FiberwerX Shakes It Up At The 2009 Off Road Expo

What a weekend, what a show! The Off Road Expo is a true gage that exemplifies what is going on in and around the off road community. It is great to see the industry thriving despite the hard economic times that the country is experiencing under the current recession. So many companies continue to step it up and show off their new developments, display project vehicles, and network with enthusiasts. Even with the Powder Puff Race taking place during the same day, the expo saw good crowds and a constant buzz of people excited to be there.

The Off Road Expo offers a platform for the FiberwerX Brand to flex some muscles and share our success. Each year as the company grows, FiberwerX is proud to state that we have increased our presence and influence throughout the show. Going bigger and better each year posses a difficult challenge to top our previous effort. The creative team that drives the FiberwerX Operation, began planning the action months before the Expo. Brian Binkert from Bink Designs has been instrumental since he started with the company and his influence is quiet apparent in our day to day operations. Coordinating the booth displays and layout, to the fliers and marketing material, Brian has his hands in all aspects and promotions.

This year’s Expo presented hundreds of high performance off road vehicles and many of those cars were outfitted with our Off Road Fiberglass Products. FiberwerX is proud to maintain stable relationships with the industries finest vehicle builders and retailers. As the off road industries top manufacturer of custom designed body panels, quality and customer service is our #1 priority. We are stoked to add Simon Perez as a full time sales rep. Simon a true off road racer is great shock guy and has over 10 years of sales experience from his time at ORW.

Besides some sexy off road cars on display including a Raceworks Designed Trophy Truck PreRunner, and the #34 Trophy Truck, we had six classy FiberwerX girls working the show and driving more traffic right to our booth. Once there, our guest had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the very cool Extreme Motion Simulator. This thing is real deal and a lot of fun. Pretty much blows the Baja Bully Dog Simulator out of the water. The Extreme Motion off road Simulator had a line of people waiting to try it out all weekend. With nearly 360 degrees of movement and a 37″ flat screen, the driver sits in a vehicle cockpit and feels real movement & motion of the car flying through the air, side to side, up & down, forward & backwards, depending on the vehicle control in the game. Playing Dirt with the mechanics and electric actuators was really a whole new experience on the Extreme Motion Simulator. FiberwerX arranged a promotion where the weekends fastest driver won $200 in FiberBucks. 1:50:02 was placed by 14 year old Carson Humphries who came all the way from Baja North in Canada for the show.

One vehicle that was absent from the show was the FiberwerX built San Vicente Class 8. Ricardo Sanchez was racing down at the Record San Vicente 200. A really great event was had by all participants but Ricardo had the best day taking the overall win in the Ford Class 8.

FibewerX Expo Release

For the 2009 Pomona Off road Expo presented by Toyota, the FiberwerX Booth #201will present a variety of attractions to stimulate enthusiasts from all walks of life. A variety of high performance off Road Vehicles featuring FiberwerX Off Road Fiberglass Products will be the focal point, however we intend to draw in traffic with our very attractive FiberwerX Umbrella Girls. Available for autographs and posing for pictures, these ladies were a big hit last year and we had to have them back.

For the youngsters we have arranged for attendees to DEMO an Extreme Motion Simulator. These guys have made simulators for Tony Stewart, NASCAR, and even the military. Extreme Motion Simulation has raised the bar, real time, real look, and real feel. The simulator is built on a state of the art motion system platform with full 5 –axis movement. Driven by powerful computer software that delivers life like motion, Extreme Motion Simulator enhances any game play. The original DIRT game will be available to throw down you best lap time on selected tracks. It was scheduled to run Dirt 2 but the game developers have not release a PC version.

We are excited to have a Stewart’s Raceworks designed Trophy Truck Prerunner in the #201Booth. FiberwerX has extensive relationships throughout the off road industry and Craig Stewart recognized this when he commissioned our design team to design a new look for the world famous Stewart’s Raceworks built TT Prerunners. John Tripp was brought in to create a stylish 2009 look that would flow with the Racework’s fashion and appeal. FiberwerX did a number of upgrades and finish work and we are pumped to showcase our capabilities.

As the centerpiece, the #34 FiberwerX Trophy Truck will be on display. So far this year The FiberwerX Team has achieved two 2nd overall podium finishes with the #34 TT at a CODE San Louis Event and the DRIVE Race: FiberwerX Still Of The Night 200. The #50 TT may or may not be on the grounds of the expo, but one thing is for certain it will be looking hot and dirty as FiberwerX Racing is headed out this weekend to race against Roger Norman and Vidosola at the CODE Mexican Logistics 300.

We are also proud to debut a 1/5th scale model of the FiberwerX TT built on a HPI Chassis Baja 5T. John Tripp A.K.A Hawaii is well known throughout the industry for his artistic ability, design skills, and shaping ability. His talents are now being implemented into other markets, and FiberwerX is excited about these new opportunities.
The Off Road Expo is the Industry’s largest consumer trade show focusing on disciplines and genre of off road motorsports and recreation. There will be hundreds of high performance vehicles on display including top of the field and championship winning race cars trophy trucks and buggies from all division.

Manufactures and distributors will be featuring all the latest products and gear. You can count on plenty of giveaways and specials all weekend long. The Expo is a great family fun event with plenty of autograph signings and take home prizes. For the bigger kids there will be dozens of attractive umbrella girls and promo models to take pictures of and with.

FAST FACTS
WHERE: Off-Road Expo presented by Toyota will take place at the Fairplex in Pomona: 1101 W. McKinley Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768. Click here for a map and directions.

WHEN:
Friday, October 9
5pm – 10pm Saturday, October 10
9am – 6pm Sunday, October 11
9am – 5pm

ADMISSION:
The Off-Road Expo Early Bird Special gives you an exceptional value on your ticket price. Pre-order and print your tickets online now and SAVE $3 OFF REGULAR BOX OFFICE ADULT ADMISSION*. Just click the link below and enter promotional code: FALL2. That makes the adult price just $9! Hurry, this is a limited time offer, expires October 4, 2009. Kids age 6-12 are $5, and kids 5 and under are FREE!

Fiberwerx Open House and DRIVE drawing

Santee, CA

The entire FiberwerX Crew cannot thank everyone enough for coming out and supporting our event on May 2nd. We all had a great time meeting new people, talking to old friends and sharing our accomplishments with the rest of the community. We estimate about 2,000+ people stopped by throughout the course of the day and are very pleased to call the event a true success.

Without a doubt, most everyone who attended was stoked on the FREE Carne Asada BBQ.
Carlos and his crew (from Baja Pits / U.S. Wheels) cooked up 250 pounds of fresh beef. We want to give big thanks for volunteering and taking the initiative. We could not have done it without your help and expertise! Carlos later quoted “This was the biggest off-road event I have been a part of, bigger than any SCORE & CODE drawing party combined. You guys put on a great event!”

San Diego local bands Skip Jack & FM Revolver kept the party flowing all day with great vocals and awesome riffs under the Dirt Alliance tent performing several sets to the large crowd throughout the day! Dirt Alliance was passing out free From The Dirt DVD’s which just won the 2009 Best Off-Road Truck Video Extremy Award. Travis Siflinger was on hand giving away free passes and promoting the upcoming SXS Stadium Series that’s happening this Saturday, May 9th at Perris Automotive Speedway, so don’t miss out! The FiberwerX girls were out in force hanging out and taking pictures with everyone at the show. Didn’t they look good? ☺ Curtis & Klaus from Race-Dezert.com setup a booth and had Heidi Steele signing autographs near the end of the day. RDC donated some of the DP Series DVD’s to FiberwerX to play on our big 60” Plasma for people to watch, relax & eat tacos inside our shop.

Local friends SDORC (San Diego Off-Road Coalition) stepped up and played a big part to help our raffle go down. The night before our event Meg from ORBA got in a horrible accident on the 78 and her truck was totaled (she is fine by the way) so we are very happy that SDORC was able to show up and make it happen! We accumulated $12K of contributions from FiberwerX, Drive Racing Series, Tubeworks, Bully Dog, Light Force, Fox Racing Shocks, RacerX, Powder1, Mastercraft, L&M Tires/Toyo Tires, Race-Dezert, Dezert Nation, FX Fabrication, Richer Racing, Threat Motorsports, California Metal, JuanCO Performance, Bink Designs, Kleanwerx, National Spring, Shock Pros, Bee Hive Sports Bar, TrueLine, Havoc Motorsports, Sand Hustler Clothing,1450.org and late additions from 4130 Clothing, Paul at Racer Services, and Baja Mike at Kartek. We successfully raised $5,600 from raffle ticket sales to donate to ORBA / SDORC to help keep our deserts OPEN! The FiberwerX Crew is very grateful to all our vendors that contributed to the raffle and the offroad community working together to achieve our objectives while having a lot of fun doing it!

The Drive Racing Organization received numerous responses and attracted many new entries with their big pay outs, cash bonuses, and unique opportunities for racing in the Imperial Valley. The next event is the FiberwerX 200 Night Race, which will take place on Saturday, May 16th. The drawing was held at 3PM in the Dirt Alliance booth and there are currently 39 entries for The FiberwerX 200. If you’re a 1450 racer you need to come race this race! There are nineteen 1450’s entered and growing. If you are a ½ 1600 Racer, you have to get in on the Hare & Hound Bonus Program. There is a chance to win $4,000 or more with just 10 entries. Contact DRIVE for more information. Enter today!

FiberwerX would like to give an extra thanks to all the media affiliates; Race-Dezert.com, ORBA, Dirt Alliance, Off-Road Magazine, ElForoOffroad.net, UTVunderground.com, Piloto OffRoad News & SandAddiction.com, that gave this event an extra push! Off-Road Magazine Piloto Off-Road, El Foro Off-Road, & Bink Designs covered our event with some great photos of how the day went down.

Looking forward to next year! Bigger & Better. Thank you all!

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