The private Yonaka meets have been held once or twice a year for the past 3 years. It’s an event where our larger friend group meet, talk about each others builds and just have a good time. The meet often leads to all of us driving in a convoy to the nearest burger restaurant on our way to location X for some nightly activities.
This event was held in collaboration with some friends/local drifters who’d held a private BBQ event the year before where the main focus on the event was the later activities rather than the meet itself. This time we combined the two events for a nice, closed of event at a private location with a burger food-truck on the spot, that lasted long into the night.

Photography: Jonatan Burhoff @just.burhoff
Text: Lardel

All of my Yonaka meets (other than the Yonaka shows at Vicious Delicious) have been private for the sole reason of keeping the meet calm for everybody. Some chill music in the background, good quality cars and a place where no one shows themselves as a bigger and better person than the rest.

The plus side of keeping the events small is also that it’s easier to find a private spot to have the event at, so that we don’t have to take up a whole parking lot at the local grocery store and drag unnecessary attention.

You surround yourself with likeminded people, so naturally the event is filled with japanese cars and stylish and driftready E36’s. But you can arrive in practically what ever you want, like a classic Dodge or a slammed Volvo wagon, as long as you arrive in a good mood (cheesy enough for yah?).

The weather was perfect for a mid-Swedish-summer meet. Sun was out and the temperature was neither too hot nor cold for tshirts or sweatshirts.

Look how happy Eerki was to pick up one of the last pairs of this years floor mat-batch.

Always lovely to see people having a good time at these events.

This is by far the most crazy car that will ever attend a Yonaka meet. The owner was on his way home from work when he drove past the event, and decided to go home and switch cars just to stunt on all of us.

This is a fully custom, home built machine powered by an Audi RS6 V8. Street legal race car or gravel scoop? Not sure but it works as both.
If you want to learn all about the build you can check out the owners 99 pages long build forum here.