Author Archives: Justin Fox

Fuel 4 Charity

Posted on 24 March, 2013 by Justin Fox

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Organising a charity event is something that VWGolf.net.au moderators myself, Christina Lock, Jose Togle and Marco Contreras have wanted to do for some time.

2 nights ago we had a meeting with Sergio Capozzi from ALL STARS and after much discussion plans have been put into action.

Rather than organising one single event, we’ve decided to set up an umbrella organisation with a view to do multiple events in the year, all for different charity foundations.

We’re excited!

Our first event will be a car show where all the proceeds raised from owners of the cars on show, traders who will be invited to run stands and spectators will be donated to The Leukaemia Foundation.

Our first event will kick off in June 2013.

Please like our page and spread the news (much appreciated). Also, please get in touch if you’d like to get involved, we need all the help we can get!

Like and share: https://www.facebook.com/Fuel4Charity

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Mega Meet

Posted on 24 March, 2013 by Justin Fox


Last year we counted 1200+ cars, this year it was so big cars couldn’t get in! Our Zen stand was mobbed. We had a great night!

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Cage is back in

Posted on 18 March, 2013 by Justin Fox

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The beast is coming out to play, again.

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EST. mini meet @ Zen

Posted on 17 March, 2013 by Justin Fox


More pics: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/03/est-mini-meet-zen-garage/

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Zen Garage featured in MOTOR Magaine

Posted on 14 March, 2013 by Justin Fox


The cover.


DPS.

I’ve been reading MOTOR magazine forever. It’s my fave Aussie car mag and I’m VERY proud to have Zen featured over 2 pages in this month’s issue! SO HAPPY! :)

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From screen to reality

Posted on 14 March, 2013 by Justin Fox

So nice to see designs come to life. The Yokohama 86 (which I designed the graphics for) was dropped off to Zen today. I even got to drive it off the truck. It’s an auto, which kinda surprised me, but hey I drove my cousin’s manual one a week ago and I was curious to see if the auto was any good, or not. I took it for a spin and yeah, it wasn’t any good (the manual was way more engaging!). The car is going to live with us for a bit, should brighten up our space that’s for sure!

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Viral marketing

Posted on 12 March, 2013 by Justin Fox


45,804 people have shared the post with their friends. 19,447 people liked the post and a staggering 5,711,872 people saw the post!


311,031 visitors in one day. Our biggest hit of unique visitors/day since we launched, makes every other day before look insignificant!

I often wonder just how people hit the jackpot with viral marketing. Every now and then you see a picture, or video which everyone you know has seen as well. It’s like it hits everyone, everywhere, all at the same time.

Last week I posted a video I stumbled across. I edited an existing bit of text, and made it ounchier to read (as people just don’t read on the internet these days) and I posted it up, not knowing or not if people were going to dig the video or not (personally it brings a tear to my eye). The next day I see our facebook go wild with people liking and sharing our posts, a LOT of people, mostly women, are commenting on both facebook as well as the feature on the Zen Garage web site. It’s gotten so out of control that our site has gone down, intermittently for the past 3 days due to the sheer amount of traffic.

45,804 people have shared the post with their friends.
19,447 people liked the post.
5,711,872 people saw the post.
311,031 visitors to our web site in one day.

Hopefully I’ll reach as many, of not more people again in future but for now it’s a record!

Check the feature everyone’s talking about (294 comments so far on our web site) here: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/03/marina-abramovic-and-ulay

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Ferrari 458 Spider

Posted on 12 March, 2013 by Justin Fox


Momentary sad face. Thinking to myself “I’ll never make enough to own one of these”.

So I got to sit in a Ferrari 458 Spider the other night at the VWGolf.net.au 3rd B’day Party. What a lovely place to be. It’s other worldly. The display is so high tech, even the air vents are interesting but what really stole the show was the steering wheel. It had a crazy selector for sport and race modes which felt so solid. Metal, no plastics here. No indicator stalks, instead their on the wheel as buttons and the paddle shifters, those massive paddle shifters, fwoar. Amazing. Then I get the OK to turn the key and hit the big red ENGINE START button. Yeaha! I then get the OK to give it a little rev (inside Zen too!). So good!

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Yokohama 86 livery

Posted on 10 March, 2013 by Justin Fox

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Those of you at Top Gear Festival last weekend would have seen this 86 at the ADVAN Yokohama stand. I’m proud to say that I designed the graphics for it. Photo by the amazing Easton Chang.

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My new car

Posted on 10 March, 2013 by Justin Fox

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Last Saturday night at VWGolf.net.au’s 3rd B’day Party Bash @ Zen Garage I took delivery of my new daily driver. Jose’s (JIG’s) ABT Supercharged MKV R32.

Build thread: http://eurostyle-tuning.com/forum/showthread.php?1190-Justin-Fox-s-ABT-Supercharged-MKV-R32

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