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Wek’Fest 2010 Weekend…Part 4 – The Final Batch…

March 9, 2010

Alright this is definitely the rest of the coverage from Wek’Fest. Basically just covering the rest of the show and then random shit we did after…

So we last left off at us walking back to the show after eating at the japanese curry spot. We walked back and the line was starting to die down a bit but it was still incredibly packed inside.

Spotted this RSX with the two-tone bay. Looks like he’s added a lot more stuff since the last time I saw it. I think it was around Eibach of last year when I last got a good look at it…

Not a bad looking DC2…wish it didn’t have the Rota truck TEs on it though…

Clean Accord…

Very nice…

Really liked this hatch from Infinit Wheels… Very complete car, just needs some seats and interior accessories and you got a nice all around build…

Had to stop by and get a good shot of Big Mike’s Prelude. There was a fucking guy there that stood in front of me for a good ten minutes. Jesus, I have a giant camera in my hand, get the fuck out of the way. Haha…Anyways, the stickers you see on his car are the reason why the blade on my vinyl cutter died. So if you haven’t received your stickers yet it’s Big Mike’s fault. I mean, I have a new blade now and all the orders have been shipped out but if you want to blame someone, direct it at him. Big Mike is also the only person right now that has a one-off Chronicles sticker. He has the 1-of-1 “White Gold” Chronicles stickers which is gold chrome on a white border. Very bossy…

You’ve all seen Danny’s 4-door before. Custom-painted CPR lip…

Ryan’s CR-X of course…got his Top Ten sticker on and everything…thanks man.

DPK David of course. He and Tony are competing for who has less visibility out of their windshield. Big Mike came in and stole the show though…haha…

Chris Sakai’s EK…probably the best EK at the show. Actually the one next to it is just as good as well. Both are great cars…

Now to one of the most talked about cars of Wek’Fest. Well, actually most talked about on the forums AFTER Wek’Fest. Let’s start off by saying that this is not Heymikeyyyy’s old car. The ITR front end is a dead giveaway. That and the gold bay is kinda like a more dull, flat gold. I don’t know if that was intentional but that’s how it came out…

He’s got a gold plated valve cover but then it doesn’t match the bay…hmm, I don’t know. You guys probably recognize this car when it was in it’s previous incarnation. It was a silver color and dumped on CP-Rs. The guy is named Hai I believe. It’s not a bad looking car at all. Just nothing new that people haven’t already seen on other builds. That’s probably why he gets so much shit from other people calling it Mikeyyyy’s…

He’s got rebarreled M7s too…

Nice refinished MF10s…

I’m usually not a real big fan of Work RS-Deltas but they flow really well on this DA…

Awful picture of two almost straight out of the Spoon-catalog S2000s….very well done…

Sam from As1’s Civic. I actually used flash for this pic but the piller/pole that was in front of Alexisthemovie’s car cast such a huge shadow it ruined the whole picture…

bB Squad…

Ohhh awards time…

Most unenthusiastic crowd ever…

Tony clapping for some random person he doesn’t know…

GPRAuto Guillermo won Best IS and celebrated with our buddy Blanka…

Big Mike won Best Honda and definitely deserved it. Congrats to him and now I can’t stop bringing it up in conversation everytime he starts talking about regular life stuff. Best Honda has no replaced “Big Mike Edition” in my vocabulary. If you’re wondering what his shirt says, it’s an acronym. “F UR K” would probably lead you to believe that it says F your K…but it doesn’t. It’s another way to spell Farooq as an Farooq from the old WWF Nation of Domination group that The Rock was apart of when he first started wrestling. Yeah, Big Mike is a fan of professional wrestling. He thinks it’s real…

That’s Farooq in the middle next to The Rock. On the left of course is Kama Mustafa who was also The Godfather and Papa Shango. Yeah, he made the Ultimate Warrior throw up. The guy at the end is D-Lo Brown, who was awful and very unpopular. He only had one move, the Frog Splash which he pretty much always missed or was countered by a double knee….Anyways…

Tony and the Phaze2xDoods NSX ended up winning it all and taking “Car of the Festival” which was best of the entire show. Awesome… Pretty cool considering the fact that they were working on the car up until a couple hours before show set-up the night before…

After the awards finished up, we cleaned up, watched Arn drive off in his hydrogen-powered DC2 and we went back to the hotel…

So we got back, cleaned up, and showered while Tony and Ross loaded the NSX up onto the trailer again and decided to go out for dinner. We were so busy throughout the weekend that we didn’t even have a chance to go down to Fisherman’s Wharf to walk around so we decided to drive down there to go check it out, even though it was pretty late at night already…

We ended up at Hooter’s in San Bruno. I wasn’t really that hungry so I just decided to share some wings and eat some soup…

The wings were terrible. I’ve never actually been to a Hooters where the wings failed but these were the saltiest fucking things I have ever eaten. I took a bite and I think my nose started to bleed from all the salt. It was so bad that I didn’t even want to finish it and I usually always eat more than I should. I can honestly say that it was the biggest waste of $20 I have spent this year, and I buy alot of dumb shit that I don’t need…

So after that debacle, we headed out to Fisherman’s Wharf. Ross’s cousin who was working many sleepless nights that week helping out on Tony’s NSX decided that he couldn’t take it anymore and tried to strangle himself on his seat belt while he slept. We probably should have woken him up so he could shift positions but oh well, he looked so peaceful…

It was late Sunday night of course so as expected, it was pretty dead down there. Like I could count on one hand how many other people were there besides us. It looked like a ghost town…

We just walked around in the cold and listened to the seals. Ross apparently speaks Seal because he was communicating with them throughout the night…

…he also straddled this thing for a bit too…

Group picture…

Another one, this one more awful and more blurry…

We stayed a bit longer and than went over to the In-N-Out down the street and got some milkshakes. After that we called it a night and headed back to our hotel…

Not much car stuff after that other than driving them back home. Before we made the 7 hour drive home we went down to the wharf again to grab some lunch…

Thought about grabbing some crabs but ended up…

…with this. Calamari and chips, clam chowder in a breadbowl, and the shrimp sandwich, which Tina once told me was terrible but I tried it anyways and it ended up being delicious!…I shared with May and it was money well spent. Definitely made up for the Hooters wings from the night before…

Then we went to some everything chocolate store and tried out the ice cream. Wow, I don’t know what all this yogurt hype is about but ice cream like that would make me not want yogurt ever again. The cookies and cream….awesome. Shit had like whole cookies in it…

I was pretty full after that and ready to head home. On the way back, we caught up with Ross and them on the road and decided to meet up with them for dinner at Harris Ranch. I was still full so I just had a soup.

Ross raves about the steak there and at random location like that, I wouldn’t doubt it…

…the steak he ordered was bigger than his head. I feel sorry for his toilet…

That’s pretty much it. Hope you guys enjoyed the trip. It was quite a a weekend and something I look forward to going to every year…Thanks to Wek’Sos, N1, everybody that was apart of that great weekend.

Island Motorsports Meet coverage coming tomorrow….

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Wek’Fest 2010 Weekend…Part 3 – The Craptastic Wek’Fest Coverage…

March 8, 2010

Ahhhh, finally back…Had a lot of stuff to go through as well as going to the Island Motorsports meet. I have pics from that too which I will get up as soon as I knock those out and process them. Just to let you guys know, the store is back open as well. I’ve finally caught up on all the orders so if you haven’t received your goodies yet, you will receive them very shortly. I guarantee you. Anyways, the coverage is pretty awful. I apologize. I was being stubborn as refused to use flash and on top of that, I was too busy running around working and talking to people that I just didn’t have enough time to bring you the coverage that I really would have like to bring you. I’m sure by now you have probably all seen the pics from the show from countless other sites, forums, people you know, etc. So if you see something that you like in an awfully grainy picture, there are chances that there are much better pictures elsewhere. I did however, capture some other oddball stuff like usual so enjoy that….Debauchery at it’s best, have fun…

Rywire’s bay…

…Rywire, who is always all smiles. But I would be all smiles too if I were doing the amount of incredible work he was…

Arnel on his new D2 airbag set-up…

Arnel’s harleyquin bay is gone and now basically every engine piece has been chromed. He also did the booster delete to manual brake conversion and also running a Rywire harness…

I hope you guys really got a chance to get a glimpse of this car. Sure it’s Arn’s and it’s sick as is, but in case you guys didn’t notice,  this K is hydrogen powered. Yeah, pretty amazing. So if you guys looked at it and was like, oh why does he have that cheesy clean air vehicle sticker on there?…well that’s because he’s got an alternative fuel vehicle. How he comes up with his ideas I’ll never know but damn, I was in shock and completely and utterley impressed. I think a lot of people slept on this car because it certainly could have won Best of Show even without the alternative fuel set-up…PROPS.

Phaze2 Tony’s NSX of course. Man they worked on this thing all night up until almost showtime…

He’s running a pretty substantial tire size and it was causing some rubbing issues on the backend of the wheel well towards the door so Ross at Midnight Garage fabricated a bracket to actually push that part of the fender out and give it some more room. I think it came out great and makes the car look even more aggressive. If you look at older pics of it or other Sorcery NSXs, the fenders tends to taper in more towards the door but not this one…

Tony putting on his Top Ten of 2009 sticker…

All you see is floating hands in this disgustingly dark picture but it’s Ejay putting on his Chronicles sticker. Thanks for representing homie…

Anh’s Integra is fucking sick. Like crazy sick. It’s got all the essentials of a perfect overall build. Do I have any exterior pics of it? No. Why? Fuck, I don’t know. Cuz it was dark and it would have looked like Forest Whitaker swimming in a pool of Pepsi with teal speedos on. I got a chance to meet him, Anh, not Forest Whitaker, for the first time and he’s quite the interesting dude. Super nice guy. Really excited about Chronicles stickers in teal too…a little TOO excited…ATS Garage brought out some heaters for the show though, damn. I gotta say, they had the best Hondas at the show, easily…

If you’re trying to read the sticker that overlays the Wek’Sos banner, it says “Fred Chapman Built”. Who is Fred Chapman?…

This guy. You probably remember him from his numerous magazine-featured Honda builds. The guy can build cars, no question. That’s why he has his hand and mind in many of the great Honda builds in Northern California. He builds cars better than he plays Street Fighter 4, that’s for sure. I used to play SF4 with him a lot and he’s pretty good. He tends to get kinda angry though when he loses, which is a bit scary. He has a picture where he threw his controller and it got stuck in the wall of his home. Yeah, pretty aggressive. I don’t even know how I got to playing him at Street Fighter because I have never even met the guy in person until this Wek’Fest. Crazy how that works out. Cool guy though, he’ll build the shit out of a Honda. Just don’t get near him when he’s playing Street Fighter. Haha…

This Accord from ATS caught my eye. Just the fitment alone made me turn my head. That and I haven’t seen a clean set of Racing Hart C5s in a couple years. I am awful with names so I actually can’t tell you the dude’s name but he’s a super nice guy, especially because the majority of the Accord community fucking hates me. I don’t know what I did to them, maybe because I come off like a smug asshole to them but yeah, most of them, not very kind to me. But that’s okay. This Accord is nice and is on it’s way. Just needs to get his swap done and this Accord will blow up this year. Figuratively speaking, not literally because that would suck….

Yes, I know the guy was walking into my picture so I actually came back and took another picture of it so here it is….

Alexisthemovie was there with his new set-up, GLOW IN THE DARK Work Rezax wheels. Why he wants them to glow in the dark, I don’t know..but they do that, which is kinda cool. I would have taken a pic of the whole car but he was parked behind the biggest fucking pole ever. Like the thing covered half his car. EVER. He would need glow in the dark wheels just so people could fucking see the car because the pole cast such a huge shadow on his car. His new username should be Alexisbehindapole…

Nice car…

The infamous Loi Song doing his “DAT ASS” face…He picked up a new S90 hand held camera so he was definitely taking pictures of asses all day…

…either that or he was trying not to laugh when this guy walked by. No idea what was going on here. Hopefully he wasn’t using this as an attempt to impress the girl he has his arm around. What’s impressive about this and somewhat disturbing is that he and the girl pretty much have the same waist size, which means that if they wanted to, they could actually share clothing. All of a sudden everything makes sense now….

S2000….

I then walked over to the MemoryFab booth to go see Jimmy’s Civic and saw another S2000…

…really nice car… I then talked to Jimmy and saw his hatch build that I was following on NWP and Facebook…

The color came out really nice…I like it. The white Chevlons I’m not so sure about but hey, different strokes for different folks and the car is nice regardless…

Speaking of different strokes for different folks, here are some butts…

These were the girls that were dancing over by the Phaze2 NSX…

I followed them around for a little bit because I think some of them had lost their asses and were looking for them and I heard someone yell “Damn look at that ass” and as expected, the comment was directed towards me…

ATS Del Sol engine bay…

Stop asking me for free stickers guy who owns this car…

At this point, someone told me that they were towing cars where I had parked so I had to go move it out of the lot. So Tony and I headed out to the Safeway lot to get the car outta there. When I walked out, I saw the biggest fucking line I had ever seen in my whole life. Mind you, I’ve shopped at Fry’s Electronics on Black Friday and the line wasn’t even this long….

I mean, the line was so long, it wrapped around the entire block and wrapped around once more inside the parking structure. Hot Import Nights LA didn’t even have this kind of line. You would think they were giving out free handjobs or something, shit…

Oh while I was waiting for Tony to buy something at the Safeway, I ran into Takeshi from Type K Autosource. He and his entourage had flown out from Japan to attend the show. Hopefully they didn’t have to wait in that crazy ass line. Well I talked to him for a bit and like a dumbass, I totally forgot to take a picture with the guy. It was pretty crazy to meet him considering he lives in Japan and I’m not that easily recognizable. I asked him what he was eating and he said they were going to Panda Express. I was like “you came all the way from Japan just to eat Panda Express?” and he said “Panda Express is USDM so it’s good”….I don’t even know how to respond to that. It makes sense and doesn’t make sense all at the same time. Nice meeting him though…

After I finally moved the car to another parking lot, I went back into the show and it looked like this…

It was so crowded that I had to crowd-surf just to make my way back inside…

Okay, so some of you may have seen pictures of the Phaze2 NSX and wondered why there was writing all over the hood. It’s not because he’s trying to start some dumb trend where people write on their hoods. He’s getting a new hood soon so he decided to get some of the Wek’Fest models to sign it. Not the assless ones but like the actual Wek’Fest models like Natalia Marie and what not. The first girl he got to sign his hood was Lisa Fleming. She had a booth next to the car so it was easy to get her to sign it. Funny story behind that actually. Tony had asked her to sign the hood and the whole time they were talking, not once did she bother to ask if the NSX was actually his or not. So she goes up and signs it…

…and Tony decides to play a prank on her. A while after she signed it, HeyMikeyyyy went up to the NSX and pretended it was his car. He was like “What the fuck?! WHO THE FUCK IS TONY?!” And man from what the guys were telling me, she was all freaked out…haha. Like on her phone texting someone probably telling them she had just fucked up some guys car and wrote on his hood. Mikey makes a big scene like it’s his car and eventually they break it to her that it’s just a joke. One of them got the whole thing on video too so I hope I can get a copy of that and show you guys…

Anyways, moving on…

Coke in a Can S2000….

Arnel’s Civic of course…no more red BBS caps…

His car was drawing a huge crowd all day, as usual of course. People love this thing…either that or they’re laying down next to it trying to see how the wheels fit or something…

Ever since he got his air set-up and can tuck his rear wheels now, he swears he’s super sunk so he put one of the Hellasunk stickers on….

bBsquad guys…

James from Wek’Sos telling people they can’t get in for free with his bloodshot eyes…

Baby Gap model Ross from Midnight Garage modeling the newest Chronicles t-shirts, which are available now in the store…

Around this time we all got hungry so we decided to go eat upstairs at Over the Bridge. It’s like a small Japanese spot that has really good food and the slowest service ever. I think I missed half the show waiting for the old lady to bring my the bill…

Walking…

While the girls were in the restroom, we ran into this person who was wearing a domo-kun costume. They did a pretty good job on it minus the eyes which look like someone bust a nut on it and let it dry…

Band of misfits…

Soup…

Don’t remember what that was…

Waiting for the check to come…

Oh when I was walking back to the show, I saw THE sketchiest parking job EVER…

What the fuck. How is that even possible?….You couldn’t even put a pube inbetween those two…

While you sit and contemplate how and why that would be a good idea to park like that, I am going to get some sleeep. I’ll post the rest up in a little bit….

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Wek’Fest 2010 Weekend…Part 2 – The Saturday Before…

March 4, 2010

Not really much car stuff in this update…Just mostly stuff that we did the day before the actual show. For those of you who aren’t really interested, then it’s probably best to come back tomorrow…

So I woke up that morning around 10am or so and ate my Texas Roadhouse leftovers from the night before. Pulled pork and ribs is not exactly the breakfast of champions per se, but it was something. We had to do a lot of driving that day and had to head out to Wek’Sos to talk to the guys who are running the show. Chris was shooting Wek’Sos that day as well for a HT feature so it made sense that we just all rolled out together. We had to go to Target to get something and managed to get lost for about an hour or so but eventually we headed down to San Jose to meet up with Mikeyyyy who was already there…

The rain was on and off throughout the day which was kinda weird. It was like sunny and kinda hot but still pouring rain, shit made no sense…

I have never been to Wek’Sos before but when I stepped foot inside the building, wow, I was impressed. They got like hardwood floors and the shop itself was really clean. Plus Ken and them all drive bimmers so they must be doing something right, haha…

Tina was showing off the new Wek’Sos Wek’Fest hoodies which turned out to be a hit because everyone at the show the next day was rocking them…

When you walk into the shop, there are magazine feature plaques all over their walls. This one in particular is special to me because this was actually the first feature I ever wrote when I first started the magazine writing thing.

That and it used to be Ken’s car and it was the first RHD EP I’ve ever seen…

Ken and Mikeyyyy discussing set-up for the show…

Bored…

Chris aka CRSFOTO aka The Blizzard Man aka My Ass is Haunted doing work…

The Sean Bradford was all smiles all weekend. I don’t know what he was more excited about, hanging out with the Blizzard Man or driving around in his Mazda 5 van…5? or 3 or whatever number it is, the van looking thing…

Staff photo…

Mikeyyyy telling the Wek’Sos guys about our adventures in Socal and all the drama we go through with “shops”…

While that was going on I was checking out their personal portraits and the guys over at Wek’Sos are very tight apparently….haha. I hope someday we can get all the Phaze2xDoods together and take a portrait around a piano while on a cruise together…

Chris finished up with some shots of the outside and we bid farewell to Wek’Sos and headed off to N1 Concepts to meet up with Salem and Murdock…

When we got there Doug was already there as well as Armando Flores Sr….

Senior and Doug drove Armando’s S2000 up the night before. They also picked up some J’s Racing stuff for their cars while they were at N1…

The whole reason why we were there that day was to check out Salem’s new J’s Racing front bumper for his TSX. I think there’s only one other guy that has one right now and it’s up in Canada…

The quality of this thing was amazing. I can’t wait to see it painted and installed on Salem’s TSX….I’m happy to see him working on the car again and he’s also got some other crazy shit planned for it…

Once that was taken care of, we headed to downtown SF to go grab a late lunch…

We got lost for a bit thanks to Salem but finally arrived at Joe’s Cable Car. It’s a famous burger spot that’s been on TV and shit so we were excited to go try it out…

The sign says that Joe grinds his own fresh chuck daily. This of course is better than “Joe grinds his own meat everyday” because well, that would be disgusting…

Apparently it is true because Joe was sitting next to us inside and even talked to us for a little bit. We thought it was some creepy old man but we looked at the back of the menu and sure enough, his face was there…

The waitress there noticed that we all had cameras and asked us what were doing in San Francisco. We managed to convince her that we were in the porn industry and that we shoot for porno mags…

We also told her that she probably recognized our friend, John who was our contract star and went by the name “mo-cock”…She giggled and then proceeded to rape us anally for our meals. Let me tell you, the food there is delicious, but the service….what the fuck.

Oh, by the way, it was Mo-Cock’s birthday that day and he got a piece of hamburger cheesecake and a balloon…

Okay, so to the bill…..They ask you like ambigious questions and then randomly place things on your order that you didn’t even order. We had a plate of onion rings sit there the entire time that none of us even wanted that they charged us for. That and they don’t understand the concept of separate checks. To them, I guess it means they can charge me twice because that’s exactly what happened. I paid for my meal and then I check my bank statement when I get home and I was charge and additional 93 bucks for god knows what….Burger was delicious though….but the hassle with the bill? Ehhh, not worth it. I doubt we’ll ever go back there again. I’ve never been to a place where they actually take an hour to figure out a bill…

It took so long that we actually hung out outside and bullshitted for awhile before they could figure out everyone’s bill…

After that debauchery was settled, we headed back to the hotel to get some rest. Plus a lot of the other homies were showing up that night that we wanted to see before the show tomorrow…

After a couple hours, the Phaze2xDoods NSX rolled up to the hotel…There was still quite a bit of work that had to be finished up on the NSX before the show so Ross, his cousin, Sara, and Tony spend the rest of the night working on it. The fenders had cracked and they were just recently repaired by Midnight Garage. Ross still had to finish waxing up the entire car as well as reassembling the interior. It was also filthy from sitting around at the shop all week so it also had to be cleaned up.

Arnel also showed up around that time too and was busy showing off his new air suspension set-up to the others. I had made plans to go out to dinner with Jeremy and he had also just checked in to the hotel after visiting the Concord area. Jeremy, Teresa, May, and I then hopped in Jeremy’s TSX and headed back to downtown San Fran to walk around and grab some dinner…

We walked around the mall for awhile and I guess they had never seen a touch-screen mall directory so they fucked with that for awhile, then we headed to Lori’s Diner down the street for dinner…

If you’ve visited San Francisco, then you’ve probably seen this place. It’s across the street from the huge H&M in downtown. It’s on the upper level of some shops and it looked like it was kinda cool because it had a window view that overlooked the rest of the street. Unfortunately, of course with our luck, we didn’t even sit by the window. Hell, we weren’t even remotely close. They stuck us in the back where all the old shelves and equipment were and the place was actually kinda run down. I mean the front is nice and had all the cool shit to look at…

…They even had a mint Mortal Kombat 2 machine there. We didn’t get to experience all that of course because we were stuck in the back. It almost felt period correct and we were the minority in the back. I’m just saying. I ordered a quesadilla because that is obviously the first choice to eat at an American diner, and had a milkshake. I shared with May and Jeremy had southern fried chicken and finished the second half of my milkshake…

Of course his greedy ass over filled his cup to the point where it spilled everywhere and didn’t leave any for me, but oh well, it wasn’t that good anyway…

When we got back to the hotel, Ross and Tony were still furiously working on finishing up the NSX…

…I guess Ross has the most rarest and most expensive pair of Chucks ever because he had them bagged up while he worked on the car…

Mikey then came by and we headed off to go help the Wek’Sos guys set-up for the show. They needed help moving some cars around to make room for the show the next day. They also heard that Tony was working on his NSX out in the cold and invited them to bring the NSX down there to finish up. Big thanks to those guys for allowing us to do that. Big Mike was also able to bring in his Prelude earlier that night. He had some issues getting the car to run correctly so having it there early ensured that there would be no delays the next day. Jeremy also came by and picked us up and we went back to the hotel to get some much needed rest. I’m gonna stop here and start rolling out the actual show coverage tomorrow….Later.

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Wek’Fest 2010 Weekend…Part 1 – The Drive…

March 3, 2010

Finally, time to tell you guys about the trip up to Norcal for the 2010 Wek’Fest event. It was quite a weekend and I took a bunch of pictures of everything before and after the trip so be prepared to brick your phones. There are a bunch of sites out there that already have the pictures of the cars. As much as I would like to show you every single car that was at the show with detail shots and what not, I just can’t. I’ve always taken pride in being able to cover the lifestyle aspect of the shows more so than just the cars itself. This site is here to show you how we cars guys out west operate and how what we do, so if you’re here just for the cars, I’m gonna have to apologize to you beforehand because I honestly didn’t take that many pictures of the cars. I was busy running around like a fucking maniac the whole day of the show talking to people, looking for cars for work, and running into random people I haven’t had a chance to see in a long time. I did do coverage though so don’t worry about that. I was so busy I didn’t even get a chance to sell Chronicles merchandise. I was all over the place. I didn’t worry too much about covering all the cars at the show either because I just don’t have the equipment yet to do these cars justice inside this darker venue. If I was covering a Hot Import Nights or something, the pics would come out darker than 6 Wesley Snipes’…Anyways, on with the coverage…

So I was running around with my head cut off for most of the week. I was trying to get a bunch of stickers knocked out and to catch up on all the orders from the storefront. That and I had to cut stickers for Big Mike as well as picking up the new Chronicles shirts. I’m pretty happy with them and I hope you guys are too. Friday morning a bunch of us met up at the Denny’s off Magic Mountain Parkway at 10am. Of  course, I never show up on time anywhere so I got there at around 10:30 or so…

They’re all smiles here but a couple of them were kinda pissed off that I was so late but oh well, what can you do haha…

Lost is Black Brandon, Big Mike, Jeremy scratching his nuts, and Teresa…

Jeremy’s Euro-R converted TSX wasn’t apart of the show but he decided to come up with us just to hang out in Norcal and to help out some of the guys with set-up…

Big Mike hadn’t really had enough seat-time in his Prelude yet and with the storm ready to come in, he didn’t really feel comfortable driving it so he had the car trailered as a precaution…

Salem and the Phaze2 TSX sitting on 24K Work VS-XX…

Everyone shot the shit for a little bit and then we headed out…

After a couple hours and probably 3 bottled waters and coffee later, May had to use the bathroom so I decided to take this one exit super late and somehow managed to lose Mikey in the process. Oh that and it was the sketchiest gas station EVER….

Jeremy wondering why there was a random lawnmower out front, along with an old oven with caution tape around it….yup, they all totally belong in front of a store…

Somewhere along the way, we randomly ran into the As1 Subaru Legacy on the road. As1 Bryan was riding along with him and they decided to caravan with us…

Bug massacre…

Jeremy and Salem aka Alternate Dimension Rodrez discussing TSXs…

Back on the road…

I’ve actually never seen this section of the 5 so green before. I guess the recent rain and what not helps. Sorry the pic is kinda blurry but I took this while I was driving and eating fried pork rinds and drinking an Amp energy drink. I multi-task…I was also driving both TSXs simultanesously too, wrap your brain around that one…

Somehow Salem got us lost and we missed the 152 exit so we had to turn around. We decided to stop for gas and more high volume peeing…

Salem was smart and decided to apply some Rain-X to his windows because the storm was definitely up ahead…

Hopefully the rain would help get rid of this mess…what’s blue tape?

Jeremy was heading a different direction because he had to head to Concord for some punk concert or something with Teresa so he stayed on the 5 while we turned around and went the other way…

…and we ran into this. The rain had come full force while we drove through garlic country. Shit got hairy for awhile and definitely made the drive interesting…

Here we are making our way through Gilroy and to the 101 freeway…

While Salem was leading the way and digging his car into the rain, I did what anyone would do in dangerous driving conditions…

…I ate a sandwich.

The rain began to calm down and we saw some blue in the sky as we neared our hotel. Chris from Chicago arrived in San Fran hours before and called me to tell me that the storm was so bad that our hotel actually had no power. Luckily everything was fine by the time we got there.

We checked in and took a break for a little bit until everyone else caught up and made it to the hotel. Once everyone arrived, it was already night time. We had such a bomb ass meal at Texas Roadhouse the last time we went to Norcal so we had to hit that spot up again. We met up with the Sean Bradford and Chi-town Chris and headed out once again…

Oh it was Big Mike’s birthday that day and he was all smiles about it…

Chris aka CRSFOTO aka The Blizzard Man aka My Ass is Haunted and The Sean Bradford breaking bread with us…

Of course the waitress forgot my order completely so I just sat there and watched everyone else eat. By the time my food came everyone was pretty much finished and I didn’t even feel like eating it. So I took most of it home and just ate it the next day…

Blurry onion contraption…

Tina with her steak…

Salmon seemed to be a popular item that night…

Yay. Birthday…

After that we all went home for such much needed sleep. I watched some TV and KO’d for the rest of the night. Tomorrow we were heading off to Wek’Sos to talk and chill with the guys that were running the event. And that’s where we’re gonna leave off for today….

Back tomorrow for more…

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