This year’s Baltimore Motor Trend was an even more success than last year’s. Vivid was asked again by Motor Trend to host the Tuner Salon for the 2004 Baltimore Motor Trend International Show, by ourselves. Instead of just 8 cars like last year, Motor Trend wanted us to bring 18 cars, and that is what we gave them. Unfortunately not everyone from V.I. could commit their cars from Jan. 15th – 19th, so we had to do some outside invites to some people we knew. Such as Shawn from Canton Customs with his WRX, Artie from Audio Connections, with his Prelude, Greg from Auto Eurotec, with his Eclipse, who brought a RSX & Civic, Clint with his Civic, & Kahra with her Tiburon. From V.I. were me, with the Celica, Lauri and her Jetta, Dan with his Civic, Tara with her Yellow MP3, Derrick with his Blue MP3, Tony M. with his Firebird, Tony D. with the P5, Gary with his Integra, Henry with his Cougar, Chris with his Mustang, & T.J. with his Spec-V. All went well with the 2 different roll in times, except for me and Clint who had a bit of a delay, but it all got taken care of. The craziness started on Thursday night as Motor Trend kicked off and we got to work. In 5 days of advertising we handed out 4,000 flyers, all the members business cards, all our sponsorship flyers & business cards, etc. By Sunday night, a day before M.T. was finished, we were out of advertisements. The web site had over 100,000 hits in those 5 days, 20+ Join Forms signed, and plenty new registered users on our Message Board. It was just and overall success. Mike did his thing with 92 Q again going live on the radio, as well as other local stations. All went well from Roll-In to Roll-Out. We like to thank Motor Trend for having us again and we are looking forward to next year’s show and the upcoming Richmond Motor Trend show, March 5th – 7th. We also like to thank our sponsors, Speedesign graphics & Extreme Body & Paint, for their support as well as all the V.I. members and associates for their help on making this year’s Baltimore Motor Trend International Auto Show a huge success!

Mel Grupp
V.P. Vivid Images