Air Lover

Now the story to this one is interesting, when Neck Breakerz started I attended Motor Mania 1 and this is where I first laid eyes on Shakeel's Caddy. Everybody read his registration, "O SO LOW", and we all thought - "man this must be a joke". Little did we know that he had recently done a full Air install. He then lowered the Caddy before everyone's eyes and needless to say the way that Caddy lay frame was a first for many who witnessed it, even for me.

Motorfest 2012

On the 30th of June, Trade Route Shopping Center played host to Motorfest 2012 hosted by JHB Parties, as we all know that JHB Parties is coming up strong and their events are never disappointing.
Rizo Kan the man behind this awesome line up of events has something so good going for him that his events are always packed, besides the fact that he always has a new trick up his sleeve every time we attend an event and we all know for a fact this wont be his last time impressing us.

We attend Motorfest 2012 and we could only anticipate a great day ahead, as usual the morning always makes for a slow start but it quickly picked up with people streaming in by the dozens. There were wheels, sound, merchandise and even air brushing displays, not forgetting the great cars that were inside the venue perimeter.

All I can say is, Rizo we waiting for the next one!

Allie.

Eat Sleep Boost!

Its goes without saying that the Volkswagen Golf Mk V is surely carrying the GTi moniker well. Having been launched mid 2006 on US soil, it was a hit from the word go!

To find a stock Mk V around your neighborhood is pretty easy and very often you will find some with a different style of wheels. When I met Nishal,  I happened to be walking past his car and what really caught my eye was the blue around the grill area - take a closer look and you WILL find yourself watering at the mouth!

The feel to the car is aggressive. Nothing can be labeled as over done, yet it still remains classy.

Nishal has always had a love for cars - and having the urge to modify them, he really wanted a Mk V GTi with silver being the only color of choice. When he finally got around to getting the car he did a small performance mod running stage 2 software. Like most guys with modified cars, he became used to the power and wanted more so the general option was to go with a full K04 set up done by a buddy of his.

Wheel wise he opted for a set of 18" PDW hoops, and with the ride height not being the most ideal, 

H 'n R springs were installed to bring it closer to the earth.

With the K04 conversion on the cards, it was guaranteed there would be small things that still had to be done, so Yoshen from Unitronic was brought on board to do the necessary. 

Evoms intake, S3 cooler, S3 injectors, Devils Own meth kit, Forge twincooler, Wotbox and full exhaust with R32 diffuser make quite the ingredients for one of South Africa's fastest GTi's. It didn't stop there however - it finally ended with him doing full Neuspeed pulley kit and a last visit to Yoshen to do stage 2+.

And so, together, all the ingredients of this recipe brings you one fast and mean looking Mk V!

Enjoy,

Allister.

Boost Junkies Dyno day.

I'm usually always late for a show, but that's all just a time and family juggling issue but I always like to attend up and coming crew events. So I know all of you must be thinking 'he must have been on time for this one" you have it wrong I was late again. Enough about my time issue.

Boost Junkies, it's pretty simple the next thing that comes to mind are turbos and really fast cars without even having to search far for an explanation. Now events are coming up strong this year and we all try to attend as many as possible, but this is the one I would make sure I was at, as I am close friends with a lot of the boys who organized this Dyno Day. It would simply go without saying that I was bound to enjoy myself , with me being one for speed but not having the balls to do these things myself, they suite other people better.

Now doing an event of this sort is nothing to be fancy about, its all about power no fancy dribble. Its a mine is bigger than yours contest, a battle field for modders who thought they got it all this morning.

When I got to the K.A.R performance where the event was being held, it was packed, the smell of fuel and exhaust fumes set off my high for power. This was going to be no gentleman's game.

Allie

Green Dream

Now there is no actual point you can start at when trying to describe this A1 Caddy to anybody you know, I experienced this in person. I had followed Aldo's previous build of the same Caddy but never thought of it to be what people were saying it was, using big words like superbly built, practically perfect, international standard, showroom piece. I could go on about how people go into a frenzy when this car is mentioned.

Myself and Zac organized with Aldo to shoot the Caddy, with everything arranged we took a day off our everyday jobs and went to fetch Aldo's green beast. It was a sight that I couldn't not explain, feelings that I have never felt before, before me was a 1.9 G60 workhorse that just oozed awesome.

I took a quick look around the Caddy and to honest I couldn't spot a single imperfect detail except for the side view mirrors that were missing. I ran my fingers across the paint, I could see my reflection in it. Could the paint be this clean? Its a wet dream that's not supposed to exist but before me I had one kick ass combination of Simple, Functional and Clean!

Allister, Neck Breakerz

The Gumball 3000

The Gumball 3000 started out in 1999 and has successfully combined art, automobiles, music and film to create a unique aspirational lifestyle brand. Headed by Maximillion Cooper, the Gumball 3000 Group now operates eight companies with offices in Europe and the United States.

With a pioneering spirit and an attraction that transcends social barriers our mission is to build a global lifestyle brand of the future.

“Gumball is about challenging tradition and taking a non conventional approach to exploring and developing cultural and creative boundaries” Maximillion Cooper, Founder & CEO, Gumball 3000 Group.

The brand has grown organically from its origins as a notorious car rally, into a successful global lifestyle and entertainment group. In 2007, Forbes magazine valued the Gumball 3000 brand at over $200 million.

Gumball 3000’s audience is unique, appealing to kids in the playground trading Gumball Top Trump Super cars playing cards, to the rich and famous that own and drive the supercars in the annual rally. Through the global language of automobiles and entertainment Gumball 3000 has become an aspirational brand to people of all ages, from all walks of life, regardless of status or wealth. Creating a lifestyle brand that combines sport, music, fashion and cars and with a list of celebrity participants as diverse as Johnny Knoxville to Snoop Dogg, Daryl Hannah to Damon Hill, and Rob Dyrdek to Jodie Kidd Gumball maintains its underground appeal, whilst reaching a mass consumer audience. Also appealing to the luxury market and the lifestyles of the already ‘rich and famous’ this unique ability provides a platform to reach both a mass consumer and high end audience, as well as being able to work with the influential and pioneering of the world.

“Gumball combines individual styles and personalities, and appeals to kids on the street to the billionaires of the world” Xzibit, Rap star & host of MTV’s 'Pimp My Ride'.

So after seeing all over my news feed on facebook about the Gumball 3000 starting line being at Times Square I couldn't lose a chance in a lifetime and made my way down there. For me, Exotics where I live are a rare sight at times, but the Gumball 3000 rally is any motoring enthusiasts dream. . 

NB go to Motor Mania 2

Motor Mania, it was my first event that I had covered for the blog in February and so another Sunday down the line and its back. 

So it must be said that Rizo from JHB Parties sure knows how to advertise his events, and with this event he surely went out of his way. As before the event was even on the verge of going down it was on everybody's lips. We arrived at Motor Mania and it was like a scene out of a movie, the place was packed, people were hustling about and just like that we knew it was going to be a big one.

I was skeptical to see a lot of the cars I usually see at other events, but low and behold upon passing through the gates I found that it was a whole different story. 

Allie, Neck Breakerz 

NB go to Nitro Crew Dyno Day, Show & Shine.

Nitro Crew has been around for a while, they host a quarter mile event every first Sunday of the month but the strangely enough I hadn't heard of them. Here is the thing I drive past that very airfield they use for their quarter mile event everyday, so on a random Sunday I decided to go see whats happens there and I must say its a spectacle not to be missed.

While I was there I caught the announcement that they would be having a Dyno Day/Show and Shine. So being as inquisitive as I was, I took note of the date and made it a point to be there.

On the 19th of May at 11am I found myself at Turbo park in Boksburg where the event was going down at Monster Motorsport, the stage was set and the day started out a little slow to say the least but like most events it was sure to pick up as people like to be fashionably late and so it did.

The Dyno started off with a bang but just like that after the first run it broke, but Monster Motorsport were onto it in no time and before we knew it was up running with people even applauding the boys who took the drive to get the mess sorted. With dyno back up and running it was run after run with cars putting up impressive figures, from naturally aspirated 2.0 16v, supercharged V8, twin Turbo V8 and a variety of other highly modded motors made for good sportsmanship.

The day went quick as the sun started to set without warning, there was still a very long line of cars that were to take up the rollers to see what power they were putting out.

My attention was mainly focused on the parking lot as it was a spectacle of well rounded off clean cars, my favorite being Ian Repsold's Meth Addict drag car a real work of art, and they even got it onto the dyno but I never got to see the power of that 8.8 second quarter mile Beast as the methanol burnt my eyes.

It was around five and I was ready to leave, having walked around the whole day I couldn't stay for the show and shine and sound off competition. A long day I must say and some sore feet and a camera full of pretty awesome shots, I made my way home.

So till the next show and a huge thanks to Nitro Crew, you guys did big!

Allie, Neck Breakerz.

Eurofest Coverage

With me being in the JDM scene for a couple of years now. Amazing builds and fantastic creations always makes you want to build one but with a different taste of your own. It use to be that just JDM is ruled those amazing creations but in the last 5years more Euros have been hitting the United States with something really different with cars that will have you saying well "DAMNNN".

 This was my first time attending Eurofest and featuring an event and I'm going to say. This was an event where tears came out of my eyes. You might say..this guys is a hipster. But any car enthusiast could tell you about that amazing feeling inside when goosebumps come out like bullets from your body when you are in your element. 

Nesto, Neck Breakerz

The Hookup 0.2

HoodRide & KindaFlush together with Swagger Lifstyles, Neck Breakerz, & Super Dubz bring you The Hookup 0.2.

Parking lot at Compu-Kart Raceway.

Lets park off, and race some go-karts.

FRIDAY 25 MAY 7:30 till when you decide to leave

Stone Ridge  Centre

No.! Stoneridge Drive,

Greenstone Park, Edenvale, 1610

Cnr. Modderfontein and Hereford Rd.

Basement under Superspar

Compu-Kart Raceway.

Stay Scheeming.

Neck Breakerz team.

Red Riding in the Hood

When u come across a fine piece of machinery, one always have to ponder why can’t all enthusiasts cars look like this. If a person treats his car with respect, I always believe that the car will return that favor. In this case we look at this fine example of Ramiz Isaacs, this car don’t come out when it rains, its body work is flawless. We all know how hard it is to maintain a red cars paintwork to stay in a pristine condition.

I met Ramiz almost 2 years ago at a small VW hookup that my buddy Zain invited me to, because that time I was still new at photography and he figured that it will assist me in my venture, seeing that I just photographed Hondas back in the day. The only thing that changed since then was the air suspension that he fitted and he took the lip of he had on, for the more OEM look and the old lip was scraping on the ground also.  

Divan, Neck Breakerz

Neck Breakerz go to Chilling for Charity

Who wouldn't help the the less fortunate, we all wish in our own special way that we could make someone else's life more comfortable and relaxing, something that that they dont experience everyday. It was just after the BMW vs VW weekend, that news got out that the guys from 4 Corners Entertainment and Showtime Fanatics were working on a Charity event.

People were nothing short of excited to do their bit for the less fortunate, and just like that people started spreading the word via any source of media available, and so many crews approached the organizers to incorporate on the Heap of Hope event. People from Showtime Fanatics, Eurohoodride, Cheese Living and JHB Parties just to mention a few all organized random pick ups of unwanted clothing, food, blankets, toys and the list goes on and on and on, you get the idea.

Zoo lake would be the venue for this good cause and believe me it made for the perfect setting, we arrived dropped off our goodies basically filling up two 1 tonner trucks courtesy of the Bozi Spinmasters, we then proceeded to chill for charity, and as usual a lot of new friends were made I haven't laughed that much in a while.

Just want to say a big thank you to 4 Corners and Showtime Fanatics for always being the ones to set the trend, you guys did a good deed and it wont be forgotten for a longtime to come!

Cant wait for the next event.

Ciao,
Allie, Neck Breakerz.

Quality not Quantity

After a recent event I had the pleasure of shooting these two beauties together. As it would be it was a spur of the moment shoot as the Mk5 was leaving for Worthersee in Austria the next morning so I took the little time we had and the less than perfect location and rolled with it. In my opinion these two golf's are leading the scene here in Romania! I am yet to see two other Volkswagen's that are more complete be it engine, wheels, paint, suspension or interior wise.

It also happens to be a perfect duo being that they are both running air-ride and similar color combo's. They also just happen to be both editions, be it the Mk5 a Edition 30 and the Mk2 a Edition One. I will hopefully go into much more detail with each of these cars in a follow-up shoot.

Early Edition 38

Early Edition 2012, Northampton Rugby Ground, UK

A one day affair that kicked off when a group very keen Dub enthusiasts decided that hosting what is arguably the UKs greatest all weekend VW show, Edition38, spilled over into this little shindig at Franklin Garden's rugby stadium almost slap bang in the middle of the country.

It draws cars from all over our relatively small island and always attracts an exceptionally high standard of what's hot for the eager punters to check out. This years turnout seemed slightly down on the inaugural 2011 show, but with the car limbo contest, show 'n' shine prizes and wheel change competition kicking off everyone seemed to enjoy a chilled day amongst friends both new and old.

Check out the quality of metal on show and we're sure you won't be dissapointed - whether you're a new skool or old skool junkie, Early Edition had all bases covered, including a few cheeky Porsche, BMW and Seat and Skoda entries as well.

Air ride and Rotiform wheels continue to be as popular as ever here amongst the UK scene, but the hard slammed, static crowd always inspire confidence with some epic arch gaps still evident.

Here's a quick taster in pictorial form of what went down. Enjoy.

James, Neck Breakerz

Keep things simple, stupid.

"Keep things simple, stupid" it's the key tuning mentality that has shaped car modification since the very damn of the teenager and hot rodding in the late 40s and early 50s. Don't add what isn't needed, keep bodywork subtle and ensure those lines are always as smooth and clean, if not more so, than the original manufacturer intended.

EuroCar Meeting by STREETMANIACS

With summer well on it's way the show season has begun in Europe, and how do you go about starting it off? How about telling a few friends about a meet at a local parking lot? Sounds nice and quiet doesn't it..

Well this past Sunday I was invited by STREETMANIACS (Check them out on FB) to a what we thought was a small get together but ended up becoming a full blown event with over 100+ cars showing up!! Shows how far the word of mouth still goes these days.

The variety of cars that showed up was enough to please any petrol head be it stanced, on bags, turbocharged ,VAG, JDM you name it!! You certainly weren't left wanting anything except for maybe a few more hours of daylight to enjoy them. All of the cars we have featured so far also made an appearance wearing their NeckBreakerz stickers proud.

HoodRide Hookup!

You have a nice ride but you only drive it to work, people hardly see it besides for the average people in traffic which know nothing of modding. They think you must be blind because what you have done to your car has no appeal to the common man, I think that would sum up one hell of a good reason to get together with other people who share the same interests but where is always the question.

Who knows the first group of people to have just decided as friends to just squatter in a parking lot, make a few phone calls and just like that you would take a peak into a world where no normal person could ever fit into. A world where ideas come together, great friends are made and cars share the only thing in common that they are driven.

We attend a last minute Hookup, arranged by the man himself Mahesh Kalain of Eurohoodride. He had only his large fan base a cellphone and people that were dying to get together again for HoodRide style Hookup!

The Bomber

2005 Citi/MK1 conversion.

Well most of the guys in S.A know me from www.stickermuch.com and know the car, and probably what's been done to it...
So I'm not really going to do a write up on it.
Enjoy the photo's.