Huets Ice Nite 5.0

Huets The In-Car Specialists team have done event organising for twenty years, including a full blown sound off attached to a custom car show at Hickstead showground. I wonder how many current readers can recall or attended THOSE events? And since, they have run shop open evenings called Ice Nites with great success, every now and again..
These grew, with a few, then a LOT of really cool cars. Ones they had installed at Huets were the start and then ones from manufacturers – their best demonstrators – started showing up. We had famous footballers in attendance, well Brighton ones, anyway and it all got a bit loud and hectic around the edges. So, for the fifth or 5.0 Ice Nite, our man Pete Huet had an idea and spoke to the top honchos at the local indoor Karting track TeamSport. A spot of much Kart lunacy and a 3D track with raised bits, it’s bloody SuperMario come to life! It is in fact a part of a national chain and the competition is deadly serious. It was agreed that they could do Ice Nite 5.0 right there and even offer a discount on Karting to the Huets customers and visitors as well as two free karting tickets for the free draw!

There’s ample changing at TeamSport, serious  and a bar and eatery for pizza and hotdogs and stuff and the area outside was plenty big enough to take all sorts of cars that turned up. From a Mercedes sprinter curtain-sider that was fit for concours and the new genesis/Morel demo car installed by Huets for the new Genesis guys as well as many more.

We set up four ElectroVoice PA cabinets up on sticks and powered by some decent muscle, nice little rental system. But when we fired up the provided radio microphone I was solidly in the Karting tracks PA system! Not safe! Luckily, I have now got three channels and two discrete systems of radio microphony, so just got the other one out of the battered Daddybus.
So, I ponced about, blithered about the JL Audio stuff that the Huets lot adore so well and asked improper and personal questions of the visitors mostly about getting them to rat on the real lunatic of the party. As there is usually at least one hardcore fanatic in any little knot of bods at an Icenite.
It was a really relaxed gathering.. I did down tools and hare off down the road to get there on time… when they had been held up at the shop. So I had to waitBut they arrived, the PA went up and the Celsus guys parked up their cars with the sexy systems in and the mad half-a-car ‘Dynamini, a serious demonstrator for what a good sound deadener can do for your car’s sound. And we were off.

Lots of customers and enthusiasts and a free draw for a front door Dynamat kit, a pair of Karting tickets and a goody bag of Alpine swag, made for a bustling atmosphere and although there was a severe lack of shopping going on they really aughta be able to fix that, for next time I reckon – the amount of bass was unlimited and with a simple 9PM bass curfew, it was civilised but three hours of audio hilarity for many.
Really cool event and one not to be missed if you are remotely near the area. You can like them on Facebook and tell the site to keep you posted on their stuff and you will find out about the sixth, when it happens. Until then, enjoy this little gallery of the evening’s doings
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And lastly, just so you can find out how truly cool these blokes are, read on&;
Two years back, I started an article about the Huets guys with the stuff in quotes below. But now, I shall finish the article with it, as I still can’t pot their history any better, and the shout-outs to the great and the good of yesteryear always please the old stagers, like Dave Legg and a good few other lifers out there:
HUETS&;
‘As my career in mobile electronics moved into finally joining the Rayner Family Scam of selling words in a row – or becoming a journalist, I became aware of the famous operations. Those shops that were head and shoulders above the rest. Those who entered sound off contests. Some even had their own teams.
One of the very best and consistently most successful was that of Huets of the South coast. Two shops in the Brighton area, run by two brothers Chris & Peter. Second generation and raised to the in-car craft by both parents, (like Mark Turner of Enjoy The Drive in Sunderland, who is also second generation and one of the top installers in the UK) I used to rep to the Huets shops when I was on the road for what was then called Electrosystems. But in my new task as a writer, it was clear that their standard of work, their level of expertise put them in an elite group of three along with Prestige and ABC at the time.
While other stars have come and gone to our industry (notably Phil Leach in Manchester) and both their former peers are no longer in in-car (sadly through the untimely loss of one of the industry’s greatest audiophiles – Peter Prince) Huets remains as being one of the most recognised sources of top quality kit, advice and craftsmanship.’
And finally&;
And while they prefer the full name, ‘Huets The In Car Specialists’ these days, they remain as fervent if not more so to the cause than ever and still serve everyone from the regular folks and boomers to those with fleets of elegant Bentleys. In fact it was one such recently that was so bloody Palmolive (‘Household name, Lovey!’) that I could not even report on how well they had all got on, when a Huets person had had to go and explain how a DVD system worked in the back of their Bentley.
Book your car in or find out more by calling Huets The In Car Specialists on 01273 441 845