[Saturday
June 28th 2003]
Throwing a sport compact car show like Sport Compact
Nights in a city that’s never had one has
both its advantages and disadvantages.
Throwing a sport compact
car show like Sport Compact Nights in a city that’s
never had one has both its advantages and disadvantages.
On one hand, if the show goes well, you can take
pride in saying you have tried and succeeded at
doing something that has never been done before.
On the other hand, if the show fails, you risk
being run out of town and ruining any possibility
of hosting a show in this uncharted territory
ever again. Or at least until the locals forget
just how bad the show was. Overall, just not the
“sociable” thing to do. After coming
off a successful launch of the tour in Montreal,
the bar had been set and the desire to carry that
momentum from Montreal over to Halifax was paramount.
Thanks to careful planning,preparation
and a ton of help from Elliott LeBlanc of LowMotion.org
and Xtreme Motorsports’ Lenny Boudreau,
the Halifax edition of the BFGoodrich Sport
Compact Nights National Tour might just go down
as the greatest Team SCP production ever. Despite
a change of date and the Nickelback concert
one night before, the public showed up in droves,
as did some of Atlantic Canada’s finest
sport compact cars, some from as far as Prince
Edward Island.
From start to finish, Sport
Compact Nights provided show-goers with a high-octane,
high-energy event, keeping the public entertained
throughout the day with breakers, live DJ’s
spinning back and forth on Pioneer’s new
CJD1000’s, all the while holding product
giveaways at sponsor’s booths and onstage.
The public’s lust for beautiful cars, beautiful
women, courtesy of TYC Elegante and free stuff
kept Exhibition Park filled to capacity as the
lineup at the ticket booths reached deep into
the venue parking lot right through till closing
time.
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Highlights of the show
included Streetglow’s re-vamped Subaru
WRX with maxed out lighting and Spider-Man
themed sound system. Chris Nankoo’s
lowrider truck stopped spectators in their
tracks at the SportCompact.ca booth.(Actually,
the lovely Kymberly Mei probably had a
lot to do with that too!) BF Goodrich
featured Atlantic Canada’s top vehicle,
Serge Leger’s chameleoned-out turbo
‘Teg from the lobster capital of
Canada, Shediac. However, the surprise
of the show must have been New Brunswick’s
Xtreme Motorsport orange H22A swapped,
turbocharged Integra who took home top
honours as “Best of Show”.
The second stop on the
BFGoodrich Sport Compact Nights National
Tour went down on June 29 at Halifax’s
Exhibition Park and as you can tell from
the pics, it was “some” awesome.
It looks like we may need to expand to
another city in the Maritimes for next
year’s tour, Moncton perhaps? In
any case, Maritimers proved that they
could hang with the best and that sport
compact fever is alive and well, even
in Nova Scotia. In 2004, Team SCP will
definitely be going, going, back, back,
to Hali, Hali! See you all in Calgary
for part 3 of the Sport Compact Nights
Tour!
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