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At this point we are all done the shooting at SEMA and now all I have to do is sort through the 100's of photos to give you guys the best of what I've got. In addition to standard Event Coverage, like today's, from SEMA (which now has it's own category) I have a few special types of posts in mind for some of the more in depth coverage I've got.

The first day at SEMA was intense, the show basically blew me away in every regard. It's larger than I could have imagined. If you think you have anyway of getting out to one of these do what you can to make it happen, it's a car enthusiasts paradise. Each hall is massive and the parking lot out front of the show is the size of a large car show never mind the multiple halls that actually make up the event. Today's coverage is a small lot that was behind the Center Hall that was all Source Media Interlink feature cars.

Yesterday was a long day, we woke up at about 5am Toronto time to hop on a plane to Denver, stop over for about an hour and then go to Vegas. I can't really remember what time we touched down Nevada time but I do recall being tired and hungry. While we could have just rushed and went to SEMA in our current state, this is also our first time in Vegas so we decided to do some Vegas sight seeing first when we were tired so we could go to SEMA fresh today.

For this week's Theme Tuesday I decided to go with a vehicle I have yet to dedicate a day to instead of doing another series theme. While I've posted, and featured, IS300's before I've been slacking at posting up a real solid collection of them, until now. There isn't really much to hate with the IS300, It's a versatile rear wheel drive platform built on Toyota/Lexus's past successes. After a day or so of searching here is the tip of the IS300 iceberg.

Cruising to a Halloween party on Friday night out of the corner of my eye I noticed a familiar looking Civic coming up in my side mirror, as he got closer I realized the car belonged to Erik Morrison of Nine-O-Five Rides. After trying, in vain, to communicate on the highway with the windows down we cruised together for a bit before I exited and he continued on. As he vanished into the night I remembered that he had some pictures and info on this Civic I had yet to post.

Have you ever had a conversation with someone who doesn't know a lot about cars and they might say something like "If I don't take my car to the dealer the motor may fall out" or "the mechanic said my motor was dropping out". I'm paraphrasing of course but I have had some really weird conversations with people who treat cars like appliances, anyway, it never really occurred to me that if you hit something hard enough your motor may just indeed fall out.

We had some crazy weather here in the GTA last weekend and previous featured photographer Edwin Tan aka Dougboy took it upon himself to go out and snap some pictures of his ride out in the fog. Call me slow but before these shots I had no idea Edwin was actually rocking two different color sets of wheels. This touch helps put his already unique TL further into the original category.

Emilio, is one of those photographers who's threads I am always sure to check out on jdmrides. Whenever 'b20bomber' appears below a thread title in the Photo and Video Gallery section I can always be certain that inside are a number of great photos of clean cars. Recently Emilio went out to Ottawa to meet up with some of his fellow Honda owning friends and produced the work you see here today, this full set along with a whole lot more can be found on his TWOLITREmedia flckr account.

I love doing these 'Pictures with attitude' aka rad picture Theme Tuesdays because it gives me a chance to let my automotive A.D.D. run wild. The car hobby is a big one and there is no fun in only enjoying select parts of it all the time.

I'm not even sure what I need to say about this R32. After taking a look at the entire flickr album @Mike_Shake sent me on twitter I knew that I absolutely had to post this car. This car is the definition of clean. Perfect fitment, perfect camber, the perfect amount of stretch and poke, minimal stickers, and perfect bodywork.

The Pontiac Transport has to be one of the few vehicles that is damn near 'unstanceable' it looks like a giant cheese wedge covered with gaudy plastic body cladding. However as we know that will never stop a few people from trying to come up with something, as seen inside. The winners of the S.I.E/Shell V Power 'You've got gas' contest will be revealed in the site updates section of today's WTF Friday so if that's why you are here then click through and scroll down.

My friend Sam recently sold his m50 swapped e30 and picked up a Mazda Miata. What does this have to do with today's photo? Nothing. However, I am pretty busy today and figured you guys wouldn't mind if I just said very little and instead just posted up a picture of a girl next to, what I assume to be, her slammed Miata.