Wellington Autosalon 2003
The latest 2003 Autosalon was the first show of its kind in Wellington. And unfortunately, the show suffered a few of minor hiccups. These were brought on by the small size of the venue, the only one of its kind. However, despite this the rest of the show easily made up for this downfall.
With the trip meter reading some 900kms one way we really hoped it had all been worth it. We weren’t to be disappointed.
The event was packed with many of the finest cars from around NZs streets and even more promo girls looking just as fine. A surprising amount of cars had made the journey down from Auckland, most, demo vehicles for the various car audio manufactures. Others included the dedicated show cars EvilR32 and FreakU. It was also good to see the amount of previously unseen vehicles on show, presumably local entrants such as the orange CRX, ToyVti.
Car audio had a definite presence at the salon, even more so then the events held before. This was led by the very strong Sound Stream contingent, which consisted of four, very well built show cars. Included were the Civic previously known as Fierce, a white GTX, a 300ZX and a BMW. Each install was covered in the little Sound Stream signature Tarantulas. Another strong presence was that of Slap!, which we presume to be a Wellington based car audio retailer. Some how they seemed to have managed to put their stickers on half the cars in attendance!!
The SPL competitors were housed outside under a large tent where they could easily move to the testing area. There weren’t as many cars entered in the contest as we had hoped, and many of the big name cars such as the MadSoundz / Fusion record holders failed to show.
Unfortunately we missed much of the soundoff as we gathered information for future articles. We were there however when the beamer powered by 8 x 2500rms viper amps running 2 x digital designs 17″s pulled a massive 157db breaking the old record. And this time without blowing any subs. Congrats to Jason and his crew
So all in all was a successful event, and the trip a very worthwhile one, thanks to all those involved in the organization of the both show and audio competitions and of course the competitors themselves. These people make it their business to further the car audio and import scenes in New Zealand and deserve our praise.
