This past weekend, I went up to San Francisco to hang out with some of my old school friends from the Bay Area... but unfortunately a lot of them were out of town! Hawaii, Japan, Philippines... damn! Sometimes I have such bad timing! It was a good thing
Calvin Wan was in town - he told me he had two events that he needed to attend that weekend. He needed to bring his FD3S RX7 to a motorsports show in Vallejo, and then bring his S14 Silvia (it really is a RHD Silvia from Japan) to the
Wekfest Car Show in
Japantown San Francisco. I've been hearing about (and seeing pictures of) the annual carshow in San Francisco's Japantown for quite some time, but this weekend was the very first time I had ever had a chance to attend it myself. I think in the past it used to be called the
JDM Theory J's Gathering, but apparently they decided to rename it Wekfest (
pronounced like 'weak-fest'). Or it could be that the organizers are different now? Not sure.
Anyway, the Weksos Wekfest event was pretty crazy... TONS of cars, TONS of people in attendance, and a line of impatient people that stretched around the block. Seriously... that was a pretty long line!
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Posted by: Antonio Alvendia | Mar 02, 2010 | Categories: Coverage | Tags: 240Z, Accord, AE86, Armada, Bootsee Harput, Calvin Wan, Fatlace, FD3S, G35, GS400, Harput, Harput's, Heartbreaker, Hella Flush, J's Gathering, Japantown, JDM Theory, JZS161, Lincoln Continental, Mk3, RX7, RX8, S14, S30, Silvia, SSR, TE27, Top Secret, Trueno, tsurikawa, Volk Racing, wekfest, weksos, Wolf Reign, Yuta Akaishi | 38 Comments »
I know you've been waiting for it, so here's the second installment in our
HellaFlush 3.5 event coverage from
Buttonwillow Raceway. I'm not sure that there have ever been this many cars with aggressive fitment and stance at the Lerdo Highway exit off the California Interstate 5 highway.
Honestly, I gotta give props to all the Northern California people who came down to this event. Not only does it show that Northern Cali folks are super down and committed, but it was also great to see a lot of cars come out of the woodwork that we normally don't see on blogs and websites. I'd love to expand the MotorMavens reach from doing mostly Southern California events all the time, but it really is kind of difficult as we're doing this as privateers, and we don't have a big corporate budget of
several hundred thousand dollars to spend each year like some of the other blogs out there. However, we're resourceful, so we will keep trying to break boundaries, and keep doing our best with the Macaroni-and-Cheese/Cup-o-Noodle budget that we currently have. Hope you like the photos!
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Posted by: Antonio Alvendia | Feb 24, 2010 | Categories: Coverage | Tags: 240SX, 330i, 528i, agressive fitment, BMW, bugeye, Buttonwillow, corvette, E39, G35, GDB, Hellaflush, Impreza, Infiniti, offset, PavelK, RPS13, S13, S14, sawblades, stance, Stanceworks, Subaru, Wolf Reign, WRX Wagon | 36 Comments »