Team LoveHATE x HIN Pomona. Doing Work!!!

Article by Jazel Gonzalez. Photography by Munpreet Randhawa

The day started at 2AM.  We woke up, cooked breakfast, threw on our gear and headed for a quick 500 mile drive to LA for the big show.

3AM: We rolled out of Sacramento and headed to our destination. Hot Import Nights Pomona Fairplex. We were very excited to be displaying where it all began.

7AM: We hit the Grapevine in four hours and another two till we arrived at our hotel in West Covina and dropped off our stuff.

10AM: We left from there we hopped back on the10 E San Bernardino drove a couple exits away and rolled in to get staged and check out all the SoCal whips.

I love that year... and below, Lee Ho's banger!!!

12PM: Once we passed the inspection we were given our passes and our cars were separated as we rolled into the venue. The G was with the Al and Ed's booth and the Mustang was by Donlyson Auto Concepts. I just want to say we are proud to represent all of our sponsors. A big shout out to JDM Sport, Al and Ed's AutoSound E. Pasadena, NRG, Donlyson, and a couple of new sponsors Cars4Cancer and Top Speed Racing / SRS Tuning.

3pm - 10pm: Here are a few pictures of the cars at the show and some of JDM Sport's Luscious Ladies!!!

 This car won 3rd palce for lighting... It had 24 freaking TV's!!!

 This Lexus was in the Donlyson Area. All their cars are super clean.

 This is a miniature version of Chris's car with Kapu Motor Trends...

Here is the inside of Jay's car with Al and Ed's AutoSound.

Here is JDM Sport's Scion. I ALWAYS wins. Bad ass!!! 

 Here is Steve's 2012 SEMA build. The RetroUSA x SRS Tuning x Cars4Cancer Mustang

 Laser lights and smoke machine in the G for the show.

11pm: Jazel, Steve and Art holding the trophy we took home for Hottest Vinyl Graphic. You Mad Bro?

 I'd say "Tata" to HIN and SoCal but this pic seems to be a buttshot. 

12am: Roll out from the event was quick and smooth. 

1am: We hit up In and Out and then went back to our rooms to crash out for the night. Well, that was a day for TLH. Hope you liked it.

We want to thank again everybody who made it possible to get us down there and help us represent Northern California tuner scene and all those that embrace the Western Itasha Movement. That means you Lee Ho, Jay, and Project Ride Northern California. That sums it up for HIN. Until the next event.

 See you soon!    Here's a LINK for the full album on Facebook!!!

Team LoveHATE invades Monster Jam

We rolled out of Sacramento heading toward Oakland CA around 9am. This was our first MonsterJam and boy, were we in for a surprise! First off, we want to thank Lee Ho for setting this event up and Kris Boeson for taking care of us while we were there!!!

After we arrived we walked up to get our wristbands. You could feel that something was in the air and this event was going to be interesting. It took us a while to get staged into our final spot, but once we made it was time to start cleaning the rides. 

Pretty much the whole day was super windy. We had plenty of time to get the cars all cleaned up and badged for the event. I was really cool to watch everything behind the scenes before a show of this magnitude.  From staffing running around everywhere to that giant metal T Rex’s spewing fire tests. Being able to run around and get autographs before the public was awesome! Did I mention it was windy? 

As 3pm came around the gates to the “VIP Pit Party” finally opened up to the general public. Boy oh boy, this was freaking insane. Thousands of people surrounded our cars and a few even tried to climb inside.  We spent the next few hours protecting the cars and erecting a barrier to keep people off the cars but they still climbed over them anyways. -.- I never knew that so many people would be interested in our cars in one of our first truly public events.

We want to say thanks to our newest local sponsor TopSpeed Racing. All in all we hope that we get to do this again when they come back no northern California. On to HIN Pomona!!!
To see the full album of the event click here!!!