Showing posts with label VeilSide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VeilSide. Show all posts

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Premier 4509 - New Styling by VeilSide

When I visited VeilSide in January there was a car in the corner having a new bodykit developed for it. It was a Lamborghini Murcielago, but at the time I respected a request not to publish photographs of it....

Until now:

and the resulting aero kit:
The range is called Premier 4509 and like most of their newer kits the 'combat' style has been done away with in favour of smooth lines to compliment the car and look almost as if it was designed like this originally. White is certainly the new Black

The kits consist of front/rear bumpers, sideskirts and the carbon rear wing. The wheels and exhaust are available separately also
There is also a kit for the smaller Lamborghini Gallardo, the front design is identical to the Murcielago
And the third design is for the Bentley Continental GT. Like the Lamborghini kits, the design is clean and subtle and only 10cm wider than the standard GT
And the rear. Once again the creative artistic genius that is Hirano Yokomaku has created a stylish and purposeful design. One of the true automotive artists, as he moulds the design himself using foam and clay and does not sketch the design on paper.

Some people might argue that why should you personalise your very expensive and exclusive Bentley or Lamborghini? Why not would be Yokomakus answer. Not everyone can afford to own such cars and since some people can, they can choose to personalise their car even more, as opposed to just a personalised number plate!

The Bentley will feature in Fast and Furious 4, unsure yet whether it will be a major role or just in the background! VeilSide are creating other cars for the film too, which is in pre production at present

The next generation of VeilSide has arrived. It is going to be an interesting journey

Wednesday 12 March 2008

VeilSide - The Return visit

On the way back from Tsukuba circuit and contrary to popular belief it was further away than we thought, but we had to drop by our friends at VeilSide. Unlike the last time, the shop was quiet and things were being re-arranged. Mr Yokomaku was away in America arranging for VeilSides involvement in the next Fast and Furious film, and far less cars were in the showroom, some of them had been moved to VeilSides new showroom in Nagoya, but there were a few new ones too, including their latest kit in development for a European car

Which will be revealed soon, it is for an Italian car

It helps to have a rich boyfriend, and one who modifys cars at that. This is Yokomaku sans girlfriends car, in pink, with lovehearts. Very girly! Not for me but the work deserves respect


Also here was a recently completed Fortune RX-7. This clearly shows how wide the kit is. Every panel apart from the roof and windscreen has been replaced
VeilSides transporter was parked outside, better known as the greenhouse. There are curtains which can be drawn to show or hide whats inside

Evil!!

Chris shows how big a fortune kit is, the white boxes are for a fortune kit for the NSX

The Real Deal, not copied 50% fibreglass 25% chicken wire 25% newspaper rubbish, this is real and genuine, it will fit the car like a glove, wont need ages sanding and filling in the bodyshop and wont warp when its painted, not to mention an easy repair should it be damaged and not a replacement, unlike copies which tend to explode

Still 1 of my favourite cars, the R32 GTR Evolution R-III, well over 860bhp and 1 of the GTR's that really pushed the Japanese tuning scene foward,with both style and performance


Random Japan Part 5 - The Japanese truly love Carbon Fibre, as they make benches in train stations out of it, and not just lightweight parts for cars
And its real carbon, not just 1 layer on top of fibreglass

Saturday 7 July 2007

7/7/7 - Mazda RX7 Day

Today is the Seventh of July 2007 or 07/07/07. a lot of RX7 meetings have taken place worldwide today so here are a few RX7 photos of FC's and FD's in tribute to the legendary rotary powered sportscar,taken by me in the last 18 months





Tuesday 26 June 2007

VeilSide

VeilSide - the name says it all and yes they did exist before Fast and Furious and I had heard of them before then!! For my 2nd trip to Japan it was a must that we went to see them, so after a long train journey and some crap directions, myself and Chris found ourselves deep in Ibaraki prefecture in suburban Tokyo, not far from Tsukuba circuit when suddenly I saw a big building with VeilSide written on the side.....

This was it - one of the the best known of all Japanese tuning companies, as famous for their styling as their drag racing/top speed exploits

Despite being in Japan the weather had followed us from Ireland and it was pouring rain outside,so time to take a look inside

Yes - Its really VeilSide!!! And Im here - lets go inside!!

Its a Fortune kitted RX7 and Drift Kings 350z from Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.......
With 2 more alongside.... the orange 1 unsurprisingly is 1 of the cars used in the film (and autographed by Sam Hubinette)


Glad I brought my tripod.......



1 of the cars I had wanted to see,their 1300bhp drag Supra,below is a video of it in action (an idea I borrowed from VeilSides showroom,where loads of tv screens show similar footage of their cars in action). We will come back to the man with the big grin on his face at the end of the video later.




And the car that almost had me drooling,Drag R-1 their R32 GTR drag car with over 1300bhp which still holds the world 0-300km/h record (see below) with a time of 13.72 seconds and the 4wd 1/4 mile world record on street tyres with 8.612 @ 172.5 mph....




The R32 Evolution R-III,860bhp and 1 of the fastest Skylines in Japan in the early 90's. This car won VeilSide their 1st Tokyo Auto Salon trophies. The front looks the same as your 'average' R32 GTR,but the rear end of it blew me away aswell as the wide arches,very radical and only VeilSide could do something like this well!



Chris debates purchasing some VeilSide products. Notice how wide the arches are on the Combat Supra behind him!


And finally,the creative genius that is Mr Hirano Yokomaku,President of VeilSide, and easily 1 of the most influential people in the modifying world. He designs every VeilSide kit himself and the modifying world would be a much less exciting place wihout his work. He also gave his name to the company, Veil meaning ‘Maku’ and Side meaning ‘Yoko’

Thanks to Hirano Yokomaku for being an excellent host and his contributions to the world that I love, Yoko Koyanagi for her hospitality and Chris Gray for the extra photography and his logistics help!!