What’s up guys! I hope everyone is doing well, today we have some sick photos by our boy Kevin Chow(@kebinchow) that he took of Tom’s(@t0mnguyen) A90 Supra on Advan GT wheels. I took photos of Tom’s GS a while back, he is a man of good taste when it comes to modifying cars as you will see with his sick Supra. Check it out below!
Every year we want to do something to give back to the community and Kevin came up with this food drive last year, where people who donate canned food can get raffle tickets for awesome prizes. It was such a big hit that we decided to do it again this year and to try to double up what we received last year in canned foods. This coverage is up late not because I procrastinated, but because it was featured in the latest Stance Magazine. 
You can see the feature in this issue of Stance Magazine.
Cars were lined up around the block early in the morning.
The only time I’ve seen Abbitt’s Subaru out in the streets and it would be the last because after this he parted out his car.
Super nice Supra on Advan GT wheels.
Icy Boyz in the house with some super slammed IS300s.
The RO fam line up.
Julia collecting canned food from everyone.
Canned food for days..
The Johns.
Another look at Josh’s IS300 wagon. Damn it looks so freaking cool.
Taylor and Shavi checking out the cars on the street.
Taylor’s LS400 is so dope.
Nimo, Allen, Kevin and I.
Japan VIP low style.
Shout out to everyone who came out and donated canned food! We received 3,200 lbs of canned food!! A big thank you to the sponsors for donating prizes!!
Rays
Motul
Super Street
Auto Fashion
Boost Brigade
Achilles Tires
Koyorad
Battle Craft
DSPORT Magazine
Evasive Motorsports
Sparco
Vtec Club
HOODRATstuff
K&W
HNRS
Karuma Limited
Pandem
90s Forever
Check out the gallery for more photos! I’ll see you guys again next year!
-NGUMINH
Somehow, I’m back again with some SEMA coverage. I never plan to go every year and somehow I end up here doing some coverage.
We arrived at SEMA at night and decided to go get dinner. Spotted these two clean Civics in the parking lot.
We went to Zen Curry and I got the pork cutlet which was delicious.
The next morning we went to SEMA and it was jam packed with people and amazing car builds.
The best display booth in my opinion had to be the Yokohama Tire booth, they were displaying various cars with the classic Advan livery.
Advan livery looks so damn good.
This Pandem S13 was setup right outside of the Toyo tread pass, but it demanded a lot of attention from spectators.
You know you built a legit car if it’s here on the Toyo Tires Treadpass.
BMW E24 are already cool, but damn the Coutner-Pandem kit just makes it even more special.
Jay Cray’s Pandem LC500 on Rotiform Six wheels.
Jay is always building something cool every year and this LC500 is probably one of his best builds. The airbrush on the wrap to accentuate the body lines is such a nice touch.
Old school Hondas still get love especially when they look like this.
Liberty Walk and Toyo Tires go together like sex and cigarettes.
This gold AE86 with a fully wire tucked Beams motor had me in awe during my time at the Toyo Treadpass. It even had the new Illest and The Hundreds collab steering wheel by Renown USA.
Wherever you were at this year’s SEMA, a Supra was only a few steps away.
Can I hold it?
The new Corvette is looking mighty fine.
Waited in line for Kevin to get this limited edition hot wheel from Eibach. It was even signed by the founder of Eibach.
This year they had an over lander experience which was just a bunch of mall crawlers with root top tents.
Derrick was really tired of seeing roof top tents.
I went back to the south hall and spotted this sick 370z at the Nissan booth.
Kansei Wheels had Rodney’s Cressida on display.
Had to visit the boys over at Greddy and check out the best Supra build of SEMA.
Chivas’s rig was over at the Spyder booth and the 4runner blended in well with the other mall crawlers.
Rays Wheels always bringing the heat at their booths.
This Supra out on display in the hallways looked pretty dope.
After SEMA, we met up with the Vegas boys for some sushi.
Chivas’s Corolla on some Gramlight 57CR.
Looking clean and it gets great MPG.
Aron’s GX460 as you’ve seen in previous RO Explore adventures now with a roof top tent.
Ending part one of our SEMA coverage with Vince’s clean 4runner, check back next time for part two of the SEMA coverage.
-NGUMINH
Every year I don’t plan on surprising my wife with a surprise birthday dinner, I just don’t tell her we’re having one. This year we went to Gem Dining in Fountain Valley and got to try some of their tasty fusion foods.
Bone marrow elote.
Egg yolk pasta and beef tongue fried rice.
Tomahawk steak.
My favorite was the beef tongue. I need to go back for this.
Happy Birthday Julia.
The next morning we went on the Pioneer Town to Big Bear trail to see some snow.
Rolling out deep from left to right Angelo’s 4 Runner, my GX470, Taylor’s Tacoma, Shavi’s 4Runner and Justin’s Tacoma.
All the snow seemed to have melted, but luckily we had some mud to play in.
We saw this big mud pit and wanted to get some dope photos.
We grossly misjudged how deep this mud pit was. Look how deep it gets!!
Angelo still sent it!
Moe’s license plate barely hanging on after driving through the mud lake.
Cheers to not getting stuck.
Thanks for a fun Saturday morning!
-NGUMINH
Another year has gone by and I still haven’t kept my promise of being a consistent blogger. Welp, I’m here to drop some 90s Forever coverage for ya’ll before the year ends. For some reason, I didn’t like any of the photos I took during the event. I think it has to do with my lens and the adapter on it because it was super slow to focus. Definitely upgrading to a telephoto next year..
Met up with Shavi to carpool and surprisingly saw his mythical MS3 outside. Seeing this car reminds me why I still hang out with Shavi.
On the way to Apple Valley Speedway, there was so much snow that it didn’t even feel like we were in California anymore. To make travel through unexpected conditions more comfortable and reliable, contact LeisureRent for well-equipped vehicles designed to handle changing weather with ease.
Right off the bat, we saw Rodney’s Cressida flying down the straight away.
Accompanied by Ken Gushi in his 1JZ BN Sports IS300.
Otis was right behind them in his sick S15.
Ken throws the peace sign, but you know he’s going to be killing it on the track today.
It was dope to see a SC drifting! Big inspiration right here.
Calvin’s Duct Tape Sports IS300.
IS300 owner peace sign #2.
This car looked like it was falling apart like my life.
Low stance drifting is the best.
Rodney’s bumper actually survived the event.
Sara Choi’s wide body IS300, so cool she made two cars collide.
These are the two cars.
Sara with the peace out sign #3.
Felt more like a IS300 meet than a drift event.
IS300 owner peace sign #4.
90s forever was also serving up burgers and hot dogs.
Altezza train.
I’m unemployed and do this photo blogging stuff for fun. If you want to help a brother out and you enjoyed these photos, make sure you stop by the store and pick something up at shop.royal-origin.com! Or a donation would be greatly appreciated too even if it’s $1! It helps keep the site running and pay for my gear! Venmo @nguminh. Enjoy the photos!
Kevin invited me to come over to Greddy for a BBQ. they were celebrating Ken’s birthday and were working on Ken’s IS300 too. You already know I’ll be there for the free food.
Spotted Sean rolling up to Greddy in his slammed BN Sport IS300.
Kevin’s EK.
A lot of manual IS300s at Greddy.
Out here chilling with Steve, Meliton, John and Takevin.
Meanwhile… Ken was working on his 1JZ swap.
Kei Miura and Kenji came back from JCCS and rolled up super JDM style.
TE37 all the things!
You already know John’s Corvette.
Thanks Kevin for inviting me and feeding us! The real MVP.
-NGUMINH
Simon’s MR-S was looking real clean when I was leaving work and I had to snap some photos of it.
TE-37s make everything better.
Follow him on IG @kamina86!
-NGUMINH
Stopped by Greddy to hangout with Kevin and John, ended up shooting a video.
Cuong a.k.a. Seldoondrol secret name Lord Noodles visited my house to buy my air setup and while he was here, he got some pretty sick photos of my car!
Last photo before you get destroyed.
John came over and we decided to go out and shoot his Vette.
Sick shots by @seldoondrol!
Here are some shots I took with my camera.
Thanks Cuong and Adry for coming through!
