It was fitting that this year’s SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) show was held over the Halloween holiday, because it is where you dress up your car like a superhero. The SEMA show happens every year in Las Vegas and attracts all manner of custom car builders, parts manufacturers, and OEMs to an industry only […]
In the past few weeks I’ve been to SEMA and to the LA Auto Show (more on that in a later post) and it got me thinking about show cars for this week’s Thursday Twister…the quiz with a twist. Find the best ex-SEMA (or other Hot-Rod) show car for sale on the interwebs. Be prepared […]
Last week, I had the good fortune to attend the SEMA Show and the AAPEX show, which together makes for a few great days of car parts and junk. SEMA is the biggest aftermarket consumer parts show on the planet and AAPEX is the biggest aftermarket wholesale parts that you can find. The SEMA show […]
The term SEMA show car gets thrown around the internet like a pair of used underwear at a Bruce Springsteen concert, but the truth is that only a small percentage are truly worth a second glance. Instead of the typical pearl paint, body kit, bolt-on performance parts, & giant wheel combo, this next SEMA show […]
Ah, good old SEMA. The yearly display of cars and chicks in Las Vegas– officially known as Silicone, Energydrinks, Machines, and Ass. If you’ve ever been to the invite only (no looky-loos) Automotive aftermarket industry exposition of boobs, bros, and bosozoku, you’ll know what it means to be a SEMA car. It means that you’ve […]
The third generation Ford Taurus SHO was built from 1996 to 1999, with the last example leaving the assembly line in June of 1999. It seems strange then, that Ford would have released a Ford Taurus Rage Concept car at the November 1998 SEMA (Special Equipment Manufacturer’s Association) trade show, but sometimes in these big […]
The Saturn Ion Redline is the sister car to the factory hot rod Chevrolet Cobalt SS and was first launched in 2004. The Saturn brand was unceremoniously sacked as result of the 2008 global automobile market crash and the only two casualties that anyone should care about from the different kind of car company was […]
Last week this DT editor traveled to the most wretched hive of scum and villainy known to man. Although the southern Nevada desert landscape does resemble the wastelands of Tatooine, we’re not referring to Mos Eisley Spaceport – no, the closest place on Earth is the seething mass known as Las Vegas. For one week […]