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Continuing with my catch up series of posts, a couple of weeks after FCF, I met up with a photographer who worked for Super Street to do a shoot of my car at a local track called Raceway Park in Englishtown. He managed to get the track to let us use the drift track for our shoot, but that also meant heading out by 6am on a Wednesday morning to do the shoot, luckily I was still working second shift at the time which meant I had the mornings off so that worked out nicely. I got there just as the sun was rising and met the photographer and his brother at the front gate.

Here's a quick photo i snapped with my iphone that i thought came out pretty cool with the sunrise in the background.


The grounds keeper let us into the gate and we pretty much got started right away on the rolling shots. Since I'm not a drifter he simply took some shots of the car driving around the track at about 20-30 mph. It wasn't exactly super exciting, but it was fun to have the whole track all to myself even if I couldn't go very fast. Also, I thought it served as a preview to my upcoming track day that I had been anticipating for quite a while.

This picture was taken during a break of the rolling shots. I thought the color trees in the background captured the season quite well.


This picture was towards the end of the shoot where we stopped the rolling shots to do a couple of stills.


The whole shoot took roughly two hours but it was limited to rolling shots and a couple of still shots, that meant we had to plan another meet to do detailed shots of the engine bay and interior before it would be ready to be featured in Super Street. Later that day, the photographer sent me a photo of one of the shots he took, which I thought turned out pretty amazing. I guess that's why magazines hire him to shoot cars for them.

And here's the end result of one of the photos...i was pretty surprised by how good it came out...i would say probably one of my favorite shots of my car to date.



I have still yet to see the rest of the photos from that day but I have a feeling that'll never happen, but I'll get into the "why" of that in the next post.

Wow, it's been a while since i've done anything car related, that's not to say i haven't been to any events since last October, but rather i've been forced to take a step back from the whole scene for reasons which i'll get into at a later time. This post is meant to catch up my blog of all the car related events that i have yet to share from the 4th quarter of last year.

After Wekfest in August of 2014, I decided i wanted to try signing up for at least one car show just to see what it was like since i had never entered into one before. I ended up signing up for First Class Fitment (FCF) hosted by Canibeat at the Princeton Airport which was only a half hour drive from my house. Luckily, a local blog called SNTRL hit me up and asked if i wanted to be a booth car so i said sure. It didn't hurt to make some friends before the show so i didn't end up by myself the whole time. A friend of mine, Ted with the yellow RE FD, was also chosen as a booth car along with another S14 Silvia drift car with an itasha theme.

Here's a couple of shots of the booth we parked at:





And a closer look at the Itasha S14:



The day started pretty early as we had to get to the airport by 7:30am which meant waking up by 6. I met up with Ted at his place and we drove down together to Princeton. The drive was quite nice with the fall foliage and the route the GPS took us on just happened to be one of the routes I used to ride my bike on. After we got there, the first order of business was finding the booth. After a little guidance from the event coordinators we found the booth at the corner next to the main hall which happened to be an airplane hanger. That's what made the event unique, the fact that we were sharing space with airplanes and also there was tons of open space. The venue actually made the event look somewhat small just because of the sheer size of the facility.

To be honest, most of the action took place took place within the first hour of our arrival. We set up the booth and arranged the cars, and I spent some time doing some final cleaning. Also, prior to the event starting all the contestants got a chance to walk around and check out the cars which was nice because it was like we got first dibs at the show before it got crowded.

It was really cool to see the famous Signal Auto R34 from back in the day when it was brought stateside from Japan to compete in FormulaD.



Once the show started it was just mobs and mobs of people. At that point we just hung out at the SNTRL booth and chilled. Got to meet a few people which was nice, in particular, another rx7club member, Muibubbles, or Benny, which was cool because he's pretty active in the rx7 community and he also makes a lot of pretty cool custom parts for the FD.

For some reason i can't seem to find the pictures i took that day of the other cars, so i'm going to share a handful of photos taken by the guys at SNTRL:







The show ended around 5pm at which time we simply packed up and headed out. The caravan out of the airport was pretty cool as it was basically a long line of hooked up cars, so it was fun to be a part of that.

Ted and I heading out after a long day of checking out awesome cars and chilling:



Here's a group shot that we missed out on as we had already left:



For my first car show experience it wasn't bad, but I can't imagine myself doing too many more. If anything, maybe 1 a year at most. If I'm going to take a whole day away from the family for something car related, I'd much rather be at the track, even if it was only just as a spectator.

For more coverage of the event, feel free to checkout SNTRL's website:

First Class Fitment 2014 Coverage by SNTRL Part 1
First Class Fitment 2014 Coverage by SNTRL Part 2
First Class Fitment 2014 Coverage by SNTRL Part 3

One of the perks of working in NYC is that there's always something interesting happen. Yesterday, that something interesting made my day. Yesterday, Fiat Chrysler started listing their shares on the NYSE, and to promote their company and commemorate this day, they set up a display outside of some of their cars that are part of the FCA umbrella. And lucky me, one of those cars happened to be Ferrari's latest flagship model that replaced the Enzo...the LaFerrari!



Normally nothing can stop me from getting to/from work, not even the occasional celebrity spotting, but when i saw the bright red car sitting center stage and stealing the show from the rest of the cars out on display, i was stopped in my tracks. I quickly took out my phone and snapped a few pics after i wiped the drool from my mouth.







Even after i got to the office, i couldn't stop drooling over the car, and lucky for me, i could still see the car from a nearby window.



After seeing the Ferrari, i'm more inclined to get my car repainted red. Unfortunately, i don't really have too many updates for the car. The only thing i've done recently is install my quick release hub for my RE-Amemiya steering wheel and also fix my odometer that went blank recently. The next big thing will be modding the used RE-Amemiya GT-II wing that i bought to adapt it for my GT-III mounts, but the wing isn't expected to get here for a few weeks still, so that'll probably happen closer to November. The only other thing i've done recently is add some more stickers:





So not much has been going on recently, probably because i've been so busy with work, but i should have more updates soon, especially since there are two events coming up soon, First Class Fitment this weekend and the RX-7 meet the first weekend of November, so stayed tuned for some updates in the near future!