ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER SERIES

One weekend even saw us gathering at the local Mercedes Benz dealership, when they brought some examples of Stuttgart’s finest to town: in the form of an ‘AMG’ exclusive display for that weekend only.Īfter all, until you can travel to the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart itself, where else will you be able to get up close to a CLK DTM, CLK GTR, and C63 AMG Black Series?Ī fellow car enthusiast I met through some Morning Drives/car meets, Eason, opened up his new venture for business: CarinLife. Spring came around and I kept myself busy: namely by shooting a large group of ZN6s (Toyota GT86/Subaru BRZs) and Toyota SW20s (MR2), and on March 4th, a local gathering of Nissan Skyline R34s celebrating ‘3/4 ’ day. I’ll detail more in the one year of ownership writeup, to come next month. A new ‘1M’ style front and rear bumper was installed to replace the bland look of the original LCI bumpers, along with a roof box to add some more utility to this ‘anti-crossover crossover’. It’s gone through some changes last time you saw it on the blog too. Not a lot has changed since my introduction post on it (and I had meant to do regular updates journaling my experiences with it, considering I signed off that blog post with ‘Stay tuned for more updates…’)īut happy to report that it is still serving us well and no major issues have come up: yet.

ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER SERIES

Then yet another car joined our HK fleet: the ‘ anti-crossover crossover’, aka the BMW 1 Series (E87) that has been serving as the family runabout since February 2021. With late January/early February traditionally being Wekfest time for those back on Oahu, and with the 2021 show postponed yet again, I decided to fill in the void left by looking back at the last time Wekfest came to Hawaii - and the last Hawaii car show I would attend for a while, with a look back at Wekfest Hawaii 2020. But I think I definitely drew some eyes being the only itasha Mercedes Benz in Hong Kong too. The main attention was towards the Mclarens at the annual McLaren Hong Kong parade, especially one of only 106 Speedtails ever produced in the world. I even took it to one of the first car events I was able to make it out to and cover (and was planning to write about, had I planned out my content schedule better). Morning Drives, dinner and Donki runs, any excuse to just get out and drive it. Yes: the Girls Frontline ‘MDR’ Merc made its debut, and on the first Wednesday too!Īlmost immediately I took it out for every opportunity to showcase it to the world, get photos, or just drive it around. We barely hit the first weekend of the year when I did the first major change to the A Class (aka Project A200, name still TBC) - bringing to life a project I had been working to bring to life since the previous summer: my dream itasha, and my very first full-on effort at one, to be precise. Along with getting to meet some fellow photographers based in Hong Kong. Nothing better to start the first weekend of the year than - by combination of sheer coincidence and perfect timing, spending it with some DC2 Integra and JDM owners at Tsim Tsa Tsui. We hit the ground running in January straight out of 2020. So as we prepare to turn the page to another year, let’s look back at what I, Asher, and Davis have been up to over the past twelve months. When you stand back and reflect, despite two of us being unable to travel freely - we have done quite a lot for 2021. It is yet another time for us to reflect on what I - Asher - and our still fresh addition Davis have been getting up to for the past twelve months. Hence, the silence these past few weeks from my end: I'm still recouping after a few back to back weekends.(More on that later.maybe?)īut this being the end of the year, I couldn’t forget to prepare the annual year in review. At least for me, it's to a point by which I’ve been too busy to even write about them here as blog features, as much as I want to describe what exciting things I’ve been up to.Įspecially when it involves you cosplaying for the first time ever, while attending the last ACG convention in Hong Kong of the year. Like: a lot of things we’ve done, both involving the blog/brand and outside of our regular automotive content. Boy: has it been quite a packed and productive year for us.Īnd when I mean a lot, I mean a lot. If you’re a regular follower of myself or HiddenPalmTree, chances are you have seen what we have been getting up to on our respective socials. Though now we are lining up to get vaccines (or boosters to prepare for ‘that’ variant I myself will need to plan getting mine next month). Aka a certain pandemic is still amidst us.

Well, apart from one elephant in the room. Things are a little different now than they were a year ago.

And just like that - we have come to the end of yet another year.

One thing led to another