Category Archives: Cars

What a meet! Admittedly I’ve been pretty slack with putting the energy in to specifically invite special people and special cars to previous ZEN EOMM’s. Why? Well because I’ve never had to, and IMHO never needed to. The very concept of EOMM was to get like minded enthusiasts offline to meet in real life and put the avatars to the names. It was never meant to be a car show and I loved it that a kid with a beater could freely park up right next to a 1000HP GT-R.

Last month’s meet was massive. At some stage I had a few people urge me to go outside to see JDM cars blocking up the streets for 3 blocks! This instantly reminded me of the days when cops would turn up to shut our meets down. Good times! I met so many new faces on the night, so many people who let me know that they were 12, or 15 when they first heard of JDMST, ZEN or EOMM’s. What’s even more heart warming was people telling me that they were a little nervous to come along, but they had been meeting and chatting to strangers all night.

Elation.

I was soaking up the vibe all night. I was on such a huge high I feel like I’ve been coming down the past few days.

Much thanks to all who came to hang out. Thanks for thanking us for getting the community together, but it’s you guys and gals who are the community. Thanks to Reggie for feeding us and to Philter for the beers. Be sure to look out for our next ZEN EOMM, it’s going to be the biggest one yet as it’s our last meet at our Marrickville space (more news on that, soon!).

Full Feature on ZEN Blog: https://www.zengarage.com.au

My good friend Charlie is now importing cars! I figure we’d feature a car on ZEN once a month, starting with this WRX!

Find the full feature on ZEN Blog (and give him a follow on Insta, link in the feature!): https://www.zengarage.com.au/autoroe-imports/

The real deal.

We Produced With Spartan Air. Original wheels, but what’s even more whack, they’re the original tyres from new!

Coffee table, complete with GT-R coffee table book.

Curt at Work.

This looks fun.

Atom.

Beers and a burger at High & Dry.

Paradise found.

A dirty gin at Archie Rose.

Our Melbourne based ZEN Photographer Curt is in town, and so too my car spotting cousin Anthony. Being Easter Weekend there wasn’t much going on but last minute I thought I’d try to get in touch with Road and Track, a showroom which is directly across the road from my place.

I’ve lived in Rosebery for 2 years now and I’ve spotted many amazing exotics in the area, all of which lead to Road and Track (test drives I assume!). The showroom always has some amazing cars on display, but it’s never open (appointment only), and they’re also closed on Sundays, so getting both Curt and Anthony in to shoot on Easter Sunday was going to be nigh impossible, but hey… the universe has been providing for me lately so I thought, why not, right?!

I sent an email using the online contact form on the Road and Track web site which explained what ZEN was about and that I had Curt and Anthony with me this Easter Sunday, and surprise surprise! I got an email back from Ross who was more than happy to let us in on Sunday!

Turns out Ross has been importing Japanese cars since the late 90’s, and he thought we’d be interested in shooting a very clean (understatement!) original Nismo R32 GT-R with only 800km’s on the clock rocking original tyres from new! Sounded too good to be true, but when we saw it, we became believers.

Day made! Enjoy these Behind The Scenes shots I took, and look out for a future feature with Curt and Anthony’s shots from the day.

Much thanks to Ross, sincerely, for letting us in. For more information on Road and Track; visit: www.roadandtrack.com.au

The GT-R Gods are looking down on me.

I got a message today from Chris Grech of CGR who is restoring my GT-R:

“So some cool insight on the R32 GT-R factory Nissan paint.

The paint we use at BMW and the paint company I’ll be using in the RB26 restoration is a German company called Glasurit.

Was speaking with a Galsurit rep today about the build. He sent me this thread on the GTR registry website: https://gtr-registry.com/en-bnr32-vin-table.php

They were done in Glasurit 55 line system from Nissan which is the exact system I’ll be using.

Pretty cool”.

Having too much fun!