2 WHEELIN DEALIN!

Yeah Nick,

That’s you spittin hot fire out of your exhaust.

sorry it’s hard to see, its a screenshot from one of the many videos ive taken.

Pics from Havasu

Here are some pics for all of you.


Herro Kitty



Some thunder storms on the drive up made for a little detour



Homies at the gas station playing with their hydros



Almost there...



Kyle, Casey, Melanie, white bitch (Melissa), bud light, and a rooster tail




The boat doing work with 8 people on board



Kyle's very nice Lavey Craft.



Even dogs love Havasu



Picking up hitch hikers



The Pirate and her friend Amanda



The girls on Kyle's Boat




Josh had to retrieve our anchor from under another boat. I would have done it but I suck at swimming.



Which way is home?

one of those guyss in Havasu.

Here I am. Sitting at the Naked Turtle. Just to show you how those guyss roll in Havasu. As I'm writing this my friends are getting kicked out of the bar. Awesome... Pics will be up later. You will want to see them.

Just a pic.

One of the many quality photos from last night's shoot. I'd post more put I don't know if you guys are ready for some fresh shiz.

SCOOTER BATTLE!

Nick and I are officially Honda Ruckus owners as of today.  Nick picked up our scoots and we spent about an hour riding around in his neighborhood.  Before I called it a night, I already accumulated 10 miles on the Ruck.

Please pardon the mess, we’re renovating.

These things are a blast to ride! Nick and I did some top speed runs, and clocked it at about 35 miles per hour.  I predict we’ll be able to go faster once the motors are broken in.  Anyway, im off to bed, I’ll be getting my permit tomorrow morning and hopefully a helmet so i can ride the scoot legally on the streets

Keep it Steezy!

here’s the video from the crawl session

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HsB64eZV6s

 

by the way

if you didn’t catch all the references i threw up in the earlier post, here’s another hint.

ThoseGuys just stepped up their game, AGAIN!

ThoseGuys, definition of Keeping it Steezy

Nick and Karlo's amazing Sunday

Saturday night, Nick spent the night over my house so we could scoot on over to Marina Del Ray to meet up with some of my friends for an offroading adventure.

I know, you’re thinking, “wtf, ThoseGuys, offroading?  Their cars are surely too low to do any of that wild rucking about.”

Well you're wrong, allow me to elaborate.

For a couple of years now, i’ve been building these 1/10th scale rock crawlers.  To date, this is my latest, and best performing rig.

these were all the rigs that showed up.  I drove the orange ram charger, and Nick drove the blue fj cruiser.  Toward the end of the day, we swapped rigs, and Nick did amazingly with the ramcharger.  He’s a natural.

This is my good friend, Boost’s custom Jeep Comanche.  I first met Boost at a crawl get together in Santa Clarita.  He’s got great humor and always makes my crawl sessions the best.  You can always catch he and I zoomin’ about on some rocks trying to make for some exciting crashes.

Just check out his rear fitment, a little bit of poke and a little bit of stretch. Amazing.

I can even forgive that gaudy magnaflow exhaust system.

Anyway, after that, Nick and I ran some errands, met up with Brucey, and had a nice evening.  It was really nice to get ThePride together and just chill and relax.  I couldn’t have asked for a better Sunday.  Video will be up shortly from the crawl session, and I’ll be sure to post it asap. 

As always, right click – view picture to see higher quality versions of the pictures.

Keep it Steezy!

Big SocalEuro

A couple of weeks ago, I went down to San Diego with my good buddy Tim to attend the Big SocalEuro meet.  It was a very romantic 2 hour drive along with coast, with which Tim and I swapped stories and jokes.

Upon getting to the meet, Tim and I walked around for a bit, met up with some fellow associates, and snapped a few pictures.  Here’s the few cars that caught my eye.

this bus was done very tastefully in my opinion.  The double racks, and wide open glassware made it feel like it was ready to hit the beach for a bbq.

One of ThoseGuys, Geoff, was there.  He was actually an instructor for the car control clinic, and ended up drifting some pretty expensive cars.  If you look closely at his rear tire, you’ll see that his nitto R compound is down to the cord.  Yeah, thoseguys are pretty wild.

The only other time I’ve ever seen an e30 touring, was when i was in europe.  That’s tim in the background, wondering to himself, “Why didn’t stacy get a hatchback like this?”

nuff said

Out of the hundreds of cars in attendance, this is the only car i bothered to take more than one picture of.  Everything about this car really appealed to me.  The subtle aero in conjunction with the foglights allow you to take a second look, almost wondering if it came like that from the factory.  The smooth blacked out euro trim and badgless grill flow and contrast with the silver and black theme.  Another thing to note, the hood usually has a cutout for the VW badge, but on this car it was smoothed out to give it an OEM look.  Lastly, the rim choice.  The front is nicely flush, and the rear pokes just enough with a nice amount of stretch.  In my opinion, this is car was built very tastefully. Kudos to you my friend, kudos to you.

This guy’s stance is amazing

After the meet, I asked my buddies, Ommar and Allen to take me to a local food spot.  I told them flat out, “i have mcdonalds and applebees at home, i want something san diego can offer me.”

Ommar offered up this burrito joint called Pokez.

This place is absolutely amazing! They offer all kinds of choices, from carne asada burritos to completely vegan friendly burritos. Pronounced, poke-eeeez, it’s got a pretty colorful history.

This place was decorated with local art from wall to wall.  It felt rich with creativity and artistry.

 

Even the outside screamed, “bohemia”

This was my meal, i had a vegan chorizo burrito on a wheat tortilla.  The sauce was so full of flavor, im sure they sprinkled it with cocaine or something, as i was feening for a second burrito immediately after devouring this one.

Ommar and I did an impromptu photoshoot by the beach.  Too bad there was a million people there, we couldn’t shoot by the water

Here’s a quick shot of Allen driving along the coast in the DangerWagon. That explains why she’s so tall in the rear.

Keep it Steezy!

Introducing, the Riskiest Wagon, ThoseGuys possess

*disclaimer* the program I use to compose these blog entries, does not allow hyperlinking photos.  As a result, each photo is scaled down from the original edited size.  If you would like to see each picture in higher quality, and i do recommend it, please right click the photo, and click “view image”. 

This has been a Public Service Announcement from your friendly neighborhood JoeTokyo

anywayyyyyyy

I’d like to take a minute to introduce the newest addition to the ThoseGuys’ stable of vehicles, NickRisk’s Corolla wagon. 

If you haven’t been keeping up with the blog, and you’re retarded for not doing so, Nick Risk also drives a dumped white miata, and is fastly becoming famous for building one of the wildest sets of bbs rs’ know to mankind.

Nick’s Corolla truly is one of a kind. He fondly refers to it, as his grocery getting station wagon, we beg to differ.

At the current moment, and it will soon change, Nick is rolling on 15x8 sportmax 002’s painted in black to give it a more aggressive look, and dumped on custom suspension to give it a nice height and aggressive handling characteristics.

As far as exterior aesthetics go, it has been kept relatively simple to keep the overall soccer mom feel.  The headlights are projector retrofits, with hid’s, and jdm style yellow foglights.

ThoseGuys, not only do they blind fools with their flossiness, but with their hid’s too

Even though Nick is rolling on sportmax, if you do it right, you can floss as hard as you want. In true fashion however, Nick will step his game up to more aggressive wheels.

Now at this point in time, you’re probably asking yourself, “JoeTokyo, why are you talking so much and posting so many pictures about some corolla wagon my filipina immigrant aunt drove 20 years ago?”

Well, this isn’t your Tita Baby’s* corolla wagon.  Under the hood of this pearl of the province*, lies a potent little motor.  A fully rebuilt toyota 4age blue top has been swapped in favor of the two hamsters under the hood of this big booty banana.

The interior however, has been swapped out for something a little more sporty.  Up front you’ll see custom gauges wrapped around a sheet of carbon fiber, legit old school nardi wood steering wheel which you’d find on your Tito Boy’s mango* back home in the philippines, and some bucket seats to keep your fat ass in place during those wild drifts when attacking kumakubo at ebisu.  Oh yeah, it’s a 5 speed as well.

Despite having manual windows and solex locks, this drift machine has a cage bolted in the rear for added stiffness.  I’ve never seen a two seater station wagon, have you?  I guess this car wasn’t a good choice for the brady bunch.

anyway, i had to sneak in a few shots of the Danger Wagon, as she’s been a bit neglected lately.  She’s like a funny Tweet, everybody needs to know about it.

yeahhh, pretty demure

if you were wondering, that’s about ride height right there, the front bumper looks miles from the floor due to the uneven flooring.  Anyway, this picture is dedicated to all the airbag haters, just because i’m on bags doesn’t mean i don’t know how to roll.  Drive low, Park lower.

So MrRisk, my hat’s off to you. 

btw, you may have noticed a few asterisks next to some key phrases in this post.  I took the creative liberty to add some Filipino slang and phrases into the mix.  If you are not familiar with my mother tongue, allow me to elaborate:

Tita Baby – Tita means aunt, and Baby is a common nickname.  Almost every filipino you know, will have at the very minimum of three Tita Baby’s

Pearl of the Province – In the Philippines, the Provinces are known as the areas with the lower cost of living.  Ghetto’s if you will.  A pearl of the province is usually a very beautiful girl who grew up in the harsh conditions.  My mother is a pearl of the province, nuff said.

Tito Boy – Tito means uncle, and Boy is a common nickname.  Almost every filipino you know, will have at the very minimum of three Tito Boy’s.  In addendum to that, it’s old folklore that the name Boy was originally given to a filipino, by the american soldiers during ww2.

Mango – Filipinos have a long standing tradition of loving older japanese vehicles, usually pre-80’s.  A mango is a te72 corolla, given that nickname for it’s mango shaped body.  On top of that, Filipino Mangos are DELICIOUS!

With that, I have given enough instruction for you to successfully survive in the heart of the Philippines.

This is JoeTokyo saying,

Keep it Steezy!