{"id":733,"date":"2011-08-31T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-08T04:28:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T04:28:54","slug":"wekfest-in-chicago-august-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benlevy.com\/blog\/wekfest-in-chicago-august-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Wekfest in Chicago &#8211; August 20, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 20th Weksos Industries brought the Wekfest Tour to Chicago.  This car show is more different than others because it focuses on appearance (<i>see<\/i>: Stance) and just being incredibly unique.  It is the new wave of import tuners.  This leads to an unlikely mix of cars.  American cars are rare, but Asian and German cars are everywhere.  There is also a healthy mix of old and new cars and cars that can barely make it on Chicago streets, to ones that dominate on the track.  It was a good show, but the guys riding bikes and skateboards through the show was pretty annoying.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5893.jpg\">widebody NSX<\/a> was amazing, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5627.jpg\">E30 BMW with Nissan SR engine<\/a> was confusing, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5868.jpg\">panda AE86<\/a> was a reminder of why I love modified cars.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"postImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5342.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5354.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5381.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5393.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5680.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5434.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5444.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5456.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5471.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5477.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5508.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5548.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5610.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5640.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5600.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5660.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5679.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5737.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5786.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5809.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5814.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5841.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/img_5324.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"postLinks\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/wekfest2011\/\">Wekfest in Chicago (August 20, 2011)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wekfest.com\/\">Wekfest Tour<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wekfest in Chicago (August 20, 2011)<\/p>\n<p>  Wekfest Tour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,29,18,3],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mazda","tag-nissan","tag-stance","tag-volkswagen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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