It sat under boxes collecting dust for over 2 years, missing a front bumper and in rough shape. Vinny acquired it fro Sean and is in the process of resurrecting it. Vinny brought it out to the Titan Motorsports grand opening and I shot this quick video of it in its current form. Check the video after the jump.
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This one comes from the Jade mail bag. We get lots of mail at Jade asking all kinds of things but I thought this one was worth sharing. It comes down to an unwanted accessory and the void left behind when it is removed. The original email is after the jump along with my suggestions.
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It has been pretty busy lately and as I was working on the site I got to wondering “How long has it been since we went to this design?” Almost 1 year ago exactly we embarked on changing the Jade site from a stic page about just our cars to a full on automotive portal.
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Check out this new Iphone Game called Drift Sumi-e. It combines drifting and and the art of Sumi-e or Japanese brush painting. The game is pretty straight forward. There are tracks and on it they show you the proper clipping points for drifting. You try to drag your finger across the track tracing a proper drifting line. You are judged on speed and line. After that you get a score.
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Check out what arrived at the office today, after some issues with a shipping company that sounds like “cups”. The first shipment of swag had one bottle of showtime damaged so of course they sent the whole thing back.
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VIP, what is it? Is it a type of car, a style or is it a way of life? I am here to put all those questions to rest and show you how you can be VIP 4 Sho!
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I was off at lunch today running errands and as I pulled out of the bank to get in line for the light I see “this” in my side mirror barreling towards me at breakneck speed. In addition to the “unusual” bumper ornament I spotted a handicap sticker hanging from the rear view. The closeup after the jump shows more detail.
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I just thought I would share our good fortune and show the pictures and some video from the Feb 5th Magic Game against the Washington Wizards. Thanks to some great luck we scored seats 4 rows behind the opposing bench. These were the best seats that I have ever had to any type of sporting event. Let me start by saying my wife and I are huge magic fans, last year we were lucky enough to get to go to game 3 against Boston in the playoffs.
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It’s like Christmas keeps on coming as the UPS guy just stopped by the office bringing JDM joy. Looking forward to “installing” these two items once I get my car back from its 60k mile service. Hopefully I won’t make any mistakes this time.
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While checking out Speedhunters day 3 coverage of the HKS Premium Day I found some more pictures of the Arena LS sporting a HKS supercharge hidden under a plastic cover. I also spotted another possible super sedan in the mix, hit the jump to see what it is.
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What does 8 pages (in Japanese) plus 10ft of plastic and 20 minutes equal? New JDM Y34 window visors that’s what it equals. As I said before I was kinda surprised that these came with so much instructions when it boils down to make sure the clips go over the trim and stick on with the applied tape.

After all that making fun of how east this was, I go and make a mistake.
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As you can see when I comment on posts here on Jadecrew you see a nice little avitar of my Y34. Getting one of your own is really a simple process and the nice thing is it will work on multiple sites. Hit the jump for the instructions.
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It seems as there is a possible new trend, or an old one that we are just slow to pick up on, is to take VIP platforms and modify them in a racing style. I first got a hint of this when I found the Supermade Instant Gentleman body kit for the Y34. The car supposedly had an SR20 engine swap and was sporting a nice set of work wheels which I joked and said it would have looked better with my rims.
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Hot on the heels of the possible new name for the next fast and Furious movie comes this bit of news. Just because you can flee from the cops and bullets seem to bounce off cars in the movies does not mean that it works that way in real life. One Evo driver found out the hard way that cars don’t stop bullets and fast cars can’t outrun all cops.
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Guess what just arrived from Japan, unfortunately it isn’t my Air Runner suspension. What it is is a set of JDM Y34 window visors. What is mainly a old person or truck accessory here in the USA is actually pretty popular with the VIP sedan crowd. You know its JDM because the instructions are totally in Japanese.
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I know a lot of you are like us at Jade and are also into gadgets. Many of us at Jade have iphones and check the site constantly from them through out the day. I still haven’t figured out how to make our very own iphone application but this along with the iphone theme we have installed is darn close.

Hit the jump for detailed instructions on how you too can be cool.
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Ok I know that car guys are pervs, but what the hell does this calendar have to do with Pirelli tires? Pirelli has released there new 2010 calendar and it is definitely NSFW.

Featuring women in mud, licking a cock (see above photo), hugging a sloth (not the one from Goonies) oh and some tires.

Hit the link for safe for work gallery and a link to the naughty one.
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It seems like Florida must have caught some kind of anti-carshow virus. I have been looking around trying to get a heads up on the upcoming 2010 show season and I am noticing an annoying trend, no sunshine state.

The 2010 dub tour has 12 shows this year with not one in Florida. They are going to Houston, Memphis and hell they are even going to Detroit. I mean Detroit is in such bad shape right now you can probably buy a house for less than the cost of a ticket to to the show.

Half the city is either deserted or on the way out and they think that that is going to be better for a show than Orlando, Tampa or Miami?
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As a premium unleaded blooded, true tuner enthusiast, I find myself periodically checking craigslist for the “if I had more money I’d buy that” cars as well as just looking at cars I come across while surfing the web on forums, blogs, etc. I can’t begin to describe the collection of vehicles I would purchase if I won the lottery or just came into a large sum of money. One thing I have done is started a folder on my Hard Drive called “favorite car pics”. These are just random photos of rides I come across that I choose to save for.. well, I guess future reference. Well as I have this little collection growing, I figured I would begin to share my taste in vehicles as well as in automotive photography with everyone here on jadecrew.com. (Click here to continue reading… )

We have some very exciting news to report today. We just finished the paperwork and Air Runner Suspensions is the newest official site sponsor for Jadecrew.com They join Mackin Industries, Mothers and Toyo Tires. We are proud to be associated with arguably the number one JDM air suspension manufacturer.

What does this mean for Jade and project VIP? Well, to quote Flo Rida……Next thing you know, Shawty got low, low, low, low.
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