Performance World Custom Car & Truck Show
Style and Horsepower Featured at the 2006 Performance World Custom Car & Truck Show Monday, February 27, 2006 (Toronto) - Performance World Custom Car & Truck Show is gearing up in preparation for another exciting exhibition, with Funkmaster Flex headlining the event. The hardcore show for car enthusiasts rides into the International Centre (6900 Airport Road) from March 10-12, 2006 with custom cars and trucks competing for $50,000 in cash and awards. The event boasts more than 600 top show cars and trucks and over 250 exhibitors, covering 350,000 square feet. With more than 4,000 hours of just fabrication, not including paint, interior and assembly, the Instigator, from Richard and Paige Udell shows amazing attention to detail from tires to engine to body. A totally revised and fully machined Hilborn fuel-injection system, updated with Accel Generation VII electronic management, was incorporated into the vehicle, along with fully polished GM Turbo 350 automatic transmission. The Instigator now puts out just under 700 horsepower. As not to ruin the stunning and brilliant exterior, a colour camera was installed in the chassis that displays on a DVD screen in the interior, eliminating the need for rearview mirrors. Summit Racing Equipment, the world's largest direct marketer of high performance parts and accessories and Denny Terzich Jr. of ProRides have created one of the highest-profile custom cars in recent memory, the Real Green Mean Machine. This 1961 Starliner is a car that symbolizes the best of Jet Age design. Sleek and powerful with two tons of steel and chrome propelled by engines that are poster children for raw American horsepower. SR61 takes the Starliner's design elements and brings them forward four decades. Modern performance hardware, including custom tube chassis, air suspension, all-aluminum big block Ford, six-speed transmission, has been combined with thousands of hours of fabrication, metalworking and assembly by the best craftsmen in the nation. Simply put, SR61 does not just push the custom car envelope - it rips it wide open. When 16 years old Chuck Schroedl was told by his parents that he could not get a Camaro, he bought what appeared to be a large, not-so-sporty car to make them happy. The '78 Impala, with a 396 engine, soon became a passion for him with the desire to make the car into a fast and stylish ride. This continual project required the aid of many friends and enthusiast over the years, including OTE Design and Fabrication who created the full-tube chassis. The old engine was ripped out and replaced with a 509 cubic inch blown and injected motor that boasts an amazing 1680 horsepower. Peter Newell's Sweet & Low, a '67 Camaro was featured at the 2005 SEMA show. It has an array of body and chassis modifications, including the complete front clip welded and smoothed with no seams. The bottom is boxed, molded and smoothed mint, with kandied and flamed graphics just like the top of the car. The dash is from a '59 Impala, and it flows into a custom console, that extends to the back and up and around the rear seats. The dash, console is kandied and flamed to match the exterior. The Big Block 502 engine with a chrome tunnel ram fuel injection, is smoothed and kandied to match the exterior. The eye-catching color is House of Kolors' Kandy Tangarine with custom colored flames and is a not-to-miss for all show-goers. "POSIES" as he is known in the Street Rod Industry, has been building cars for himself and his customers for more than 40 years. In the late 1960s POSIES created a smoother riding spring for the early Fords. By the mid 1970s, he was repeating this for other applications and introduced them to the rodding community nationwide under the banner of Super Slide Springs. This launched POSIES into the mail order side of the business, covering both cars and trucks from 1928 Fords to 1957 Chevys. Unveiled at SEMA, POSIES' '36 Aeroliner Sport, was something top of mind for him ever since working on the Streamliner. When POSIES picked up the Roadster body, he needed room in the trailer so he cut the vehicle into two halves. He then proceeded to create a frame from 13/4 tubing and moved the rear fenders forward nine inches and narrowed the body six inches. This created an elegant look for the exterior, while the 427 Dart engine gave the vehicle the muscle behind the beauty. Also featured at the SEMA show and coming to Performance World is Slither, a '65 Chevelle from Brad Jenkins. He exchanged the old dash with hand formed steel and aluminum and added twin turbo. The engine was replaced by a LT5 engine from a ZR1 Corvette, which was five inches further back than the stock engine and was taken care of with a new firewall. The engine compartment is comprised of all stainless headers on associated polished tubing, making this another must-see at the Performance World Custom Car and Truck Show. When builder/owner Jerry Kind called designer George Barris early one afternoon to tell him that he had seen a groovy-looking shark-nosed Hollywood Graham 4-door for sale on eBay, George was enthusiastic and suggested they go for the basic shark attack theme with a twist. They called it The Shark A.T.T.A.K with a "K" for "Kustom." The design immediately took shape including a dual cowl phaeton, which was channeled and sectioned as well as front and rear fenders, which fully enveloped the wheels. George envisioned a shark nose on the car with an Airlift suspension for the "slam-dunk" appearance and wrapping it an ocean blue Matrix paint scheme. The results are a must-see, completely redesigned and rebuilt, eye-catching vehicle. Don Edgerton's Dearborn Deuce ConvertibleT from Hot Rods and Horespower is the only 1932 roadster body with a completely disappearing, self contained modern convertible roof with electric side windows. It boasts all-steel construction and a Haartz cloth top. Its awards include SEMA 2005 Best New Product Award (Hot Rod Category) and SEMA 2005 Runner-Up Award in Engineering. Performance World's title sponsor is Concept on Wheels, while other sponsors include Castrol, Whetter Oaklin Insurance, Performance Auto & Sound Magazine, GM (General Motors of Canada), JL Audio, Kicker, Summit Ford, Meguiar's, Rust Check, PRN (Performance Racing News), Sport Action, FUT-U, Classic Car Insurance, Orange County Choppers, Bright Work Sign Co. and Pizza Pizza. Performance World offers a view into the latest and hottest in the customization of cars and trucks. The show is produced by Pro-Sho, a management company started in 1984, responsible for several popular shows including Fashion North, BizBash and others. Regular Admission: Adults $18.00; Youth (6 to 12) $5.00; and Children (under 5) free when accompanied by an adult. Admission discount coupons will be available on the website at www.performanceworldcarshow.com <http://www.performanceworldcarshow.com/> . Show Hours: Friday, March 10 - 10am to 10pm; Saturday, March 11 - 10am to 10pm; Sunday, March 12 - 10am to 6pm.