Saturday, June 20th, 2009 : Automotive, Events

Spo-Com Show

Its always a nice way to start the day with a drive down Pacific Coast Highway – the sun shining bright and the Pacific Ocean sparkling and blue. The conditions were like this when I headed from Huntington Beach to Long Beach for the annual Spo-Com show at the Long Beach Convention Center to sign posters for EBC Brakes and talk about their products and company.

It had been a while since I had worked at a 100% tuner/import show, and let me tell you it is much spicier than a classic car show. There were numerous DJ’s spinning on the decks, Go-Go dancers on the stage, and bikini models everywhere. In fact, D-Sport was holding a model competition right across from our EBC Brakes booth. We witnessed approximately 75 import models test shoot for the cover of the magazine, and I’m pretty sure we saw every possible pose there is to strike!

There was lots of foot traffic and serious buyers and consumers. Many people told us they had seen EBC Brakes’ ads and been referred to EBC Brakes by friends and race car drivers, but hadn’t seen us at many events, and thought that EBC was strictly a UK company. I was very happy to tell them that EBC Brakes has headquarters in Los Angeles and just moved to a bigger, better building where the 5 and the 405 meet. In addition, they have a newly designed website (www.ebcbrakes.com) where consumers can research, shop, and purchase EBC Brakes & products for their cars.

Its always good to catch up with old friends, and I ran into Formula Drift driver Kyle Mohan (www.kylemohanracing.com) and his Father Joe. Kyle’s was there to display his Mazda RX-8 drift car in the Mazda booth.

I also ran into some friends from way back, Michael Griffen (www.caraudiochannel.com) and Ed Arguelles (extremeautofest.com) who were rockin’ ‘n rollin’ covering the event.

Also a shout out and thanks to all the Face Book followers who showed their support by coming to the event and hanging with me at the show for a bit – yup, yup!