11-03-08: Set up day at the SEMA Show is a block party of sorts. All the tattooed grunts that usually might be found at a Pasadena Rod show are sweating away to detail the latest and greatest show cars that will define 2009. There is little bar-B-que in the air, but the smell of car wax will knock you on your feet. These guys are working their asses off to make these cars ready for prime time.
Here you will find a metallic green Lamborghini Galardo with a twin turbo system, shown off by the absensec of the rear bumper. You will see a Shelby Ford F-150 Concept truck that Ford would never give the credibility to at a major auto show. Best yest you will find Mustangs with the latest aftermarket duds that will be in catalogs for you next year!
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Yes, this is Mecca for the autos of the underworld. It is a place where the catacombs and skunk works skeletons are let out of the closet in a down an dirty kind of way. Yep, that is the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. They don’t call it sin city for nothing. Celebrities will be on hand to shmooze and back up the goods. Manufacturers are here to tell us and you why they have the best new widgets for you to buy.
The show gets underway in earnest on Tuesday, election day. While the world of respectable people are washing their Datsuns, going to work and voting for McCain or Obama, we have another mission. We here at SEMA are worshiping the car Gods in the place where Judas reigns.
