Post Your Latest Real Life Purchase. - V2  

Luke

And don't you forget it!

wolfman101

http://www.wheelersluxurygifts.com/shop/it...e-leather-belt/
http://www.wheelersluxurygifts.com/shop/it...ness-card-case/

I'v got a real thing for this carbon leather thing Dunhill have going on ATM.

clutch-monkey

got some K&N filters to replace the old ramflo's.. plus 25hp yo

Bob

Due to the new hoon laws, these are restricted to only a 5hp gain. Sorry for the convenience

OT: Fuel and smokes.

bustage

Style - not even once.

Bob

Milk, mint pattie and chewy mints.

ShanO`

Nexus 7 3g

Seem pretty cool so far

Draven

Smokes, Coke, 2 x Summer rolls, Milk and Muffins...

B Unit

Taco Pizza, cheesy garlic bread, 1.25L diet Coke from Soul Pizza in the valley. Big pizza is big.

HarlzC

Taco pizza?

Dat bulk?

wolfman101

While I can only presume that this means that you don't like Dunhill gear, I find that sentence construction pretty unusual.
Also, what exactly IS "Style" to you, if you discount designers such as AD-quite widely regarded as one of the classiest mainstream men's outfitters around? I'm genuinely curious.

Mr.B

I think you'll find it's a jab at the phrase "money doesn't by taste".

Personally, I'm not a fan of Dunhill gear. But whatever floats your boat.

Rileys

I guess it would also depend if you circulate around the kinds of people that would really care about that kind of stuff. Half the people reading this will have an entire wardrobe that adds up to the cost of the belt and card holder in question.

wolfman101

Well I mean, I assumed that's what he meant, but all the same, I don't understand the syntax of "Style-not even once".
I have no particular brand loyalties incidentally. I pretty much just buy stuff from whoever is making stuff I like at any given time. ATM Dunhill is doing that carbon leather thing (looks pretty much exactly like the dash of the Z4M Coupe, incidentally) and I think it looks rad as hell. Bought the laptop bag for work a few months back, though it looked rad as shit, so I thought I'd match it up a bit.
Sorry if I seem like a bit of a fashion whore, but in my line of work you are expected to present pretty well.
Jesus, you should see the crap I wear on the weekend!

Twat In The Hat

Apart from that man bag pictured above, I really like most the shit you post. Much better than skinny jeans, sand shoes and faded pink/maroon short tight shorts with baggy singlets.. Or whatever the kids are wearing these days.

wolfman101

Then you probably don't want to know what the fcuker cost. Thanks though-I try very very hard to not buy metro shit-I can't stand pink polo, collar popped, skinny jeans, pointy shoe, YOLO trend-fags. I try to keep it traditional and classy when it comes to work/formal wear.

Twat In The Hat

+1

You only live once... So live that life looking like a f*****t. Seriously, wtf? More guys need to have some "style" and "class".. That doesn't mean following metro USA fashion trends. It means men need to start looking like real f'king men again.

Bob

I don't think society would accept every man wearing a suit in public. I love wearing suits, as i turn all pimp n shit lol.

Twat In The Hat

Don't have to wear suits ALL the time. But that doesn't mean you come home from work, take off your suit and throw on a pair of skinnies and sand shoes. Go home metro fags. You're drunk.

Geoff

lol "carbon leather"

So, so tacky

wolfman101

Geoff, have you seen it pulled off well in person? Like I said, it's found on some very high-end cars (Jag XKR-S, Evora S) as a dash/seat finish, and a number of very high end fashion brands are integrating it too. Sounds tacky, but when pulled of properly it looks quite lovely and wears very well. At the end of the day it's just another pattern, like suede or gloss.

Example from XKRS:



And Evora S:

heavy

Those Jag seats do look very nice, now you have me interested in geting a set for my EVO.

Twat In The Hat

They are pretty damn hot. I love carbon leather.

wolfman101

The Evora ones look much better in person. They are Reccaros, so I imagine you might be able to find some.


Also, the first place I remember seeing the effect-


Tacky? Not so much.

heavy

So true as my colour on the car is White with red anodized mesh and carbon fibre wrapped bonnet. Next will be the brake calipers which will be white with black brembo writing and candy apple red painted mags.

Hoping to have all the exterior finshed by the time the next Various meet on the 24/03/2013.

wolfman101

Jesus,
If you could track down the red-piped Evora ones you'd be laughing.

vk134

The Jag and BMW pull it off well, Lotus just looks a bit like the old Holden Torana golfball spec trim.

My brother works with a lot of the composite materials and said the supplier for when you want to match your seats etc with the carbon look is, Carbon Image Limited, they handle the Viscarb range. There may be an Australian distributor here.

wolfman101

I know what you mean, but believe me, it looks better in person. Not as good as the others though. Anyway, the AD gear that started this whole thing is more or less the same patterning as that on the Jag. Very nice looking/feeling.

heavy

This is it so far to date. When I imported it in August last year it was just white with black mesh. Amazing what a little colour can do just to set it slightly different to every other EVO on the road.

clutch-monkey

not a fan of that red mesh man. i think it triggers some memories of autosalon mirages when they used to do the cyborg kits and colour the mesh body colour

wolfman101

A nice matte grey for the mesh maybe?

EDIT:

I also just realised that the the key fob I've been carrying around for 2 years is a similar effect!

heavy

I know what you mean, the photo does it no justice as it doesn't show the true colour. It does turn a few heads but I'm just trying out a few things to see how it looks. If it doesn't suit my style I just back back one step and try something else.

PROXENETA

red mesh is a huge downer

Twat In The Hat

I think the red mesh looks great and will look better with candy apple red wheels

heavy

OK so this is what it looked like before the wrap went on the bonnet. Does it look better with it on or off.

Don't judge it by the colour you can see on the top of the bonnet as the anodized mesh has not been fitted yet but will be today.