Category: Cars

Checked out the annual Nisei week festival in Little Tokyo on Saturday – this place brings back so many memories. For those of us pre “Fast and Furious” folk, Nisei was the original carshow – years before Import Showoff / HIN / DUB, back when SSR made good wheels, when Racing Hart (not the DAZZ BS) and HKS were legit and Mugen was king (still is). I still remember the first gen Integs (ZC motor for you engine freaks), CRX’s, 510’s and Celicas rolling down San Pedro. The Nisei Cruise t-shirts and the good food. Ken and the boyz at Import Showoff do a great job of bringing back this feel, quality cars and a good setup. It’s great to see crews like Phaze 2 and the Chronicles guys pushing the limit changing up the style, one day I’m sure they’ll look back at the present and think what I think, good times indeed. For those of you that REALLY know me, you’ll know what the pic is all about.

Another Gallardo Superleggera done right by SP Power. Rockin 20″ Volk Racing G2’s – custom bolt pattern…they’re lightweight otherwise I’d balk at them being on the SL, plus – look at how killer this looks, no denying it.

Finally met John Jarasa – editor extraordinaire of Heavy Hitters @ the Premier Grand opening event. Great guy – I’ve got a lot of respect for him and HH since I went thru the same thing back in the day with TW. Didn’t have an opportunity to chat much, but caught this writeup on his blog a few days later. It’s always nice to see hard work mentioned, appreciate it John. Stay on the hustle and let’s work together soon. If you guys aren’t reading badcopnodonuts.com – you’re missing out.

Have never seen this combo and the cars been out for almost 2 years now – so perfect, this was a popular setup for the older 996 GT3 RS which we never saw here in the US.

SP Power throwin it down with straight up the sickest Balloon White LP640 around. Work VS-XX, CarbonTek Wing, perfect in everyway…

My old buddy from the BMW Days – Khoa’s E90 ///M3 sittin’ on LM Dubs. 🙂 Lookin good man…always bet on BLACK!

This guy is trying out for band…that is the only explanation I have for the trumpets sticking out of this dudes rear. (Pun intended)

Apparently Ford has sub-leased 2 floors of it’s Irvine PAG location to Taco Bell Corp – this explains all the signage removal and the Allied trucks moving office furniture last Sat…wonder how well Nachos Bell Grande will sell in the lot on a Sat @ 7AM 🙂

http://auto.freedomblogging.com/2009/04/17/is-ford-moving-its-irvine-headquarters-yes-kind-of/

17 Years is a long time to keep the same staff – The last “Tonight Show” with Jay will air @ 11:30PM, end of an era although Conan Obrien kicks ass. Jay’s a HUGE automotive enthusiast so I wanted to make sure I threw something up about the end of his reign. Still trying to find the pic I have of him holding tUNINGwERKS magazine, we were so sneaky back then! Best of luck to a great guy and fellow auto enthusiast. He’s moving up to 10PM, but I’d rather see him as part of an American TOP GEAR team…whatever happened to that?