Back in high school I used to know a girl who had two older brothers who were big car guys. This was in ‘99 so the import scene was still very much in its infancy compared to what it is today. I guess you can say those were the most fun of times though because we didn’t know what was out there yet. Anyways, the brothers had some pretty nice cars, even the the sister had an Integra that was nice. I often saw it the parking lot at school. Before she could drive though, I would occasionally see her brothers come by to pick her up. One of them was named Lawrence and he had a Z32 with a crazy body kit on it—I’d never seen anything like it. Even the car itself had this wild orange/copper iridescent hue to it. The body kit was from a Japanese company named “VeilSide” and he was from a car club known as the 935draggers. These guys had some of the craziest cars I’d ever seen back then, like mind-blowing. It didn’t matter how they made their money then but to be able to acquire a VeilSide kit back when the word “JDM” had barely been coined was a feat in itself. Like how did they even get in contact with a Japanese company and import a whole body kit back in the late 90s? It must have been a fortune…
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The Archives: Import Showoff EXC 1999 Coverage… Part 2 of 2…
Man, I honestly couldn’t be happier with the general response I’ve received for these throwback photos. I didn’t think people would be into it but then I remember that my core audience is 25-34 years old, at least that’s what Instagram tells me, which means that most of the people […]
Read MoreThe Archives: Import Showoff EXC 1999 Coverage… Part 1…
The craziest thing about what you’re going to see below is that it actually correlates directly with the post that originally got me started again on this entire quest to seek out old photos from “back in the day”. If you missed the post or don’t recall, the last event […]
Read MoreImport Alliance Summer 2012 Coverage…From Varying Perspectives…Part 4 of 4…
Sorry for the lack of updates the past couple of days. I’ve been working and preparing for this week’s Nisei Showoff event. Normally I would just have to prep for a booth space but I’m spending most of my time trying to figure out how to park 75 Hondas and […]
Read MoreImport Alliance Summer 2012 Coverage…From Varying Perspectives…Part 3…
It’s good to see that a majority of you are enjoying the coverage from this year’s IA Summer event. There are so many different events going on out here on the west coast that it’s sometimes very easily to forget that there are also events going on out in the […]
Read MoreImport Alliance Summer 2012 Coverage…From Varying Perspectives…Part 2…
Diving right into the second portion of our 2012 Import Alliance Summer Meet Coverage… Sorry for the delay, I had some issues uploading the photos yesterday and then got tied up with work so I didn’t have much time to knock out the update. The photos today and tomorrow are […]
Read MoreIA Summer 2012…An Early Intermission…
Having some technical difficulties today with Flickr and uploading the new photos…Being that I’m out of time for the day, I’m gonna go ahead and upload the next portion of the IA Summer Meet Coverage late tonight when I get home so you guys get a chance to check out […]
Read MoreImport Alliance Summer 2012 Coverage…From Varying Perspectives…Part 1…
It was unfortunate that I was unable to attend the Import Alliance Summer Meet this year. I flew out to the event for the first time last year and had a very eye-opening experience. A couple of the others and I had a great time out there and got to […]
Read MoreExclusive Content…The Import Car Show Scene from ’99 – 2001…
EDIT: This was originally meant to be posted on Thursday 5/10/2012 but it took so long for me to put it together that I didn’t manage to get it posted until Friday. Sorry, but please read through it! Today we are going to take a special look back for Throwback […]
Read MoreSEMA Show 2011 Coverage…Part 3…
As promised, here is part 3 of the ongoing SEMA 2011 coverage… When we last left off, we had just exited the wheel/tire hall and were heading back to the car to grab dinner. It was just Tuesday of our week long stay in Vegas but we were itching to […]
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