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THE-LOWDOWN & JDMST EOMM

Posted on 29 August, 2010 by Justin Fox

Yesterday Christina and I headed out to THE-LOWDOWN & JDMST EOMM which was held at Autotechnik Tuning out west. We took the GT-R and I quickly realised I had no DC to plug the sat-nav into (I’ve ripped it out and replaced it with a battery cut-out switch!) so I had to print out some directions from Google (haha). We got there at about 10AM and the meet was already filling up (I had a spot reserved for me luckily!).

The weather was absolutely perfect (so nice to have that warm sun on my back) and some of the cars that rolled in absolutely blew my mind. So many cars had great stance and I had to pinch myself a couple of times (couldn’t believe I was in Sydney!). BBQ was awesome and the vibe was great too.


The Fonz!


This pic is so good.


Old vs New.


Ryan from THE-LOWDOWN


So clean, great stance.

All photos above by Matt Mead at MOTORDRIVEN

For many more images from people with cameras on the day visit: http://forum.jdmstyletuning.com/showthread.php?t=27606

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iPhone 4

Posted on 28 August, 2010 by Justin Fox

Suga’s new iPhone 4 takes a decent photo. These pics are completely unedited (direct upload from phone to Flickr). Click the images to view the full size direct from the phone.

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30inch

Posted on 28 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


30inch baby.

Christina bought a new 27inch iMac and she’s given me her 30inch Apple monitor. Plug and play! I’ve now got my big monitor (which is so tiny in comparison to the Apple 30″) set to portrait on the right of the 30inch.

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UNIbrace

Posted on 28 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


UNIbrace under-body brace for MKV Golf.

My UNIbrace under-body brace came in the other day. Check it out, looks rad huh?! I’m booked in on Wednesday next week to fit it up, as well as my Recaro seats (whoo hoo!).

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Blue Angel

Posted on 28 August, 2010 by Justin Fox

Last night we went to Blue Angel Restaurant in Darlinghurst for my Aunt Lely’s B’day. We were given the menu a few nights ago and they suggested that we pre-order our mains as it was bound to be a busy night. Too right it was! It took us ages to find a park. We spotted a line of Asian tourists outside and the massive no parking zone in front of the place (for coaches I assume) screamed tourist trap.

The decor was different! Very authentic Italian (I liked it) but we had no time to appreciate it as we were very quickly ushered upstairs into a private room. Before we even got settled down one waiter had dropped 2 bottles of wine which smashed on the floor splashing all over handbags, jackets and one guest. Worst of all they were mute and not at all sorry. It only got worse from there. All our waiters (which were all Asian) must have been trainee staff. They had no idea how to serve, they were super nervous and their English was very broken. They had no idea how to pour wine (I even had red wine spilt on my white shirt, nice) and what’s worse was that Christina’s main meal came out 15 minutes after everyone else’s (despite us pre-ordering a few nights before!). To top it off her pasta and my pasta were both way over cooked too.

We had a good time despite the crap service and food (my family is a hoot!) but I feel sorry for anyone who has saved up their hard earned cash to get ripped off by restaurants like this.


The big spill!


My cousin Nicholas, always clowning around!


Nicholas and Romina.


My hunz.


Christina loves her new iPhone 4.


Bernard and Lely.


Nicholas’ speech.

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FS: 1997 Specialized Hardrock

Posted on 27 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


For sale.

In an vain attempt to make more room in the man cave I’ve decided (after many years of deliberation!) to sell off my 1997 Specialized Hardrock. It’s the bike that got me back into riding and it single-handedly got me into tinkering with bikes. I’ve put a lot of blood sweat and tears into this bike, can’t say I’m after a lot of money for it either, it’s more about making room and also selling it to someone who’s actually going to ride the thing! If you’re keen, or know someone who is keen, let me know!

PS: Build thread can be found here.

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MC Cyclery

Posted on 27 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


New MC Cyclery web site.

When I met Grant from MC Cyclery a couple of years ago I’d just missed out on the opportunity to re-design his web site for him. It turns out he’d already asked Damien and Zann to design his site, all good as both Damien and Zann are my Australian INfront business partners (small world!).

A couple of days ago I was asked to re-design the site, to make it clean and simple in order to not alienate everyday customers. It’s a new direction which Grant is taking the bike shop. Where we were once gunning for everything rad and gnarly we’re now focussing back on “suburban bike shop”.

Current site: http://www.mccyclery.com.au
My new site: http://www.mccyclery.com.au/blog/

Yes it’s built in WordPress, yes you can see it’s using the same theme that I’m using on this very blog. Clean, simple, flexible and most of all easily up-datable. It’s a work in progress but it’s pretty much ready to go live any day now.

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GT-R all set for this months JDMST EOMM

Posted on 26 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


Squeeky clean.

Despite a booked out schedule Dave from Reflect Effect came out today to detail the GT-R in preparation for this weekend’s JDMST EOMM. It’ll be the first time I take the GT-R to a meet in years. After the detail I couldn’t help but go for a drive… what a car. I’m so chuffed it’s mine!

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chingchai’s tank

Posted on 25 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


chingchai’s tank.

Yerp I’ve been going a little aquarium crazy lately and I’m spending a couple of hours a day reading through tank journals. If I had a tank as amazing as this I doubt I’d ever watch TV again. High res version here.

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Top One Automotive

Posted on 24 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


New Top One Automotive web site holder.

I’m always happy to do design work for passion related stuff and I’ve offered my help to Dedy from Top One Automotive for years now. He always told me he had someone working on the site and being the nice guy he is he didn’t want to stuff relations up with the guy who was working on it.

Well the site went live not too long ago and I almost fell off my chair when I saw it (you can check it out here: http://toponeauto.com.au/oldsite/).

Yeah……….. so I pleaded with him to let me take the site down and put a one page site there instead. 1 page sites rock out in my opinion. No confusion, clear contact details, done. A simple business card online.

Visit: http://toponeauto.com.au

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