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  1. Bob’s Donuts Track Day 11.27.09

    November 28, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: Events

    As you know, The Shop attended a track day on Black Friday, hosted by owner of Bob’s Donuts, Don Ahn. The event took place 4 hours south of the Bay Area at Buttonwillow Raceway. I rolled in with a couple friends and customers of the shop the night before because of the 7:30am drivers meeting. This was the most diverse track day that I have attended. There were your drifters, you had your Corvette drivers, BMW guys, and some Honda Challenge competitors. There was a Dodge SRT-10 truck driving around and Matt, in his Police Interceptor (long story short, the RX-7 wasn’t ready to be tracked). Moring sessions started with the drifters, they never cease to amaze me and they never cease to kick up dirt onto the track. since the day started late, they had to combine the novice, intermediate, and advanced group. We BBQ’d for lunch before the afternoon sessions begun. Towards the end of the day the wind picked up and the clouds moved in and started to drizzle, it wasn’t enough to stop the last session, but it made for some hairy conditions. I wan to thank Don for allowing me to get on track to take pics at the 1st and 2nd hills. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment for more please visit our gallery.


    Drivers meeting going over the track layout
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    Morning car preperations
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    Drifter kicking up dirt onto the track
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    Luke Lonberger and his LSx powered S14
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    Joe and his IS300 getting sideways on the last turn
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    Ken Tsukii looking for attention
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    Brandy and her S13 showing off
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    Again.. visit the gallery for the rest of the pics…. ENJOY!

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  2. IT’S ALIVE!!!

    November 18, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: The Shop Projects

    So I stopped by the shop today to drop my girlfriends car off and Lawton comes up to me, “Do you have your camera?” I wish I did , they were about to start up Justin’s RX7. I have a video from my iPhone but some of the sound got cut out… My microphone couldn’t handle the monsterous roar of the open headers… I will have pics of it tomorrow, for now enjoy this little vid.



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  3. Boss Man’s Birthday

    November 15, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: Events

    Yesterday was Matthel Ma’s birthday, if you don’t know him already, he is the owner and manager of The Shop San Bruno. Some friends, mechanics and long time customers of Matthel went out today for paintball fun at NorCal Paintball in Petaluma. It was a nice mix of experienced players, one of the being Matthel, and some newbies. At the end of the day we played a game of Terminator, for those that don’t know, it’s when one person plays against all. The Terminator cannot die and the game ends when they give up or they kill everyone on the field. Matthel and good friend Bud volunteered for that position. FYI Matthel is the one sticking out like a sore thumb, in the Hawaiian shirt. also the referees let me on the field with my camera, which I was a little weary about, but the pics came out awesome, flip through them below or visit our gallery.


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  4. Hella Flush Meet @ BlackTrax

    November 14, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: Events

    Wide rims, stretched tires, slammed cars… Thats the name of the game. Hella Flush held a very organized meet at BlackTrax performance today in Milpitas. I joined Jimmy Uy, a friend and a customer of The Shop, this morning for roll in and staging. Before the meet even begun, the forecast was extremely gloomy. As staging continued through the rain, the South Bay weather prevailed and we were left with a nice sunny show and some awesome lighting for pictures. A wide variety of cars were in attendance, from VDubs to toyota’s and old school Datsun’s to an LS1 powered GS. I asked Jimmy, “Don’t you worry about scraping?” and he answered, “I don’t worry about scraping, I just scrape”. It is always heart wrenching to watch these people go up a driveway, shoot, I worried about my car scraping and I am inches above all of the other cars there. This car lifestyle is all about doing more than the other guy and every show the standard is raised higher and higher. Though I did leave early, there were more cars parking, providing more eye candy for attendees. Visit the Gallery for higher res pics, or flip through the album below…



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  5. Track Day!!!

    November 13, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: Events, Featured News

    Ladies and gentlemen… It’s that time again… The Shop is attending another track day at Buttonwillow Raceway and we want you to join us. The event will take place on November 27, 2009… For more info contact Matthel Ma @ 650.624.7467 or stop on by…

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  6. Closed for SEMA

    November 4, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: Featured News

    From Thursday Nov. 5th to Sat. Nov. 7th The Shop will be closed for the SEMA convention in Las Vegas. The Shop will return to normal business on Mon. the 9th with new and exciting products for our customers like you. We do apologize for any inconvenience.

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