When General Motors wanted to show off the capability of its Vortec engines, they went to Jason Plotke, who already had numerous H2 and H3 builds to his credit. Jason Plotke owns IAG Customs in Scottsdale, Arizona, and knew what the General would want to see when this combo was unveiled at the 2006 SEMA Show. There was just one hitch: like most of the builds for SEMA, there was a time crunch. With only six weeks for the total build, and three of those dedicated to paint, nothing short of a miracle was needed to get the Avalanche finished.
To get the right stance without sacrificing the towing capability, the team at IAG went with Rancho products. A 4-inch Rancho lift and adjustable Rancho RS 9000 shocks tame the 22-inch KMC Hoss wheels and 305/45R22 Nitto Dune Grapplers stopped by SSBC calipers and rotors. The Avalanche was matched with a Street Scene Equipment SS-style bumper cover, Precision billet grille, and IAG billet door handles. Then, the truck was dropped off with Bugs at his Mesa, Arizona, paint shop. Bugs started with a red base and added yellow, black, orange, white, and blue to create both flames and sweeping graphics to match the Formula powerboat.
Open the doors to the Avalanche and you'll see what three weeks of sanding, fabricating, painting, and upholstering can get you. Seats, both front and back, were covered in black and red Katzkin leather with red stitching. IAG Customs used the same red leather to trim the steering wheel and the top of each door panel. Also, the door panel received accents in the same gray suede that was used to recover the headliner. More red fills the dash, as US Speedo supplied red gauges. Next, the center stack plastic surround and dash trim were removed, smoothed, and painted. For the audio chores, a Clarion MAX675VD touch-panel DVD head unit orchestrates the sound through MTX components, including a Thunder 7804 amplifier, 6-1/2-inch TXC6.1 components, and 25mm TXC.1 tweeters. Also, MTX was sourced for the bass, as an IAG-built custom center console houses a 12-inch Thunder 7500 sub. The Clarion unit supplies DVD video for the front passengers, but rear-seat passengers each get their own Savv HRP-X7090 DVD headrest monitors that can receive signals from the roof-mounted TracVision satellite.
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