Weekend Plans? Greg Welch Memorial Show

By: Ben Vollmer, Car Audio Nationals/Team SoundDomain

If you are anything like me, it is about three weeks from MECA Finals and you ALMOST have enough points to qualify. But not quite. So this Saturday, I am headed to North Georgia for the last non-State Finals event on the MECA Event Schedule. In addition to MECA being there, Tim and Alison Brown also have an IASCA 2x Event with Moe and Terry being there in hopes of iDBL World Records being broken.

The show starts at 1 PM and is one of the most affordable shows I have seen all season. It is $15.00 plus a toy to get into the show area, and then $10.00 for each event you want to compete in. So if you do IASCA and MECA Sound Quality, it would be $35.00 plus one toy as a donation to Toys for Tots. Which is what most shows charge for one class.

Car Audio Nationals-- The Results Are In!

Car Audio Nationals took place the past weekend in Georgia, and the show was an amazing success. The competitor roster was full of the industry's top guns, and why not? With a $3500 purse on the line, who wouldn't want to try their hand! CAN took place along MECA State Finals and a USACi event, so there was no shortage of audio fanatics and experts on hand. CAN judging included one-seat and two-seat SQ judging, so competitors really had to bring their A-game. A special thanks goes out to Arc Audio for hosting the event.

We'll have pics up shortly from the event thanks to Team SoundDomain's own Jonathan "Thumper" Denton. And if you were there and had a camera handy, we'd be happy to add your shots to out gallery as well. And speaking of Thumper, big congrats on your 4th place finish! Not too shabby for a rookie....

We've got the full results posted after the jump, and you can join in on the CAN discussion in the SoundDomain forums.

Can't Miss Car Show in Tulsa Oklahoma

By: Brian "IamMurph" Murphy, SoundDomain Moderator

Show season is definitely in full swing right now, and Team Sound Domain have been counting down the days to the Car Toys Tulsa show.  The T-Town Invitational is August 30 and 31st at Car Toys of Tulsa. You get two shows in one weekend. Besides our own Team SoundDomain, there is a big list of celebrity names competing as well. There's more details and the SQ competitor list after the jump.

Saturday August 30th - Regional USACI sound off
Sunday August 31st - The first $10,000.00 Sound Quality Challenge.

IASCA Finals Rescheduled To Spring Break Nationals

With the news of all future NOPI events canceled, that left IASCA car audio competitors in the dark as to where the 2008 IASCA finals would be held. Well, IASCA has it covered and Finals will be held at Spring Break Nationals in Daytona Beach in March 2009. Thanks to SoundDOmain member KickinAudio of FloridaSPL.com for the heads-up! Full details after the break.

Alpine's Stunning 1937 Ford Coupe

By: Ben Vollmer, Car Audio Nationals

Moe from IASCA sent me some pictures of a 1937 Ford Coupe that he and the crew over at SoundCrafters just finished. I thought some people picked difficult vehicles, but the space available in this coupe, especially with the multi-point full roll cage, just makes me cringe!

This coupe won a 2007 Hot Wheels Design Award for "Car with Attitude" at the 2007 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Horsepower is estimated in an over-the-top 2300 horsepower range!! The car represented Weld Racing in the SEMA South Hall at the Inside America Racing booth.

The monster hot rod features an full Alpine Electronics setup, which just has to be loud to overcome the burble and bang of the monster engine. From a sound event judge's perspective, I wonder how we'd do an alternator noise check with that big of blower? :)

Follow the jump to check out some pictures - enough to hold you over while we work on a full write-up with installation pictures to be published a little later. A huge shout out to Moe and Rob Casto who did the install on this monster.