Okay, I finally found time to re-size all the pics from last month (5/16). Me and a few friends went on a little road trip; we started in Blairsville with my buddy Derek's S13 and my friend Barney's Maxima. We went from Blairsville to Philly to meet up with Barney's uncle to get the Maxima's title since Barney was going to be trading it the next day. Philly was kind of sketchy; we stopped at a convenience store for food a few minutes after it had been robbed (ish)... from what we understood, a kid walked in, grabbed a bunch of stuff, and ran. Also, while we were there, a cracked-out dude danced his way into the store... that was entertaining, to say the least. From Philadelphia we went north through NJ up to NYC to spend the night at Barney's house. After a few hours of sleep, we left NYC to head back to PA, this time to get rid of the maxima for a shiny new(ish) S13 in Mount Carmel. From Mount Carmel, we embarked on the 5-hour drive to Englishtown, arriving at HIN at around 10, giving us 2 hours to take in all the sexy cars and gorgeous models we could handle. Leaving at roughly midnight, we then set back on the 6-hour drive back to Blairsville. In all honesty, the 18 hours in a car on 10 hours of sleep all weekend was well worth it. Well, now that the wall of text is out of the way, time for some eye candy



My friend Evan being... umm... Evan



Evan and Jack... jdm y0!



Barney... as you can tell from the look on his face, he's quite a character lol



Me, "happy" to be on the road



Evan and Jack, up to shenanigans



The Maxima during a pit stop... minus her Nismo vinyls, smoked headlights, and a few other things



Evan and Jack again... up to more tomfoolery



Another pit stop shot



Z0mg! It's a stock KA24DE!1!one!



Barney's parking job in Philadelphia. Hey, it's what the curbs are there for, right?



Derek, grabbing a bite to eat during a pit stop



The new S13 in action. About 5 minutes before this pic, it had shot flames when it hit the limiter.



My personal favorite picture of the trip to HIN. HIN itself, however, is another story



A quick photoshoot while we stopped at McDonald's



The S13s



Gotta have the cliche ground shot



Look at those a**es. and LOL @ Derek's drift charm (black s13). It's a toy from Taco Bell that we talked a female employee into giving us



And the nose shot



A beautiful S14



Yes, the S-chassis cars were out in full force that night.

 

One of the cleanest G35's I've seen in a while



It took a while to get this shot; I had to keep taking my hand off the camera to wipe drool from my face. Acura NSX-R here.



A beautiful model in front of a beautiful machine. Too bad she kept moving when I took a picture... after about 5 failed attempts (maybe my timing was off?) I got fed up and walked away.



Another MkIV Supra



Trust me, the drift cars were out en masse also



A true S13 Silvia; not many of those running around in the states.



A blurry pic of a boosted, B-swapped civic



An all-out drag EK. The snail was bigger than my head, no lie.



A carbon-fiber-ed out EK. The lip, grille, hood, fenders, skirts, roof, and trunk deck were all CF.



Another EK dressed up in carbon fiber



An R33 GTR behind a fence... if I had an R33, you can bet I'd have it behind a fence too.



Another shot of the R33. It's been a while since I was this close to a skyline.



But what's this? An R32, sitting a scant 50 feet fromt he R33, and not behind a fence



She's purty



Another S14 dorifto



Hands-down the cleanest EG in the show. To think this was almost the exact color I was going to have my Ej1 painted =[



Who says 17's are too big for a pre-8g civic? Not I, that's for sure.



A beautiful S13.5 drifter



Sitting a few feet from NOS' Z33 drifter



The MkIV, sans the model unfortunately

 

A front view of said MkIV



Another 350z. It's scary, but I kind of like how it looks



A boosted K20A2. What's not to love?



The Evos were also sitting left and right, most of them sporting God's gift to the automotive world... the Volk TE-37



Another Evo, this time in gunmetal



I think I might be in love



Yeah, I'm pretty sure they call this love



A true S15 Silvia. None of that conversion bulls**t.



A Mugen DC5. IDK, the Mugen kit is growing on me



I found a model that held a pose long enough to get a good shot of



Oh God



S14 240sx. Huge snail. Giant FMIC. 'nuff said.



I think I need new underpants... the sexiest M3 ever built IMO



BMW Z4 Coupe Motorsport Edition. I'll take mine with a side of "Oh my God" please



See: proper usage of aerodynamic modifications



Aston Martin DB8. Pure sexy right there.



And of course, Godzilla made a special appearance. The first time I've seen one in person, and I must say I'm impressed.



But what's this? Another R35 sitting in the parking lot? That's baller status right there... drive a $100k exotic to a show and don't enter it in the show

 

Dude.....where the hell was that R35 sitting?
I was going all over looking for one, i saw in one of the corners where there was a ton of niss cars, but no R35.

 

When you got in the gates to the actual show (not the parking lot thing right after the entryway) if you went to the left along the fence where all the 350Zs and 240s were it was sitting in the corner. Then that second one was right along the road in the parking area. I could've gotten an under-hood pic of the one in the show, but I figured the hood would still be open when I came back... it wasn't =[

 

cool pics, but some of that is just rice. I don't like that green evo at all lol

 

A couple things.

1) It's a car show. Expect to see pictures of show cars, not m4d jdm tyte, y0! cars.
2) A car show with 100+ of the same style car (m4d jdm tyte, y0!) would be boring as h**l.
3) 90% of the cars there were boosted. And I'm not talking 14b turbos here, either. As far as I'm concerned, if a car can blow the tread off the tires in 4th gear, it could have paint featuring rainbows, unicorns, puppy dogs, and richard simmons and still be bada** in my book.
4) Most of the cars there were also either purpose-built drift cars (for example, the 240s, the silvias, and the v8-swapped 350z) or purpose-built road course cars (half the evos, the bmw's, etc). If you've ever watched a professional drift event, the cars don't exactly follow the stupid jdm fad.

 

you need one of these.................



and stop using this to take your pics.............

 

i feel like half those cars never even get raced or driven, they are just too clean and by clean i literally mean it, i mean the engines and engine bays are in perfect condition, everything is. Thats the only thing i dont like, would rather see one that has actually been used...None of those cars are rice, you can sport stickers and stuff like that when u can back them up with ur engine.

 

Kevin, I was using a Nikon Coolpix S51; it's just really hard to take clear pics at night without a tripod. Personally, I'll take a few blurry pics trying to shoot freehand with a slow shutter speed at night than take no pictures because I didn't have a tripod.

And cronin, I agree with you. Actually, I'd bet it's more or less literally half of the cars are simply trailer queens. But I'd say about half of the cars (the drift cars anyway) were used for what they were built to do. I'd be willing to put money on the NOS Z33 being an actual drift car, and a few of the 240s had drift scars (if you look at the first picture from the show, you'll notice a giant crack going down the front of the bumper).