Street car showoff series#
They would do series of car shows yearly which started out with Chinatown Showoff, Shoreline Showoff and Nisei during the summer, and they would close out the year with Showoff Classic. You hear the words “Showoff” now and only think of Nisei Showoff but back nearly a decade ago, Ken Myoshi and Import Showoff were busy running the industry. There were only two major car events to look forward to back in the day Hot Import Nights and the Import Showoff series. The car show scene in general was very different back then also. A lot of the things you see in today’s community probably started around that time or were starting to become known amongst fellow car heads…
Even the better engine bays you’ll see in these photos still retained their stock fuel set-ups. There were probably a handful of K-swapped Hondas back then and tucking of engine bays and custom brake lines and all that were few and far between. I say things were more “fresh” back then because there were still a lot of unknowns back then when it came to extensive modification. Even those guys were realizing that their time had passed and it was time to move onto another project. You’ll notice that many of the more “wild” Hondas pictured below had for sale signs on them. Japanese-spec Honda builds were becoming all the rage and whatever wild conversions or crazy bodykits you saw on Hondas were on their way out the door. In the Honda community, the bodykit era was on its very last legs and enthusiasts were starting to gear their builds more towards the three letters “J-D-M”.
Around ’03 was when drifting started to really take the forefront of the industry while Hondas and other makes that were more popular a couple years before that took a backseat. It seems like ages ago now and I’m sure it makes all of us older guys feel that much older when we think back at how this event has happened almost a decade ago. I don’t really know the exact word for it, but I would venture to say that the scene was a little more “fresh” back then. 2003 was a very different time in the import community.
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