SEMA- I took in alot- But still dont swallow

HA!
Nads said SPURIOUS!!

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SEMA.

Spurious Emanations from Moneyed Assholes.

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In fact the whole title sounds like a Robt Williams "short title" doesn't it?

good one Nads!

 

Cleatus- You should have gone. Just to mess with people's heads.. Yesterday I went to a local show at this huge night club place. They parked me inside along with some real high dollar cars. It was funny to watch people kind of glance around and spot my little shit box in the corner and make a bee line for it. Passing all the guys polishing thier shiny plastic 1:1 scale model cars. After a while the goldchainers were coming over too.. saying how THEY are going to have a "Rat Rod" built for them next! Funny as hell. PLUS it was fun to drive around inside. It was like driving in your living room.

Spike

 

I gotta blow this boy's horn a bit. His name is Patrick Plenge and he has a small shop in Mansfield, OH. Visited this young fellow's shop back this past April. He is doing the paint and interior on SKR8PN's 38 Dodge truck. An awesome project that will be completed inless then 3 months.

Anyway, last April, the Camaro was in the shop in all it's stock mullet-ness. The artist rendering that Patrick did was hanging on the wall next to it. Now, less then 6 months later, it's at SEMA in the Holley display, and no, Holley did not pay to build the car. Patrick won the award for "Best GM Car" there. He's not a Foose, Coddington or Dore, just your average joe working outta a shop in the midwest. It's nice when the little guys can get recognize for their talents right along with the big dogs on the blocks. GM also made it perfectly clear they want it in their booth at the Detroit Autorama in Fed. Congrats to Patrick on an award well deserved. (the photo came from the project 33 site)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not HAMB material but my whole point is the little guy does get national recognition every now and then for a job well done.

 

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Did any of you guys see this car there? My buddy is a big time Dodge Turbo guy and he emailed this to me. Anyone have any info on it?

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I got a chance to see it, too bad things were a bit crammed together as it was difficult to get a real good look without tripping on something. It is powered by a Neon engine and was set up for Bonneville. It was a nice change of pace to see a car that wasn't a trailer queen at that show.

 

Thanks Denise.......Patrick has been working his ASS off trying get that car done for the owner. This project was built by a guy just like all of us. He scrimps and gets by just like we all do. The fellow that OWNS this car is the same way. Family man. No deep pockets here boys and girls. Patrick started out three years ago in his garage at home. All his business has been sent to him "word of mouth". He does NOT have a big budget like Foose or Coddington,to waste money on advertising,so he HAS to be good. This may be what some would consider a billet mobile,BUT,this is what he does.
He does not hire anyone to do this for him. HE DOES IT,and he does it ALL. Fabrication,body prep,paint suspension,and even stitched the interior himself.
What you see in this Camaro is pure passion...........

 

Did anyone take pics of Jimmy Shine's F150? Fastsporty is taking TOO long to post his...

 

That camaro was a nice piece, I was quickly introduced to the kid who built and and told him " very nice job, stand out" Im not scared to blow his horn HRCL either. Cant wait for SAMIAM to see shines truck and tells us what he thinks, remember we cant a torch to him, hes in his own league.

 

COLE!
I got a blow torch and a dream baby! sounds like we have been to the same church man. we have seen the light, (threw a welding mask) dont hate them cause they are stupid, tell them they are smart for spending their money with you!
FRITZ

 

Amen brother fritz, you still do any magazine work (horse)? billy bike mag.........lol

 

its funny how a little money will change a person my brother has been a body man for 15 yrs he got hurt at work ripped his rotater cuff and they say he is permanatly disabled from working in his trade so he got a job doing home refinacing well he has made $130,000 dollars in 4 months $75.000 last month alone he was #1 in the nation for his company he just went down and bought a new $50,000 pickup yes with 24`s bling bling and now i get the lecture of how i need to get my life together from the new improved little brother I am vomiting still but i asked him for a job so i am looking for a new gold chain

 

Cole:you have a PM

 

We all know why many guys go:
The Girls of SEMA Bling Bling:

http://bbs.off-road.com/photobb/showgallery.php?cat=667&thumb=1

 

Cole:
I was definitely blung over by the end of the show. And hung over. And tapped out. Too much cash spent on booze 'n' boobies. But yeah, you're right; I don't know, the hip-hop grip that's on the country is kind of irritating. Not that there isn't some good hip hop out there, but the sheer materialistic, "How much shit can I bolt on to this car?" thing is pretty fucking ridiculous. I mean, what *exactly* is the point of a slammed H2?
Let's just put it this way; the auto industry co-opts who they want to co-opt; it's like punk rock; there are the Good Charlottes of the industry (your aforementioned King of SEMA), there are the the Iggys (think the Doane Spencer roadster in the Ford display), there are companies like So-Cal who are kind of like the Clash; well-connected both high and low, do interesting things, funnel some stuff back into the grass-roots and then go out and lay a Sandanista! on your ass like that new belly-tanker. And then there are the little guys who may or not get thrown a bone here and there; the quality of the work doesn't matter so much as the name they can put on the display. Why do you think Ford had Shine to do that new F-150? Not that Jim isn't connected to a larger entity that has a good relationship with FoMoCo, but by having him do that truck, they were able to attempt to say, "Hey! Look! This new F-150 can be a hot rod! It's just like a '34! But not!"

For me, SEMA's a blast; you can't take it all too seriously, but you can't take it lightly either. I don't know, I mean, the whole thing's ludicrous at the same time as it's pretty fuckin' amazing. Plus I got to drink a lot of free whiskey.

Rock.
Dave.

 

Here's Shine's F-150. John Ricco took the photo.
Rock.
Dave.

P.S. Those induction stacks actually feed a plenum; I'm not exactly sure how it all works. Thacker @ So-Cal was gonna show me but then we ran out of time.

 

Cole you are making too much sense here. If we do what we love and others get it great and if they dont then thats great too. If your gonna do it for just the money you just may end up selling your soul. Like Slazzen says we can always do something else for a bunch of money, but I do this because I love it.
Oh ya for shizzle my whizzle...Danny

 

did the "iron crossed" f150 look better in person than the picture makes it out to be ? looks hoekie in the pic ! just an opinion looking for justice.