Modded Cars Series: Perodua Kancil and Kelisa | Proton | Honda | Winners of the Show

This is the second in a series of four Modded Cars post, featuring modded cars in the 2005 Miri Car Show.

Modded Cars: Protons

This is the only Satria GTi in the show. I reckon that the GTi’s looks good in their defaults with the metallic linings along its side panels. Extra mods to them make them look bad. The yellow modded-Iswara looks nice though with its macho bumpers and spoiler.

Mitsubishi-wannabe Waja with look-trough window on its hood. Lightly modded engine parts.

Another chameleon skinned car. This one’s a metallic purplish Proton Waja.

Looks pale from the outside, bare white with sponsor’s emblem on the doors. But take a look in its butt! Amplifiers, sub-woofers, speakers and tweeters, all set under a dalmation-style fur coat.

A pink Proton Perdana with its hood air-brushed with characters from the Dragon Balls. Must be a Japanese anime fan the owner.

Chameleon skinned Perdana, this one has less dramatic colors than the Waja chameleon. The Iswara on the right looks empty from the outside, but look at the next picture.

They hid a zebra in their car!

This black Proton Perdana/Wira (looks like a Perdana from the front, a Wira from the back. But certainly a Wira.) is one of the least zhng-ed car in the show. The noticeable changes being the change in the front and rear logo to Mitsubishi’s, and they also honey-combed their rear breaklights. Rarest form of mod I’ve ever seen.

Blue Wira with noticeable mods to its hood and front bumper, and with all the auto-related emblems over its body. Car coatings by Kansai paint. I thought it was Kanasai when I first looked at the emblem.

For those of you who frequent my blog, you would have noticed that it was down for the whole day of yesterday. My webhost is currently in the process of migrating all their servers to the new Equinix IBX datacenter, and the server than I’m on are scheduled to be migrated on the 23rd this month.

They stated that during the process of migrating, it should be smooth and we’ll not experience downtime. But sometimes, shit happens you know. My databases were all gone, missing. That’s all my work in a year, man. My last db backup was months before.

So, I submitted a ticket to their support system hoping to recover them. I got a reply with “I’ll forward this to the admins who will assist you further with this issue”. And then, it was all silent. Until this morning, I’ve got a reply from the admin saying that the matter will be resolved within an hour or so. The mail was sent out to me a few hours before and I expect the problems to be solved, and yet, I’m not seeing my databases. I’m so pissed off at their support that I went to their website and click on that ‘Live Sales Chat’ link. Who cares if they’re the salespeople? I want my blog to be back on.

This is how the conversation goes…

Modded Cars Series: Perodua Kancil and Kelisa | Proton | Honda | Winners of the Show

I had the chance to witness the first ever car show in Miri City while I was there working for an automobile company earlier this year. The 2005 Miri Car Show was organized by some auto companies from Miri, and Brunei from over the border. It was held at a huge open car park space by the side of the Miri Indoor Stadium.

This event showcases some of the flashiest, macho-est modded cars, and also exposing some of the ugly-sides of car modding in Malaysia. Well, this is not like the western-style auto show where you can expect to see super branded race cars like Lamborghini’s, Ferrari’s, Skyline’s, Lancer’s, RX-7’s, all those from the Fast and the Furious movies type.

No, this is not it okay, this is just all the local-modded type, you know, those zhng-ed by Johny in the “Zhng My Car” show by Mr. Brown – those with shiny shiny plastic rims, titanium-colored plastic honeycombs, super-large spoilers and super-low skirtings, counterfeit Pioneer, Kenwood audio systems blasting tetno music all the way to Luak Esplanade (a Miri beach-side where modded cars will go to show off their powderful audio systems), just to name a few.

Anyway, the car show’s entries were basically categorized into three main groups of Perodua’s Kancil and Kelisa, Proton’s Wira, Iswara, Waja, Perdana and Satria, and Honda’s Civic, Integra and, Accord. Those are the most typical cars being modded in Miri and throughout Malaysia, simply because they’re more affordable by the local car-enthusiasts youngsters.

So, here goes the first in a series of four posts featuring Modded Cars in the 2005 Miri Car Show.

Modded Cars: Perodua Kancil and Kelisa

Perodua Kelisa modded to be a Mini-Cooper look-alike. Still a long way to go on its colorings though. The Kancil on the right had nothing to show other than some low skirtings and shiny rims.

Some freaky bizarre arts on a white Kancil.

A blue Kancil with its back stuffed with tweeters and big-ass woofers. Audio systems powered by Pegasus.

Not much zhng’s to these Kancils, but the one on the right has its chameleon (special effect paint coatings that changes colors on different angles) skin to show off. I’ll have more of those on other cars coming in my next post.

This Kancil here looks like it had been zhng-ed by XiaXue. Actually, all the cars in the show were like being zhng-ed by her cause they all looked somewhat, snowy…

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Today, I’m gonna introduce you to a very close friend of mine. He’s the kind of friend who’ll stick to your ass whatever happens – especially when you need some cash to burn.

Meet my wallet and his friends.

Here I have are some business cards, a mini calendar, and a Boost Scratch ‘n’ Win! Card. I keep all my receipts for book-keeping purposes.

These cards on the left are my defaults. They’re Australian ATM cards (Bankcards), FlyBuys card (a reward program similar to BonusLink or RealRewards in Malaysia), and my Public Bank ATM card. I’m not using it here in Australia, just that it’s my favorite bank in Malaysia, so, that’s why I’m still keeping it in the default list. On the other side, I’ve some other Malaysian ATM cards and a Commonwealth Bank NetBank card. Those are my secondary’s.

I like foreign currencies and I keep plenty of them in my wallet. You know, can show off a bit if you have them, but most importantly – they’re my backups.

So there you have it, all the stuffs in my wallet. Don’t rob me okay, I have no valuables and mine is not a Dunhill wallet either.

Wuching and Ajay, go to Crown Casino now and win that Porsche 911 Cabriolet back home!

I did a post on cars with pretty plate numbers not long before. I’ve spotted another car with a ‘888′ number plate. This one’s near Westfield, Southland.

James Bond ride on these cuties. See that number plate?