7/7/2016
When someone says 7's Day, you automatically think of 大黒, it doesn't matter what part of the world you're from. 7's Day is the most anticipated article on Speedhunters for me. It's the one article i look forward to reading all year because the gathering of RX-7 owners on this day in Japan is legendary. Although i've come to see that Rinku 7's Day is perhaps the more organized and well attended event, 7's Day on 7/7 is the more well known one outside of Japan. All previous years on 7's Day, all we did to celebrate would be to share a picture of our RX-7's and drool over all the pictures other people posted. But late last year, a few buddies of mine, Edwin, Prav, and Ted, decided it was time we had a proper 7's Day here in NYC. It would be the first of it's kind in our area, or possibly in the U.S. that we know of.
The long awaited day arrived and the plan was to meet at our usual spot on 28th and 11th. The guys coming in from Jersey decided to meet up at a gas station right before Holland Tunnel.
In case you were wondering, yes, that's a 3-rotor in that 1st Gen!
From there we traveled in together. Man, hearing the sounds of the rotary engine echo through the tunnels is nirvana.
Photo by John Mascarvinas
Photo by JLiu Photography
The best part about 7's Day is seeing all the RX-7's together, and when we pulled into our meeting spot, we were not disappointed. A lot more RX-7s showed up than we had expected. There were even guys coming from Boston and Albany, NY to attend.
Photo by JLiu Photography
Unfortunately, i didn't get to meet as many new people as i would've liked as i spent the whole time hanging out with people i already knew. But what can i say, if your friends have cars like Phil's RE-Amemiya AC037 FD, you would know what i mean!
Photo by JLiu Photography
Photo by Emil Blanco
We're lucky to have so many photographer friends who are willing to come to our gatherings to capture the memories on our behalf. Since their photos are 100x better than any i could've taken, i am mostly using their photos for this entry.
Photo by JLiu Photography
Photo by @d.blackman
The plan was to do two separate cruises, but we ended up not being able to go through Times Square because of a BLM protest/rally. We ended up doing a loop down West Side Highway, through Battery Tunnel, and up the FDR for only a short distance.
Photo by Prime NYC
Being able to cruise the streets of NYC with a bunch of RX-7's was truly a magical moment. RX-7's in America are already so rare as is, but having over 20 of them in one of the greatest cities of the world, not normally known for cars, made 7's Day the event of the year.
Photo by @d.blackman
We ended the cruise downtown by City Hall, where we said our final goodbye's and the cars started dispersing.
All-in-all we had an amazing night that will be hard to forget. Granted, it was a little messy at times with people not knowing where we were going and some people getting lost or separated from the rest of the group, but being able to look to the left, right, back and in front and only seeing RX-7s made it all worth it. Although we didn't manage to get a picture with all the cars, we did get a group shot of all the people, which in the the end, is what these gatherings are really about right?
Photo by Prime NYC
For more coverage of 7's Day NYC, be sure to check out PRIME NYC, which Edwin and Prav run, and also happens to be the guys who organized this event: http://primenyc.co/7s-day-nyc-rotary-revival/
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