SEMA week usually ends with a mini car meet after the load out. This year it was called the VIP Fest Pre-Meet and most of the time you can see some pretty sick cars that were from the SEMA show.
Met up with Chivas and Vince at Vince’s work. Here is Chivas’s 4Runner now on Black Rhino wheels.
Vince’s Integra collecting dust.
Simon reppin’ the Underground Kings jacket.
We arrived to the meet and was greeted by so many nice cars flowing into the parking lot.
Chris Reyes rolling in like a boss in his 300.
Awesome Hakosuka that was meeting up with Dione from Toyo Tires for a photo shoot.
Royal Origin Exploration Team
So much JDM in one picture..This Mark II with Vienna 5 spokes and ganador was perfect.
Not often I see a clean SC and one that is tucked like this.
You already know who it is. Ian’s Datsun who is frequently in our Vegas car meet coverages.
Clean GS with nice camber all around.
Spotted our FTP sticker on this sick 350Z.
The star of the whole car meet was this sick LS500. This was definitely a crowd favorite.
A pair of Pandem E30s.
Glad to see the car scene alive and well in Vegas. Maybe anniversary meet next year?
We usually don’t turn up on a Tuesday, but Shin invited us out to a meet at Air Runner so we had to show up. This meet was going to be a colloboration between Air Runner and a new magazine called J Attitude. J Attitude wanted to capture some photos for their magazine, so the turn out was expected to be high because well.. who wouldn’t want to be in a magazine?
Mr. MIA Jimmy Lieu and his ridiculous super charged Civic back on TE37s. Still tucking.
We arrived a bit late, but there was a flurry of sick cars already packed in the lot.
Job Design LS430 on Work Zistance.
Royal Origin always showing up late.
The latest addition.
Internet famous cars.
That rear tho..
Ridiculous Odyssey, I wonder how they open the doors with he camber in the back.
The newest food truck, the Eat Em Up truck which has really good burgers and fries!
Another Royal Origin ass hole late to the party.
New sticker or nah?
Robros Customs coming in fashionably late.
BBQ Chicken fries at the Eat Em Up truck.
Cheeseburger at the Eat Em Up Truck. Thanks for the hook up Son!
Things have been pretty busy around here, we’ve been planning future events and future moves for 2015. It’s been a little stressful, but we still managed to plan a meet with Air Runner and still drop our holiday HOODRATstuff line which you can now buy on our online shop. Sorry to everyone who didn’t get the time change, when we planned this meet a month ago we didn’t account for day light savings time to be in effect. So, we moved the time an hour earlier and ended the meet when it got dark. Still.. thanks to everyone who came out to hang! It seemed like everyone was doing “hoodrat stuff” left and right at the meet if you know what I mean..
Air Runner as usual had a variety of VIP cars that they’ve worked on for display like this Toyota Previa bagged on SSR SP4s.
VIP cars cruising left and right at this meet.
With all of our meets we like a little variety. Seeing the same style can be boring at times.
Daniel’s Lexus IS300 with some new fender flares and a TRD Neo V2 front bumper. Just needs some height adjustment and this would look king.
I love seeing slammed IS300s. I kinda miss driving static.
Whistlers vs Rotiform?
First time seeing some Fifteen 52 Tarmacs on a Prelude. Looks pretty clean.
My childhood friend Johnny’s E30. Crazy how we haven’t seen each other for like 10 years and was reconnected through cars.
The internet made an appearance today.
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this little feature we did of Yogi’s car.
Adam brought out dailow V2 his newly acquired S13.
Thank you to the Red Bull girls for hydrating everyone and getting everyone super wired.
The Pure VIP fam came out to show us support. Thanks for bringing out your nice rides!
I loved it when Johnne had the Infinite Werk Wheels, but damn these Leon Hardritt Waffes is what made me fall in love with his car when I first saw it at a LTMW meet. Glad he brought this look back!
Jineane’s super clean IS300 wagon. Single parent and still able to have a sick car. Props to you Jineane.
When one parking spot isn’t enough.
When two parking spots isn’t enough.
Liberty Walk Z4 made a quick roll through of the meet.
Brian recently purchased an Integra Type R. Must be nice.
Jay was nice enough to do vinyl installation for people who bought stickers that day.
Photo shy.
More of the Air Runner line up.
It started to get real packed thankfully, there was over flow parking across the street.
Interesting color setup on this Mini Cooper.
Mazda Dreams.
This Genesis was rolling pretty hard static and tucking OEM wheels.
This Civic wanted to do the opposite.
Rarely see a Maserati modified like this, looks pretty sick.
West Collective crew was also in attendance, thanks for always coming out to our events!
Erik and his always perfect EP3 on black chrome TE37s.
Robert’s RSX on Rotiform TMB’s. Check out this photo set of his car if you want more details.
Parked in the furthest lot, thought you weren’t going to get any car coverage. You thought wrong.
We need to see more of these Nissan 300zs done up. Wide and low is my kind of style and this car is the perfect embodiment of that.
Vincent’s new A7 on Avant Garde M580.
Audi R8 on HRE S104.
This GTR was also rocking a set of HRE wheels, but this time the S101.
This car reminds me of the late Jonathan Pham’s E30 vert. R.I.P. buddy.
The homie line up.
Abbitt’s STI on some Rotiform bottle caps.
White car club from different aspects of car culture. Track, daily, and VIP.
Man I hate seeing these CRXs and not owning one..
Pretty slammed Accord, I think this is the one that made Nimo want to build another one.
Kyoei’s LS400 that is for sale hit them up at info@kyoei-usa.com for more information.
California Grill Truck providing some delicious KBBQ fries and grilled cheese sandwiches.
Tommy from Infinite Werk’s KBREAK LS460.
My old wheels look pretty good on Max’s GS. Too bad the cup kit doesn’t go as low.
Damn shadows.. The Phaze 2 guys ahrd their own corner of MBN cars.
Noel’s Varis FRS on SSR TF1.
When you think you have a nice car, Phaze 2 reminds you that you don’t.
Jimmy aka Mr. MIA finally took the time to come out and hang.
Angelo’s 350Z, he releases air from his tires to look lower.
Bonnie laughing with Carol about their boyfriend’s GT wings and discussing the aerodynamics and down force theories.
John day dreaming about an AIMGAIN kit for his car.
John finally finished his air setup, so I let him park next to me.
It would look super fucking extra on John’s GS300.
My car would not mind acquiring a kit as well..
Stumbled upon a couples circle, probably talking about car stuff while the girls just nod and smile.
This meet Air Runner, Kyoei, JDM Chemicals, VIAIR and yours truly had some great free raffle prizes. Casey smiling in the back because he won the JDM Chemicals care package.
Nimo with dem films. Weird not seeing live coverage of this meet on Instagram.
Our first time using our new 10×10 canopies. Makes us a little bit more legit.
As the sun was coming down it made for some pretty cool photos.
Boosted S2000 on SSR SP3.
Angelo getting prepared to do a reverse exit, so he won’t mess up his front bumper.
Dat Royal Origin Sunset sticker doe with a sunset in the background.
Pristine paint job on this GS300 rocking some MRR wheels.
Audi on CCW classics.
Thanks for reppin’!
Sean’s ever so classic LS400 on Koenig Monster wheels.
Kevin’s LS400 on Work Schwert SC4.
~goodfeelings~
Lexus SC300 on Weds Kranze LXZs.
The Bae Mobile. Nicole’s Genesis Coupe on 57 Getter.
Derek’s back to black and looking sporty on Cosmis Racing wheels.
Thankful for all the homies that helped out today. It would’ve been a bad time if I had to do this all alone.
Thanks to Shin from Air Runner for providing us a spot to throw a meet and for giving away great raffle prizes. There’s like 173 photos to go through in the gallery, so help yourself.. Until next time…
Some old friends of mine wanted to do a photo shoot for their clothing line, Sequence. They’re an upcoming brand with a bunch of hustlers in their crew and are also some of the coolest peeps you could ever get to know. They decided they wanted to do a shoot with Heather and since Heather and I have shot together before, it made it real easy for us to do some cool Tumblr 1,000+ reblog photos. We all met up and caravanned to Sunset Ink where the shoot took place.
If you didn’t know, Heather drives a slammed GS300 on VIP Modulars. Daily driven and girl-built.
So damn low.
Rolling tucked like a G.
Robbie following us in his motorcycle. It was a nice day to be riding.
Heather felt like living on the edge and did some risky behavior.
Fuck it, thug wife.
Not even scared that she is two stories up and hanging on a sketchyass balcony…
Did two edits of this photo, not sure which one I like better…Soft and romantic or…
Dark and edgy?
Kevin staying warm in the Sequence pullover hoodie while Heather and I were freezing our asses off.
Str8 flexin’.
Death is okay.
Shout out to Sunset Ink for letting us shoot in their shop!
Lol.
Shots fired.
Candid of Heather prepping her hoodie to stay in one place.
The Resurrection of a Thug.
Modeling in her own trunk.
Sick Sequence hoodie.
Rolling VIP deep.
Damn I’m not low enough for Heather.
Had lots of fun shooting and trying to do Tumblr photos . Maybe next time when I’m better prepared and not freezing my ass off, I will think of cooler photos to do. Thanks Sequence, Sunset Ink, and Heather for this opportunity to shoot. Check them out here.
We had the chance to attend the Royal Flush Meet that is hosted every month at Ray Ray’s Restaurant. I rolled up with Vinh, Angelo, and the broads. We had heard that this meet has only the best VIP cars around the area. We kind of came late, so most of the cars that I expected to be there were already leaving as we walked over to the plaza. The meet still did not disappoint; there were still some good-looking cars such as Ojay’s LS400.
