2013 Chicago DUB Car Show / Event....

[bpd1151]

Attention any and all fellow EcoBoost owners/enthusiasts living in the Chicagoland / WI / NW Indiana area(s)......

This Saturday, June 22nd, I will be participating in the Monster Energy, Toyota, WGCI FM Sponsored Chicago 2013 DUB Car Show Event / Tour.

This event is being held indoors, at the McCormick Place Convention Center, located in the heart of downtown Chicago, on the lake front.

Doors open to the public at 3pm, and the show commences at 9pm.

Door ticket prices are $20 p/person.

Feel free to come out and meet me, and have the opportunity to view my moderately modified, multiple award winning 2010 Taurus SHO, along with a slew of other hot cars, hot models, and world renowned music industry artists and performers this Saturday!

More details can be found by following this link below:

http://www.dubshowtour.com/home/tour-stops/chicago2103

Hope to see some of you there as I know this will be yet another outstanding event, sure to leave all attendees in awe at the large amount of incredibly beautiful, modified cars, both foreign and domestic!

I will be grouped with my local car club "SHOCKWAVE CUSTOMS" and we have one of THE LARGEST CAR CLUBS with 40 individual vehicles slated to attend.

I'll report back here with post show pictures, as well as hopefully yet another well deserved piece of hardware (trophy) afterwards.

Please come out if time permits!

Mike

 

[Dave]

Knock 'em dead Mike!

 

[sho__fast]

Be sure to post a bunch of pictures of the event. Good luck.

 

[SHOCH]

Frickin workin.

 

[bpd1151]

Pre-show, load in, set up pics.....

PRE-SHOW, LOAD-IN, SET-UP PICS......

Wow! Just escaped the severe weather that rolled through yesterday, prior to official "roll-in".

Most of us, including myself, had to burn off fuel as the Fire Marshall was only allowing entrants to have 1/8th of a tank of fuel, or less.

We had a blast as we were all drag racing up and down several times, and I had won all of the races with the exception of a heavily modded 'Vette that sprayed nitrous on me.

Hahaha......

The gasps and comments afterwards (about my car) were along the lines of....

"Holy **** I can't believe that's a Taurus!"
"What are you running (as far as fuel) we could smell like racing fluid"
"Dude that's insane, we never would've thought a Taurus can be like that"

......and on and on. Good times.

Anyhow, I captured 85 total pre-show pics yesterday. I won't post all 85 here, but here's the link to my Photobucket abum where you can all view tem on your own.

http://s229.photobucket.com/user/bpd1151/library/2013%20DUB%20Chicago%20Tour?sort=3&page=1

I walked around and captured these about 1/2-way through the roll-in period, and only about 1/2 the entrants had arrived at that time.

I'll capture more today and re-post later.

Here's a couple of mine just for ****'s and giggles...... Enjoy!

Positioned, and partially set up myself:





Drag Racing Pit-Row..... hahaha:





A shot of Chi-Town's skyline from inside of McCormick Place Convention Center:



Wish me luck. Lot's of insane cars here. Show officially begins today. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Either way, looks like this'll be yet another memorable event.

 

[intimdatr]

Gawd i love your car! Good luck looks like youve got some real competition.

 

[bpd1151]

Well..... good news is, I ended up taking a 3rd Place Trophy for "Outstanding 4DR".

The bad news is/was, that DUB Staff openly admitted to not having the foresight to break down the awards into more distinct categories (such as by MFG'er, I.E. Ford, Chevy, Dodge, etc.) as a result, there were over 70 competitors in my category of "Mild 4DR".

So I guess to walk away with a 3rd Place Trophy out of 70 plus competitors, at a show of this magnitude, I consider myself thankful.





Thanks to my friend Ginger, for having made the trek out to this event and working my car as a model for a period of time. Very grateful for her talents as well, and she reports that she was "successful" in promoting new business for herself as a result of doing this show.






I added more pictures in the same Photobucket album that I linked y'all to previously (about an addt'l 70 pics or so.....) most were of cars I hadn't captured during the previous day's "roll-in" and a good chunk were of Ginger modeling both my car, and her having taken a couple of shots with the owner of Shockwave Customs heavily modified, blue Corvette.

So have yourselves a lil looksee loo when time permits!

 

[Dave]

Nice showing Mike. Most of those other cars are way over done for my taste.

 

[SHOCH]

Great job Mike, but be careful, Gingers have no soul.

 

[SHOdded]

Congratulations, Mike! Little do they know how special a car they had in their show.

 

[Michelle]

Any more pics? Without the girl, please.

 

[bpd1151]

Umm..... I thought like 140+ pics was fairly ample. :braincramp:

So, since the show is over, & the SLR packed comfortably away.....

Nope. No more for now. Although my photographer pal's been bugging me lately to schedule another shoot with him.

Therefore Michelle, for you, I'll be sure to keep the community posted.

 

[sho__fast]

Congrats on the 3rd place.

 

[Michelle]

I didn't see that you updated the Photobucket link. Oops.

 

[platoribs]

Quite an accomplishment Mike, I'm sure you're very proud.