recaro – www.meilinkvision.com https://www.meilinkvision.com Home to the photography of Keith Meilink Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:28:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 PA Meat: 2013 https://www.meilinkvision.com/2015/11/18/pa-meat-2013/ Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:28:58 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=1907 Well in case you haven’t noticed its been a bit of time since I’ve posted anything. Since the closing of Honda Tuning my automotive photography kind of took a back seat and I’ve had no motivation to pick up my camera to shoot. Even after getting a new car (a year ago almost!) and having something new to shoot, I haven’t. Besides not shooting, I’m sitting on a back log of stuff that was never released, but I think it’s time I changed that.

 

So today I give you the last PA meet to happen back in 2013, which was the 9th annual one. It was one of my last items in Honda Tuning and now here’s the rest. The PA meet has always had two aspects to it. The first was the actual meet part, hosted by Derek at Innovative MotorWorks. The second half was the meat part, a BBQ with tons of meat, at a local’s house. This year Jon D graciously hosted everyone. As rumor spread that it was going to be the last one, confirmed attendance went up and a lot of old owners even showed up.

And in case you missed it, here’s the original Honda Tuning article.

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Over the years former Honda owners almost always upgrade to something more refined and Anselm was no different as you can see here with his M3.

 

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Steve and Nate chatting it up.

 

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Bernie picked up an NSX and surprised a lot of us with it. The Iroc-Z stickers were there just for the meet as a stab at Steve and his former NSX.

 

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Another shot of Bernie’s NSX.

 

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A bunch of shot’s of Bob’s “Tiffany” Integra before he sold it.

 

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Bob, the man himself.

 

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“Tiffany” again.

 

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Brandon giving a little wave. Unbeknownst to Brandon, coming to ITR meets constantly, makes you want one. Yup you guessed it, he now currently owns one

 

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A shot of Brandon’s AP1. Our s2k’s were pretty much twins. On this particular day we actually traded seats and those are my old black ones sitting in there.

 

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Melanie and Chris pulling up.

 

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Bob, our local traffic officer.

 

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Always a happy man.

 

 

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Some Mugen goodies.

 

 

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Dave gets confused sometimes.

 

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It wouldn’t be an official PA meet without finding out something is wrong with my car. We tossed it on the dyno only to find out my clutch was slipping. Fast forward a couple of weeks later and after swapping the clutch and final driver the B blew. And well now K is the way.

 

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Some shots of Derek’s Turbo K civic.

 

 

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Edwin rolling in.

 

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Erik pulling up.

 

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Erik’s ITR powered LS parked up.

 

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Everyone chowing down on some pizza behind Ramzi’s old 4 door.

 

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Expo numbers never come off.

 

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And the expo spirit never dies.

 

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Can you spot the fellow New Yorker in this line up?

 

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Bernie and I.

 

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Taking over the streets.

 

 

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Yes that S4 avant does belong to me now. It does look a bit different these days.

 

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Group shots.

 

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These two pictures are a bit out of order. I brought that roll bar from Long Island for them as it fit easier in the hatch of my R better than Anselm’s M3 sedan. They decided to install it that night. I think when I finally crashed back at my hotel later that night, they were still out there working on getting it in.

 

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Everyone loves a good bacon weave.

 

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Another shot of Joe’s 97 ITR.

 

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Jon hanging out of his barn.

 

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Jon was going through his old ITR memorabilia and sharing it with everyone.

 

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Jon delivering the pizza for everyone preBBQ.

 

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Here is Jon D’s old ITR. It was shipped out by the new owner Mark for the meet who also joined in on the fun. This car and the story behind it was also featured in Honda Tuning. All of those shots will be released soon too.

 

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Myself on the left, R Kelly in the middle and Tom at the end.

 

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Mel and Chris working on that roll bar install.

 

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Some more shots of my R.

 

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Another path a lot of ITR owners follow, including myself, is picking up an S2000. Here’s Nate’s CR.

 

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A couple of OG’s chatting, Opie, RKelly and Jim.

 

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Americaaaa.

 

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Ryan and Nick catching up.

 

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Steve is so dreamy.

 

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Tom and his track list.

 

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Yup more of the install.

 

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Turbo GSR if I remember correctly.

 

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Well that’s it. See ya.

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Honda’s Discontd Mistake https://www.meilinkvision.com/2014/05/12/hondas-discontd-mistake/ https://www.meilinkvision.com/2014/05/12/hondas-discontd-mistake/#comments Mon, 12 May 2014 23:11:09 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=968 Today I bring you a look at Stan’s 2005 Honda S2000. I’ve known Stan for a few years now. Our first meeting, I believe, was at the Sandy Hook meet in NJ back in 2010. This was before I picked up my own S2000 so there was no way for either of us to know that we’d eventually meet again and become good friends.

With Wekfest NJ quickly approaching, Stan hit me up to get some pictures of his new look for his application. I happily obliged as I knew the care and quality Stan puts into his s2000 every time he rebuilds it. I’ve lost count of the different looks it’s had, but before this his most famous look was when it was still black and on bronze CE28s with concave faces. After that for some reason only known to Stan, he wanted to switch it up to white. He tested it out with a wrap job, which is it’s own hell story all its own, until we ended up with todays look, which is a fresh Championship White paint job. Only the finest parts have been selected for this build from the likes of Mugen, Volk, Recaro, ASM, Amuse and others. Take a look and enjoy the beauty presented before you.

 

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When you’re not sure which Volk wheel to go with, why not just choose both?

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This here is my first rig shot ever. Being the car was freshly painted I didn’t want to risk hook it up to the car so we used just the windshield, hence the awkward angle. But don’t worry, a lot was learned this time around and look forward to rig shots in all my future shoots.

 

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Even though I warned them we were going to the beach and it might be cold, these three still weren’t the best prepared, lol.

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Thanks for looking and I present to you in the words of Jon Stewart,  “your moment of Zen.”

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omgosh like the most amazing ITR ever… or a kinda plain one. https://www.meilinkvision.com/2011/04/01/omgosh-like-the-most-amazing-itr-ever-or-a-kinda-plain-one/ https://www.meilinkvision.com/2011/04/01/omgosh-like-the-most-amazing-itr-ever-or-a-kinda-plain-one/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:18:26 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=41

 

 

 

 

Just some more lighting tests with the R from a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy!

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