For years, Toyo Tire’s Treadpass has been home to a few of SEMA’s most jaw-dropping builds. This 12 months’s display was no different.
Many are calling the 2024 SEMA Show the event’s most impressive in years – thanks in no small part to the variability of cars on display and, generally speaking, the standard. The Treadpass is consistently where SEMA’s highest-calibre builds come to life.
Should you’re the sort to point and exclaim, “CARBON FIBAHH,” then Garage Energetic’s BCNR33 Nissan Skyline GT-R shall be right up your street. Following their hit BNR32 GT-R from SEMA 2021, this latest construct takes the identical formula and elevates it with thoughtful touches, each in and out.
A stunning candy-red clear coat tints the carbon weave, fading to a natural clear on the rear. The engine bay features matching candy red paint, while the RB26 is coated in matte black to enhance the aggressively wide three-piece wheels.
Inside, Porsche influences come through in the shape of Recaro Sportster CS seats with houndstooth cushions paired with light tan leather trim on the bolsters and throughout the cabin.
Even wilder than the Skyline is Bisi Ezerioha’s latest creation: a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow restomod, or ‘electromod’ as some call them. From the surface, it’d seem to be a typical SoCal restomod, complete with a pastel chalk finish and Tiffany blue interior on oversized wheels.
But under the skin, Bisimoto has transformed this old Roller with an AC induction motor and dual battery packs. All told the powertrain is nice for out 639hp – quite the leap from the 189hp 6.75-litre V8 it had when it left the Goodwood factory in 1974.
Cam Cocalis’s tubular-chassis E30 has taken social media by storm, following up on his last SEMA construct – a Scion FRS with a crazy amount of custom fabrication – that earned him wide recognition on the age of just 21.
The Live To Offend (LTO) widebody kitted cabrio body wraps around a mostly custom tube-frame chassis with C6 Chevrolet Corvette pickup points and suspension, while power comes from a Texas Speed 427ci LS V8. A Wilwood pedal box, more Recaro houndstooth Pole Positions, rear-mounted CSF Race radiator, and Work Meister M1 split rims add to a really impressive construct.
Moontech Japan’s LS1-swapped, Air Lift Performance air suspension-equipped E36 has the same vibe, though with a distinctly different approach. At first glance, with the bonnet on, it looks like a classic tackle a modified BMW.
But with the bonnet off, polished intake trumpets divert your eyes away from the inside retrim, red paint and custom turbofan wheel covers.
Prefer American V8 power in American cars? Rival Machine’s C8 Corvette has you covered, even when it looks prefer it could break lap records at Tsukuba.
Tucci Hot Rods’ Mustang, alternatively, features an almighty supercharged Ford Cobra Jet V8 between its strut towers. It’s not all old-school, though, with 3D-printed aerodynamic touches co-designed with a Ford OEM designer.
If the Mustang Fastback from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift upset you, it is advisable to look away from this RB26-swapped Shelby Cobra. The fashionable-day, turbocharged six-cylinder powertrain and long bonnet are only the tip of the iceberg in what is perhaps probably the most audacious Cobra ever built.
While I’m a fan of V8s, of all of the cars on the Toyo Treadpass this 12 months, this Cobra is the one I’d like to take for a spin. That turbocharged inline-six howling with the open cockpit? Yes, please!
The ‘Pure’ Bronco does its best to distance itself from its infamous association with OJ’s white Ford SUV with a surprising interior and matching rooftop storage boxes.
Meanwhile, Toyota’s legendary Land Cruiser continues its fame for rugged reliability and go-anywhere capability.
This one looks ready for adventure, sporting a totally upgraded drivetrain and suspension paired with a modernised interior, all wrapped in its classic body shell.
In contrast to his electric EK construct, Rywire’s Ryan Basseri’s EG Honda Civic takes a more restomod approach to the tuner EV swap. We’re planning a full feature on this construct, so stay tuned.
Gooichi Motors’s twin-turbo V6-swapped CR-X is a more traditional tackle a Honda construct. Aggressively styled and uprated to the sting of being a restomod, there’s not much original CR-X left here.
This pair of Porsches push aftermarket automobile design well into the longer term, while Miles Works and S-Klub LA’s SL Pagoda and SLR McLaren are extreme examples of Nineteen Sixties and 2000s Mercedes-Benz design.
Every automobile at Toyo’s Treadpass deserves a highlight, however the Treadpass itself deserves recognition for bringing these remarkable builds together.
Stay tuned for my personal favourite, which I’ll show you in a separate highlight feature very soon.
Mario Christou
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