Event Coverage: Nisei Showoff 2010 Part 3.
Happy Monday everyone!
I know Mondays suck, but Andrew's final and most epic post yet should put a smile on your face!
We strive to put out the most complete and best coverage out there, and unfortunately, that takes time, so thanks for being so patient with our coverage! Without further ado....
Words by Andrew Machac:

A little "flare" is always nice.

All in all it was a great day! L to R (ATS*Chris, ATS*Aj, ATS Angel and Chris' wife Dina)

Thank god she didn't have hairy pits. That woulda been awkward.
Event Coverage: Nisei Showoff 2010 Part 2.
As we pick up from part one, Andrew and company departed from DPK*David's house with a slew of cars to one of the greatest shows in North America, Nisei Showoff. Held in Little Tokyo, this years show is supposedly the very last ever. Well, at least at this location...
In part two, Andrew shows us what most people don't see, as everyone gets ready for the day, we get an inside glimpse at the people behind the cars.
Words by Andrew Machac:

DPK*David scopin out the High End E46 getting unloaded.

This was what I came upon as we made the turn down the main street in front of the Lot that hosted Nisei. So I hopped out of DPK*Henry's RHD EG6 and hunted a spot to catch the roll in.

TE37V's were lookin proper hanging out under the flares of this Z.
Event Coverage: Nisei Week 2010 Part 1.
There's no doubt that many of our readers have seen the plentiful pictures of the last Nisei Showoff around the net lately. The beautiful Cali weather mixed with beautiful people and cars is sure to be the right combination of the perfect car show with Los Angeles as the backdrop. And while we can't compete with the many other media outlets out there which were out in full force, we do take pride in always providing a more human aspect to our coverage. So this was a pretty tall order for our shooter, Andrew, as he went solo style packed with only his Canon 40D, some T-Shirts, shorts and ZERO suntan lotion.

ATS Garage: You know, and I know it. One of the best in the biz.

I tried numerous spots of capturing the seriousness of Angels wheel and tire setup, and this is the best one I could get.
In part one, Andrew lets us take a look at the events leading up to the Nisei Showoff roll-in.
Words by Andrew Machac:
Event Coverage: 2010 Nisei Showoff Preview!
Fresh from Bush Intercontinental Airport, Andrew came back with the absolute worst farmer's tan i've ever seen, and I've seen some seriously bad ones (mainly on my own arms) in my life. Between the iced out towels being applied to his neck, I got a chance to look through all 1500 pics he took this weekend. He says it was the best ever. So while me and Andrew sort his photos and narrow it down to a few hundred, I wanted to share a few photos that he took. So check it out!
Click on each photo for the full res version.
Event Snaps: Cricket or Ticket in Corpus Christi
This past weekend the newest addition to the Mayday Collective, Ervin Llanera ventured on down to Corpus Christi where our good friend Wayne Raqueno was having his annual Cricket or Ticket Car Show / Meet. Here are a couple of snaps that Ervin caught while he was out there.

E30 Love.

All Function

Honda Game

Believe it or not, this is what Cops look like in South Texas
Greg Strubes immaculate BMW M3, in case you never saw our feature on this car you can find it here.

Mad BMW Face is Mad.

TEs never get old
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For more pictures from Cricket or Ticket, check them out here!
All pictures taken exclusively for MaydayGarage, by Ervin Llanera.
Enjoy.
-JohnP
A Nissan Outing: The All Nissan Meet @ Baker Tuning
While I was in Dallas this weekend, Danh shot on over to the all Nissan Meet over at Baker Nissan on the North Side of Houston. Coupled with a guest DJ, aka Heavygrinder and local DJ Tito, it was a nice Saturday event. Baker Tuning got the point across that Nissans are their game, and they showed it. Enjoy the eye candy.

Advans never get old.

Project Mothra

Hajime Maki's Masterpiece.

Special Guest, DJ HeavyGrinder
Cupcakin’ For Kids: Cup Cake Meet Coverage.
Cupcakes, girls, cars, and friends seem to be the formula that drives the ever growing Cupcake meets here in Texas. This past weekend I ventured out to Dallas witness the biggest cupcake meet to date. The CCMeet group themed this event “Cupcakin’ for Kids”, a fund raiser event that would give all proceeds towards the Scottish Rite Hospital for children, and every car that was to attend the event paid a nominal $15.00 to give to the charity. I knew the event was going to be of pretty good size when I asked Tiffany, the President of the Cup Cake Meet a couple of days before how many cars she had registered, she mildly threw out 300 cars. Now, 300 cars for a regular meet is a nominal number, however, we are talking about people “paying money” so 300 is a pretty damn good pre-registration goal. When we arrived the day of the event, 300 was a laughable number because 2 hours before the event even started there were in excess of 500 cars.

Cars as far as the eye could see.

From VDubs

To Japanese goodness everyone came out.
Blowing Shit Up with New MaydayGarage Stickers!
Today we are introducing our newest batch of one-off stickers!
First up is a sticker I hold dear to my heart, as I am a huge Back to the Future movie fan. 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of this epic movie, so to celebrate, we are debuting our BTTF MaydayGarage sticker in a run of only 50 stickers and will be available at the 512 Project this Saturday!
Speaking of the 512 Project, don't forget that we are hosting this year's Mayday Capital Run, a twin caravan leaving from both Dallas and Houston Saturday morning to the state's capital, Austin, TX. To commemorate this year's run, we have a limited edition Mayday Capital Run sticker for both our Dallas and Houston legs!
These stickers will be FREE for the FIRST 50 participants (cars) on each leg Saturday morning (after you fill out our waiver form), after that there will be no more!
We also have one more sticker.
I cannot show this sticker online as it is very controversial, and extremely limited. We will be handing out these prototype stickers to a select few at Project 512, so look out for them! I guaran-fucking-tee that these stickers will make you laugh, but I'm not going to spoil it here.
Stay tuned tomorrow as we will be doing some live blogging for those of you that couldn't make the event! Follow us also on Twitter @MaydayJohnP @MaydayDavidD and also on our Facebook Fan page!
--David--
David@maydaygarage.com
Breaking News: D1 Grand Prix USA coming to Texas, August 2010.

D1 Grand Prix USA is making a stop in Texas this year, Fort Worth to be exact for the series' first two rounds. It is good to see a national event touch base here in the good ol' Lonestar State, and it is happening on August 13 & 14. It has been a minute since the Texas audience has had the opportunity to experience Japanese drivers near home, and here's our chance. Appartenly D1 was teamed up with SPEED Channel to help bring the energy to the US series. Man, I hope this turns out to be good!
More detailed information can be found at the source.
Source: Drifting.com
Here is the 2010 tentative schedule, starting with Texas.
Round 1- August 13 – Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
Round 2- August 14 – Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
Round 3- September 24/25 – Atlanta Motor Speedway, Atlanta, GA
Round 4- October 29/30 – Homestead Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL
Round 5- November 27/28 – Toyota Speedway, Irwindale, CA
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-- JohnP
A Sunday Funday: All Team Bash 2010
600 cars, 1000 plus people, 100 degree weather with 100% humidity, beer and BBQ combined, make Houston’s All-Team Bash. Ringing in on their third year, local hardpark crew Sunwork's leader David aka Kimo had his biggest event to date. The All-team Bash is a meet that has a few objectives in mind, to establish stronger comradery between crews, have a great time, and provide an all welcoming environment for those who want to come out and meet their local favorites. This year proved just that, people rolled from all over to hang out, eat, drink, and sweat to the beat of a ricer on a hot Sunday afternoon and we were there to hang with them.

An agressive look..

to communicate boost is better.


