ShaviW – Royal Origin

Wrong Fitment Crew 10 Year Anniversary | Event Coverage

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..

April 17, 2019

Beckystuff | Photo Shoots

We got new merch for Royal Origin/HOODRATstuff and we needed new photos for the site. I was able to convince Becky to shoot with us again, but first we had to stuff our bellys.

Julia and Becky in the “Dreams” hoodie and tee.

I got the shaken beef grilled cheese and we got the chicken and bacon waffle fries.

All of these photos are mostly bloopers you can check out the real photos at HOODRAT-stuff.com.

Best facial expression of the whole photo shoot.

“Dreams”coach hoodie which is water proof too.

Brought back coach jackets with the new “Underground Kings” coach jacket.

Also back is the “Basic” hoodies and tees.

Heritage dad hat still available also!

Red Room Concepts doing work.

One of my favorite tees is the “Forgiveness” tee.

Thanks for the help today guys! Make sure ya’ll shop.royal-origin.com.

August 16, 2017

Adulting | Daily Life

Lately, I feel like I don’t have time to do shit because I’ve been remodeling my house. Go to work and then work that second shift when I come home to finish a part of the house, so I can still live in it. On top of that I didn’t realize how much debt I would be in just remodeling some parts of my house. Fuck this adult life.

Privacy fence for the SC.

Kiki is loving the new fence we put up.

Soon to be 5 spoke Lexus gang…

The Lexues of my life.

Went out with Vu and Shavi to shoot my SC, I’ve always wanted a video by Vu for one of my cars and this seemed like a good time to shoot the SC before it gets trashed.

A good dinner before work.

Vu working his magic.

Does it get better than this? I hope so.

Kiki excited for the video.

Thanks Vu for the lit video! Literally family.

-NGUMINH

July 14, 2017

Street Slickers Meet Up | Event Coverage

I’ve been itching to drive the SC around since the last time I took it to the IDL Design opening and coincidentally, Shavi happened to hit me up to check out this car meet by Street Slickers. The best part about this meet that it was just down the street from my house and it was Kups one of my favorite spots for italian ice cream.

There was a grip of S13s that showed up, all of them with their own unique styling.

A pair of clean S13 coupes with Enkei Rpf1s and Work Emotion D9R.

Shavi brought out the M30 for me to take it into 714 Tires tomorrow for an alignment. This thing is too ridiculous for me, it scrapes on everything.

This meet had a little bit of everything from VIP to off road trucks.

An old school Toyota Corona with a SR swap. Pretty awesome.

Itasha to off road.

Sweet 86, I’m digging the livery.

Hong’s S13 on Enekei RPF1s.

Boso style Nissan Maxima with a crazy tall exhaust.

Shavi approves of this exhaust.

Man I should’ve washed the SC before coming out.

Jun’s new Yaris and the reason why he’s selling his ISF.

Todd’s Passatt. Love the polka dot vinyl job. Shout out to Street Slickers for the stickers and I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip!

-NGUMINH

April 1, 2017

714 to Shavi’s Birthday | Daily Life

Finally getting my life organized after moving to a new place. Glad to say I reached my goal of buying a house this year, it’s not much, but hopefully me and my wife will build our dream home one day. I also started working at 714 Tires, so my schedule is little bit hard to get use to. Let me give you a quick glimpse of my daily life…

6AM I wake up to let my dog out to pee. This gang of cats wait outside every morning to get a chance to bang my wife’s cat.

Just collecting dust everyday…

I feel like when I say I’m done with my car, there’s always something more I want to do. I don’t know why, but my car looks plain to me.

Came into work at 714 Tires and everyone was hard at working installing suspension arms left and right. Hit them up if you guys need any coil overs or suspension arm installations!

Jason recently got a RB20 from Ben at Greddy. He’s planning to put this thing in his S13 coupe.

Tightlox lug nuts, another venture for the RO bros. Available at 714 tires and soon on our online store.

Later that night, we celebrated Shavi’s birthday at Star BBQ.

Happy Birthday to our favorite Sri Lankan!

-NGUMINH

December 16, 2016

Vegas for a Day | Road Trips

Did a suicide trip with Shavi to Vegas, so I could surprise the wife. Thanks Shavi for being the real MVP.

The road to Vegas from Orange County.

Met up with Nick and Jeremy for Baby Stacks.

How Shavi looks after driving 4 hours. Check out that bokeh in the back.

Adobo Fried Rice.

Got back to Shavi’s house and checked out what Shavi’s working on for the M30.

Amazing that it can move at this height.

Vertex and camber forever.

-NGUMINH

July 19, 2016

Car Meet & Calendar Launch |Toyo Tires x Super Street

To start things off in Southern California, Toyo Tires and Super Street put together a car meet and calendar launch at Boden AutoHaus in Costa Mesa, California. One of the biggest automotive events that was free for the masses in a long time. Check out some highlights from this event below:

Thanks.
@shaviw

January 31, 2016

2AM in New York | RO Explore

Photos of our adventures in the city that does not sleep.

First time taking the subways in New York and it was so easy to use. Wish they had this kind of system in California.

For dinner we ate at Korilla BBQ, which I only know of is because of the great food truck race. They definitely lived up to their name for their Korean fusion food.

Bulgogi rice bowl with bacon kimchi fried rice and potato salad.

Shavi got the spicy pork burrito.

The goal of tonight was to see New York City at night and the best spot in the city was the Empire State Building. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.

2AM with Jerald.

Grand Central Station.

Live in the moment Jerald.

America in one photo.

Time Square is lit.

Baes in New York.

24 hours of New York Pizza. Thanks New York for the 24 hours of fun.

October 17, 2015

RO in Australia | Evolution Eight

Just another day in Sydney, Australia. Jacob with the white Mitsubishi Evolution VIII on RSV Forged RS10D picked me up with his buddy to take some quick pictures, and just hang out.

It sure did feel a bit weird seeing everyone driving on the right hand side, and drive on the opposite side of the road.

These RSV Forged RS10D made me miss my old TMBs. Gotta love a good looking true directional wheel.

Simple equals clean.

BCHPLS, rim to fender fitment.

After hanging out and shooting pictures, a nice Australian pig decided to pull over and cite Jacob’s Evo for basically everything. I have heard the stories and first hand accounts of the Australian automotive regulations, and it really is the worst. You really just gotta pay to play to enjoy being an automotive enthusiast anywhere in the world.

Hope you enjoyed the photos.