{"id":3290,"date":"2013-06-26T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rallyways.com\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2018-01-02T14:55:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:55:04","slug":"massive-hre-open-house-southern-california-car-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rallyways.com\/3290\/massive-hre-open-house-southern-california-car-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive HRE Open House Southern California Car Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve attended many car shows and meets in California since creating RallyWays. In this instance it was the HRE Open House. Even after you are used to such events, if you still feel blown away by the magnitude of a show, you know it’s a good one. This was precisely the case here.<\/h3>\n

Last year I missed the event. I don’t know what I was doing, but I wasn’t there. This year I vowed not to miss it. I had a good number of friends going and I was looking forward to covering it and shooting lots of photos.<\/p>\n

The group from Carlsbad met with the folks from SDCE at Cbad Cars and Coffee Carlsbad to kick-start the day, group-up, and caravan out to HRE Performance Wheels in Vista, CA – 15 minutes away. Come 8:30am, we were rolling up the hill towards Vista in a scream of exhausts going up Palomar Airport Road. Upon arriving at HRE we noticed the line of amazing cars going in was quite hectic.<\/p>\n

\"Arrival<\/a><\/p>\n

I had never been to the HRE Wheels premises so I had no idea the back end of the warehouse was so big. Initially I thought the bulk of the show was at the front. Needless to say however, some guys chose to park on the street, some on the adjacent roads and others were able to make it inside. I had just finished detailing my 1995 Mazda MX-5 Miata<\/a> and it was looking the business. But still, I decided to avoid the crowd and park on a side road. I’d bring the car in after everyone has settled in.<\/p>\n

\"BBI<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chrome-wrapped<\/a><\/p>\n

\"HG<\/a><\/p>\n

The array of amazing cars was absolutely massive. Everywhere you looked there was something impressive to feast your eyes upon. Plus, the selection covered the entire gamut from Italian, German, English, American and Japanese vehicles. I spent at least 1 hour photographing cars in the front lot until I finally came around and realized the bulk of the show was at the back.<\/p>\n

The rear lot was dotted with show cars from end to end along with tents from various vendors that all form part of the show.<\/p>\n

From what I can remember, these were some of the vendors:<\/p>\n