California, U.S.A.

South California: June 2000.
Pictures Taken by: James Ponce

Well we had our meet. It was pretty good and we just admired one another's cars. At first me (DwnLow91), Ntegra 17, JDM-DA6, and Sokdo met at Costco. It was around 6 pm. Then me, Ntegra 17, and JDM-DA6 headed down to Speed Zone, leaving Sokdo because he still had to work. On the way to Speed Zone we spotted a Championship White Type R, and JDM-DA6 wanted to take it out, but this one lady was driving at the speed of city streets and he couldn't get alongside it, because the following exit was Speed Zone. When we arrived at Speed Zone 6:45 pm nobody was around. When we first arrived, I was taking the lead throughout the entire way. I didn't see anyone so I decided to cruise in the parking lot. There were some local pelones (Gangster WannaBe) and when they saw JDM-DA6 following me, they yelled out look at those "Rice Burners." It was funny because they had just parked their Rustangs.We parked our cars and wondered what happened to everybody. We all said if nobody shows, let's jam. So we waited, and I said, lets gets some photo shots so at least we can say we made it. As I was going to move my car DOHCAcura showed up. I said cool some peeps are starting to show up. He said he had arrived at 6 pm, but at that time we were at Costco. So I lined up the cars. I started taking pictures and we spotted a Gray Horizon G2, with a baby silver blue G2 make a wrong turn and go the opposite way. It was TegraShowCar with a newfound friend from Georgia. It turns out as TegraShowCar was driving up to the meeting; he met this guy Frank and his wife with a Gray Horizon G2 and invited them. So they showed up and lined up their cars. Then LS Power showed up. Then at last Sokdo came along with friends. It could have been a zero meet, but turned out to be a good meet. We didn't actually go inside and play video games instead we talked about cars. We were able to put faces to screen names that are always seen on the message board. TegraShowCar had to leave early because he had finals the following day, but he gave me a diskette with the pictures on it. I finished both of my Kodak Films. More pictures will be seen soon! Towards the end of the meet Speed Zone security asked us to park our cars in actual parking spaces. For the next meet we have decided to have it a friendlier place and a little earlier, maybe have a BBQ too.

- James Ponce
Dwnlow91

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