May Continued…

In May, we were also fortunate enough to help out with a fund raiser called Strut For A Cure (www.strutforacure.com). This event was held by Canadian Super Model Coco Rocha, was hosted by Jeanne Beker of Fashion Television fame, featured a performance by Dragonette and was all in support of children’s cancer. Check out the pictures, we’re hoping we can help out again for their 2011 event!

MAY 2010!!

So here goes my year in review… I’ll sort through my pictures and go month by month, trying to recollect what happened in 2010.

I don’t remember much about May, just that it was crazy busy. This was the month that Norm joined our team, YAH NORM aka “Lighting x 8”

I only have a few pictures from the month…

First off, a big truck with a big trailer:

I have no idea how these guys can drive something so big. We usually do large vehicles on-site, this was probably the biggest that we’ve had come to our little office.

Next, we took a crack at CF wheel lips:

PLEASEEEE, please read this before calling for a quote: It’s not as easy as it looks, we can’t guarantee how long it will last, and it can’t be done to every wheel style. Pretty cool though huh?

Is this thing on?

Don’t be angry… we were busy.

I don’t know if anyone actually comes to this blog, but if you do – WE’RE SORRY! Things get crazy here at Shinzo and blogging’s the last thing on anyone’s mind. Actually, I should say that blogging is the last thing on MY mind because everyone else asks me to update this thing.

We promise to be better, we’ll talk more, just give us a chance… you’ll see

I’ll start off with a year in review, highlights from each month in 2010

-vince

Crazy Friday!

Wow, Friday was nuts in the install bay. We broke a record doing 4 roof wraps in one day!

The day started off with a sea of white/black

Jay came in to replace his Matte Black roof wrap with 3M Di-Noc Carbon Fiber, his car is SO nice.

One more…

While we were at Mini Vaughan, we saw the Burton winter tour vehicle in the back parking lot. We did the wrap a few months ago, but never got to see it again until today. I heard it was at the slopes all winter… so if you saw it and said, “oh that’s nice”, now you know who did it wooT

Mini Vaughan

Mini Vaughan West needed some work done so Mike and I (Vince) took a little road trip.

This Mini Cooper Classic had a red roof and the customer wasn’t feelin’ it so we wrapped the whole thing with a checkered pattern.

We also had a chance to snap some shots of other work we did including the Mini 50th window decals and Mini Vaughan West’s 2009 Design Challenge car. I know, the design looks kinda wack, but the idea was nice… they got some local artists to come up with drawings and then we took those to make them into a full vehicle wrap.

By the way… does anyone know why it’s Mini Vaughan West and not just Mini Vaughan??? I was thinking that maybe they plan on opening another dealership in Vaughan East, but… this dealership’s already kind of on the east end. Wait, which came first again? chicken or egg? sigh…

ARC eat your heart out…

So our good friend Mike Tran came by the other day with his Godzilla. Apparently, the sides of his $5.2 Million Amuse front lip get scraped up on his driveway every day so he needed to think of a solution. Enter his creativity, some black PVC, a knife, and a heat gun… TADA, Super Amuse Protection Damper Magic! I must say… we were all pretty impressed with his skills.

Then again, his old Civic was built in his garage… wish I could find some pictures of that thing haha.

So if ARC stands for Abbey Road Company, can we call those BOAC Winglets? (Bur Oak Ave.) harhar.

We do roofs! What’s your Forte?

We’ve been around since ’99 and I think yesterday was the first time we’ve ever worked on a Kia. I must say, the Forte is kiiiiiind of cool… this one was just starting to get modded, note the cool lip spoiler made by a company called “BRIGHT” (must be a Korean thing).

We did a gloss black roof and alot of dark smoke tinting: side mirror signal lights, rear reflectors, and the clear section of the tail lights. It just need some really nice 18″s and a lip kit from the -soon to be released- Koup-R. With all that, i’d definitely rock a Kia tC-Civic…

Something tells me we’re going to be seeing alot more of these cars at the office this summer.

Toronto Fashion Week

Toronto Fashion Week has come and gone, we usually get some wierd “temporary” type jobs for short events. Last week we did 2 on-site jobs for an event company called Candice & Alison (www.candiceandalison.com).

The venue was way too bright so we were called in to “black-out” the windows. To finish off the job, we added silver logos onto the now, black windows, and then put the designer’s logo on the back wall. Sound easy? Those windows were like 5×5′ and we had like an hour to do it all.

Carlsberg

Okay, so to get this rolling… I’m going to go back in time about a week to show what we’ve been up to.

Over the past few months, we’ve been fortunate enough to be working with Carlsberg Canada… hopefully we keep them happy!

Last week we finished up a sign for the reception area of their brand new office, checkit checkit:

Now we’re just hoping for more jobs (and maybe some free beer)