SEMA Coverage
SEMA 2012: SSBC Brakes For Chevy Cars and Trucks
The aftermarket produces everything for Chevy musclecars and trucks; high performance engine components, exhaust systems, and a hefty supply of restoration parts. Now SSBC makes a wide array of brake kits for our favorite Chevrolet vehicles; everything from classic musclecars to late-model trucks.
SEMA 2012: OER Parts For Restoring Your GM Or Chrysler
Filling a need for high quality reproduction parts for dealers and restoration shops, OER provides their customers with restoration parts and accessories for General Motors and Mopar, including hard to find parts.
SEMA 2012: Gear Vendors Under/Over-drive Goes Old School
If you’re like most of the aftermarket industry, spooling along the fast lane at an uneasy high rpm for long distance drives can leave you wincing most of the trip, rather than enjoying it. Gear Vendors has cured that with their latest component, which allows manual 3-speeds to gain three extra gears!
SEMA 2012: Joe Gibbs Driven Offers Street & Race Synthetic Oils
Recent advances in synthetic base-stock oils have led to thinner race and street oils that still provide exceptional bearing-oil thickness. Joe Gibbs Driven offers a number of formulas, including those specific to the LS engine and different types of racing.
SEMA 2012: SSBC Unleashes Big Brake Kits For Classic Wheel Sizes
Back in the ’60s and even today, musclecars had it all. Class, timeless styling, power… apart from today’s standards of handling the only thing they really lacked was proper braking systems. What was thought to be “good” or “adequate” back then is barely considered safe by modern standards. SSBC has the answer.
SEMA 2012: Kicker Upgrades Medley’s Coupe and Adds Powersports Line
When news spread that Tom Medley’s famed 1940 Coupe had been involved in a garage fire, some of the industries top brands joined forces to help rebuild an iconic hot rod and bring it back to life – even better than the original. Kicker comes to the rescue with upgraded tunes, check it out!
SEMA 2012: Dan Woods Tours ’56 Chevy Tri-Five And Legendary ’69
Dan Woods of Chop Cut Rebuild talks about his 9th successful season as host, Reggie Jackson’s 1969 Yenko Camaro and of course, the Open Air Bel Air, built exclusively with all-new Classic Indsutries reporduciton parts and components. We’ve got both videos right here!
SEMA 2012: BrakeQuip Releases Their Latest Offerings At SEMA
At this year’s SEMA show, there was no shortage of anything automotive being unveiled at the show, and that includes tools and shop supplies. BrakeQuip was on hand to show off their latest offerings of tools for the shadetree mechanic. This included their patented tube and pipe benders.
SEMA 2012: Vintage Air New SureFit System for ’55-59 Chevy Trucks
Vintage Air is owned and operated by veteran street rodders who have been involved in the industry for over thirty years. Offering the most comprehensive line of high performance air conditioning components available, Vintage Air debuted even more complete systems at this year’s SEMA Show.
SEMA 2012: Barrett-Jackson Preps For Scottsdale Auction Event
SEMA attracts whordes of car-hungry enthusiasts every year. Without a doubt, it only makes sense to have Barrett-Jackson outfitted with their own outpost. If you’re like us, you live and breath the world of everything automotive, including the buying and selling of rare and unique vehicles.
SEMA 2012: Classic Industries Has New Catalogs, Wholesale Program
Classic Industries has been around for over 35 years and is known for their unique catalogs for vehicles as far back as 1947 for cars and trucks. They’ve introduced some new catalogs, as well as a wholesale buyers program for shops.
SEMA 2012: Retro Rack’s Mustang II Steering Rack For Any Hot Rod
Since the late 1970′s, hot rodders have been swapping in steering racks and the independent front suspension units from Mustang II donor cars into their hot rods. But both time and technology have caught up with the design, and Retro Rack has just launched a modern version of it at this year’s SEMA show.
SEMA 2012: Brad Penn Adds Two Blends to High Performance Line
The Brad Penn line of Penn Grade 1 High Performance oils has two new viscosity blends: 5W-30 for classic engines and crate motors and SAE 60 for racing applications. Both have higher levels of zinc and phosphorus (ZDDP), which helps prevent wear on metal-to-metal contact, and both have the distinctive green color.
SEMA 2012: Eaton’s Truetrac Adds 5-Pinion, 35-Spline For 9-inch
Any gearhead (pun intended), if you’re paying attention, would have realized one vital component is missing from an all-purpose muscle car: a bulletproof rearend to take all the punishment. And that’s exactly where Eaton’s Detroit TrueTrac reigns supreme. It’s the ultimate King. Now available for Ford 9-in
SEMA 2012: Original Parts Group Features Vintage Cadillac Parts
Original Parts Group manufactures those hard to find parts for your vintage GM collector and restoration cars. This year’s new reproduction parts feature GM’s vintage Cadillacs.
