slammed cars – Royal Origin

GIVING SZN 2 | Event Coverage

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

January 23, 2020

John Puts In Work | Royal Origin Member

We started the new year with some new Work Meister for John’s S2000. I also bought an external flash and it made a big difference in my photography. Now I just need a second flash to even out the lights. Check out some photos I took of John’s S2000 below..

-NGUMINH

January 6, 2020

2019 Auto Enthusiast Day presented by Nitto Tire | Event Coverage

I’m in a mentorship program for kids at risk and thought it would be a good idea to take my mentee out to a car show. Good thing Auto Enthusiast Day was around and close to where my mentee lives, so we were able to go and check out the show.

I saw the Moonlight Runners cars at Toyota Fest, but it still amazes me when I see their cars.

My mentee Angel recognized this car right away. He asked if Brian O’Conner was here, I didn’t want to break the news to him..

The new Camry’s are looking pretty damn good.

Angel was really digging these headlights on this FRS.

Ojay’s old LS430?

This Accord ended up being Angel’s favorite car at the show.

The boys over at Karuma had a booth and their booth car was Adry’s Lexus IS350.

Just missing spoiler, tail lights and diffuser…

Meliton on the gram while someone works on his car. Must be nice.

This BMW wagon looks perfect on Kansei KNP Wheels.

This Toyota Corolla livery looks so sick.

Max Power’s old S14. Crazy this thing used to be parked at Illest OC all the time.

A last shot of my IS250 before everything is taken apart…

Overall Angel enjoyed the show, he just thought it was boring the demo cars were just driving in circles. Kids these days…

July 2, 2019

Cars and Coffee by The Chronicles | Event Coverage

Joey from The Chronicles invited us to a private little morning car meet at his shop, we thought we were pretty special until he posted the flyer for the public. Either way we were gonna come out to support and I was planning to take my own car, but found out the morning of someone tried to jack my wheels because two of my lug studs were broken off. A thief wasn’t going to deter me from attending the meet, luckily everyone had planned to meet at my house, so I was able to get a ride.

We have to start this post with Joey’s famous Mode Parfume Q45 kitted Work Meisters M1.

Ryan’s super clean E30 on Volk TE-37s.

Usually double parking isn’t cool, but when you have a sick ass Integra, it’s cool.

This cars and coffee is a lot better than the one in South OC because all cars are welcomed and it starts at 8AM.

Red looks so good in overcast weather and it looks even better when it’s on a NSX on Mugen MF10s.

A lot of tastefully done Hondas this morning. It’s expected when you’re going to a Chronicle’s meet.

Miguel’s bran new Civic already with cut springs and baseball bat rolled fenders. #HOODRATstuff

John’s Corvette on Forgestars.

Ashton’s Pandem E36 on his new set of customWork Meisters.

Our favorite at the meet was this TSX on Volk ZE40s. It’s just really tastefully done.

We would have loved to see John and this Supra go do some high way pulls.

Thanks Joey for the water and the good times! We hope there will be a Cars and Coffee 2!

-NGUMINH

July 24, 2018

Caravan Things | Event Coverage

The best part of our trip to Vegas is the drive to Vegas. There’s no better feeling than to be cruising with your homies in their slammed cars, trying to race each other and avoiding getting pulled over by the cops. We met up at our usual spot at the In-N-Out in Hesperia, I’m not even sure why we meet here because In-N-Out doesn’t even open until 10:30 AM.

Jaycray pulled up with his sick Pandem RC on the new Work Meister.

Met up with the rest of the homies at the In-N-Out.

I swapped out the Scaras for the Work Meisters.

Frank’s super clean Miata on Weds Bazerias.

Adry’s widebody IS, Taylor’s LS400 and Rodney’s Cressida.

We made it to our first destination, M Resort for our annual trip to the Studio Buffet.

A mini car meet in the parking lot.

We had a quick fooseball tournament at the hosue and found out Rodney is secret professional.

We went on a off-roading adventure with Vince, Chivas and Aaron. #ROOffRoad

Randomly found a donkey at a gas station.

Chivas lead us to an eerie abandoned house and now I have trouble sleeping.

The next adventure was a spot where you could get a great view of the strip.

Good night Vince!

Angelo said, “Get out of the house and get some sleep for the meet tomorrow!” Coverage of the meet coming real soon.

-NGUMINH

April 19, 2018

Tuner EVO SoCal 2018 | Event Coverage

One of the great things about living in Southern California and being an automotive enthusiasts is that there is always something car related to do every weekend. This weekend Abbitt hit us up to go check out Tuner Evolution which originated from the east coast. It was their first show in SoCal, so we wanted to see the difference between an east coast show and a west coast show.

Tune Evo was held at the famed Anaheim Convention Center. The parking is expensive and the workers suck here.

First thing we saw was this wide FRS on some equally wide 326 Power wheels.

This BN Sport S14 was my favorite car out of the whole show. Execution is flawless and you know I love red cars.

You already know it’s a new age car show when they have the RC drift car track set up.

Feeling this aggressive Subaru on Cosmis Racing wheels.

The rarest car at the show and in pristine condition is this Nissan Skyline Hakosuka. Nissan had so much style back then.

Spotted! You can get it here at shop.royal-origin.com.

Tuner Evo is known for having a mini concert at their shows. Xavier Wulf would be performing later on today.

So many things were going at this event like this break dancing competition which was pretty wild.

Loving the livery on this S2000.

Awesome mom starting the love for cars for her child early.

Karuma holding it down at Tuner Evo. Make sure you swing by ujidistribution.com for some gear!

That’s the rear end of my car!

Anthony’s GS on Konig Monsters.

Love! love! The paint on this Miata and with such an aggressive aero setup to compliment the Work Meisters. Awesome execution.

Showing off the air jack and his big brake set up.

I’m surprised with all of this attention to detail, the owner of this car didn’t bedazzle the jack stands too.

Wow Tuner Evo even had a BMX competition going on..

Wow.

Some things never change. Steve’s LS400 looking as good as always.

Tuner Evo is definitely a show to check out with the sick cars and various events going on. Non stop entertainment and a ton of sick cars. Hopefully I’ll be able to check out their east coast car shows one day.

Also wanted to post this photo of my wonderful meal after the Tuner Evo show. This is the shaken beef fries at Vox Kitchen. Until next time peeps!

-NGUMINH

January 29, 2018

Pro-Stance Presented by T-Demand | Event Coverage

It’s been a while since the last time we went to a car meet, but we felt like the Pro-Stance car show would be a great time to come out and see what’s new in the car scene. Pro-Stance is a car show brought to you by the guys over at Central Pine. They have a good relationship with T-Demand Japan and got the guys over from Japan to judge a VIP car show. Shavi and I went at different times, so our photos will be a little bit different. Make sure you check the watermark to be sure who took the photo!

Caught Rilber rolling up in his wide body Audi.

U.S. VIP brought to you by Jay and his LS400.

Clean GS parked in front of the show.

More of Jay’s LS400…

Jay’s LS400 is bagged with some serious T-Demand suspension to get that negative camber with the Emitz.

Anything with T-Demand parts, you should expect some crazy camber.

The head boss at Central Pine, Sam’s Q45.

Taylor’s LS400 on Rotiform ROC.

Karuma in full force, a clothing brand by our good buddies.

Taylor and Paul holding it down at the booth. Peep that IS250 rear end tee..

Two Sick IS’s from Pure Lex.

Black is VIP.

Hot S14 with crazy camber from PURE VIP.

The father of EURO VIP, Johnne Sou’s Job Design E60.

A wild Cressida with a Chaser front end conversion looking like it came straight from Japan.

A car that literally came straight from Japan is this Toyota Crown with that ridic camber on SSR TF1.

Mike Vo’s more crazy than ever LS with that new vinyl wrap and Black Pearl kit.

Sick T-Demand parts to get that extra low and camber.

This GS is probably my favorite from the T-Demand line up.

Wild E46 from Violent Clique.

Shout out to Central Pine and T-Demand for throwing a sick car show!

After the show, Ky, John and I decided to go to the Oyster Bar at the Artic.

Their ‘House Special’ Clam Chowder and Pan Roast. Bomb!

Later on went to A La Minute for some nitrogen ice cream!

What a life.

Photos by @nguminh and @shaviw

-NGUMINH

June 23, 2017

Our Favorites at United Royals | Car Feature

It seems like every year I attend the United Royals show it rains! Maybe, I’m bad luck but the hurricanes and tsunamis always hit Japan when I’m here in September. Other than the rough rain, the show was pretty lively with a ton of car enthusiasts still checking out the car show. Even with so many people out at the show there were still some cars that caught my attention. Here are some of my favorites at the show…

The Low n Slow Japan S14 on Work Seeker wheels looked so good wet in the rain.

I love me some aggressive body kits combined with a dark clean paint job makes an incredible looking car.

How the owner keeps it looking pristine this low static? The world will never know.

This SC430 is amazing. The fitment, the wheel selection and the stance is so well put together.

This car is on bags and that is the reason why the fitment is beyond on point and so even all around.

This car makes you want to own a SC430 even though it looks like a ton of work to make it look like this. It would be worth it in the end to have this in your garage.

The Bad Quality S2000 with custom fitted flares is a big blue of awesomeness.

This S2000 has so much custom work done you have to respect it even if wide body isn’t your thing.

Love all of the Bad Quality cars and this one is no exception.

They achieve both of these goals with this S2000.

The Level One S14 is an instant classic with the Vertex kit and Volk TE-37 SL.

This is probably the farthest I would ever go with a S14 and that’s because there’s so little more you can do to this car to make it perfect because it already is.

There are so many ways to have great fitment, but having your fender tucked right in between the rim is the most gangster way.

The white and gold combo on the Work Meister is so classic and WORKS perfectly on this TSX.

This RX-8 is on our radar just because it’s so damn ridiculous. Wide body, wide wheels and extreme camber will make it hard to ignore this car.

Another mind boggling car that we don’t understand how it even moves on the streets.

Look how wide the rear wheel is!

Spirit Rei on a S13 is all I have to say. This body kit makes the car and with this wheel combination it doesn’t get better than this.

That static rear fitment with the silver face and bronze lip Work Meister is so awesome.

Wish there were more Spirit Rei cars here in the states. Someone make it happen!

Here are some notable cars that were in the parking lot that I wanted to show.

Shout out to the Dropper Crew for rocking Royal Origin and HOODRATstuff shirts and shout out to United Royals for throwing a great event and for the hospitality!

September 22, 2015

Stance Nation x Nisei Show Off 2015 | Gallery

Check out this photo dump of this past weekend’s Stance Nation x Nisei Show Off all photos by Minh Nguyen(@nguminh).

August 19, 2015

Roll In and Gas Out | Wekfest Roll In

The roll in and set up for a car show is always interesting to see, you can see how a big convention center hall gets filled from side to side with cars and vendors. I am always thankful when a setup time for a car show isn’t before 9AM, so it seemed like today would go pretty smooth for our staging time…

Spotted some Honda hatches chilling in the parking lot before roll in.

This SPOON CRX is a work of art.

Slammed Odyssey from Vankulture.

While other people were rolling into the show, half the cars that we brought up had to burn gasoline because of 1/4 fire hazard rule….

Rocket Bunny FRS on CCW LM-5T and a S14 on Work Meisters rolling up together.

Jason Lau was nice enough to bring his slammed static IS300 to show with us.

Speed Element Subaru on Advan GT wheels.

That line to roll in..

Ryan is always down to show when he has the time, now his EVO is looking more colorful than ever.

Didn’t get to meet the owner of this IS300, but his friend Tim drove it out to show with us.

James Tran’s RSX Volk CE28s also showed with us.

Oh the perks of being bagged. No driveway is dangerous to us.

But hearing Jason’s IS300 scrape all the way to the staging area made me miss being static.

Tilted.

HOODRATstuff in the back.

Homies.

Our two support vehicles.

The calm before the storm.

This AIMGAIN IS250c from Texas seems to be at all the California shows.

Cars are scattered everywhere during staging. It has to get ugly before it becomes beautiful.

A close up of the S14 earlier.

It was finally time for us to setup and good thing we’re veterans at this because we got out in 20 minutes.

Vinh’s Subie ready to sit pretty for the next 48 hours.

Vollkommen Design Subaru rolling into the venue.

Roll in for the show would last all the way to the evening.

We were finally off to go eat at Pepper Lunch and while waiting we discovered that Hayle and Rica were cousin’s cousin’s of another mother’s cousin’s uncle related. Amazing how they look so similar! Definitely related.

Everyone getting ready to devour their food.

Shavi got two plates that shows you how good it is or how small the portions are..

That’s when Jerald realized he fucked up. He ordered a bento box for some reason..

Hayle excited to try Pepper Lunch for the first time because of how much we hyped it up.

Finally got mine and I couldn’t wait for it to cook and ate most of it pretty rare.

There’s only one Pepper Lunch in the United States and it’s in Milpitas. They are also the only one in the world that has garlic butter.

Afterwards we got some Mexican ice cream and chamangos from there we decided to go back into SF to go check out Muir woods.

Trees are cool and trees are cooler when they’re super tall, but Muir woods wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. I’m actually not sure what I was expecting, probably the monkeys from Planet of the Apes to come out and try to kill us or something. At least it was free.

I would go here for portrait shoots, but no one was looking pretty today or wearing HOODRATstuff.

It’s fun to do bad things.

Oh hey, Hayle.

This will be good photoshop material.

Derek contemplating on what he should buy me for dinner.

Hayle thinking about what to eat next.

Shavi from Diamond Supply doing some Diamond Exploring.

When the crew pose on fleek.

The main reason I wanted to go to SF was to eat ice cream and we finally got it at Mitchell’s ice cream.

Dog backpacks, now that’s new.

Mitchell’s sells their own ice cream in half gallons. Pretty neat.

Shavi approves.

Hayle also approves or she got hit in the eye with something and she’s trying to get it out with her thumb.

Even when it was cold, people were still in line to get some ice cream here.

What is different about Mitchell’s is that they make you get a number and then they call you up to be serviced. Actually works a lot better than a line.