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You know you are having a good time when time flies. Such a cliche saying, I know. For Episode 34, we brought in our good friend Nax from Fortune Minds / Liberty VIP. This man is the truth. He says it exactly how it is and holds his loyalty close. I’ve always said, I wanted this to be about the community and the people who live and breathe it. I appreciate when they come on to share their story. Trust me, this is one that will want to hear. Nax keeps it extremely real with you and stuck to that mantra throughout the whole podcast. With that, this is our longest episode ever!
Of course, let me share the best meme of the week… Thanks David! Enjoy the podcast, everyone!
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It’s official SEMA week! Then its off to VIP Festival in San Diego hosted by our friends at Autofashion USA. It’s crazy since this is probably the first time in at least 4 years that I have been home for Halloween. Just didn’t work out for me to get to SEMA this year. So much going on back home that I couldn’t really justify being gone for a week or so. Decided going to VIP Fest would be the plan instead.
This week, we asked one of our regulars on our Discord channel to come on as a guest. Donnell B. with an Infiniti M35 from Florida. Always good to hear the stories that people have when it comes to their builds and what brought them along the journey. I appreciate it when people are willing to share what ups and downs they had with their builds. Not all is perfect, but thats the fun and beauty of it.
We hit a few topics along the way, some we brought up again like the whole VIP Car chassis thing with the heritage of that chassis. We even discussed the feelings about sharing your build specs, specifically wheel specs. Take a listen, its interesting.
As always, thank you for listening to our podcast. We are always in our Discord channel, its a crazy bunch especially with the memes we like to throw at each other. Always a good time.
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It’s Tuesday and I got a bit behind on getting the podcast uploaded today. Crazy to think that its the week before SEMA already. It came way too fast to be completely honest. Usually, once we get to October we start to feel that SEMA crunch that seems to find us right before the event. I just didn’t feel that this year and all of the sudden here I was looking at the calendar and I see my invite to Joey Lee’s The Chronicles event this weekend. I’m like it can’t be, that event is the weekend before SEMA… Oh, wait………
For episode 32, we didn’t have any special guests. We usual crew was on this week. James, Chris, Rene, Dennis and I were joined by Elvin and David of Endless Projects. We went over our past week with a few of us actually having a weekend filled with car events. I got to check out 2 completely different events with 2 completely different atmospheres. It was really interesting and I think I wasn’t that surprised. You can check it out. David had some great questions later in the podcast that you will want to hear our answers on.
Without further ado, here is Episode 32.
Episode 31 is upon us. This week we missed having Rene and Dennis since they were traveling. James just got back from Georgia as well. These guys are always traveling, I can’t believe we still figure out a way to get together every week to record this podcast. These guys are all super busy plus working with our guests, it’s nearly impossible.
This week we asked our friend Paul Cotaco from Vankulture to be our guest. It was really last minute as well. Paul has been deep into our car culture for quite some time now. I vividly remember when Vankulture came into reality. We all knew, there is a genre that hasn’t really been tapped yet. This is going to grow and grow rapidly. VK is pretty much now a worldwide phenomenon. With chapters all over the world, Paul has created a community of van owners who really didn’t have a place in the car culture. I remember people saying to me when I was talking VK up, “I got some orange slices and Capri Suns for the van guys.” Don’t get me wrong, I got a lot of Capri Sun’s readily available for the boys, but having a custom Toyota Sienna wasn’t widely accepted a few years back. Now, I am seeing a lot of vans at many different events all around the US.
Take a listen, it’s always good to hear the stories of our colleagues who started something out of passion and turn it into something worldwide.
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We made it to Episode 30. I’m still a bit geeked out on the fact that the Star Wars Last Jedi tickets finally went on sale and the trailer finally dropped. I was sort of scheduling my day around the fact that the trailer was scheduled to drop during halftime of Monday Night Football last night. Figured that would be around 7 pm and should give me ample time to get over it a bit before jumping into Discord to record the podcast. I was wrong. I was still hyped all on it. Probably one reason why I lagged on posting this was that I was shooting theories with my Star Wars buddies throughout the morning.
This week we asked Pauly to come back to discuss how Black West went and also invited Brandon of Liberty VIP to also join us. Brandon drives an “F50” Q45 that truly defines the term Big Body VIP. That platform is also another underrated platform. Especially when you do the President conversion on that chassis. Thankfully we found time for Brandon to briefly tell us his story about why he chose the F50 chassis and also future plans for an already amazing build.
Rene also goes over his “hot” issue he ran into while on his way down to Black West. Pretty crazy if you ask me, honestly it was the first time I had heard of it so it just shows how calmly Rene dealt with it and moved on from it.
Once again, thank you, everyone, for listening to our podcast. I can’t believe we are already at Episode 30 and I am excited to continue on creating these podcast with my good friends. Join us on our Discord channel when we record live. There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes that we wish everyone can join in on. Especially with all the shenanigans that go on in the live chat room while we record. It is truly a can’t miss now.
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Finally got to finish the edit of the podcast. Can’t believe we are sitting on Episode 29. We may have missed a few days but we never missed a week to record the podcast. I know it’s not some crazy milestone but it’s something that I am extremely proud of now. We have become some quirky bunch with some serious touches here and there. Making the transition to a live recording where people can listen to us live and chat with us accordingly has been fun. Since we moved to that, sometimes the podcast can seem off cause we are laughing about something in our Discord chat. Usually, it’s the meme’s or the old photos that someone digs up. I decided to create a video to upload so that people can check that out as well. If you can, join us live on our Discord channel. It’s a lot of fun. Also, I’ve been wanting to try out not having a guest setup and just open up the mic to people who join us live on Discord. That’s what we did this week. We brought Pauly back so he can spread the word on the recent change of venue for Black VIP West Coast. The Same day, new location. It will be at K1 Gardena. So if you go to the Source OC this weekend, you will find no one there. Be sure to go to K1 Gardena for Black VIP West Coast. Thanks for jumping on Pauly. We also brought in Danny Salazar and David Li both of Endless Projects. Two guys who are really passionate about this car stuff and just all around good guys. This may be a trend for us now. I kinda liked the idea of mixing this type of show in.
This episode we wanted to talk about horror stories of owning VIP Cars, but I got bamboozled to talk a little about my story and how I got started again. Thanks guys!!! haha. I also learned a lot about my setup when recording both the audio and video portion of the podcast. I gotta get my network up to par so I can take advantage of the Gigabit Fiber I have coming into the house. Where my office is located on the lower floor, I was barely getting 5Gbps last night when if I just record upstairs near my wireless router, I can at least take advantage of the network speed at around 500Mbps. Probably will need to address this sooner than later.
Once again, thanks for listening everyone. Please join us on our Discord chat to just kick it and listen live.
Discord.me/vipstylecars – live podcast recordings and a chat box to chop it up with everyone.
youtube.com/vipstylecars – for when the video portion of the podcast goes live. I’ll get better at posting that version sooner rather than later.
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I honestly was a bit sentimental this morning as I prepared the podcast for uploading. Honestly, James and I first started talking about doing a podcast years ago. I was really reluctant to do one. In the end, I feel I was just giving myself excuses not to do it. We’ve now hit 28 weeks and haven’t missed a week since we first started. Thank you for listening and for joining us on the live recording of it as well. If you guys haven’t had a chance to check it out, join us at discord.me/vipstylecars
This week’s guest is Pauly Tran from Liberty VIP / West Coast VIP. He’s currently working with Agi, also from Liberty VIP / Luxury Abstract, in putting together Black West Vol 1. Pauly has been through some dope VIP Cars. His 2nd gen GS was out of this world and ahead of its time, I think. I am also very biased towards 2nd gen GS but that’s another story altogether. Now driving an M37 on what are one of my favorite set of wheels of all time, the Work Emitz. Originally from Philly, he’s now out on the West Coast and joined up with some notable VIP Car folks in Southern California. There has been a good influx of VIP Car meets which Pauly has had a hand in. Good to see this VIP Car stuff thriving and growing.
For those of you on the West Coast, check out Black West Vol 1 on Oct 7th and for those on the East Coast, Black 7 is this weekend on Sept 30th. Go check them out if you can.
Once again, thank you for listening. Thank you for all of the feedback, negative or positive, we do appreciate it. We enjoy doing this podcast tremendously. It’s just a conversation between good friends that just want to share the passions that we have.
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Good morning! Back on track with the podcast and had to bring on one of the OG VIP guys out there. I was thrilled when Max DeMasters from Liberty VIP accepted the idea of being a guest on our podcast. Running with a non-traditional platform as well. It’s great to hear his story and his view on things. It’s something I didn’t mention last night because I was so caught up with just listening to his story that its refreshing to know that someone built his car regardless of what is out there. I see a lot of “Why build that car, it’s not a cool car.” or “Why build that car, everyone has that car.” So what is it? Which one are you going to pick? With Max, it didn’t matter what ANYONE else was thinking, he was going to build HIS CAR, HIS WAY. I appreciate that and I will always respect that.
Last night was a perfect reason why we decided to record these podcasts live with a chat room. It isn’t about “the download numbers” or “the impressions” the podcasts will get for us. I just want us as a community to get together again. Regardless if we don’t agree with each other’s opinion or are bothered for some odd reason by a certain person. That doesn’t matter, but getting a group of like-minded individuals together. We spend so much time bickering or putting each other down over some stupid shit. Everything feels like there is some hidden agendas or some personal gain from all of this. Well, my agenda is simple… Bring back a community. I can’t expect everyone to all want to get down with it because so many folks are close-minded or only care about themselves. I get it, I really do. However, I just want to share my thoughts not to change those who will always keep their minds closed but to let everyone who wants it to change that they are not alone. We got a home for you. It was the principle we started VSC on many moons ago. VIP Car builds weren’t accepted in almost all online communities back then, so we created our own.
Shout out to the Liberty VIP crew for staying up late to support their boy Max. So crazy to see a large group of the crew comes out to support their boy. It was a lot of fun to just enjoy the moment and share a few laughs. I appreciate you guys for it and respect the support shown. I was humbled by it.
Join us next week on Discord channel when we go live to listen as well as chat with us. Find us at I tested a live video stream on Twitch as well last night. We may do that again, who knows. Just in case, follow us if you are on Twitch as well.
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You gotta hear this one. It was one for the ages. We brought on a special guest that I knew would bring some topics forward that we may never discuss. While it’s not really in the VIP car realm, it’s something that I always believed in. We brought in a good friend from the Domestic car realm, our friend “Spider”. He drives a Corvette grand sport. Take a peek at his Instagram down below to check it out.
We basically talk about the differences between the Import and Domestic car event world. Plus discuss the events where we try to diversify it and bring both together. Yes, we get extremely passionate during this podcast and even get defensive on both ends. It is still a great podcast to check out. Some great questions brought up by Spider, James, Rene, and Dennis. While not everyone’s experience will be the same as ours or Spiders whenever we go outside of the box and go to a different genre of a car show, it is still something that we should all try out sometime. I enjoy going to car shows now a days that isn’t from the Import genre. I like to see what other genres are doing plus all of the innovation that they may have that we don’t think of.
Spider is extremely outspoken and passionate about his world. Take a listen, enjoy! Don’t forget to join us in our Discord channel as well. We chat often in there plus we record our podcast there so people can listen to it live.
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Episode 25 is here. We appreciate that we are even here at episode 25 doing something that we didn’t know we would enjoy. I think it gives us a chance to catch up to people and also get a chance to showcase some of these folks in our community. We asked Sharad Khan from SK Performance to come back this week to continue on from last week. He’s extremely outspoken and doesn’t really hold back his thoughts. We go into once again the whole meets / events phenomenon out there. Hard to say how I feel about it, I do miss meets where it was about the community and not about the “instafame”. It’s really up to us to figure it out.
As always, join us on Discord to chat anytime with us as well as others from the VIP Car community. Sometimes we sit in the voice channels and just hang out. Of course once a week we also record the podcast, you are also welcome to join us and listen in.
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