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Last Auto Account – SEMA 2008: The Best of the Affliction If you’ve never been to SEMA, it may yield the complete show’s complete four-day run to balance from the shock and awe associated with accepting assaulted by so abundant automotive eye candy. SEMA veterans like your columnist are beneath affected. Having survived 15 years of the November ritual, there’s not abundant shock or awe to be perpetrated on ..Last Auto account –

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If you’ve never been to SEMA, it may yield the complete show’s complete four-day run to balance from the shock and awe associated with accepting assaulted by so abundant automotive eye candy. SEMA veterans like your columnist are beneath affected. Having survived 15 years of the November ritual, there’s not abundant shock or awe to be perpetrated on this journalist, but some “craftsmen” still succeed.

The afterward are TheCarConnection.com’s picks for the a lot of egregiously acute creations of SEMA 2008.  We had to airing the show’s complete 1.8-million aboveboard anxiety to accompany these to you.  Enjoy … or grab a barf bag.

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Once a 6-Series
This stands out as the complete affliction of SEMA 2008. The adverse abhorrence started activity as a BMW 6-Series. It active admired carpeting amplitude in a berth hawking audio systems, answer the single-seat autogenous covered in acreage of abnormally abounding fiberglass. The agleam surfaces were corrective to bout the exoteric motif, and were pocked by dozens of speakers. What a abhorrent end for what has already a actual nice car.

Thankfully, there weren’t added of these at SEMA 2008. The added creations on our Nightmare on Paradise Avenue account highlight acute adroitness and/or a complete abridgement of aftertaste … as against to a wanton apathy for aggregate sacred.

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Mercedes Madness
Presumably to accomplish action for their new GLX, Mercedes enlisted four customizing houses to actualize “unique” versions of their new action utility.  Boulevard Customs fabricated the GLK pictured here. Built carefully for brilliant weather, it has no top and no ancillary windows. Regardless of what you anticipate of the all-embracing piece, the bolder GLK barbecue works, as to do the doors appear of their bulky handles.

Thomas DuPont (of DuPont Registry fame) oversees Boulevard Customs. He confidently asserts some rational abaft the build, “This GLK generates excitement, and we’re seeing absorption from enthusiasts who reside in developing countries area the accomplishment to physique customized cars artlessly doesn’t exist. We wish to be able to architecture and actualize custom cars for audience in places like India and China, and this car is a calling agenda for us.”

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Don’t Tread On Me
HUMMERs are simple to accomplish fun of these days, abnormally ones like this H2. Instead of antic approved doughnuts, this one uses mini annoyer treads. One assumes the set up works, but we can’t advice but admiration what acceptable that additional annoy is.

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Barris’s BatSmart
George Barris is the acknowledged King of Customizing. While he’s accepting up there in years, he still knows how to stop appearance goers in their tracks. The crazy BatSmart car transfers elements of his aboriginal Batmobile assimilate the diminutive acute fortwo. Between the rear fins are the requisite Bat Rocket launchers. Twin Bat Parachutes abut what appears to be the Bat Jet Engine bankrupt (but could accept been a repurposed conical air filter). Flames were not cutting out if we happened by the affectation … which was acceptable because the car was backed into its berth and the consistent blaze would accept readily burnt SEMA’s North Hall to the ground.

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Land of The Giants
Sport Anatomy is a analysis of the Freightliner barter company. They accomplish actual ample trucks for “personal use,” and their newest models is the P4XL. This barter is a leather-lined monster. Coddled by the aforementioned hides that baby Mercedes AMG owners, you attending down on cartage from a acme of about ten feet. Its four-wheel drive and Cummins agent ability (1000 lb-ft torque) will yield you anywhere. During the acme of our country’s Super Size fad, this barter was the ultimate in cool. Today, admitting how able and adequate it is, it’s the acme of irrelevant.

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Graffiti a la Flex
Ford Motor Aggregation did a accomplished job of accepting its Flex into the easily of customizers. This one was created by Kal Concepts and Air Syndicate Inc. in account (?) of graffiti artists (?) whose names we didn’t recognize. Apparently, the Flex’s slab abandon physically resembled alone barn walls, so the artist, Craig Fraser, acquainted appropriate at home painting away.

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Not So Smart
There is one car at every anniversary SEMA accident that is “The Car.” For 2008, it was the acute fortwo. We saw actually dozens of fortwos on the appearance floor. A lot of were just adorned with ambiguous acrylic schemes, but this adverse archetype accustomed a little something extra. Based on what tubular bonanza guards and ancillary balustrade usually weigh, we amount this acute exceeds its max GVWR (gross car weight rating) afore a commuter anytime climbs aboard. We aswell admiration whether the fitment would abrade those EU regulators who are appetite for pedestrian-friendly car foreground ends.

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Up For A Spin?
Sometimes guys who can physique anything, do. What you’re searching at is a unified barter and anatomy that can be apprenticed on the street. But if parked, the physique lifts off the anatomy and can accomplish moves that would accept fabricated Michael Jackson anxious aback if he was at his dancing prime. The baldheaded guy sitting in the accomplishments of the attempt helped physique the thing. If you charge something similar, you’ll acquisition Z. Galeana (general mechanic) in Glean Avon, California.

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