ZCON 2011 Photos
 

Here is a link to photos from ZCON 2011. My slideshow goes backwards from the reception/awards banquet on Friday night where Yutaka Katayama, otherwise known as "Mr, K." addressed the banquet attendees. Mr. K. is the man who headed what was called Datsun in the U.S. back then. He is 101 and will 102 this September and is as sharp as a tack!

I had a great trip and as always it is the people and friends you make that make it all worth the trip!

Here is the link to the slideshow of all my pics. Just a few are posted below. Enjoy!

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Here is a link to some high quality photos taken by another attendee that I found online:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevej260z/

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What wheels does the silver 370 have?

in the pictures in the thread?

thats a PG 370z. Kevr6. Venaci Spirits.

Wow! That 280Z is gorgeous! I want!

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Great pics Jon! I'm glad I was able to share a beer with you and to meet your son! Tell him congrats on well earned grades again and good luck with the car search. Its good to hear that you two made it back home safely.

As for the NISMO winning the Street Mod Class of the 370Z section... we can address this further in another post (which I intend to). I feel that more transparency is needed in the judging and evaluating of vehicles among all classes at ZCON events. I feel that alot of the 370Z owners who attended this year left feeling a little hurt and confused about the judging. This will only DISCOURAGE future 370Z attendees for the 2012 and succeeding venues if this trend continues. All rules and exact judging criteria must be exposed as there was ALOT of confusion and mis-information running about that hurt some owners "points".

I think it should be known that the winner of the Street Mod Class of the 370Z section (the NISMO) is also the current ZCCA President, past ZCCA Car Show Judge and a long time Z Car Owner. With this said, he is fully aware of all rules and guidelines used by the ZCCA/ZCON Car Show Staff, which may include information that may or MAY NOT be known by all attendees or even shared outside of the ZCCA (this I believe is not fair in the spirit of competition). At the same time he does have a long time relationship with the operating staff of ZCON/ZCCA and the various Z Car Clubs across the country, which I feel also clouds some judgement. In his defense however, he has been an avid and extremely active Z Car owner and ZCON attendee for a very long time. He has done numerous car shows and events more than once and knows what he is doing when it comes to preparing his cars.

Aside from this...it was very good to see everyone this year! Overall I feel it was a great event and a successful one at that (minus the heat, humidity and gnats). I wish I could have met more of the 370Z guys (or gals) as I know I saw alot more cars in the parking lots than owners. Hopefully we can arrange a 370Z dinner or get together at next year's ZCON in Phoenix or even at the 2011 Z Nationals.

Sorry I was talking about the Bronze wheels I've been wanting some for ever now but I can;'t find any for a resonable price.

if you want bronze wheels, check out the stuff that Mark Carries and can get you. hes got quite a few good examples of awesome bronze wheels.

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Nice pics.. thanks for posting them.

I was at Zcon and attended the banquet. I agree with everything Dustin said. There were 3 cars in the Street Modified category, I came in last (3rd place). The 1st place winner had a stock Nismo with a shift know, in dash nav and intakes. I was one of the confused folks. Kevin should have won hands down. Regardless of criteria. The careful was street MODIFIED....I will leave it at that.

You must be posting with an iphone!

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You're RIGHT!!! Thanks Mike!!!

Does anyone know what body kit (grounds effects i guess is what it's called) that PG with the gold/bronze (5th pic down from top) has? I'm really diggin' it.

It's the Sunline body kit!

Dustin, glad we could share a cold one together and shoot the breeze. I have to admit that this convention had many more people I did not recognize so that was a good opportunity to meet and make new friends. I'm certainly not up to speed on the criteria just as you have mentioned for the judging of the cars and was a bit surprised to say the least especially when I placed first in what I was told was "stock" category. That said, I am truly looking forward to Z Nationals as Pat and I had such an awesome time last year. Hoping to bring Tony and maybe a few others down as well! See you in September!

Nice pics Jon, it looks like a Z Heaven! :tup:

If I remember correctly, the guy (from Seattle, WA) who owned this one took overall best in show for that immaculately clean and well done Z.

Jon, the pix are great. Looks like you and Jonathan had a great time! Lotta nice Z's in those pix!

We did have a good time. Hot as heck but still fun. I'm looking forward to Z Nationals now in September! You coming down for it?

I'm still a "maybe" at this point, but I should know in the next week or two.

Great pics John!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That first 280 is beautiful. And that black 370 in the 8th pic is not to bad either LOL

Dude, Jon's car is Bad*ss!

Thanks Jared, I overheard somewhere that the guy who built that silver Z had about 125K for the build. Not sure if that is accurate but it was a beauty and worth whatever time and money was spent on the build.

Thanks!