
This Sunday, May 5th! Cinco de Mayo! RAIN OR SHINE. We’ll be out at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana for the first Speed and Stance meet with our friends from Speed Ventures, Canibeat, Stance Nation, Dayuum, AutoCon, It’s JDM Yo, JDMZipties, Fatlace/Illest/HellaFlush, Super Street, Import Tuner, Hoonigan, OMGdrift, Sub5Zero, Fifteen52, Flossy, OEM Audio Plus, Dub Nation, California Car Cover, M7 Japan, Cusco, Eco Shine, and a ton of other friends… Come join us! (more…)
Posted by: Motor Mavens | May 03, 2013 | Categories: Newsworthy | Tags: Autocon, California Car Cover, Canibeat, Cusco, Dayuum, Dub Nation, Eco Shine, Fatlace, fifteen52, Flossy, Hellaflush, Hoonigan, illest, Import Tuner, It's JDM Yo, JDMZipties, M7 Japan, OEM Audio Plus, OMGDRIFT, Speed and Stance, Speed Ventures, Stance Nation, Sub5Zero, Super Street | 2 Comments »
This weekend's
Autocon event at
Santa Anita Racetrack was hot. Super hot. There were lots of other car events happening in other parts of the west coast, but it seemed as if most people naturally just flocked to Autocon, because it's a new event series that's gaining some good momentum. It was initially started as a smaller car gathering in Southern Cali's City of Industry, but it has seen quite a bit of growth recently. I even saw some of the core team from the old Hot Import Nights (the crew that was behind HIN when it was strongest) and Global Time Attack behind the scenes this weekend.
I've been traveling out of state for the past few weeks, but I decided to fly back to Los Angeles for this weekend's event - it was the perfect chance to enjoy summertime in Southern Cali, spend time with good friends, and finally check out Autocon in person.
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Posted by: Antonio Alvendia | Jul 23, 2012 | Categories: Gallery | Tags: Antonio Alvendia, Autocon, BBS, Big Mike, Bisimoto, bluebird, E30, FR-S, FRS, Honda, Low n' Slow, M3, Mercedes, MR2, Nissan, OZ Wheels, Prelude, RPS13, RS Watanabe, S2000, Santa Anita Racetrack, Scion, slammed, SLS AMG, SSR Wheels, stance, STi, Subaru, SW20, Work Equip, work wheels, WRX | 5 Comments »
AutoCon 2011 turned out to be a pretty fun show - it has grown quite a bit since the last show they had. I drove all the way down from LA to
El Toro Airbase in Irvine, CA so that I could start shooting the carshow
roll-in at 10am, but they didn't allow any media to enter the show until 12pm! This definitely put a damper on my plans, because the rest of the normal spectators would be entering the venue at the same time as media.
The scheduling issue left me pretty disappointed to be honest, since my original plan was to shoot roll-in and staging before the large crowds showed up, then meet up with
Antonio Alvendia and
Oliver Petalver at
Irwindale Speedway. I didn't make it out to Irwindale because of the scheduling mix-up, but I still enjoyed the rest of the day at the show. This event looks like it's getting bigger and bigger!
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Posted by: Mike Kim | Dec 12, 2011 | Categories: Coverage | Tags: Audi, Autocon, BBS LM, Black Edition, BMW, CSL, E46, E92, El Toro, ESS Supercharger, hankook tires, Holly Lee, Honda NSX, Impreza, Instagram, M3, Mercedes Benz, Mike Kim, Nicole Marie Reckers, Nissan GT-R, NUE, R32 Skyline, Rotiform BLQ, Royal Flush, S4, Sammy Stoicescu, SL65 AMG, STi, Subaru, Team Rev, Toyo Tires, Tumblr, Twitter, WRX | 13 Comments »