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sonic... BOOOOOOOM! there, the GMC stocks should have arrived. call your insiders to reserve some for you now! hahaha

LOL demon noob.

thanks! oh yeah, the 49 merc is out. but now we're only at the custom 53 chevy here, slowly one by one

haha keep on hunting bro, im looking for custom '53 chevy and plymouth fury now

thats a c4! not the box, the store haha!

good photos! hope to see more photos, comments and coverage on it. glad to see some familliar faces, and congrats it went well!

terrific! happy for your son, the gmc is a great piece

LOL wicked mod! a brilliant idea

hmm interesting, reading hauls are like drama episodes.

lol malaysia doesn't have strict rules on recycling, so it kinda makes no difference if its recycling or throwing it away. it almost means the same thing haha! yup yup let them loose, free them from the blasted cages!

New trucks?

POS for the day

yup i am! thanks for the support!

good haul! yeah perhaps they have quite a few cases that didn't fit in the racks or was too lazy to take it out haha. good haul!

Hi all! This will be my thread for any future WIP on my customs before going up onto my blog. For those who do not know me, I am from Malaysia (like most of them) and I love customs! I have been doing customs previously, here are some of my humble works, in order: Spoiler: #1 Honda Civic Si #2 Ford Mustang GT #3 Volkswagen Golf GTI #4 Lancer Evo X #5 Hiway Hauler #6 Nissan Skyline #7 Mini Cooper #8 Lancer Evo VII #9 Honda Civic Si #10 AE86 Corolla And those were customs I did before in Malaysia! Now I'm in Australia, I have settled down well and will attempt to start customization works again. Do check back for any new updates! Alternatively, if you are interested in customs, do visit my blog as I share some methods that I use for customizations. Cheers!

OutKast's Big Boi is a junkie, has been for years. The multiplatinum rap star got his first shoe fix back when he was better known as Antwan Patton, a busboy at Steak and Ale. He saved up his paychecks and rushed to a dealer to cop the only thing that could cure his jones -- a pair of British Knights tennis shoes. "I've actually been into sneakers since I was a little kid," Big Boi, 34, said backstage before his concert this month at the Sneaker Pimps exhibition in Atlanta. "You can really tell a lot about a person through the shoes, so I always like to keep me a fresh pair." Sneaker culture has thrived for decades, but shoe companies have increasingly capitalized on the demand for one-of-a-kind kicks. Collectors, known as sneakerheads, have lined up to pay hundreds, even thousands, of dollars to ensure few people are wearing the same shoes. "Coming up, my mom got five kids so there wasn't a whole lot of stylish tennis shoes around the house, so I used to want a lot of sneakers," Big Boi said, explaining that he started making up for lost time -- and shoes -- long before OutKast's 1994 debut, "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik." Juan Castaneda, 27, also grew up in a family of modest means and longed to don the fresh kicks he saw his peers wearing."When I got money to buy them, I started catching up," said Castaneda, who works at a nursing home in Hendersonville, North Carolina. He estimates he owns about 200 pairs of sneakers, including a pair of Nike Air Jordan XIs with patent-leather trim called "Space Jams." They cost him $500. It's supply and demand at its simplest, said Elliott Curtis, a former Carnegie Mellon University basketball player who for two semesters taught Sneakerology 101, billed as the first accredited class on sneaker culture. Shoe companies create a limited number (say, a few hundred pairs) of shoes -- even if it's just an old model with new colors or materials -- and demand automatically spikes. "It's like a status symbol. If Nike is selling a shoe for $2,000, they're not expecting to sell that many," the recent graduate said, adding that sneakerheads are drawn to scarcity. "If they've got money, they can buy coolness," Curtis said. Curtis goes to garage sales and mom-and-pop stores seeking rare and retro sneakers for his 75-pair collection, but he concedes he's waited in line for limited editions and paid as much as $250 for a pair. Sporting an ultra-rare set of blue-and-red "Bugs Bunny" Nike Air Jordan VIIIs, Big Boi said he today boasts at least 400 pairs of sneakers, but he rarely pays for them because shoe companies send him pairs. His most expensive, a pair of crocodile-skin Nike Air Force 1s, sell on various auction sites for up to $1,800. Big Boi has never worn them, but he plans on taking them out of their Nike lockbox this summer so he can wear them in a video for his upcoming solo album. To Peter Fahey, the mastermind behind Sneaker Pimps shoe shows, Big Boi's enthusiasm is typical.Sneaker culture got its start in New York in the 1970s, mostly among playground streetballers and practitioners of an emerging genre of music called hip-hop. Over the next three decades, rappers and basketball players -- most notably, Run DMC and Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan -- would play integral roles in boosting the popularity of rare kicks. "Run DMC were probably at the height of the whole movement. It was the first time music and sneakers crossed like this," Fahey said of the group's 1986 hit, "My Adidas." Today, Adidas, Nike and Puma compete with luxury brands such as Chanel, Prada and Gucci. The major sports shoe companies also allow customers to design their own shoes. Upstarts such as San Francisco's JB Classics and Japan's Madfoot and KKOK have snatched up market share as well. Shoe companies realize hip-hop's influence and work hard to get "a fresh pair of steps" on a rapper's feet. Earlier this year, Converse released a line of its iconic All-Stars in tandem with Chicago rhymesmith Lupe Fiasco. Nike has issued two versions of the Air Yeezy, inspired by rapper-producer Kanye West. Louis Vuitton also has teamed up with West. Some lines, such as the Yeezys, quickly become collectors' items. Die-hard sneakerheads keep them in their original boxes like "Star Wars" action figures and ferret them away in closets, their soles never to be scuffed by a sidewalk. Bryan Lyle, 22, of Stockbridge, Georgia, said he recently camped out three nights at an Atlanta boutique to get one of the shop's eight pairs of Air Yeezys. Lyle paid $300, a small fortune for shoes, but Castaneda said the price more than doubled within days. He got a pair of Yeezys from an eBay merchant in Hong Kong. The damage? $700. Castaneda's girlfriend, Melissa Bailey, 26, said Castaneda actually bought three pairs. He found two online and paid someone to camp out for the others. Castaneda's modus operandi is to buy three pairs of his favorite shoes -- one to wear, one to store for later and one to sell or trade, she said. "He will not walk through grass. He will not walk through dirt," Bailey said. Fahey held his first Sneaker Pimps show in Sydney, Australia, in 2003, but only 200 people showed up. Soon, however, tens of thousands would attend shows in more than 60 cities. A 2006 show in Jakarta, Indonesia, drew about 13,000 sneakerheads. The shows now feature between 1,000 and 1,500 shoes. Some are rare. Others are signed by celebrities. Hip-hop acts are a staple, as is artwork -- on both kicks and canvas. At this month's show, hundreds of sneaker enthusiasts filed through Atlanta's Tabernacle with the decorum of museum patrons, stopping to admire the shoes displayed on swaths of chain-link fence. There were novice sneakerheads, such as Chris Shepherd, 20, and Charnelle Cook, 20, an Atlanta couple who marveled over the DC Comics and Transformers sneakers. Asked about her multicolored hightops, Cook said, "I couldn't tell you what these are called. All I know is they're Reeboks, and they're fly." There were seasoned collectors, such as Kyle Self, 35, of Decatur, Georgia, who said he had about 25 pairs, some of them still in their boxes, including three pairs of $400 low-top Pradas, which he called his "everyday sneakers." There were even female collectors, such as artist Estasha Goodwin, 23, who modeled a pair of shimmering gold, winged -- yes, winged -- hightops made by Adidas and designer Jeremy Scott. She complained that shoe companies too often focus on the male market and ignored female aficionados. "When they do cater to us, it's always bubblegum pink. They don't even make them in our sizes," she said. "I know women who know more about sneakers than any dude out here today." Incidentally, her favorite of the 15 pairs she owns were made for men -- the Nike "Ace of Spades" Dunks, inspired by the Detroit Tigers' high-kicking pitcher, Dontrelle Willis, who is prominently featured on the black-and-aqua shoe's hightop. Asked why she shelled out $250 for them, she gave a familiar response: "It's a feeling you get when you know you're the only one that has something. Even if you're not, it's the way you walk it." Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/homestyle/05/27/sneaker.head.culture/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

fyi, the blue hiway hauler and evo x are US cards, you can tell cos the number of the car is per 190 (due to special US recolor) as opposed to the usual per 166 for international cards. superb stuff! thanks for sharing bro! keep em coming

no guarantees, cos i havent seen any yet.

new model/premiere ford fairlane gt! missed the chevrolator in DC? no worries, cos this car is sporting the black HW racing livery for the basic car lineup this year hot wheels? how about hot caterpillar tracks instead? tread air is making a debut in this year's new models/premiere. what do you think, hot stuff or just peg warmer?

I'll keep a lookout for you, I think I've seen the white taildragger before.

Hmm, interesting discussion. How about when the Hot Wheels are like this?

thanks! haha yeah im looking for the bagger long card too and the custom 53 chevys are still outta my reach

you should just continue, but yes the mb version is the correct one. its the '65 ford mustang fastback

some nice mbx 5-packs spotted

yup thats pretty true! the recent few batmobiles does not have the batman logo too