Event held at Griot's in Tacoma the 14th of August 2011.
I have a few videos too, but I will wait until Monday to process them.

All the pictures below and the videos were taken on my GoPro HD camera.
Having the LCD screen option on the camera is very nice.
I brought along my nice Sony digital camera too, but I enjoyed using the GoPro one more.

Quite a few people there that I see on yotatech.com and fjcruiserforums.com, but I can not remember the name of everyone.

The event started out a little cloudy, then the sun came out and it was pretty warm, around 70°.



vital22RE (Vitaly's) rig below with a 3.4 engine with the TRD supercharger.







Tofer (Chris's) 2nd gen 4Runner with a 3.4 in it, and 01rnrgirl (Lisa's) 3rd gen 4Runner.





The rig below won best mud award.



PSTOC.org (Mike's) pickup below.





Elton's Tundra below, he also won longest distance driven to the event.





Sweet FJ40 below with a Chev V8 in it.
He took a few awards.











The four FJ Cruisers that showed up at the event.
The one parked next to mine had some very bright LED lights on the rack.
They were blinding even with my Oakley Flak Jackets on.
The black one had custom tube doors on it, and he took Griot's best of class award.
The Green one took took an award.
My silver FJ Cruiser took Toyota Of Kirkland's Choice award for "best overlanding/camping/4wheeler" and clean as in "just washed look" award.
Vitaly talked me into opening up my tent too which I am sure helped me get the award.
Vitaly and another guy helped me put it down too, save a lot of time from me doing it myself.

I did not snag any pics of my rig though when the tent was deployed open, simply to much going on there.





I printed out some details on my rig the night before, and I taped them to the windows.





Lots of nice Toyota and Scion cars there too that had tubochargers on them.





A few Toyotas were mating with each other, spotted two sets of them.



CodyX36 (Cody and his girlfriend) 4Runner.



Below is a 4WD Toyota van, and he took an award for it.
He is not on any forum I do not think, but he knows of some.
I pointed him to expeditionportal to check into 4WD van stuff, as he is very interested in getting into overlanding/camping with the rig.
He also has a 1st gen 4Runner.





Below was an FJ40 in the showroom behind where we turned in our toys we brought since this raises money for Toys For Tots.



A few other nice cars that were in Griot's showroom.







A nice BMW bike right by the bathrooms.
I have to say too that I was very impressed with the clean and nice looking facilities that Griot's supplied us with.



When he fired up this car the sound was enough to scare a zombie.







Tons of Scion toasters were there.











A military transport four engined airplane flew over us probably heading to McChord Air Force base.



Below is me holding the award I won.
Thanks Vitaly for taking the pciture.



Below is Vitaly holding his award by his rig.



There was a ton more of nice Toyota 4WD rigs, Scions, Toyota cars, but I did not get pictures.
This was a very HUGE event.

I intend on making it to it next year, as this was my first time there, and I had a great time.

Lisa whipped out a blackberry/blueberry homemade pie she baked that was very good!

 

Corey finally made it!!! Congrats on the award.

Thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy the weather and good company. There is still the toys for tots event. But that is more about showing up and showing off and donating toys. No prizes for that event just bragging rights on which forum donates the most toys.

 

Cool, you got a pic of my tent deployed.

A lot of fun today, I am very glad I came.
Got on the wrong road going home, had to back track a bit.

I will try to make next years even too, and next year I will setup the ladder for the tent and have the two side doors rolled open.

My face got a tad burnt, but not to bad.
Putting on the hat helped, but I was out in the full sun for a bit before I grabbed my hat.

 

looks like a fun little get together/car show they had goin on there. man, i wish i loved closer.

 

i had a blast! happy to see everyone again and meet new folks as well!

 

yea i won something ! was alot of fun gonna try again next year

 

JDM from fjcruiserforums snagged a pic of my rig too with the tent up.

 

Looked like fun.

 

thinkin im gonna have to work my trip into this event for next year...

 

***like***

 

Anymore pics?
Chris, Vitaly, Lisa, Cody???

 

Great pics of a worthy event. Congrats on the awards, everyone! Maybe next year for me, I was picking up a new puppy in the other direction.

 

Ps The guy that helped Vitaly was Levi aka Truckfiend

He is a lurker hehe

 

Thanks Bob.
Could have made the pics look a little better if I lightened them up in Picasa, but they are raw from the GoPro.
I really dig that camera.

Yes, it would be cool if you could make it next year.

Thanks Josh, as I did not catch Levi's name there.

 

Corey I thought you were going to post the video of the "pop off" that I participated in. Also I was too busy having a good time to take pictures this year.

 

man its a shame I missed it. looks like a real fun time. I am mostly interested in the white Porsche

 

thats great, i wish there was a toyota show around here like that

 

that looks awesome

 

Uh! I'm so jealous!