San Mateo Expo Center (Hot Import Daze) - San Mateo, CA (10/2/2004)

Myself, my brother, and my buddy from Vegas are going to HIN this year. If you'd like to cruise up there lets all set something up. I just moved here and i'd like to meet some of you. You can buy tickets at: http://www.hotimportnights.com/Tickets.asp

 

I am thinking about going to this if I can get the time off. Don't know if it is worth the price of admission but what the heck.

Chris

 

i will most likely be going to this one, how much is the ticket?

 

Tickets are like $22.

 

4 days...

 

cant you just buy it at the door? i remember i went last time i just bought it at the door. is there any other z's going?

 

Yeah you can buy them at the door. I just wanted to see if any other Z owners were going to show up.

 

i am going to the one in san mateo. A buddy of mine invited me, but the bad thing is... that he and all of his friends have celicas. =/ darn that "c" word. so yeah i will be an outkast, but in a good way. =] hopefully i will see you guys there. \\//

 

yo guru around what time are you going? maybe we can go cruise together, im pretty close to where you are

 

My number is 702-217-0940, i'm probabley gonna be heading up there between 12-1PM.

 

I don't know about you but I thought HID was a TWT (Total Waste of Time).
$19 to get in, $7 to park, expensive but whatever.
There were lots of Honda's and a few Zs there, some I recognize from magazines.

I guess what I expected more of was vendors, were are the vendors at these shows, and I am not talking about the official HIN trailers. One booth was advertising a video game, looked cool, don't remember what it was now but I would have bought it on the spot had they had them for sale. I wanted to touch and look at exhaust systems but there was no Borla, Injen, Gredy or Nismo systems hanging around anywhere but under cars.

On the other hand, if I wanted a model, they were advertised all over the place. The music was pumping and there was lot's of T&A so it was not all bad but that only goes so far.

I took some Z pics, they are up at www.hypersprite.com/z

Chris

 

Some dude out front walked up to us and sold us tickets for $15 each. I was worried at first but they got us in. I'd have to agree that there wern't that many venders. I don't even think there were that many models. At CES I must of brought home like 15 signed posters. The show wasn't too bad overall though, they had some good music and I got some free Eagle One Wax As You Dry .

Here are my photos: http://phat.onestop.net/hin_04

Check out this overspray: http://phat.onestop.net/hin_04/hin%20014.jpg

 

I went to that also and got the $15 tix. Looked shady at first but he walked us in also so it was all good.

Haven't been to one of those in years . . . back when I had my CRX. There were some nice looking things there that's for sure.