any one thought of representing

[fc lovo]

any one thought or representing an audio store or a store the sells car pa
rts

[Amiss]

Like... being sponsored..?

[fc lovo]

yea that

[Soufkackicustom]

Your not going to get sponsored. Those days are long gone. I get all my audio equipment free, but I run the shop I get it from, and it's always for sale. About the only perk you may get is stuff at cost, and cost is what you find it on eBay for

[crazymikey]

Like said above, those days are over. They were everywhere in the late 90s, early 2000s. Pretty much the only sponsorship you might possibly get would be if you have a complete show car.

Nobody is going to sponsor Joe Blow off the street in his rusty clapped out Honda who wants everything for nothing.

[H311RA151N]

I had a sponsor in 2006. Ricks Car Audio. Only for one year tho. I got a windshield banner, free 5-1/4" Alpine door speakers and 20% off everything in the store. And i HAD to compete in every sound comp in my area. I got to keep 75% of my winnings. This was in my 3rd Gen Accord BTW.

If i hadnt spent $2100 on subs amps and a custom box i dont think he ever would have done it.

[Soufkackicustom]

I had a sponsor in 2006. Ricks Car Audio. Only for one year tho. I got a windshield banner, free 5-1/4" Alpine door speakers and 20% off everything in the store. And i HAD to compete in every sound comp in my area. I got to keep 75% of my winnings. This was in my 3rd Gen Accord BTW.

If i hadnt spent $2100 on subs amps and a custom box i dont think he ever would have done it.

That's not really a sponsorship...it is but, it isn't. Place still made money off your purchases, and you footed the bill for all the competitions and gave them a ton of free advertisement. I do the se thing at my shop for people I know go to a lot of shows

[H311RA151N]

That's not really a sponsorship...it is but, it isn't. Place still made money off your purchases, and you footed the bill for all the competitions and gave them a ton of free advertisement. I do the se thing at my shop for people I know go to a lot of shows

Still pretty good for a 16 year old who just got his DL. Ive never heard of anyone around here being sponsered by a company and not paying for anything.

[BIGRICH]

i was sponsored by ICW wheels in 2005. heres what they did for me....

free 18" icw wheels
they got dunlop to throw in some 215 35 18 tires
free 22" wheels for my dodge that i pull with
free 265 35 22 tires
payed entry fee for following:
charlotte HIN
wash, dc HIN
atl HIN
Nopi Nats
Miami HIN
payed for hotel
payed for fuel
payed for food and alcohol....yeah buddy

what did it take.....

i already had my car completed and show ready (30k invested in a 95 civic)....we just changed the wheels

everyone always asks...."howd you get sponsored? im gonna find someone to sponsor my stock car!"

good luck with all that....

[Soufkackicustom]

^^thats basically how you get sponsored. Build it, show it, and hope someone will jump on your band wagon. Theses days, that still might not get you sponsored, it might get you a windshield banner and paid way into a show.

[deevergote]

i was sponsored by ICW wheels in 2005. heres what they did for me....

free 18" icw wheels
they got dunlop to throw in some 215 35 18 tires
free 22" wheels for my dodge that i pull with
free 265 35 22 tires
payed entry fee for following:
charlotte HIN
wash, dc HIN
atl HIN
Nopi Nats
Miami HIN
payed for hotel
payed for fuel
payed for food and alcohol....yeah buddy

what did it take.....

i already had my car completed and show ready (30k invested in a 95 civic)....we just changed the wheels

everyone always asks...."howd you get sponsored? im gonna find someone to sponsor my stock car!"

good luck with all that....

That's exactly it. Everyone seems to think sponsorship is the way to build a car (and ripoff companies like carsponsorships.com preyed on that.) Companies that offer sponsorship will only sponsor cars that are already worthy of drawing attention to their products. Cars that are active in the show and/or race circuits. Cars that are owned by high-profile people in the scene (car club owners, forum owners, popular blog authors or contributing magazine journalists, people that have already gotten featured in a magazine or major website, etc...)
10 years ago, it might have been easier to get sponsored, because the import scene was exploding. A car painted a bright pastel color with vinyl decals, running huge 18" chrome wheels (that was huge back then! ), rocking every APC part on the market, and bumping a cheap audio system was considered "extreme" enough back then. Then, you say "hey, I dropped $2000 into my $8000 Civic, LOVE ME!!!" and they would.
Now, you have to be pretty extreme to get sponsored, and it helps if you're on top of an emerging trend. Nobody wants to sponsor a "hellaflush" car with a bike rack on it. That's SO 2011 .

[fc lovo]

this sucks it seems like I have a long way to go with my car I hadnt taken apart untill a couple of days ago and my entire driver side where the fender goes is mesd up its seems the previous ouner crashd and semi fixed it and just place the fender it, it didnt mater if it closed right or screwd in the right hole aslong as it coverd

[deevergote]

wut?

[fc lovo]

wut?

the front left side of my car is completely mesd up from the inside the outside looks fine but ones you look inside you can see the damege