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Originally Posted by Blitzgear
They were out of territory of Scion Canada rules. Scion dealerships (as all dealerships) are given a zone which any of their vehicles may go into. OpenRoad is restricted to richmond, delta, ladner, and port moody.
Spanish Banks is the zone of Jim Pattison Scion, who is also one of the major sponsors funding the meet. RevScene also has to protect it's sponsors who are creating such fun events such as this. As awesome as the car is, we cannot be unfair to our corporate sponsors. Also it's against Scion rules to be outside their regions. They were not granted permission and were also warned by Scion Canada not to attend the event via email.
If we host the summer meet in Richmond this year, OpenRoad is more than welcome to come and display any vehicles.
Hope this clears things up. Please continue to support our sponsors.
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Understood regarding the zoning issue which is why we complied and ended up parking up the hill where the car wouldn't be a part of the meet. Didn't want to step on anyones toes and we didn't know that Jim Pattison was an event sponsor until the moment we turned into the lot.
Just wanted to clear something up on our end however because the previous posts hints that we purposely ignored orders. We didn't receive an email from Scion Canada until late afternoon on Saturday. Because this email was sent on the weekend while our team was out of office, we did not become aware until it was mentioned to us during our brief conversation with the Blitzgear team.
As well, we had previously asked the RS admin team whether it would be okay for us to attend, only as enthusiast and not for promotional purposes and had received their blessings. We really only wanted to attend to show the community a unique car that hasn't been done locally yet.
Anyways, no harm no foul. Back to the pictures!