{"id":646,"date":"2012-04-18T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2015-04-25T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T02:13:54","slug":"sony-xplod-beach-hop-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/sony-xplod-beach-hop-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Xplod Beach Hop 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Whangamata <strong>Beach Hop<\/strong> has been going for about 12 years now and has grown from a 6,000 person Rock and Roll 1-day Festival to a 100,000+ (Estimated) person Festival.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ABTEC<\/strong>&#8216;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carshows.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carshows<\/strong><\/a> second year of hosting the photos for the festival on behalf of <strong>SONY NZ<\/strong>. And we are very happy to do so, because who doesn&#8217;t like Old School Muscle cars!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BH12_Poster_Web.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-649\" title=\"BH12_Poster_Web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BH12_Poster_Web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BH12_Poster_Web.jpg 440w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BH12_Poster_Web-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I could write up on how amazing &#8220;The Hop&#8221; is because I have attended three of them myself in the last ten years but will leave that for the people over at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beachhop.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beach Hop<\/a>. <\/strong>I will suggest that if you get a chance to go to a Beach Hop to do so and I guarantee you will have a amazing time.<\/p>\n<p>I have spent what most likely is to-much company time drooling over the cars from this years <strong>Beach Hop<\/strong> on <strong>Carshows<\/strong> so have decided I&#8217;ll put up a few to wet your appetite.<\/p>\n<p>My Favourite Holden<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/012.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-657\" title=\"012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/012.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Favourite Ford<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/064.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-658\" title=\"064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/064.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/064.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/064-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Favourite Bus (I have actually been in this bus)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/082.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-659\" title=\"082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/082.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/082-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Favourite Group shot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/631.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-660\" title=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/631.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/631-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to tie it off a photo of some kid (looking happy as) with the Sony Beach Hop girls<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/595.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-661\" title=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/595.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/595.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/595-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And how could he not be happy, he&#8217;s got himself a PS3 with GT5 and surrounded in girls. In my opinion that is most teenage boys dream!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carshows.co.nz\/gallery\/218\/17\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click Here<\/strong><\/a> for the whole photo-shoot (Over 1000 Photos!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carshows.co.nz\/gallery\/200\/17\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>And Here<\/strong><\/a> for last years photo-shoot<\/p>\n<p>Also\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beachhop.co.nz\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for some history on Beach Hop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whangamata Beach Hop has been going for about 12 years now and has grown from a 6,000 person Rock and Roll 1-day Festival to a 100,000+ (Estimated) person Festival. This is ABTEC&#8216;s and Carshows second year of hosting the photos for the festival on behalf of SONY NZ. And we are very happy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}