iM Flashback: Driven 2010 Recap

With Driven 2012 coming up quickly, we thought it’d be a good idea to look back and see what everyone had to offer in 2010 and what we can look forward to for this year. Since Driven was skipped for us in 2011 – there has been a significant amount of time for everybody to get their whips refreshed. From new cars, to new parts, complete overhauls or tweaks to an already existing minty car, we think this will be the best Driven yet. We have a handful of fresh new faces joining us this year and it’s only a matter of time before we all gather at the Olympic Oval once again.

Looking back – many cars are now gone and have been passed on to new owners and some remain alive and well and will be joining us once again. Let’s take a look…

Dal’s K20 Type R – this was a long-time build for Dal and it was pristine. Reggie now has possession of it and stripped it apart with new plans. From what I’ve seen, he’s doing a great job and going from the ground up with new parts left right and center. It should be at the show this year, so look forward to that!

Alan’s JDM conversion CSX Type-S. So clean and one of the first (and probably still only) to do the conversion with legit OEM parts and tastefully IMO. This is out of his possession now.

Jackie’s infamous S2000. Jackie has some plans for the upcoming year and he won’t be showing in Driven, but he’ll be coming out for our show & shine with new toys to boot.

Hoang’s K20 Civic. One of the most unique and cleanest builds I got to see in 2010. Everything from the J’s wing to the custom splitter and canards and his I.C.E. set up. Not to mention the K20 under the hood.

Steve Poyntz’s 2JZ swap Cressida on 350Z wheels. Super simple and clean build with a whole lotta power.

Chris’s Triumph TR7. Funny story with Chris and his placement in our booth. We had just finished setting everyone up and cleaning our cars and we were just about to leave the place when we were told that there was one more guy in our group. None of us knew of anyone extra and we had placed everyone on our list. We agreed to see the car and the first thing we said was “fuck yeah, we’ll take it”. Chris and his triumph are one of his kind – nothing you’d ever really see on the streets and it’s powered by an SR20. Definitely a keeper.

JC’s Corolla. This is also going through a nice change for 2012 and I’m looking forward to see it. It’s gone from simple and conservative to… well… you’ll have to see. :)

Jamie’s S2000 – this thing is beat on the track like no tomorrow. Jamie drives it hard and rightfully so. He had got his wheels powdercoated that day or the day before the show too so they were clean as hell.

Punit’s Integra. I remember this was the year that he did the K24 swap and it took weeks on end to get it done. One problem would come up after another and the show came up super quick. Luckily he got it running and entered. Wait till you guys see what he has in store this year.

Gopesh’s GTI – this is also going through a nice overhaul for this year as well.

Terence Wah’s S2000. Another S2000 that saw the track often and built with function in mind. Also another that is no longer in Terence’s possession. He now has a new toy…

Derrek Poyntz’s recently finished Integra RS. This was finished hours before roll-in and ready to go. All the graffiti on this was done by hand! The Calgary skyline is also on the valve cover.

Terence Ng’s Merc. More plans for this later on as well…

iM: Driven 2010 Edmonton Pt. II

Well I was bored and decided to edit the rest of the photos from Driven Edmonton. Check ’em out.

PS: Stay tuned for news regarding an illmotion meet!!!

-JC


My favorite FD2 from the show. This car makes me want to build one! =P

iM Random Snaps: JKL’s S2K @ Driven Edmonton

Being very new to editing photos I just had to share this quick snap of Jackie Law’s “Internet Sensation”, his Honda S2000.

This photo was all green and yellow before and after spending almost an hour on editing this pic I’m really happy with how it turned out and thought I’d share it with y’all.

Until next time!

iM: Driven Edmonton 2010

Just some quick coverage of last weekends Driven show in Edmonton. Despite it being an extremely long day, and having to navigate the Chuck’s shit roads (WTF! is everything under construction in Edmonton?) it ended up being an all right day. The show was significantly smaller then the Calgary edition but the quality of cars made up for the quanitity.

Anyways check the pics:

Started the drive bright and early, on the road at 6:30am…. what were we thinking haha.

Hit up the car wash, then waited for Punit to clean his wheels.

Finally there…. lots of tight Supra’s in attendance.

NSX with updated front end conversion.

Sick Datsun that has been at previous DTP show, so nice.

Customed out Mini

Clean MR2 rocking some dished Work XD9’s.

Type-R conversion FD civic

ChargeSpeed EK hatch that has been in hibernation for some time.

EK rocking some sick Mugen MF10’s

And finally a couple quick snaps of the illmotion whips

Raj’s Civic

August 7th, 2010: Driven Edmonton x illmotion

Just wanted to let those of you in Edmonton know that this Saturday, August 7th 2010 a few of us from the illmotion crew are going to be attending the Driven Car Show presented by The Tire Warehouse!

Please stop by our booth and say hi and if any of you guys are looking for some decals please don’t hestitate to ask any of us who are at the show.

For more information on Driven Edmonton click here: Driven Car Show

See you guys there!

Yuuup!

-JC

illmotion x Driven 2010 – Part III

The final part of my batch from Driven last Saturday is the rest of the show. I tried my best to take shots of all the other cars that I could. Most turned out, some didn’t unfortunately. I apologize if you don’t see your car here!
The show was great and there was a great turnout of tons of other cars that you don’t normally see roaming the streets all the time so it was a nice place to be if you had even the slightest love for sick cars with tons of money and work put into them.

Enjoy!

We’ll start off with a ceiling view of one side of the show – mostly illmotion’s booth.

Moving on to the WSC booth. These guys were right beside us and a pleasure to have them there as well!

Beyond’s booth starting with Adnan’s car

RevWerks’ booth

After that.. I lost track of which booth I was going to. This looked to be the BMW booth

Mitsubishi Booth. Look at those Grids! Love the concave and color!

LOVE this EvoX. I was pretty obsessed with the Voltex wing *drool*

Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation Donation

Thank-you for every ones support at the annual Driven show! Because of your continued support through the purchase of our decals we managed to raise $365 dollars which all went to a great cause, the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation!

If you missed out on the decals head over to our STORE to get your hands on some.

If you wish to make a donation to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation make your way over to their site HERE

Thanks again!

Driven 2010 – couple more illmotion pics

Tough act to follow after seeing Rich and Jason’s pictures…. but here a couple quickies that I happened to like.

Jackie’s shit is serious!

Derek’s integra was not running at 8:00 on Friday night….. it made roll in later Friday night by 5 minutes haha. There were many sleepless nights this past week by the boys getting this car done.

Just noticed when I was flipping through the pics the custom plate…. VERNO. Haha, nice! If you get it then you know whats up.

Tucked and shaved bay…. one of the first local Honda’s (that I’m aware of) that has successfully pulled it off. On top of that it’s rockin ITB’s and an epic custom valve cover.

AE-S2k + all the other old school homies.

RX8 with Project Mu’s bigger then most people wheels among many other baller parts.

Baller Dal’s DC integra. Uber rare Mugen gen.1 wing among a couple other taste full upgrades this season.

More Honda/Honda/Honda.

Strobe party

Arif

Jason

Corey

Ryan

y0punit

Jamie with his freshly refinished Volks…. they were finished Friday morning haha, another one cut close that almost didn’t make it.

JC

Prashant herra flush

Whatever’s Clever x illmotion x Driven 2010

Just wanted to give a quick shout to my homie Aldrich Evangelista for being our “unofficial” photographer alongside Jason at Driven 2010.

Sorry about your phone getting jacked at Driven too. Whoever stole it will get what’s coming to him if he doesn’t return it. (Since you GPS tracked the thing muahaha)

Cherry rockin’ that iM

I encourage you all to check out Driven 2010 photos taken by Rich here:
aldrich.evangelista’s Photostream: Driven 2010

Other sets by Aldrich are worth taking a look at as well: aldrich.evangelista’s Photostream

And last but not least don’t forget to check out his blog: Whatever’s Clever…Or Not

Yuuup!

illmotion x Driven 2010 – Part II

Well, part II of my posts from Driven are going to be probably what everybody cares about.
First I want to thank our official model, Cherry Vo for toughing it out from early morning till the end of the show and being the first girl to model for illmotion. Also a thank you goes to the other models that came out and joined Cherry, Vy and Kristen.

I will admit that this was really my first time ever shooting models with cars. It was tough, it was a good learning experience and I’d definitely do it again. There were tons of other photogs running around Driven getting awesome pics. However, my pics stayed within illmotion with the illmotion girls. Enjoy!

Cherry and Vy in Jackie’s S2000

E-Mack himself with Cherry and Vy

Kristen and Cherry with Ryan’s EP3

Pat’s 240

And, Jory’s car haha