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iM Random Snaps: Bring the Fun & Sun Back!

Those of you in warmer climates are lucky. You get to drive your vehicles all year round, without having to switch them over to winter mode, or put them away all together. We here are not so lucky. Snow and ice all over the ground and constant freezing temperatures both either depress us, or put us in bad moods. People fight, people argue, people disagree… people are just people, can’t do much about it.

Which is why I can’t wait for the spring/summer again. We need to start having fun again, need to start shooting again, need to start hanging out again.

Our followers here are very aware of the pics of all the cars that we put up, but it takes a lot of hard work and dedication behind the scenes to bring you guys what we do with every post. We try to keep on schedule, but things always get in the way. But isn’t that how life is? But we get it done, and its all for you.

So here’s to the good days. We will continue to put in work, get shoots done, put up content, and continue to showcase the local car scene for our viewers and fans, whether you like it or not.

More pics can be found HERE.

And just for good measure, here are a couple of pics of the beautiful Dannie Riel that I snapped at DTP Vancouver.

iM Shop Spotlight

iM Shop Spotlight: Super Autobacs

Whenever I see pictures inside Super Autobacs it always reminds of those ghetto shops that are sometimes in malls around here and all they sell it altezza taillights and model cars but replaced with every baller JDM brand you can imagine. Walls of rare wheels, limited edition Recaro seats and everything in between.

Did someone say wheels?

Wall o’ Nardi wheels

Need any small accessories?

No, how about a carbon J’s intake.

And everyone favorite rack…. altezza’s on altezza’s on altezza’s.

More Super Autobacs pictures can be found on our Flickr page HERE

And that’s a wrap as far as our Tokyo Auto Salon/JDM shop coverage goes. We’d like to throw a huge thanks out to Galen Wan for the amazing stuff he’s been able to provide us with over the last month or so. Also to our friends over at Stretch & Poke! be sure to check out their site when you have minute for their take on all this crazy JDM stuff.

We’ll be back in the coming days/weeks with a couple more local features & videos that we’ve saved up from the summer months which I’m sure you guys will enjoy.

iM Shop Spotlight

iM Shop Spotlight: Backyard Special

Today we’re going to be sharing some pictures from Galen’s stop at one of my personal favorite JDM Honda Tuners, Backyard Special. I remember reading a story in Honda Tuning a while back about Hatsuo Suzuki the CEO of Backyard Special and his love for Honda’s from the very beginning. The way the story was written I got the feeling that he just loves what he does and I think it really shows in the products they continue to produce.

He opened this shop back in 1983 and has been tuning Honda’s in the same location since then.

As usual for all the JDM shops space is not plentiful. Also peep the S600, Hatsuo’s favorite Honda.

There was also a couple other Honda’s parked outside on display.

And then at the end of his visit Mr. Suzuki gave Galen a ‘spirited’ drive back to the train station in the company CRZ.

More Backyard Special pictures can be found on our Flickr page HERE

iM Shop Spotlight

iM Shop Spotlight: J’s Racing

In recent years J’s Racing popularity has gone through the roof. Their products are distributed through many North American distributors now and slightly easier (minus the wait times) to get into your hands and onto your car. Also attributed to their popularity would be the current trend to build track ready cars with track inspired parts. Whether that’s your thing or not, the quality of J’s parts can’t be denied.

First up we have the J’s Racing CRZ. Galen wasn’t able to get too much information out of the J’s crew but he did learn that they’ve up’d the compression and are continuing to find ways to squeeze more power out of Honda’s latest sporty hybrid.

Euro CTR, no big deal.

The J’s Racing shop dog Ryoma just chilling on the front steps.

Next up are a couple of the Honda Fits/Jazz that they had parked out front all rocking the crazy aero kits, wings and exhausts.

And even more parked out on the street.

Couple more J’s pictures can be found on our Flickr page HERE

iM Shop Spotlight

iM Shop Spotlight: Feel’s, Seeker & K.Break

Next us on our Japan Shop Spotlights we have Honda tuners Feel’s & Seeker and also a quick stop at K.Break.

| Feel’s:

First up is Feel’s who had their street & track CTR’s on display. If I owned an 8th gen civic I think that there would be lots of Feel’s areo finding its way onto the car. Love the widebody fenders on these two.

More Feel’s pictures can be found on our Flickr page HERE

| Seeker:

Unfortunately there wasn’t anyone at Seeker that spoke any english so it was just a quick stop checking out their parking lot which had a couple CTR’s, a CRZ and a old school prelude.

Couple more Seeker pictures can be found on our Flickr page HERE

| K.Break:

Last up for today is JDM VIP tuner K.Break. Mostly know for their VIP bodykits and aero products. They were closed when Galen stopped by to visit so here’s a couple shots of the cars that were parked outside.

Air ride obviously not in it’s hardparking position.

Couple more K.Break pictures can be found on our Flickr page HERE

iM Shop Spotlight

iM Shop Spotlight : Spoon/Type One

After Galen’s trip to Tokyo Auto Salon 2012, he also decided to check out some of the Japanese performance shops that we all know and love. One of his first stops was Spoon Sports/Type One. Unfortunately Spoon is under some renovations so he wasn’t able to get inside. Regardless this post is dedicated to the Honda fanboys. Enjoy!

Spoon CRZs

Spoon CR93 and a Couple ECUs

Spoon Motor Rib for the Honda CRZ.

Couple of cars outside. Spoon Civic and Spoon Honda S2000.

Kind of funny seeing the Mugen RR Civic at Type One.

More Type One pictures can be found on our Flickr page HERE

Japan

Tokyo Auto Salon – The Parking Lot

Only at the Tokyo Auto Salon do you end up with the quality of cars pictured below scattered through the spectator parking lots. Make sure you scroll all the way down.

More parking lot pictures can be found on our Flickr page HERE

iM Random Snaps

iM Random Snaps: Stanceworks Limbo Contest

Mid-way through winter, I always find myself looking through albums upon albums trying to relapse what happened during the beautiful summer months. It doesn’t seem like that long ago the sun was shining high in the sky, and there were car shows at least every single weekend. One of my most memorable shows I went to last season was the Stanceworks and Waterwerks show down in Tacoma WA. One of the most interesting aspects of the show was the limbo contest. Here are a few random snaps that never made it in my original article.

Honda

iM Film: Daniel’s Honda S2000

Gonna take a little break from the awesome coverage from Tokyo Auto Salon/Japan and share a little video we created for Gangster D’s Spoon’ed out Honda S2000. Gangster D’s S2K was featured a little over a month ago here on illmotion so without further adieu we are proud to present to you yet another iM Film! Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/35300200

Check out the full feature on this Spoon S2K here.

Japan

iM Event Coverage: Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 Part 5

First I just wanted to recap and link up all the previous posts in case you missed some or are just tuning in now. There’s pretty crazy stuff in all the links so if you have a minute definitely check them out.

Part 1 – The Preview

Part 2 – Mugen RR CRZ + more

Part 3 – The Vendors

Part 4 – BenSopra GTR’s + more

Second off I’d like to thank Galen for all the awesome coverage he’s been able to send our way. When he mentioned he was attending the event I knew our readers would enjoy it, which I hope you have, cause we’ve enjoyed being able to share it.

Also we’d like to thank our friends over at Stretch & Poke! for working with us on our first major colab work with another online blog. Who better to share the material with than another original and Canadian blog. Keep it up guys! And stay tuned in the coming weeks for even more work with S&P!

Onto the new stuff I think this is going to be it for actual serious event coverage. Don’t want to overload everyone so we’ll close it out today.

Kinda skipped over this pretty quick the other day but the BRZ STI concept was looking pretty damn good.

Missed these the first time around… couple mint, old school Nissan’s.

Amuse 370z that was located in the Advan both.

Seen a couple Nissan Cubes rolling around locally and thought how sick they’d looked slammed to the ground. Yup!

Veilside booth with some crazy over the top body kits.

As you can probably tell from the previous posts, there were GTR’s everywhere. This one care of Kansai Service.

Spearmint Rhino RWB

All black errthing… with orange calipers.

RE Amemiya both with some interesting aero.

Option 2 booth with a build/project car looking great for being in pieces.

Still have some other random stuff from TAS 2012 that we’ll post up later in the week or maybe early next.

Also if there’s anything you guys want to see more of let us know in the comment section below or on our Facebook page and we’ll do our best to post it up at a later time.

*update*
Overloaded the site with too many pics so we’ve moved the remaining TAS pictures from this post onto our Flickr page HERE