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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!
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