Back in Sydney, totally burnt up too as Serg scored a flat tyre on the highway home and Claudio and I had to sit in the sun and wait for him to return from the nearest tyre shop!

REBUILD the Philippines was awesome and Melbourne turned on the weather, hard. So many marshals and volunteers greeted the hoards of amazing rides into the amazing venue in West Melbourne, which almost had a Daikoku Futo vibe going on. We loved it!

More pics on Zen: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/12/melbourne-road-trip-part-3-rebuild

Photo Credit: http://www.iheartstance.com

I love generating discussion and I’ve been known to open can of worm discussion threads on the JDMST forums for years. Tiring for some, but inspiring for others.

The other day I had a situation on the forums where a group of long standing members banned together to blast an individual about his choice of car tuning (stance). Worst thing is they did it in the guys build thread. One of my priorities is to inspire people to create and share their builds by running a build thread/diary on the forums. I can’t have haters destroy build threads as it’ll just scare people off from creating them (takes a lot of effort to run one to be honest).

In an attempt to stand up for the stance guys I wrote a facebook status that ended up getting over 250 comments in a matter of hours, the next morning I wrote a feature which yesterday had over 23,656 views on the Zen Garage web site. Not all the feedback has been positive, but that’s got to be expected when you’re voicing your opinion in public, the main thing is I’ve generated a bit of discussion, and it’s gotten a few people thinking I’m sure.

Check it out here: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/11/so-over-people-hating-on-stanced-cars

Has been an interesting and entertaining 48hrs on the JDMST forums/facebook group. I couldn’t help but write a feature this morning, so therapeutic!

Read up:http://zengarage.com.au/2013/11/so-over-people-hating-on-stanced-cars/

I so need to clone myself. Last night I wanted to be at 2 places at the same time; The Harley-Davidson art show (check the previous post) and shooting Simmy with a 328 GTS with Photographer Matthew Mead for Zen Garage.

Whilst I didn’t make it to my own shoot, I spent some of today hanging out with Simmy and editing Sergio’s behind the scenes shots which made me feel a little better (she’s gorgeous and he’s getting good at shooting! All I did was a bit of dynamic cropping and slight colour adjustments).

Check out the shots: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/11/behind-the-scenes-simone-peres-ferrari-328-gts-shoot