Spring '17 – 10 Years of The Wheel Specialist Fareham
Back in the Spring of 2015 I was invited to an Open Day at The Wheel Specialist’s (TWS) Fareham branch. Not knowing what to expect, it turned out to be one of the biggest Southern event’s that I’ve attended with a surprisingly high standard of cars in attendance. Two years later, TWS got in touch to say they were organising another Open Day event to celebrate 10 years in business, and they wanted Slam Sanctuary to be involved. Naturally, I agreed, with the intention of targeting the sort of cars that we love – of the slammed variation of course. Well, TWS smashed it once again. The event was a huge success, with all sorts of cars taking over the surrounding industrial estate. With a DJ, burger van, a bar, and great coffee from The Splitscreen Barista, the vibe was perfectly chilled, giving us southerners a much-needed chance to catch up with one another as well as getting a chance to chat to TWS about their services and get an insight into what they do. With so many cool cars popping in and out throughout the day, I captured a few of my favourites, check them out…
Ryan Stewart’s supercharged Alpina B10 3.3 Touring on Air Lift suspension & BBS RF’s
(Click here to check out our feature on Ryan’s B10)
Tom Hams’ Volkswagen Scirocco on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform TMB‘s
Chris Phillips’ BMW E36 on BC Racing coilovers & WORK Equip’s
Sebastian Nowogrodzki’s BMW E24 653CSI on Air Lift suspension & Style5’s
Ben Chandler’s BMW F80 M3 on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform KPS‘
Nathan Pedersen’s Audi D2 A8 on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform CCV‘s
Nick Sahota’s Lamborghini Diablo
Joseph Cummins’ bagged BMW E38 on Alpina Dynamics
Carlos Gomez’ BMW E36 on Air Lift suspension & BBS RS’
(Click here to check out our feature on Carlos’ E36)
Steven Doe’s BMW E21 on Air Lift / AccuAir suspension & CCW D110’s
(click here to check out our feature on Steven’s E21)
Mark Riccioni’s Mazda RX-7 on Rotiform LAS-R’s
Nick Sahota’s Koenig Ferrari Testarossa
The Slam Sanctuary Audi C5 A6 Avant on Air Lift / AccuAir / BAGS by OCD suspension & Rotiform KPS‘
Sean Crompton’s BMW E36 on HSD coilovers & Carline CM6’s
Vernon Kerr’s bagged Grumman LLV postal truck
Thomas Lenthall’s Mitsubishi Evo 6 on WORK Meister S1’s
Jake Nest’s Mazda RX-7 on Cosmis Racing XT-206R’s
Carter Harris’ custom Harley Davidson
Ethan Sexton’s BMW E30 318is on Air Lift suspension & Carline CM2’s
The Wheel Specialist Fareham are lucky enough to refurbish wheels on all sorts of rare and quirky vehicles, as well as the typical everyday car – this brought a lot of interesting examples to the Open Day. We may love slammed and stanced cars, but it’s always nice to see things that we rarely see – we’re petrolheads after all. Make sure you check out the Bonus Gallery below for more of these gems. As well as TWS giving away an award for ‘Best Wheels’ of the day (won by Sean Crompton and his Carline CM6’s), we also ran our own Instagram-based competition throughout the day – congratulations to David Cooper for winning with his photograph of Ryan’s Alpina B10 (Click here to check out the photo), he took home some Slam Sanctuary merch and a Meguiar’s Mirror Bright detailing kit. Big thanks to everyone that took part. Nicely done, TWS, here’s to another ten years!
BONUS GALLERY
