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    LA 2009: Toyota and Billabong craft one funky Venza
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    Billabong Toyota Venza - Click above for high-res image gallery
    No, this isn't a leftover post from SEMA, although to be perfectly fair, it is a leftover vehicle from SEMA. While reporting on the Hot Rod Toyota Tundra and Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer, we somehow missed this tricked-out Venza. Kitted ...

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    Five Axis offers up Aerius body kit for 2010 Toyota Prius
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    Five Axis Aerius Prius – Click above for high-res image gallery
    If you don't win the charity auction for the Aemulus-modified Prius, but want something flashy for your 2010 model, take a look at the Aerius Prius that made its debut at SEMA this year (they're practically the same vehicle). ...

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    SEMA Scraps: 15-series tire from Nexen barely holds air
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    Nexen 365/15-24 tire - Click above for image gallery
    While in Vegas for SEMA this year, we did our best to concentrate on the cars... and occasionally their hostesses. We deliberately stayed away from the thousands of individual products being introduced in order to spend more time on the cars, ...

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    SEMA 2009 Worst of Show: This car stinks...
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    Worst of Show - Click above image for hi-res gallery
    Stinks. You might think that we're talking about the overall design of this shockingly orange scissor-door/scissor-trunk Dodge Charger R/T. Or the build quality, what with panel gaps that you can insert your index finger into, wheels so large ...

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    SEMA 2009: Gran Turismo Best in Show is the Trans-Cammer Mustang
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    Philip Koenen's "Trans-Cammer" 1970 Ford Mustang. Click above for high-res image gallery
    Phillip Koenen brought a really gorgeous, miles-deep-black, 1970 Mustang to SEMA and came away with another fine piece of hardware:The Gran Turismo Best in Show award. For the past several years, Sony ...

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    SEMA 2009: Booth Professionals are anything but stock
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    Lisa Angeline, aka Catwoman - Click above for high-res image gallery
    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 ...

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    SEMA 2009: What we didn't get to cover
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    2009 SEMA Show Las Vegas - Click above for high-res image gallery
    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 ...

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    SEMA 2009: Chevy Graphics Camaro not bashful about changing in public
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    2010 Chevrolet Camaro graphics options - Click above for high-res image gallery
    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 ...

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    SEMA 2009: Galpin builds custom '69 Mustang right on the show floor
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    Galpin Auto Sports '69 Mustang build - Click above for high-res image gallery
    While those of us in the media walked around the show floor at SEMA looking for the cool, the crazy, and the just plain awesome, there were people doing actual work. Real work. No, we're not talking about the security ...

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    SEMA 2009: Knee-high tri-axle pickup by Air-Zenith is down and (not so) dirty
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    Air-Zenith custom pickup - Click above for high-res image gallery
    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 ...

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