Best Of Show

HOT IMPORT NIGHTS : SEATTLE

When Hot Import Nights strolls into Seattle, typically two cars end up battling it out for Best of Show honors. Earlier in the year, Kelly Williams, one of the two competitors, took home the Best of Show honors when HIN first rolled into town. His Civic has been cleaning house for several years up in the Northwest and there hasn’t been a Honda to touch what he has built. Until Dara Sordano showed up and surprised them all— including Williams.

This young lady made the long journey with her Civic all the way up from California. She was hungry for some good Northwest competition and she was not disappointed. Going in, she wanted to learn how her Civic would fare in a new environment.

The first thing we noticed was how clean and well-built the car was. Obviously, also others noticed , because it blew everyone away. Of course, the car had to be stout to beat out Williams’ Civic.

Sordano’s Honda was sporting a complete candy-red paint job, custom body armor, slick bodywork, Lamborghini doors and 19-inch chrome Racing Hart wheels. And those were only a few of the mods on the exterior. In addition to taking home the coveted Best of Show honors, Sordano also cleaned house in the 2-Door Wild class and the Best Honda Class. As if that wasn’t enough, she also won the Maxlife award for the longest distance traveled. (In case you forgot, Southern Cal is a good 20-hour drive to Seattle.) 

So, what else made this car so outstanding? Anyone who has been in the scene for any length of time knows the company STR. Well, STR happens to be Sordano’s main sponsor and it makes some killer engine parts. Besides the motor being built, her Civic also features tons of toys from STR, a full NX setup with a couple of carbon fiber bottles just for fun and enough chrome and bling-bling to be seen from space. The car is also set up on air suspension and the entire undercarriage and suspension components are chromed and painted to match the rest of the car.