Event Coverage | SoCal Summer Daze Car Show

Night-Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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This event hosted by Elite-AutoSports with the help from AJP Distributors and JDM Sport was one that I was excited to attend. All the staffs from the three companies are a very good friend of mine, and knowing these guys put so much effort into promoting an event, I knew this was going to be one of the biggest events for this year. What made me even more stoked was my family, Low N Slow, finally going out to an event as a team! I'll talk more about the cruise and meet-up later on, but back on subject, I want to take some time to talk about the three companies.

Elite-AutoSports is well known for hosting their monthly meets at Krispy Kreme in Burbank, CA. Out of all the meets here in SoCal, the one hosted by Elite is and was the biggest one. Few years ago, the Burbank meet was legendary because of thousands of cars attending and filling the whole plaza. After some incidents of immature drivers ruining the meet, it was closed down by cops and was thought to never happen again. However, Elite was patient and was waiting for the right time to host it once again. Last week was its final meet of the year and from what I've heard, it was massive! Once again, big ups to Elite-AutoSports for bringing the automotive community together.

JDM Sport and AJP Distributors are companies I've mentioned to you guys a few times throughout this year because of their activeness in the scene. I've never seen such a company participating at so many meets and events. I don't really remember how I met JDM Sport, but I do know head staff, Lee Ho, was an awesome guy to talk to from the beginning. He is a major supporter for my blog and always tries to bring up his supporters. Thumbs up!

Special Coverage | SILK Road Auto Show (Keskin Tuning Grand Opening)

Night-Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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A few meets/events were going on today and I was able to make it to two, one being Keskin Tuning's Grand Opening in Anaheim, CA. Keskin is a company pretty famous in the Euro scene with their line of wheels and has been in the automotive scene for quite a long time, originating from Europe and now branching out to the United States.

Special Coverage: So-Cal Import Nights @ JDM Sport

Night-Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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It's been a pretty busy week for me going to meets and doing interviews with a few companies here in Southern California. Surprisingly, no meets/events happened on Saturday that were close by, so it was a day to rest and edit some photos from previous coverages. At the same time, I was excited about JDM Sport's first meet and greet at AJP Distributor's HQ, the West Coast HQ/Distributors for JDM Sport, that happened yesterday. As most of you guys know by now, I go to meets almost every weekend or even 3 times a week depending on what goes on, and every time when I walk around doing my thing, I bump into Lee Ho, marketing/PR director of JDM Sport. This guy has been active than any other friend/company staff I've known since he officially announced the opening of JDM Sport. Knowing his activeness and relationships with other people in the automotive industry, I knew this meet was going to have a huge turnout and as expected, more than 200 cars showed up!
Claim Ho from Firm400 brought out the entertainers and Johnny Ho called up the famous food trucks, Dos Chinos and DogZilla, to participate to sell their insanely good food.

Event Coverage: Sideway Sundays (Pt. II)

Night-Import: Photography by William Lee & Andy Nguyen

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We are back with our coverage on Sideway Sundays and it's none other than our drifting photographer Andy Nguyen who took over the drifting area.
Andy came down from NorCal (again!) to support Night-Import and to practice/attempt drifting shots in the rain. The weather was freezing, raining, and windy but we all managed to make it through the whole event.
Despite the horrible weather condition for the photographers, car show participants, and spectators, it was actually a good sign for drifters because they didn't have to worry about tire wear; however, many of the participants were oversteering because of the slippery track, but I'm pretty sure the 1 1/2 hours was worth their time.
($80 = 3 sessions, each session is 1 1/2 hours).

Special Coverage: Burbank Krispy Kream Tuesdays

Night-Import: Photography by William Lee

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As we all know, Southern California is known for major events, such as Formula D, Redline Time Attack, Eibach Honda Meet, etc.
But it is also known for local meets and I'm not talking about 5~10 cars or a parking lot packed with stock cars.
I'm talking about underground parking structures, supermarket lots, forbidden areas, and even mountains being packed with modified cars.
What's really exciting about these meets is not knowing what kind of cars are going to roll in. It's always a surprise and even if you don't see a Aston Martin or a Ferrari Enzo, you'll see plenty of nicely modded cars from your area or people who will drive 2~3 hours just to talk with automotive enthusiasts and check out rides.

On Tuesday, our friends Elite-Autosports 'brought back' the Krispy Kream Tuesday meets in Burbank, CA. Few years ago, if there was a meet you had to attend without any questions, it was the Krispy Kream Tuesday meets. I'm not trying to exaggerate myself, but think about 300 cars parked at a plaza lot. This meet was legendary before it got raided by cops. After the notice of "do not come back", the Krispy Kream meet became history and no one expected it to come back; however, after things got settled, Elite-Autosports decided to re-open the gates to the legendary Krispy Kreme meet.

As expected, there were tons of cars and the behavior level was good enough to call it a 'great' meet.