Today was our first day attending the conference which is the real reason we are here. Considering I got to bed at 2am after getting Jeff from the airport and having to solve all of life's big problems, I was fairly fried today.
The first class I took with Paul, Jeff, Cliff, Galen, Greg, Evan, Paul, Lucky, Vadim and Brad. The subject was interesting enough: throttle by wire. Unfortunately, the whole class could have been done well in about 1 hour yet it was stretched to 3 hours. The instructor kept going over the same subject in different ways. Since the class was not good, most of the students bailed out at break time. Cliff is still not well so I encouraged him to go home and rest. Only Brad, Vadim, Greg and Evan hung in there.
Today was just a box lunch with a croissant sandwich...not bad/not great!
The second class of the day was better. It was so packed with info about E85, flex-fuel vehicles that my head was spinning by the time I left. Great info/genius instructor/too much info. None of the students were in this one unfortunately. The guy that taught the class has a shop in Colorado. He built this gem and drove it to Vegas! http://www.seyferauto.com/project_01.html This is an unbelievable build! Paul and I went and looked at it in the parking garage. Read the text, amazing.
After having dinner with Mike Shannon, Bruce and Paul, Paul and I headed down to the CARS trade show around 7:30. There was a huge food spread and great desserts. The only student left at the trade show by the time we got there was Evan. He hung out with me as I talked to vendors and buddies. We entered a bunch of giveaways and got lots of free-bee stuff. Too many hats though!
Tomorrow looks like some good classes and the big classy lunch is also tomorrow. The food will be high end I am sure. I will be leaving a little early as I plan to catch up to my Mother-In-Law for dinner.
To read more about the on-going SEMA Show and see professional pics, try these sites:
http://www.motortrend.com/auto_shows/coverage/sema/112_0710_2007_sema_show_part_1
http://www.motortrend.com/auto_shows/coverage/sema/112_0710_2007_sema_show_part_2
http://www.motortrend.com/auto_shows/coverage/sema/112_0710_2007_sema_show_part_3
Just make sure you scroll down as each page has multiple more pages attached near the middle, after the text.
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