I’m baaack….Sorry guys, had a couple things to take care of during the end of the week so I didn’t get a chance to jump on here and say anything. It was a pretty eventful weekend though. I had some free time on Saturday so I actually went over to the JTuned meet out in Rancho Cucuamonga and it was kinda small. I took a few pictures but since it was DPK David’s birthday yesterday and he had a little meet/bbq get together, I figure I would show you the pics from that first. It was the guy’s birthday afterall so it should get the nod ahead of a meet out in the middle of nowhere….

We headed out to El Dorado park around 11:30 or so and thought we were late. David said something about it starting at 11 or something so we expected a group by then. Of course when we arrived no one had shown up yet. We saw Gump, Black Pie, HeyMikeyyyy, and Tina there and David’s girl was about to take off to go get more goods. David had gone home I guess to get ready (take a dump), so we basically showed up to hold the spot and wait for peeps to arrive. Black Pie was hungry and took off with Gump to go get In-and-Out so it was basically just the HotStuff/PhazexDoods! crew hangin’ out. Sid was there earlier but realized that it was a meet and drove all the way back to Eagle Rock to go get his DA….

No real cars out there besides our’s and Gump’s daily Element on TEs….

David came back as well as Pie and a couple others and we got the grill going. I don’t know where Mikey got the grill from but it looked like a morgue table. David bought like 3 bags of charcoal but didn’t bother to bring anything to start a fire with so we ran around for a little bit before we found 3 old matches….

The hamburger patties ended up being pretty good despite any kind of seasoning. I guess the old shit from the previous bbq Mikeyyyy had did the job and flavored the patties….

We put some fried shit on top of the meat and told Black Pie it was fried chicken…

…and he didn’t hesitate to mash on it…

After he finished eating, he took off like a maniac and didn’t tell anyone he was leaving…

…then Black Pie returned with…well…a pie.

More people started to show up as the day progressed. The car that attracted the biggest crowd was a DC that belonged to David’s friend…

It was definitely an attention-grabber because of the gold-dipped Work RS Betas…

…the huge intercooler up front…

…and the big ass turbo.

I rarely get to see anything really new nowadays since we go to so many meets and events. The only time you really see anything you’ve never seen before is at the bigger annual shows but it was cool to see something different at a smaller meet like a bbq. This thing was a beast, sounded nasty rolling up and when it took off as well…

I always try to get a shot of Carlos/Mugen Boy’s 4-door everytime I see it. It’s so clean and white that it hurts my eyes just staring at it. It’s come a long way since the first time I saw it when I met up with him to sell him a head unit. Damn, that day it didn’t have anything on it other than a set of BBR Comps I think…

Salem and his gang arrived fashionably late as usual….When I say “fashionably” I mean “4 hours” and when I say “late” I mean,  and everyone was getting ready to go home“…

I ran into Big Mike the day before at the JTuned event (Coverage coming tomorrow) and it’s a good thing I did because he didn’t even know the bbq was on Sunday. He thought it was going on the same time as the JTuned meet and almost missed out on kickin’ it with the homies…

His car is never gonna be done but he did manage to get everyone together for a good time. Once everyone showed up and stuffed themselves with meat and chips, it was time to cut the cake…

Everyone sang him a song and wished him a happy bday…

…David cut the cake with a plastic fork handle and we all had cake.

Overall it was a great time. Weather was perfect, turnout was good…not too many people, not too little, everyone was fed…good times. It was definitely a success. Once again, Happy Birthday to David and thanks for inviting us out to celebrate and grub with you guys… 😉