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Import Alliance ATL 2012 Pt 1: If Hell Was a Roadtrip…

Posted by truedrivingdale on April 24, 2012
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Well I’m alive. Haha. What a freakin weekend! I don’t even know where to start. Here’s some math for the people that did the road trip with me from Jersey…we spend a total of 38 hours in those bucket seats over the weekend. 38!!!!!! Haha. But in all seriousness it was a weekend I will never forget. I personally met so many people and saw an insane amount of sick cars. The trip was hell, but it was well worth it with all the friendships started and love True Driving/SNTRL/Unique Auto got down south. At the end of the day it’s all about the community, and that is worth the endless hours of driving.

It all started in New Jersey at the Unique Auto headquarters at around 6am friday morning. And the rest is history! To give my readers an idea of what the “hell” I’m talking about is…no heat, no A/C, fixed back bucket seats, no radio, gutted interior, aftermarket exhaust, and many, many more comforts we all take advantage of, along with endless amounts of breakdowns. It was as hot as 85 in Georgia and as cold as 38 on the way back home. I rode shotgun with Kevin’s beautiful Laguna Seca blue EK hatch for the trip. It is a gorgeously built car, but definitely isn’t built for long, long road trips, haha.  Because I rode with him I didn’t get any rolling shots of the car, but there will be plenty more opportunities. Anyways on to the trip…

All taped up and ready for the road to ATL! These seriously are as good as your going to get in the EK game in the northeast.

Stop 1 of 144534985345913985797523984723984723984. Seriously…

Stop 2 of 144534985345913985797523984723984723984. Doing some adjustment on the camber. This setup isn’t for the faint of heart!

Rollin rollin rollin.

And this is where the problems began! lol

It’s all about the fitment!

We all got very familiar with the side of the road.

More rolling shots.

At this point we needed to make a more permanent repair to Kevin’s car, so we decided to take a detour and drive to UA member Chris’ house, fix the car and keep rolling with them.

Ray also decided to roll his fenders a tad more.

Ah man! Mr. Parker Made and his immaculate REAL Civic Type R. You wouldn’t believe how many people didn’t believe it was real. Why the hate??

A few hours pass and we FINALLY hit the road again with Chris, Josh, and a couple other guys. Sorry I’m horrible with names!

I don’t know if you remember, but we left at 8am friday morning, as you can see it’s now dark again. Yep, this was about 10pm friday and we still have 10 hours to go!! lmao

That was also when Chris figured out the problem with Kevin’s car. FINALLY!

I think after this shot, I either drove or knocked out, cause the pictures ended. I really can’t believe at that point we were on the road for about 20 hours.

I think I’ll end part one here. This was all of friday for me. A long freakin day!!!!!

Wekfest 2011 Weekend Pt. 1

Posted by truedrivingdale on August 23, 2011
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I have to say, I really didn’t know what to expect from the weekend. But it proved to be one of the better weekends and car shows of the year. I met a lot of great people and saw a ton of amazing cars. I was rolling with the SNTRL fam and we were caravanning with Unique Auto and friends. Before I forget, it was great meeting some of the Unique Auto fam. They were super cool and are absolutely determined to build the best Honda’s in the country. More on them later.

We left New York at around midnight on thursday, but due to some confusion and a blown tire we didn’t arrive in Chicago until about 5pm friday. We we’re exhausted to say the least.

One of our first stops at some scary ass rest stop.

We finally met up with everyone and gassed up.

We drove through the night and into the morning. I was really feeling all the cars we were rolling with. Quality.

 

 

Stopped for some breakfast and met up with this legit Civic Type R. I’m horrible with names, so sorry if I call you by your car.

Panera FTW! Some of the crew in the background.

Figured I’d throw this in. If anyone was wonder this is me, the face behind this masterpiece of a blog. lmao.

 

Back on the road. Trying my best to get some rolling shots while driving.

In case your wondering. That’s a dead turtle in his hand. haha. He found it randomly on the side of the road.

Ah, the luxury of cruise control.

Yes, you are looking at the only Honda Accord awd rhd wagon in the states.

Thanks to Kenny for these pics.

Finally after too many hours of driving we arrived at the hotel.

Once we got to the hotel every made the little adjustments they needed and took the painters tape off. I will have more on this hatch later. But in my opinion it is the sickest built hatch on the entire east coast. Seriously.