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Event Coverage: MaydayGarage Does Wek’Fest Cali Style!

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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.


Smile! :) :D


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, April Edition

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Coffee and Cars, our monthly exotic fix of high end cars and enticement, occurred this past Saturday and was special in a couple of ways. First, it was the new venue that the event was being held at, Vintage Park, right outside of the north side of Houston. A large welcoming venue, with café’s and restaurants to entertain the crowd, seemed to be THE new home for the event. After a little bit of trouble finding a permanent spot, Jorge and Bill, the organizers of Houston’s Coffee and Cars chapter, hit a homerun on this one.

Dreary skies, light rain and 200% humidity were the welcoming factors for Saturday, definitely not turbo weather, I haven’t broken a sweat like that since before the winter started.

But Mother Nature’s forces didn’t keep the fans from coming out. There were EASILY 600 plus cars that came out which is a testament to the hunger that Houstonians have for great rides.

The New Home.

The New Home.

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Event Coverage: TX2K11 Night Meet and Bikini Contest.

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Coffee and Cars happens every month, and it’s been getting bigger and bigger with each meeting. And if you’re a morning person, Coffee and Cars is definitely something you don’t want to miss, but what if you’re a night owl? Where do you turn to? What is THE meet to be? Unless you’ve been hibernating for the last few years, everyone that lives in Houston knows, you CANNOT miss the TX2K night meet hosted by HPD (Houston Performance Driving, not Houston Police Department!).

Pretty much my favorite car there. Yes, I like domestic cars.


Supras were the main stars at this event


Live music, Fast cars and hot scantily clad women. Heaven.


Mikey never disappoints.


If you're offended by half naked ladies, you should not be reading this


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Back to the Stage: Greg Lilly’s Impreza WRX STi

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It was 5:30am on Sunday, dragging myself out of a slumber I knew I had a mission to accomplish. Dan the Pro-Phan and I had to shoot a black beauty not for the first, nor second, but THIRD time. Now, not every shoot goes according to plan, but when we feel that a car deserves justice you better damn well believe we will do what it takes to make it happen. And determined to be successful with our third attempt Danh and myself embarked on yet another photo journey accompanied by Greg Lilly’s ultra sleek Subaru Impreza WRX STi.

H-Town is where we play.

H-Town is where we play.

This is the second feature that Greg has graced our blog with his first being his tastefully modded S2000, shot by local automotive photographer Chris Reno. Jumping from car to car, Greg always found himself back in a Subaru. Maybe it’s the madness that is within the Subaru community that keeps drawing him back or the driving experience. All I do know however is that he is no stranger to this Japanese AWD platform.

Rise n' Shine

Rise n' Shine

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Formula D Irwindale: Fatlace’s One of One Part 2.

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Formula D usually brings three main flavors to the table, a drift competition, a car show, and some shorties (talent). In this edition of our continuing Formula D coverage, we’ll show you a few interesting cars that participated in the Fatlace OneOfOne car show.

The beautiful Californian sun setting on beautiful Californian rides

Doze Asses

Showgoers await the results near the Fatlace tent.

This GS on JP Scaras was too damn gangster for us

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Formula D Irwindale: The Mayday Perspective pt. 1

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Seven deep and over 1000 miles from home, Mayday Garage ventured out to the west coast to watch and cover the finals of North America’s premiere drift series, Formula D. Drifting, Hardparkers and Shorties were on our agenda for the duration of our stay in California and I think we accomplished our goal. Today we are going to venture into the core of Formula D, Drift. Formula D Final round was taken by the Rockstar NASCAR Motorplant Scion, driven by Tanner Foust. Following him for the day was series points leader Vaughn Gittin Jr. Our friend Linhbergh from Speedhunters had told us that we had picked a great event to go to because the amount of drama that ensued throughout the event. From series rivalries to wrecks, we witnessed an amazing event for sure.

Last years series winner, Chris Forsberg. Consistent all day, but a spin out would take him out.

Last years series winner, Chris Forsberg. Consistent all day, but a spin out would take him out.

Rhys Millen, a force NOT to be reckoned with!

Rhys Millen, a force NOT to be reckoned with!

Gardella Racing, great team, great driver, but luck wasn't on their side this past weekend. Either way, balls out in style.

Gardella Racing, great team, great driver, but luck wasn't on their side this past weekend. Either way, balls out in style.

Justin Pawlak driving the Falken Stang like a bat out of hell.

Justin Pawlak driving the Falken Stang like a bat out of hell.

Conrad Grunewald's Hankook Camaro is no Joke

Conrad Grunewald's Hankook Camaro is no Joke

The competition was stiff, even amongst teammates.

The competition was stiff, even amongst teammates.

Wrecks, not uncommon

Wrecks, not uncommon

California doesn't play, they were out to support in full force.

California doesn't play, they were out to support in full force.

The Man of the Day

The Man of the Day

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A Nissan Outing: The All Nissan Meet @ Baker Tuning

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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.

Advans never get old.

Project Mothra

Project Mothra

Hajime Maki's Masterpiece.

Hajime Maki's Masterpiece.

Special Guest, DJ HeavyGrinder

Special Guest, DJ HeavyGrinder

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