Fresh start
This past weekend was a record breaker weather wise reaching 75 in the Chicagoland area. Car meets popped up left and right and I had the opportunity to go to a few and here are my perspectives on the meets and what to expect for the season ahead.
On Friday night I went to a meet in Elgin that was popped about 30 minutes into the start of the meet. It as held in a great location and in conjunction with a local business but EPD wasn’t having it. the meet was held at Brew & Bubble on Randall rd. I was there for about 5 min couldn’t even park before EPD shut it down. The meet was hosted by Automotomadness, Unlisted, Discrete Mafia, and DTF. I’m sure it didn’t help that some knuckle heads on dirtbikes were dicking around (they were the worst) or the usual dummies revving their Infinities and 350z’s and don’t get me started on the idiots driving around recklessly or sitting on the windows while they drove reminiscent of takeover culture building.I get it everyone was excited it was finally hot out and felt like summer was coming, they wanted to party and have a good time but there’s a right place right time for everything. I will say the meet was definitely growing and would have been a very large meet, It’s a shame too because there was some nice cars out there and ALOT of variety. We left Elgin and ended up at the usual meet spot Strats in Villa Park, per usual it was packed and hard to find parking otherwise a chill spot to be at. One highlight of the night was someone brought out their Back to the Future inspired DMC Delorean build.
Saturday started off hand washing the car and made some content for my IG. After I went and shot some photos. I ran into the media team from Rohana wheels it was great meeting them and catching up, they were driving the libertywalk Mclaren and it looked amazing with the skyline as the backdrop check their IG for updates. After my shoot I met up with some friends and went on a cruise, and edited everything I shot for the day.
Sunday… Sunday there was a meet at Starts the day started off great we over packed the parking lot at Strats it was a great meet and a great day. The Rohana team was present with their R34 GTR (Pictured below) the corvette club of Illinois came out in full force as well, there was even a Huracan which was nice to see. I grabbed some hotdogs and cheese fries from starts before heading to see some races in Mexico. After the races I went to a night meet in Lincolnshire that meet was also chill and had a decent attendance its just kinda far north for most people but the lot is great and it didn’t get shut down so that’s a win in my book,
All in all this past weekend was great the weather came through with the win for everyone it was great cruising around and catching back up with everyone. If this weekend was an indication of what to expect for the season then this will be a great season yes there will be busted meets and dummies as their usually are but there will also be good car shows, good meet, great races and track events and most importantly great company.
