A Sunday Funday: All Team Bash 2010

Posted on June 9, 2010 by JohnP

600 cars, 1000 plus people, 100 degree weather with 100% humidity, beer and BBQ combined, make Houston’s All-Team Bash. Ringing in on their third year, local hardpark crew Sunwork’s leader David aka Kimo had his biggest event to date. The All-team Bash is a meet that has a few objectives in mind, to establish stronger comradery between crews, have a great time, and provide an all welcoming environment for those who want to come out and meet their local favorites. This year proved just that, people rolled from all over to hang out, eat, drink, and sweat to the beat of a ricer on a hot Sunday afternoon and we were there to hang with them.

An agressive look..

to communicate boost is better.

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Bag That Ass Up: Kevin Tran’s Super Sweet Lexus RX330

Posted on June 8, 2010 by David

Beige.

To most people, beige is a color. To those in the automotive world, Big Beige is the nickname the media has christened Toyota Motor Co. The reason? Beige is boring. Toyota is turning into the new Buick, some say. They make safe, reliable, dependable, and almost always, predictable cars and trucks.

Epic sky is Epic.

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Breaking News: The 512 Project, a Stanceworks x Hellaflush Collaboration.

Posted on May 25, 2010 by JohnP

Well, it was only a matter of time before the Stay Fresh Crew over at Fatlace was going to venture their way on down to the to the dirty south. Their first appearance is going to be in collaboration with our good friends over at Stanceworks presenting a new type event known as the 512 PROJECT. The project will focus on the offset movement and is taking place on a private track in Austin, Texas known as “Driveway Austin”. This event will be of EPIC proportions, bringing in the best of the best of the fitment world. Also, Mayday will be hosting Capital Runs from Houston and Dallas into Austin the morning of the event for roll-in. Non-stop action in on the agenda for the last Saturday of June (the 26^th), and you definitely do NOT want to miss out on this. Stay tuned to Mayday Garage for more information to come regarding the Capital Runs to the 512, and more releases regarding the project! Check the 512 PROJECT link below for car registration and event and hotel information.

Oh my, Hardparking on a track? Oh damn!

Get ready!

– JohnP

Event Coverage: Fatlace One of One @ FormulaD Atlanta.

Posted on May 10, 2010 by David

Wow, what a crazy weekend!
If you’ve been paying attention, myself and JohnP made a weekend trip to Atlanta, GA to check out the local drift scene and to watch the pros hit up Road Atlanta, the premier drift track in the Southeast for FormulaD. While FormulaD’s main course was of course the hot drift action on the main track, there were a TON of other things to do to keep your attention. Among these attractions, one stood out like a sore thumb, the Fatlace One of One carshow.

Fatlace's Battle Flags blowing in the cool Atlanta air

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A Honda Day: Phuc Nguyen’s Crème’ 93′ EG Hatchback

Posted on May 4, 2010 by JohnP

I love the feeling when I come across a tuner car that I have never seen. When we live in the world of massive automotive tuning forums, tons of blogs and even Flickr, it is a rare sight to come across a clean ride that has been in hiding. I mean, it would be one thing if it was a car that was of rare production, but a Honda? Ya, that is rare. So, you can imagine the excitement we had when we came across a Honda that had not been splattered across the internet in a million Myspace angles. Imagine one that had been in silent slumber being pieced together at the pace of the owner, such as this car, Phuc’s 1993 Honda Civic EG Hatchback. Being a tuner since the late 90’s you can see he has some classic tuner style in this car, and when we laid our eyes on it, we were in love, in a nostalgic kind of way.

Classic Touch, Classic Feel

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On the Run: Tee’s Executive Mercedes S550

Posted on April 22, 2010 by JohnP

If you remember a couple a weeks ago MaydayGarage had featured an Audi A4 that belonged to a gent by the name of Ty Nguyen. When we first shot the A4, Ty asked us if we wanted to take a look at his friends slammed Mercedes. Now the first thing that comes to mind when someone tells us that they have a slammed Mercedes is some gaudy big body with rims from the back of a DUB catalog and super tacky feel. Luckily for us, this wasn’t the case, because when this big body car pulled up; A tuner had gotten a hold of this Merc. S550 and we knew this guy had some good taste.

Office Executive

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On the Run Girl Style: Aubre Houck’s Kouki 240sx

Posted on April 14, 2010 by JohnP

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A couple of weeks ago, MaydayGarage was on a mission across Texas to catch driver profiles of the recent Import Reactor Drift event that happened here in Houston last week. In 2 days we shot 5 cars, and 4 profiles. We had traveled to Dallas, Texas on our first day of the trek to meet up with our good friend Stewart Leask and shoot his driver profile. When we had arrived to D-town Stew asked us if we had some extra time to snap some shots his girlfriend, Aubre Houck’s car. Now, I know that there are some tuner girls out there, but, just because you are a girl doesn’t mean we will take your car lightly; all is fair in the world of tuning. Being the typical guy I assumed that Aubre’s car would be relatively mild or overly done H.I.N. style, boy was I wrong.

Sits Pretty, pun intended

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Event Coverage: Import Reactor Unlimited 2010. The best of the best.

Posted on April 9, 2010 by David

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Now that we have Import Reactor Drift behind us, it’s time for the main course, Import Reactor Unlimited 2010. For those of you who having been hiding under a rock, this is the show where the best of the best compete for the year’s show bragging rights, and it’s all held at the Marriot Hotel in The Woodlands, TX, just north of Houston.

Mikey's Kouki 240sx sporting our prototype windshield banner.

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I.R. Drift Driver Profile: Cody Surman, Manifold Danger

Posted on March 29, 2010 by JohnP

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Bringing some JDM goodness to the table for I.R. Drift this year is Cody Surman. Cody, the senior of the local drifters competing in Import Reactor Drift will be running and gunning in his JZX100 Chaser. Drifting pretty is about the most “on point” phrase that describes Cody and his uber clean Chaser when it slides around the track. But don’t be confused by the cars devilishly good looks, because Cody is bringing the heat.

Name: Cody Surman
Height: 5ft 10 in
Weight: 190 lbs
Bloodtype: S for Smooth
Preference in Women: The crazier the better.

Rock On

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Baller Status: 20″ ADVAN RS-D in Bright Chrome

Posted on March 25, 2010 by JohnP

So if you remember a couple of days ago, we had released some photographs of an 8-Pot Greddy Big Brake upgrade for a 370z that is sitting quietly in a vicinity here in Houston. Well, those big brakes need to be paired with some big baller wheels, especially for a car with a butt and front as wide as a Fairlady 370z. These pictures are only of the front, I never got to the rears. As you can see, these fresh new Advan RS-D’s are going to sit very nicely on the 370z. I still can’t get past the Bright Crome finish, it goes hard, hella hard.

Bright Chrome

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