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  • Royal Origin Presents Sin City Affair

    Royal Origin Presents Sin City Affair

    It’s that time of the day, time of the month, time of the year, time of the time, where our supporters, friends, lovers, and family all get together to celebrate the anniversary of Royal Origin.

    Again we are having our meet in Sin City in collaboration with LV Racing Scene and Wa Da Pho food truck, where what happens in Vegas is on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter. We got permission from Clarion Hotel Las Vegas to use their parking lot, so we won’t get kicked out by the cops. It fills about 300+ cars, so please join us in our Sin City Affair.

    Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/567235920031143/

    When: March 29th, 2014

    Where: Clarion Hotel Las Vegas
    305 Convention Center Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109

    Time: 3:00PM – whenever we feel like it should end.

    Special Hotel Rate – Clarion Hotel Las Vegas
    Promo Code: CARSHOWRATE
    March 28-30 ONLY

    Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/567235920031143/

    PAST COVERAGE
    http://royal-origin.com/2012/04/23/the-anniversary/
    http://royal-origin.com/2012/04/13/journey-to-vegas/
    http://royal-origin.com/2013/05/01/were-here/
    http://royal-origin.com/2013/04/25/omw-throwback/
    http://royal-origin.com/2013/04/06/sincity/
    http://royal-origin.com/2012/04/27/a-royal-adventure/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cApvi7nGWOg
    http://imking.com/blog/2012/04/so-we-meet-again/

  • Marc’s E38

    Marc’s E38

    Some people would say the BMW 7-series is the European counterpart to the Japanese Lexus LS. Why is this? Just look it. It is screaming big body VIP.
    Such is the case with Marc’s E38 (750i), who is no stranger to the BMW brand.

    Marc has an E36, E39, and E38 (what you are seeing right now), all of which he loves dearly.

    He was able to transform an unappealing E38 into a visually stunning thing. Who would of thought a E38 could look this good? Not many, that’s for sure.

    Marc’s current shoe of choice for the E38 are Work Brombachers, which are basically VS-XX looking wheels for European cars.

    VIP accessories. Junction Produce Neck Pads and Junction Produce Luxury Curtains.

    Something most people do not know about this car is that it is bagged on Universal Air bags in the front, which allows Marc to air up and not constantly destroy his oil pan, which hangs pretty damn low on these cars. However, the rear is still static, since Universal Air bags have no room to fit back there. Bagged and static all in one car.

    Photos by Keith Cheng (@k3ychain)
    www.flickr.com/keychain/

  • Cruising With The Meat

    Cruising With The Meat

    A couple of weeks ago; our friends from Lowballers Japan paid California a visit. It was great to show them around and give them a taste of our daily Hoodrat American shenanigans. The night before they were to fly back home to the land of the rising sun we did our best to organize a meet to end their trip to California with an awesome memory. Blasted on mediums of social media the meet had an awesome turnout. Cars from all over showed up and the parking lots went bonkers. What started as a meet turn into a cruise. Explanation to follow…

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    The planned location was at the Best Buy parking lot at the Tustin Marketplace on the border of Irvine and Tustin. Although it was “scheduled” to start at 9PM, I showed up to the parking lot at 8:30  to find rows of cars already lined up and people already mingling. Cars continued to fill the lot and the parking lot got filled quick. Around 9:15 Tustin PD showed up and kicked us out. I guess there was just too many awesome cars for them to handle. Word spread quick that the next spot to meet was the Petsmart parking lot at The District down the street.

    349I’m not a fan of the trending crazy-sporty-VIP style, but i love the attention to detail that people put into these builds

    354Christ Foreman – Back into hover mode after his drift day

    356Every time I see this car, I lose my mind. It’s static, it gets driven, it’s awesome

    Word had traveled quick as everyone was forced to leave the Tustin Marketplace. The next spot was the Petsmart parking lot at The District. Like a scene from The Fast and The Furious almost everyone rolled up and bombed down Jamboree. Oil pans scraped and cars screamed at wide open throttle to the next spot. Once everyone had reconvened at the second location, people continued to hang out but eventually Tustin PD showed up once again and escorted us all out. On to spot number 3.

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    360A President ready to rule the world

    361Another shot of the biblical drifting prodigy

    365Every time Nick rolls up to scene, he’s bumping trance.

    367So much beauty

    368It’s a rare sighting seeing Angelo with his silver other-half rather than his Korean one

    375One day; I will have one of my own

    378ForeverYoung

    381Drift ready

    382Mugen faced RSXs aren’t as common as they should be. Who doesn’t like an awesome happy looking car?

    385People everywhere!

     

    387NVUS came out with some cool cars

    391Purple contrast

    393It wouldn’t be a car meet without someone showing off their steering wheel

    394You don’t see those colors on those chassis’ too often

    396A Porsche that gets the girl, a comfy Lexus that keeps the girl, a van to take the kids around if the girl gets pregnant.

    399An old friend from the 8thcivic community. JUAN CHEESE!

    401v8 POWWWWAHHHHH

    403IS-F: “Mine has over 400hp”.  IS350: “Mine has over 12k spring rates”.

    406Time for spot number 3…

     

    Spot number 3 was the structure of the Diamond Jamboree Plaza which was further down the street out of Tustin PD’s jurisdiction.

    408Ready to disturb the peace

    409Wait…. why??

    411Two different styles, one common purpose. DRIFT.

    412BBS RS’ are played out you say? not when they’re built like Jimmy’s.

    414Royal Origin Lexus Gang

    416Dippin’

    420IIRC, this thing had an FMIC 😉

    425

    Meet J-Ho. She’s awesome for those lonely nights

    427More VIP Goodness

    429A Lexus with a hint of Benz

    432I need one of these in my life

    435All the way from Vegas

    436The President made it out to spot number 3!

    438Parking structure filled quick!

    440RB26DETTs were found in both of these

    442Hello Boso

    To those who came out; thanks for showing the Lowballers Japan guys some cool cars and how committed people are in Socal. I’m sure they appreciated the magnitude of the meet and will be looking forward to the next one when they pay Socal another visit.

    – Jay Tien

    Instagram @jaygiatien

  • AMG x M3

    Spent the day hanging out with Lowballers Japan, and took them to a location in Orange County to shoot some pictures. Here we have Erick’s AMG and Navith’s M3. Made this strictly to share on Instagram.

    Filmed & Edited By: Shavi Wijegunaratne

    Instagram:
    @ShaviW
    @RoyalOrigin

  • Yogi FTLC

    Yogi FTLC

    With car shows in full effect, everyone is getting their cars ready with their newest mods. Yogi from Fatlace recently started his Lexus GS430 project and already it has changed quiet a bit.

    The never ending projects stay never ending.
    Thanks

    -Shavi W.

  • Video Timeline 2012

    I recently decided to compile all my footage from 2012 into a timeline video. While I was doing this, I thought it was cool that I took the time and effort to create a video nearly every month of the year. Great way to learn from my mistakes and improve; at least I hope I am improving. In the end, I do this for fun as an additional hobby to my obsession with cars. I hope you guys enjoy a look into my 2012.

    Royal Origin – Timeline 2012 from Shavi Wijegunaratne on Vimeo.

    Also available to be watched on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REwX1LIbA0U

    Thanks for watching.

    Prince

    Filmed & Edited By: Shavi W.
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  • Living in FUCKING SURVIVAL

    Living in FUCKING SURVIVAL

    We weren’t sure how this meet would turn out and honestly thought that the first spot we picked would be sufficient enough. Reason is because we used to have meets at Tastea and that lot is way smaller than the Genki Living spot. Nimo, Jennifer, and I were still on our way home from Vegas that evening and by 8:30PM, Alex texted me that the parking lot was already getting packed.  I just told him that we’ll figure it out when I get there, thinking it couldn’t have been that bad. I was so wrong.

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    The parking lot was so packed that it was difficult to even walk around. It was a cluster fuck of cars.

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     As soon as we arrived, we decided it was time to move to the second spot, which was M&M Donuts.

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    Garden Grove’s finest giving tickets. They gave our friend Anthony a ticket for jaywalking…mother F.

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    Only photo I got of a car was this Yellow Type R in front of Genki.

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    The streets were packed, filled with modified cars everywhere.

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    LS460 that was coming late to the party just followed us to the next spot.

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     Pogi Fresh leading the way; it was like a parade of cars heading to M&M.

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     Damn, our meet only lasted 20 minutes before it got rolled.

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    The M&M Donuts lot was 5 times bigger than the Genki spot and we filled that up quick too.

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    Quick shot of Mikey’s xB rolling by.

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    Leighton got a sweet spot in front of the entrance.

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    Boss 7 Series.

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    Sweet color combo on this 8th gen Civic.

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    EK looking for a parking spot.

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    Guys were surrounding John’s car and asking him 21 questions about his life and his car.

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    Neel debuting his Work Emitz, which he kept on the down low and didn’t even tell us about it.

     Minh’s Junction Produce IS250.

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    Spotted some Royal Origin supporters. We’ll have stickers for sale again, just be patient!

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    Clean EVO, I believe it’s owned by Daniel Leung’s brother.

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    Speaking of Daniel, here’s his Subie.

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    Alex’s Camry getting some attention from future housewives.

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    I always see this IS250 at our meets. Thanks for the support homie!

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    Mother fucking Lux Life, son.

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    Business in the front, party in the back.

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    Reminds me of the late Jon Pham’s E30. Rest in paradise, homie.

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    Bringing business to M&Ms.

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    Vincent’s Miata looking fine as fuck.

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    Mark’s big booty hoe.

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    It was cool that most of the cars here were slammed and we didn’t have to tippy toe to find anyone’s car.

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    Sweet beetle.

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    KSANCHEZ and KJOHNSTON.

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    This spot ended up getting rolled on too; they gave Angelo a ticket for being too low and this time they put non-correctable. Might be a $500 fucking ticket.

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    Useless crew came out to kick it.

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    S2K’s on the roll.

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    Clean Miata. I am in love with the red paint!

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    We moved to the third spot just in case the cops wanted to shut down M&M’s too. This time, we only invited close friends to Tastea.

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    Amir’s 911, recently featured on Stance Works!

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    Clean SC.

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    I don’t know who invited Thao to come…

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    Wes’ GS with a bumper that I heard he fabbed up in his backyard.

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    Brendan’s E30.

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    Not sure who these guys are, but they brought the heat with this NSX and 350z.

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    Swerve GS, reminds me of Big Vinh’s GS back in 2009.

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    Merry Christmas guys!

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    One more shot of Vincent’s Miata.

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    Jeff, hard parking the RSX.

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    Chris showing up fashionably late.

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    The Vegas peeps tried to surprise us & left Vegas 20 minutes after us so they can catch up, but Chivas ended up having oil filter problems and got stuck in Barstow. We ended up driving back to get them with an oil filter. Nice try guys, it was the effort that counts.

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    Nice shot of Gerald’s Work Equips.

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    Another shot of Minh’s IS250.

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    Side front face shot of Nimo’s IS300. Doesn’t even look like it was taken on a 2,000 mile road trip.

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    Mark lighting the way.

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    Jay Crayyy.

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    Bobby finally got bags for his GS. Now he can pick up all his baby mommas.

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    KJohnston’s S2K.

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    Nicul was afraid that we were going to move to another spot, so he didn’t air down.

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    Hey there Mikey.

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    Sloppy crusin’ out because he found out Tastea doesn’t serve alcohol.

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    Time for some 350z porn. Here’s Angelo’s $500-ticketed 350z.

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    John Park just recently traded his Equips for some Meisters. Looking good!

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    Another wheel whore, Christforeman sittin’ on some new Weds LX-Zs.

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    Miguel couldn’t afford new wheels, so he just powder coated them.

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    Wish I had a wide angle lens…

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    350z galore.

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    All the RSX’s were jealous of the 350zs and wanted to park next to each other too.

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    Man was Sam late…

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    I always get cool photos of Matt’s S13.

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    Thanks everybody for coming out and dealing with all that bullshit from the cops, assholes doing burn outs, and bitches speeding in the parking lot. We’ll find a better spot where we can regulate the traffic and not get kicked out by the police. Peace!

    Words by NGU ASS

    Photos by NGUASS, Rocky T Wong, and Angelow

  • StanceWorks | Avila Invitational

    StanceWorks | Avila Invitational

    The boys & I went on a road trip to check out StanceWorks Avila Invitational. We wanted to see cars we usually don’t see and enjoy some scenery. The day started at 4:30A.M. with 5 hour energy drinks and hot cheetos.

    Gassing up before the longass 4-hour drive.

    I rode along with Derek; he drove this low with a packed car, which actually helped with the stiff ride. It was super bouncy, but I still managed to take a nap.

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  • People of Awesome!!!

    People of Awesome!!!

    A couple of weeks ago, we met up because it’s been a while since we last saw each other. We decided to kick it with a close group of friends, nicknamed AWESOME PEOPLE! Yeah, that’s right, awesome people. It’s funny how this group on Facebook came about. The group started off with people who were showing with Royal Origin for the 2011 Autocon show. Gradually after the show, our friends started to add people for fun and now we have a huge group of awesome people posting up everything, from drifting to people’s penis. What’s especially cool about the group is that we all share a common hobby, cars. We don’t just drive ordinary cars, but we drive AWESOME ones. The day we all decided to meet up also turned out to be the day that we would do a mini car meet on top of Diamond Jamboree. Fun Fact:  Diamond Jamboree is pretty much the hangout spot for awesome people, so if you want to kick it with us just hit us up at Lollicup. Anyways, the little car meet ended up turning into somewhat of a photo shoot. With so many cool cars, it was hard not to take pictures. So here is what I have for you.

    This awesome Miata you see below is Zayan’s. Believe it or not, Zayan claims that this is his raised ride height. Stupid crazy if you ask me!

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  • Alignment Day at 714 Tires

    Alignment Day at 714 Tires

    So with Vegas right around the corner, all of us are trying to prepare for the crazy trek up the 15N to the state that is known for,  “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” Jimmy, Minh, and I decided to get an alignment for our cars today at our buddies’ place over at 714 Tires. The funny thing is that 714 Tires has an above-ground alignment rack, so getting our somewhat low cars onto the rack was a mission for all of us.

    Jimmy’s car went first and it took a couple of wooden planks and a jack to get his car up on the rack, but it made it.

    Jimmy’s car on the rack; it was definitely a mission, but it was well worth it.

    All about that camber.

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