On the interwebs, there was a teaser video of a Honda NSX that videographers Format67.net shot floating around. Well it’s here, and you guys that like artsy car videos definitely should check it out! Make sure you watch this in HD and full screen to get the full effect!
HONDA NSX (EXTENDED VERSION) BY FORMAT67.NET from FORMAT67.NET on Vimeo.
–David–
David@maydaygarage.com
If this doesn’t motivate, I don’t know what does.
Oldie but Goodie
Just sayin.
– JohnP
Although Nomuken (aka Ken Nomura) is not exactly nostalgic per se, this Option Video that he stars in is definitely one of the most memorable drift videos I’ve ever seen. In it, Mr. Monkey man himself drifts in a Japan Spec Nissan 180sx on the streets of L.A. while running from the Police. Check it out:
While I was in Dallas this weekend, Danh shot on over to the all Nissan Meet over at Baker Nissan on the North Side of Houston. Coupled with a guest DJ, aka Heavygrinder and local DJ Tito, it was a nice Saturday event. Baker Tuning got the point across that Nissans are their game, and they showed it. Enjoy the eye candy.
Advans never get old.
Project Mothra
Hajime Maki's Masterpiece.
Special Guest, DJ HeavyGrinder
Cupcakes, girls, cars, and friends seem to be the formula that drives the ever growing Cupcake meets here in Texas. This past weekend I ventured out to Dallas witness the biggest cupcake meet to date. The CCMeet group themed this event “Cupcakin’ for Kids”, a fund raiser event that would give all proceeds towards the Scottish Rite Hospital for children, and every car that was to attend the event paid a nominal $15.00 to give to the charity. I knew the event was going to be of pretty good size when I asked Tiffany, the President of the Cup Cake Meet a couple of days before how many cars she had registered, she mildly threw out 300 cars. Now, 300 cars for a regular meet is a nominal number, however, we are talking about people “paying money” so 300 is a pretty damn good pre-registration goal. When we arrived the day of the event, 300 was a laughable number because 2 hours before the event even started there were in excess of 500 cars.
Cars as far as the eye could see.
From VDubs
To Japanese goodness everyone came out.
In our new bit in automotive history, I wanted to remind a few people out there that before people were crazy about drift and time attack events, there was another automotive form of racing that’s still popular today – Drag racing. Back in the 90′s, it was all about tube chassis Honda Civics running on wheelie bars using H22′s from Preludes. But there was one car that set the bar for all things FWD, The HKS Drag Celica.
Pic by SuperStreet Mag
Cars and heat weren’t the only things on the Saturday agenda at the 512, people sweated it out to acquire the “grail” of approval stickers, the Hellaflush approval. This was an offset inspired event after all, and people were stoked to get it. Mayday Mikey and Edafe are some hard rollers, and they sure as hell deserved this!
Hellflush, Hellafun, Hellaexcited.
A couple of months ago Ben Terry from Stanceworks and I had a sit down here in Houston at a bar called Lucky’s. Lucky’s sits in the heart of downtown Houston and has some pretty damn cheap drinks so, as you can see, we had a few. The topic of the conversation you ask? An offset inspired meet that would encompass many of the already fat squatting, great fitment cars that reside in Texas as well as various whips from around the nation. The guest on the list? Mark Arcenal from Fatlace. One of the key influencers within the current offset movement on the west coast and now spreading like wild fire across the nation with his Hellaflush division of Fatlace. This was a pretty big deal because Mark has yet to have any real presence in Texas except for his fans, who follow the Fatlace work on the west coast as well as some of his notorious car builds.
Stanceworks x Fatlace
Location City for the event? A no brainer, Austin, Texas, centralized for the main Texas cities, good food, great babes and a laid back all around atmosphere. Hence the name the 512 Project, and being that it was an “offset” collaboration between Stanceworks and Fatlace in the end, well, it ended up being called a Fatlace X Stanceworks Black Label. Black Label was crowned because both groups have their own types of events already, Stanceworks (Stance of the Union) and Fatlace (One of One and Hellaflush) and this was there…you guessed it, a Black Label.
The Stanceworks Crew
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The Fatlace Battle Flags
When Ben got back to me a couple weeks later with a meeting spot in mind within the Capital, the call went a little something like this, “John, you won’t believe the location I have found for the 512 Project..dude, a private race track.” I sat back for a second and thought, damn this is brilliant. Some of the most non-functional cars on the road laid flat out on the track makes for a very ironic and unique scenario. “Do it Ben!” …. and the rest was history.
Beautiful Track
Coming from an events background, most people have no idea the amount of complications that can go into an event, especially one that has no platform to create off of. When you are trying to do something different for the first time it can be rather difficult, but I think Ben, Mike Burroughs and the crew at Stanceworks did a great job for the first go around. Plenty of hype, nice cars, a new formula, and cool guests made for an excellent day in the 512 at the Project. And for just 8 weeks of plan and execution time, a damn good result.
The crowds were out
Many E-Famous cars
Quite a few came from other States
Speaking fo E-Famous
Dayum!
The was a shorty or two as well.."Hey Yo!"
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We will be back soon with our in depth coverage of the 512 Project as this is just pt. 1 We have jobs, gotta make the ends, and build cars and drink, so until then, enjoy.
– JohnP
