Houston, Random Snap

Khiem’s FD3S ver. 2.1

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October 14, 2013

This past Saturday night, we had the pleasure of working with James Evins, aka Dreams x Machines, on taking a few fun photos. James has worked with us in the past, and we would consider him to be one of the top photographers in Texas for sure. He hasn’t shot much automotive content as he used to, but if you give him a camera and a lens, it’s fun to watch him work.

Khiem just recently bought some new Gram Light 57DR’s for his FD3S RX-7 and had a chance to finally lower it after Danny rolled the rear fenders. So what better way to capture how the car looks than letting James take a shot of it? In this photo, light was non existent, no speedlites/strobes were used, just a Canon 5D mk3 and a Canon 85L 1.2.

Booja/Khiem's FD

BONUS SHOT! Khiem killing a double double

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Ricer X

Houston, Random Snap

Cars and Coffee.

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October 11, 2013

Cars and coffee. In that order.

You’ll often find the Mayday guys at local cafes such as Catalina Coffee on Washington St. or Blacksmith on Westheimer and Montrose in downtown Houston. Most all of us are heavy coffee drinkers and love local brews and food trucks. So if you’re ever in Houston, and see some ricetastic cars on the street (because our cars usually can’t make it up most driveways), you should pop in and say hello and share a latte or scone with us!

Catalina times two.

Photo by Danh Phan

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Ricer X

Japan, Nostalgic, Nostalgic Wednesdays

Nostalgic Wednesday: Autozam AZ-1

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October 2, 2013

With the prices of gas fluctuating, the trend has pushed automakers to produce cars and trucks that can squeeze the best gas mileage. Options such as Hybrid, bio-diesel, EVs, and natural gas are becoming more  prevalent. Other than “green” tech rolling out the production line, we notice more smaller cars on the streets; Scion iQ, Nissan cube, Smart fourtwo, Fiat 500, and just the other day, I saw a Mitsubishi “i”. Are Kei-cars invading the US market? Honestly, these small economical “green” cars may be cheap, reliable and can be a mileage-meister, but they sure are ghastly.

One thing I admire about the Japanese car culture is they work with what they have. No matter what car they drove, they made/mod it their own; without an exception of the Kei-car culture. From VIPstyle, deko, Boso and race inspired, kei-cars were modified to fit one’s taste.

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Quickie: H2Oi FD3S

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September 27, 2013

Yes, we know there are a lot of things going on in the car world every weekend of the calendar, but we want desperately to be there at H2Oi in Ocean City, MD where the strip is alive with some serious showstoppers. Luckily, our brother-in-arms part timer, Chris Drinkuth of Primo-Lifestyle is there taking a few snaps. Here’s one that we particularly like- A super slammed Vintage Red Mazda RX-7 on some blingtastic rebarreled BBS RS’s.

Cruisin down the street in my six fo, or eff dee, whatever.

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Ricer X