Welcome to your newest automotive outlet, delivered every Friday lunch, just for people in DFW who love cars. We’re not building another cars & coffee alert system or Instagram feed of cool spots around the city… Though we will have some of that.

This is about building a richer automotive community in Dallas, and doing so collaboratively. 

Someone recently asked how we're different from Park Up Front (which we use and love, btw). 

The answer is simple - we're not just telling you where cars and coffee are happening. 

We're sharing the stories behind the builds, the sacrifices made for dream cars, and the adventures that shape our automotive lives. 

We're bringing you exclusive deals on cars and parts, news about barn finds to new cars, and maybe even some project cars we can build together.

As I said above, this is a collaborative project. 

Want more event coverage? Insider access to launches? Your stories featured? Car reviews? Tell me. This newsletter will evolve based on what you want to see.

I run this as a one-person show alongside my day job, purely for the love of cars and community. Each subscriber matters, and I'm humbled you're here. 

This isn't just a newsletter - it's the start of something bigger for the DFW car scene.

Here’s what’s inside DCC 001:

1. Winner Of The Weekly $100 Gas Card Prize

2. Events this weekend

3. The Origin Story Of Dallas Car Culture (and the Jag that saved my life)

4. A Poll On What YOU Want From This

5. Our Community Member Of The Week

6. Can’t Miss Content

Now, let's get this race started.

Weekly $100 Gas Car Winner!

We were being totally serious about giving away free gas every week if you refer your friends. Just need 2 referrals to enter. Each additional referral gets you more entries, no purchase necessary.

This week, the prize goes to Fazil H!

We’ll shoot the winner an email and if they’re down to meet up, we’ll take a picture and include it here for next week’s issue!

For the curious, we’re keep it simple and give you a $100 prepaid Visa.

Use it for gas, use it for parts, use it to get donuts and coffee tomorrow at one of the meets.

Until our finance department (Cats named Mango and Peeve) tell us to stop, we’re going to be doing this every week.

The Link Ups

No good local automotive newsletter would be good without info on the events that are happening, and that’s what we’re kicking off with today.

Our events this week are all listed on ParkUpFront, which I highly recommend you download!

Tonight's Meets

(Friday, Feb 7)

Cityline Car Meet Under the Highway

Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Location: 1300 N President George Bush Hwy, Richardson, TX 75082 Price: Free

DCC Notes: Friday nights with folks pushing some serious power through the city. If you're not planning on being up early tomorrow for C&C, go cruise with this crew tonight (and be safe).

Reavers Taco Fridays

Time: 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM Location: Fuzzys Taco Shop, 561 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080 Price: Free 

DCC Notes: Dallas East Side car club meeting up tonight, with some tacos… that’s got to be a good time. Smaller event, but worth checking out if you're in the area and want to start participating in the car culture in the area. All rides welcome.

Tomorrow's Meets (Saturday, Feb 8)

Classics vs Exotics

Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Location: 1 Texas Harley Way, Bedford, TX 76021 Price: $15.00 (CARD) Spots: 

DCC Notes: Our favorite part about car culture is our ability to debate literally anything. American vs. European. NA V8s vs. Turbo 4 bangers. The debate continues with some high value, high profile rides across decades and continents. Spots are filling up fast, this should be a fun one. Classics vs. Exotics is where we will be tomorrow morning.

Piston Haus | Cars & Coffee

Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Location: 4954 Benbrook Blvd, Benbrook, TX 76116 Price: Free Spots: 60/125 available

DCC Notes: One of the higher profile Cars and Coffee around DFW, hosted by Piston Haus. Solid 48 minutes away from Downtown Dallas, but the cars and people that pull up never disappoint.

The Jaguar F-Type was launched during a pivotal moment in my life, when I was about to start college.

Lamborghinis are my favorite, but when Jaguar launched the F-Type, something clicked. Jeremy Clarkson's review, that engine sound, the V6S with 380 horsepower in such a small package – it was special. 

I knew I wanted the car, and I knew that the only way to get it was to forge my own path.

Ten years. That's how long it took. Years of trying to start businesses, going broke, drowning in debt, moving cities. Built an interesting life along the way. Now I've got an incredible fiancée, live in downtown Dallas, have an amazing career that lets me build this community.

January 2023 – bought my F-Type. Completely on my own. Heavily depreciated, sure, but it's mine. It's everything: fast when it needs to be, loud when I want it to be, full of character. My spine shatters every time I drive it, and my fiancée's banned it from long trips, but I love getting into it every single time. I have a bumper sticker on it that says Not Fast, Just Loud.

That’s exactly what it is.

For a while there, I was losing my love for cars. Thought maybe it was time to "grow up." A few series of bad exes and the inevitable pressures life puts on you as you navigate your late 20s. None of my day-to-day friends got cars. They thought it was an expensive hobby at best or the sure path to financial ruin on average. 

I happened to find the deal on this car one weekend, and I bought it sight unseen. Thankfully, I have a partner that was comfortable with such a big decision so quickly. It was delivered on her birthday, which she’ll never let me forget. But she loves it too.

This car brought me back. Got me going to Cars & Coffee again, engaging with the community. Driving my car around town, top down, reminded me that the point of being a petrolhead is that it doesn’t have to make sense to anyone but us. We’re the only ones who are going to get it. We are the weird ones. And that is okay. Because we love cars.

Two years later, here we are, building Dallas Car Culture together.

The 2014 F-Type wasn't just a car when it came out – it became the physical representation of believing in myself, of all the sacrifice and hard work. But more than that, it's brought us here, building this community together. That's what makes it special. That's why I love cars.

We're the only ones who really get it. Most see transport, A to B. We see spirit, culture, story. That's what Dallas Car Culture is about.

Have a story you want to share? Reply to this email. We’ll feature community stories every week.

As mentioned at the start, Dallas Car Culture is a collaborative community. In order for us to bring you the best content possible every week, we need to know what you actually want.

Vote in this poll so we know what to focus our efforts on.

If what you want isn’t shown here, reply to this email and tell us - we’ll listen.

We want to spotlight community members every week. 

This week, we want to shoutout one of our Instagram friends @proelitecustumz. 

Here’s why: when we were scrolling through our followers, we would click into every profile and see what kind of content they were sharing. One of my favorite parts about this particular individual is that they are a mobile mechanic that services the entirety of the DFW Metroplex. 

They had a specific hashtag called #wepullup. Being the goofball that I am, I immediately latched on to that hashtag and realized how sick would it be if we had #wepullup stickers. Will make a small batch of 50 and send them out for free, reply to this email with your mailing address if you want one.

But that's why this is the spotlight of the week. 

 @proelitecustumz is interesting human being who was very polite when I messaged him on Instagram.

#WePullUp

Our favorite place to go car spotting is Highland Park Village. It is very hard to go there and not see something absolutely insane. 

For example, We’ve seen a handful of Aventador SVJs parked next to a $10M Ferrari. We’ve seen Broncos and Jeeps ready for rock crawling events. All sick rides are welcome.

This week, we became pretty obsessed with the work of photographer @donleycam.

That man is posted up in Highland Park Village more than we are, and has a talent. 

Take a look at this 911… unreal. 

Someone more interested in P-cars than us is going to have to tell us if that’s a GT3 RS or something else…

Don’t forget: Refer 2 people and get entered to win $100 Gas Card, every week.

No purchase necessary. We’re seriously giving away $100 every week, and all you have to do is share Dallas Car Culture with your friends.

Thank you for reading.

Thank you so much for reading 001 of Dallas Car Culture.

This is a passion project of ours, and we make this not because we get money or because we want fame.

We make this because we love cars and we want to meet more people that love cars around DFW.

We hope that over time we get to meet you all in person and talk about what cars we love and why.

We hope this brought you a little bit of happiness today.

Stay safe. Buckle up. New issue every Friday.

We'll see on the road.