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– Mike Wilkes

– Mike Wilkes

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– michaels

As you can see by the engine shot there isn’t much room inside for anything else. The term “shoe horned” certainly comes to mind.

This little brute must haul some serious ass.

– michaels

Browsing through the new products showcase here at SEMA, we came across this cool iPhone interface that connects to your vehicles OBDII port and allows you to view diagnostics and performance data via iPhone or iPod touch.

Sign us up!

AMP Research are continuously pushing the envelope with the automotive industry and are working on two new patented products, a Dual Access lid for your pickup truck bed and center console. How it works is with a unique latching system that allows you to open the lid from either side. Check out Truckblog for further developments!

Off Road Evolution’s EVO Crawler Jeep is one slick offroading vehicle. The suspension has been upgraded with EVO coil overs for the front and rear, EVO custom bump stop, skid plate, drive shaft, fenders, and axles. A custom ARB bumper occupies the front end with winch assembly.

Here at the SEMA show Lucky Taco brought their custom SMART car complete with a sombrero. What are your thoughts?

Exploring some more of the outside vehicles today, we stumbled across this Militarized Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.

It sports all the details from the old Jeep CJ’s popular during WWII.

Protech have released their all aluminum welded tail gate replacement and custom tool box for common pickup trucks and SUV’s. The assembly also has a rear rack to protect the rear window and has mounts for offroad lights. For more information visit www.protech.net

Tiregate came to SEMA this week with their Chevrolet Silverado desert truck that has been outfitted with CST Suspension long travel kit, Fox 2.5 inch coil over shocks, 17″ ATX wheels wrapped with 35″ Toyo Open Country tires, custom light bar, Volant intake, Bully Dog programmer, KC offroad lights and wrapped in APE custom graphics.

Right outside the North Hall is this black Hummer H3T featuring the Diamond Back-X Cover, a Line-X’d version of their truck cover.

Innovative Customs brought their super extra mega long bed Dodge Ram MegaCab truck to SEMA this year. This thing is looooong! 22′6″ long, which is 6″ longer than a stock F-250 CrewCab with a long bed.

I actually saw this Hummer pull up while we were detailing our trucks. It just felt full on G.I. and when we looked at the signage we were correct.

I say it’s a safe bet our boys overseas would kick some serious ass if they were all issued Humvees like this one!

Located outside the South Hall is this extreme lifted Chevy pickup that looks to be half finished (?) on its way to monster truckdom. We’re confused.

Rolling on tis 24″ wheels and Toyo tires, Alpine Electronics’ Mercedez GL550 features their IVA-W505 head unit.

Walking around the show we came across a concept Toyota Land Cruiser with a pickup bed. Interesting little rig.

This Toyota Tundra dually concept truck is right outside the South Hall and features dual coil-overs in the front and AMP Research Power Steps.

We are live at the 2008 SEMA show!

Just cleaned up our two project vehicles and the live blogging officially starts NOW!