Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Lost Opportunity

Some might know about this, some might not. It was just couple of weeks ago I almost let Black Mamba go. As you would know that Black Mamba is my life since two years ago. But I had the opportunity to own another legendary Honda automobile - the sexy, seductive and sultry S2000. Probably the only chance for me to own it at this moment. However, in order for me to acquire the topless beauty, I must sell Black Mamba; which became the most difficult decision for me to make in my 29 years of living. But I made up my mind, I have to move on.

Decided not to advertise the car on the net, I spread the words among friends. To cut the long story short, I had three interested buyers for my car. The first potential buyer failed to get a loan. The second buyer was asking for ridiculously low price. The third (and the last) potential buyer was something different. He agreed to buy the car with cold hard cash! I was sceptical at first but thinking that I could earn more money by offsetting from my loan balance, I agreed. Oh yes, the plan actually was for me to buy the S2000 UK using my wife's AP and bring back the car to Malaysia. For me to get a 2006 AP2 S2000 at GBP10,000, I need to have cash, hence the agreement to sell off the car to the cash-rich buyer. But I guess the bonding between me and Black Mamba is meant to be longer than 2 years when the buyer couldn't come out with the cash on time (I'm flying off to UK in 2 days, the guy can only get the cash in a month or so).

So the deal went off. Black Mamba is safe and sound with me (New tires and fender bars coming in ngeheheh) and I have no further intention to sell it now. S2000 can wait, if not now, sooner or later. It's just that I regret I couldn't do a money shot with the S2000 like this dude below, am I right Hezz? Hahaha...

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

R Mega Meet Full Version

Hello guys!! I've been MIA from this blog for almost three months. I am overwhelmed with too many work la. Anyways as promised last February here are the full version of the Mega R meet. Just to recap on the meet, it was totally an impromptu gathering organized by Arif FD2R and myself via ZTH forum and Facebook. The respond was so good we managed to gather more than 90 Type-Rs of many variants (The guys from Singapore came down as well!) plus Tom of ZTH himself came to cover this event. We surely had a good time that night with lucky draws and games where the prizes were sponsored by Pentagon and TintPro. And mind you, the prizes are not just RM50 voucher but they are worth thousands of Ringgit such as security tints voucher, authentic J's Racing t-shirts, discounts on Hondata and much more!

It's such a memorable event for the Honda enthusiasts when the R division assembled at Seri Buloh restaurant parking lot together. The rumbling exhaust note from DC5, FD2, FN2, CL7 turned every heads around the area. People start to drop by to take pics and joined in the fun. It was indeed the ultimate VTEC night for everyone. The only R that is missing that night was the NSX-R. Otherwise the Type-R elements will be complete.

Took damn long time for me to compile and put the pics here so I hope you guys will enjoy the photosets. Till the next post, adios!

Photos by Raja Karim (http://rajakarim.blogspot.com)































Photos by Andrew Khoo (http://www.zerotohundred.com/)




















Photos by Sathis (DC5 Group)