With about a week to reflect on it and literally thousands of photos to pile through, I thought it would be a peachy time to glue together my top 10 favorite vehicles from the 2010 SEMA show. It probably should be a top 100 but for the sake of your time and mine, I’ll chop it down to 10.
In no particular order, here are my favorite 10 cars and trucks from the 2010 SEMA show.
This Pro Touring Firebird really turns my crank. There’s loads of tire under it, a mile-deep red paint job, and full boogie suspension underneath. I’d take an early 2nd-Gen Firebird over a Camaro of the same time period every day of the week!
Throw rocks if you want, but this big fellow, sitting on humongo rims would look really good sitting in my driveway. The six door cab could haul a load of pals around and I’m a total sucker for orange paint. Sure it is huge, but it would be fun to cruise it.
This Chevy truck was so clean and well done, the whole world seemed to be ignoring it. The Duramax diesel in the front could melt those rear tires for as long as it felt like it. This is easily the cleanest “new diesel in an old truck” swap I have ever seen.
This is plain Jane chic if you ask me. A stripper 300 model with big steel wheels, a nicely massaged body, spartan interior and an amazingly finished engine bay, it is minimalism gone maximum. There are hundreds of cars that hit you over the head at SEMA, this one sneaks up and slaps you on the back of the head.
It is a giant racing truck with a rear mounted Detroit Diesel, water cooled brakes, an amazing amount of camber in the front tires and super singles out back. It is everything great about the world rolled into one vehicle. Love does not describe my feelings.
This road racing Camaro with a cross-ram 302 in it caused drool to openly flow from my mouth. The old school Cragar wheels and screaming yellow paint look fantastic. The headlight block-outs and side exhaust are just perfect. This looks like an amateur road racing Camaro rather than a Trans-Am spec car, I’m guessing that due to the smallish tires under it.
Old wagon, new Hemi, big steel wheels, surface rust. That about covers it.
The Cherry Bomb “Disturbing the Peace” Camaro was a real show stopper. It caused human car accidents all week long and really hit it big with the crowd. The fact that the roots blown LS-engine makes 850hp with the “big” pulley on the blower and way more than 900hp with the little one means that this thing is no pipsqueak poseur.
This hot rod’s paint was our favorite of the show. The light blue base with white scallops hand striped with a red border made it literally jump off the carpet. Sitting right at the base of the Ford display, it turned a lot of heads in a high traffic zone.
Well, I kid of lied. I saved this 1956 Ford F-750 Big Job for last because it was my favorite vehicle of the show. It sits on a new Chevy 3500 cab an chassis. Sporting a Duramax for power, and an Allison transmission to move that power rearward, we would start driving this truck and not stop until the tires wore out. This is a NICE truck.
