did euro sport close down? went to get some air fresheners and it was empty.

 

Yep, Eurosport Inc filed a chapter 11 (bankruptcy) afew months ago. Razor Concepts in Pearlridge sells air fresheners though....

 

Damn that sucks...that place was one of the old school shops like Hypersports, HDS, KMA, etc.

 

Yeah....It was pretty old school

 

Definitely old school, I've been a customer of theirs since the mid 80's when Dexter Lum used to run it off of King Street (Elsie St I believe). On plus note, I just spoke to my friend Matt who worked for Euros that they are still mounting tires in a new location off of Sand Island Access Road. It's one of those side streets across Napa, this new location though will not be called Eurosport, new name to be announced later.

 

Since we're on the old school shops...... remember Sonic Motorsports???

 

Wow, Eurosport was around for this long?? I remember when I was living in Hawaii, they were the place to get your rims because you could finance them. Other shops only want straight cash in full. I also bought some ZUM shirts and my first exhaust, 5zigen Cannonball exhaust from them too, and only went to them to pick up the buy and sell classifieds.

 

oh yeah i used to go to HDS still got the licence plate cover sonic was my other regular shop.

 

Sonics was the ****s

 

Haha, yeah I practically lived at HDS. In fact, I think I still have my HDS plate in the shed outside........HDSR-14. I still see Jin at the bar every once in a while. Last I heard, Wade was still working at World One. And Mike still lives in Cali, and just had twins last year.

 

I heard other places in HI closed like Compadre's and Brew Moon...any other notables?

 

Took my Mitsu to KMS and they screwed up my rims by using an impact gun to take off the lug nuts,..

Lug nut got xthreaded and they used a chisel to get it off damaging my rim and not telling me about it but instead tried to tell me I paid for my install of shocks when I know I didnt...Honest me, paid for the install and saw the damage after I got home...

Post up if you know where Euro will be doing tire/mount/dismounts as I would still use them and they are close by my house...

 

BoooOOo HDSR-14/Team Muteki!! SPDGOD9 .. Nah j/k!! I remember your crews shop being near Pac Alignment and noticably almost all HDS rides were black. I still get my RS Akimoto and lightspeed license frame as a momento. I was more of a Hypers guy since I always talk to Donovan & Chad. Lanny was Super cool & humble. It was funny how Eurosport was like 5 minutes away and HyperSport & Sonic Motorsport was like right around the corner. Brandon from Sonic's was super cool too as he hooked me up with the first Bomex kit on the island at that time.

KMA was a well reputable shop but their location suck ***** across New York Tech. Anybody remember Option Motorsports?? They were on Republican street but didnt last long. Also Evolution Motorsports?? I knew the old owner Stan, tall & medium build oriental with glasses was a fellow suby enthusiats with a Blue GC coupe with the JDM 5 star goldies and the JDM WRX sticker. The same shop that made the first Lan Evo conversion in hawaii owned by Darryl. WOOT WOOT for RS akimoto intakes, Lightspeed drop springs, bullfrog cams, and erebuni body kits. And the California type R conversion, the famous Blackwidow and Showoff Ciel kits.

 

Yeah, I remember when Sonics was in the alley. I was into watercooled VWs back then, so I used to go there alot. Here's how far my roots go back though, my first shop that I used to hang around was Teletronic Racing Enterprises (TRE) run by Peter Chung. I was a Toyboy back then (early 80s), you could see the coolest wide-body Starlets, Celicas, Corollas and Datsuns there. Ahhhh, memories.

 

Maad reminiscence in this thread.

The import scene was pretty damn hot back then.. pretty mellow now huh?

... just makes me ponder.