
The historical and long-standing Nisei Week Car Showoff returns to little Tokyo for their final hurrah. As always, the show was dominated by some of the most well built classic Hondas in the states. JDM Wong brought out his 1990 Honda Civic Si and pitted his car up against Project Car's CRX. The classic styling of all the Datsuns, Nissans, and Toyotas brought out the true purpose of the show - authentic Japanese builds, clean and original purist restorations, and extremely rare one-off cars that won't soon be forgotten.
Few words can inspire a group of friends to tape up their cars, pile several hundred pounds worth of metal tubing, flags, banners, and spare parts into a beat up old Civic hatchback and head out into the pitch black abyss of the never-ending interstate in the middle of the night. To the members of RL2, two words in particular held just enough merit to justify their long awaited journey, and those two words are "Road Trip"!
Rotary and piston heads alike gathered at the Auto Club Speedway as Mazfest 2009 held it's annual track and show event for all the Mazda fanatics as well as famous Mazda tuners like Neptune Speed, Racing Beat, 5 Zigen, and Ings+1. View the Ariel Atoms, Mazda RX-7 FC and FD3S race cars, and photos of the classic rotary cars brought in thanks to all of the Mazda fanatics that populate the So Cal region.
The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach roars in to town with the Indycar series. Both the American LeMans cars and the Formula Drift tuned racecars were waiting patiently in the exhibition halls as the Indycars rampaged through the streets of Long Beach.