Once again HIN (Hot Import Nights) was held in Houston again in the George Brown Convention Center. These car shows always have a club type of meet or like the kind of meet you see in the Fast and the Furious movie. There were go go dancers, models posing and signing autographs, dub step music along with nice quality cars.

Unfortunalty I couldn’t upload any more photos on the blog sooo I made a flicker account. Click on the link for more pictures!!

So Cupcake Meet 17 was held in Corpus Christi which was a 4hr drive from Houston. I literally came home from work after 12hr nightshift in the ER. I wasn’t planning on going originally, but since the rest of the Natsukashi garage family is going, I decided Im going too. I took the Miata instead of the GTI, but during the drive I wish I took the GTI since it has hot, humid and raining. Having no AC in the Miata made me feel miserable. I pulled over couple of times to take breaks and catch little power naps. 

When I arrived the rest of the team was there and I was glad I made it after very little sleep. It just rained when I arrived, but the weather didn’t become cooler, instead it was hot, humid, and sticky. Thank you Texas heat. But that didn’t stop me from taking pics. 

Would love to have this as my next car. Lifted and boosted too. 

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On Saturday Renegade and Sarapbuhay held a meet in the parking lot of Thaison’s slaughter lane Pho Thaison shop. It was a lot of fun with a turnout larger than we were expecting. At one point Thaison was even worrying about whether or not all the cars would fit in the lot, but sure enough everyone did. Jash holds regular meets under the Renegade alias up at k1 speed in Austin, Texas. From what I heard the initial reason for this meet was a farewell deal for Sarapbuhay. I’d like to think it was really because it was my birthday, but hey I’m conceited.  The meet was interesting in that all sorts of cars showed up for the good time. Unlike most meets this went off without a hitch in that there were no burnouts or other forms of stupidity that usually occur at these things. It was a nice breath of fresh air and since it was in Austin, I got to see a lot of good friends that usually don’t take their cars out for other meets.

In this collection of photos I have the honor of posting on behalf of Vinson as well as a guest photographer and good friend of Natsukashi Garage, Warren Chan. Warren is an awesome photographer and him and his brother are starting a new clothing line called “Redline” We will be sure to keep you updated on their doings as well as possibly planning a meet with them in the future?

Thaison also decided to have Natsukashi Garage host the “pre-meet” at his William Cannon Restaurant a few hours before the meet. We all agreed it would be fun and thus we did just that! Anyways, on to the photos, I hope you all enjoy!

Lets kick off the pre-meet with a photo by Warren of our boy Evarett’s sick s13 coupe

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