Event features customized cars at fairgrounds

Owned by Greg Mease of Warren, a '62 Impala, above, does a "three-wheeler" at the Falken Import & amp; Truck Bash at the Canfield Fairgrounds. Mease's car featured a hydraulic suspension. The event, at the fairgrounds for the first time this weekend, featured hydraulic and burnout competitions as well as dealers with the latest products for customizing vehicles. At left, Aaron Trenary and Melissa Painter, both from Winchester, Va., cleaned the front of Aaron's '91 Honda Civic on Saturday. At right, Bob Miller of Kalamazoo, Mich., stands on the tire of Dave Osborn's '94 Ford Ranger as he cleans the truck's windshield. Some of the vehicles were able to bounce up to 8 feet in the air with the aid of hydraulic lifters. Falken Tire Corp. is best known for high performance radial tires and is a subsidiary of The Ohtsu Tire and Rubber Co. Ltd. of Osaka, Japan.