Ice Ledge

Years ago, Ian Iceman Pinder was seen as a Trophy-Swagging legend. After a sad incident when it transpired that a major install he had done through my getting him sponsorship went sour, his career got dented. The chap whose jeep it was, had been in the grip of terminal mental illness and it didn’t show.
As I was the guy who got him the equipment – fully nine sets of monster Vibe fifteen inch woofers, each with its own fat bass amplifier, I felt a bit responsible. So when it came time for Ian to make a proper comeback, I went into overdrive and obtained around £65,000 worth of equipment from Panasonic (amazingly vibration-resistant head units) Odyssey batteries (literally hard to believe performance, power & longevity) and most of all Directed Electronics in the form of a lot of West Coast Customs A/V kit (seventeen inch screens in bunches) and a bloody huge pile of Orion’s finest HCCA stuff.
Ian Iceman Pinder would be BACK!
Well, it took two seasons, not one, in fact to complete, so huge was the project and so tough became the market for a one-man operation in the meanwhile but Ian’s sheer bloody awesome levels of persistent non-quitter attitude carried him through more real actual tear-shedding grief than he will ever let me fully reveal. (Yes, big boys weep, too!) And if truth be told, THAT is why the stuff was given to him, as so many are so full of words but none others have followed through like Ian.
I knew my man and I knew it would work.

Of course the real issue was carving out that legend, deeper into the stone with a fresh chisel and Iceman rammed it home to the hairs all last season. Peaking at the fateful Streetlife 2008 where he met the MD of Armour Automotive, the new Orion importers and he is solidly in with them for next season’s show circuit.
The icing, the confirmation, the cementing of the success of my mission was done by Ian last weekend at the Surrey Car Radio event held by new format stars Propper Droppers.
A test of bass with SPL and Frequency, this is the newest and sexiest bass contest format for me, as while dB Dragging is Uber-cool, the street-legals are the cars you envy most at the drag strip and so it is with Propper Droppers. Measured at peak for each car, as well as at the super low 20Hz and 25Hz and a special 33Hz measurement in honour of the Clitoral Resonance Frequency that Todd Ramsay put into the UK parlance via my Fat Self and then finally at 40Hz.
Ian has the deepest loudest, fattest and most awesome street bass in the UK. His new confidence led him to be persuadable by one chap (that’d be Chris from Axis) into competing and as well as slapping the UK ESPL EMMA bass format at some 154.5dB he won no less than four trophies at SCR!
They were:
Loudest Street Bass in England (@ Peak Frequency of 27Hz) 157.0dB
Loudest 20Hz score (deepest bass of all) 153.3dB
First vehicle in the UK to average 155dB across all bass frequencies
Winner of “Slam” trophy (uses a specific legendary music clip) 156.1dB

So the world turns and history repeats itself. Ian’s a Trophy Swagging Legend, once more.
And I’m proud to admit that I kicked the keystone out from under the landslide that is the Utterly Unique Legend of Ian ICEMAN Pinder. He’s ready to take on more projects now so if you want to be louder than his Astra van, well there’s only one bloke in the UK who can build it, and that’s Ian.
Call him on 07967 409398 and see his huge Talk Audio feature.