Now when we last left off, Milt had just kicked off the competition and did his run through the driveway…

He didn’t look like he had very many issues getting up the driveway…

…but coming down proved to be a little more interesting…

As I said in part 1, I don’t know the criteria for judging or what they were looking for, but on that particular run…Milt Salamanca garnered a score of 27 out of a possible 40…I didn’t even bother catching score after this because I really didn’t know what was going on. We all basically stood there to watch people potentially fuck their shit up…

A TSX narrowly missing the pavement as he was barely angling out…You can see Holly Lee and Tony from It’s JDM Yo!! standing in the middle of the driveway because they were basically the markers used to cut the driveway in half….Guy in the photo with the 49ers gear on is either whistling his favorite tune or over exaggerating his shock…

A strawberry-faced S14 240SX on Leon Hardiritt Ordens getting set to make his run….I thought the competition was a little unfair in that guys with aero or front lips already in need of repair competed against guys whose cars were in better condition…I mean, in terms of willingness to take a chance of breaking something to win, wouldn’t you have less to lose if your shit was already messed up already?…Then again, I don’t know how it was judged or scored so I can’t really say anything, just raising an interesting point….

People gradually started to get more into the event as more cars made their runs…Even Holly Lee was using the camera and trying to get some action shots…Tony for whatever reason, was showing off his hella hyphy THIZZ face circa 2006…

A clean white S2000 on CCW wheels stood next in line to make his attempt…

Antonio from Motormavens.com didn’t seem too impressed….Big Mike on the far left was taking a standing nap…

While I was happy to see that this S2K owner’s fenders weren’t fucked-up, his front lip has probably seen better days after this event…

Next up was the RHD CR-X from Infinit Wheels…

The CR-X’s run was one of the more interesting ones because they chose to drive the car straight up the driveway without angling at all and when it came down, it struggled to get traction and created some tire smoke…

Thanks to drifting, enthusiasts these days are conditioned to cheer and go ape shits anytime there is tire smoke so Infinit Wheels got some dap for creating the smoke show…

Armand with the TRD widebody MR-2 decided to participate/fuck his shit up…If anyone had anything to lose in this competition, it was him. His car is in pretty good condition and I don’t think damaging that kit would really be a good idea but he went for it anyway. During a test run, he mysteriously broke the wing off that he had just recently not replaced EVER, so this will be day 837 of wingless widebody SW20…

It didn’t look too bad as he was making his way down…

…but the more angles he had to make to get out, the more stress it was on his front end…if you look closely, you can see his fender cracking where it meets the sideskirt….

Next up was this S2000 with a CR lip and what looks like F-Zero Blue Volk CE28s…

If you ever wanted to know what a CR front lip would look like if it was driven into the ground with the weight of the car on it, here you go…

If that wasn’t enough scraping for you, here is a BB6 Prelude that also participated…Good to know that he had that plastic lip under his bumper to give the driveway more contact patch…haha…

This EF was one of the more ridiculous competitors of the day…not only was he making sparks under his car as he was exciting the driveway, he also was sparking when the car was driving normally on flat pavement. The guy decided to lower his car so extreme to the point where his car would flip over if he ran into a dime.  The owner was also very serious about this competition and constantly asked later if he made it into the later rounds. Being low and fucking up the bottom of the car is serious business…

Last time I checked, IS350s weren’t cheap and neither are the parts made for them…Tell that to this guy’s front lip…

After most of the cars had finished their runs, out of nowhere, people decided to start acting like dipshits and revving their cars or driving really fast as they were leaving the venue to show off and/or mow people down who were spectating. Tony and many of us started to get kind of iffy about keeping the competition on an open street, so Tony and crew told everyone to get back inside where the parking lot was. The highlight of douchebaggery was when a 15 year old kid smoking a cigarette driving an STI his parents bought for him pulled in front of a crowd and started revving. Instead of just waiting for people to disperse, he felt it was a better idea to rev his shitty car at people and ask them to move. He was also accompanied by his other douchebag 15 year old friends who think that mounting two 25mm spacers on each wheel qualifies as “aggressive fitment”. The runner-up for master of douchebaggery was some jackass who was sitting on the passenger side window, hanging out of his car while his friend peeled out and hauled ass down the street. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Apparently these kids thought that they were participating in an event called “So You Think Your Parents Will Want to Visit You In The Hospital When You Are A Brain Dead VEGETABLE?”…

People acting like complete idiots sort of put a damper on the event, even though a majority of it went very well and without any real issues. There was a break during the competition to tally up the scores and see who would advance to the later rounds, but I was pretty set on going home. I had just driven back earlier that morning from my trip to Las Vegas so I wanted to get home to get some much needed rest. Before that though, I made the rounds and finished up the rest of my coverage of cars that were at the event…

Michael Mao’s Acura NSX…

G35 on DPE wheels…

A couple more shots of the Amuse-inspired S2000 from DTM Autobody…

…as well as the KE70 Corolla wagon parked behind it…

JonJon’s supercharged IS350 from Vanguard Collective/It’s JDM Yo!!….

Y34 M45 on air…

Oh this was cool…It’s virtually impossible to see a modified Lexus ES300/Toyota Windom EVER so it was refreshing to see one at the event with a kit and old school Work Equip mesh wheels…These cars are terribly unpopular to modify, because they are basically fancy versions of Camrys, but I’ll always have a soft spot for this car because my parents owned one when I was growing up…The last time I saw one of these ES300s modded was back around the early 2000s when I would spot the same one always cruising through LA. It had a HKS turbo kit and everything, shit was crazy and way ahead of it’s time…

Ryan Delosreyes’ Scion xB on old school Work VS wheels…

The Kouki S14 from part 1 with the crooked intercooler…As a whole, this car wouldn’t look bad if it was all one color…

FC3S RX-7 from the most un-intimidating car crew name ever, Nuisance…

Acura TSX from Low’N Slow on gold-faced CCW Classics…

3rd generation Toyota Celica from Low’N Slow…

Armand’s MR-2, post cracked fender…Aspiring breezies in the background doing hoodrat stuff…so hood that the guy photographing them is standing on the train tracks…

The BB6 Prelude on white-faced Work Equips that competed earlier…front lip scuffed up, but still intact…

The most aggressive S2000 ever to park in front of a dumpster…

Real clean EK with a iridescent hood shield…

Hubert Barnum male modeling on the Ruckus he and his brother built…

One more shot of the 350Z from part one on the SSR Gartmaier wheels…

The Barnum brothers’ Ruckus…draped in orange jizzum…

The IS350 that competed earlier on SSR MS1 wheels…

The S14 that also competed earlier…

DPK David’s EJ1 coupe just before he left…

Keith aka Keychain’s Accord sedan on polished MB Battles…

That’s about it…after that I left so I didn’t really get a chance to see who won the whole thing. I believed after things calmed down for a bit, they went back and finished the competition on the driveway where it started. Overall, a pretty successful event I would have to say…It wasn’t really meant to be anything taken too serious and I think that’s what people left with. At the end of the day, it’s just a couple guys showing off how they get out of driveways in their lowered cars. The meet portion of the event was cool. The diversity was good and wasn’t only limited to just beat-up cars on aggressively-fitted wheels. Congrats to Tony and staff for putting together a good event….

Thanks for looking… Back tomorrow with other stuff…

Oh before I go, I had to post this up. It was on Facebook late last night but I figured I’d post it up here since a lot of you don’t have Facebook accounts…

Haha, the expression on this guy’s face just made it too easy…

Michael Mao’s Acura NSX on Volk CE28 Genesis…

The whole idea behind this “So You Think You Can Stance” event was very basic in principal…almost too basic. We were to have a pretty aggressively sloped driveway, in which people would sign-up and attempt to show everyone how they could go in and out of the driveway with their slammed/lowered/stanced-out vehicles. The original driveway that was chosen for the competition was over by the Rywire facility. It’s got a pretty big slant to it, but it wasn’t impossible to get up and down. DPK David takes his Civic coupe to work on occasion and has little issues getting in and out and even my Q45 aired down to about 40-50psi with a big kit and get out pretty easily. There are a number of cars that come through the shop and I’ve never really seen anyone have any problems. Being that the venue was also good enough to host a small meet though, Tony decided to use it for the event. What he would do would cone off a large chunk of the driveway, and as the competition progressed, the driveway would become smaller and smaller…

Linda’s Toyota Matrix on VIP Modular wheels from Team Praxis…

How it would be judged would also prove to be pretty interesting…There would be a panel of three guys who would determine the winner…Keith aka Keychain from It’s JDM Yo!!, Noel Barnum from Canibeat, and Yogi from Fatlace. These guys know about all things low so they would be good judges. Yogi I don’t think has ever really had a car that low..his Accord never moved and now he drives a Nissan pick-up, but still, he works for Fatlace/Illest so he encounters his fair share of lowered vehicles. I don’t know what was a point of emphasis for judging, nor do I know what they were looking at…I really didn’t want to know because then I would wonder if they were judging it correctly and with this being a first-time competition, there are a lot of unknowns. Even after the event has come and gone, I still have no real idea of how they judged this. There were so many different types of cars and they all went about going up and down the driveway different…it’s one of those things that can have real open interpretation. In the end, I believe a 1st generation Lexus GS300 won so congrats to the owner. I believe Falken Tires was a co-sponsor of the event and the winner got a set of tires. The other co-sponsor was VIP Modular wheels, which offered a significant discount (20-30% I believe) on a new set of VIP Modular wheels…

350Z on SSR Gartmaier wheels fro Royal Origin…

On the days leading up to the event, Tony realized that there was a chance that the event would be bigger than originally anticipated. I guess he had more than enough responses on social media outlets where he believed the event might be larger than the Rywire parking lot could hold, so he changed the venue entirely. Instead of having it at Rywire, he moved the event over to the city of Santa Fe Springs, inside an industrial section of the city that was quiet and had plenty of space on a Sunday. Overall, I think the event worked out great. The whole idea of it on paper just sounds kind of silly, but man, people fucking love all things “stance”. You can literally throw the word “stance” into any event name or website and there’s a high possibility of it being successful. As much as people love to talk shit about stanced-out cars, it’s become a genre in our community that has become quite popular. I’m a fan of everything as long as it’s done right in my eyes or in moderation. There are some absolutely ridiculous looking cars that showed-up… as with every stance-related event, there are often times when people just try way too fucking hard to be cool and somehow totally fuck up their cars in the process…

VIP Modular booth on display…

If you want my honest opinion of this event, I would kind of relate it to like pro-wrestling and figure skating, but without the excitement of wrestling and without the grace of figure skating…haha, if that makes any sense… I didn’t think that many people would be into the competition side of the event but damn, people were on edge after the first couple cars did their driveway sessions. I think many of us were skeptical but eventually we were also into it and wanted to know who was going to win. I knew that the meet portion of this event would be good because Tony’s events always have good turn-outs. He can bring a good crowd in just by blasting the event on Facebook. The competition was cool, but like I said early on, there’s a lot that needs to go into judging criteria if Tony and crew decide to put another event like this on again in the future…

Lowered cars going up driveways is something that every enthusiast has to go through practically everyday…turning it into a competition just sounds totally absurd…but you know what? It just works…haha. Congrats to Tony and the It’s JDM  Yo!! crew for putting on another successful event…

Standard Functions brought out a couple of really nicely-built Ruckus’ for display at the Fatlace booth…

I spotted my favorite car early on in the day…DPK David and I were walking around while I did coverage and stumbled upon an AE86 on HRE wheels…

HREs are not a typical wheel that you see on an AE86…this one might be the first one ever actually…You don’t see these wheels on Corollas of any kind because they are often times worth more than the cars themselves. It’s a high end wheel that belongs on more appropriately high-end automobiles. Anytime you see something like this though, it’s definitely a cool sight…

Turns out that this beautiful creation is actually owned by Mickey Andrade who works at HRE. David and I were a little shocked at first to see a perfectly fit set of HREs on a Corolla but after speaking to him, it all made sense. The car itself was built by John Russakoff from JSPFab in Vista, CA…

John Russakoff’s claim to fame, besides being a talented drifter in Formula D, is performing S2000 F20C swaps on older Toyotas like the AE86. He has a whole kit that is made just for the swap and even has this custom made F20C spark plug wire covers with the Toyota 1600 insignia on them…pretty cool stuff…

I’ve seen this EK with purple Work Meister S1s various times before online…I believe it’s from Northern Cali…

The It’s JDM Yo!! booth with an assortment of the latest It’s JDM Yo!! gear…

The Z33 from above on SSR Gartmaier wheels…

Jay Borcena’s Acura TL on VIP Modular wheels and Accuair suspension…

The guys having a moment…(From left to right: Jay Borcena, Big Mike, Noel Barnum, DPK David, and Noel’s girl Emily…)

Ms. Sheila working the NOS Energy booth…

3GS on Auto Couture wheels…

A good-looking wingless Mitsubishi Evo X on concave Volk TE37s…

JonJon Usaha’s Job Design Lexus IS300 representing It’s JDM Yo/Vanguard Collective…

S2000 from Infinit Wheels sitting on CCWs…

2GS on Work Eurolines, also representing Infinit Wheels…

WRX rolling through with some aggressive blue Work Meister S1s…

Powerhouse Amuse-inspired Honda S2000 on Enkei PF01 from DTM Autobody…

Clean Boso-style Corolla wagon on really clean old school Super Advan Racing wheels…I dig the red interior on this thing…

Keychain cruising up to the event fashionably late…

Noel Barnum taking a seat on his Ruckus to check out the event…

I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason why the intercooler on this S14 is cock-eyed…probably insert a “Because Drift Car” or something stupid here…

Antonio from Motormavens was in charge of MCing the event but also had his camera and massive lens on hand to do some coverage for his site…

This G35 on white-faced Work Meister S1 wheels was just stunning…Shows that you can have a clean set-up on aggressive wheels without making your shit look absurd with haggered fenders…

Yogi from Fatlace/Illest standing the in the middle of the street with a giant “Illest” flag…

A couple hours into the event, it was time to begin the competition and people got together by the driveway in anticipation…

Evo X on green Volk CE28s posted-up on the side of the street…

Here’s an incorrect way to be “stanced-out”….fake TEs, chewed up tires inside and out rocking two gigantic wheel spacers just to be “flush”…What is that shit, like 50mms wider now??…

Jimmy from Team Praxis rolling through before the competition started in his FJ Cruiser…

RHD CR-X from Infinit Wheels lined-up and ready to compete…

Milt from Low N Slow was the first car on hand to try his way up the driveway…he and his crew took the competition seriously and had their team flags and shit all up in Milt’s Z…

Milt’s license plate was a popular topic of mention at the event…

The judges and Antonio huddling-up and discussing the rules…

Milt and his Garson Deep Racing wheels ready to go…

…Judges ready…

…and….

…back tomorrow with part two of the “So You Think You Can Stance?” coverage!…

Stay tuned and thanks for looking!

Gonna kick it off today over at the Project Mu section where they had all of their baller brake set-ups on display…I totally forgot that Project Mu had lug nuts in their product line-up until I saw this photo…

Here’s their new Project Mu Monoblock 4-piston brake calipers… They aren’t coated like the usual Project Mu brakes and have a very distinct “MONO” engraving on the face of the caliper itself…There’s no price tag yet because this shit is probably worth more than the car you’re building…haha…

Subaru STI sedan with-said Project Mu Monoblock brakes….

Over at the Rays Engineering area, you will notice a whole new line-up of Gram Light wheels as well as new Volk Racing wheels…

Rays had this Lexus LF-A on hand with a new set of Gram Light 57Extremes in blue…

You can see the rest of the Gram Light line-up here. I didn’t think that the Gram Light line was all that popular compared to Volks but judging from this display, Rays has invested a lot of money into this particular line…

Mad Mike’s D1 Spec FD3s RX-7 that he will be campaigning in 2012 in Japan…This one also on Gram Light 57Extremes…

Toyota Prius Hybrid Super GT race car…

HKS brought out their wild Toyota Veilfire democar for display at their section… Standing next to the Veilfire is Keisuke Morita, an HKS Sales Engineer that we met last year during the SEMA 2011 show in Las Vegas along with the Tactical Art guys…

They had this hole implemented into the fender where you could peek inside…

…and see their HKS Hipemax III coilover system lit up with bright white LED lighting. Pretty cool idea that you will never see done over here because people aren’t done to put holes in their fenders…

This is the same HKS Supercharged S2000 that was at the SEMA show in 2011…Pretty crazy that they had the car shipped back and forth when they could easily just install another HKS supercharger on a S2000 in the states…

The HKS exhaust system on the S2000…

HKS Hipermax III coilovers…

HKS GT Supercharger for the S2000 off the car and on display…

HKS header with dyno numbers for the AP1…

The new HKS F-CON IS piggyback engine management system…

HKS also debuted their new DMR-150D Direct Multi Recorder system…If you’re interested in what this system is all about, click the link here…

A better shot of the Toyota Veilfire van…

GReddy fixie…

Subaru STI sedan on display for Blitz…

Tokyo Auto Salon 2012  marked the debut of RE Amemiya’s latest FD3s project, dubbed the “Super NA7″…More shots of this wild RX-7 over here on Speedhunters…

The R-Magic RX-7 displayed at the Exedy booth…

FD2 CTR race car from M7 Japan…

Ridiculous looking Toyota Crown Japanese Police cruiser from Car Sense…Say what you will about this car, but it was meant to be off-the-wall ridiculous. It’s just a display vehicle for a shop so I don’t know why people are going so crazy about it online and talking about how it doesn’t function. What the fuck do you think it’s for? It’s not a real police car and hell, it probably doesn’t roll anyway…

Just fucking nuts…

S15 Silvia from Okuyama/Carbing…

Evo X also from Okuyama/Carbing…

One of the most unattractive air boxes I’ve ever seen for any car, haha…

They removed the doors to display the cage and interior…

Endless Porsche Super GT race car looking great with the classic Endless livery…

Pink metallic 2GS from K-Break…

A couple other K-Break VIP cars on display…the sedan to the left is actually a Toyota Celsior with a Toyota Century front end conversion…

K-Break Y33 Nissan Cima…

Appropriate to have a bunch of Japanese dudes in suits standing by the car…

Ferrari 458 Italia race car…

Great detail in this interior, whether you like floral patterns on everything or not…

STI version of the Subaru BRZ…

Subaru BRZ Super GT race car…

Towards the end of the day, Yasutaka Shimomukai from Tactical Art (aka the guy who took these photos) ran into a couple familiar faces. Ken and Adam from Wek’Sos/Wekfest were also in Japan for TAS 2012 and they got together for a photo-op… Oh it’s also Yasutaka’s birthday today as well so a big happy birthday shout-out to him. Super Street magazine is visiting them today and Tactical Art has also organized a little Civic meet over at their shop…

Well, that marks the end of the coverage that was provided by Tactical Art. The photos below are from my other source, Koji Karamata, and are mostly photos that I felt you should see from the show that Yasutaka missed as well as some photos from the parking lot. Judging from the photos I saw, the parking lot at TAS 2012 should have been a show in itself with all the nice cars out there… Anyways, here are the pics…

I didn’t even know Rando Sports was still around but apparently they are and they brought out this new Evo X…

A better shot of the RE Amemiya Super NA7…

Another RE Amemiya beauty with Porsche headlights and custom RE Amemiya aero… I love how they did a gradual fade into the exposed carbon on the hood..Just an amazing looking car. RE Amemiya is just one of those companies that has been quietly killing it throughout the years with amazing product and the world doesn’t know that much about them because they have a very specific demographic (RX-7 owners)…

Another shot of the FD2R from M7 Japan…

GReddy’s BenSopra R35 GT-R…this one has to be the best looking of the three at TAS 2012…I love what they did with the burnt titanium look on the gills behind the front wheel…$40,000 for a aero kit is fucking crazy but man, it drastically changes the look of the GT-R…

Akira Nakai from Rauh Welt debuted his newest Porsche project, deemed the “Spearmint Rhino”…I’m sure it has to be a recent inspiration of his from his trip out to Las Vegas last  year…Peep the Fatlace/Illest booth at TAS 2012, Mark is doing it BIG these days…

Now onto some parking lot shots…

Love how simple this Toyota Chaser/Mark II is…I would rock this shit ALL DAY…

Everytime I see a Toyota Celsior built like this it makes me regret owning a Y33 Q45…haha… Man, I love it. If I saw this thing while I was in Japan for TAS, I don’t think I would have gone inside because I’d be staring at this car all day…

I also really liked this Toyota Crown on BBS LMs…

Not sure what these vans are but they look pretty sick…I’ll take either or, don’t matter…

I’d have to do something about the exhausts though…haha but everything else is perfect. I just like how they are all parked perfectly next to eachother. I wonder if they practice this and just go everywhere in perfect symmetry…

This on the other hand, is hideous…cool yes, in a old man creepy way, but totally hideous…

I noticed that in a majority of the photos, there are people sleeping in their cars…The Japanese must be big on afternoon naps, haha. In reality though, preparing for such a huge event like this probably would take a lot out of anyone…

Closing out all three parts of the TAS 2012 coverage of possibly my favorite car of the show, and it wasn’t even inside… This Nissan Skyline 2000GT is on point! Everything about it is just money…

That’s all for today…thanks for looking and I hope  you have all enjoyed the overseas coverage of Tokyo Auto Salon 2012…Thanks to Yasutaka Shimomukai from Tactical Art for making it possible!

Thanks for looking…

Alright, let’s get on with it…

An overhead shot of another portion of TAS 2012…If you look over to the middle right section, you’ll see the Rando Sports Evo X. It’s still sporting the same colors and overall scheme of the Rando DC2 Integra from years past. I’ll have a photo of it later…

13th generation Toyota Crown from TRUE….if you wanna talk about a vehicle with a long storied heritage, you have to take a look at the Toyota Crown family line…

Toyota Celsior with a Black Pearl Jewelry Line aero kit…What I’ve noticed about the VIP scene over there the last two years is how aggressive the aero is starting to look. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing but I personally am more of a fan of the traditional VIP style. The stuff that is coming out nowadays  has all kinds of crazy aggressive lines that don’t really flow with the rest of the car…

E92 BMW M3 with a matte, brushed finish and blue Volk TE37 Super Laps…

Maserati Gran Turismo MC on Hyper Forged wheels…You can tell that there are too many companies making forged wheels these days by seeing all the uncreative names…

Liberty Walk Lamborghini Murcielago sitting on a lift under some dome light metal structure…

A couple of Japanese models hanging out by the Liberty Walk Hummer limo…

Vitt Squalo Lamborghini Murcielago…

Wild, slammed and bagged Hummer H1…also note the fancy Louis Vuitton man purse to the right…

One of my favorite cars of all-time…the Junction Produce Rolls-Royce Phantom…so much overkill but sooooo good, haha…

Junction Produce 2nd gen. Toyota Century limo…In the Toyota lineage, the Century sits at the top above all other Toyotas, including the Lexus line of vehicles. When it comes to being a true “flagship” vehicle, the Century is the king of Toyota’s castle… It’s exterior appearance has remained unchanged throughout the year’s of it’s existence because it’s such an iconic vehicle in the Japanese culture…

Work wheels looked like it had one of the best displays this year over at TAS 2012…

F10 BMW 535i sedan on Work Gnosis HS203 wheels…

The 2012 Work wheels line-up…

I am personally a huge fan of the Work Meister CR01 wheel…this one features a matte carbon face and “Black Alumite” rim…

The new Work Meister M1R in matte black…

Another favorite of mine, the Meister S1R, particularly in this Fein Heit Silver and Bronze Alumite finish…

The talk of TAS 2012 had to be the BenSopra R35 GT-R… There were three of them at the show, the two you see here along with a red one that was a part of GReddy’s display…I have a shot of the GReddy one from another source but I’ll post it up later…I wish I had seen more photos of the white BenSpora car though. From what I’ve seen the GReddy one looks the best by far…

Artis Honda Odyssey with an intense paint job…

Another Artis-painted masterpiece was this 60 Chevy Impala…Pretty crazy to see one of these built to this level over in Japan. I remember when I was over in Japan about a decade ago and spotted some lowriders cruising around and they were beautifully done…

The brushed metal-look blended into the black paint is just crazy….

Check out this Fit…the brushed metal work looks so intense that the Japanese guy was touching it to see if it was real…

Well, this is a little awkward…While I would like to believe that this Japanese men are all huddle around the Toyota Camry and taking photos of the Asanti wheels and big brake kit, I can’t help but think of all the perverse things these guys are thinking of doing with their cameras while under this girl’s skirt…I’m a glass half full type of guy but I’ve seen some Japanese porn and whatever they are looking at in this photo is probably censored in scrambled blocks…

While that was going on, the Tactical Art guys were checking out these custom sound system set-ups…

Being that this is their normal every day field of work, it’s good to check out the competition…

Back over at the upskirt party, the model now seems to be bent over on the hood of the car while the guys continue to film whatever is going on behind her…

Beet Racing Spirits custom Honda CB motorcycle…

Orange R31 Nissan Skyline on TEs…

Auto Veloce Ferrari 458 Italia…

Maserati Quattroporte from Fairy Design Inc. from Kyoto, Japan…

GoldRush Mercedes SLS AMG featuring Art Factory Japan graphics…

Subaru BRZ in stock form…

BMW E36 M3 from G-Corporation and what looks to be Wedsport wheels…

GRX130 Toyota Mark X from ST Garage featuring their Axcent aero kit and sitting on some Wedsport SA60Ms…

S15 Silvia from Cockpit Tatebayashi…

R34 Skyline GT-R also from Cockpit…

Not really sure what this was but it looks uncomfortable…

Nissan Leaf Nismo RC all-electric race car with a carbon fiber body…

Motul Autech R35 Super GT race car in the Nissan section with full display and all…

FD3S RX-7 from T-Get Works…

Phoenix’s Power SPL R35 GT-R…

…sitting on 20-inch gold-faced BBS LMs…

From the spec-sheet, it’s basically all Trust engine components, SARD fuel upgrades, Alcon brakes, and the motor makes 770PS, which is just around 759 horsepower…

Another R35 GT-R from Phoenix’s Power, this one a little simpler but also on BBS wheels…

Speaking of BBS wheels, they also had a full display at TAS 2012…If you notice at the bottom, you’ll see that it says “Made by WASHI BEAM”… Washi Beam is actually a Japanese company that manufactures all of BBS’ magnesium and aluminum wheels. The original BBS company is German but all their forged wheels are made in Japan by Washi Beam. BBS actually went under back in 2007 and were bought out by another company, but the general public wasn’t really affected by the move because BBS has always been a customer of Washi Beam and they continued to produce BBS wheels to this very day…I often see Euro guys complaining that Japanese car enthusiasts are “biting their style” by rocking BBS wheels, well…for all intents and purposes, BBS wheels are Japanese, haha…Even the wheels used for Formula One and for all these OEM applications, whether they be BMW, or any other company… it’s all made in Japan… Next time somebody tries to be internet tough guy and bitch about Hondas with BBS wheels on them, tell them to look up “Washi Beam”…

That’s all for today…back with part 3 tomorrow…

From what I’ve seen of coverage online of the TAS 2012, I think I’m correct in saying that their automotive “scene” is going in a completely different direction from what we are doing here in the states. While we are over here doing heavy custom fabrication and focusing more on time attack and road racing, they are focusing more on wild, custom paint, and more luxury-themed vehicles. They have been building performance cars for years and doing time attack stuff so it’s easy to see why they have progressed into a different style of tuning. We are still focused on achieving that “race car look” so a lot of the stuff that you see us doing over here in the U.S. reflects that. Even our show cars are themed to look like race cars and many of our cars even pull double-duty and do both. We have our luxury, VIP-style cars but that scene is nowhere near as progressive as the rest of the automotive tuning community. Many people are still stuck on that whole “stance” deal and trying to be “hellaflush” or stanced-out or whatever and don’t focus on building complete cars. Over in Japan, they are also into the stance-look as well but that’s more of an underground thing and not anywhere near as popular as it is in America. Their VIP builds are starting to get more and more over-the-top but even still, they are very well-rounded. From simple observation, it just seems that they are more into the high-end, exotic, luxury look now more-so than ever before. It’s definitely cool to see how things are done over there though because they are always a couple steps ahead of us in a lot of ways. The culture started over there after all so we are often times playing catch-up to what they are doing over there. Whether or not we are going to eventually be as into the high-end stuff as they are remains to be seen. For now, all we can do is sit back and enjoy the crazy stuff that they are producing over in Japan…

One thing I am happy to see is how strong Rays Engineering has stayed throughout the years. Advan as well…these companies were in it early on and through all the years of knock-offs and having their wheels reproduced by other companies, they have remained at the forefront of the industry and their popularity has not wavered one bit. It’s awesome to see how many vehicles at the event are sitting on Volk Racing wheels, Gram Lights, Advan Racing wheels, etc. I hope things stay this way in coming future too. Both companies offer great wheels and it’s great to see them succeed. I don’t know why but to this very day I still find myself smiling when I see a non-Japanese car with some TE37s on them…

Anyways, on with the coverage. There are a couple cars that I have seen from other online coverage that Yasutaka missed but that’s alright. Understandably, it was an incredible busy event so it’s very easy to miss some cars just because there were so many people floating around in front of the cars. It’s kind of like SEMA, where you have to be there an extended amount of time just to be able to get the right shot of the car that you want. From what I understand, he only went for one day so he couldn’t possibly have gotten everything there at TAS 2012. I have another source for photos so if there is something that I really think deserves to be mentioned, I will follow up later with some more shots. With that said, a HUGE thanks goes out to Yasutaka and the Tactical Art crew for making this possible… Now…photos…

A very nice Nissan Y51 Fuga posted up outside in the parking lot of TAS 2012…

Much like the U.S. SEMA shows, females were few and far between…

A couple overhead shots of what a section of  TAS 2012 looked like…

Wurde Porsche Panamera… “Wurde” stands for dignity in German I believe and this is actually a Japanese tuning company that creates aerokits and exhaust systems for Porsches…

T&E Vertex R35 GT-R….I knew they had a front lip for the R35 for awhile now but the carbon fenders and that added piece at the end of the bumper makes me think that those may be widened fenders…Hard to tell because this is the only photo I’ve seen of it so far…

The Sense Brand Celsior is kind of booty-looking but I thought I’d show you guys some photos of the exhaust systems that they are producing for VIP cars….

Check out the exhaust on this other Celsior. Twisted pipes and the cut-outs in the rear bumper are some things that you will never see over here…I’m almost curious and wonder how it sounds…

Restored ’70s-era Kawasaki H2 750 Mach IV…

LXF Design Toyota/Lexus LS600…

…and the most uninterested model EVER….nothing says “come check out the LXF Design LS600″ than a girl with a face that says “get me the fuck out of here”…

T&E Vertex 2JZ-swapped widebody E92 BMW…

Oh this was a novel idea…Many of you scouring online for TAS coverage has probably already seen this but it was a very cool idea. This as you know, is the new Toyota 86. Well, instead of having two different 86s representing two rival tire companies, they decided to put two different liveries on each side, one side representing Falken Tire, and the other side…

…representing Dunlop Tires… They put a make-shift wall up to make it look like a half-cut of an 86 on each side and it’s a something that only the Japanese would think of to do…

Really like the new Rays Gram Light wheel and center cap…I don’t know the exact model because it’s new but it’s probably 57-something because that seems to be the name trend with the Gram Light line…Endless brakes are looking awfully good too…

Direzza not only has tires, they also offer forged wheels…The older ones were made by Speed Star Racing (SSR) but I’m not 100% sure about these new ones…

The Mugen CR-Z RR Concept that I posted up late last week… this is actually one of two, the other is a lime greenish color with slightly different aero…

Mugen brakes and the latest Mugen wheel, a 19-inch forged wheel tentatively named “Mugen LS-Mesh”…haha…

The rear of the RR Concept…Note the center-exit exhaust and how it will differ from the other CR-Z RR Concept…

The other CR-Z RR…

As stated, the other center exit exhaust…rumor has it that this exhaust variation can also be used as a tow hitch for the Mugen Trailer RR…That rumor of course, was created by your’s truly at this exact moment…

The Rotrex-type Mugen Supercharged CR-Z engine with Mugen air box…

A closer look at the Mugen airbox for the CR-Z RR…

Mugen F1 car sitting pretty…

As Loi from Sportcar Motion would say “Aero are serious”…

Bossy Repsol bike…

Honda HSV-010 GT aka the NSX they should have made instead of the current concept they are considering…

Love how menacing the front of the HSV looks…

Mugen Honda CR-Z…making the world a better place with new, non-attractive Mugen wheels…

Rear-wheel drive, battery-powered,  Honda EV-STER concept…

From the future concept to the distant past in the form of the original Honda roadster, the S600…

Japanese patrons shopping for some Honda Goods…

Honda N-Box Flash Box….

Raybrig Honda NSX Super GT car…

The “Raven”, which looks to be a Mark IV Toyota Supra with a 350Z Veilside front bumper, Lambo-style doors, and BMW F10 5-series headlights…Quoth the Raven “I’m fucking on fire right now”….

The Nitto Tires booth…

Wild chop-top Subaru STI from Car Service Hiro…

TWS Forged…

Lexus LF-A in the TWS Forged booth…

Toyota G-Sports Mark X Concept…

Toyota Celsior from Glanz…I wish Yasutaka would have gotten a closer look and taken some shots of the interior of this thing because it looks pretty interesting…

Pregia Tissimo Daihatsu Mira…

An example what I was referring to at the beginning of this post about the custom paint work that seems to be popular in Japan…

Weber Sports Mazda RX-8…I like the custom paint work in the a-pillar and roof…

“Itasha” themed Audi S5 coupe with Lambo doors and some models that kind of creep me out…Batman agrees…

That’s all for today… Check back tomorrow for part 2 of the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon coverage…

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The photos are pretty self-explanatory but if you are wondering, this is the Mugen CR-Z RR Concept that has a motor equipped with a Mugen-designed supercharger…There is a shot of the motor but off the car. Who knows if this thing even runs at this point or if it was like the NSX RR where it didn’t even have an engine inside of it…

Photos aren’t the best but let’s face it, even if I was there the photos would not be all that great, haha…

Good to know that Mugen’s wheels are starting to look more modern and appropriate with the times…While I get the new Mugen stripe on the side of the car and how it flows with the natural line of the door, I don’t get why they put the stripe on the hood… Looks like a contemporary artsy version of a Drumstick ice cream cone…

What’s up fancy and elaborate interior?….

Love the front fenders and the lines of entire kit…

Center-exit exhaust flowing seamlessly with the bumper…

The money shot… Mugen supercharged with carbon air box and all…

Meanwhile, Mayday Garage is killing it and doing way more shit than me! Peep the two links below for the best coverage so far… The first link will take you to day one of their coverage, second one is a super cool behind-the-scenes look of them having dinner and partying inside the Rauh Welt facility with Akira Nakai from RWB….

Click here for Mayday Garage’s Preview of Tokyo Auto Salon 2012…

Click here to check out the Rauh Welt man cave and the Mayday Garage guys hanging out with Nakai-san…

Got damn I’m missing out!!

I have just a small update for you guys today. I’m still working on some stuff but I really want to get all these orders out and get some more product ready for the rest of this year. There just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day lately but I’m glad that there is work rolling in again so that I can get back on “the grind”. As far as work goes, there are a lot of good cars being featured in mags in the upcoming months so be on the look out for that. I myself am in awe of some of the cars that are being sent my way to do stories on. They say print is slowly going to fade away in the coming years but man, with the type of content that magazines like Honda Tuning, Super Street, and Import Tuner are producing, it’s going to be hard to deny that print is still a very important force within our community…

Anyways, the photos today are just a couple of random photos that the Tactical Art guys sent me from the X5 Nagoya event from a couple months before. X5 is basically like the equivalent of Hot Import Nights over here..there are a ton of like DUB-style vehicles and lowrider stuff, with a very small showing of pure Japanese performance builds. They love the American lifestyle and that’s why shows like X5 are popular over there. I’m not going to spend time showing you guys stuff you don’t want to see, like donk’d out Tahoes and shit. I’m just going to put up whatever Honda content they sent me that I felt was relative to what you guys want to see. I know that we are all not on the XXR bandwagon and a majority of us could give two shits about their crappy wheels, but take the photos in stride. The Tactical Art guys are selling these wheels over there beacuse again, many Japanese enthusiasts love the American style of tuning and what they see many times when they go online are photos of cars with bike racks and knock-off wheels. They have taken a liking to the style so they want to reproduce that look over there. We may not agree with it but I’m sure there are also a ton of things that they don’t necessarily agree with when it comes to stuff that we do to our cars so it’s hard to really knock them for it. They just don’t know that much about wheel companies like XXR and just want that “look”. For the X5 show, much to our dismay, the guys rolled out with their complete XXR line-up. None of these wheels are permanent so like I said, just take the photos in stride…

On with the photos…Thanks once again to the Tactical Art guys for providing these photos…

The Tactical Art line-up for the day…

Whenever I see photos of DC5 Honda Integras from Japan, they are usually decked-out in full race form so it’s refreshing to see one that is a little more simple and much more suited for street cruising…

This four-door Civic looked pretty good and is another good Japanese representation of the “USDM style”… Air Walker bumper, custom BBS RS wheels, and black Recaro seats….It’s a good look. I think our buddy Tetsuya Yamaguichi from USDM Jam is familiar with this car because I’ve seen this car pop up at a lot of his events….

The bay is shaved and tucked as well…It still retains the air conditioning, power steering, and the brake lines and fuel lines look untouched but not a bad job overall…

A clean white EG on another set of BBS RS wheels…

A little odd to see a company like Spoon Sports at an event like this but they had a big display and everything. The had their CR-Z, Fit and even an old school E-AT Civic…

It’s probably more of just a display vehicle for them now but they have kept this thing in amazing condition…

Check out the passenger side-exit exhaust…

Oh and I know some of you were asking for on-board videos of the Tactical Art guys from their track day at Nakayama Circuit (from the previous post)…well the only video that has surfaced so far from them is a on-board video from Ryotaro Nakao, who had the gutted-out white EG with the Chargespeed seat and Takata harnesses… I don’t know if you guys can view this if you don’t have Facebook, but check the link and see if it’ll work for you. For those who do have Facebook, it may work for you or if not, try logging in first, trust me, it’s safe…

Click here for Ryotaro Nakao’s lap at Nakayama Circuit…

That’s all for today, I hope all you guys that made it to Tokyo Auto Salon have a wonderful time… I’ll have an eye out for content from Flickr and various sources…Have a good one everybody…

Anyways, this actually took place back in late November, but Mr. Yasutaka Shimomukai wasn’t able to get the photos over to me until just last week. With the new year and consistent business over at Tactical Art, it’s been difficult to keep the lines of communication open. Out of the blue, he emailed me to just to say what’s up and sent me a giant chunk of photos that he had collected from the past two months. I think it’s great that we have been able to keep the lines of communication open because we are both fans of one another and now I have a way of bringing you some pretty cool stuff that’s going on over there that no one else in the U.S. can. What I mean by that is that you may see cool automotive content from Japan, but often times it’s the bigger, more well-known events. The Tactical Art guys tend to do their own thing and attend smaller track events whenever there is one going on so they help to bring us a completely new perspective of the Japanese Honda community. I like their enthusiasm and you can really tell that they want to learn more about how we do things here in America. I mean, the feeling is mutual of course, because we are all very excited to see what is going on in Japan…

This track event that they attended took place at the Nakayama Circuit. It’s a track that isn’t too far away from them and as it turns out, Nakayama Circuit is actually very well-known. It was built in 1970 and was one of the four original racetracks to be approved by the JAF (Japan Automotive Federation) for competition. The other three are tracks that you are probably more familiar with; Suzuka Circuit, Fuji Speedway, and Tsukuba Circuit. If you have played any motorsports-related video games like Forza or Gran Turismo, than you will definitely be familiar with those names. Unlike the three more well-known tracks though, the Nakayama Circuit has aged a lot over time and actually lost it’s JAF approval around 1989. You can tell in the later photos that the track has some age. It’s just used for smaller, private track events now and that’s why you will only see a small grouping of vehicles in the photos. I have to thank 7Tune for providing me with the info on Nakayama Circuit, otherwise I’d just be making up a bunch of bullshit and telling you how speedboats and unicorns race here for gold, or some shit, haha…

Before we begin, I don’t have any actual race footage because it was not provided to me. Maybe they didn’t get a chance to upload them yet, or maybe they just don’t have them. From the photos, I saw that they did have cameras and camera mounts on the cage of some of their cars but again, I didn’t receive anything. If for whatever reason you feel like your day isn’t complete because you didn’t get to see videos of them racing around the track, uhh, I don’t know, how about you just learn to move on and make a sandwich or something. We are lucky enough to have these photos today so we can’t really complain or ask for more. I think it was really nice of them to pack all these photos together in their original formats and upload them to a file-sharing site for me to download. The file was almost 500MB and there were two files, so you can already imagine how long it took for me to download these. After I got them, I went through and picked out what I felt were the best ones too and processed them and sized them correctly to meet the format of this site. They aren’t photographers nor do they claim to be, so I had to discard a lot of the blurry images and what not. They got more than enough photos though and I think they came out pretty good. I don’t know if they took these photos strictly for their own personal blog, because they only use a couple of the images, or if they took them just for me to post up here. From the amount that I got, I can only guess that they intended for me to use them and for that, I have to give them a huge thank you. I love seeing stuff from other parts of the world, especially from Japan, so it is not even a chore for me to get these up for you guys today. Alright, enough with the long intros, let’s get to the photos…

Inside the Tactical Art facility, where they were prepping for the day’s adventure at Nakayama Circuit…

Atuki Tubouti, owner of Tactical Art, making final preparations on his EG6…

A quick look at the rest of the facility…Not too big in size but more than enough room to store their cars and do audio installs, which is what they normally do on a day-to-day basis…

Yasutaka Shimomukai’s EG Civic with the ride height adjusted for track-use…You can see in the background that Atuki’s EG is being loaded onto a trailer…

A look at the outside of the shop…Once the car was loaded-up, Yasutaka hopped into his EG and they headed down to the Nakayama Circuit…

Love the aggressive Volk TE37s on this white Civic…

Atuki-san making adjustments to the suspension…

You can see in the background how the walls and buildings how the age of this track…

The interior and fiberglass dashboard of Atuki’s EG…

One of their buddies brought out his EG for the day as well…

Not much done to this Civic…it has some aftermarket fenders that have been pushed out even further to clear the meaty tires and low offset XXR wheels…

His Civic is bare bones with nothing other than a solo, old racing bucket with Takata harnesses on it…

Atuki’s Civic ready for action…

…as was Yasutaka’s EG…

All the competitors standing in line to get the rules and paperwork for the event…

Another one of their friends helping out and making sure everything is secure…

Tire change on an EJ1 coupe…

Another pair of EG-chassis Civics sitting across from them in the paddock area…

This EG has some pretty aggressive aero and I always see it in photos with them at track days…

Note the mirrors, hood, clear corners, and the fender work required to get those meaty ass TE37s under there…

Schedule for the day…

A look under the hood of the Defunkt Racing Civic reveals massive ducting driving air into the ITBs…

Check out the aggressive front fender treatment necessary to house those 225/45-16 Advan A050 tires and 16×9 SSR SP3 Professors…

Rear shot of Yasutaka’s EG, bumper holes and all…

His interior…

Another glance at Atuki’s interior, notice the cut out doors?…

Check out this wild Integra that was there…The rear fender work is nuts, especially with the gas tank lid and everything being reshaped. The front fenders have been widened and cut towards the bottom, almost resembling a Japanese Super GT type of look…This thing is wild…Looks like it has a non-staggered set of 17×9 TE37SLs too…Plenty of tire and traction all the way around…

An AE86 Corolla Levin coupe with SSR MK2s…

Another EG….check out the orange Recaro seats, might be something that Rywire Ryan might want to look into for his ITR build…

Interesting rear bumper treatment on this EF hatchback…I can’t help it, but everytime I see the graphics on the side of this car, it reminds me of Bruce from Family Guy…

Haha…I’m sure even you casual Family guy fans will understand what I’m saying. The moment you read what the car said you were probably already thinking it…

Center-exit exhaust… Spy the Integra in the back heading out to the track from the paddock area…really wish they would have gotten some photos of that thing out there…

The name of this vehicle escapes me right now...Ohh Nooo….Honda Today 2-door perhaps?…

Stock-body Nissan S15 Silvia with WEDSports…

FD2 Civic Type R on Advan RS…

Yasutaka chucking the deuce…

Peep his canard set-up…

Dialed and ready to go…

Hanging out while they wait their turn…

Shimomukai grabbing some vending machine coffee while waiting…They don’t give us that many options in the U.S. because we as a society are indecisive and would take forever to decide on what we wanted. And judging by how U.S. vending machines work, half the time you would never get your drink anyway because the fucking thing would break…If you’re wondering, 150yen is just under $2.00 U.S…

The FD2 R heading out…

One more shot of Atuki’s EG6 before it heads out for a beating…

I personally liked this shot a lot…

Yasutaka in his EG6…seeing that giant “Tactical Art” decal splashed on the side of his car reminds me that I have to send a batch of Chronicles stickers out to them….He said he wanted to run my site’s URL on the side of his car but my machine can’t cut anything nearly that huge…awesome idea though, haha…that’d be crazy to see…

Lining up in the staging area…

Only “track footage” that was usable…I’ll have to ask them if they got an on-board video…

A couple shots of them returning to the paddock area after they were finished with their session…

That’s pretty much it… I hope you guys enjoyed it. It’s always cool to see something different and to see how other countries do it. Thanks for looking and thanks to the guys from Tactical Art for providing us coverage of their adventures…

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Let’s kick it off with some photos of the Bisimoto Engineering 2012 Honda Civic Si coupe…I hope you guys enjoy this build because you’ll be seeing a lot more of it on the cover of the upcoming issue of Super Street magazine…

Many of you won’t notice, a few of you will, but I’ve seen some comments on various forums where they raised the issue with the angle of how the turbocharger was mounted on the K24z7. Yes, Bisi was aware of the issue after the manifold was fabricated but with SEMA going on, he didn’t get a chance to assess the situation. Since SEMA, adjustments have been made with the manifold and now the angle of the turbo has been corrected…

Rywire Ryan’s NSX weekend toy on freshly powdercoated Regamaster EVOs…

After going through my photos from that day, I realized that I had not taken any photos of the exterior of ATS Anh’s Integra Type R….This is the only shot I have of anything related to the exterior aesthetics but trust me, it looks just about the same as it has the majority of the year. He did sell his Mugen Gen. II wing recently though so he’s been rocking the wingless ITR look. The car has been down at ASC Speed Metal for the last couple months getting some new additions to the bay and I’ll show you some pics of it right now…

An overview of the bay from both angles… you’ll notice right away that the teal-coated ITB horns are gone and there are a couple new additions. The front strut/shock tower bar has been re-done as well…

Custom engine breather unit made by ASC, color-matched to the same teal that exists in the bay…

Custom oil catch can also made by ASC…

ASC emblem on the strut bar…

Polished ITB horns…

…and a shot of Anh’s wheel and brake set-up…

A couple shots of DPK David’s EJ1 coupe…

After I finished walking around inside, I took a glance out the door and noticed that it had started to rain… People still stuck around though and didn’t let the downpour affect them…

I don’t really know what the deal with the blue tape on the corner of the bumpers was, but I really liked how this Honda Fit looked…The color and aero set-up just flowed really well with the wheels…

Volk TE37s have always been a popular choice among our crowd, but it’s not that often that you run into a set of TE37 Cup wheels…

Another shot of the JDM EF2 conversion on this white Civic 4-door…

Both CR-Zs stuck around even though it continued to rain…

Man, this is a blast from the past…Haven’t heard the name “Cyber Racing” in quite some time. If you don’t know, Cyber Racing is probably one of the original Honda car crews from back in the early 90s. I think it was around 1988 when it all started. Tony Fuchs and a couple others started that group and were drag racing before there were any corporate sponsors, internet forums, anything “online” in essence…Pretty wild to see that they are still being represented…They were known back in the day as one of the first “11-second” car clubs in our community…oh how times have changed…

I don’t know why, maybe because of the rain, but I decided to head back inside to take some more detail shots of Bisi’s 2012 Civic…

AEM’s high output ignition coils being represented on the Golden Eagle intake manifold of Bisi’s Civic…

Bisi’s Turbonetics 72mm mid-frame turbocharger….

I walked back outside and snapped another photo of the Bisimoto Honda Civic Wagon…

The crowd was by no means large, but there was definitely a steady group of enthusiasts walking around…

Michael Mao’s Taitec JGTC 2000-type front bumper…

His brother, Bay Mao’s Honda S2000 on custom Mugen M7…

A couple more of the Basis CR-Z on Spoon Sports CR93 wheels…

Umm… Jagged S2000 fender – 1, Nitto NT01 tire – 0….

Jerry-Built turbocharged FG2 Civic coupe…

Accord coupe with a massive Volk wheel and tire combo…

Acura RSX from Royal Origin…

Acura TSX with some Enkei RPF1s…

Saw this dude wiping his car down after the rain stopped and he mentioned that he drove all the way down from San Luis Obispo for the Norm Reeves meet…some real dedication right there…

Spotted this beauty parked across the street during the meet…owner was probably there to visit some of his friends from Japanese Nostalgic Car magazine, which had a booth at the show…

Oh I couldn’t end the coverage without displaying some of the more interesting Hondas at the meet….these guys took the saying “racks on racks on racks” to a whole new level…One dude had a motorcycle, the other a Gyno-chair, madness I tell you, madness….

That pretty much wraps it up for the coverage… after the raffle and awards for the show were announced, we gathered up our belongings and took off to go grab some lunch…

I don’t know if you guys are at all interested, but I included a desktop image for you guys….the shot was pretty random but I liked how it came out so I turned it into a 1080P-sized wallpaper…

Desktop Version (1920×1080)…

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