However, the lights were still on inside and would remain so for the rest of the night.ĭarren had warned me beforehand that we were in for a late night, I just don’t think I appreciated just how late a night it would be. At this point, it was around 6:00pm and darkness had enveloped the outside world. Inside, there was very much a different vibe that belied the calmness on the street outside.
A reminder that a real world exists outside of the mayhem and surreal nature of SEMA. There was even time for a quick shoot on something I consider to be the perfect counter-SEMA car before the sun fully set behind the horizon. There was no mistaking iDL’s new location the quality of cars parked on the street in front of and around the building was exceptional. Funnily, it was heading to a photo shoot on the same stretch of road where I had first encountered it a year earlier. He has since sold it to a friend, and it’s looking maybe even better than it did before. It was Darren’s former GT3 that first greeted me when I arrived back at their shop.
Needless to say, they’re amongst some of my favourite people. I had been introduced to the iDL team a year earlier, when Darren Yoo threw me the keys to his GT3 and sent me into the canyons with it. I was making enquiries trying to find the last of the cars when Carl Taylor, of Players Show and Air Lift Performance, advised that one of the cars bound for the ALP stand at SEMA was going to be a very late finish, if it would even make it all.Ĭoincidentally, the car was being finished at iDL Garage, just outside Irwindale and one of the shops I had already visited the day before. While a day of chilling out in the hotel wouldn’t have been the worst thing, it’s not why I had travelled this far. It seemed that many people were past the last minute SEMA prep, with the organisers having moved up the load-in dates. My journey that Friday has already been documented, but when I finally got to my hotel and sat on the edge of my bed, I was acutely aware that the vast bulk of SEMA cars were already on their way to Las Vegas. The jet lag and fatigue could be easily pushed aside for another few hours while I sought out my fix of speed. These are the events and occasions that all of us Speedhunters live for.
Arriving into LAX at 9:00am on the Friday before, following 10 hours of turbulence, I was surprisingly energetic and enthusiastic about things.
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