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SEMA 2009: Gran Turismo Best in Show is the Trans-Cammer Mustang

PRESS RELEASE GRAN TURISMO® AWARDS' "BEST OF SHOW" WINNER RACES AWAY WITH THE PRIVILEDGE TO BE FEATURED IN THE WORLD'S BEST-SELLING RACING FRANCHISE Seventh Annual Awards Ceremony at SEMA Show Celebrates Car Culture by Honoring Automotive Excellence in ...

From FRANK FILIPPONIO, AutoblogGreen,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sony Computer Entertainment America,  Motor Trend,  Scott Bailey,  Scion,  Lamborghini

Heads up! Space Station flyby Sunday evening

The International Space Station is back in our evening skies, and on Sunday evening the big contraption will be flying up the East Coast and almost directly over Baltimore. (And even more directly over Ocean City.)  The only hitch is that on this pass ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NASA

SEMA 2009: Booth Professionals are anything but stock

This year's SEMA show in Las Vegas didn't have quite the gravitas of years past, as the state of the economy and the automotive industry in particular seemed to be a wet blanket over the whole proceedings. Thank goodness there were plenty of friendly ...

From FRANK FILIPPONIO, AutoblogGreen,  6 Nov 2009

SEMA 2009: What we didn't get to cover

Every year at SEMA, we fill the week with posts featuring special vehicles and products that we felt were important enough to share. Generally, they are the most newsworthy projects and new model introductions, but sometimes they are just things that ...

From FRANK FILIPPONIO, AutoblogGreen,  6 Nov 2009

SEMA 2009: Chevy Graphics Camaro not bashful about changing in public

Chevrolet decided that it might be fun to have a contest to pick out a new decal pack for its hot new Camaro. They posted six different possible decal sets on Facebook a while back and after letting their online friends vote, the automaker chose four ...

From FRANK FILIPPONIO, AutoblogGreen,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Chevrolet

SEMA 2009: 1951 Henry J gasser is a 7-second blast from the past

Here's another black beauty that caught our attention in the halls of SEMA 2009. It's a 1951 Kaiser Henry J owned and raced by Chris Beanes of California. Running in A/Gas, this gloss-free gasser can storm the quarter in the mid-7s at better than 174 ...

From FRANK FILIPPONIO, Autoblog,  6 Nov 2009

SEMA 2009: Knee-high tri-axle pickup by Air-Zenith is down and (not so) dirty

We're not exactly sure what this used to be in its former life, but it all kinds of cool in its current iteration. Just knee-high to a Hobbit, this six-wheel convertible was parked in the shadow of Bigfoot and we almost tripped over it. We were able ...

From FRANK FILIPPONIO, Autoblog,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Dodge

SEMA 2009: Blackout Bentley balances the bad

It seems that matte black is the new black this year at SEMA, especially if you broaden if to gray and slip bare carbon fiber into the category. This particular application of said coloring resides on a sinister looking Bentley Continental GT. Besides ...

From FRANK FILIPPONIO, AutoblogGreen,  6 Nov 2009

SEMA 2009: Pinkee's ignites lust for a Pontiac Firebird

This year's SEMA show might have been a bit smaller than in years past, but there were certainly some heavy hitters in the crowd that proved the old "quality, not quantity" adage. Take, for instance, this super-clean, super-fine 1977 Pontiac Firebird. ...

From FRANK FILIPPONIO, AutoblogGreen,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Pontiac

Ida headed for Gulf this weekend

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are getting conflicting predictions from their computer models and other guides. But the guesswork seems to be settling on a storm track into the central Gulf by early next week, with a likely curve toward ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  6 Nov 2009

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