[SCP] Four years
isn’t a long time in the grand scheme of
things, but when it comes to the Canadian car
show scene, they may as well be counting in dog
years.
Four years isn’t
a long time in the grand scheme of things, but
when it comes to the Canadian car show scene,
they may as well be counting in dog years. For
four years, Team SCP has pulled out all the stops
to bring Montrealers the best show in town, and
the fourth edition of Le Salon De L’auto
Sport Compact Performance (SCP4) was no different.
Whoever said that there was “no such thing
as too much of a good thing” wasn’t
living in Montreal during the summer of 2003.
With SCP impersonators coming out of the woodwork,
the Team had no choice but to go wide-open throttle
to remind the public who the number one production
company in Canada is.
Instead of engaging in a childish
pissing contest, Team SCP retaliated by putting
on the best sport compact car show in Canadian
history. The initial move was to secure the presence
of the legendary Nissan Skyline GT-R as the show’s
feature vehicle; the next was to obtain a second
Skyline for good measure. Everyone knows that
hot girls travel in packs, and the same goes with
the tuners. The owners of the two fabled Skylines
brought some other hot rides with them, amongst
them Jay Lugue’s jet-black, JDM’d RX-7
and Joe Pistone’s tuned S2000.
Speaking of quality, Boston’s
finest made the trip up from Beantown, with Team
Imminence and Hi-Tek rolling hard and deep. Both
crews took home serious hardware as John Sry took
home the JDM Award while Santi Vee picked up the
2nd place trophy in the Toyota Wild Class and
Kiet Hong won in the RSX Wild class with his Veilside/Turbo’d
Acura, making Team Imminence three-for-three in
the trophy hunt. Hi-Tek’s first trip to Montreal
was easily the most attention grabbing appearance
of the show, as Nahn Nguyen took first in the
Acura Integra 94+ Wild class, by far the most
competitive category at SCP4. Nahn’s trophy
lined up nicely with Sean and Tommy Tran’s
awards for BMW Wild and Mercedes Wild, respectively.
Not only did the three Hi-Tek members win their
classes; Nguyen went on to win 4th place Best
Of Show and Tommy Tran’s Mercedes taking
home the top prize, 2003 Best Of Show.
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SCP4’s
ability to draw the hottest rides from across
the East Coast by no means meant that the
locals were shut out in the Show ‘N’
Shine. Peter K.’s 300ZX and the Silvia
Twins from Automotion; Alex Hertzog and
Greg Kataroyan continued their dominance
of the Nissan classes. There was a time
when the Girl Racer category existed to
encourage participation by female tuners.
Nathalie Mayer rendered the Girl Racer award
obsolete by earning the top prize in one
of the most hotly contested classes; Civic
Hatch Mild.
No longer just a car show,
Team SCP handed the production of the already
infamous Rocawear Stage Show to Malik Shaheed
and MusiquePlus, who did an outstanding
job of putting on a show to remember, from
Quebec pop sensation Eve to the Erobec Bikini
Contest. One lucky SCP staffer was treated
to a birthday-lapdance by no less than six
bikini-clad beauties onstage as thousands
watched in envy.
Such a high quality show
would have gone to waste if no one showed
up to see it. Fortunately this was far from
the case. When all was said and done, in
a year of show saturation and imitation,
Le SalonDe L’auto Sport Compact Performance
4 managed to attract no less than 55 000
spectators over the three days, once again
proving that it takes more than an unlimited
budget to throw an event of this magnitude.
Stay tuned as Team SCP gears up for their
five-year-anniversary; SCP5:OVERDRIVE. Team
SCP’s five-year celebration is shaping
up to be their finest production yet. |
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