CMS 24’ - Event coverage
I present to you the Elmia / CMS 2024 event coverage from my POV. Last year featured some good cars over all but all of the halls were just a tad more exciting this year. Some old legendary builds made comebacks, lots of well preserved 70, 80 and 90’s cars were showcased but as we are on the Lardel blog site my camera was mostly pointed towards the cars in Hall X and the grassroot styled cars.
Hall X for sure had some great cars last year, but I appreciated the wider variety of cars that this year showcased. Classic cars were showed some extra love which I personally like to see as newer cars aren’t really my cup of tea.
Beetles have been built countless of times throughout the last 85 years but you’ll still never get tired of seeing well executed example, like this one.
A fully gone through car painted in a clean color scheme with color-matched details throughout.
With me recently picking up my grandpa’s old Volvo PV for a bit of a restoration I really appreciated seeing a bagged one at the event. The owner said he’d gotten some mixed reactions regarding his choice of car. The younger audience like to see something different while the regular PV owners, the old timers, weren’t as keen on seeing one “ruined”.
Color-matched OEM steelies with chrome center caps just hits.
I always love seeing unassuming modells getting built, like this very clean example of an Opel Corsa A GSi that got slammed on some BBS’s. The details like the front lip, model-coded striping on the side, “ladder” on the rear window and the very cool tinted wind deflectors truly makes the car pop.
These two cars for sure were my personal highlights of the entire show. You never see cars like this in Sweden for a number of reasons. First of all we didn’t get many of the old Nissans and Toyotas that are usually used to build these “Kaido” racers. The one car that you could find is, as seen below, the Toyota A60 Supra/Celica chassi. Secondly when you do find one spare parts and rare additional items are hard to come by and often have to be sourced from outside of the swedish boarders.
The Supra above features some nice OEM parts like the front lip and fenderflares. The fit like they belong there, but the rear flares are actually modified front flares. This was done to get a higher radius so the owner could make the car lower and still have a nice fender to lip fitment.
Zeb’s Celica below have just been given a sharknose conversion and a beautiful, all painted livery. One side got a wavy racing inspired livery and the other a classic Falken livery, while the inverted hatch and rear got some nicely handmasked flames. There’s just too much done to these two cars to fit it all here so I dream of a closeup photoshoot sometime in the future.
Continuing with the A60 Toyota theme we have a build on the opposite side of the spectrum with Eerki’s CA18DET swapped drift ready Supra. The OEM fender flares (note the difference on the rear flares on this car vs the ones on the turquoise one above) fit the aggressive look that you want on a driftcar perfectly and helps you fit some wider wheels from the start, like these Advan SA3R’s.
Axel’s newly acquired Nissan Y33 Cima was a real sight to behold. Another car that we never see in this country anda model showcases the artsy designs of the luxury cars that came out of Japan during the 90’s. A black car with black interior, a very nice and style-correct wooden Fabulous steering wheel and silver K-Break Hybreed Fivesta split wheels shows you that less can be more if you focus on nice and unique details.
If you want to see some more photos of Rasmus’s ER34 Skyline check out this blog post.
Volvo’s rarely catch my eye due to the abundance of them in Sweden and the fact that most of them are built in the exact same way. But once given a unique flare and executed to perfection they can look incredible, like this BMW swapped 740 that sports a variety of OEM bits and pieces, an interior reupholstered with red Recaro fabric and some era-specific Speedline wheels.
A hot take to all of the Volvo-räggers that managed to find this blogpost; a lot of your’s cars could look similar to this if you stayed away from JR, MK18 and DTM wheels.
Happy to see this build finished. EK Civic with a custom widebody kit, a turbo K20 swap and AWD.
I was very happy when I got the message from Jesper who wanted a simple racing inspired livery for his Porsche, and this is what we came up with. A base design was made by me and the design was hand cut with knifeless tape by Jesper and Top Layer Customs.
The rest of the Violent booth also looked nice and clean with Benjamin’s E46 M3 and Tim’s S15 that got it’s 5th and final makeover in Tim’s hands with a Spec-R bodykit and 18” TE37’s.
The, what once was, Garage55 crew did a very good job putting their cars together for the event, all sporting the soon to be released SLC flames livery kit.
Alex came with his S14.5, Robbin with his IS200 sporting his very own WCK-widebodykit and Leo with his S13.
Victor, as always, debuted the new colorscheme of his S14 at the event. This time he wanted to go back and take inspiration from the old purple Oaktree Outlaws livery which resulted in this popping pink livery with a glitter top layer cut by Dekor Kompaniet. Victor wanted a rear window banner that would be fun and also match the look of the car, and the idea of a chrome Taylor Swift Eras Tour came up which I sorted for him. We matched that with a VTS-Equipped banner on top to shed light on the purple VTS floor mats that covered the floors of his very pink fishbowl of a cockpit.
One floor down the Vicious Company boys occupied a booth hosted by Verktygsboden, where they worked on Chris’s E36, well in time for the then soon to go down Vicious Delicious event that we hosted this May.
I’m a sucker for white cars with red interior/details so I may be a bit biased, but I think this track-ready turbo E30 was very well executed.
Noel really nailed the grassroots-look of his EF and his newly acquired SSR Type X wheels are the cherry on top.
While most of my time was spent at Hall X as always I can truly appreciate some classics as well.
Another highlight of the event. A 1 of 75 Porsche 962 was displayed in a booth with plenty of space around. With the car being so valuable the insurance company requested that the car was surrounded by guards at all time during the event.
Just outside of the halls we arrive at the Parking Experience, a part of CMS that’s become very appreciated amongst the younger audience as it often showcases more simple and reachable builds.
Well, saying reachable builds and then show an R34 GTT with some nice old Altia bodypieces might not go hand in hand…
Another VW Beetle with some light patina.
The SR20 vs CA18 is a never ending discussion, but either way it’s nice to see some grassroot- SR20det swapped 200sx’s locally as the 200sx originally came with the CA18DET.
Thank you for reading the post all the way through and hope you enjoyed it.
If you are the owner of any of the cars featured and want the HQ photos send me a DM on Instagram @shoplardelcom or an email to hello@lardel.com
//Robin