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Event Coverage: Hot Phoenix Nights - The "Pavilions" Meet

Hot days fade into hot nights with even hotter rides!

By Melissa Spiering
Photography by the author

I love finding unplanned auto gatherings when I'm on the road. This past weekend I took a trip to Phoenix Arizona where temperatures start reaching 101 in the middle of the day and the only relief from the heat consists of AC or a quick dip in the pool with SPF45 caked on my skin.

Saturday evening cooled to a nice 89 degrees and I headed out to meet up with other auto enthusiast to hang out for the evening. I was invited to an impromptu auto show where anything goes.

What's known the weekly "Pavilions" meet is a weekly tradition around these parts and has been going on for a few years. Every thing from hot-rods, Hondas, crouch-rockets, off-road trucks and jet-engine powered fire trucks come to show-off and hand out in the parking lots. Patrons cursed the parking lot by what they came in or meandered around by foot.

Editors Note: The "Pavilions" meet is located off the 101 loop off the Indian Bend exit in the Pavilions Shopping Center.

Check out these photos from the meet!




















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