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Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Street Racing Illustrated | Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne 03.25.18

Beautiful weather and an awesome locale make Cars n Coffee Key Biscayne a ‘must go’.

Story & Photos | Phillip Pratt

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | Majestics reppin’ at C&C Key Biscayne

 

There really is no backdrop like the aqua-color waters of Miami Beach on a clear morning. Even with the controlled vehicular chaos that was created by the Miami Open Tennis tournament taking place just across the Causeway, it was hard to let the laidback vibe be diluted. Outside of the beautiful location, the biggest standout was the eclectic mix of cars, bikes, and enthusiasts in attendance. It was impossible to say what kind of meet it was; import, domestic, classic, bikes, exotics… but I guess that’s the point of a Cars n Coffee meet. It’s intentionally nondescript by design, in turn, draws in a vastly diverse crowd. From the custom hot-rods, pocket bikes, modern muscle cars, to the rows of GTRs (both old and new) and the random bicycle hooligans; C&C Key Biscayne doesn’t disappoint. If nothing else, the view coming over the bridge is almost worth the drive by itself.

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | Crew of Pocket Bikes showed up in mass

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | Classic and Clean

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | Hoods up

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | Beauty in motion

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | A Bug done right

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | Everyone is a Hoonigan

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | Some mean muscle in attendance

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | When the wheels match the backdrop

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne | Cars even love the view

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

 

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Cars and Coffee Key Biscayne

Street Racing Illustrated | SRMS 2.10.18 “Grudge Night”

SRMS Grudge in West Palm Beach Florida.

Story & Photos | Phillip Pratt

 

Nothing like perfect weather to drive a great night of grudge racing. Despite an unfortunate setback with a Mustang spilling its guts halfway down the track, creating an hour and a half long “wait and see” situation, we were treated to a plethora exciting races from some of South Florida’s fastest cars. Atop of a night where we saw local tuning guru, Javi Bastista of “Javituned”, and his wicked fast, turbocharged RSX move from the 7th position to the 3rd in a single night on the 40mph roll list, Daniel “Frustrate” Rodriguez debuted his AWD set-up on his K-powered EG hatch (also tuned by Javi). Javi was able to defeat Frustrate in the tuner vs builder clash, but time will tell if he’ll be able to hold on as I suspect Frustrate is only going to get faster as he gets used to his new set-up. Due to the aforementioned Mustang evacuation, the Dig list wasn’t able to pop off, however, those that stuck around while the track got cleaned up got to see Frustrate take on Dig-King, Eddie Miller, in his 73’ Plymouth Duster with a pro-tree. Frustrate was able to pull out a victory as Eddie let off the throttle quarter of the way down the track giving up at least a car length’s lead and ultimately the race. If you missed it, I wouldn’t worry. They’ll do it again, soon.

 

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night” | BD Performance GT-R

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night” | Daniel “Frustrate” Rodriguez and his AWD K-series EG

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night” | Dentpros 911 staging up with a Camero

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night” | Javi and his RSX and Carta Performances’ Foxbody Mustang

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night” | Javituned’s own creation

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night”

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night”

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night” | Eddie Miller and his 73′ Duster getting ready to run Frustrate’s AWD EG

SRMS Grudge Night

SRMS “Grudge Night” | Frustrate and his family back in the pits after his win over Eddie Miller