A Cougar Eliminator with Aruba license plates, that is very random. You have no idea what you'll find at SEMA until you are there, looking around

If you've never heard of Aruba, it is no surprise. If the Beach Boys didn't mention it in their last hit song of the 80's, I bet no one would have ever heard of it.

Did you know it's a colony of the Netherlands? Bizarre. It had indigenous people as far bask as 4500 years ago

 

something I've never heard of before, putting a set of Road Runner hood scoops on a Camaro. Just not the coolest Road Runner hood scoop (A12 hood)

overlander VW van... how they get traction, or power, is a mystery to me (but they mentioned it on their facebook page)

2180cc from Westy Restorations, Parts and Accessories. 

Carbs rebuilt and oil pump cover by BlackLine Racing, 

Transmission is a heavy duty case,  4.12 RP with a .89 4th gear, 1.26 3rd gear, BlackLine Racing built it for the mountain passes and dirt roads

A sweet sounding and top quality exhaust from A-1 Performance Exhaust Systems. 

Panchito heads from CB Performance.

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The Nova in the Kindig outdoor area at SEMA

 

1970 F 250

 

an infographic about Nissan I found at SEMA

SEMA had a large booth area (where PPG and Toyota used to have their booths in the North Hall) where the drag racing cars of noteworthy blacks were, which either illustrates that the USA is 76% white 14%black, or that motorsports is not a vocation that minorities in the USA participate in, vs athletic sports

I've posted about anyone that caught my interest, regardless of nationality, location on this planet, ancestry, age, or sex. 

There just haven't been much more than 2 or 3% of any minority in American motorsports. Not in Nascar, drag racing, go carts, Indy cars, atvs, trucks, mud bogs, swamp buggies, boat racing, land speed racing, etc. Anyone that isn't a white guy is an anomaly. 

Reasons are probably mostly opinions on how that is, but, again, the population by census, isn't a matter for speculation, it's a science fact from the govt statistics. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221  

I still think it's ridiculous to use the term African American, unless you're talking about Elon Musk, Charlize Theron, or others that actually were born in Africa, and are now American citizens. 

Either call people American, colored (not my term, just ask the NAACP who they represent) POC (people of color), or black. (if that offends you, just ask the govt or any survey why I am "white" instead of European ancestry) 

People getting upset about race simply are irritated about everything, and out to fight about terminology of something, political, gender, racist, or their favorite sports team of athlete millionaires of different ancestry. It's emotional, not logical 

the BASF booth had some very remarkable vehicles in it's booth, like usual. A van certainly isn't usual though!

 

I'm not sure if this is a 72, 73, or 74 Barracuda, but the bodywork is immaculatethey we

I know the 72 had the round taillights, and that grill, because I had a 72. It doesn't have the side marker lights, of course, they were plastic and I doubt many survived all these decades in great condition

a nice truck with a very interesting accessory box in the bed. Nice touch!