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What’s up everyone! The show season is slowly dwindling down to its last few events. But not to worry, some of the hottest events to roll through the 2003 Gauge Magazine Lifestyle Tour are still in the archives of the Magazine Room. These events will help keep the memories alive as you dig in to your winter project!

Appearing on the cover this month is Joe Schmelzer, representing Relaxed Atmosphere with his 1995 Chevy S-10. When Joe entered this crazy custom industry, his expectation for this mini was to have one mean, clean, low rolling machine. From the looks of it, he accomplished this goal.

To top off Joe’s S-10 we added a little innocence from the gorgeous October Gauge Girl Cole Buckley. Her presence was definitely felt when she attended 10th Annual ITB in Indy, where she placed 2nd in the Bikini Contest.

Freelance Photographer Mike Slade starts the month off by attending Slammed at the Hard Rock. Mike caught up with the guys from Outlaw Imports on June 6-8 at the Hard Rock Café in Myrtle Beach, SC. To get more information or directions for next years events, check out www.outlawimports.com .

Freelance Photographer Eric Stiles packs up his Immaculate Ford Ranger and Digital Camera on June 7-8,2003 to attend Dropfest. The event was held in Dale, WI at the Dale Town Hall.
www.dropfest.com .

Freelance Photographer John Jackson attended The Big Show presented by Drop Jaw Magazine. The event was held in Dinwiddie, VA at the Virginia Motorsports Park on July 11-13, 2003. For more information on this event or additional coverage held by the boys over at Drop Jaw, check out www.dropjawmag.com .

On the following weekend Freelance Photographer Smalls hooked up with the guys from Import South (Tuners Gone Wild) to spend a scorching weekend at the Atlanta Dragway. They filled the town of Commerce, GA on the weekend of July 18-19, 2003 with some of the hottest imports on the streets. To keep up to date on next year’s event, check out www.importsouth.com .

Jason Denny brings you The Inevitable Texas Heatwave! As always the event is held at the Travis Expo Center in Austin, TX on the weekend of July 18-20, 2003. For more information or directions for next years events, check out www.texasheatwaveshow.com .

We have another fine selection of feature vehicles for you this month. We start off with Diane Pournaras representing Positive Force with her clean 1991 Honda CRX. I was able to catch up with her at the ITB Canfield, OH this past June. If you’re looking for a way to dress up your CRX, take a few tips from a girl that didn’t need any help to create this clean machine… It’s all hers!!!

This past Spring Break I attended the Vital Signs show in Panama City Beach, FL. I was able to hook up with Scott Refice representing Vital Signs Car Club with his 1993 Chevy Full Size.
Check out how the boys from Panama City, Fl stand out in the massive crowd.

To wrap it up, Wade Rigdon representing Negative Camber in his 1994 Nissan Hard body. I met with Wade at the Scrapin' the Coast in Gulfport, MS. If you ever see Wade’s Nissan around an event, try to find all 187 Flame Licks through out this hot ride!

Gauge Magazine has come up with the ultimate collector item for any picture that appears in Gauge. We are now offering custom plaques ready to order straight from the pages of Gauge Magazine. These are great for vehicle, club or personal appearance pictures that are published in gauge.
To check out the options available just click on this link.

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. This will allow the opportunity to have work published in a world renowned magazine. Gauge’s 2004 Show Tour Schedule is starting to get jam-packed and we would like to bring the readers as much coverage as possible. 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

The
2003 Gauge Magazine
Lifestyle Tour

It has taken us around to some of the finest events this year. Here are some of the events we will be attending for the month of October:

On the first weekend of the month, I personally will be scouring the show grounds looking for some of the hottest vehicles for features in Gauge at Fast Eddies. That’s right, the Moon Pie festivities will be held in Hamilton, IN at Heirs Park & Fairgrounds on the weekend of October 3-5. For Directions or more information on this event email Fast Eddie at JUST-KROOZIN@webtv.net

On the same weekend Freelance Photographer Smalls will be attending the Slamfest show hosted by Mini Madness in Tampa, FL. The event will be held at the Florida State Fairgrounds on the weekend October 4-5. For more information or directions to this event, check out www.minimadness.com .

The following weekend Freelance Photographer Smalls is attending The Slap Show in Lawrenceville, GA. Slide on over to the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds on the weekend of October 11-12. Make it to the show, check out www.slapshow.com .

Next we check in with Freelance Photographer John Jackson, to see what happens at The Freak Show hosted by Drop Jaw Magazine. The event will reside in Kingston, NC at the Lenoir Fairgrounds on the weekend of October 24-26. To visit all the Freaks of the Industry visit www.dropjawmag.com for more information.

We end off the month of October’s events with Freelance Photographer Smalls in the driver’s seat heading to the X Rated Racing Fantasy Nights. The event will be held in Roswell, GA, race your way over to Roswell Roller Rink, on the weekend of October 25. To make sure you don’t miss this one day event check out www.Xratedracing.com .

 

 

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