{"id":690,"date":"2009-04-07T20:52:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:19:17","slug":"midwest-streets-meet-april-4-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benlevy.com\/blog\/midwest-streets-meet-april-4-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Streets Meet &#8211; April 4. 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, the guys over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midweststreets.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midwest Streets<\/a> organized a meet at a Fuddruckers in Schaumburg. The parking lot was packed with more modded cars than you could shake a stick at. The Evos and GT-Rs were plentiful on that day.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to catch my eye was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3990.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R34 Skyline GT-R<\/a>. A non-US car with two turbos is usually a sign of a good car meet.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3990.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3990.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There were a surprisingly large amount of new GT-Rs at the show. I particularly liked this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_4008.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GT-R on BBS LM Wheels<\/a>. The Nissans that really caught my eye were these red Z-cars though.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3914.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3870.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3870.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There were also a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_4008.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lot of Evos<\/a> at this meet. There was good representation from every generation that has been sold in the US. This red Evolution XI was probably my favorite one at the show.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3978.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3981.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3981.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There were very few Hondas that attended. A guy showed up with a Mugen Civic Si, but he could not resist the urge to rev and try to attract attention. It got old fast. I think that this S2000 and NSX helped offset all of that though.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3974.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3976.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\/img_3976.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This was great meet, but I couldn&#8217;t make it to the second leg, which was at Foster Beach in Chicago. You can see the rest of the pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/meet\/midwest20090404\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, the guys over at Midwest Streets organized a meet at a Fuddruckers in Schaumburg.  The parking lot was packed with more modded cars than you could shake a stick at.  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