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Cars at Lincoln Common by @lets.drive.312

 
 

2024 Calendar of Events

  • June 23: HDC Day // Chicago

    8:00 am - 10:00 am

    Midwest Performance Cars

    2105 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612

  • August 24: Checkeditout Chicago

    9:00 am - 3:00 pm

    Gridlife / Car Club

    4300 North Knox, Chicago, IL 60641

  • September 28th: Cars at Lincoln Common

    9:30 am - 1:00 pm

    Lincoln Common

    2345 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614

 

All event attendees consent to photo and video to be used for promotional purposes by Lowend Garage Chicago, LLC and all its event partners.

 

 Events, It’s What We Do.

Checkeditout Monterey, photo by @thefeaturebymatthew

Events We Brought You 

 

Cars at Lincoln Common, photo by @lets.drive.312

Lowend presents famed Porsche photographer Bart Kuykens at Midwest Performance Cars on March 23rd at 6pm. Kuykens is making his first ever stop in Chicago (March 21st - 24th) as part of his national photography tour and will be signing, The Essential Love Affair, at MPC. Books will be available for purchase. Meet, greet and be sure to drive your Porsche to Fulton Market.

Kuykens has limited shoot availability, reach out to us for all inquiries.

Copies of The Essential Love Affair will be available at a special event price of $125, while supplies last.

bartkuykens.com

Lowend Takeover: The #CarParty at Alpha Garage

Saturday evening April 30th, Lowend Garage Chicago is creating our first ever #carparty. After an eventful 2021, unveiling our concepts like the 'Guest Spots' being part of Hagerty's CARnivale, and another successful Checkeditout, we are starting the 2022 driving season in style. What is a car party? A car party breaks out after any rallye or drive, if you are with the right people. An impromptu party, but this time we are cutting right to the sweet spot, arrive at Alpha Garage and let the festivities begin.

Music, food and being surrounded by some of the best cars in Chicago, along with the coolest people.

Thanks to the powerful Jeremy Cliff for the use of his Jaguar 120 image.

Alpha Garage

Food Truck: Chicago Lunchbox Haymarket Brewing Midwest Performance Cars

Roads United Lyndon French Only1Schu Cars & Coffee Oak Park Cold Brewed Cars & Coffee Olsen Motorsports McLaren Chicago Mouse Motors Competition Motorsport

Antigravity Batteries Federal Moto Burdi Clothing Noel Mercado Urban Billy Radiator Grill Store Panorama Collection Black Dog Speed Shop Porsche Downtown Chicago

Laps Track Days Charles Heidsieck Future Classic Team Stradale Furlan Guitars

Rohanna Wheels

 You Repped Lowend at the First Annual Hagerty CARnivale at Autobahn Country Club. And We Won the Hagerty Sponsorship!

Thanks to everyone who came out and to all our friends at PCA-Chicago for placing right behind us.

Lowend Garage Chicago: No Membership Required, Nor Offered.

2021 Drive to the Rock

  Have you heard of the Rock? Did you know that the first American auto race was held in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day in 1865? To commemorate the race the American Autosport Centennial Committee commissioned ‘The Rock’ in 1995 to mark the start and finish of the race in Jackson Park. Six cars entered the race, four gasoline powered and two electric, which took them North to Evanston and back. Internal combustion driver J. Frank Duryea won the race in 7 hours and 53 minutes. That’s really cookin’!

Cars and Coffee Oak Park have been doing their own drive to the Rock on Thanksgiving Day. We were lucky enough to join them on last year’s run.  Sign up to join us this for year’s Drive to the Rock. Our morning starts promptly at 7:45 am (1026 North Blvd Oak Park, IL 60301). Due to the Rock's relocation during Obama Library construction, we will drive to an alternate location: the Museum of Science and Industry SOUTH Lot. 1800 Columbia Dr Chicago, IL 60637. The drive concludes at 10:30 am.

Special thanks to one of our favorite photographers Michael Radosta for lending the 964 image for our use. @mradostaphoto

Come join our 'Guest Spot' at Cars & Coffee Oak Park.  Click the image to show us your car with either a photo url or your Instagram. We will be posting various rides at @lowendgaragechicago as we lead up to the event on July 25th. As a thank yo…

Our 'Guest Spot' at Cars & Coffee Oak Park.

Click the image to show us your car with either a photo url or your Instagram.
We will be posting various rides at @lowendgaragechicago as we lead up to the event on July 25th.
As a thank you for joining us, we will have Lowend stickers on hand for all those who have signed up.
We love our Pcars, but this event is open to any marque.
Let's diversify!

 

Click Image to RSVP. Our friends at Hagerty Garage + Social have asked us to attend their next Cars & Caffeine, our second ‘Guest Spot’ of the season. This event it open to all makes and models. Post event drive to Illuminated Brew Works with a slated arrival for Noon. Look for various cars to be featured on our Instagram leading up to the event. See you at Garage + Social!

Garage + Social

Our friends at Hagerty Garage + Social have asked us to attend their next Cars & Caffeine, our second ‘Guest Spot’ of the season. This event it open to all makes and models. Post event drive to Illuminated Brew Works with a slated arrival for Noon. Look for various cars to be featured on our Instagram leading up to the event. See you at Garage + Social!

The Lowend Cup

The Lowend Cup was created in 2018 as a series within a series for regulars at PCA Chicago autocross, Porsche and non-Porsche owners alike. It takes participation in 4 of the 5 annual events to qualify. For scoring we use SCCA Solo Pax Index. The driver with the best pax time is awarded a 100 points, each driver behind has points deducted based on how much slower their best run was compared to the leader.

With a shortened season in 2021, each driver must have completed all four events. 13 drivers qualified, with three driving BMW, Infiniti and Volkswagen, the rest were Porsches. In order of placing, the top ten are Bill ‘Reaper’ Fitzsimmons, Buz Browne, Jenna Samp, Noel Selewa, Tim Crowley, Gordon Zhao, Chris Racelis, Brian Jackson, Don Kreienbrink and Phil Kivarkis. The Reaper is the first repeat Cup winner.

2020 Lowend Cup Results

(Shortened Season)

2018 Innagural Lowend Cup

First: Doug Metzel 400 Points

Second: Bill Fitzsimmons 396.254

Third: Tom Miller 396.143

Forth: Keith Utes 395.255

Fifth: Tim Crowley 393.383