Top to bottom, in terms of overall car quality, this might be the best San Jose Wekfest we’ve ever had. I know that sounds a bit outrageous but you have to consider the level of cars that are being built in 2021. Coming into the event, we already had about 10 cars that were definitely going to win an award in the higher-tiered categories. It was just a matter of where we were going to place each car. It’s pretty crazy. In the past, there were probably 1-3 that were going to be up for contention for “Car of the Festival”, which is our version of the best of show, but never was there this much competition. I don’t know if it had to do with timing, since SEMA had just happened a few weeks before or because everyone had so much time off to work on their cars due to the pandemic, but people have really stepped it up. I’m happy to see it. I think through out the last year or so, I had been looking forward to just getting back on the road and doing car shows again. There was hope that there would be some new car builds on the horizon, but I didn’t really know what to expect. It just felt nice to be outside doing car shit again. In the past few months, we did back-to-back shows with Seattle and Los Angeles but there was added pressure to make San Jose good because it was the ‘big’ one…
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SEMA 2019 Coverage… Part 2…
Towards the end of the first day of SEMA, I wanted to go back to the Toyo Tires Treadpass area to get some good photos of the E-AT Civic that Rywire had recently completed for the show. It had been so crowded earlier that day and the lighting was so […]
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It seems a bit late in the year now to be posting up SEMA coverage, but I really just wanted to get these photos up now because I actually spent a good amount of time shooting this year. I can’t say that I really spent too much time trying to […]
Read MoreThe New Rywire Civic Build & More SEMA Debuts – CHRNCLS Vlog 2019 #32
We continue on our explorations at the annual SEMA Show and meet up with Ryan from Rywire, where he goes over his latest customer project that debuted at the event. He gives us a detailed look at the Civic at the Toyo Treadpass section of the show and then we […]
Read MoreYear11.5 & The Wild Rides of SEMA – CHRNCLS Vlog 2019 #31
The day after The Chronicles Year11 event, we hosted a smaller gathering at the shop simply called “Year11.5”. It was our last ‘Chronicles and Coffee’ meet of the calendar year that I wanted to do after the big anniversary event to get more of the people who came from out-of-town […]
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I’m sure there’s a lot to be said about what you’re going to see, being that this is a collection of video clips that span the course of 5 incredibly eventful years of my life. So many faces, so many places, all made possible by doing what we love. For […]
Read MoreSEMA 2018 Coverage…
Photos by Joey Lee (Stickydiljoe) There is much more content coming along in the next coming days but these are some of the stand-out builds from this year’s SEMA Show. You’ll see some privateer builds, a few new debuts from companies like GReddy, and we cap it off with the […]
Read MoreSEMA Show 2018 Day 3!! – CHRNCLS Vlog 2018 #13 (Part 2)
On our final day of SEMA, we walk around to catch some more of the much-talked about builds of this year’s event before handing the rest of the coverage off to Ryan Der who decided to stay in Vegas way longer than us and had plenty of time to spare […]
Read MoreSEMA Show 2018 Day 1 & 2!! – CHRNCLS Vlog 2018 #13 (Part 1)
We dive right into the meat of the 2018 SEMA Show covering some of the most anticipated builds of the year and unearthing some very unique builds that really caught our attention. For this year, we really wanted to maximize our time and see as much as possible so Der […]
Read MoreChronicles & Coffee Meet and the SEMA Show!! – CHRNCLS Vlog 2018 #12
For Year10, I really wanted to try to maximize the weekend with everyone coming in from so far away, some as far as Canada and Japan, so I decided it would be cool to host a smaller gathering at our shop in LA. We had only done one other “Chronicles […]
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