posted 11-11-2002 09:16 AM         

We spent Saturday and Sunday choosing vehicles for placement in the various DC displays. In addition to the main booth, DC also had the new Mopar Speed Shop display (an actual working speed shop) and the Branded Showroom display (what the dealer showroom of the future should look like). The Speed Shop display was 110,000 sq. ft alone! It featured high performance vehicles, three of Mopar’s race team tractor/trailers and race cars and a working speed shop. Two of the race team displays were actually working on their vehicles getting ready for the next race. In the work area, they were actually building engines, etc.

On Monday, there was an Innovative Luncheon in the Speed Shop for all who had an invitation to attend. Dieter Zetsche was the featured speaker and talked about the direction DC is pursuing with product, etc. A fabulous lunch was served in the Speed Shop. On Monday evening, Primedia held an invitation-only reception in the Speed Shop. It was great to see everyone again.

Tuesday brought the official opening of the show. With the new South Hall open, the show was half again as large. There was a lot of walking all week and lots of booths to visit. There is an unbelievable amount of aftermarket products in the marketplace for all types of vehicles. I spent Tuesday judging on the DC Design Office Judging team. We judge tier 1 (vehicles) and tier 2 (parts) and give out four awards for each tier.

Every day is busy. Checking on vehicles, talking to vendors, etc. and trying to walk the show ourselves. Bob brought in George Barris for the show and we had him do an autograph session. We also had John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard and Smallville) there who had his own personal car in one of the displays. We gave him a tour of the Chrysler displays and he did an interview on Hot Rod TV. Very nice guy who is very interested in cars. He does a lot of racing himself.

Wednesday evening, we attended the SRMA Banquet. Bob is the DC rep for SRMA. On Thursday, it was more of the same and Dieter Z. asked Bob to give him a tour of the displays. I tried to walk more of the show. Unfortunately, there isn’t much that would apply to Prowlers, even though I kept an eye out for products. Thursday night was the annual SEMA banquet and we were the host for the DC employees. Entertainment was Rita Rudner and Louie Anderson. They were fantastic!!!

We did get to visit with Cliff Watson, Jay Harris, Steve Faint, Marvin Holas, Rick Beyes and Christy Wade. On Friday, we played hookey and took the day to walk around and see some of Vegas. We arrived home late on Saturday, tired and glad that another SEMA show is over!!!

Here is a link to the scrapbook of pictures that I took of some of the vehicles at the show.

http://prowleronline.no-ip.com/scrapbook/neweventview.php?id=229

Here are some links to some press releases on the show.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_s tories.pl?ACCT=638016&TICK=SEMASHOW&STORY=/www/story/11-06-2002/0001835824&EDATE=Nov+6,+2002

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_s tories.pl?ACCT=638016&TICK=SEMASHOW&STORY=/www/story/11-05-2002/0001835224&EDATE=Nov+5,+2002

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_s tories.pl?ACCT=638016&TICK=SEMASHOW&STORY=/www/story/11-05-2002/0001835122&EDATE=Nov+5,+2002

posted 11-11-2002 09:51 AM         

CJ - that's the part I understand. What I would like to learn is how to do some of the things that have been done to these display cars! I really like the orange and silver custom roadster.

posted 11-11-2002 10:26 AM         

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Originally posted by PROWLER-KEITH:
I really like those headlites, they could work on a Prowler They are along the same lines as the Paxton Kat that Bob brought to Deadwood last year. Thks for the info

PK

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PK - I don't know if I would put round lights on a Prowler or not.

posted 11-11-2002 10:44 AM         

Thanks for the fun!!