15 Best Paint Jobs at SEMA

Chip Foose Ford GT ・ Photo by Megan Green

Every year, SEMA invites builders and customizers to bring their best car creations to show in Las Vegas. The front and back lots are filled with tuners, donks, hot rods, rat rods, speedsters, roadsters, monster trucks, muscle cars, low riders - and every other automotive genre imaginable. Here are some of the amazing paint jobs that caught our eye at the biggest and highest attended SEMA show to date. First up, the Scion booth had an eye-popping 70’s style van and some pretty intense tuners, but the SCION x Slayer Mobile Amp tC takes the cake. A mural of skulls is painted on the suicide doors and the Slayer logo covers the hood. METAL.

Mazda revealed the 2016 MX-5 Cup race car at SEMA, which will be raced in a new global series. Still in development, the MX-5 will be sold race-ready.

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Can anything go wrong when Chip Foose touches it? Apparently not - this Ford GT in the Magnaflow booth with the Foose touch was simply stunning.

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This tiger-striped yellow and black Bimmer must be quite a sight in motion.

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Certainly more subdued than the more outlandish paint jobs around SEMA, this 1950 Chevy three window truck sat low to the ground with an impeccable matte brown body and matte black grille and bumper.

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This 1972 Buick Riviera has a name and it is “Rivtile.” Dark green with burst snakeskin paint effects, there are also 5,000 Swarovski crystals decorating the grille.

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If you can get past the enormous spoiler, this 1997 Nissan S-14’s paint by Kal Koncepts/ Air Syndicate is pretty sharp.

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Outside of the Lowrider Magazine tent was this 57 Chevy with famous “Public Enemies” painted into the tail find panel and trunk hood.

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There’s everything right with a traditional flaming hot rod.

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A 1927 roadster with a little different touch - lavender chantilly lace.

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Tanner Foust, the stunt driver on Top Gear America and also races a Volkswagen Beetle in Red Bull Global Rallycross launched this bright orange tuned Beetle at SEMA.

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