{"id":8341,"date":"2014-12-18T18:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rallyways.com\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2015-01-11T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:38:15","slug":"you-cant-kill-car-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rallyways.com\/8341\/you-cant-kill-car-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Kill Car Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Car culture really takes a beating sometimes. While in most cases, car meets get shut down for legitimate reasons, in other cases it\u2019s just thanks to a few pencil pushers whose cars are coffins that take them to work.<\/h3>\n

Take for example, Tacos & Tuners<\/a>. This very popular meet lasted 2 years before it grew so much and attracted so much attention that it got shut down. True, enough showboaters showed up with with plenty of jackassery week in and week out to soon piss off the surrounding businesses. The shut down was to be expected.<\/p>\n

Then there is the legendary Cars & Coffee Irvine<\/a> held at the Mazda HQ and Ford parking lot in Irvine which was just recently officially killed off – at least at that location. That one sounds more like a pencil-pushing political situation due to recent hotel and community developments around the event. True, every once in a while you\u2019d get a show-off leaving the show, but for the most part the sheer magnitude of that show had brought so much attention to it that certain people with other monetary interests decided Cars and Coffee Irvine to be a threat.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, back to Tacos & Tuners and not being able to kill car culture. While the local car community in Southern California takes a lot of flak from what can often be described as a nanny state, the culture simply cannot be stopped. The same car enthusiasts that have made these events a success will continue to find ways to meet and keep the stoke alive. This event right here is a perfect example.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a little over a year since Tacos and Tuners was shut down. Since then there have been a handful of scheduled T&T meets at different places such as SAE Motorsport in Oceanside and K1 Speed Indoor Karting in Carlsbad, California. These however have been one-off events instead of the usual weekly gathering that Tacos used to be. It’s something at least.<\/p>\n