Event Coverage – www.meilinkvision.com https://www.meilinkvision.com Home to the photography of Keith Meilink Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:29:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Cars & Culture presented by OEM+ Club https://www.meilinkvision.com/2021/07/23/cars-culture-presented-by-oem-club/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:29:20 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=8278 Well it’s been a long hiatus since posting anything. But I’m back with pictures from the first Cars & Culture by OEM+ Club. OEM+ Club is the brainchild of fellow TEam 37 member, Fernando. It’s a club to bring together like minded auto enthusiasts. Right now he’s been putting together a lot of events including this one at the Greenpoint Terminal Market in Brooklyn. The cars in attendance were all curated by Fern himself and we had about 25 cars in total. Take a look at this small selection of photos I grabbed while helping out some during the event.

 

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S2ki Wake the Dragon 2016 Part 3: The Finale https://www.meilinkvision.com/2016/06/15/s2ki-wake-the-dragon-2016-part-3-the-finale/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:25:16 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=2513 Here we are with the last part in part 3. I had a problem with one of my memory cards and lost almost 600 pictures from the weekend. After I recovered them it left everything in a crazy order so today’s part is not in chronological order and is kind of all over the place.

Any who, it shouldn’t take away from the post too much. As for my final thoughts on the trip, I will be going again next year. If something’s good enough to want to do it again, I don’t think there’s much more explaining needed. But as with most trips of this type, it’s the people you go with. The driving and scenery and everything were great, but just going away with a bunch of friends and hanging out always makes that much more fun. See ya next year!

 

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Stan filling up at Deal’s Gap.

 

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Fontana dam.

 

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Chasing Mike with Stan.

 

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Stan enjoying the roads.

 

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Mike and Fernando hanging out as all the s2000’s roll in for the photo op.

 

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Stan getting his own photo game on.

 

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Fernando and Billman after everyone else has cleared out.

 

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Filling up at Deal’s Gap again.

 

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Stan chasing Fernando.

 

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Mike posted up as we wait for some people.

 

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Lots of gas trips.

 

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Mike chasing Fernando.

 

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The view from Fontana Dam.

 

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Stan getting down and dirty on the dragon again.

 

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Fernando breaking necks as he pulls in.

 

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If you haven’t figured it out yet, most of this coverage is of Stan, Mike and Fernando.

 

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All the s2000’s lining up for a photo op. They  may or may not be Fernando squatting down all the way to the right.

 

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Billman after everyone left the photo op.

 

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Stan checking out his work.

 

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Billman watching the drone fly around.

 

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A sea of s2000 trunks.

 

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Mike and Fernando yet again.

 

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Entering the Foothills Parkway.

 

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Mike carving them corners.

 

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Hello friend.

 

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Watch for them falling rocks.

 

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In for Mike’s close up.

 

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Parked up at Fontana Dam.

 

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Going through the smokey bear mountains up to Clingman’s Dome.

 

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Things were getting a bit foggy the higher we went.

 

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This was taken from the top lookout point of Clingman’s Dome, 6,643 feet up. On a clear day you can see seven different states. The weather did not want to cooperate with us.

 

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There should be mountains behind these guys.

 

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And we leave off with Stan being a wrongdoer and breaking some laws. Till next time.

 

 

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S2ki Wake the Dragon 2016 Part 2 https://www.meilinkvision.com/2016/06/13/s2ki-wake-the-dragon-2016-part-2/ Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:44:23 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=2509 Part two of the coverage begins with our first full day in the area. We used this day to check out the Dragon itself since it was a weekday before the event started. Without a doubt this was a great choice by the group. The roads were a lot less crowded and it allowed us to enjoy driving and the scenery.

 

Besides the Dragon we hit up a couple of other roads in the area and we finished the night up with a quick photoshoot of Mike’s AP2 and Fernando’s NA1.

Click here if you missed part 1.

 

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Everyone was prepping their cars first thing in the morning. Here Fernando is removing the blue tape off the car.

 

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Kevin making sure the windshield of his SI is nice and clean.

 

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Taking tape off is a painstakingly long process, apparantly.

 

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Billman doing a valve adjustment for someone.

 

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Waiting for the troops to gather.

 

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Mike sitting on his TE37 rt’s. #TEam37

 

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Fernando parked up with his CE’s.

 

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Stan started experiencing some clutch problems on the drive down so him and Billman decided to check it out real quick. Another #TEam37 member.

 

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Billman back to work on the valve adjustment.

 

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Historic Tapoco Lodge is where we spent the week. A great place with a lot of history to it. At one point it was owned by Alcoa and used as a retreat for employees.

 

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Yup Fernando again. There’s just something about NA1 NSX’s. I think I’ll own one some day. But an NA2 with popups.

 

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Stan getting down and dirty. After this we headed over to Deals Gap for breakfast then hit up the dragon a little after that.

 

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Mike experiencing the dragon for one of the first times.

 

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A quick stop at Deal’s Gap again.

 

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We pulled over to take pictures at the top of the dragon.

 

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One of the many gorgeous views of the week.

 

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Joey rolling in sans opera singing.

 

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Back to driving we go with Stan giving chase to Fernando with me and Mike close behind.

 

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Pulled over for another break/more pics.

 

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Billman stuck behind a motorcycle.

 

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Group shot.

 

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Photoshoot time.

 

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As the sun disappeared we headed back through the dragon at night and had a little party back at the cabin.

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