Why I Never Miss a Good Car Meet

By Araz Shahbazian

If my weekend's open, there's a decent chance I'm at a car meet. It's become one of my favorite ways to spend a morning — coffee in hand, walking rows of cars and taking in the builds one by one.

What I love is how mixed the lineup is. You'll have exotics parked a few spots down from a perfectly kept JDM classic, and honestly the JDM stuff is where my heart is a lot of the time. There's something about those cars — the era, the engineering, the way they've been kept exactly right — that I really respect.

What keeps me coming back is simple: it's the best way I know to spend a weekend morning surrounded by the cars I love, studying the details up close and seeing builds I'd never come across otherwise.