Random NightLife | Memorable Car Shows and Meets of 2011

Night Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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What a great year! Wow! I'm sitting down in front of my study table, typing this article while thinking about all the events and meets I've been to in 2011. Yea~ I know it sucks that the End of the World is coming soon, and because it is, it's time for me to choose the meets and car shows I've been to that were memorable and enjoyable. I've plugged in my external hard drive to see what's been done throughout this year and holy hell, the hard drive decided to shut down on me and all the saved files disappeared. Luckily, my brain had a back-up storage system that only saved automotive related events and not school or friends, which might make me sound like an ass, but for my blog and you guys, it's something to definitely appreciate. I took some time to think about how many I've been to and the amount really did exceed my expectations. If I counted correctly and only included the ones that were automotive related, I've been to 150+ car shows + meets. My aspirations were not to attend the most meets and become competitive with other bloggers, but it was that unexplainable force that pulled me into a world that I couldn't escape. No matter how much I tried, avoiding the temptations to drive my slammed Scion tC to anywhere in Southern California was not happening. That's how much I loved and still love what I do as a hobby and will continue on for myself and for all you fans out there that truly appreciate Night Import.

Event Coverage: IDRC / Fancy Fed Car Show (Pt. II)

Night-Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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Along with IDRC, DSPORT hosted a car show like last year but with a different title; 'Fancy Fed Car Show'. If you read the first part of this coverage, I've mentioned the insane hot weather and good turnout last year, but it was the opposite for this year's event. The weather was rather chilly and the amount of cars was smaller than expected. It seems as if the high gas prices are keeping show car owners to stay at home and go to meets rather than events, which is respectable in every way. Despite the small turnout, DSPORT did a tremendous job keeping the car show organized and hosting the overall event. Our last coverage will consist of the show cars, vendors, and some Drag racing.

By the way, while I'm in the subject of 'Drag racing', I've noticed all these local meets here in SoCal getting raided by cops because of illegal street racing. To all you immature drivers, instead of challenging others at public roads and acting like a hard ass as if you can burn almost any car, bring your ride to events like this, pay the fee, and challenge others in a legal way. Let the local meets continue and save yourself from getting a ticket. The hosts of a meet can go up to you any time and tell you to leave, but because a meet is usually ran in a privately owned property, they just don't have the right to do so. Once again, please let 'car meets' continue.

Back to the coverage, I started off Part 2 with Raichelle Viado posing in front of the Evo we featured a few weeks ago. More photos will be shown at the bottom.

Event Coverage: IDRC / Fancy Fed Car Show (Pt. I)

Night-Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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IDRC (Import Drag Racing Circuit) started since 1998 and the popularity amongst racers is at its highest since the opening day. Like every other automotive sport, such as Drifting and Rallying, Drag Racing is also a popular category to many automotive enthusiasts.
Most of the cars that came to participate and compete were fully built to race in a 1/4 drag strip and some were even outrageously built to rip up the track. Within IDRC were 4 shootouts; Supra's, Evo's, Subaru's, and Drift Cars, but it was more about the Honda's when it came to competition.
If you remember our coverage from last year, 2010 IDRC West Coast Nationals, the competitiveness grew even stronger and cars that competed last year were built even better for this year's event.

DSPORT collaborated with IDRC for this year as well to host a car show with a different title called "Fancy Fed Car Show", and we will be covering the car show section in Part II.