Topic: Lemons at SEMA!
Our beloved POS BMW Lemons racer will be a "featured car" at this year's SEMA show. I already mentioned it briefly in one thread, but I'm pretty damn excited about it so I figured I'd post it again.
The lovely lady in the photo is my friend who happens to be the PR person for Bilstein, and her husband is the "creative director" on our team and is the one most responsible for the execution of all of our themes.
Last year I had to go to SEMA for my company, and while there I spoke to her while she was working in the Bilstein booth. I joked that if she had asked nicely, they could have had our BMW in their booth. She then passed the joke on to her boss, who had known about our car and everything we had done to build it up (including the use of Bilstein shocks). To our surprise, he thought it was a great idea, and the joke snowballed into reality. Sounds a lot like the whole Lemons series itself!
So Bilstein sponsored up and paid for our entry fee, but we had to wait for SEMA to accept us. Our car is pretty anti-SEMA in its nature and budget to build. Their rules state cars should be "free of dents or cracked windows" etc. Um... that's gen-u-ine racing patina, not a dent! But I guess our pile is interesting enough, plus it does have several parts on it from SEMA exhibitors (Bilstein, Falken, Street Scene Equipment) because we got accepted.
I'm very proud to fly the Lemons flag for the first time at SEMA. Our car is simultaneously perfect for the show (over the top ridiculous modifications) and the polar opposite of most cars there (our total investment is probably 1/10 the amount of any other car there), so I expect it to get quite a bit of attention. I have no idea where it'll be displayed at the show, although I hope it's at least under shelter (windows are for pussies!). We're currently working on prettying it up a bit (I can't believe I painted the interior floor) but it'll pretty much be in race-ready state.
The car is still registered and insured (only for the ability to flat tow it on the street because I don't own a trailer) and has working lights, so after the show we're going to try to make a few runs down the Strip for fun.