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Title: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on July 20, 2025, 05:34:10 AM
 Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967

SEMA 1967

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Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on July 20, 2025, 05:35:07 AM
 Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967

https://www.tiktok.com/@sema_show/video/7528083011498298679
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on July 20, 2025, 05:35:40 AM
 Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on July 20, 2025, 05:36:07 AM
 Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on July 20, 2025, 05:33:08 PM
More info on the first SEMA

You might be asking, just what is a SEMA?    
Discover the World's Largest Automotive Aftermarket Show: The First Sema Show 1967
https://vette-vues.com/rear-vues-1967-the-1st-sema-show/
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: 98SVT - was 06GT on July 20, 2025, 06:41:31 PM
Bob Petersen put that one together to get his advertisers together in a bigger trade show. The first one I went to in Vegas was huge and still a coat & tie event. 1/2 through day 1 we were off to KMart for some tennis shoes. The best thing to get from the show was the book of all the exhibitors. It had all the contact info on who to call to con parts for the magazine project cars.
PRI (Performance Racing Industry) is another great show - mainly race only parts and the equipment to make the stuff. If you need shop tools this is the one to hit. Walk around on the last day with a pocketful of cash and buy the stuff they brought to demonstrate at the show usually for 1/3 price.
https://youtu.be/w21SUcBcUsY
https://youtu.be/7NHoJsKqxiA
https://youtu.be/YWBserSgz-A
https://youtu.be/g9z8JdgY2lg
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on July 21, 2025, 02:06:14 AM
Boy how things have changed in such a short period of time


Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on July 20, 2025, 06:41:31 PMBob Petersen put that one together to get his advertisers together in a bigger trade show. The first one I went to in Vegas was huge and still a coat & tie event. 1/2 through day 1 we were off to KMart for some tennis shoes. The best thing to get from the show was the book of all the exhibitors. It had all the contact info on who to call to con parts for the magazine project cars.
PRI (Performance Racing Industry) is another great show - mainly race only parts and the equipment to make the stuff. If you need shop tools this is the one to hit. Walk around on the last day with a pocketful of cash and buy the stuff they brought to demonstrate at the show usually for 1/3 price.
https://youtu.be/w21SUcBcUsY
https://youtu.be/7NHoJsKqxiA
https://youtu.be/YWBserSgz-A
https://youtu.be/g9z8JdgY2lg
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: tesgt350 on July 21, 2025, 06:52:37 AM
Quote from: FL SAAC on July 20, 2025, 05:33:08 PMMore info on the first SEMA

You might be asking, just what is a SEMA?   
Discover the World's Largest Automotive Aftermarket Show: The First Sema Show 1967
https://vette-vues.com/rear-vues-1967-the-1st-sema-show/

No, I'm asking myself, "SELF, After All These Decades, What Does B & M Stands For"?
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on July 21, 2025, 07:30:14 AM

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No, I'm asking myself, "SELF, After All These Decades, What Does B & M Stands For"?
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Easy Peasy

The founders of B&M Racing and Performance

Bob Spar and Mort Schuman. 

Your welcome
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on July 21, 2025, 11:12:25 AM

[/quote]
No, I'm asking myself, "SELF, After All These Decades, What Does B & M Stands For"?

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Easy Peasy

The founders of B&M Racing and Performance

Bob Spar and Mort Schuman.

Your welcome
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Or better yet a picture of them both

"B and M"
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: 98SVT - was 06GT on July 21, 2025, 05:02:47 PM
Quote from: FL SAAC on July 21, 2025, 11:12:25 AMOr better yet a picture of them both

In high school we built a Bantam Roadster with a tri-power 348 Chevy and 4 speed B&M Hydro Stick trans. The trans weighed a ton. It would carry the front wheels most of the way across an intersection.

https://www.hotrod.com/features/the-gasser-s-gearbox-982-1627-96-2
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: TA Coupe on November 08, 2025, 02:09:41 AM
I went to the SEMA show for 32 years and had my truck on display with Ford in front of the convention center in 94&95. I even did a Jacob's Ignition install in front of the convention center for an article in one of the magazines. The truck has been in eight or nine magazines. My wife looked over my shoulder and noticed that I was reading about something concerning the SEMA show and said she has a bunch of my old badges from the shows and here's a bunch of them. I went to the first one in 1976 and did 30 in a row before I missed one.

     Roy
Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: TA Coupe on November 08, 2025, 02:11:07 AM
A couple more.

Title: Re: Discover the Worlds Largest Automotive Show : The First SEMA Show 1967
Post by: FL SAAC on November 08, 2025, 09:07:36 AM
Quote from: TA Coupe on November 08, 2025, 02:11:07 AMA couple more.



Exquisite

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And thanks for sharing