VIP Lounge Episode 11 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSHere is Episode 11. We welcome back Mr. Worldwide James Church back after his galavanting in Europe. Sitting now on Episode 11, we are almost at our 12 week mark. It’s been such a journey already at such an infant stage. We appreciate everyone’s feedback and […]
VIP Lounge Episode 10 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSHere is Episode 10 of our VIP Lounge Podcast. I would be lying to you if I said I wasn’t feeling a bit of stress this past week. Being in full swing on the Wekfest tour plus trying to startup a new venture, my mind can […]
VIP Lounge Episode 9 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSUsually I just listen to a podcast just once after I finalize it and then post it up. This episode I actually found myself listening to this a couple times before I realized I needed to get it posted. My bad! This week we had the […]
New VIPStyleCars / VIP Lounge shirts are available
It’s been awhile since we decided to come out with new apparel. This year it was something I really wanted to focus on. With the addition of the Podcast plus a recent push to revive the VIP Car / VIP Style community again, just thought this would be a great project to kick it off […]
VIP Lounge Episode 8 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSStill missing Mr. Worldwide James Church so we want to thank Rene Garcia for stepping in. This week we answer a question from our good friend Jason Cantorna and we briefly go over my origin with VIP Cars / VIP Style Cars. Next week we will […]
VIP Lounge Episode 7 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSSorry for the delay in getting this out to you. James and I decided to have conflicting traveling schedules so we weren’t able to link up to complete episode 7 in time. Thankfully, Rene Garcia stepped in while James is getting hitched and on his honeymoon. […]
VIP Lounge Episode 6 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSHere is episode 6 of the VIP Lounge podcast. I can’t stress how enjoyable it has been doing this podcast. This week we didn’t have any special guests and we pretty much took a huge part of the episode on a post that James did on […]
VIP Lounge Episode 5 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSI can’t say this enough whenever I post each episode but this podcast was extremely fun to record. I decided to leave it as raw as possible, left in everything that I can. We invited our good friend Rene Garcia to join James, Chris, and I this […]
VIP Lounge Episode 4 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSThis week our podcast will be based on Mr. VIPDOUT himself, James Church. We thought it would be good to get to know one of our regulars on our podcast. We get to hear from him in regards to what got him started in the VIP […]
VIP Lounge Episode 3 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSThis is only our third podcast but we haven’t had this much enjoyment on a project in a long time. This week we asked 2 of our good friends to join myself, James, and Chris. I wanted to go over the general health of the US […]
VIP Lounge Podcast Episode 2
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSEpisode 2 is here! We decided to drop it a few days early. Next week we will go back to Tuesday drops. This week we have our first special guest, Ernesto “Junior” Sarmiento from Wekfest. We go over a few things; Wekfest’s origins, Upcoming Tour stops, […]
VIP Lounge Episode 1 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSFinally got James Church from VIPDOUT, Chris Abstein from Suspension Spot, and myself together to record our podcast. Simply named VIP Lounge, we plan on touching subjects within the VIP community as well as many others outside. We don’t plan on being VIP Car centric at […]
Osaka Auto Messe Coverage Part 2
Part 2 of my Osaka Auto Messe coverage will have cars not particular to VIP Cars. Osaka Auto Messe was a great experience for me. I got the opportunity to see cars that I normally saw online or just simply followed their owners via social media outlets. Like I mentioned in the first part, I […]
Osaka Auto Messe Coverage Part 1
It’s been years since I have been back to Japan. Osaka Auto Messe is also one event that I never got a chance to attend. This year, I had my sights set on Osaka Auto Messe because it’s notoriously known for its VIP Car builds that attend. While Tokyo Auto Salon brings out the big […]
Wekfest Hawaii 2017
Right now I am in my 24 hour “layover” from Hawaii to Japan. I came home for 24 hours after working at Wekfest Hawaii before heading to Osaka, Japan to finally attend Osaka Auto Messe. This year’s Hawaii trip to kick off the 2017 Wekfest Tour was a blast. It was nice to get away from […]
Toyo Tires x Super Street Calendar Launch – Nor Cal
It’s been over 2 years since I wrote on VIPStyleCars. One of the last 3 event coverages I did here was for the Nor Cal Toyo Tires x Super Street Calendar Launch. Today, Toyo Tires & Super Street came back to Nor Cal with Supreme Detailworks for their 2017 Calendar launch held at Club Auto […]
StanceNation / Nisei Showoff Coverage part 1 – VIP Cars
Photos: John Teniente Usually we like to do our coverage with just cars that catch our eyes since most events has a small percentage of VIP Cars / VIP Style Cars entered. Lately, a lot of events have had a large influx of VIP Cars / VIP Style Cars. We were not able to attend […]
Studdz Films | VIPStyleCars Spocom NorCal Video Coverage
We would like to introduce Studdz Film as one of our official videographers of VIPStyleCars.com. I am extremely excited to bring this young man into our family. Just the first of many upcoming features and coverage that we are planning on providing. Follow him on Instagram: @StuddzFilms He blessed us today with his […]
Spocom NorCal 2015
Photos / Words : VIPStyleCars.com staff It’s been awhile since I have had any content to grace these pages. I knew that I needed get back on the ball again. I had decided to stop shooting and hopefully find photographers to help us out. Since then we have some great photographers now on our […]
Toyo Tires x Super Street Meet – Northern Cali edition
Earlier in the year, Toyo Tires and Super Street did a calendar launch meet in Southern California. Today, they brought the same meet up to Northern California and we couldn’t be happier about it. We knew a storm was brewing a few days before the event and so we were debating on going or not. […]
10 years of Reflection
Squad One LS430 – Photo: Paul Liwanag The past few days I had the chance to recover from a pretty busy year. I’ve been thinking about everything we got done as a whole and everything we dropped the ball on in 2014. I was also reminded that it was time to re-up our domain. It’s […]
Blox Evolution 2014
Words / Photos: John Liwanag One event that we look forward to in Northern California is the Blox Open House. It’s a meet that is held at their facilities which draws over 300 cars each year. However it was no secret that they were outgrowing the area around their facilities and they began planning on […]
Spocom Anaheim 2014
Words / Photos: John Liwanag We took the trek down from Northern California to check out Spocom at the Anaheim Convention Center. I learned that I need to be quicker at getting the GS ready so I can start to do coverage of the event. I got started late and there were a lot of people […]
StanceNation Texas Coverage
Words / Photography : Nick Lopez “AirMax” of Jspek.com Only recently have I started going to carshows again to actually enjoy the cars rather than just hang out with friends. I decided a few months ago to take a long weekend and go to Dallas for StanceNation TX in hopes that I wouldn’t be let […]
PURE VIP GS300
Photos: Philip Isidro / Words: John Liwanag The 2nd generation Lexus GS is one of the more popular VIP car builds. Known as the Toyota Aristo with the chassis code of “JZS16x”, out here we simply knew it as a GS300, GS400, or GS430. It’s no secret that I have an affinity for 2nd […]
