"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
12/02/2018 at 20:50 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
12/02/2018 at 20:50 • Filed to: None | 1
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I have not downloaded the few pics that I took from my DSLR, and I may not bother to post them. I did not enjoy the show, so I have little enthusiasm for the shots I took. It has nothing to do with the Sunchaser, in fact, the one good thing was that the venue made me very glad I did not bring my car after all. It was really disappointing, because the SF Radwood was one of the very best car events I have ever attended. Such a fun, wonderful day. This was not.
On paper, it should have been awesome: Radwood at the Petersen! What a great idea! The problem is that the show was in the parking structure. It was claustrophobic and awful; crowds of people and cars jammed in like sardines. They needed about half as many cars. The cars were parked...well...like a parking lot. The show cars were lined up space to space like a normal lot. You could not walk around the cars comfortably to get a good look at them
, and you could not get enough room for good photos. Impossible to get photos without bystanders. What a huge bummer. I didn’t want to get that close to the cars because of crowds and close quarters. If my car had been there, I would have been terrified of dings and scratches.
I am going to try Sonoma in 2019, but I won't be going to LA again if it is at the Petersen.
NKato
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2018 at 21:06 |
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I wonder where they’re holding Radwood for Seattle. If it’s the CenturyLink Event Center, I may nope out...
wafflesnfalafel
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2018 at 21:14 |
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well poop...
I am going to try Seattle July
2019. I have
my bolo tie and Van Halen all set up already... the wife is even on board, (promised to get her some leg warmers and lip gloss
.)
DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2018 at 21:14 |
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Between the poor quarters for this and the poor turnout in Atlanta, Radwood really needs to get their organization and advertising shit together.
Kim Jong - Healthy
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2018 at 21:19 |
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sounds like they were trying to go for the car meets like in japan, but poorly executed
E92M3
> DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
12/02/2018 at 21:21 |
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Yeah they do.. I wasn't even aware they were having one in Atlanta. I would of taken my Lightning had I known.
Just Jeepin'
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2018 at 21:28 |
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That’s disappointing to hear. The closest one to me is Detroit, which is 5 hours away and not all that exciting a place to visit in general. Guess I’ll wait to see how the other 2019 events go.
On the other hand, I have no real affinity towards cars from that era, so I’m not sure why I care enough to even consider it. I lived through it and at no point did I get excited about cars.
RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2018 at 21:38 |
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Even parking for regular spectators was a joke. There were 80s and 90s cars circling the Petersen all afternoon looking for street parking because the garage was full.
Svend
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2018 at 22:41 |
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So Radwood wasn’t rad or give you w........
Sorry to hear that.
Land_Yacht_225
> DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
12/03/2018 at 09:09 |
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Oh don’t even get me started on Atlanta. I was infuriated! For how much that was supposedly advertised, there were what, 30 cars? Half the field, with the other end consisting of #gridlyfe #stancenation garbage! At least Ed Bolian was there with his Audi.
My friends and I got up early and drove 6 hours from Raleigh...IN A MALIBU HYBRID NO LESS...for that utter shit-show!
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DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
> Land_Yacht_225
12/03/2018 at 12:43 |
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It was embarrassing for me cause I’d hyped it up to my dad who I haven’t seen in a while. Was expecting it to be a great father-son reconciliation moment but instead it was depressing.
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> ImmoralMinority
12/03/2018 at 15:05 |
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Yeah spectator parking was stupid. I found out after I got back to my car that I had parked illegally, I didnt see the NO PARKING ANYTIME signs everywhere. It was permit parking only pretty much all over the place. Thankfully I didnt get a ticket (I got lucky) but that is still pretty stupid to begin with. I knew it would be a problem from the start but there has to be better places in LA to go to. The Petersen is cool and all but I would have thought even a reasonably large grocery store parking lot would have been better. I guess space is generally a premium in LA but there’s gotta be a solution better than this one!