Your thoughts on SEMA?

[Sieg]

Being a Newb.............I don't get what you Vet's are saying

[DFRESH]

The Lat G party and the Speedtech party were the best part of the whole event since I got to see all the boys. Was great to meet you finally Mario. Looking forward to seeing your motor combo come together---I sure hope you will post up some pics of it as it comes together.

Seems like the older we get, the less exciting some of this stuff becomes--not that it isn't fun, but it losses some of its luster perhaps. I was talking to Jimi Day about this a bit over at the Optima booth. Still wouldn't miss it, but don't need to be there for an entire week anymore either.

[glassman]

Siegster, i think for me it was just information overload and being burnt out! But definatly had a case of the blah's Friday, till the cruise, that lifted my spirits

dude, you gotta keep takin pics, those were friggen awesome, does make me see if from a different angle. You nailed the lighting on what i believe to be the Fuller build for JetHot?

[Lous69]

There needs to be some kind of saying that parallels

"beauty is in the eye of the beholder" to describe how Sieg's photography skills bring out the best in virtually everything he shoots.

How he was able to get such good shots in that cray, crowded place is beyond me.

As Kevin Oeste always says, it's the artist more than the paint brush he uses.

Very nice pictures....as usual Sieg. It was nice getting to meet you last week.

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Lous69

"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

[fleetus macmullitz]

Really like those pics of Lou's car Sieg.

'A man's gift makes room for him.'

Fletch or DG said that I think.

[Spiffav8]

Originally Posted by DFRESH

The Lat G party and the Speedtech party were the best part of the whole event since I got to see all the boys. Was great to meet you finally Mario. Looking forward to seeing your motor combo come together---I sure hope you will post up some pics of it as it comes together.

Seems like the older we get, the less exciting some of this stuff becomes--not that it isn't fun, but it losses some of its luster perhaps. I was talking to Jimi Day about this a bit over at the Optima booth. Still wouldn't miss it, but don't need to be there for an entire week anymore either.

I couldn't agree more. For me, it's all about having fun with everyone. I only attended SEMA two days, but the after hour events happened every night and I can't tell you all how much I enjoyed them all. Even Optima, which is always cool, was all about hanging out and visiting with the gang.

Not sure about everyone else, but I had a lot more fun at Optima the first year, when it was guys with cars they built and Mary Pozzi setting up the autocross. They even allowed fun runs after and that was crazy cool!

The only car that really sucked me in was the 56 Buick by Troy Trepanier (hope I spelled that right). Other than that, nothing really wowed me. Not to say there wasn't some great stuff there. Maybe I just didn't get around enough. For some reason I spent a lot of time in the Off Road section and I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up buying Laurie a Jeep. LoL Anyone want to buy a brand new Ford Edge Sport?

[fleetus macmullitz]

Originally Posted by Spiffav8

The only car that really sucked me in was the 56 Buick by Troy Trepanier

You and GW have excellent taste in hotrods Curtis.

[Spiffav8]

Originally Posted by compos mentis

You and GW have excellent taste in hotrods Curtis.

and trucks. lol

[ironworks]

What is finally making it to the showroom floor is what guys who own shops have been seeing for a long time. Very few guys are spending big money to wow people now days. What used to be the typical over the top booth car at SEMA was a 500k plus car is now half that. You don't see all these cars with tons and tons of billet crap. Guys with money right now are invested and waiting. Guys with healthly business's that have survived the past 5 years are waiting to see what happens when the have not's vote Hillary into office in 2016. If you don't believe in trinkle down economics then go to SEMA, Things have changed.

I know guys who went all week last week and were cruising the Las Vegas Pawn shops Tuesday afternoon bored. they could not wait for the show to close on Friday so they could get their car and go home. I went over Tuesday and almost went back home Wednesday night after the Lat-g Party but stayed to spend another day with my customers that were attending the event and I went home Thursday afternoon instead on Friday.