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COFA grad interview

Posted on 9 August, 2013 by Justin Fox

My job is…
I work at Zen Garage and I am the brand manager.

I would describe my job as…
An amalgamation of passion related projects. It’s taken me many years to pull it off, but I’ve finally managed to combine all my passions; bikes, cars, design, fashion, music, photography and art into the one project which is Zen Garage. Being the brand manager allows me to curate and promote whatever it is I’m into at the moment, without feeling unnecessary internal or external pressures to promote things that I’m not into right now. This puts me in a constant state of Zen!

I’m inspired by…
For a long time I tried to only take inspiration from family and my past. I figured that I was the only me in the world, so as long as I took inspiration from myself, my past, then whatever I create would be original and true. I’ve eased up a lot of the years though and I now very happily take inspiration from popular culture, especially many grass roots sub cultures where you find individuals doing what they’re doing because they totally love what they do.

The best part of my job is…
I’m my own boss and I’m free to push whatever it is my heart is into, seeing others get into the stuff I’m into makes me happy. I’ve got great business partners who motivate, support and inspire me and I’m always meeting new like-minded people through running our Leichhardt store and events.

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GT-R leak #2 fixed + re-tune

Posted on 8 August, 2013 by Justin Fox

Dat familiar ISMR car park.

OK so last week there was a puddle of green coolant under the car. I couldn’t locate the exact source of the problem so I topped up with water and drove straight to Indy’s hoping it was just a split hose (fingers were crossed!). Turns out it was my N1 water pump. Strange right?! Anyways, it’s been replaced with another N1 pump and whilst the car was at IS Motor Racing I thought I’d get Indy to re-tune the car.

He’s advanced the timing a bit (I really want that mid-range power back) and whilst we’ve lost 4kw or so boost is kicking in from 3000rpm now instead of 4000. Was a bit wet out today so looking forward to some dry weather (then it’s time for new tyres as these are so so old).

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Ménage à trois

Posted on 6 August, 2013 by Justin Fox

We took 3 girls, all 3 EVO owners, out on a Nasho run. Aleks Brajic was there to snap some epic pics. All the photos on Zen.

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NA8C updates

Posted on 1 August, 2013 by Justin Fox

New leads, leather shift boot, wipers and trim screws.

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Fuel 4 Charity Video

Posted on 31 July, 2013 by Justin Fox

OFIM have put this awesome video together of last weekend’s Fuel 4 Charity car show. More images on their blog: http://ofim.com.au/2013/07/30/fuel-4-charity/

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James Blake at the Opera House

Posted on 31 July, 2013 by Justin Fox

Blake whipped out the grand for the encore.

I saw James Blake perform live at the Opera House last night. I love Retrograde (in contention for song of the year for me), but I hadn’t really heard much more of his other stuff. I knew he was a pretty amazing muso (it’s the long fingers!) so I knew I was in for a treat, that and the fact that I’d never seen a concert at the amazing Opera House before.

Jess got us awesome seats with an amazing view (luckily Blake was on our side of the stage), the sound in the Opera House was bang on and makes me want to see more live acts there. Blake was great too. I’m officially a fan.

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Nasho Run with Lisa, Theresa and Danie

Posted on 29 July, 2013 by Justin Fox

Zen Babes.

The girls at Stanwell Tops.

Their awesome rides.

The Scarborough Hotel mezze plates were awesome.

Monday Nasho run #2. This time around we brought Lisa, Theresa and Danie, all 3 amazing girls own just as amazing cars.

Seb and Aleks were snapping shots today, Jason and Jake might have snapped a few too, so expect some awesome pics from them soon.

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Fuel 4 Charity 2013

Posted on 28 July, 2013 by Justin Fox

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Fuel 4 Charity was a great success (phew!!!!). I’d been stressing about it for weeks. $30 for charity was a bit steep for many of the kids in our community. It was a big ask as most kids still live at home, and being into cars, they’re naturally broke! But the sun was out and thankfully people came out to play.

We raised over $9,000 for charity. Short of the massive $25k dream we initially had, but it’s money raised by individuals in the community without the help of any major corporate sponsors. For that I’m really really proud.

We’d still like to push for $10k so we’ll be raffling off a few goodies this week. Im sure we’ll get there.

More pics on Zen: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/07/fuel-4-charity-2013/

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Miles’ 2nd B’day Party

Posted on 27 July, 2013 by Justin Fox

My sister Jamie outdoes herself every time!

Unfortunately Fuel 4 Charity and my nephews 2nd B’day Party clashed. I ended up dropping in to Miles’ party early, then headed off to Fuel 4 Charity afterwards. I got Miles a massive fire truck (it’s almost bigger than him!). He loved it :)

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