Scrape scrape!
I’m JUST about sick of having a super low car. I scrape my front lip on pretty much everything. I’ve already advised the new owner (who’ll take ownership of the car next week) to raise the car up an inch or 2. I’m hoping the next car will allow me to fly over speed humps at speed!
Clifton & Timmy helping out.
All 3 of us on it at the same time.
Finishing touches.
All done!
Tunes @ Zen! I’ve donated my Bose iPod stereo from home.
Beer’O’Clock came early at Zen Garage today as ELMO, our handy Japanese overhead projector came out to play. Luckily for us Clifton and Timmy dropped in to hang out, unfortunately for them they were instantly put to work! It took us way longer than we thought it would but the results are awesome. We’ve now built a change room too! More progress and photos over the weekend.
Ill right?
Super excited today as our Illest Stock arrived at Port Botany! That’s early as we were expecting stock mid December. In anticipation I’ve uploaded some of our stock onto the Zen Garage online shop. I’ve been a bit of a data entry monkey all day, feeling like a robot… but hey I’m charged and I want one of everything for myself (I need a new wardrobe anyways!).
Visit: http://zengarage.com.au/shop – Would really appreciate it if you spread the word, even better,, buy stuff!!! :)
Poster.
Toby & Pete.
Their presenter, ready to go.
Talking at the Apple Store must be a unique experience. You have to stand up on this little black box, in front of you there’s an audience, behind the audience are Apple Store customers and to the right of you there’s George St foot and road traffic.
Outside Inside.
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We like to get our speakers to sign their posters post talk. Apple records the talks too and the Podcasts go live on iTunes.
Last night we invited dynamic duo Toby&Pete to speak at our monthly Infront Insight talk at the Apple Store Sydney. Was an amazing talk, these guys are awesome at what they do, and they’ve created a superteam of sorts. It’s our last talk for the year too, hopefully we’ll be invited to do more talks at the Apple Store next year!
Photo by Aleks.b.
That’s me, trying to calm the Police down (photo by Aleks.b).
The JDMST End Of Month Meets have been running since 2005. We’ve had a LOT of them at Fox Studios (EQ) car park, sometimes we’ve been kicked out, other times we’ve managed to get away with it but the meet last Tuesday night was the most dramatic so far, with over 300 cars being kicked out in force by the local Police. It’s a tough call, we can’t afford to hire out a proper venue (liability insurance etc) and ultimately we’re just a group of car guys who like to meet up offline once a month, hey we even paid $6 to get into the car park!
There’s been a lot of discussion on JDMST, a lot of pictures too. A lot of the new members are fearing that we’ll never be allowed back to Fox Studios again, little do they know we’ve been going back there for years. Just because you get kicked out of a car park doesn’t mean there won’t be any future meets! Culture wins, we’re not doing anything wrong. We’ll forge on, as we’ve always done!
Photo by Matthew Mead.
I attended Shirley and Jing’s Wedding last Sunday. I’m so happy for these guys. I had a great time, it was an awesome celebration! I’m sure you’ll find new entries on Jing’s Blog and Shirley’s Blog soon.
Sean and Rob worked on installing some wooden flooring for the shop which was very kindly donated to us by VWGolf.net.au member Stephen Lee.
Flooring installed.
We’re getting there!
Rob also got busy installing carpet tiles in the office.
It’s a dramatic change and acoustics are now much improved (less echo!).
My new ergo chair has a billion and one adjustments!
I was sweating it out in the gallery installing a picture hanging rail system.
The gallery is now all ready to go! Keep an eye out on our first gallery opening soon.
The Capozzi Brothers came in to drop off some awesome JDM FD literature for our library, they ended up helping us paint the front of the space too.
Sergio and Claudio are huge car guys, so too their Dad who owns this refreshingly different Lancia Montecarlo.
