What’s up everyone! The show season is in full swing and the shower of sparks dancing down the roadway couldn’t be any sweeter. The busy month of May took us around the mid west to catch the hottest coverage from the finest events. To keep you in touch with the 2003 Gauge Magazine Show Tour, here’s a run down for the month of June.

This month Freelance Photographer Eric Stiles will be attending Dropfest in Dale, WI on the weekend of the 7 & 8 of June. The event will be held at the Dale Town Hall, to bring you another exciting event for 2003. For more information or directions please contact www.dropfest.com .

The following weekend the tour makes its next stop to Canfield, OH for ITB. The newly relocated event now hosted by Properly Grounded will be held at the Canfield Fairgrounds on the weekend of June 14-15. I will personally be attending the event scoping the show grounds for one of our upcoming covers for Gauge, be sure not to miss this event. For more information concerning the show, check out www.familyevents.com .

Cruising into the next weekend we end up in Gulfport, MS to attend Scrapin’ the Coast on the weekend of June 21-22. This awesome event will be held at the Gulfport Sportsplex, and is for sure to bring a crowd. I will also be attending this event to catch the excitement of the lifestyle, to bring you the hottest show coverage Scrapin’ the net.

Dragging through to the final stop of the month of June is the ever popular Carlisle All Truck Nationals. One of the largest truck events will be held at the Carlisle Fairgrounds on the weekend of June 27-29. For more information or directions to this event, check out www.carsatcarlisle.com .

We have another impressive issue for you this month. Appearing on this months cover is Rob Robichaux representing Negative Camber with his 1999 Chevy Dually. The detail alone on this clean ass ride is enough to keep you busy for hours…..taking notes!

To top off Robs masterpiece we bring you our beautiful June Gauge Girl, CJ Andrews. Be sure to check out her hot Gauge Girl layout and see if you can meet CJ’s standards in her Gauge Girl Interview.

Finally, the show coverage you’ve been waiting for is here! That’s right, Showfest hosted by Assorted Miniatures in Greenville MS is with no doubt one of the hottest shows of the year. The show nearly tripled in participants this year. The event was held at the Washington County Convention Center on the weekend of May 17-18, 2003.

Freelance Photographer Eric Stiles attended the Import Revolution in Chicago, IL. The event was held at the McCormick’s Place on April 12th; check it out to see some of the hottest imports on the streets.

Lowrider Magazine rolled through Indianapolis, IN for the Lowrider Legends Tour 2003. Freelance Photographer Eric Stiles had the pleasure of shooting this event on 27th of April, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

Sweet Temptations host of the Spring Bash 2003 had no problem in filling the Great Plains Coliseum in Lawton, OK. Photographer Jason Denny AKA “Hodgy” caught all the action on the weekend of April 5-6. Be sure not to miss the impressive beer chugging contest…. now that is the way to do it!

We’ve put together an exciting line of featured vehicles for you this month. Sean Mabe is representing Kontradictions with his smooth “One Low Hoe” 1996 Chevy Tahoe. Bobbie Jones laid out her clean 1999 Eclipse for this awesome feature shot by Photographer Michael McGill.

We are currently putting together a Gauge Team Freelance, which is a program designed to allow you, our readers, to be more involved with how Gauge Magazine tics. Gauge Magazine has always prided ourselves on being for the auto enthusiast by the auto enthusiast, therefore we want die hard photographers/enthusiasts to show off their skills and give them the opportunity to have their work published in a world renowned magazine. Gauge’s 2003 Show Tour Schedule is starting to get jammed packed and we would like to bring the readers as much coverage as possible, please if you are interested in participating on Team Freelance or have any questions contact me at Bigwood@GaugeMagazine.com.

As usual if you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact me at bigwood@gaugemagazine.com , until next month keep your heads up and at least one frame rail on the ground! Peace!

BIG WOOD
bigwood@gaugemagazine.com