Slammed Society Coverage (Part 1 of 5)

Well, it’s been almost two weeks since Slammed Society Chicago, but the coverage keeps on coming. There are a ton of photos and video’s posted on the forums, so be sure to check that out by clicking here. Before I post up some pics, let me first tell you about how this entire event came about.

Around May of last year I purchased a ’72 Hakosuka Skyline (which is almost done) and dropped Mark Arcanel of Fatlace a quick email to pick his brain on wheel offsets. Mark took a very aggressive approach with his own Hako build, so of course he was the perfect person to bounce off ideas of. Mark was very gracious to share some information with me, and brought up the idea of co-hosting an event in Chicago. Things came up and I don’t think I followed up with Mark, so nothing really materialized after that.

Fast forward to March of this year. My friend Rj mentioned that Mark was interested in having a show in Chicago and asked if I could hit him up. Rj had no idea this came up a year before, but this rehashed my interest. I told Rj and some other good friends I’ll bring it up again with Mark and we’ll see what happens. I called up Mark and he was very excited to do a show in Chicago. We haven’t had a “national” type event in Chicago since Wekfest, so everyone was stoked about this. Within a week, our good friends and partners at Arlington Toyota & Scion agreed to host the show and we were good to go!

On June 30th, Slammed Society opened up it’s doors to Chicago. I literally had no idea what to expect, but the event turned out to be ridiculously awesome. We sold out on car registrations and had over 2,000 spectators attend. The weather turned out to be fantastic and everything went fairly smooth. Thanks everyone for the support and the tremendous help from all the volunteers! I was busy all day just managing the event, so I asked my friend Greg Szoda (Glock Photo) if he could be our official photog. Greg always delivers great event coverage so I knew he was the man for the job. Be sure to check out his facebook if you get a chance by clicking here. So let’s go ahead and share some event coverage. I have a ton of shots from Greg, so we’ll do this feature in multiple parts.

An overhead shot of the showroom are of the dealership during the awards ceremony. We used the showroom as the vendor area. This turned out better then expected because all spectators needed to enter through the showroom in order to get into the show. I think the vendors really appreciated this arrangement because there was a ton of foot traffic in this area all day.

Sergey from you guessed it, “Sergey’s House of Wheels” is constantly changing up his look on his MR2. Here are a set of custom built 3pc BBS LM’s in 17×9.5 -9 and 18×11 +7 on a set of really beefy tires.

Christine’s pristine S30 on Work CR01’s. Her 280z was definitely one of the nicest builds at the show and took first place in the vintage category.

World Famous Darth Jigga unmasked.

Tan’s s4 on Work Meisters keeping company with Seen it! M3 on Meisters as well.

Nick from Seen it! pretty stoked about photo bombing everyone who came up to take a photo.

Gene’s 370z slammed on an authentic Amuse kit. I thought this Z34 was perfect when I shot it a few years ago, but Gene tends to keep on re-inventing himself to keep his look fresh.

Risky Devil BRZ. Simple, yet executed properly. AJ, I think you owe us $25. haha

Some of the ruckus guys during roll-in.

Chris’ GTR somehow sandwiched in a sea of Hondas.

This was a fairly clean G35 on Rays Lexion wheels that I haven’t seen before. I talked to the owner briefly and sounded as if the build was done in record time. He still has a few more things on his plate, but good progress thus far.

Angela’s highly coveted red/white S2k on an aggressive set of Work VSXX’s.

Xiong’s RE Amemiya RX7 was one of my favorite’s from the show. Considering he won best track car, the judges also agreed with my assessment. Be on the look out for a feature of his FC soon.