On May 2nd the annual 780 Tuners Season Opener took place in Edmonton, and despite the rather poor weather conditions still drew a massive crowd. Cars were being parked wherever they would fit and some even wound up on the surrounding streets! The reason for the madness was a heavy rain storm which ended just before the scheduled start of the meet, resulting in a huge number of cars heading over to and arriving at the United Cycle lot at the same time.
For those who have never been to the Season Opener, it’s a fun way to kick off the season and a great excuse for a little road trip. This year Bill was present and grabbed some photos of the event, showing some of the cars on hand. We hope you enjoy!
Here are a few shots from the weekly get together at United Cycle. First off is this gorgeous R34 GTR which showed up fairly early in the evening, attracting a large crowd as well as another GTR. Because, well, who doesn’t love this iconic ride?
As well, a very clean FD getting their drive thru dose of Timmies.
Cole’s 350 powered S10 sitting pretty.
Another crowd pleaser in blue.
Hairdressers anonymous.
Another fan favourite, Matt’s BRZ.
A sweet static Z.
Kris’ bagged Toyota making an appearance (the car can be yours for a smooth $7k)
Local Edmonton photographer checking in for the first time! **Waves**
Wow! What a turnout at the 2014 season opener, over 900 cars were expected, I couldn’t give an exact number but I’m sure it was right around there. It didn’t matter what you brought as long as it put a smile on your face, and I didn’t see one sad person there! Everything from SR20 swapped Truenos to Civics with engines that are worth twice the car along with the first Aventador Roadster in Edmonton.
There was lots of anticipation building up to this event from various car clubs near and far with all kinds of various enthusiasts looking to share their projects with everyone. Cars, vans, trucks and Rucks all welcome and a friendly atmosphere from everyone.
The meet filled an average of two city blocks and was complete with food trucks and some of the craziest vehicles I’ve ever had the chance to feast my eyes upon. Of course our beautiful Alberta weather caught up with us and it started snowing causing early departure for some. That didn’t stop most people from having a great time and sticking around until dark.
Better late than never, right? Sorry for the delay, been busy over here. Here are a bunch of pics from the July 24th 403 Honda/Beyond.ca meet. Nice to see the diversity in vehicles continue with more and more cars from different manufacturers showing up.
Here are a few snaps from the night, these and more can be found here on our Flickr set: HERE
And a few bloopers:
Errol working on the ass of his car… Mario working on Errol’s ass… I won’t ask:
Welcome to another entry of pics from the July 17th edition of the weekly 403 Honda/Beyond.ca Meets at Chinook Centre. Last Wednesday was an interesting one. Around 5pm a big rain storm hit the city again, causing a few roads to flood once more and all but kill the hope of going to the Wednesday meet. But alas, as quickly as the storm came, it ended. Afterwards there was tons of sun, and the roads dried up fairly quickly, so I decided to make the trek down to Chinook to see how few people showed up. As you can see in these pictures, surprisingly it was an awesome turnout. Great to have people dedicated to their hobby as much as they are.
Here are a few snaps from the night, I tried my best to work with the bright sun and long shadows. These and more can be found here on our Flickr set: HERE
How romantic! =P
Before we end it here, even though I shouldn’t have to say it, there have been several incidents in the last few weeks to lead me to believe otherwise, so I’ll say it again. No speeding or BOVing up the ramp, no drifting, no revving engines, no super loud music, no burnouts. Basically, don’t do stuff that you wouldn’t do if a cop was hanging out there. We have a decent relationship with the staff and security at Chinook Centre because we are respectful to their lot and the residences across the street (who have on occasion called in to mall security and/or police because of these said hooligans). Don’t do stupid things to ruin it for the rest of the people who enjoy hanging out there.
Hope to see you guys all well behaved on Wednesday!
It was a nice sunny day on Wednesday June 15 to head up to the weekly 403 Honda/Beyond.ca meets. With the rain finally deciding to let up for a night, it was nice to get out there and check out some rides. Actually, it was a little too sunny out as you can tell by some of my pictures, and was getting hard to fight the sun and the shadows, so I gave up and went inside to eat, only to come back outside with it being cloudy again.
Here are a few shots that turned out, all the rest can be found on our Flickr set: HERE
There was quite a turnout this past week for the Beyond.ca meet! Unfortunately I didn’t capture too many photos this time around but I hope you can get an idea of what was present. If I missed your car, I’m sorry!
I would like to mention though that on this particular Wednesday, we had a visit from a few Calgary police officers. They arrived in their cars and took a few laps of the parking lot to see what was going on. Nothing was ‘wrong’ so they happily chatted to a few owners and then went on their way. We are very lucky that Chinook allows us to meet here each week and all we need to do in return is behave and be mature. Occasionally someone feels the need to try drifting or to do a burnout, and stunts like that will just make us all look bad.
With that little reminder out of the way, here are the photos!
A couple of us are bringing our R/C cars back to the meets now as well; feel free to join in if you have one! The more the merrier.
A few of us made it out to the Beyond.ca weekly meet at chinook this week and it was a pretty decent turn out so I had to grab the camera and snap a few pics.
If you feel like attending, these are held every Wednesday if the weather is decent at the top rear parkade of Chinook Centre/Mall.
There is something we do need to mention. There were a few dangerous incidents that happened last night by others. We all have the urge to do stuff like burnouts, drifts and stuff like that after meets and such, but just as a reminder, the Beyond.ca meets have been held there at Chinook for years now on Wednesday evenings, with the security at the mall for the most part letting us hang out there as long as we behave. Incidents like this will weaken the relationship between security and us fellow car lovers, and they may not allow us to meet there anymore if incidents like this continue. Please help us by refraining from burnouts, speeding up the ramp, drifting, leaving garbage around. This in turn will make sure we continue to have a place to go on Wednesdays.
This past weekend we attended the 2nd Annual Luxury / Exotic Cruise For a Cause set up by local realtor Jordan Lotoski. About 30 cars came out and raised nearly $2500 for the Kelm family who has 3 children all who are affected by Fragile X Syndrome. After a quick meet in the morning at Distinctive Collection the cruise began, and as you can imagine with this group of cars it turned lots of heads as we cruised out to Banff Springs Hotel for brunch. This was a great event to take part in and thanks to everyone efforts in organizing it, can’t wait for next year.
Another car season in full swing can only mean one thing: the return of the 403 Honda/Beyond.ca weekly Wednesday meets! Quite a diverse bunch of cars showed up, and nice to see what was new with all the rides, and new rides in general. Didn’t get that many pictures, but as it starts to get busier every week, we will try to get more and more photos and keep things diverse.
If you feel like attending, these are held every Wednesday if the weather is decent at the top rear parkade of Chinook Centre/Mall.
