SEMA 2012 – The End is Near

Whew! What a SHOW! Story: T-Bone, Photos: T-bone and Billy On Monday, 4 short days ago, we started to feel the stretch of the hamstrings and now that they are all loose, we see the end of this endurance race of a show. This morning we had the pleasure of working with Emily Sherer (above) […]

SEMA 2012 Banquet Thursday

The Endurance Race… Story: T-Bone, Photos T-Bone / Billy (above: Emily Sherer at Defenderworx’s Booth) We are hitting the half-way mark and yesterday was a great day walking the halls and finding all kinds of cool stuff. We could leave today and have a great show, but we want to cover it all for you. […]

SEMA 2012 Halloween

Tricks and Treats on the Show Floor. Story: Tony Colombini, Photos: Gary Morin and Billy Day two at SEMA and it’s Halloween. We saw some incredible things. We first met up with the people at Evapo-Rust. Evapo-rust claims to be a “Super Safe Rust Remover”. They had a plastic vat with rusty chain and auto […]

SEMA 2012 – Opening Day

Let the party begin… Story: T-bone, Photos: Billy and T-Bone We started the day at the New Products Award Breakfast hosted by Dave McClelland with keynote speaker Chip Foose who spoke about the passion in our industry. When he left Boyd’s shop with only $700 in the bank, and his wife announcing that she was […]

SEMA 2012 Preview

Photos/Story: T-Bone Day one of the big show. We rolled out of Southern California leaving our boy Panzer to watch the homestead and keep our loved one company. A beautiful day anticipated a great ride through the California Desert to Las Vegas some 230+ miles to the east. First a couple of stops to pick […]

Cruisin’ For A Cure

The “SAVE YOUR LIFE” Show Story: T-Bone, Photos: Gary Morin (Rusty Relic), Tony Colombini That’s a pretty bold statement. And it’s true. Over one hundred of our car cruisin’ buddies’ lives have been saved from Prostate Cancer this year alone.  We have tested over 10,000 men and literally saved well over 3,000 men from this […]

The Bastard Winos

What the hell did I just step in? Story/Photos: T-bone I was walking through the Bedlam at the Broiler  show when all of a sudden I heard a song from the stage that I recognize. I had picked up a set of the “Sounds of Gasoline” CD’s at last year’s Rip’s BAD Ride V.I.P. night. […]

Ventura Nationals

Chasing the blue moon to the 2012 Ventura Nationals. Photos/Story: T-Bone Here I am again in the early morning watching the moon set as the guys in my club are gathering to hit another significant show. Last December we were gathering under a lunar eclipse to hit the Mooneyes X-mas Show and Drags. This morning […]

Miniature Engine Collection

Car Crazy, Inc. is presenting the Bob Haagenson collection of miniature engines for auction with EBay Seller: “Kidzstuff1”. Bob Haagenson of Pomona, California, a master at building model replica engines for decades has opened his collection for auction with expert EBay Kidzstuff1. Chris Unger and his staff at Car Crazy, Inc. will manage the auction […]

Genevieve at the Snake and Mongoose Film Set

Photos/Story: T-Bone Many of you know I work quite a bit with Genevieve Chappell, The Queen of Cars. A little while back she was invited to the set on the last day of filming “Snake & Mongoose” feature film. The movie is a moderately budgeted independent biography following the lives, friendship, rivalry and partnership of the […]