It may have taken two and a half years, but vehicle customization facility Galpin Auto Sports finally celebrated its official grand opening on Saturday night. “When we first opened up our doors, we were shooting [MTV’s] Pimp My Ride, so we never got a chance to do our big grand opening,” said Galpin Auto Sports president Beau Boeckman. “We were working seven days a week, 12 to 16 hours a day for nine months at a time, so that didn’t really leave a lot of time for an opening.”
When it came time to find the evening’s entertainment, however, the facility’s connection to the show, coupled with its celebrity clientele, proved useful. Pimp My Ride host Xzibit performed for close to 1,200 clients, sponsors, and vendors, on a stage set up in the Van Nuys-based shop’s 20,000-square-foot showroom—as did Camp Freddy, Macy Gray, Slash, and Ozzy Osbourne.
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