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 parts in it. It is a water-base rust remover and with surface rust a soaking will remove in about an hour, where a severely rusted piece will take overnight. We will be doing some Shocker Chopper Garage tests of some rusty parts. The thing we like about the product too is the demonstration of a rusty can that when soaked the original printing on the can was untouched. Watch for more. Then we headed over to Ironclad who makes project specific gloves. Some incredible work gloves right for any occasion from hunting to oil rig working.
It’s Halloween and occasionally we see a booth babe dressed up and tried to get a pic for you to enjoy. The PPG booth had a nice looking Lone Ranger chick with Bobby Alloway’s ’56 Ranch Wagon.
There were other incredible products we found including a low-temp aluminum welding product called FUSE. Similar to soldering but much stronger to braze two pieces of aluminum together. We’ll have to perform a test for you as well. They say it’s great at the track when track time is of essence and you need a quick fix.
Clay Johnson was there with his wife Gwynn showcasing his new LS Coil Covers. More beautiful products from Clayton Machine Works.
In the north hall we found some textured vinyl coating products, imagine a snake and lizard skin coated Challenger. Then we ran into Dennis Gage at the Autogeek.net booth. Farther along we found a really cool tool which we will be testing in the Shocker Chopper Garage; Tight Reach is a socket extender to fit in cramped places. Follow along as we test the set from a professional grade 3/8 and ¼ inch version and a home shop 3/8 inch 1/1 ratio.
Would you believe a Viper Limo? That and some other cool cars were in the Mopar Alley between the south hall and central hall.
Back in the central hall we rolled over to TMI they were showcasing their Sport R line in an employee built Chevelle and a Mustang. Tomorrow we will be shooting model; Emily Sherer in their comfy seats. Stay tuned.
The show closed right at 5pm and we headed over to the Hot Rod Industry Alliance reception where Mike Kinney auctioned off three winning pinewood derby cars for the SEMA Cares program. Over $4,000 dollars were raised in the auction!
Tomorrow looks to be action packed with a stroll through Hot Rod Alley with Emily shooting her in a variety of booths.