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Old 11-07-2003, 09:24 AM
Bob Parmenter Bob Parmenter is offline
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Perry, I haven't taken any pictures, too many people in the way!

Just imagine the world's biggest toy chest, then quintuple it! It is spread through several HUGE halls and entails a LOT of walking.

Just a few highlights. If your main focus is Cobra stuff, the pickin's is thin. FFR has a good size display, and Ford invited Kirkham to display one of their bare naked ladies, along with having a Daytona to view. Ford also had the 2005 Mustang GT show car on a rotating platform...........................the hired model is superfluous. One (or should I say 2) of the more intriguing Fords on display were modular V8 Focus ZX2's, one supercharged, one naturally aspirated. These are not the Kugel 5.0 swap cars, but mod motors. No glitz or glamour under the hood, I think they were going for the "factory" look. The Lightening boys have had to go back to the drawing board though because the Dodge Boys are rolling out their 500hp, Viper powered pickemup.

While there is a lot of Muscle Car/Street Rod/Sports Car equipment there, the preponderance of "stuff" is "tuner" oriented, followed by truck/SUV. A person can only take so much carbon fiber/stainless fartcan/neon light/flourescent colored everything/spoiler wing/ground effect/mega stereo/yada yada. And there must be somewhere around 62 million variations on 22-26" custom hoops, half of which must be required by law to have the rotating center spokes designed to induce vertigo. As for paint trends, it looks like a strong lean toward "satin" finish, particularly in the pewter or titanium tones. And those rat rod guys thought they had a lock on suede!

Even though the ricer stuff isn't my gig, it's fun to keep up on what's "hot". Just based on the (not inexpensive) amount of floor space, it is undeniably a very strong market.
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