Wednesday, 9 December 2015

JAE @ Newark Showground

September 2015 saw the UK Honda CR-Z Owners attend their first outing at JAE (Japanese Auto Extravaganza) held at Newark Showground.

JAE brings together the very best examples of modified Japanese cars from all over the UK and Europe. Now, again... I didn't managed to shoot any of the cars here apart from our own club stand, this was down to me being a bit drunk throughout most of the weekend and generally forgetting I was meant to be taking pictures. Oh well, there's always next year.

We had a great turnout again, with 10 cars on our club stand. A big marquee with our old design banner in centre place looked great until the wind picked up and decided it didn't like the placement of our marquee and threw it over the cars (damaging Nicola's) and straight into my back. Ouch! I can tell you now, having a 6mx3m marquee flung full force at your back is not a nice feeling, but I was too drunk to care and the show must go on.
 
 
Relocating the now wrecked marquee to somewhere a bit more stable and tying it down to a barrier, we were again ready to rock.

3 days and 2 nights of music, beer, great friends and modified cars is exactly what the doctor order.

Myself and Simon took pride of place at the front centre of the club stand, having to Mugen kitted CR-Z's next to each other is a jaw dropping sight to hold. Especially when one of them holds a HKS Supercharger under it's hood.
 

Adam had recently applied a sort of granite look vinyl to his hood, a nice difference to the usual carbon fiber. Along with his recently fitted straight through exhaust system, with a Spoon N1 back box certainly made his CR-Z the loudest there.
 
 
 
Chris had seen the light, trading in his Mazda MX-5 for a Honda CR-Z ZF2 in Energetic Yellow. The only way to describe this colour is... Marmite, either you love it or you hate it. Thankfully Chris loves the colour of his car, and I hate to say it but I like it... it's different. He started early on the mods and had fitted a Spoon Sports GE8 intake chamber, Spoon Sports cam cover and a Remus centre exit exhaust system. The Remus exhaust is a great bit of kit, comes with a diffuser to accommodate the centre exit pipes and sounds great, a real low bassy tone.
 

After packing up, we were joined by 2 of the cleanest examples of Honda CRX's I have ever seen. These two CRX's were spotless and looked like they had just rolled of the production line. Amazing!
 
 
 
 

It's so good to see the evolution of the Honda brand when you get these two different cars parked next to each other.


All that's left to say is... if you haven't been to JAE, then you're missing out. Get down there in 2016, I certainly will be...
 
 
 
 
 
 

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