Formula D Tech Day 2014

Soooooo every year, just before the season opening Formula D event in Long Beach, CA, a local magazine publisher (primedia) opens their doors (and parking lot) to a car show and event where fans and others can congregate and show off their own rides, as well as be some of the first to witness this years batch of competitor offerings. Some of these skid chariots are carry-overs from last year, some are brand new entries, but i don't think i saw a single one that hadn't been re-vamped and re-molded from its prior form. Some new trends are poking their heads up, one of which is the mexiflush look modeled by Odi Bakchis. Apparently emulating a fwd drag car is now the thing to do in FD. Ryan Teurck and a few others are also following suit.

The car show always has some interesting folks show up, this year appeared to be "year of the puppy", as there was no shortage of canines cruising about, equally eager to check out the lot (or perhaps just excited at all the tires to pee on!). Either way, the event is an interesting one to check out, free to the public (as long as you behave and don't attract the attention of the gestapo Irvine PD!) and there are a number of food trucks to keep us all from starving.

I didn't shoot much this year. I found myself spending most of the time catching up with familiar faces, but I did find a few cars i thought interesting enough to snap at.

Link to full gallery here
https://www.facebook.com/emerson.finepants/media_set?set=a.10151928242166595.1073741840.598386594&type=1

Amazing R33 Gtr, with plenty of tasteful mods, including Nismo wheels, lip. carbon rear spoiler, and many others. This car is spotless and a perfect example of top level tuning.

One of the Kenda Tires/Ark Hyundai Genesis. I'm not sure if this one was Mertzanis' or not, Kenda is fielding two Genesis this season, with similar exteriors, but wildly different engine setups. If you attend FDLB you'll see and hear what I mean!

Dave Briggs hauled his S14 all the way from Toronto, Canada, and showed us all his new vinyl graphics scheme. If you don't know, he runs a Mazworx 2.4l Sr20VE-t engine setup that is well into the 800HP range!!! It revs like a 3-rotor and sounds like carnage!!!

While i'm not the biggest honda head, this pristine S2K caught my attention immediately. The cream white color was quite a sight, almost a bit tan, but very very appealing. The quality of this build is clearly top notch!