Pics & story from the March 9th-11th Megaspeed Car show:
Well I feel I must start this out with the honest truth here; This was the first show in a LONG time where the whole aftermarket industry worked together to FINALLY put on a good show.
I was sorely disappointed to miss this show. Thankfully all our guys handed in detailed reports with tons of shots of the whole show after the fact and were tweeting and posting as the weekend went on.
All in all it was a great show, not because it was one of the best attended shows in a while (which really shows that this market is back on track) but because this show represented the whole custom market, not just one industry segment (e.g. "imports" "muscle" "truck" etc).
There were some truly beautiful cars, in the import section the new stance craze was all the rage with vehicles stretched & poked all over the hall. On top of that there were some very serious displays (especially from DMCC, SLC Magazine, Nextmod, TooFast, and of course from the Northside Autosports team) and a TON of very clean project cars. From flat back turbo RX-7's, S13's to IS's which left us nostalgic for the time when drifting was an unheard of thing and debate on Fwd, Awd or Rwd was the most important topic we could discuss at our local timmies parking lot.
The muscle car, exotic, and hot rod, etc sections were a whole other level then what you usually see. From crazy "lead sled" rods, literally sitting on the ground (such beauty could bring a tear to ones eye..) with skulls put in the most subtle of places with HUGE big blocks to numbers matching Cuda's, Challengers, and classic Mustangs/Camaros. We also ran by a ton of truly phenomenal (classic and contemporary) Vettes. All of which made the whole team drool and really made the most staunchest of "import guys" questions their loyalties.
From an industrial stand point, everyone you can imagine was present at this show from the larger clubs in Ontario and Quebec (too many great teams to name), to premier builders like John Wakley, owner of SLC Magazine (Carlos Potito), the PasMag team to professional DMCC drivers (signing autographs all weekend). Celebrity marshall duties was handled by Mike Holmes of Holmes on Holmes on HGTV. Lastly you can't help but thank all the lovely models who made the show just that much more appealing.
Here are some un-edited (raw) shots from the weekend!
See you at next years Megaspeed!
Sincerely
-- Team Northside Autosports (tm)
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