Top 10 Craziest Paint Jobs of SEMA
A custom exhaust or the ability to outrun a stock supercar can draw attention to your car, but only if it’s running.
One of the most consistently impressive aspects of the SEMA Show is how creative some of the builders can be with finishing their cars. You’ll see Camaros covered in spray-on bed liner, blinding chrome wraps and impressive if not polarizing air brush portraits among other things. During our time walking the floor this week, we stopped to snap pictures of the most striking and sometimes challenging examples at this year’s show.
There are good chrome wraps and bad chrome wraps. No, wait, sorry. There aren’t good chrome wraps. They’re all horrendous.
If you are ever unlucky enough to be in traffic beside something like this on a cloudless day without sun glasses, it’s going to hurt.
This 1967 resto-mod Firebird is a perfect example of why there is never a good reason to bother with a chrome wrap. Even if you aren’t a fan of the green color, it’s hard not to have respect for the rich, bright tone that it gives the car.
Same goes for this tastefully done if not somewhat over-the-top project. It’s crazy, but sometimes that’s not such a bad thing.
Forget flames because this matte white BMW M4 has paint streaks! We aren’t sure why, but instead of finishing the car in the tried, true and – frankly – trite fire graphics so many cars have, this Bimmer is finished in flying colors.
If you could stand and watch this car for more than a few seconds, you would see the lights in its grille, intake scoops and wheels changing colors. If the gold chrome Corvette is bad, this is borderline blasphemy.
Chevrolet’s Impala is a longtime favorite in the lowrider community. Or at least the classic Impalas from decades past are. Since then, the nameplate evolved into the modern front-wheel drive family cruiser GM is currently offering. This car was sitting at the Lowrider display. Tell us what you thing in the comments below.
Country music icon and philanthropist Toby Keith makes a fortune singing songs like “American Soldier” and “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue,” but even Keith can’t top the 10-cylinder of a Viper. America.
It’s tough to top the classic muscle car style from the late ’60s. Until Ford went in a new direction with the 2015 Mustang, each of the Detroit 3 relied on the nostalgia that cars like this still create to sell new metal. Surprisingly, sometimes it’s better to go with no paint at all.
With a red interior to compliment its finish, this is probably one of the hardest cars to miss at the 2014 SEMA Show.
We won’t even try to defend this one. It’s a Dodge Ram pickup truck finished primarily in puce green with a portrait of Megan Fox mixed with an interpretation of the Mona Lisa. Are you confused? We are…
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That Impala looks pretty sharp but not my cup of tea though. But I like it.
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