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Originally Posted by HORShi
Seattle I'm honestly not sure, because I always receive mixed opinions..."Oh it's fucking awesome here" then one minute "It's always raining here and cloudy, you can't do nothing with your car here, it sucks". It's also hard to find info on the car scene cause it seems very "private" or isolated...you know the PNW kind of stay to them selves or is not as flamboyant compared to other cities and scenes (from what it seems, not sure). I plan on taking a trip to Seattle sometime this year to fill the place out. But the biggest cons I believe (but from research shows that it's not necessarily true) is the weather. People say it rains CONSTANTLY in Seattle and always cloudy. Now I don't my the overcast of clouds or rain, but I hope it's not a every day ordeal. I love to drive, and I love to cruise and I love to drift for fun.
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Facebook really killed car forums, with that websites like NorthwestNissans, NWDrifting, NWTuner, NW-Built, NissanPacific, KungFuTouge, and RightWheelDrive faded away. I check Zilvia daily because it's one of the last s-chassis communities with a pulse.
IMO, you are dead on accurate about the Northwest and how our scene seems isolated. If you're not on Facebook groups or "know the right people" aka the right fb pages to like.. you won't see much of the northwest unless you happened to find a well known ProAm driver to follow. I use to run a website called NissanPacific and tried to use it as a website people from all over the US could find stuff in the northwest. I was also the original web master of EvergreenDrift.com and helped maintain that site in like 2008-2010, media coordinator, and co-announcer. There isn't much incentive in this niche, though there are business models to make it sustainable I had to put it on the back burner.
If you want to do your research on the Northwest Car Scene, I would highly recommend looking into a few organizations/brands/entities:
EvergreenDrift
https://www.facebook.com/EvergreenDrift
Pat's Acres Racing Complex
http://patsacres.com/racing-at-parc/drift-event/
StanceWars
https://www.facebook.com/StanceWars
ImportMeet (Matt Haugness)
http://importmeet.com
NWMotiv (Josh Mackey and Armin H. Ausejo)
http://NWMotiv.com
Tandem Of Die (follow or friend up Justin Shreeve and Joe Ayala)
https://www.facebook.com/tandemofdie
Garage AutoHero (Ray Stonehocker, super busy guy best way to follow is on IG)
http://instagram.com/garageautohero
Connor Surdi Photo
https://www.facebook.com/connorsurdiphoto
Phantasy Kolors
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Phant...16954648342801
AlwaysReckless
https://www.facebook.com/SortaReckless
The Machete Group (Ian Dillon, Landin Williams, Kyle Pope)
https://www.facebook.com/themachetegroup
Item-B.com (evan brown)
https://www.facebook.com/itembracing
If you want to see parking lot meets, cruises, show and shines, import car shows, etc etc; pay close attention to StanceWars, NWMotiv, ImportMeet. IMO these are the last 3 "car show" organizations that actually have a business model and can sustain themselves through car shows and once-in-a-blue-moon drift competitions. They pouched a lot of the traditional meets away from NorthwestNissans (ie Golden Gardens, XXX Rootbeer Meets, Mt Baker Cruise, and probably some others I can't name off the top of my head). Hot Import Nights also happens every year at the Tacoma Dome, and I believe NWMotive helps bring HIN to the northwest. There are also events like Battle of the Imports, Forum Fest, NHRA Northwest Nationals.
BoiseDrift, Stateline Drift, EvergreenDrift and PARC are the only 4 organizations that actually keeps a regular schedule of competitions / open drifts. They also do a good job ramping up promotional stuff for drift exhibitions. There is also South Sound Speedway and Torque Steers but I never hear about their events unless they get a Pro2/ProAm driver to invite people to the events. Carshow/Drift events: Driftcon, NissanFest, inMotion yadda yadda.
Tracks in the northwest: Evergreen Speedway, Pat's Acres Racing Complex, Pacific Raceways, Portland International Raceway, The Ridge Motorsports Park, Oregon Raceway Park, Bremerton Raceway, Stateline Speedway. (Note there might be more to add to this, I'm just pulling names off the top of my head).
There is also a ton of stuff going on up in British Columbia and Alberta; such as Drift Union and the occasional NWN Canadian guys that come down for Formula Drift.
Drift Teams that have good brand recognition and their head on straight:
Team Destroy
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Destroy/238949046304144
Daring Partners (and company)
https://www.facebook.com/daringpartners
Hotboyz
https://www.facebook.com/hotboyzdrift
Drift Union
https://www.facebook.com/DriftUnion
Drift Rebels
https://www.facebook.com/DriftRebels1
Villains
https://www.facebook.com/VillainsDrift
above and beyond there's more teams, performance garages, events, and organizers out there but I can't remember all their names.
Sorry to vomit this wall of text on you, just thought I'd connect the dots... The community is so fragmented.
