Thread: Sema 2010

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Headed back to the hotel about 3:30 today to rest my aching feet and legs. Took more pictures today and linked them in my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9729183...7625313898286/

Some of the pictures are of cars I liked and others of products I thought were cool. Some things I noticed, GM may want to reconsider doing away with Pontiac as I saw no less than 5 different companies marketing body kits to make new Camaros look like vintage Firebirds. And speaking of the new Camaros, you could not swing a dead cat around without hitting one of them, they were also very popular and were named the "Car of the Show" There were also several body kits to give them a more retro RS appearance. Ford F150 was named the truck. GM Performance is making a big push on their E ROD motors to do smog legal conversions into just about anything for the street. And some of them are pretty wicked, with the top of the line being the 556 HP supercharged motor from the CTS-V. They also have a 7 liter 505 hp version, 430 hp LS3 and a 5.3 315 hp. This may be the way things will be for street machines in the future.

I think I had the most fun today looking at all the tools and shop equipment. Man what a lot of really neat stuff that I want but don't need! Tomorrow is the Opinion Leaders forum where a bunch of us "consumers and enthusiasts" get to offer our thoughts on new products. I'll report on that after it's done.

Pat

PS Oh yeah, I got Gene Winfields autograph. There were two gorgeous 59 Caddys there that he painted but I could not get decent pictures because they are so long and the throngs of people around them.