I think its awesome that you guys are gonna put a skyline display in, more nissans ...
With my setup. I usually just go a single flat panel display with a slide show running, it displays what ive done to the car, some areas in more details than others, it also has specifications, special thanks, and so on. It might look simple, but it actually takes fkn ages to setup, haha damn i hate powerpoint.
The pc that displays the presentation also runs the music for my display, usually just winamp with a pile of music queued up and blurting out some decent speakers.
I'm kinda over the whole cranking the music idea, if its too loud, people dont wanna stand and admire your vehicle, because they either hate the choice of music, or it's simply too loud and annoying.
I setup this same thing for the HSV in the rb display at cabin just passed. however, due to the RB display having shite loads of lightning, audio gear, and generally NOT enough power, our circuit breaker was tripping the whole weekend. This of course shut down the PC with the presentation on it. and because i like to disconnect the keyboard and mouse while its running to make it look neat, it's a MAJOR pain in the arse to get it all going again, not to mention the stupid PC doing a scandisk everytime. (grr)
The hardest part of the presentation is getting the timing on the frames right, making sure you can read the text in time before going into the next slide, etc.
It's a good idea if you have a lot of pictures of your ride already on a PC... (scanned in or digital), if you have a lot of photo's in an album, I'd just display that on a photo board instead. This can sometimes be better than the presentation, because some people dont want to stand in front of a PC and stare at the screen waiting for a certain part to come in the presentation. Some judges also dont like this. (they dont have time to stand there and watch it, whereas they can easily skim across a photo board). dunno really, i've had various types of feedback on the setup.
Anyway, this year should be good. And although western salon is always half arsed, or screw's up at the end, or whatever, its still fun stuff. I like the show, it has a good vibe. My car is still in some serious gutted state, so unsure if I will make it yet. I'd much rather have it setup properly and ready for some racing than bothering about a car show. (some top racing events coming up around the time of this show too!). However I've also made some serious changes to the car, new coilovers, whole new engine bay, blah blah. Its driving me up the wall. I havent had the car driving for almost a year now, pain! I ended up buying a bunky to get around in, its this little white suzuki hatch, 800cc's and 3cyls of awesome power, oh and it has massive huge 12" red wheels! hahaha
Good luck with your organising of the car show, again, It's great to see you guys are gonna put in a display.
I still dont know what I'm doing for display, if I make it, I wont be displaying with RB. So, either solo, or with my gf's dads car or whatever. hrmmmmm
Cheers, James
