Here is the start of our trip back in Atlanta, Georgia meeting up with old friends and doing a photo-shoot. All these photos were shot by Ricky Cervantes with his iPhone 4.
Here is the car’s plaque between the two seats marking this NIsmo 370z as #702.
Before leaving Atlanta, Georgia we stopped at Daddy D’z BBQ just south of downtown. This is the best place to eat BBQ in the south by far. After eating here we hopped on I-20 and started our trip to Los Angeles.
Here is an American Flag in Mississippi just before sunset on future I-22 corridor heading towards Tunica, Mississippi. This interstate once completed will run from Memphis, Tennessee to Birmingham, Alabama and it is always empty when traveling.
Here is the Nismo 370z sitting at Harrah’s in Tunica, Mississippi. This was our shortest drive of the trip.
Here is a snapshot of the gauge cluster after our first night on the road. We managed to just break the 1,000 mile mark before calling it quits.
Here we are in Arkansas taking a break from driving on Day 2.
As night fell we rolled in to western Oklahoma and kept driving through the night into Texas.
Somewhere in New Mexico we found this $19,999 stuffed buffalo for sale in a gas station.
Here was a shot of our comfortable interior and the lack of view out the back of the Nismo Z.
Our final dinner on Day 3 we stopped at the New Jersey Pizza Company in Flagstaff, Arizona. If your ever traveling across I-40 this is a fantastic place to eat not very far off the interstate. Another couple hours on the road after dinner and we wound up pulling into our driveway just after 12:00am.
Jon from Maisto Toys was kind enough to deliver us a huge pile of them the other day and I wanted to show off the ones I really liked for my toy shelf. The first toy I checked out was this 1:18 Nissan GT-R in the factory white pearl color.
The second toy was a yellow C5 Corvette Z06 which was from the “Assembly Line” toys. These are a blast and you can put together with a simple screw driver they provide in box. This one was much harder than the Mercedes-Benz CLK GT-R I built recently because the rear window/roof/windshield/engine are all one piece you clip in. You even get an option of wheels to install and I went with the chrome factory style Z06 wheels.
My favorite car of the lot was this 1:18 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren which I reviewed over at Luxuryvice.com. This is by far the most amazing car ever built (and I want one really bad) and the diecast really captures the true essence of this car. These will all be finding a new home on the toy shelf soon and I might have to buy another shelf fairly soon.
I haven’t blogged in a little bit and I wanted to share my thoughts on this video. This really looks like a lame attempt at IRL to gain some press and recognition. I don’t care that “it is in the rulebook,” this is why your series sucks and we all stay up until the wee hours of the morning to watch Formula 1.
Wimbledon got started today and DirecTV has court cameras now to watch all the matches! I have been quite on the tennis kick lately and really started playing again with some PM Lifestyle employee’s and other various friends. It looks like a great line up is in store, especially on the woman’s side.
I will be cheering on Maria Sharapova in the series. Ever since her shoulder injury she hasn’t been 100% but I have some high hopes for her over this tournament. She made it into the third round earlier this year at the French Open so hopefully she can do better. She is playing lucky loser Anastasia Pivovarova in the first round who is a fellow Russian. Maria enters Wimbledon as the 16th seed for women.
On the men’s side I have to be rooting for Roger Federer who I think has about 8/5 odds on winning. He is ranked number one in the world right now for men. I really want to root on someone who has more of a challenge making it to the finals but I cannot really bring myself to get behind and support anybody else on the guys side.
Here is a video of a twin turbo Lamborghini Gallardo pulling out of Underground Racing in Charlotte, North Carolina. The car throws some revs that sound fantastic as it pulls out of the shop. This car ran 241mph at Texas Mile.
Here is a video from Michael Waltrip Racing in North Carolina. This was shot from the floor of the shop while we received and all access tour. They have quite an impressive operation over at MWR which run Toyota Camry’s in the Sprint Cup Series.
Here is a quick video of a race restart from our seats during the NASCAR All-Star race. Lowes Motor Speedway is not one of my favorite tracks but the shoot out style NASCAR race keeps the track entertaining. Enjoy the three videos uploaded and I have more content coming from the NASCAR All-Star weekend soon.
I bought a ton of new toys for my shelf recently and had to rearrange everything yesterday. With that being said I decided to document/blog about the upgrades to my living room shelf. I am going to add a new shelf soon to expand the collection. Soon, I am going to pick up all my old toy cars from when I was a little kid to add onto the shelf as well.
I bought a Assembly Line Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR from Maisto which was a blast to build. This is my favorite Mercedes made in history so it was great to add to the shelf with gold wheels.
Here is my Kyle Busch cup garage collection. My three large die cast cars are his #18 M&M car, Snickers Car (First Toyota to win NASCAR cup race), and the Vote M&M car. I am working on getting some more #18 car stuff for this section.
This is my other Kyle Busch garage for non cup die cast cars. The Doosan #20 Nationwide car won the Corona, Mexico event back in April 2008 with Kyle Busch behind the wheel. The #51 Electric Sunglasses car is Kyle Busch’s Prelude of a Dream car. The #30 NOS Energy Drink car in the middle is actually Stanton Barrett’s old Nationwide car from 2008 signed by him on the roof.
Here is my Falken Tire Pit that I mocked up with some products I have collected over the years. I just got this sweet Falken Tire rig thanks to my friends over at Falken Tire recently! You can actually buy the Calvin Wan Infiniti G35 or Vaughn Gittin Jr. Ford Mustang die cast in our store.
Here are some small Hot Wheels cars I have including a Nissan GT-R, Flat Black Lamborghini Gallardo, Tesla Roadster, a Hummer H2 that Toyo Tires gave us at MPMC, and Sam Hubinette’s Dodge Charger you can score in our Wrecked Magazine store as well.
The 1991 Le Mans winner was the Mazda 787B seen here that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans back in 1991. This was the last Japanese car to win the 24 Hour Le Mans race to this date in history. Bob Hernandez actually gave me this car at my Photo Gallery back in March and I jut love it.
Here are some of my car magazines including some Super Street issues back from 2002. A full collection of C-16 Magazine, and a bunch of random Japanese magazines like StyleWagon and VIP Style.
Here is the first shelf all together and complete for now. I am going to get a second shelf going soon and I need some more magazines! Let me know what you think.
These are two quick teaser videos I shot with my Canon SD1100 photo camera while getting a ride along at Ebisu’s famous Nishi Short Circuit. Wrecked Magazine will have some amazing full video coverage up soon thanks to NOS Energy Drink. For now, here is Chris Forsberg in front of our S14 in that white 180sx with the exhaust bouncing on the ground.
Here is a second video I shot while riding with Chris in his black S14 aas we chased down Andrew from PowerVehicles.com in the video. These are a great preview to how awesome the whole weekend of Spring Matsuri was! A huge thanks is owed from me and Chris Forsberg to everyone at Powervehicles.com and Allen from Tomei for really making our trip amazing!
I know times are tough these days but I would of settled for one queen bed! That foam rectangle you see is wedged between the “two beds” so you don’t notice the huge gap in your King Bed. Well it didn’t quite work but thanks Holiday Inn. You can read more about my adventures like this on Yelp, follow below!
Last night there was a great open house at the ID Agency in DTLA. I had some photos featured in the art gallery along with Estevan Oriol and Mo Satarzadeh. All three of us were on the 2009 Gumball 3000 rally and had some photos featured from it along with some of our other photography.
Here is a display of my photography hung up on the wall.
Here is the DJ with a great crowd going behind him at the Open House. Mo’s photography is stage left and you can see my Vaughn Gittin Jr. print over on the right.
Here is a close up of my T-Pain photograph I took years ago at his house next to Vaughn Gittin’s 2005 Sonoma drifting picture.
Here I am receiving Ricky’s special beer delivery. Not only is Ricky great at beer delivery he is an excellent photographer that does tons of work for Wrecked Magazine! The Corona was for him and the Bud Light was for me. It ended up being a great night and I really appreciate all the support of people who came out. Thanks to Bob Hernandez for these photos he put up on Facebook and I will make new posts when other people send me or put up some photographs.
