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The more I get to know the Indonesian car culture, the more I feel like I’m becoming a part of the minority. I despise wannabes (Lancer with Evolution badge? Stay away), I don’t personally like body conversions (Lancer to Ferrari? You’re fooling yourself), I pay 0 respect to those 5 Series diesels wearing M5 badges, I’ll say you’re cheap if you put those BBS caps on fake BBS’s, and upmost, I detest floral/tribal stickers on cars. The Fast and The Furious (2001) era is over, get over it. Those neons would be of better use on top of your fish tank rather than underneath your car. Oh and here’s the link to the 6th F&F sequel trailer if you haven’t seen it: Youtube.

Perhaps I’ve been visiting international sites too often, been on their discussion forums too much, too many hours spent browsing Stance:Nation, Canibeat, Speedhunters and StanceWorks, met too many trolls. Perhaps I’ve been brainwashed by the massively accessible worldwide perspectives towards automotives. Despite the outrage some of you might have expressed over my previous sentences, I’m still particularly glad that there are still people who shared and supported my perspective. All of my photographer friends are standing by me for this perspective and this is why hawk’n’poke has and will always be living on top of this principle.

Given the critical principals and views that the hawk’n’poke team has developed overtime, we often get faced with some not-so-easy decisions. We have to make sense of every single car we post at hawknpoke.com. Fake wheels? That’s a definite no for a featured post. Fake body kits? That’s an unavoidable fact for the Indonesian automotive scene. See, we do sometimes have to get our head around the idea of making compromises. Making reasonings for every post. This leads us to the Skyline we are posting today. While you might’ve thought of it being an R34 GT-R, it is in fact isn’t. It is a GT-T that’s been built to surpass the R34 GT-R. I’m glad the owner decided to not put a GT-R badge on this very very very well-built machine (look at the specs yourself at the end of this article). I don’t detest GT-T which is wearing a GT-R bodykit, because it isn’t wearing the GT-R badge. It isn’t trying to be a GT-R, it simply takes the GT-R body look because, just admit it, they do look good!

A lot of media posted this particular Skyline as a GT-R. A lot of media do not share the perspective we have. I still remember Charles telling me while he was live reporting from a contest, that he’s the only person among other photographers who were not particularly excited in taking pictures of the contest King. Other medias were all over the car like paparazzis sniping Lady Gaga, while Charles was busy taking pictures of a neat Subaru instead.

I’ll say this straightforwardly: I would’ve liked the car better if it has absolutely no graphic stickers. However, given the fact that the look that the owner’s after is a racing look and he’s also been aiming for trophies at contests, I’d take it as a good excuse. See, that brings us up to another point I’ve found: these days some Indonesians are building their cars around contest criteria. They are dedicated to win. I’m not saying that’s bad, it’s actually a good spirit; I just think that sometimes it has caused us to lose sight in what’s keeping modifications true: doing things the way we, the owners, like it. Heck what others think about it, in fact, heck what I think about it.

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MexArt Photography
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