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Southern Worthersee Part Four | Throw Back

Throwing it back to one of the most memorable events/trips to enjoy different automotive culture than what I am used to in Southern California. Also, took me awhile to edit through the pictures as I rarely do take pictures, however, I recently picked up a Sony A7II with the kit lens, and it has motivated me to shoot more pictures as well as video of course.

DAY ONE: We arrived in Helen, Georgia very early in the morning, and already got greeted by familiar faces, and a lot of different quality ones.

A lost SoCal tribesmen came to greet us as well.

Through my network over at Mazda Fitment, I recognized Nate’s Miata parked in a random parking lot. Definitely as lovely in person as on the internet.

The new finish on the OZ Turbos was a nice touch to the new vinyl wrap theme.

On this trip, I told Ryo he had to come out to an East Coast event before he went back to Japan. Definitely glad he took my word for it, cause he was blown away. Ryo you will be missed!

This VW stood out amongst the rest. Liked it a lot.

Alex Goldstein’s E92 M3 On BBS RS2 wheels. Got the pleasure of shooting this car, which you can see later on in this post.

Another Mazda that I recognize through my network at Mazda Fitment. Also, got to meet the owner, was pretty cool.

Absolute love the direction Chris has had with this car of recent. Always well done through nearly all the stages of this car.

The south has some amazingly smooth roads and awesome twists. Really wanted a proper car to take it on a nice spirited drive here.

Southern beauty. Found this random pond/lake. Definitely not the nature we are used to in Southern California.

This E46 M3 had an excellent blend of style with the Weds Kranze LXZs.

One of a decent number of Miatas at SOWO. This one on AME made Fatlace FZERO1.

Another euro that blended a different style to the mundane usual stuff you would see on a euro.

This is a husband and wife pair right here. Both into some rad vintage euros; the bug and the bus.

Something I am more used to seeing back home.

Loved the fender to lip of the wheel fitment. On point fife.

DAY TWO: We stayed at Chris’s cabin about a few miles out of Helen, and came back the next day to continue exploring Helen.

Behind that door was bad things.
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I have seen a few pictures of this in the past floating around from Southern Fresh. Finally get to meet Justin and his LS400.

Kyle’s 326power’d out GS300. Got to shoot both of these later on as well.

The Risky Devil yacht. AJ bought this down from Arizona to Chicago to Georgia.

Found an awesome spot to shoot the cars. Here is Alex’s E92 M3.

Loving the southern back drop. A nice different scenery that we are usually used to in SoCal.

Horse friends.

Kyle’s GS300 enjoying that southern air.

It’s Fun To Do Bad Things.
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Love the rear end of this one with all those lines and details. Kyle just needs to insert the tips ;]

Justin’s LS400. Custom wide body.

Love the aggressive boss presence this has.

Those fender cuts. Love it.

Got to enjoy another East Coast trip with Ryan and his WRX. This time around the car has changed quite a lot since then.

Always a pleasure to enjoy Ryan’s southern hospitality.

DAY THREE: On the last day in Helen we were back in town seeing what was left. Still a good number of cars and quality stuff laying around. This Miata was on point with the BBS RFs.

The iconic Walking Dead location. Atlanta, Georgia.

Atlanta, Georgia from the sky.

And back home to SoCal we went. Definitely loved this trip and event. The vibe and feel is different than H2Oi, and is definitely an experience I will continue to try to repeat.

June 11, 2015

Random Day in LA | Food Adventures

Valentines Day is spent best with significant other or in this case your two single friends who had nothing else to do that day either. In the spur of the moment me and Abbitt decided to go on a trip with Shavi to check out his clinic that he’s opening in down town LA.

Looking for cool lines to take photos of was the objective of the day.

The build out of Shavi’s clinic is looking good. If you guys need some medical cards and need it in LA, this will be the spot to go to. Maybe we’ll sell our merch out of this spot.

The previous tenant had some cool art work on the walls.

Abbitt needs an answer.

After Shavi confirmed everything with his contractor, we were off to do some #ROExplore in LA.

Things change quickly here in LA, seems like they’re always building something.

The Hundreds. Love it.

First stop, we went to go eat at Wurstkuche where they have a variety of exotic sausages.

Vegetarian smoked apple sage, lamb and many different flavors of sausages.

The restaurant had a nice place to eat with a bar.

A DJ set up at the entrance and a private dining area that you can reserve for a big party.

The order number looked like awards to us. Shavi happily accepting his award for 3rd place hair style in the building.

Abbitt checking out the anodize work on the awards.

I got the lamb with Mediterranean spices with caramelized onions.

Shavi got the rattlesnake and rabbit with jalapenos and Belgian fries.

Abbitt got the bratwurst.

Sausage party.

These fries with chipotle aioli and bleu cheese walnut and bacon sauce was so good. Overall, the food was good and the place had a very chill ambiance to eat at and you can get wasted while waiting for your sausages.

We stumbled upon an ice cream truck on the way back to our car and decided to try it.

This ice cream truck ended up being amazing. The ice cream truck was Van Leeuwen and they make excellent mint chocolate chip and earl grey tea ice cream.

Abbitt mesmerized by his ice cream.

We did a little stroll around the neighborhood and spotted this coffee shop.

We got to this street where we shot Neel’s LS400 last year and they developed the place super quick. The area was unrecognizable at first.

While driving around LA, we looked up the top ten free things to do in LA and Vista Hermosa park was one of the spots to check out. On the way there we went through Little Tokyo and spotted a friend.

Karl was going to Jason Mark to pick up his shoes and had time to kick it with us before his Valentine’s date.

It was my first time seeing Karl’s Porsche on his new set of Work Meisters and damn did it look fresh.

Too bad the lighting was bad at the park and I didn’t bring a tripod to light paint properly.

Karl decided to join us to check out Vista Hermosa park.

We were asked by a couple to help them set up their camera settings for the perfect photo. They ended up asking us if we could help take a photo of their friend because he was going to propose to his girlfriend. Congrats to the lovely couple in this photo!

After the park, we saw this cool arcade down the street in Echo Park. It actually ended up being a parlor with old school pin ball machines. Pretty neat.

Our last visit would be to Barrio Fiesta where Jerald works. He let us check out his RC350 while he was cooking and damn this car is nice.

Red leather for RC350s with the F Sport package.

Touch pad mouse for navigation.

The instrument panel is what I love the most about the newer Lexuses.

Jerald took me out for a cruise to TPumps a new boba shop that originated from San Francisco.

Jerald’s been through a lot last year, glad he’s putting himself back together.

This was a lot better than I expected. All their milk teas was lactose free, so I can fully enjoy them without running to the restroom afterwards.

New boy band, we named ourselves the THREE PUMPS.

Today was a good day.

February 19, 2015

Beanie Shoots | HOODRATstuff with Becky

It’s never a dull moment when we’re out and about even when it’s just for an ice cream run. Becky tagged along with us and even though she think she’s not model material we thought it would be cool to shoot her in the alley of down town Orange.

We haven’t really brought our cars out to play lately, so it was cool to have a car to shoot in this area.

This would be our background for the night.

Becky trying to break out of her robot personality.

She said she was internally screaming every time I asked her to get in front of the camera.

I think she did pretty well even with a crowd of people watching us shoot her.

The HOODRATstuff version 2 beanie.
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Best facial expression.

Becky also rocking the OO hoodie.
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Vu with that BTS.

The tones in this photo. So good…

On the way here we saw this cool market with a nice big green neon sign and thought it would be a sick place to shoot for some profile photos.

Praying to base god.

Shavi the green doctor.

Meet me at the south side market girl.

Some car photos since I haven’t been providing much of this content lately.

Every late night adventure should end at the fast food drive thru.

February 11, 2015

Straw Hat Richey

During our trip to H2Oi, we had the pleasure of finally meeting a long time internet friend, Ryan Richey from South Carolina with his custom wide body bugeye Subaru. Ryan built his car into his own creation with the many different influences he has gained in the automotive realm.

Filmed & Edited By: @ShaviW

The custom wide body Ryan molded with his hands is quite nice and unique of course.

The 326 power wing sits right at home on the body. Good choice.

Cool points for the lambo doors. You either dig it or you don’t.

Finally seeing this car in person is just a surreal experience when we have only seen it via the internet till now. Thanks Ryan for letting us take some shots, and for being such an awesome stud muffin. Hopefully, we can hang out some more next year at SOWO.

-@ShaviW
-@TuckerScharf

October 23, 2014

Neel’s LS400

Spent the day in down town LA, we planned to do a photo shoot of Neel’s LS400 before he leaves us to Las Vegas for work. We had a pretty good team with Vu, Shavi and Nimo doing video work and Rocky and I shooting photos. The main photographer was Rocky, I was just hanging out and trying to do some behind the scenes photos.

Rocky’s Photo Set: http://royal-origin.com/2014/06/30/plunk-plunk-done/

Vu with his limited editiong HKS x Jansport backpack.

That lens filter..

Tried to do a hipster in the middle of the street photo.

Shavi sliding on some videos.

Neel’s LS400.

Neel is rocking a set of Advan Racing RS wheels.

Bagged with a set of racing wheels on a VIP car looks perfect to me.

One legged squat for the perfect shot.

Rocky directing the shoot, he’s one of my favorite photographers.

BTS.

Some shots I got out of this location..

The man of the hour, Neel Nana.

The next location was under the historic LA bridge. Many movies and photo shoots have been shot under this bridge.

Our next location was another famous location, but I guess there was a movie being filmed, so it was closed off with police surrounding the area. We decided to just find an empty parking structure to shoot.

The lighting was a bit hard to work with, but we had a bunch of fun light painting which none of my photos show. I was the one holding a piece of cardboard to cover the lights when they were light painting.

Hope you enjoyed the photos and I hope Neel does too. Good luck in Vegas and watch out for some spectacular photos by Rocky.
Rocky’s Photo Set: http://royal-origin.com/2014/06/30/plunk-plunk-done/

– NGU ASS

June 30, 2014

Family Time

After a morning of taking over the 15 freeway, we finally made it to Sin City. Of course we had a lot of preparations to be done and things to do before the meet so, we met up with Chivas and LV Racing Scene to plan out the venue.

When we arrived we were pretty impressed on how much space there was.

The hittas.

Wonderful Vinh approved.

Josh’s MK5 on Racing Harts.

After scouting the spot, we went back to the house and did some old fashion bonding time. Smores over a camp fire and sang kumbaya. Just kidding, we got hella hammered.

Bonnie and Angelo doing some couple’s shots.

Angelo doesn’t need a reason to drink tho.

Finding his bae.

Smell Randy’s finger.. it’s the smell of your mom’s vagina.

Shavi approved. Faded version.

Mr. Colonel of Stance x Weed Guru.

Bitchassvinh.

Thirsty.

Cimon passing the vape pen. Just kidding there were a lot of drugs in that pen.

Angelo showing Shavi how big his dick is.

Ryo the Japanese Rock God.

Ashton and Phat the best at giving blow jobs. Check out that mouth action.

Regina not impressed.

Phat looking at Vinh to test his skills.

Angelo already gone. How are we going to take you to the strip club?

Regina always knows when I’m about to take a photo of her.

John drinking pure vodka.

We’re doing bad things.

The biggest freeloader.

Give us our food back!

A weird version of the trust game.

I got chu bro.

Mr. Rootbeer.

Fuck Miguel.

lol…..

Team Vietnam.

Vinh trying to sober up?

Time for some pillow talk.

Photos that you actually want to see will be posted on Saturday.

– NGUASS

Photos by Minh Nguyen and Celso Nimo

April 3, 2014

YEAR V

Last Saturday, we celebrated Joey Lee’s fifth year of running The Chronicles. If you never heard of his site then you probably don’t know what porn is either. In which case I suggest to check out his site stickydiljoe.com and xvideos.com. I’m a big fan boy of Joey’s work because he always has really good content on his site and gets great coverage at every automotive event. So, if you love cars and need a good read after being on xvideos his site is the place to go. Vinh, Keith and I showed at Year V with some of the Vegas guys, it was pretty exciting because Vinh and Chivas who both had to rebuild their engines would be debuting their cars at Year V.

Ray’s Integra from Vegas.

Sick matte red S2000. It had everything I would’ve done to a S2000.

Ariana Grande is back and now a bit faster. Fully built with Tomei parts and is now pumping 425 ponies.

VIP styling from Hawaii.

Joey’s meet had it all! Cool cars from different makes and models, food, DJ and even a marriage proposal. Congrats to Jay from JDMEGO!

One of the coolest awards I have ever seen. Not made with that plastic bull shit either.

Engine bay poppin’ all day.

I love capturing people in awkward stances.

Jay’s beautiful FRS. Quality parts all around from the suspension to the exterior.

Jon with his swagger walk.

S13 wearing some Barramundi wheels.

Mikey supplying the meet with some Virgil’s soda. Every single flavor is so refreshing! Definitely a must buy at Whole Foods.

Chris’s Rabbit and Jon’s GC.

Full function Integra Type R.

Mark’s M5.

Sucks I couldn’t get a better photo of this crazy LS from Hawaii.

Noel got his car wrapped in this cool yellow.

The yellow bumble bunny.

Loi Spec Integra’s are so sick.

Yogi’s GS.

Another well done S2000. I believe this belongs to my buddy John.

Mr. Armand’s Devil MR2.

First time seeing someone put food on their lips to show how many inches of lip they have. I was about to take it and eat it.

Michael Mao’s NSX.

Pretty clean TSX in the spectator parking lot.

S2000 on CCW LM-5 T.

My favorite S2000 as of now. The color is really doing it for me.

Crowded.

Street race car on some fat ass slick tires.

Tires were so fat that it pushed the front bumper off.

Keith with a complete make over on his IS300. Vertex all around and some 5Zigen wheels.

Another build that came back from the dead is Chivas’s EM1. Now with a color matched engine bay.

John missing his Integra.

Ojay’s Previa and Mike’s GS300 with a new black wrap job!

This EK is so damn clean. I want one!!

Mikey’s LS400 on Rotiform BLQs.

Joey’s Q45 on SSR MS3s.

Sloppy’s Fit seems to always be the car to get ratchet in.

God damn that camber.

Love seeing our stickers at meets.

This S13 was a bit late..

After the meet, some of the guys decided to meet up at our lair for some good old instagram photo shoots.

My IS250 and Shavi’s MS3.

Jimmy raised his car. Can you tell?

Instagram famous people.

Jon Jacob’s Jetta on 3SDM wheels.

NA Hero. Thanks Brendan for letting me drive your car! It was pretty difficult parking it because of the wide body.

Charles aka the King of Fitment.

Another shot of Jon Jacob’s car.

Man I love the side vinyl that Abbitt put on my car. Makes it look so cool.

The prince of Royal Origin.

Instagramming gets real serious around here.

Friends that become family.

November 7, 2013

Widebody Snow Monsters

It was a special day here at Illest OC. Pandora One finally arrived and will be displayed at the shop.

Pandora One.

Now fitted with a double decker wing and 500hp.

Your home for next couple of months.

Kevin fitting some wheels on his car.

Vu’s new ride. Big plans for this car.

Vu and Nimo, never been so Royal Origin today.

That rear tuck doe.

Kevin’s s2000 in it’s entirety.

Decided to go to Snow Monster for some bomb ice cream on belgian waffles and on the way I got some pretty cool rolling shots of Shavi’s car.

The mother fucking prince.

Snow Monster is where I learned how to play my favorite game card game of all time. Monopoly Deals.

Will doing a ricer drive by while flicking us off. Very impressive he was able to multi task.

Nimo about to go HAM(hard as a mother fucker).

All Nimo.

Jimmy looking very jealous of Nimo’s diabetes.

Rica so focused on winning in Monopoly.

Shavi gave up and started to play connect four by himself.

Vuzoku.

The vinhnumber.

Neems.

Love bokeh.

September 17, 2013

Wheel Wednesday

Finally had a day off work and it was spent putting in work on cars. Shavi met up with me early in the morning because we both had to go to Rotiform. I was going to be dropping off my Junction Produce Scaras to get the faces milled down to fit an aftermarket lip and Shavi was going to order some Air Lift products through Jason.

Weird seeing this car more often now, Shavi’s MS3 use to be the rarest unicorn.

As soon as we reach Rotiform, Orbit was there to greet us.

You can always expect some cool rides over at the Rotiform parking lot like Brian’s S4 on Rotiform INDs.

Rotiform INDs look perfect on any big body cars.

Right next to the S4 is Jason’s Mercedes CLS 55 AMG on their new Rotiform WRW.

Very cool design by Rotiform.

After our trip to Rotiform, I drove by the Boss Company garage to see what they were up to.

Jimmy was taking out his Work VS Mesh face and replacing it with a Work Equip face.

Adam had Vinh’s S13 in the garage for a full detail job.

Kevin and Vinh were working on putting in some KW suspension for Kevin’s S2000.

So many parts laying around..

In the midst of it, an ice cream truck was chased down by three grown ass adults.

I regret nothing.

Adam’s lipless Subie.

For the past month, while I wait for my Scara’s to be rebuilt, Vinh has been kind enough to let me rock his Weds Bazerias. 20’s don’t look too bad on my car, but it only fits my rears.

Installing the Mugen front lip.

That mirror finish..

Adam made it look like it just came fresh out of the paint shop.

You can see the details of Vinh’s shelf through his paint. If anyone needs a detail job from Adam you can contact him at Adametayeb@gmail.com.

Thanks to JDM Chemicals for their awesome products!

I love bokeh even if there isn’t a subject to focus on.

Jimmy’s final product.

September 9, 2013

Wagon Life

Young is no stranger to the Lexus brand. He has been through various models through the years, and it is no surprise he is also a Lexus technician.

Young chose to be apart of the wagon life as he used to have a regular is300, but always wanted the rare Sportcross model aka Altezza Gita. He really just wanted to get something he could slide around in.