It’s been awesome getting out to these early events every so often. Usually I’m a ghost, I’ll say Hi to the few people I recognize then get to walking around – capture a few images – all while thinking about what the heck I’m going to write. Ok, that last part is a lie, I don’t really know what I’ll be writing about till I’m actually here putting things together. BUT, lately I’ll stop at a car to really give it a good look over and I’ll usually strike up a conversation with the owner. After all, none of these cars that end up on here mean anything at all without some sort of story between them and the owner.

Time is an illusion, so let’s not dwell on the fact that it took me over 2 months to get these photos edited and this article written up. All jokes aside, this is the largest gallery I’ve ever put on the site and once I removed any duplicates, or shots that I didn’t feel really needed to be in there – this was everything that was left. There is just SO much going on at SEMA – it’s really hard to capture everything. I mean we missed an entire section (Toyo Tires tent), but that just means I gotta try harder this year!

I love that every time I end up going out to another event, it ends up being better then the last one. And it’s not about how many cars there are, or the “OMG did you see that Porsche that showed up?”. All of that is great and all. And it isn’t about the fact that the class of cars down here in the Rio Grande Valley has become ridiculous (I mean that in a really good way). But there’s one thing I love seeing at events like this more than the exotics that pull up, more than the older classics that pull up, and more than the amount of cars that make it to these events.