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Event Coverage: MaydayGarage Does Wek’Fest Cali Style!

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June 10, 2011

Weaksauce is defined as something that is incredibly lame, weak, or uncool.

WEKSOS, the creative minds behind the now legendary WEK’FEST car shows in California is the exact opposite.
Confused? Don’t be.
What started as a small gathering of the best whips on the west coast has outgrown it’s NorCal roots, and now is set for a four city, nationwide tour starting with Los Angeles, home of the greatest cars this side of the Mississippi. Actually, the event was held about 30 miles south of LA in Long Beach, which made this particular venue that much more eye-popping. WEKSOS also collaborated with world reknown car culture/lifestyle aficionados, FATLACE, originators of the coined term “HELLAFLUSH“. Together, these two wonder teams are hell bent on world domination as all tuning eyes of the world focus on one corner of the globe, southern California.

Proud Mary keep on burnin'

Full frontal of the Five Axis GS

Mike G and Pworld(Preston) from Function and Form

German pride!

Japanese Pride!

DPK*Ryan(Rywire)

Root Beer Dreamin'

DPK*Alex(Sheepey) unveiling of his new turbo setup.

An S14 even Mayday Mikey approves of

JP, his wife Sopha and one of their 3 little ones.

Jeremy and Erick In the Function Form booth.

Unfortunately, all of the MaydayGarage guys were tied up doing other things during this weekend, so we definitely were not out in full force, however, our resident Honda expert, Andrew got a chance to fly out last weekend for both Wek’Fest and to visit his homies. Armed with his trusty Canon 50D and a small handful of lenses, he was able to capture his side of the show. This is his story as told in pictures. **Warning** If you’re viewing this from a mobile phone, you will not see everything, cause I’m sure your phone can’t handle 100+ photos!!**

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Event Coverage: Coffee and Cars, June Edition

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June 9, 2011
We are back for more Coffee and Cars
We missed out the last two months of C&C so I had to make an effort to make it this time around.  I called up the Mayday guys to see who would be able to make it.  Only Mayday Mikey and Venn were available to join me in the early morning Texas heat.  JohnP, David, and Khiem were busy filming the 48 Hour film festival (I later joined to help out also) and Slappy (Andrew) headed out to the West Coast to cover WekFest (coverage coming Friday so check back!).

The attendance was overwhelming as usual.

TT M3 Goodness

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Nostalgic Wednesdays: Ground Designs 2000’s Black Widow or Win Corporation’s Type 1?

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June 8, 2011

This Nostalgic Wednesday, we take you back to latter days of big body kits and big wangs.

A few months ago I was sitting at the north Mayday Garage house having a chat with ol’ Mayday David about classic aero from our earlier ricer days. The conversation consisted of our favorite full blown aero kits from that era and how they had their designs leaked and chopped throughout the knock-off chain. One company that came to mind was Ground Designs 2000, the ORIGINAL makers of the Black Widow Kit; a hand laid fiber glass, well fitting body kit that came out in 2001. Now, keep in mind that if you are looking to purchase a Black Widow kit nowadays you will be bombarded with a slew of knock-offs of knock-offs of the original Ground Design’s Black Widow since Ground Designs no longer manufactures this aero.

Big Aero, Big Win

Big Aero, Big Win

White on White Crime

White on White Crime

Why am I choosing this aero kit as a topic of todays Nostalgic Wednesday? Because originality is a hell of a thing, and if you are original, especially in a ricer industry like ours you are most likely going to be copied at some point in time. Most people would have assumed that the Black Widow Kit was an original in its own right, but they unfortunately were wrong. Despite its popularity, the Black Widow Kit borrowed most of its design from none other than Win Corporations Type 1 design aero for the Lexus GS300/400 or Toyota Aristo.

The Original

The Original

Still not convinced?

Magnifico

Magnifico

and a beautiful ass..

and a beautiful ass..

The biggest giveaway is the front bumper, check out the identical bumper air intakes. With exact positioning on the front bumper, it is a dead giveaway that the design was a rip..although one might argue at the added “side vent” from the Black Widow adds to its originality, but hold your horses! In fact, if you really want to get technical, it is almost as if they took the front design of the Win Corp bumper and added the side vents of the Blitz Aristo Bumper.

Timeless 90s

Timeless 90s

Win Corp Blitz Bumper.

Ok, so there is a bit of originality to the Black Widow Kit. The side skirts, the rear and that HOOD. No one will ever forget that hood and its all functioning glory.

Mugshot

Mugshot

All function...maybe.

All function...maybe.

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Now, I am not hating on the Black Widow design but Nostalgic Wednesdays is about looking back and seeing what the hell was really going on back then! And I am here to tell ya, that Black Widow took its design from Win Corporation and Blitz, respect!

– JohnP