Picture me rollin…
Everybody knows that I am not a Cali dude. I’m not hatin, or maybe I am, but the fact of the matter is, I got way more love for the Big East. But I’ll be honest, something changed on my trip out last week for Agenda and it was all due to two little letters, V and W. You see, part of my problem with Cali is that you are in the car literally all the time, and most of that time you are sitting in stifling heat in bumper to bumper traffic and fighting the urge to descend into full on Michael Douglas Falling Down mode. But what I found once I hopped on the 5 just minutes after landing at Burbank airport and throttling up a freshly gassed and waxed 2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI was that it doesn’t always have to be like that.
I had had the chance to preview the new Golf in Germany a couple months prior (peep the story in the upcoming spring Antenna) and as unbelievably rad as that was, there was something about whipping around LA that connected me with this whip on an entirely different level. It might have been the thrill of breaking speed limits (there aren’t any in Germany) or the fact that the Sirius didn’t play a wack track the entire time I was whipping it (in Germany I had German radio) that made it a totally new experience. But whatever it was, it was all the way dope.
From LA down to Huntington Beach for Agenda with my homie Pete Williams and back I felt like I was the bo$$ of California as I pushed this mini rocket to its full capacity. And as I did I realized that all that Cali car time isn’t your enemy as long as you are in the right car. The GTI is that car. Peep some pics of the fun after the jump. Also peep the mini shoot I did with Luis Tolentino, Chris (CtotheJL) Lee and Brian Jones over on Rad Collector.
