Ok...to the guy who designed the white, ricer 69 Camaro, don't do that again.

Reminds me of a modern day corvette summer....! LoL! :confused59:

Blasphemy Jim. At least CS was in 1978, WTF is this guy's excuse?

A few more

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Thanks Al! That dark blue/titaniumish tri-5 wagon looks like it has the new Mercury 4 valve LS heads on it. Any body know that builder? I'm curious about power numbers vs. cost...

Thanks for all of the great pictures.

Were you able to see who built that F100 in the Vortech Supercharger booth? Utg or OTG? Something like that.

A lot of the cars have turned into showcases for the builder with no regard to the end result of how the car comes together.(Yeah I get SEMA is about selling parts)

Like a lot of the never ending shop projects on here people love to see the fabrication even if it doesn't make a cohesive car in the end. You don't have to incorporate everything you can do in one car.

Look at a Foose car and not one piece sticks out. No fancy bead rolling just a car that works although the 2 tones and chrome wheels are getting old.

Lots of nice cars even with all the overdone stuff. Although a lot of crooked rear bumpers. LOL!

Different tastes for different people and you have to appreciate craftsmanship even if it not your taste. Even the ugliest car takes more work then I am willing to do.

The F100 was built by High Octane Hot Rods. Here's a link to the build pics.
https://www.facebook.com/HighOctanePittsburgh

Does anyone have a picture of the GoPro Camaro sideways mounted transmission?

The blue Galaxy and the tri five look great! Thanks Al!

What is going on in the trunk of the Galaxy ?
(I thought it was a Fairlane actually).

It looks like a swaybar that is sitting in the trunk but then there is two of them or something. It might just be a trick of the light that I can't figure out what that is but it looks very mechanical. That whole car looks really nice though.

That Nomad wagon is nice, and the CTS-V with the twin turbo engine looks bad ass, almost wish I'd dumped my money into something like that instead of a classic !

Yeah totally agree, need a lesson in "less is more", but then again, we the fans are the ones always asking for something "new and interesting".

Looks like a pair of Torsen bars ,off set a little (Galaxy)

So it is a Galaxy? I honestly don't know.

I saw the same thing Preston and just figured it was a fancy sway bar. I also hoped someone else would chime in and say what it was. :D

Actually it would be a 66 or 67 Fairlane.

Powered by a SOHC FE with a custom intake with what looks like two halved 715 Holleys with LeMans bowls, but that's obvious.:lol:

Given some of the thoughts mine included about some of the cars being a bit over done, the Stroppe Fairlane has become one of my favorites of the show. I remember when he first started getting ink on his cars I was like "eh", but the Martini Mustang, last year's well done 2nd gen Camaro, and this Fairlane have really engendered a lot of respect in me. His builds have taste and quality, and the Fairlane and Mustang really rode their respective themes out perfectly. Both were unique with a lot of the details we all love, but the uniqueness was completely baked into the overall theme of the vehicle. I mean in this jaded era of twin turbos, and LS-everything - sure we've seen vintage style builds with a Ford SOHC before, but the dual split carbs are just the little touch that's like "whoa, I haven't seen that done before". The torsion bar suspension is a bit gratuitous, but it beats leaf springs, and a regular control arm/coil spring might not have fit the theme as well. The wheels are perfect. Maybe my favorite car of the show, although I still have a place in my heart for the totally crazy stuff like the RS 2nd gen track car.

I really like Double Down as well, but those headers need a metallic finish or even just raw heat cycled stainless look to fit the car. But that wouldn't do much for Jet-Hot the sponsor LOL !

Not forgetting Camaro XV, but I think of that as so much more going for it than just labelling it as another SEMA car.

Very very well said!

Thank you sir.

I have only had one run in with Steve and it was 14 years ago when he had the "Challenger X" on teh Hot Rod Power tour. Me and my freind were high school kids and he set and talked cars with us for an hour. He gave us a personal tour of the car explaining how he had a jeweler cut the emblems for the car and so on. A stand up guy.

Al!! Thanks for sharing the KILLER pics!! So...hmm were are the pics of the booth ambassadors we know you are hiding ;)?

Gui

:angel: Who me?!?! naaaaw, you have to ask GW for those......... have no idea what your talking about :EmoteClueless:

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lol, that is a Ninja shot! ;)

http://salvaggioautodesign.com/

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I have seen that in IRS cars but not straight rear axle stuff.

Are we looking at the torsion bars, or something else?

It is actually a 67 Fairlane built by Strope. It has a triangulated four link with torsion bars.

Here is the scoop.

http://www.hotrod.com/events/pure-vi...014-sema-show/

So they used torsion bars instead of coils or coil overs.

Amost exactly what I was thinking! Strope absolutely nailed it and this was indeed my favorite car of the show. I am so bored of Camaros with LS swaps and off the shelf clips and 9" rears and all of the over-the-top cars I literally just walk by them at the show and save my time to spend on something like this. For me the torsions bars were very cool... while I had a Porsche I swapped to coil overs, I have to admit I considered doing torsion bars for my Nova project thinking it would be "odd ball/never done before" minus the obvious nod to Chrysler and super easy to package so when I saw this I thought is was incredibly cool based on my bias for odd ball but functional. The 427 SOHC engine is probably the coolest engine ever built by the big three. He beat me to the actuated rear spoiler tho' I do have a different idea for the Nova but I just looked at this car and saw my vision of my Nova.

That said, I can't build at this level so there will be a noticeable difference in finished products :waveflag:

And it took me awhile to place the wheels and I ended up confirming with one of the guys on the Pure Vision team they are indeed 1pc billet copies of a '67 Lambo Miura design which just makes it even cooler.

http://images.gtcarlot.com/customgal...els/281190.jpg

There is something to be said about simple = elegant. Absolutely the best car of the show.