Owning a modified car can be stressful, luckily I’ve been pretty lucky to have this car be pretty trouble free, mechanically wise, defect wise not so much. Its been red labelled two times so far, with the last time being almost 3 years ago. Since then I’ve been slowly cleaning the car up, making it a whole lot more presentable, but even after all that I would constantly get this anxiety every time I would drive it. So in those 3 years I’ve only ever driven it to work and back which is about 10km from home.

I recently had an encounter with a hwy patrol, where I came to a roundabout intersection with him pulling up to the left of me with a clear view of me, to which he turned right, away from me. I felt this huge sign of relief which had me thinking maybe he thought it wasn’t worth pulling over? or he was on his way to finish his shift haha, either way I felt this wave of anxiety leave me.

With this new found invincibility, I thought it would be good to head to J_hui’ Friday night t way meet in Kellyville. Ive known Joe for a long time, back from jdmst forum days, almost 15 years ago. He hosts these nights every Friday and his goal is to replicate the feel of Daikoku PA in Japan on a Friday night, which I think he has. If you haven’t been there, there’s always a diverse group of cars.

I didn’t take my camera which I regret, I got caught up talking to a few people too so I didn’t take many photos on my phone either, met a whole lot of good people too! the 120km round trip was worth it, and a drive that ill remember for a while !