I am currently sitting on a kitchen counter top in Austin, Texas as I type out this concluding portion of the San Jose Wekfest coverage. It’s about 9PM Texas time and we just wrapped-up dinner at the AirBnb house we are staying at, just a couple days away from the last Wekfest show of 2021. It’s been a pretty wild year to say the least. It started out a bit slow, the months dragged on it seemed, but then by mid-summer, things just took-off. Things started to open back up, there seemed to be an endless amount of car meets going on every weekend, and indoor car shows officially resumed. In the past two months, we’ve done three Wekfest events that took us from Seattle, back home to Los Angeles, and to San Jose for the ‘Super Bowl’…
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Wekfest San Jose 2021 Coverage… Part 1…
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…
Read MoreIs This The Best Wekfest San Jose Ever??… CHRNCLS Vlog 2021 #26
I’ve been on the Wekfest tour for some time now but top to bottom, in terms of car quality, this just might be the best Wekfest event we’ve ever had in North America. Call it luck or good preparation but the variety that this show offered was insane! From Japanese classics to rare super cars and everything in-between, if you loved custom car culture, this was the place to be. Originally I had thought that I had not shot enough video for an entire episode, being that I was so busy running around everywhere, but when I got home, I realized I had a ton of footage. Sometimes I even surprise myself, I guess, lol!
Read MoreWekfest Seattle 2019 Coverage… Part 3 of 3…
Positive momentum. That’s what we’re in the midst of right now. We’ve only had three Wekfest events up in Seattle thus far and we’re on an upward trajectory. I was having dinner with Ken from Wekfest earlier tonight and I was telling him about how the excitement for this tour […]
Read MoreWekfest Seattle 2019 Coverage… Part 2…
Before I started putting this post together, I went and took a trip down memory lane, pulling-up some of my older posts back when I first started traveling to the Pacific Northwest. Those were very different times. Back in 2013, I was knee-deep in magazine print work, often looking for […]
Read MoreWekfest Seattle 2019 Coverage… Part 1…
I wanted a slightly different approach this year covering the Seattle Wekfest event. The previous two shows had been pretty amazing content-wise but I always remember the roll-out being so much more memorable than the set-up phase of the show. Perhaps that has more to do with the stress of […]
Read MoreThe Best Of The Pacific Northwest – CHRNCLS Vlog 2019 #24
Wekfest Seattle has been one of my favorite events since we started doing the show up there three years ago. Every year it seems to be getting better and there is just this great buzz around the show in that area. It’s a real exciting time. It’s so nice to […]
Read MoreThe Chronicles Wekfest Seattle 2019 Pre-Meet Coverage…
This doesn’t need to be said anymore because it is very obvious to my general audience but….I really do love the Pacific Northwest. I always say that I would never even think about leaving California because we have it so great out here, but if there was a place that […]
Read MoreWekfest San Jose 2019 Coverage… Part 3…
I was having such a good time going over the Seattle Wekfest photos that I almost forgot that I had one more section of Wekfest San Jose captures to upload here. It has been pretty busy over here lately but you guys probably already know that. This entire year has […]
Read MoreRebuilding An Integra For Wekfest Seattle – CHRNCLS Vlog 2019 #23
Once we arrived in Seattle, I headed down to my buddy Terry’s house to see what he’s been up to lately. When Yasu and I arrived, we were surprised to see that he had taken his Integra apart and was in the process of rebuilding it for the annual Wekfest […]
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