Hitting Big in Vegas – The Best Vintage Cars and Trucks at the 2024 SEMA Show
Las Vegas is a city built on dreams. The lure of striking it rich and making it big blends with the neon lights and flashy architecture to create an otherworldly blur where anything and everything seems possible. It’s no wonder the Specialty Equipment Market Association has long used this desert oasis as the location for its annual trade show, where manufacturers, builders, buyers, and enthusiasts come together to showcase the parts, tools, and materials from which automotive dreams are made – the 2024 SEMA Show.
True to form, the SEMA Show, which opened Tuesday, is sprawling with four-wheeled dreams in every shape, color, style, and configuration you could imagine. Spread across multiple buildings that comprise the truly massive Las Vegas Convention Center, this year’s show once again provides miles of aisles filled with the latest parts, tools, equipment, accessories, tires, and technology available for turning automotive aspirations into reality. Overwhelming only begins to describe the SEMA Show experience – there’s simply little nothing else of this size and scope to which you can compare it.
As we’ve done for years, Goodguys and FuelCurve.com accepted the challenge of attending and covering this massive marvel of motorhead mayhem. Using our booth in Hot Rod Alley as headquarters – where we have the Goolsby-built Grand Prize Giveaway ’87 Monte Carlo proudly on display – we ventured to all corners of the show to seek out the coolest parts, people, and vehicles. Naturally, we focused on our favorites – namely hot rods, customs, muscle cars, vintage trucks, and other rides of interest to the Goodguys audience.
The SEMA Show remains a scene of sensory overload, with almost too much information to take in and process properly. We think the highlights here offer a pretty good taste of things, though – a sampler of the automotive dreams on the horizon for 2025 and beyond.
Photos by Damon Lee and Todd Ryden
