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By Kwok Kar Peng
Been there, done that.
So what else is there to draw eyeballs?
A beauty pageant, of course.
At the popular motoring exhibition, Super Import Nights (SIN) held from May 25 to 27, organiser Three Angles Production held the inaugural Miss SIN 2012 pageant.
This is the fourth Super Import Nights since it began in 2007.
More than 60 girls turned up for the audition and 18 were selected for the finals.
Although the eventual winner, Melody Low, 19, has never modelled at car shows before, she's now signing up to be a race queen - just one of many young women who are increasingly keen to take up such gigs.
The full-time freelance model, who will be auditioning for an upcoming car show, told The New Paper: "It seems like a simple and fun job because you just stand there, be pretty and let people take your photos.
"I also get to meet many people, including the other race queens, some of whom are friends."
She joined the pageant to increase her profile.
Mr Simon Foo, director of event and production company Three Angles Production, said he included the pageant as a highlight in the three-day exhibition. He also wants to unearth new faces to become race queens because he hopes to take the exhibition overseas.
He has been approached to take Super Import Nights to Malaysia and the Philippines, and if it works out, he wants to take Miss Low and some of the Miss SIN 2012 finalists to be race queens at shows there.
Mr Foo feels the car show modelling industry is becoming a legitimate subset of the modelling business.
"It is more well-known and respectable now because the models are always present at car shows. That's why more girls want to be car show models now," he said.
The contestants were judged in four areas - choice of outfits, showmanship and stage presence, X-factor and how they worked the crowd.
Forget the cars, here's the Race Queen
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(Photos: TNP, Jonathan Choo) |
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Hot babes trump hot rides at Super Import Nights
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(Photos: AsiaOne, Aaron Lim & TNP) |
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