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OSIXHI “Long Time No See” Meet & Greet | 3.27.21

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Date: Saturday, March 27th, 2021. Time: 10:05 A.M. Location: Waimalu, Hawaii. Agenda for the day: Reinstall the front bumper cover for my Lexus and clean her up for this afternoon’s OSIXHI Long Time No See Meet & Greet

After finishing up my cup of coffee, my lazy ass decided to head back inside ? to play some video games and prepare my camera gear instead ?‍♂️ leaving my Lexus untouched and opting to drive my 1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT instead to this afternoon’s OSIXHI Long Time No See Meet & Greet

Time: 3:47 P.M. Location: Central Oahu Regional Park. Upon arriving within the Central Oahu Regional Park where OSIXHI’s Long Time No See Meet & Greet was to be held, I was surprised to see Tommy Dolormente of OSIXHI had driven his Toyota Hilux with NO DOORS ? I should have ? driven my Lexus without it’s front bumper cover to their meet as well ?

Old School Imports X Hawaii aka OSIXHI held their “Long Time No See” Meet & Greet on a Saturday afternoon within the Central Oahu Regional Park bringing together old school imports and like minded automotive enthusiasts for some small kine long time no see kine stories

Fun fact: The last time OSIXHI held a meet prior to this blog was back in January of 2020 pre pandemic pre COVID-19 ?

OSIXHI Fast Kine Pop Up Calendar Meet | 1.25.20

13 months later and OSIXHI has returned with their “Long Time No See” Meet & Greet. Much Mahalos to the OSIXHI Ohana for mindfully and responsibly holding back on the meets and gatherings during the onslaught of our worldwide pandemic and COVID-19 and waiting it out until it was safer for everyone to get together ?

Stranger danger ⚠️ Tommy Dolormente ? of Old School Imports X Hawaii aka OSIXHI likes ? to wave ? at unknown flying objects ?

Pictured above from left to right is Candace Izumi of Raiden 75 Photography, yours truly, and Tommy Dolormente of OSIXHI ?

Pictured above and below from left to right is Kurt Kajioka, Shelly Lewis, Mrs. and Mr. Lewis, and Aaron Rideout ? SMILE ? You’re on EIGHT08 ?

Instagraming an Instagramer. Facebooking a Facebooker.Yours truly getting caught “behind the scenes” messing around with my mirrorless DSLR and camera slider setup by Robert Pedro of Affiliated Hawaii

Pictured above ☝️ and below ? is Lance Harano’s multiple “Best Of Show” winning 1973 Toyota Trueno Sprinter ?

Full feature of Lance Harano’s 1973 Toyota Trueno Sprinter can be found below ?

http://www.eight08.net/jdmsprinter.html

Pictured above is Jason Kaita’s 2004 Lexus GS300 sitting pretty at the OSIXHI Long Time No See Meet & Greet. The extremely lowered stance of Jason Kaita’s 2004 Lexus GS300 is achieved via an Airrex air suspension, and sits on 19″ SSR Werfen GT-03 wheels wrapped in Nitto tires on all four corners

Fun fact: Jason Kaita also has a 1985 Toyota 4Runner build in the works, and is definitely a build I am looking forward to checking out in the near future. Pictured above and below are a couple of sneak previews ?

Pictured above rolling into the OSIXHI Long Time No See Meet & Greet with his top down was Edwin Guillermo and his 1982 Griffith Limited Edition Toyota Corolla SR5

Pictured above and below is Mike Matsumoto’s Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec R33 and Christian Rodrigo’s 15th Anniversary Toyota Supra both representing none other than SMG Hawaii

Fun fact: Christian Rodrigo’s 1997 15th Anniversary Toyota Supra pushes 600 horsepower on pump gas and 700 horsepower on C16 race fuel, but was actually retuned and detuned and had it’s Precision 6766 Billet Turbo replaced with a milder turbo for it’s daily driven chores

Pictured above is Mike Matsumoto’s Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec R33 in a Midnight Purple Pearl hue ?

The VW Club Of Hawaii and the Hawaiian VW Outlaws rolling in deep as always with a host of restored and customized air cooled Volkswagens under their belt