This is one in a series of special 91原创 Advance Times stories about what to expect at this year鈥檚 91原创 Good Times Cruise-In, happen Saturday, Sept. 9 in Aldergrove. You can also check out this series in our special keepsake edition hitting the streets on Thursday and available in limited quantity at the car show.

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This year, the 91原创 Good Times Cruise-In, a show partially devoted to hand-built custom cars and trucks, will include a display of exotic cars.

It will be the first time the Aldergrove version of the show has included a supercars display.

As organizer Braden Ulvild, a new Cruise-In director, put it, it will include 鈥渁 few seven-figure builds,鈥� of custom one-offs, and sleek marques of exotic cars with familiar names.

When you think about it, and Ulvild has, there are some interesting similarities between the two worlds of exotics, and the custom hot rod the show is known for.

While he views himself as 鈥渕ore of a build-it versus buy-it kind of guy,鈥� Ulvild has an appreciation for the passion and craftsmanship that goes into supercars.

鈥淢y car affection is pretty broad,鈥� remarked Ulvild, who used to volunteer with the 鈥淒riven Project鈥� charity, which surprises seriously ill children with a convoy of supercars.

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鈥淚 grew up around hot rods, I worked in a hot rod shop for years, and so I鈥檝e always had a really deep respect for things that take time and thought and detail, and a lot of these supercar marques, a lot of them do just that,鈥� he told the 91原创 Advance Times.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e small teams that engineer the greatness of these vehicles 鈥� much smaller teams than Ford and GM and Toyota. So it鈥檚 really impressive, what these teams are able to do.鈥�

鈥淚 mean [they鈥檙e] race cars for the road, but they鈥檙e also capable of being daily driven,鈥� Ulvild remarked.

The essential difference between hot rodders and exotic car aficionados, in his opinion, is a different balance of performance and aesthetics, the way a vehicle looks.

鈥淚 think aesthetics are like 80 per cent in the hot rod space, 20 per cent 鈥榩erformance-ish,鈥� whereas in the supercar space, it鈥檚 more 50/50 or 20 percent aesthetic, 80 per cent for performance,鈥� Ulvild estimated.

鈥淲e鈥檙e pretty lucky to have some very, very big brand names [exotic car marques] owned privately in the area and the Fraser Valley 鈥� a huge supercar community,鈥� he said.

Bringing in some from that element to a hot rod show will broaden its appeal, he believes.

鈥淲e want a little piece of everything for everybody at the show,鈥� Ulvild said.

Cruise-In president Riccardo Sestito said they were originally looking at displaying the specialized trucks used to transport supercars.

We were going to get one of those big huge trailers that actually does that,鈥� Sestito explained.

鈥淢ove cars around like those big [supercar] transporters. That was the original plan, but that failed. So what we鈥檙e doing, is we鈥檙e going to get some of the supercars, get them out there so people can see.鈥�

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