Media Platforms Design TeamApparently, adding 22s and an aero kit qualifies you as a show car.Media Platforms Design TeamNo, this wasn’t shot in the morning before anybody showed up. This was taken at 4:00 in the afternoon when the crowd was heavy.Media Platforms Design TeamNot even restored, much less customized…Media Platforms Design TeamYour monitor doesn’t do justice to the kryptonite-green paint on this 6-seat buggy’s suspension parts.Media Platforms Design TeamWhen I first saw this, I figured that someone had put the vinyl film into the cutter upside down. Then someone told me that this is the style for Japanese Drift cars—putting the print graphics on in mirror image on one side. I’d just like to point out that this not a drift car.Media Platforms Design TeamThis green paint has metal flakes in it about 1/4 in. across. Dazzling, yes. Attractive, no.Media Platforms Design TeamAt first glance, this looks like engine-turned bare metal with graphics and clear coat. Walk closer, and it’s just wrapped like a bus, with printed vinyl sheet that’s starting to peel.Media Platforms Design TeamThey painted over some of the chrome, at least.Media Platforms Design TeamYes, that’s a small-block V8. That’s got to be fun to drive with the 1:1 go-kart steering.Media Platforms Design TeamIf Elvis has left the building, whose Harley is this?Media Platforms Design TeamThe finishing touch on this one is the phony exhaust manifold decal on top of the fender.Media Platforms Design TeamSomeone’s compensating for some other shortcoming here–why else would you use big-rig-styled wheels with such big nuts?Media Platforms Design TeamThe Batmobile on LSD. I can’t even figure out what this was before they ruined it.Media Platforms Design TeamFrom the same shop as the Batmobile-on-LSD, but at least I can tell this started life as a Mini convertible.Media Platforms Design TeamFlat black is the new Kandy Apple. Either that or they ran out of time to paint it and left it in primer.Complete Coverage of SEMA 2007 »>
