This past Saturday I attended my first BRZ/FR-S/86 meet with Stitch! It was an early morning to get over to the park where we were all meeting. I only had time to spray the car down and not properly wash it, and there was a chance of rain so I didn't put too much effort into it. However it looked very pretty with all the water beaded up on the hood.
There were some sweetly modded cars at the meet, and I got to see and hear quite a few different exhausts, and check out the different spoilers in person - I've now seen the TRD, Carsmo, and Five Axis spoilers in person and it's got me even more confused about what I should get. In photos I really liked the Five Axis but seeing the TRD and Carsmo in person I really like them more than when I was judging them solely by the pictures.
A fellow in a red FR-S "GT86" won a free Carsmo spoiler at the meet! I was a little bummed I didn't win anything in the raffle. But I was totally eyeing a set of red painted tails one of the other guys had up for sale. I had made plans to get red vinyl installed on my tails next week, but the installers had told me they might have difficulty getting the vinyl properly onto the little fin parts on the side of the tails, and it would require 3 separate pieces on the tail lights. I wasn't too thrilled with the sound of that. In the end I literally emptied my wallet and made a deal to swap the lights for my stock ones, he was even nice enough to do the swap and install the lights for me. I went home with some red tails and only $1 left in my wallet.
The meet concluded with some group photos and a nice scenic drive down Hwy 1. Some of us got a little lost but it was a nice day and even just cruising slowly down the coast was pretty sweet. I just tuned the XM radio to the Chill station and enjoyed the ride.
photo credit: sid67jp
photo credit: zygrene
Here's some in-car video of us cruising Hwy1 ....
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWI0CDvX_Vk&hd=1"]Hwy 1 drive - FT86Club NorCal 86/BRZ owners club - YouTube[/ame]
sorry for the weird format, it's the way my cellphone holder mounts the phone. And due to the traffic on Hwy1 there's no dramatic chases, no awesome drift angles, etc. Just some solid scenery and chilled cruising mode. :happy0180:
After the meet, everyone went their separate ways and I went to pay a visit to WORKS Motorsport at Sonoma Raceway - figured I was in the area and heard they were developing some cool stuff. I spent a good amount of time chatting with Peter, who even though they had "closed" and had some real racing R&D work to turn to, took the time to chat with me about all kinds of things, from the exhaust design on the FR-S/BRZ to Dyno/ECU tunes, to MR2s, to Lexuses, and to Audi TT-RS's ... he is very excited about our cars and has plans to roll out some new products very soon. He was very cool and I look forward to seeing what they put out. By the time I left there it was pitch black outside...
When I finally got home I was pretty tired... but Stitch looked like he still wanted to go for more driving!
