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April 17-19, 2015 TRADEX, ABBOTSFORD
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It’s showtime again! Get
ready for ‘Cars, Stars &
Guitars!’® when the 19th annual
BC Classic & Custom Car Show
rolls into the Abbotsford Tradex
Centre for three great days of
motorsport action Friday to
Sunday, April 17 to 19, 2015.
Sponsored by longtime
supporter, Lucas Oil Products
Canada, this years event will be
jam packed with more exciting
features, more entertainment
on stage and more live
motorsport demonstrations
than ever before!
Check out hundreds of radical
rides like Agostion Onorato’s ‘59
Times’, the 2014 SEMA Award
winning ‘59 Impala brought to
you by FBS Distribution. This
feature car is part of a very
special custom lowrider display
sponsored by Kaotic Kustoms.
If you’re a lowrider fan then you
won’t want to miss this year’s
show as more than a dozen of
the Pacifi c Northwest’s fi nest
lowriders will be on display
for the fi rst time at this year’s
event.
And don’t miss your only
chance to see the ‘Impostor’,
Foose Designs latest creation.
This amazing piece of rolling
automotive art was recently
awarded the highly coveted
‘Ridler’ Award at the 2015
Detroit Autorama. This is the
second year in a row that a
Canadian owned custom car
has won the ‘Ridler’ and we
are once again very honoured
to have been chosen for it’s
Canadian debut. Please join us
in congratulating Chip Foose
on his historic accomplishment
when he unveils the ‘Impostor’
to BC custom car enthusiasts
for the fi rst time on Friday at
5:30 pm.
This is also a great opportu-
nity to talk to the pros about
building your ‘dream car’ as
there will be more than 75 of
BC’s top aftermarket automo-
tive companies attending with
commercial vendor displays.
Included in that list are no less
than 16 professional custom
shops.
Along with Chip Foose, our
2015 Guest of Honour, this
is your opportunity to meet
returning celebrities Mr. George
Barris, the ‘King of Kustomizers’
and the metal master himself,
Mr. Gene Winfi eld. Brought to
you by the Great Canadian Oil
Change company, George will
once again be cruising the show
looking for his favorite car to
present the annual ‘Custom Car
of the Year Award’.
While Gene will be busy all
weekend working his metal
magic at the KMS Tools & C.A.R.
Parts sponsored ‘Custom Car
Classroom’™ when he chops
the top on another 50’s classic.
In addition to Chip, George
and Gene, we are pleased
to announce the addition of
Steve DeMan, builder of the ‘59
Times’ and custom motorcycle
painter ‘Nub’ a former regular
on American Chopper/Orange
County Choppers who will
also be on hand courtesy of
FBS Distribution. And thanks
to Pacifi c Car Art, world famous
drag racing automotive artist
Kenny Youngblood has also
been added to our ‘car star’
lineup for 2015.
Also returning for 2015 is
the very popular ‘Custom
Motorcycle Showcase’™. This
special feature is brought to
you by MountainView Harley-
Davidson in Chilliwack and is
dedicated to the two wheel
enthusiast and will feature
numerous creations by several
of the top bike builders in
the province. And if you’re a
rider yourself, you can take
advantage of free bike parking
on Cornell Street directly in
front of the Tradex for the
duration of the event.
We have live entertainment
and beer gardens with ten bands
and special performances
by CMT recording artist and
Canadian Idol fi nalist, Karen
Lee Baton.
Our ‘Fuel & Fire’™ event
continues to be a big hit
with race fans thanks to our
sponsors Eagle Motorplex and
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APRIL 17-19
CLASSIC & CUSTOM
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To say that something spectacular has happened in
the Canadian custom car world would be a large under-
statement. When Don and Elma Voth’s pseudo ‘65 Chev
Impala won the highly prestigious Ridler award at the
63rd annual Detroit Autorama held this past February, it
became only the 4th Canadian entry in the past 50 years
to receive such a great honor. As if this is not enough
to capture front page headlines, even more relevant is
the fact that Don and Elma are residents of Abbotsford,
BC. Making this story even more dynamic, it is the 2nd
consecutive Ridler award presented to the owner of a
BC car! At last years Detroit show it was JF Launier of
Desert Customs in Osoyoos, BC that reined supreme,
capturing the award with his ‘Rivision’ creation, a ‘64
Buick Riviera that he built and owns. To put this into per-
spective, having another BC owned car win this year is
comparable to having 2 residents of BC win the Nobel
prize back to back. Absolutely ground shaking news on
the Automotive world stage. For those not fa-
miliar with the Ridler award, it is presented to
a show car that is being debuted for the fi rst
time in public and is the best vehicle that em-
phasizes creativity, engineering and workman-
ship.
To understand how this all transpired lets go
back several years, when Don had a dream of
having a car built for his wife Elma. Drawing
upon his memories of dating and honeymoon-
ing in a ‘65 Impala Don decided it would be
the basis for his next car. Being no stranger to
owning some choice rides, he contacted a friend
who he relied on several times to fulfi ll his de-
sires of building 1st class machinery. Starting in
2005 Don has had a working relationship with
renowned car designer and builder Chip Foose, who is
credited for building Don’s ‘49 Chev pick-up, his ‘37 Ter-
raplane pick-up and the mid-engined o1 Hemisfear, all
of which are outstanding customs.
For those not familiar with Chip, his storied back-
ground can be traced to a custom body shop in South-
ern California during the ‘70s where he started working
for his dad Sam Foose, a noted builder in his own right.
Chip then started working for Boyd Coddington, one
of the premier custom creators. He then ventured out
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CLASSIC & CUSTOM
CAR SHOW B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A
Renowned custom car designer and builder, Chip Foose.
on his own to become what many would
say is the leading custom car designer
and builder on the planet. For the past 8
seasons the hit TV series ‘Overhaulin’ has
followed Chip and his team’s exploits as
they work their magic on unsuspecting
subject’s vehicles, transforming them
from forlorn to fantastic.
Once Chip had agreed to take on Don’s
project. he started with locating a suit-
able donor car that would supply the 1965
Chev outer body. Upon it being delivered
to Chip’s shop in Southern California the
next step was to acquire another ‘donor’
car that would supply all the underpin-
nings. For this Chip took delivery of a
brand new 2008 Corvette from his local
Chevrolet dealership, drove it 2 blocks
to his shop, and then stripped the body
off. From that point on it would take 6 1/2
years to fulfi ll Don’s wishes. For some of
you it may not seem that diffi cult a task,
taking a clean Impala body and plunking
it on a new car undercarriage. Even for
some one as capable as Chip this was a
major undertaking as the conversion re-
quired the construction of many hand
built components and meticulous metal
work. Since the Corvette is an interme-
diate size car and the Impala is full size,
it required the Corvette’s frame to be
lengthened 7 5/8” and the Impala body
shortened, starting with 14” taken out
of the rear body shell. The roof was then
shortened 8” and chopped 1 1/2” with
the windshield laid back 2 1/2”. The ‘C’
pillar was also leaned back to complete
the lowered roof line. To match the front
wheel wells the rears were raised 2” then
moved forward 7”. Custom bumpers were
fabricated which are fi tted above hand
made roll pans front and rear.
For the interior Chip hired a claymaker
to create moulds extending and fi lling in
the gaps caused by using the Corvette in-
terior parts inside the Impala’s larger pas-
senger compartment after which the one
off custom contoured panels were outfi t-
ted with new leather skins. Now a 2 seat-
er, the rear is dominated by the stereo’s
speaker system as well as storage com-
partments. Under the hood is evidence of
more superb craftsmanship as the Cor-
vette engine, which now produces 630
HP thanks to a Magna Supercharger is
expertly fi nished. Wanting a warm earthy
tone to adorn her new car Elma Voth
chose this 2 tone custom colour com-
bination that Chip calls Impostor Pearl
light and dark. This is an environmentally
friendly water based coating supplied by
the Glasurit line of BASF paints.
Unlike many show cars, this car is
completely functional, capable of driving
down to the shopping mall or down to
Florida. Because it retains the Corvette’s
drivetrain, the car can be taken to any
Chevrolet dealership for quick diagnos-
ing if a problem were to arise .
Thanks to Chip’s creative genius he and
his crew were able to take Don’s initial
concept and seamlessly marry a classic
Impala with a modern Corvette to deliver
a stunningly elegant car for Don’s bride
Elma.
For anyone wishing to see this astound-
ing custom in person, they can consider
themselves fortunate. Thanks to Don’s
considerable effort to arrange, the Im-
postor will be making its Canadian debut
at the BC Classic and Custom Car Show
at the Tradex convention center in Ab-
botsford, April 17-19. This will be the fi rst
time that a Canadian car show will have
featured 2 Ridler award winners consecu-
tively. The Impostor’s creator Chip Foose
will also be on hand to speak about his
latest creation on Saturday only from
10am to 5pm. Make plans to attend this
rare opportunity to spend some time with
one of the greats in the world of cars.
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CLASSIC & CUSTOM
CAR SHOW B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A
When Mitch Peacock fi rst laid eyes on
the vehicle that would become his “mis-
tress,” it was anything but love at fi rst
sight.
Sitting in knee-high weeds, atop a
small hill in a rural Albertan auto wreck-
ing yard, the Divco was a white, squar-
ish relic of a bygone era.
Or, as Peacock describes the ancient
delivery truck: “It was a big, ugly, uphol-
stered toilet.”
Peaock, who operates Jus Cuz Cus-
toms in Edmonton, was looking for a
unique vehicle he could refurbish into
a company delivery van, but when his
contact showed him the decades-old
Divco, he says he couldn’t stop laugh-
ing.
Ten years, countless hours of work,
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
later, the machine has elicited reverential
responses from those who have seen it
at some of North America’s biggest car
shows, including the 2013 SEMA Show,
one of the largest custom car events in
the world and the Super Nationals in
New Mexico.
What was once “a wallfl ower” has
been turned into a star attraction
The Divco will be at Abbotsford at the
BC Classic & Custom Car Show at Tra-
dex, which runs from April 17 to 19.
Visitors will see a transformed truck.
The rust is long gone, eliminated and
replaced by a gleaming green paint. The
vehicle rides on 22-inch rims just inch-
es from the ground and is powered by
an overhauled drive train featuring an
E-Rod 6.2-litre LS Series GM crate motor
and four-speed automatic transmission.
Those overhauls required a beefi -
er frame, which was reinforced by a
heavy-duty suspension cross-member
from a pick-up.
The interior – which once had just
one seat – has been hand-fabricated by
Steve Deman from Kolor Kings, save for
vintage 1965 Thunderbird seats. Deman,
who is based in Los Angeles, worked
closely with Peacock on the design and
also did the paint job.
Getting the vehicle into SEMA wasn’t
easy, Peacock says, and the fi ve-mem-
ber build team had to cram two years of
work into eight months. The project had
them working nights, weekends, and
whenever else he could fi nd the time.
“That truck became my mistress,” he
says. “My wife looks at that and goes, ‘I
hate it,’ “
It also required a lot of problem solv-
ing.
“You can’t just go to your local suppli-
er and fi nd parts for a 60-year-old Divco,”
he says. Instead, many components had
to be manufactured on site.
But the payoff, he says, came when
he saw the response from those at the
SEMA Show. Those who had never seen
a Divco were surprised by the unique
vehicle. Peacock wasn’t sure though,
what kind of response the radical
redesign would receive from Divco
partisans.
He needn’t have worried though.
“The Divco purists… were like ‘Oh my
God, that’s insane.’ “
They meant that as a compliment.
At the Super Nationals, Peacock says
he had people shaking his hand, thank-
ing him for bringing such a “crazy” vehi-
cle to the show.
“It was all ages,” he says. “It’s sort of
like that bulldog: It’s so ugly it’s cute.
“It was really kind of neat to see the
reaction that people were giving us be-
cause it’s such an oddball, unique kind
of truck.”
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S A V E $ 1 , 6 7 9
2008 LAND ROVER WRANGLER UT869728
WAS $39,900 SALE $35,860
S A V E $ 4 , 0 4 0
2008 LAND ROVER LR2 UT800682
WAS $24,900 SALE $22,997
S A V E $ 1 , 9 0 3
2 0 1 1 F O R D E D G E UTB22393
WAS $20,980 SALE $18,844
S A V E $ 2 , 1 3 6
2 0 1 2 G M C C A N Y O N4X4 UTC04178
WAS $19,980SALE $17,622
S A V E $ 2 , 3 5 8
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2 0 1 1 F O R D F - 1 5 0XLT / XTR, ECOBOOST BTB50364
WAS $24,980SALE $22,120
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2 0 0 5 T O Y O T A T A C O M A UT539526
WAS $17,980 SALE $16,488
S A V E $ 1 , 4 9 2
2 0 0 6 L I N C O L N L S LUC625416
WAS $8,885 SALE $6,588
S A V E $ 2 , 2 9 7
2 0 0 6 F O R D F O C U S UC621877
WAS $7,460 SALE $5,966
S A V E $ 1 , 4 9 4
2010 HYUNDAI ELANTRAAUTO, AIR UCA57832
WAS $7,990SALE $6,680
S A V E $ 1 , 3 1 0
2 0 1 3 F O R D F I E S TA UCD17018
WAS $14,680 SALE $12,635
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2 0 1 1 F O R D F I E S TA S E L LEATHER, ROOF UCB69324
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This 1964 International
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fabricated by the local crew
at Hot Rods Restos out of
Abbotsford. It made it’s debut
at the 2014 SEMA show in
November. The amazing
story is it was built from the
ground up in only 45 days
after the truck was teleported
out of Wisconsin 9 days
earlier!!
For the common folk not
familiar with the Loadstar CO-
1700, it was produced in a cab-
over-engine confi guration.
HRR re-confi gured the set
up and mid-mounted an
LS3 engine in the custom
chassis and fabricated a
custom turbo kit, helping the
engine produce anywhere
from 800-1000 horsepower.
The transmission is a T56
transaxle from a Corvette, but
customized it to a ‘side drive‘
with expert persuasion from
the HRR crew.
The system is an offset
drive and allows for a more
forward placement of the
output shafts. This street legal
beast sits on air bags and
suspension arms are straight
off of a C6 Corvette. Anyone
who played and collected Hot
Wheels as a youth, will see
where the inspiration of this
creation was formed.
Rod Nielsen and his
dedicated crew are arguably
one of the fi nest building and
fabrication shops in Canada
and beyond. Check out the
complete build while you
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When I was 15, my father
pulled into our driveway with his
newly lettered work van. I was in
utter awe at what this guy had
just done with a paintbrush and
a few cans of paint. I’ll never for-
get it. The painter’s name is Cliff
Burgess, and that lettering job
pointed me in the direction I’m
still following today.
I’ve always been into art. I was
drawing on the walls by the time
I could steal my brother’s cray-
ons, and blaming him. But this
was that “moment.” So I pes-
tered my father to ask Cliff if I
could work for him. Cliff told my
father he didn’t really need any
help, but directed me to ask an-
other sign painter he knew. This
guy said yes. His name is Leif
Syvertsen, and his shop was the
starting point to this wild ride.
I worked under Leif for about
four years. He taught me a lot
about layout and design, and
stuff he may not have even
known he was teaching me.
After about a year or so
working for him, I asked if we
could paint my car – a 1981
Honda Civic, with about 300,000
miles on it.
He agreed, and helped me
prep the beast and paint it –
process blue. In my head, I’m
thinking, “Too much blue. I need
to add something to it so it’s
not so... blue.” I have access to
a sign shop with an unlimited
array of colourful vinyl to make
some graphics. What colours do
I pick? Lime green and hot pink.
Hey, it was still the ‘80. So
now I have a bright, blue car,
with hot pink geometric shapes
and lime green accents. Perfect!
What next? I opted to test drive
my new brushes on the hood,
by painting a cartoon kid with
his fi nger jammed up his nose.
I was the coolest.
Fast forward another year or
so, and another “moment” hap-
pened that has had a lasting re-
lationship with me – the name
“Nub.” I’ve made up so many dif-
ferent stories over the years, but
here’s the truth. I was watching
Saturday Night Live one night.
The skit “Buckwheat Sings”
with Eddie Murphy was on. He
was singing a bunch of different
songs, all of which were being
spelled out incorrectly on the
screen, exactly the way he was
singing them.
He busted out “looking for
love in all the wrong places,”
and I laughed my can off. Done
in petite eight-inch lettering,
“WOOKIN PA NUB” was now
emblazoned across my rear
window. People just started call-
ing me Nub. I thought maybe it
wasn’t such a bad idea to have
a name that was easily remem-
bered, especially if I opened my
own shop. So that’s what I did.
The original business name
was Nub Designs, though short-
ly after I decided to swap the
“designs” for “grafi x.” It just
sounded cooler.
The next 25 years, four shops,
lifelong friendships, hardships,
learning, being fi lmed painting
bikes almost every day for 10
years, fi ve dogs, four cats, an
unexpected raccoon moving
into my dream shop, and getting
married to my beautiful wife
has been an unbelievable ride
crammed with madness and
loads of fun.
I sometimes wonder if some-
thing I paint will have the same
lasting effect on someone that
Cliff’s truck lettering has had
on me. I look forward to anoth-
er 25 years of doing what I love
to do – bringing my customer’s
and friend’s visions to life, and
feeling like that 15-year-old kid
standing in the driveway.
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Maskall’s Collision and Glass:Maskall’s Collision and Glass:Customer satisfaction is in the details
If you don’t want a hassle when it comes to collision repair work, then you want Maskall’s Collision and Glass.
With more than 75 years of combined experience, the folks at Maskall’s know what it takes to make you a satisfi ed customer because they’re regular folks, just like you.
They know you want service; they know you want quality work done on your vehicle; and they know you want it done quickly and at a price you can afford.
“We rely heavily on satisfi ed customers,” says owner Mike Maskall. “We don't need to do a lot of advertising because we’re usually pretty busy dealing with the people who have been referred to us by their friends, and with the overfl ow that comes from other autobody shops that feel confi dent enough in referring business to us when necessary.”
Mike takes pride in the crew of highly experienced painters, body-workers and autoglass specialists he has working with him.
“We’re kind of like a small family,” says Mike. “We’ve known each other for years and we get along great. I think our customers like the atmosphere around the shop because the goodwill rubs off on them, too.”
While his employee’s expertise is crucial to a positive outcome for customers, Mike also knows they can only do the job in exceeding industry standards and customer expectations if they have the right equipment, which is why Maskall’s keeps abreast of the latest technology. “You have to make
the investments in equipment or you simply can’t do the job. It’s an industry that requires precision if you want the work done properly, and our customers deserve the best so we make the investment.”
At the end of the day, however, Mike says customer satisfaction really comes down to the fi ne details. Doing the work right is important, but little extras like detailing the car, checking the lights and taking the hassle out of dealing with insurance companies are the things that create those satisfi ed customers Mike is so fond of. “We stand behind everything we do because we want every customer to be satisfi ed every time they come to us.”
Whether it’s insurance work or specialty paint jobs, polishing or spot and rust repairs, Maskall’s Collision and Glass does the job right ... every time.
“We’re an accredited shop, dealership approved, and we handle commercial accounts for fl eet work. Clean, courtesy cars are available, and we’re the best value in the Valley.”
The bottom line, says Mike, is that his company is dedicated to ensuring customers leave satisfi ed. So if you want “No Hassle ... Get Maskall.”
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Mark your calendars and get your gear fi x at
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• 1st Annual Murray GM Family Day Camaro / Corvette Car Show
Sunday, June 14 at the Fraser Valley Auto Mall
• Hot Valley Nights at Finnegan's Pub & Grill
33780 King Road (7 evenings) 6pm
June 25 / July 9, 23 / August 6, 13 & 20 / September 3, Grand Finale September 17 (or Sept. 24 if Sept. 17 rains out)
• Mill Lake Cruise-In Saturday, July 11• 10th Annual Historic Downtown Abbotsford Car Show Saturday, August 22
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