Today, (Sunday the 23rd) Geelong’s Eastern Gardens saw about 100 modified cars that resembled something of a scene from the movie “Fast and Furious” and all for a heart felt cause. Geelong based rapper JamieP who is no stranger to combining his passions with his love for helping others, organised the “Smiles For Miles” Modified car meet and BBQ to help raise money to build a water tank in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
The Smiles For Miles group’s (SMF) most recent project has them working closely with the Afar Pastoral Development Association (AFPD) to raise funds to build a water tank in the Afar region of Ethiopia (an area that a lot of main stream charities forget about). This water tank will provide tap water for people in 2 separate communities. Two weeks ago SMF held a fund raising dinner (where Jamie also performed) that was completely sold out with over 250 people attending.
JamieP, an avid car enthusiast himself organised an invite only event that strictly stated “NO HOONS ALOUD!” All that showed up were expected to pay a $10 donation to the charity and in turn they received a professional photo of their car from renound auto photographers Tim from TMC Media and Dishan Marikar. Their was also a raffle for a $600 remote control car that was generously donated by Hearns Hobbies.
All up the final profits for the day came to $766, all of which will be directly donated to the water tank fund. The day was a complete success with all having a good time and no bad behaviour of any sort to be seen all day. It was a great day for the Victorian car scene and really hammered through the point that just because we love cars, it doesn’t make us the hoons that less informed people label us to be.
P.S special thanks go to Vyet Le and Danny Dai for helping in a big way to get the word out about this meet
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Watching old Vlogs is awesome, I love Jamies old swagg.
nice
@MrOldschoolgsr. I have a '91 NSX and you can't really feel VTEC in it like you do in other Hondas/Acuras.
Jamie, You really need to host your own car show…
not bad at all! sweet stuff!
American muscle stands for racism. your a loser.
FACT!!! I own a 92 gs-r and let me tell u that that thign is fast…honda knows how to build engines..anyone who bad mouths should give it a try just saying..They need there first vtec engagement lol
wow did u think donald trump bought it for him ?
jdm stands for gays
The US market saw the first VTEC system with the introduction of the 1991 Honda NSX, which used a 3-litre DOHC VTEC V6 with 280 bhp (210 kW). DOHC VTEC engines soon appeared in other vehicles, such as the 1992 Acura Integra GS-R (B17A1 1.7-litre engine), and later in the 1993 Honda Prelude VTEC (H22A 2.2-litre engine with 195 hp) and Honda Del Sol VTEC (B16A3 1.6-litre engine). "Just sayin' – Smiles for Awhile"
VTEC was first started in a street bike the CBR400, later the US saw the first VTEC engine in a car, which would be the NSX, maybe you should go back and read…
i rather have thew white supra
Since when has Bruno been interested car's and toy drives?
Ok yes i stuffed up with the vtec comment (thats wikipedia for you, probably should of known better to trust it) But thank you for assuming my parents paid for it, you obviously know me quite well.
Brendan actually payed for that car himself. I take my hat off to him for being such a hard worker