Photos from a “just for us” BBQ at JDMyard.
Didn’t take Beau long to be popping 360’s on this thing out on the road!
Andy Lah!
Stevey, late with the nem nuong because he ran out of fuel on his scooter on the way to the BBQ.
The Pakulas.
Mark’s new board (love the big old skool T-Bone like wheels on it).
Howie brought the Porker along. Still the most responsive car I’ve ever driven (yes, memories are now fresh again!).
Dave was manning the BBQ.
I’ve been working with the go2space guys (they place advertising on VWGolf.net.au and JDMST) for a while now on a new online project. Auto Obsession (AO). AO is an online shop and my job is to give the shop a front and the brand a face, energy and also to generate a community around it. I’ve skinned the site using the same tweaks I’ve done to this WordPress blog (which is the same as JDMST’s blog) and again I’m calling on the amazing talent of Matthew Mead to make my work come alive (I’m a huge Mead fan!).
It’s not live yet but I thought I’d share the development site in any case!
Yesterday I caught up with Chris who’s been working in Vanuatu. I hadn’t seen him in ages (a year or more maybe) and I’ve only just caught him as he’s about to leave for Vanuatu again this Friday.
I got a bit of a shock when I went outside and saw his new car. He just picked this up yesterday!
He had the exact same plates on his S2000 so that confused me as the plates were the first detail I saw. I then realised it wasn’t an M3, nor a 335i but a 135i! I then got even more confused: Chris aren’t you living and working in Vanuatu?!
Strange little car. Strange lines on the outside and inside. Car feels very firm and solid though, even at 3000rpm you can feel that it’s a very powerful and fast car. Chris drove it in Auto. The car felt a lot like an automatic, not a clutchless manual. I got Chris to shift down a few gears with his paddle shifters and it didn’t sound like it rev matched (so it might just be a full automatic gearbox?).
Cars aside, the real big news is that Chris and his wife are expecting! He’s excited which in turn made me excited for him!
Private track day at Wakefield yesterday. Almost destroyed me as I was feeling pretty fat and tired from the Melbourne trip! (we only got back the night before!).
The drive was painful but hey, cruise control (can’t complain!). This time around I had my seats in (still no harnesses though) and my new Brembo front brakes too.
I’m now 1 second faster. Man I hate this track so much it pisses me off to no end. I’m either going in too hot or not carrying enough speed because I’m braking too hard. Grrrr!
Yonas and Zi were there. I tried to keep up with Yonas, impossible!
This FD was on the track. Surprised me as I thought it was all show but damn it’s fast, sounds insane and respect for tracking with those massive SSR’s too!
Zi’s new company car. Mods should make their way onto the car soon.
George from Slippery Little Suckers came along for the day. I’m not sure he had too much fun in his Statesman though. Lack of headroom meant that he had to bend over as his helmet was hitting his roof all day!
A lot more pics here.
We now officially haunt the cafe’s on Degraves for breakfast every trip.
We hooked up with one of Christina’s work mates and checked out the Tim Burton exhibit at Fed Square. Massive exhibit which featured a lot of sketches and work from when Burton was a little kid (which was totally awesome to see). So many “untitled” works. I can’t say I’m a huge Burton fan but I enjoyed seeing so much process. Highlights for me were reading hand written letters he writes to actors on set (looks like he doesn’t email or text!) and seeing a lot of the amazing work that his team do. IE: The teams that make his cute sketches reality really are just as amazing as Burton himself.
That night we had a combined VWGolf.net.au + JDMST meet at Melbourne’s Docklands. John/Pharkus and his wife picked us up from the hotel to take us there which was super nice of him.
You never know what’s going to rock up to a JDMST meet. This old skool Corolla was awesome.
The Golfs.
Silver MKIV so clean it still had it’s warranty sticker on it.
Terrence/Big Yellow’s beasty R32.
The Integras.
Sugoi. So hot huh? Girl owner too.
Nice S2.
The lads.
Small meet but great company!
Ozhonda is Australia’s largest Honda Forum and they’ve just updated their VBulletin software and skin. Winode (founder and owner of Ozhonda) asked me if I’d like to re-design their banner and I was more than happy to oblige.
Visit: http://www.ozhonda.com
Dropped in to JDMyard yesterday. Zi has some new wheels in stock and he wanted to make sure they fit on the Golf (which they did!). Here are a few pics:
Andy was there too which was cool, hadn’t seen him in aaaages.
Video by 5hu7o
Last month’s meet captured on video! Christina makes an appearance in the middle and the clip ends with us leaving in the GT-R :)
Last night a fair few VWGolf.net.au members braved the cold and rain and headed out to KK’s.
Warm doughnuts, mmm.
It was too early to go home for some, and of-course we wanted a better look at some of the cars so a few of us cruised over to Fox.
More photos from the night here.
