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This event has been a long time coming, and not just for myself. We’ll get into how long this entire event has been in the works later on. I reached out to Nathen of Tuned Motorsports back in April as he was already launching promo material for this event. We’re talking about the only indoor mall car show in South Texas so I’d be crazy to not jump in on this, right? In late July I got confirmed to be a part of the media team and capture the event – it was official. I’m incredibly glad I was able to make it out, even more so that I got to have a pretty long conversation with Nathen. We got into his start with the automotive culture, the “why” of starting to organize local events, and learning about the insane amounts of calculated planning for all this, an entire connected universe that’s been created for the car community.
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Pretty rare occurrence to have two articles go up within a week time-span. While this isn’t going to be a regular thing, I am definitely going to hold myself to get more involved and shoot some events here and there. Going off Thursdays cruise night, I was hoping something would pop up soon, and I got lucky to catch a flyer for this event the morning of – AND it was down the street from me. Sort of like it’s all some sort of sign.
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Thursday cruise nights have always been a thing here in McAllen. I started going out back in 2004, when I told my parents where I was going they even brought up that cruise nights were a thing back when they were in high school. The automotive scene in the Rio Grande Valley is nothing new, but the state of things is definitely new.
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