Long time, no blog....

Hey people!

Apologies... again... for the lack of content! I've been busy planning things and trying to arrange bits and bobs. Within doing all that, I appear to of neglected said blog!

So here, have ketchup & mustard (double LaFerrari's!!!) whilst I write up a very cool article! :D

Skully x

Battalion30five GTR London Meet

Hey!!

I'm going to do a post about the time I was surrounded by around 30 odd GTR's! Sounds horrific, right? ;)

I had a message from a guy called Max a while ago asking if I wanted to shoot a few GTR's, this sounded awesome, as I have a real soft spot for these Japanese masterpieces. Max was from a well known GTR owners club, Battalion30five.
We had had some plans about doing a shoot for a while, yet it just never seemed to go to plan unfortunately.

Anyway... I had a phone call asking if I fancied doing a shoot with some GTR's. Well I had a shoot during the day, but like hell was I going to miss this opportunity again!!

The plan was to use some areas around Canary Wharf, then head off on a cruise via the City and out on a little run to some tunnels.

I arrived around 5 minutes early, prepped my gear and waited. I didn't know how many to expect as numbers for meets can drop or increase considerably.
A couple of stunning R35's appeared. As I was snapping these beasts, a whole queue of GTR's showed up in sweet symphony with their howling modified exhausts!!

As everyone gathered it was obvious this meeting place was no way near capable of holding everyone. We were lucky enough to be able to head upstairs to a car park, this provided a fab location for some shots!

As time ran out on using the car park, it was time to head into the city! Now this was absolutely insane to see!! I had a friend in my car filming all the antics so I was sandwiched as a sort of "R35 Support/Media Vehicle" in amongst all these modified beauties!
There were crowds of people gathering on the bridges above Embankment having a look, people in their cars, passers by... it was insane!

We reached a location I'd ALWAYS wanted to use, but it's a tough one to use due to police restrictions and safety... Pall Mall!

For all the images see: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jkingman/sets/72157649964838720/

I didn't follow this lovely lot through the tunnels to their final destination as I'd of shown them all up... and when I say that, I mean I'd of never kept up ;)
 
I want to say thank you so much to the fab members for being so kind and for allowing me to take photos of their pride and joys! It was a great evening and such an amazing site to see!

Thank you Battalion30five.

Skully x

Black Diamond Premium Valeting

Evening!

I'm going to do a post about a company some good friends of mine set up.
The first time I saw what Tom can do to a car was phenomenal! He'd made his Mum's Porsche Cayenne look factory fresh!

He's now gone & set up Black Diamond Premium Valeting - http://www.blackdiamondvaleting.com/

The guys recently had in a Porsche 911 993 Turbo - It wasn't in the best condition but it was gleaming once it had left!

Absolutely awesome work! Go check them out!

Skully x

Oakley Design Lamborghini Huracan LP680-4

I've been very lucky in being allowed to see this car up close numerous times and being able to shoot it too, so figured I'd post some pics and info about it.

The guys at Oakley Design do fantastic work in modifying supercars cosmetically as well as enhancing the cars performance. I think the most well known type of car they modify has to be the Lamborghini Aventador. So it came as no surprise to find Oakley Design were taking on modifying the Lamborghini Huracan.

Here's when they took the freshly delivered Lambo to JF Automotive to do a dyno run.

This was done so they could see what they were working with, before cracking on with modifying under the bonnet!
As the weeks passed I was sent progress pics to upload to instagram which got people interested in how the finished product would look, especially as more companies were starting to release their images/renderings of the Huracan.

These centre locks look AMAZING when they're fitted on to the ADV.1 wheels used.

Well here's how the car has ended up looking, shot whilst on a wind tunnel testing trip to Mira!

Not only does this car now look stunning! The performance has improved considerably...
BHP - 688
TORQUE - 683
0 - 60 - 2.5sec
TOP SPEED - 215mph
WEIGH REDUCTION - 107kg
AERO DOWNFORCE +24% @ 150mph     

It sounds beautiful too due to the full Titanium Oakley Exhaust.

I've genuinely fallen in love with this car! I'm now awaiting a Euromillions win so I can purchase one ;)

Skully x
                                                    

Autosport 2015

Hey!

Well, I attended Autosport 2015 at the NEC with some friends of mine. A plastidipper and 2 videographers/photographers.

I'm not going to lie, I was a tad underwhelmed at the size of the event... having said that, I did attend SEMA last year so... makes sense that that would seem tiny in comparison anyway!

As we walked through the main doors we were greeted by my friends at Oakley Design's latest project, their Lamborghini Huracan alongside a British GT championship Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3.

There were some great cars on display, ranging from classics to hypercars. These included a BMW 2002, Ferrari F40, Audi Quattro, Colin Mcrae's old 555 livery Subaru Impreza WRC car, Petter Solberg's Citroen DS3 through to Blancpain Audi R8's, Lamborghini Huracan's, GT3 Bentley Continental, Ken Block's Ford Fiesta up to a Ferrari LaFerrari.

So the variety of cars was good, just the event wasn't big enough.

Anyway here's some images,

Skully x

Apologies for the lack of posts! Busy busy...

So as the title suggests, I apologies for the lack of posts! 
I was planning on keeping my blog up to date as I went along but that doesn't seem to of gone to plan ;)

Here's what's been keeping me busy (full detail posts to follow)

- Oakley Design Lamborghini Huracan LP680-4 wind tunnel testing.
- Black Diamond Premium Valeting Porsche 911 993 Turbo
- Billionaires Auto Club Batmobile Audi R8 GT Spyder
- Quick visit to Joe Macari
- Autosport 2015
- Battalion30five GTR Meet

I'll do individual posts about the events and include some of my snaps.

Hope everyone is well!

Skully x