Performance World 2006 – From Another Perspective

In the last five years we’ve covered the Performance World Custom Car & Truck Show four times. The only reason we didn’t cover it in 2000, is that Canadian Rodder was established after the show.

In years one through three, we attended as media. In year four we attended as media and with a car. This year, our perspective was little different as Canadian Rodder participated as an exhibitor promoting both our 1932 Ford Roadster 75th. Anniversary car as well as our 2007 Canadian Hot Rod Tour under the “2007: A Deuce Odyssey” banner.

That being said, we had a fab weekend as usual. The organization of the show was top notch, interest was high for both our project car as well as the Tour and it’s a great opportunity to interact with members of our hobby.

When you participate as an exhibitor (versus a spectator), and if you’re fortunate enough to have the opportunity to talk to as many people as we did, you would be surprised by the distance people travel to attend. Amazing really.

As mentioned earlier, it was a good weekend overall – didn’t get to spend as much time trolling cars as usual but I took advantage of the quiet before the storm on Sunday morning and traveled the halls with camera and tripod and captured a nice overview of Performance World 2006. There was definitely a nice cross section of vehicles in all halls and some tasty feature stuff like Posies Aeroliner (I’ve got the build book on this car. Simply looking at the car in its finished state doesn’t do justice to what lies beneath and the efforts at achieving the finished product – regardless of what you think of the car).

One of the other highlights of the weekend was the special breakfast to honour Performance Worlds’ outgoing Larry King. There were some fine, deserving, tributes. The show manager torch passes to Brenda Brough. Good luck Brenda. You’re already doing an amazing job.

Oh yeah, biggie next year in celebration of the ’32. We’ll be there. See the “Deuces Wild” link on the main page. Until then…

Follow the slideshow link below and look for highlights from our display near the end.