ryo has always said the sushi is the best in Toyama. He was not wrong.
We ended the night, Initial D style by going up the mountains, looking over the city and talking about fuck bugs.
Thank you Ryo, Masao and Hiroki for the hospitality! I can’t wait to come back to have more curry!
-NGUMINH
Some of our favorites at Wekfest Nagoya 2019..
I’ve been following Seji’s S14 for the longest time ever since Big Country Labs posted his car on their Instagram. This S14 is ridiculous in every way from the wide body to the gigantic Big Country Lab wing and it’s static!
On the other side of the spectrum we have Masaki’s super clean S13. He perfected the clean body look for years now and has keep his car in such pristine condition!
You can’t even tell this sticker is like 6 years old.
Flashy is an understatement for this FD. The gold chrome wrap with the RE-Amemiya kit steals your attention from all the other cars around it.
I rarely see any TL wagons in the states, so seeing this one slammed on wheels caught my attention right away.
Japan just knows how to build 240s. It’s really amazing.
That shift knob is sick, uncomfortable but sick.
Nissan R32 on TE37s with a toy replica. So sick.
This Lotus Espirit is so cool, those formula mesh wheels pair really well with the old school theme. There’s an Espirit for sale near me, I kinda want it now..
No function, all style with this AE-86. Still looks awesome!
My favorites at the show was this line up of FDs with super awesome liviries.
Hiroki’s NSX is so nice from Level One Japan, I believe he won an award too!
Seji’s and this S14 are what kids in America are trying to make their shit boxes into.
Closing it with Yasu’s S2000 it is a subtle execution, but this car so many crazy parts!
My blogging game has been weak, so sorry for the lack of updates! I’ll try to put this as a priority…
-NGUMINH
Super late pass on these photos, mostly because I submitted them to Stance Magazine and it is up on their latest issue! Congrats to the homies over at Wrong Fitment Crew for the 10 year anniversary! Check out some of the photos I took below..
The Santa Ana winds have been terrible lately and it ended up affecting my blogging abilities and destroying the somewhat clean look of my SC400. My SC was in a pretty secure tent, but the Santa Ana winds pushed my tent against my car and rubbed out some parts of the wrap. Luckily, it’s a wrap because if it was paint, the cost to fix this would require me to take out my knee pads and work some night shifts. The homie Rodney aka Bruno Mars aka I wrap, but I’m not a rapper recently opened up a shop for wraps and tint. He offered to fix my SC door because he had some left over wrap and I gladly dusted off my knee pads in exchange.
When I got to the shop, Rodney was working on making this truck invisible.
You can see the damage on the top of my door, I started telling people I got it from drifting. I’m hardcore yo.
Rodney cut the wrap under my body line to seam it and so we would have enough wrap to cover the door.
On the other side of the room, Rodney’s partner Dan was installing a clear bra for this Lambo.
Master at work.
Just like that, my door was looking brand new! Disregard the mirror..
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Rodney also just finished wrapping his Cressida, so I had to get in a quick photo shoot with the new two tone wrap.
Being old never looked so good.
Rodney on his new set of Kansei Tandem wheels.
I also had Rodney model in our new shirt that’s coming out soon..
Time is the only enemy. Available in black, white and yellow.
Coming soon..
-NGUMINH
Some days aren’t like the rest. Shavi, Keith, Jeff and Nimo came over to my house to get wrecked on Smash Bros Ultimate and for some reason we had an itch to go photo shoot a car. Since all of my cars looked like hot garbage and Shavi for some reason didn’t want a photo shoot, we decided to shoot Nimo’s BMW wagon.
Shavi didn’t want a photo shoot of his MS3, but I had to get some snaps of it outside in the real world.
Nimo giving the wagon a quick rinse.
I tried to get some good rollers, but the lighting was working against us.
There was a festival going on at the park, so we decided to just shoot in this parking lot.
Mr. Late as Always
Koenig Monsters are so sick.
The bokeh in this shot is so creamy. I love it! This was shot with my 135mm 1.8 Sony lens.
Almost a decade of friendship.
Moscow was mad I didn’t take her to the park too.
-NGUMINH
Sparkle’s Rocket Bunny S13 was getting shipped out to Taiwan, so Kevin hit me up to shoot the car for the last time in the United States. It’s been a car that I’ve seen transform from the very beginning when it was at Robros Customs getting stripped for paint to where it is now completed at Greddy Performance. I guess I’m a little attached to this car and I’m definitely going to be a little sad that I won’t see it at Greddy anymore. I also can’t wait to see Sparkle driving this beast in Taiwan! Anyways, check out some of the last photos of Sparkle’s Rocket Bunny S13 in the United States.
Throwback photo of when the S13 was being stripped for paint at Robros Customs.
This little s13 hatch has definitely gone through a journey of transformation.
I love the white and black theme with the color match wing and roll cage.
The front bumper canard is still the best looking setup from Rocket Bunny/Pandem.
It still looks good without the front bumper, showing off the front bash bar by Street Faction and a big inter cooler setup by Greddy.
We went back into Greddy to ask someone to drive for some roller shots, while we were waiting I spent some time with Greddy’s Pandem FC.
Melton’s sick S14 on Work Cr Ultimates.
It’s not how you stand by someone else’s car, it’s how you drive it.
Only need the basics in this car.
Custom window panel made by Robros Customs.
AG wheels and a custom big brake kit for DREAMER 77.
Safe travels Sparkle’s S13! I hope to see you one day in the mean streets of Taiwan.
-NGUMINH
