Frio, Dan "The Record-Breaker" Auto Sound & Security November 2001: 48-49.
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Frio, Dan "The Record-Breaker" Auto Sound & Security November 2001: 48-49.
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I’m actually in this issue of AS&S in the SPL teams section. Unfortunately it’s just a small picture and just me... no car. I was part of Team WeeBee that made it to Finals in 2001. I managed to pull out a 7th place, out of 8 in my class, so at least I wasn’t last.
EDIT: It was the IASCA finals & I managed to do 142dB with 1 JL 12w3 in the trunk of my 01 Impreza without fold-down rear seats running off the sub channel of a Kicker Impulse 5ch... about 450w if I remember correctly. That was when they ran classes according to cone area.
Last edited by TheTodd; 03-07-2021 at 09:22 PM.
Thanks! It’s definitely one of my most proud accomplishments. Reading CA&E magazine in the late 80s as a 15yr old (yes, I’m old) I set a goal for myself that I would make it to finals one day. Fortunately right out of college I got a sales job at a car audio shop which got me the knowledge and access to good equipment but that meant I had to compete in the Pro class. Well, I wasn’t quite up to the pro level yet & I wanted to install it all myself so even though the install was decent and nice I went the SPL route for my first year and it paid off.
It was such a huge deal for me that I still have my competitors T-shirt, credentials and of course my trophy. I even won a Sirius Satellite Radio jacket personally delivered by a bikini-clad lady... still have THAT too.![]()
I am fairly sure he was team pioneer when I was judging the finals in 2005, when the Finns took there extreme car over, and Scott Owens was ext 5+ world champion because the Finns popped a sub, it’s the way it goes... they reconed 4 subs that night and won death match by a good margin after Scott popped all his amps in one bog daisy chain like a popcorn machine... good times! My db drag leather jacket (Wayne gave me and Darren from the U.K. a world finals leather jacket each, mine is like new and with klifton K and will be sold to the highest bidder with the proceeds to go to charity of Scott buwulda and Klifton’s choosing)
I also have a certain guy named Scotty Johnson’s team SPT shirt (I was European champion in ss5+ at the time and he was then crowned ss5+) signed by the man himself in my wardrobe with my team FI shirt from back in the day!I also got drunk and introduced some poor guy to snorting aftershock... he ended up taking lots of trips in an elevator when he passed out in the hotel...
good times!