The car-park pit stop

The car-park pit stop — Features

New multi-spoke wheel fitted to the gold Lexus LS

01 / 07The finished corner.

The story

The afternoon car park was meant to be a break from driving. It turned into a pit stop.

The gold LS went up on a jack, the old wheels came off and a set of multi-spoke wheels went on, with half the meet gathered round and a few people lending a hand. No stage and no schedule: just a jack, a pile of wheels and plenty of help.

By evening the LS was parked up on its new wheels, the gold paint catching the last of the light.

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Event film
End of Summer Cruise — the teaser
Standout build
Bonnet up, all day

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Help and credits

GAIKAN 25 is a car club and creative community. Every icon, window and Start menu entry opens a real page of the club's site; links, Back and bookmarks work as usual.

Credits

Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 (Brian's, Fast & Furious) — vecarz, after Ddiaz Design and DRIVER-FIRE (source)
CC BY 4.0; upstream CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Ddiaz Design) and CC BY 4.0 (DRIVER-FIRE). Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Geometry simplified. Wheel parts and a headlight lens that lost their texture links were pointed back at the creator's own texture and colour. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
1993 Toyota Supra Turbo Mk IV Versus 2F2F — Ddiaz Design (source)
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Geometry simplified. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
Mazda RX-7 — wallon (source)
CC BY 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
2020 Honda NSX (NA1) LB★WORKS — Ddiaz Design (source)
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Geometry simplified. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
Mazda RX7 Series 1 — DRIVER-FIRE (source)
CC BY 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Geometry simplified; turned to face forward; specular-glossiness materials converted to metal-roughness. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
Lexus LC-500 — Socksthecat (source)
CC BY 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's.
2003 Suki's VeilSide Honda S2000 2F2F — Ddiaz Design (source)
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Geometry simplified. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
Nissan 180SX — autoNgraphic (source)
CC BY 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Turned to face forward; geometry simplified. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
[FREE] BMW M3 E30 — Martin Trafas (source)
CC BY 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. The model has no plates.
BMW M3 GTR E46 Street ACschnitzer BlackEdition — Alex.Ka. (source)
CC BY-NC 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Studio backdrop and floor removed. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
Toyota Supra "DEKZTRAX" [34] — TRINIKZ (source)
CC BY-NC 4.0. Scaled to the real car's length and grounded; parts merged by material; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression. Badges and livery are the creator's. Ground plane removed; turned to face forward; geometry simplified from 1.45M triangles. Visible number plates replaced with black GAIKAN 25 plates (the club logo artwork); bodywork and other materials unchanged.
Car jack — Jinhong Jeong (source)
CC BY-NC 4.0. Grounded; textures resized to WebP; meshopt compression.
Tuned Bobbycar — SPD_3D (source)
CC BY 4.0. Scaled to a real toy (0.62 m) and grounded; geometry simplified; meshopt compression.
BBS RS16 Tuner Car Wheel — Martin Trafas (source)
CC BY 4.0. Wheel and tyre only (display base removed); scaled to 0.62 m; textures to WebP; meshopt compression; rim finish set to polished silver.
Tool Chest — Fredrik Johansen (source)
CC BY 4.0. Scaled to 1 m tall and grounded; textures resized to WebP (1024); meshopt compression.
Garage (HDRI) — Greg Zaal — Poly Haven (source)
CC0 1.0. Pre-filtered once for reflections (public/env/garage-pmrem.hdr).
Roller Shutter Door — Poly Haven (source)
CC0 1.0. Converted to GLB, textures to WebP, meshopt compression; the plain door only (the model's graffiti variant is not shown).
Mounted Fluorescent Lights — Poly Haven (source)
CC0 1.0. Converted to GLB, textures to WebP (512), meshopt compression.
Metal Tool Chest — Poly Haven (source)
CC0 1.0. Converted to GLB, textures to WebP (512).
Old Tyre — Poly Haven (source)
CC0 1.0. Converted to GLB, textures to WebP (512).
Concrete 042 A — ambientCG (Lennart Demes) (source)
CC0 1.0. Colour, roughness and normal maps resized to 1024 and encoded as WebP.
Pointer, window chrome, plates and the Shop / Inspect icons — Made for GAIKAN 25 (src/components/desk/XpIcon.astro, src/styles/desk.css, scripts/desk/make-ui-assets.mjs)
Original work. Original drawings in the manner of Windows XP.
Windows XP icons — Microsoft; packaged as WinXP-Icons by B00merang-Artwork (source)
Icon pack GPL-2.0; artwork © Microsoft Corporation. Native sizes picked for 16–48 px; no other changes.
Windows XP start-up sound — Microsoft
© Microsoft Corporation; copy supplied by the club. Unaltered. Plays once when entering, only if system sound is on.
Moslin (typeface) — Not stated in the supplied file
To be confirmed by the club: the supplied Moslin.otf carries no foundry or licence details. The club's supplied Moslin.otf (Regular) repackaged as WOFF2 for the web; glyphs unchanged.

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GAIKAN 25 filmsEnd of Summer Cruise — teaser

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The story

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End of Summer Cruise — the teaser

Bonnet up, all day