Factory Fives Take Center Stage at Emerald Coast CruiZin’!

The Factory Five crew is enjoying the nice Florida weather as we talk with customers at the Emerald Coast CruiZin’ in Panama City, FL!  FFR’s Tony Zullo and Sally Bean arrived Wednesday to set-up, and customer Garry Bopp has been helping talk with customers and taking photos. Thanks Garry!

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Factory Five customer Garry Bopp is working the Factory Five booth and Jo Coddington is available to talk with customers and sign autographs.

Factory Five President Dave Smith arrived at the show on Friday, and will be joined with VIP guests Jo Coddington and Courtney Hansen.  It’s good to be back down in Florida, and to spend time with the southeast Factory Five community!  Here’s some photos from the event so far.

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Factory Five’s Tony Zullo is down at the CruiZin’ to talk with customers about the latest Factory Fives.

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The Factory Five flame ’33 Hot Rod with the new 2015 IRS is featured on the main stage along with our Type 65 Coupe!

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Tim the Milkman from Hot Rod Madness visited the Factory Five booth and did this cool interview.

 

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Factory Five customer Garry Bopp with FFR’s Sally Bean giving thumbs up!

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Sally and Jo are having a good time at the show!

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Dave Smith signs an original Factory Five Roadster assembly manual for a customer.

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It was fun to catch up with customers in the Southeast!

Here’s some more of photos of the other cool cars that were at the show.

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Above and Below: All Girl’s Garage’s Christy Lee visited the Factory Five team and talked with customers.

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Christy also signed Garry Bopp’s Roadster hood adding to his collection!

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Some future Factory Five builders were making sure there was enough leg room in the Roadster.

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Garry shared some of his build tips with the customers all weekend long

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Dave Smith shows off the features of the 20th Anniversary Special Edition Mk4 Roadster.

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Above and Below: The Factory Five ’33 Hot Rod and Type 65 Coupe looked awesome on stage during the concert Friday night!

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Customer Erik Treves had his FFR 289 USRRC car (Black #1) at the 2014 SEMA show last year and has since racked up over 2,000 miles on this flawless beauty. Here is a picture of his car in the FFR display last weekend being photographed by another beauty! Garry Bopps challenge car is in the foreground with the autographed hood.

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Huge thanks to all the customers who helped out at the 2015 Panama City “Emerald Coast Cruise”. Garry Bopp, Wayne Presley, Dale Anthony and his girlfriend Blanda, Keith Miller and his wife Shirley, Erik Treves all brought cars and helped with questions in the booth. Thanks also to the event staff. Rakes and Lisa and their team did an amazing job of putting on well-run professional show that was tons of fun!

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Factory Five was awarded a Top 25 finish at the CruiZin’!

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