Competitor Information

On Friday, once you have arrived and registered for the show, your vehicle will be classed by our staff designated area. Judging is on Saturday and Sunday. If you want your club to park together, you must wait for them all and enter enter the show area together. We will not reserve spaces for anyone. Please do not move your vehicle before 6:00pm or you risk being disqualified.

Best Of awards will be judged on Saturday between 3:00pm and 7:00pm. If you want to be considered for any of these awards, you must not move your vehicle until 7:00pm on Saturday. There will be NO registration on Sunday. Show entries must be back in the show area no later than 10:00am on Sunday morning.

Judging Points

Your vehicle will be judged according to specific classes.  Please leave the vehicle’s interior, engine, trunk, etc. open and accessible for judging purposes. If a judge is unable to get to a certain area of your vehicle, you will recieve 0 points for that area. The judges will not come back to your vehicle later to re-judge an area.

  • 55 points for exterior
  • 30 points for interior
  • 30 points for overall display, workmanship and cleanliness
  • Total of 115 possible points

The judges may need to touch your vehicle. If you do not want them to touch your vehicle, please ask them nicely, thank you. Do not remove any dots, marks or paperwork from your vehicle that are needed for judging purposes. If you have any other issues, you must contact the head judge or classifier before 11:00am on Sunday. Anyone’s conduct that is threatening or detrimental to the staff, participants, vendorsor spectators will result in disqualification and being asked to leave the event.

We reserve the right to make changes as necessary.

Judging Rules

Your vehicle MUST stay parked until 6:00pm on Saturday and until after the awards presentation on Sunday. If you move before then, you are subject to disqualification. Also, if you are not back in the show area by 10:00am, you risk not being judged and there will be no exceptions if this is the case. Do not remove any papers, stickers or markings from your vehicle that may be needed for the judging process. This could result in improper judging of your vehicle or disqualification. Do not bother the judges while they are judging your vehicle or anyone else’s. Please park where the parking attendants tell you to park. Doing so will help reduce the waits in line and the problem of over-crowding or running out of space. This is such a huge event that there is no time for delays or interruptions.

Judging Sheets

If you would like a copy of your judging sheet, you must send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Heat Wave Inc., P.O. Box 2177, Pflugerville, Texas, 78691. You are welcome to ask questions after the awards presentation. We will be answering questions one at a time in an orderly fashion.


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Heat Wave Inc is a custom truck and car show promotion company that began in 1989 and was founded by two custom truck clubs in Austin, Texas. The first show, now called the Custom Sounds Texas Heat Wave, is held in late July every year and is now in its 22nd Year. The Heat Wave is known for its large crowds of spectators and the growing number of quality show vehicles that attend from all over the United States, Canada, Mexico. With the signing of Custom Sounds in April 2001, Heat Wave has become more aware of the importance of driving our consumers to the retailer. Heat Wave Inc is now one of the largest truck and car show promotion companies in the US. Heat Wave tour receives show coverage in many local and national magazines, online websites and several DVD production companies. Heat Wave offers many events and attractions to entertain the masses while they are at the shows, such as BMX Freestyle Stunt Team, Motorcycle Stunts, Burnout Contest, Monster Truck Exhibition and Bikini Contest. These events and attractions are a major driving force that helps bring in the large crowds of spectators that you see at Heat Wave shows.

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