Nominations for the 2011 SEMA Chairman-Elect and Board of Directors aredue Thursday, January 6, 2011. To submit your nomination, please complete and submit the nomination form.

News and updates from SEMA's councils and committees.

On May 14, 2010, Dorian Comeau, a co-owner of House of Boost in Lenexa, Kansas, was severely injured while testing a vehicle the company had built. The injury left him paralyzed from the neck down. Earlier fundraising efforts among friends and industry colleagues helped the Comeau family toward covering staggering health care and related costs of his injuries.

Although primarily a motorsports museum that displays everything from early dry-lake race cars to modern top-fuel dragsters, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California, had long desired to host a stars' cars and guitars exhibit. The necessary impetus came with the 60th anniversary of the Fender Telecaster guitar. According to Cris Mirabella of Mirabella Guitars, "The Telecaster laid the groundwork for many of the modern custom designs of today. And even with all of these modern concepts, the original design still remains a very valid and needed instrument." [Read more]

Nominations for the 2011 SEMA Chairman-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 6, 2011. To submit your nomination, please complete and submit the nomination form.

News and updates from SEMA's councils and committees.

Nominations for the 2011 SEMA Chairman-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 6, 2011. Take a moment to tell us about whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for the Chairman-Elect position and/or for a Board member position. Be sure to include qualification information. Please complete and submit the nomination form.

While groups of any kind naturally lend themselves to job opportunities, social networks can give your next career move a real bounce if used expertly. Not surprisingly, the best places to start are on the networks with millions of users: LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. [Read more]

When word got out that SEMA News was looking to identify future industry trends, our friends at Popular Hot Rodding presented us with the opportunity to feature their "What's Next?" hot-rod builder story. The forecast on the future of hot rodding originally ran in the September issue of Popular Hot Rodding and will no doubt be of interest to SEMA News readers. Special thanks to the folks at Popular Hot Rodding for allowing us to reprint the article in its entirety.

No one can predict the future, of course, but experience is a type of barometer. As we move into the new year, SEMA News called on the wisdom of SEMA's council leaders to provide their opinions about what's just down the road. [Read more]