You’ve heard the tales of NOPI Nationals in the import heyday, at Daytona Beach or Atlanta Motor Speedway. You can probably remember when Hot Import Nights was a household name, filling major venues in Chicago, Washington DC, Miami and other major cities across the country. You’ve probably seen our recent coverage of SpoCom and Wekfest shows in SoCal and NorCal. The number of people and quality of cars that turn out to these mainstay events in tuning strongholds around the country is always impressive, but not all that surprising.
But when you throw an import event deep in the mountains of eastern-central Pennsylvania’s NASCAR country, over 100 miles from any major city, and manage to fill it to the brim with some of the cleanest and most wildly modified cars, formidable Pro-Am and Pro 2 drifters, NASA grip wheelmen and dedicated fans from the tri-state area and beyond... that’s really something.
And that’s exactly what we encountered on our recent trip back east, in part to check out Import Expo and Clean Culture’s Pocono Raceway stop to host their annual Raceway Festival (also to bring you coverage of the recent IMSA Six Hours of The Glen race week). Crazy engine swaps, huge turbos (there was even an anti-lag contest!), slammed/flared/flush everything, a grip of JDM Skyline GT-Rs, all-day drifting and infield hot-lapping, and some truly unique projects all made it an event to remember — and to us, helped cement Import Expo’s name among the biggest in the import show scene.
To get in on the action when Import Expo travels to a destination near you, visit www.importexpo.ca.