2006 SEMA Show by TCC Team (10/30/2006)
All our coverage from the Las Vegas aftermarket extravaganza.

by Rex Roy

Photos by Rex Roy

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The balance of SEMA came in the form of product introductions large and small from aftermarket suppliers, tuning shops, and hopeful individuals. These companies and one-man shops plied their wares using creations covering a continuum from sublime to utterly stupid.

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When exhibitors felt they needed more than cold, hard steel to attract attention, they resorted to adding the feminine touch. Ahhh, the women of SEMA. If thought of too hard, they are a confusing element insofar as how should an intelligent, polite man react when he sees a nubile young thing posing at a kiosk literally falling out of her three-sizes-too-small bikini top? While the Neanderthals simply drooled as they waited in line for their "sincerely" autographed pin-up posters, this man realized the girls were there for the same reason as everybody else - to make a little money as models. With that realization, it became okay to acknowledge their existence, smile kindly, and keep focused on the commerce surrounding them.

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Ford, however, did XX humans a good turn. Ford's featured women at SEMA were truly the fastest females in all the land. Members of the Champ Car Fast Lap Pace Car team gave rides to lucky SEMA attendees at a special autocross type course set up between two exhibit halls. From the wobbly legs and wide eyes of those exiting their race prepared Mustang GT/SC competition cars, the rides were exciting. Drivers on hand when we observed included (left to right) Linda Pobst, Stacy Kuhn, Kelly Williams, and Gail Truess.

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For the benefit of the press, on this same course, SEMA put on a drifting exhibition hosted by Dodge, Pontiac, and Ford. If you've never attended a drifting event, you're missing some of the best precision driving and racing the mechanized world has to offer.