These days any car I see sporting a paint job from the pastel side of the palette automatically reminds of Team Instant Party (TIP). I'm sure everyone who knows or has seen Team Instant Party cars is nodding right now as they envision a procession of Easter eggs with badass offset shooting shaved rubber into their mind's eye. So you can see why this air bagged GS300 had me completely perplexed since the VIP style is the last option I would expect from a TIP member.
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Posted by: Yoshi Shindo | Nov 03, 2009 | Categories: Carspotting | Tags: Avon Bellamy, GS300, JZS161, Kranze Cerebus, Lexus, Team Instant Party, VIP, Walker Wilkerson, Weds Wheels, Yoshi Shindo | 30 Comments »
Just a few years ago, aggressive fitment wheels were a pretty rare find on cars in the United States. Most people thought that getting wheels that "fit" well meant that the wheels wouldn't have any rubbing or clearance issues. Nowadays, the trendsetters in the scene have completely changed the game, and all the "cool kids" with the best wheel fitment are all about stretched tires and seeing how close you can get your wheels/tires to the fenders.
The owner of this slammed Subaru Impreza WRX STi is a seventeen year old (Yes, I said 17 years old!) high school student named
Abbitt Wilkerson from
AW Films. Abbitt has been making a name for himself; not only because he shoots some of the most popular car videos up here in the Northwest, but also because he has a driving passion for building Subarus with the common thread of aggressive wheel fitment.
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Posted by: Yoshi Shindo | Sep 22, 2009 | Categories: Carspotting | Tags: Abbitt Wilkerson, Avon Bellamy, AW Films, Garage Autohero, Impreza, STi, Subaru, Team Instant Party, Walker Wilkerson, work wheels, WRX, Yoshi Shindo | 56 Comments »
When everyone leaves after Formula D in Seattle every year, many people seem to forget about Pacific Northwest drifting. Thanks to
Kelly and
Eddi from
Evergreen Drift, the local drivers from Washington, Oregon, and Canada are able to come back to the very same track where Formula D is held at -
Evergreen Speedway in Monroe Washington. This past weekend, some of the same drivers that competed in the Evergreen Pro AM came back out and tackled the 3/8s bank with all they had for Round 3 of the Evergreen Drift Championship.
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Posted by: Yoshi Shindo | Aug 18, 2009 | Categories: Coverage | Tags: AE86, Drift Office, Drift Safari, Earl Smith, Evergreen Drift, Garage Autohero, KP Race, Monroe, Nikolay Konstantinov, Nissan, Rob Primo, Roland Gallagher, RPS13, S13, S14, Seattle, Team Instant Party, Toyota, Trent Stromkins, Walker Wilkerson, Yoshi Shindo | Leave A Comment »