Surprise Video from Hot Import Nights, December 2006
Last December on a rainy Saturday, thousands of people crowded the Miami Beach Convention Center, host to Hot Import Nights. Cars, girls and cars everywhere you looked. One of those cars was a boosted Honda Civic SI from AJ Performance. I remember that day well, because I set up the lights for the car.
When the show starts, all of the hall lights are turned off and the only illumination you have for your vehicle is the lighting you bring. I ran around Friday buying some lights and renting a cool computer-controlled LED unit, which gave me a wide variety of colors and blinking patterns, from a seizure-inducing strobe to soft wash and fade from color to color.
This was my first lighting job, and it was fun. Just a lot of work setting it up and making it look right. We had a small space so it made my job easier, but the problem was that we could only fit the car. AJP personnel had to stand in the aisles. We’ll do better this year.
This video came to us just recently from a friend of Ron’s. We were unaware of its existence.
Quiz: See if you can pick out the AJ Performance car. Ron was very proud of the fact that the car made it into the video considering all of the other cars that were there. You might have to watch it a few times. Oh, and don’t blink.
Hint: they videorecorded the car before I got there with the lights, so all you see is the car.
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