5&A Dime Second Day Gumball 3000
I’ve got to apoligize for the long hiatous between updates, I had no idea just how overwhelming this trip was going to be. I’m sitting in my hotel room in Beijing as the Gumball 3000 Rally winds down on it’s final day. I’ve been trying to reflect on what has happened over the last eight days, but I’m finding it super difficult to gather all my memories. I’ve managed to see and experience more in a single week than in my entire lifetime. I want to pick up where I last left off on the blog…where was that? Oh yeah…L.A. at the Roosevelt Hotel.
It’s Sunday morning, the eighth of August, and we wake up looking forward to seeing all the fam back in SD. We check out then head back to the car to start day 2 of our journey.
On the way out, we bumped into SLB, who was just starting his Gumball trip. Better late then never.
Bombing down the 405 South.
5&A Dime and Rogue Status had the only Japanese cars in the rally. Throughout the entire rally, our 4-Door, 4-cylinder, turbo car with 4 passengers was running with all the big dogs. The Evo kept up with the exotics too, and you could tell it genuinely pissed off quite a few owners.
Then we made our way to the PCH to polish off a nice little breakfast at the Hilton hotel.
This was my pick as the favorite of the event. Ford GT40 in the Mad Max flat black.
Next stop finds us back in SD and a quick stop off over at the So-Cal Euro show held at Qualcomm. Troy from Group 5 was one of the guys in charge of the event. He was also one of our sponsors and a huge help with our car. Thanks Troy!
Left to Right: Len, Iron Mike Myself, Phil ( Modern Image) and Troy ( Group 5)
I want to say thanks to Phil for the stickers and for staying up late to finish the car in time.
The new Skyline.. I would love to get this for next years Gumball.. Fingers crossed
The finish for day two was in Downtown SD at the Ivy hotel. We skipped some of the stops alone the way so we were able to come into SD first. We cheated…
Show cars parked outside the Ivy. Check the Bugatti Veyron, over $1 Million dollars for one car.
Our shop is only half a block from the Ivy, so we thought it would be cool to park the whip outside our store for the day.
We also set up our pop up shop to carry Gumball merch. Darcie and the rest of the gang did a great job putting it all together.
The party for that night was a the roof top of the Ivy. Iron Mike was the party exciter
Our family rolled out to support
The Cuban brothers are FUN and ACTION!… ACTION and FUN!
Aly and Tyson grew up in the Same Neighborhood in New York. They had some serious catching up to do. Peep the Kim Jong-il tee Aly’s wearing.
Day two was the shortest day of the event and it was good to get to hang out with the homies in our home town.
SD was in the house! Day three coming soon!
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