Only industry professionals qualify to attend the SEMA Show. So each year, auto enthusiasts and the general public wait patiently for Show coverage in their favorite magazines. They want to find out what amazing new items the manufacturers debuted and what the must-have product is going to be. Luckily, these magazines do a standout job of covering the new products and bringing the trade-only SEMA Show to their readers.
Breaking news from Performance Automatic, Meyer Distributing, Wizards Products, Justice Brothers, Ohio Technical College and Edelbrock, Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels, Roadwire and more.
The floorplan for the 2012 SEMA Show is live and available on the SEMA Show website at www.SEMAShow.com. More than 1,800 exhibitors recently participated in the Priority Space Selection process, which concluded on June 22.
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Breaking news from Flex-a-lite, Petersen Automotive Museum, Brute Industries, Royal Purple, Design Engineering and more.
Attendee and media registration for the 2012 SEMA Show is now open at www.SEMAShow.com/register. The annual trade-only event takes place Tuesday–Friday, October 30–November 2, 2012, in Las Vegas.
Buyers registering at www.SEMAShow.com/register before the early registration deadline pay just $25. They will also be sent their badges in the mail in advance of the event, allowing them to hit the Show floor immediately when the SEMA Show opens October 30.
Eleven industry professionals are vying for positions on the 2012–2015 SEMA Board of Directors.
The SEMA Board provides strategic direction to the association and plays a critical role in shaping the future of the automotive specialty-equipment industry. On May 8, election materials were mailed to the primary contacts at eligible SEMA-member companies.
The voting process is entirely electronic this year and will be ongoing from May 14, until voting closes on June 12. Election results will be published in an upcoming issue of SEMA News.
Framed by those tall velocity stacks is Bruce Crower, photographed late in 1966 for a Car Craft magazine article about his then-new fuel-injection systems for big-block Chevy engines. The air/horsepower equation in our title was the story’s title as well, referring to Crower’s “deep breathing” injectors. Unlike other injection systems on the market at the time, Crower’s injection manifold featured gaping intake ports that were nearly 3 inches wide. Those injector stacks could be mammoth, too—as tall as 14 inches, depending on the application.
The May issue of SEMA News magazine doubles as the annual SEMA
Membership Directory, and SEMA encourages you to keep this copy on your
desk throughout the year to use as your reference tool in locating
SEMA-member companies.
The membership directory is also available online. The online membership
directory is continually updated to include new SEMA members. In
addition, the online version of the membership directory lists members’
staff personnel, and you can contact them via e-mail through your MySEMA
account.