Yes this is suppose to be THE last Nisei Showoff, but personally I hope not. This event always bring out the best of the best cars, I love going to this event to see some of the crazy VIP, Hellaflush, JDM, Old Skool rides. This year the theme seem to be Honda with Crazy Camber and lots of Old Skool rides.
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Yes, another movie is coming out! The casting call for the upcoming Fast and Furious 5 was held in Atlanta recently. As many of you know, our cars were used in the previous sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious which was filmed in Miami. Russ took his Zero Force widebody NSX in hopes of landing a repeat performance.
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Our friends at Forged Performance had their annual dyno day and they invited Jade Motorsports to attend. So we took our Zero Force widebody NSX and Nissan Fairlady 370Z to the event. It was a great event and was catered by World Champion BBQ winner, Sam’s BBQ1. Plenty of imports and exotics came out for the event. There were a number of 500hp runs, and plenty of turbo spool to make you drool! Two of Ford’s powerhouses came out and flexed their muscle on the Forged Performance Dyno Dynamics, quite impressive! See the video for yourself.
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Russ finally got his NSX-T running again, just in time for the local NSX Prime Atlanta meet. We headed out to the Tilted Kilt off of Cobb and joined 11 other Acura NSXs for dinner. Afterward, we all jumped onto the highway and had a quick cruise through Atlanta. Such a beautiful sight to see these “Honda Supercars” all out on the road! See the video for yourself!
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If you find yourself in the Central Florida area and it happens to be the last Saturday of the month you are in luck. Head down to the Route 46 Entertainment complex in Sanford Florida for the monthly Cars and Coffee meet. I had been to a few of these before they changed the location from a parking lot behind some shops in Lake Mary to the nice route 46 entertainment complex.
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Thanks to the good people at Air Runner we have some coverage photos of the recent Toyota Fest that was held in Long Beach CA. This was the 15th annual Toyotafest and there were tons of Toyota’s sporting Air Runner Suspensions plus some other cool rides.
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Leave it to Abu Dhabi to build the most over the top hotel and track facility the world has ever seen. It’s kind of like what the Chinese did to the Olympics, after seeing the opening and closing ceremonies in Beijing everything else looks like Ben with a flash light doing hand puppets.
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You just never know what you are going to get when you fire up the Jadecrew time machine. This time we ended up at Hot Import Nights Miami in the year 2005. The show scene was still going full steam
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For this trip we fired up the old Jadecrew time machine and ended up at Irwindale Speedway on August 31st 2003. This was the first time D1 had come to the USA and was doing an exhibition to introduce drifting to the United States. Even though this event did not count for the actual series all the big Japanese drivers came out for the exhibition. With this event happening on our continent for the first time Jade just had to be there. So we got up a crew, flew out and were there to see history.
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Everything was big at this time, SEMA was so huge that they decided to expand to the East Coast and throw the International Auto Salon in Atlantic City. Thanks to Mackin Industries needing booth vehicles Jade made the trip out with Brian’s 350Z and Russ newly widebodied NSX. That was one long drive.
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It’s time to take a trip back to the year 2004. The show scene was huge and the times were crazy. There was way to much partying, the rooms were too small and cramped and boy do I miss it sometimes.
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If you love your Honda this is an event for you. The event was at the famous Suzuka (Honda) track on Feb 20th 2010. Special thanks to Rays Engineering for the pictures, Enjoy…

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We decided to stop by and see what the boys at Titan Motorsports have been up to, and they have been busy. Titan started off as a small shop that really only specialized in Supras and has grown into a huge operation with a full race team and enough stock to modify half the cars in Orlando.

On this sunny Saturday I packed up the gear in Project VIP and set out to Titan’s new headquarters in the shadow of the Orlando Airport. The only other Jade ride to make it out was Vinny and his widebody STI. It was nice that Russ and Chad were in town to celebrate their mothers birthday. It was fun chilling with the boys again, felt like old times.

UPDATE: Video 1 Added (part 1 the shop)
UPDATE: Video 2 Added (part 2 the rides)
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I recently attended this event for the first time thinking it would be a chill weekend  but I unexpectedly ended up running in to a lot of the people I knew from socal. It was so crowded that the lines wrapped around the garage an hour before it started up until we left .  This is definitely more the just a meet once a year, it has become the place to be if you’re a jdm/hellaflush crowd.  Wekfest is definitely an event you MUST attend.

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I hope that this does not end up filed under the “cars we don’t get” section but unfortunately it is leaning that way. I still don’t understand why every automaker seems to refuse to give us the fun cars. We don’t get the Focus RS or the FQ400 and it looks like we may not get the fire breathing Audi RS5.
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The reason everyone comes to Mecum is for the Muscle, hell it’s their slogan. Trust me there was no shortage of muscle, enough muscle to even make the Govenator jealous. Now some of these could be classified as street rods, but I thought they belonged here with the muscle. This is the last part of our Mecum Auto Auction Coverage.
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This has got to be my favorite type of car at the auction just beating out the muscle cars. This was what really started the whole custom car craze. A bunch of kids who couldn’t afford the top of the line cars so they took their run of the mill rides and threw in bigger motors, larger tires, cut the tops off them and did just about anything to make them unique. Street rods are basically a hot rod built with newer engines and suspensions.
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Not everything at the auction was produced before I was born. There were a few newer cars out there to check out also. Some of the highlights include a pair of Ford GT’s, a Bently and even an Ariel Atom.
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Ah, the classics. They may not be as flashy as a hot rod, or have the raw power of the muscle cars but they are pure works of art. They have unique body lines, amazing details and the tail fins.
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Here comes part two of my coverage of the Mecum Auto Auction in Kissimmee. In part one I showed you some of the more “interesting” cars that I came across and now its time to see what was out there for those not interested in muscle.

The Datsun unfortunately was nowhere to be found, I really wanted to check that one out in person. The imports and euros were represented mainly by VW’s, some nice Italian’s, a few Germans and that vintage 90’s show civic.
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