It's Showtime! PSRA Melbourne

[white lie]

This is certainly shaping up to be a HUGE event, plenty of big players already on board.
With the likes of VCM, Willall, G-Force, HM Headers, Pacemaker, Manta, Magnuson, Procharger, Harrop, GoPro, VPW, Cams, HPC and many more.

Bit of info below for anyone that's been living under a rock and hasn't heard of it. I'll be heading to Melbourne for the weekend to check it out.



PSRA – Performance Motorshow

www.psra.com.au

Never before has the Australian Automotive Industry had an Expo or opportunity like this – the PSRA will deliver the finest exhibition of Automotive Enhancement Products, Performance Cars & Showcars ever seen in the one place at the one time in Australia . . . and there are still limited opportunities to join this milestone event

The world of Automotive Performance & Technology continues to evolve in Australia – The USA Performance Automotive Industry have massive events to introduce and promote products and services ie, SEMA in Las Vegas & the PRI Show (Performance Racing Industry) in Florida. . . Auto Salon’s in Europe & Japan . . . .now Australia has the PSRA Performance Motorshow in Melbourne . . . the first event ever to embrace the guidelines of the World’s largest Performance Automotive Expo’s . . . the PSRA will deliver the finest Exhibition of Cars, New Performance Products & Hi Performance Showcars ever displayed in that combination in Australia . . . .Plus a dedicated Motorsport Expo as part of the whole experience!

The event on June 8 – 10, 2013 is for both the Public and Automotive trade at the newly built Exhibition Centre at the Melbourne Showground – this state of the art new venue faces Epson Road and will complement the PSRA perfectly! . . . both the Automotive Trade and Public will all be welcome to the event – that in itself is a break from traditional Trade Only events of this nature in Australia
Visitors to the event can expect to see many of Australia’s latest Release Performance Road Cars . . . the largest High Performance Product Expo ever assembled in one place in Australia with the Who’s Who of the Aftermarket exhibiting their latest and finest products . . . plus a Salon of the Finest Privately owned Showcars from across Australia . . . .the Expo will also feature a Horsepower/KW challenge and demonstration seminars at the Dyno arena for those that wish to learn and understand the latest in tuning software and tricks for both Performance and Economy
The criteria for this Show is accurately targeted at the market and diverse enough to bring Industry leaders in the Australian aftermarket together to an event that will have visitors from both the Motor industry and the Automotive buying public! . . . . . and this EXPO embraces the entire Performance Motoring world from Europe, UK, Asia Pacific, USA & Australia . . . the PSRA is truly an International event that your customers will visit

The PSRA has already gained support and commitment from high profile exhibitors from across all parts of the Performance Motor Industry with the event already over 65% SOLD in an exhibitor space sense! All Trade Exhibits at the PSRA will join the “Who’s Who” of the Australian Performance Aftermarket in this inaugural Expo!

Recently we have further redrawn the event floorplan to increase the amount of exhibition space which will enable even more high profile entities in the High Performance Automotive Industry to join Melbourne’s “Automotive Expo of the year” . . . visit psra.com.au to see the vast range of exhibitors that are already part of this event and watch over the coming weeks as this list grows

Whether its . . . Performance Cars, Electronics, Engine Components, Driveline, Tuning Software, Headers, Exhausts, Brakes, Tyres, Wheels, Suspension, Audio/Media, Looks, Sound, Interiors/Seating, Paint Finishes, Graphics Car Care plus Lubricants & Maintenance . . . it will all be there at the 2013 PSRA

. . . and Motorsport - Race Teams & the Motorsport fraternity from various categories will also be in attendance with Hi Tech displays and the very latest in apparel on sale to the attendees to the event

As many of the Trade Exhibits will feature Promotional/Show Cars the Trade Exhibit Displays will be in many cases quite large! . . which will restrict the “Showcar Competition” entry list to 110 privately entered vehicles that will bring the total amount of Performance Vehicles & Race Cars on display in excess of 300 - entries for Showcars and Clubs are now open and a link at psra.com.au can assist those that wish to participate and enter their own display car & join the best of the best!

[Wonky]

Definitely going to be worth going to!!

[white lie]

Anyone looking at going to this next weekend?
I'm flying over on Wednesday for a week, really looking forward to it!

[mustanger]

Where do you get the free tickets for this show????

[Millsy]

The boys from APS in Frankston will also be there displaying HM's Performance line of products, The new Edelbrock E-force supercharger kits and Mantic clutches

[white lie]

Where do you get the free tickets for this show????

From Graeme?

The exhibitor side of things has been sold out for some time, with the layout changed a couple of times to squeeze everyone in. Plenty of big names attending

[AQICLS3]

Ill be there Monday after the ZOO

[Wonky]

Ill be there Monday after the ZOO

They started letting you out periodically for good behaviour now?

[v8dude78]

Looking forward to this Shaping up to be huge

[Pickles]

Is there car parking close by?
Cheers, Pickles.

[white lie]

There's 2,000 bays at the showgrounds, I can't confirm if they're opening up Flemington as well for additional parking.

[Ron SS]

I went to the show Saturday. Good selection of companies on display. Workmanship seems very high these days with lots of carbon fibre. Harrop's stand was very good with the KW coilovers and their superchargers of course. Pacemaker had a good display, as did Mal Wood and GM Motorsport. The HM stand was interesting as they had a carbon fibre OTR for VE/VF as shown below. The VF does not have a gap between the bonnet and top grille anymore, hence OTRs will need to adopt the radiator layback approach. HM told me they will have the additional side panels soon, all in carbon fibre. Note that this new OTR has the same fault as others too ...water rising up the front of the radiator can still enter the OTR. But it does look nice.


I saw this fantastic AMG C63 OTR ...work of art and easily the best I've seen. Carbon fibre and note how it takes the top half of the top grille air using fancy depressions, all without laying back the radiator with their consequent air gaps on the sides



Note to organisers, $10 parking charge was a bit much!

[calais190]

Note to organisers, $10 parking charge was a bit much!

I agree. $25 entry ($20 if you have PRSA on facebook and redeemed the offer), plus the $10 car park was pretty rich for a small show.

Here are a few pictures I took. My camera SD card fried itself five photos in at the show... These are the five shots I got:

This was in the car park, not even part of the show. The funny thing was it was one of the best cars there haha.







One of my favourite cars at the event:




Then resorted to the iPhone

[tufss]

Was a great show with a lot of new products to see.... Agree with the price being a bit rich for entry for a small show... over all was a good show.

[LuisS]

Was a great show with a lot of new products to see.... Agree with the price being a bit rich for entry for a small show... over all was a good show.

Give it 12 months , I think this was the first step in bigger/ better things