Supra – Royal Origin

SEMA 2021 PART TWO | Event Coverage

We’re back with part two of SEMA 2021 coverage, I didn’t plan on coming back to SEMA for day 2, but I was picked up by Miguel to hang out. When he said he wanted to hang out, I didn’t think he meant at SEMA.

Coming down the escalators, we got to see the Hoonigan burnout pit in action.

This is the goodest boy at SEMA.

This is the baddest boy at SEMA, Chivas Sotelo.

Spotted Yogi out and about and Miguel looking so in love with him.

Unfunctional and low? Sign me up.

The new Type S looks pretty nice! I wish I didn’t just get the new TLX or I would’ve waited for this.

This awesome Honda S800 which is the predecessor to the Honda S2000.

I was fanboying for a moment when I realized it was owned by Daniel Wu from the Badlands. I’m really sad that they cancelled the show, it was supposed to be a modern take on the chinese saga, “The Monkey King” series.

A classic livery on the latest Supra. Now enjoy this compilation of Supras I saw at SEMA below…

The new Corvette still had me speechless when I saw it for the second time.

It’s now a show without RWB.

This Jimny from Car Style Japan is so dope.

Rocking a never released FTP box sticker.

Jaw dropping FD that had a crowd around it every time I walked by.

Thanks for checking out this year’s SEMA coverage! Maybe, I’ll be back next year!

-NGUMINH

December 25, 2021

Hate is a Virus Car Meet | Event Coverage

Some photos of Sara’s car meet which helped raise money for Hate is A Virus. Pretty sick venue with a ton of nice cars at the Anaheim Garden Walk.

June 9, 2021

Tom’s A90 Supra | Car Feature

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!

July 29, 2020

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

Paint The Town Red | Daily Life

It’s been a while since we’ve done anything related to cars, so this night was especially exciting because we didn’t carpool to meet up. Everyone actually brought their cars out just like the good old days and it was awesome. The idea for the shoot was just to get all the red cars together for a video, but we got side tracked and ended up making a rap music video which you can find on our Instagram @royalorigin.

My SC next to Brendan’s classic Supra.

Red or dead.

Brendan checking out Ashton’s recently finished Pandem E36.

The Supra is still looking good as it did 8 years ago in the lair.

Not red, but Keith brought out his nostalgic Accord.

John’s Corvette which sounds like a beast ever since it got a cam install.

A surprise visit, Phat brought out the Cayman. He got an oil change just to bring it out tonight.

Red never looked so good. Thank God Ashton didn’t stick with the blue.

You already know the plug’s vehicle, Rodney’s Cressida.

Man this photo is so cool. I wish I brought a tripod so I didn’t have to shoot with such high ISO.

Got some shots in with the 135mm, but people were already leaving, so I didn’t get that many photos of their cars.

Derek’s Cressida, twinning with Rodney but it looks alot better because of the black trim.

Brandon’s never finished IS300.

Shout out to everyone who came out tonight! It was good hanging and we should definitely do it more often!

-NGUMINH

February 9, 2018

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

Impromptu Meet

Probably one my favorite things about having friends with the same hobby(cars) as me is whenever we hang out it always turns into a little car meet. Brendan a.k.a “NA Hero” hit us all up to meet at Tastea because Max Nagano from Norcal was in town and he wanted to check out some of our cars.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen Tim’s Supra out in the streets.

If you see Tim’s Supra then not too far away would be Brendan’s widebody Supra.

NA Hero.

Wheel porn.

NSFW.

Tim’s bad ass Supra.

John decided to bring the race car out tonight.

My newly refinished Scaras.

Sticking with the red sport/race car theme Keith brought out the IS300.

VS-KF.

Big wings are going to be the new trend on any car.

Don’t mind the fenders.

The fitment is too on point.

I spy with my little eye something dangling.

R E D.

sTATic.

More race cars..

The Porsche Cayman “The magnet of middle aged Asian women”.

Chillin’.

Nate’s classic E30.

Some product placement..

I wish Keith would sit with me on his hood.

Rory with that quick appearance.

October 10, 2013

Royal Origin Summer

School is out and summer is here, so we got our short shorts, rounded up the homies, and went to the park for a BBQ. David, being as generous as he is, planned the event and bought all the food for us. He grilled some delicious burgers and Korean BBQ for us. We had a good time and there were good vibes. Some of us got friendly rounds of basketball in and even played tag. We haven’t seen each other as often as before because of our busy lives, so it was nice that everyone came out. A meet up with Royal Origin also means a car meet, so the parking lot at the park looked like a full blown car meet.
Here is Jimmy’s fresh-to-death Civic…

Charles took out the Q45 for a tan along with Nick’s SC400. Nick’s SC was lowered the next day, so watch out for that! Should look sick.

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June 26, 2012

FSR Track Day with LRG SOUP

The smell of burning asphalt accompanied by the sound of exhausts getting into wide open throttle always makes a great Saturday. Last week, Brendan aka LRG SOUP invited us to the FSR track day, where Brendan tracked his Toyota Supra. He was pretty excited to try out his new setup on the Fontana Speedway track. As soon as we arrived, we noticed Tim’s fresh-out-of-the-shop Supra in the parking lot. Looking real fresh with the new viper red paint job and Enkei NT03s.

Pretty flawless paint job. Big upgrade from the last time we saw it.

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May 21, 2012

The First Meet of the New Year!

Hello world, my name is Angelo Calderon, and this is my first time blogging so bare with me for the horrific photography and writing you are about to see and read.

You might want to know a little more about myself; well I currently attend Mount San Antonio College as a Business Marketing major at the moment. I currently shoot with a Canon 40d, but will hopefully upgrade some time in the future. I drive a 2004 Chrome Silver Nissan 350z. I love to hang out with my Royal Origin/Lowballers family, that I am lucky to be a part of, and you can catch me at meets/car shows. That being said, if any of you know how I look like don’t be shy to come up to me and say what’s up!! I don’t bite or anything I don’t think.

So, I was pretty excited to come to this food truck/car meet, because it was the first meet of the year, and also right down my street so I wouldn’t have to do much driving to get to the location. Once I was there I met up with my friends Minh, and Nimo. Nimo being as famous as could be in the car scene was already talking to a group of people that were interested in buying his car, so I looked around and finally found Minh. Minh had his camera out already shooting cars, so he handed me my camera (he picked up my camera from David, who was borrowing it) and we went around and started taking pictures.

Here are the pictures I took of this little meet, so bare with me because I know they are horrible.

My BFFL Vinh’s STI driven all the way down from Nor Cal, don’t be shocked to see a new set of wheels on this car every 3 months, because he is a certified wheel whore.

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January 18, 2012

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