SOUTHRNFRESH 3 Coverage | Part 1

August 13, 2013 Joseph Dale 700 Views

It has been a busy few months for us. Bringing back SF3 was a big step for us. We wanted to be sure that the space was large enough and we were ready to actually put on something that was worth your time and money. At first we had a lot of plans for the afternoon as we planned and put the event together a lot of that fell to the side, and we decided to keep it basic the first go round so we can get our feet wet with holding and event at an actual venue.

The original parking setup was going to be cars split up into makes and setup in certain areas. But once we arrived to setup parking we realized it was near impossible to get it correct with how people were arriving. Because no matter what time you tell people to show up, they will decide to show up whenever they feel like it. But its a good thing to have people excited enough to get in early. The day started out with 200 pre registered cars. And we caught a lot of people that wanted to register that morning. We had the space, we just did not have the man power the flow of cars that wanted to get in past 2:30pm.

It was pretty crazy to see the place almost full of cars by 2:30, 30 minutes before the event even started. At that time security had told us that we could not allow any more cars to come in the main entrance because of the amount of people in already. So we had to redo the whole setup and take in more cars from the other end of the park off the main road. Once we had the other gate open, we begin bringing cars in again, but we ran into a problem of people driving up to the front where security did not want there to be traffic, so we had to completely stop letting cars in to keep them happy.

Once that stopped we were able to relax a bit and settle down and just concentrate on spectators coming in. Which was way over what i expected, we originally had 1000 wristbands, and by 4:30 we were completely out. We then switched over to tickets left over from a previous event. Being right off a main road enabled us to pick up a lot of people who just drove by and wanted to check the event out. I saw large families that probably had no idea what a “southrnfresh” was come in and check everything out.

Overall we are very pleased with the day, and we are overwhelmed with the love and support we got from the community. An event like this is something that we have been trying to put together since we started this site in 2010. We learned a lot for future events, so they will only get better from here on.

We got only a handful of our own photos due to the fact that we were keeping everything going, so we reached out to you all to cover the event for us, and you have delivered. So most of the coverage will come from many different attendees.

If you have photo from the event please send them to:

Contact@southrnfresh.com

First up we have a set from Cory Mader. He arrived early and was able to get some shots before the crowds arrived.

Cliff Ridinger’s new project brand new off the lot Acura TSX

Tanner Norwood’s Miata

Heather Hennigan’s Golf Mk2

Marco Lao’s RX3 , we will have plenty of this car in the coverage.

Tyler Clayton’s Ae86

Chad Copeland’s SR20 powered Datsun Pickup

Venue shot at about 1:30

Christopher DeCouto’s VW Corrado

Anthony Reed’s WRX Wagon

Nick D’ Andria’s M3

Ricardo Reyes’ bagged Camaro SS

Next up we have some photos from Trenton H.

Kevin Lu’s Silvia Spec R

The European cars were all over the place it seemed. I really make it an effort to reach out to the euros to get the Imports and European cars together.

Brandon Corey’s Passat

Ashton LeFleur’s Mercedes 230

Troy Hick’s Civic

One of our favorites from the day, he won Best Fitment. The car was flawless and we will be getting more photos of this car real soon.

Karboyz.com’s Rotary swapped starlet is always a favorite.

CJ Gann’s Miata posted up in front of the #Twerkteam booth

Matt Smith’s Jetta Coupe

Bear Dellinger posing for the camera.

Austin Starr’s Civic

Edlee’s Audi S4

Bear Dellinger’s S14

The Mercedes lineup

Alex Hutton’s R30 Skyline

Kyle McGuire’s Z32

Exomotive had some of their XP-3 chassis’ on display

ATLDK were out doing what they do best

Juan giving tours of the event

Daniel Joffe’s IS350

Some shots from Neno Rodriguez

Cutworm Specialties Aluminum Dually made an appearance. Jeb had a little trouble finding the event, so he arrived a little later than expected. But hats off to Jeb and Shawn for having the balls to drive their creation down for the weekend.