We got to take some up close shots of Kyle’s GS300, Justin’s LS400 and Ryan Richey’s WRX. All of these cars have very unique features that make them stand out from the crowd and compelled us to take them aside to shoot.First we have Kyle’s Lexus GS300 and as you can see it has a wild body kit with accents that match the wheels.
The body kit is from 326 Power a shop that is known for creating some of the craziest stanced cars in Japan from their body kits to their suspension parts that help create more wheel camber. This is my first time seeing someone in the States rocking the full body kit.
The wheels are Weds Kranze Cerebus and it’s held on with 326 Power extended lug nuts.
LED bars infused into the front bumper to light the way at night.
The GS is also sporting the 326 Power wing!
A very nice build and we’re glad to see more Japanese influenced cars here in the states.
Up next is Justin’s very wide LS400.
Justin’s LS400 is fronting a Sixth Sense front bumper and a custom wide body by Super Star Customs.
The Algernon Intelesse are tucked nicely under that wide fender.
This thing is just awesome to look at.
That stretch.
W I D E
Besides owning a cool car, he also adopts rescue dogs making Justin an awesome guy.
Last because he got lost and was late, Ryan Richey’s WRX. A car that was all over the inter-webs last year is still breaking necks today. Not many people dare to wide body their cars, let alone do it themselves.
Ryan’s WRX is sporting some temporary wheels and his front bumper was suppose to be wrapped the other day, but Chris Foreman never helped him out. Fuck Chris.
Anyways, the WRX still looks good regardless of the front bumper’s color.
That Georgia sunset..
Shout out Ryan, Justin and Kyle for letting me shoot their cars! It was a great taste of what the south has to offer in terms of modified cars. Hope to see you guys again sometime soon!
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…
Spent the day in down town LA, we planned to do a photo shoot of Neel’s LS400 before he leaves us to Las Vegas for work. We had a pretty good team with Vu, Shavi and Nimo doing video work and Rocky and I shooting photos. The main photographer was Rocky, I was just hanging out and trying to do some behind the scenes photos.
Vu with his limited editiong HKS x Jansport backpack.
That lens filter..
Tried to do a hipster in the middle of the street photo.
Shavi sliding on some videos.
Neel’s LS400.
Neel is rocking a set of Advan Racing RS wheels.
Bagged with a set of racing wheels on a VIP car looks perfect to me.
One legged squat for the perfect shot.
Rocky directing the shoot, he’s one of my favorite photographers.
BTS.
Some shots I got out of this location..
The man of the hour, Neel Nana.
The next location was under the historic LA bridge. Many movies and photo shoots have been shot under this bridge.
Our next location was another famous location, but I guess there was a movie being filmed, so it was closed off with police surrounding the area. We decided to just find an empty parking structure to shoot.
The lighting was a bit hard to work with, but we had a bunch of fun light painting which none of my photos show. I was the one holding a piece of cardboard to cover the lights when they were light painting.
The night before the Played Out show, I was hanging out at Big Vinh’s garage watching them get all the goodfeeling cars ready for the show. Spent the night drinking and watching them wax the shit out of their cars to the point where you could play air hockey on their hoods.
Kevin asked if he could use my Work Equips for the show since I wasn’t going to use them for a while.
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.
First we have Kyle’s Lexus GS300 and as you can see it has a wild body kit with accents that match the wheels.
