he PPG Automotive Refinish division's SEMA Show exhibit
drew crowds and awards with indoor and outdoor exhibits,
custom car displays, celebrity painters, a new product
announcement, industry-related classes and a colorful
display of custom-painted guitars and album covers.
The PPG indoor exhibit, a 1950s-style diner, was named best
of show by Collision Hub, a networking site for the
collision repair industry. A display of rock 'n' roll era
guitars and records decorated by well-known painters of the
custom car universe also was showcased.
The guitars and records were finished with PPG's VOC-
compliant Envirobase® High Performance and Nexa Autocolor
(tm) Aquabase® Plus waterborne coatings. Both these leading
product lines represent the advanced, innovative and
environmentally responsible waterborne technology PPG has
introduced to the automotive refinish industry.
The PPG outdoor exhibit featured the PPG Show Truck with
its new, colorfully eye-catching paint scheme and Steve
Hale's "Green Machine," a 100% propane-powered, customized
1956 F-100 pickup finished in gleaming Envirobase High
Performance waterborne coatings. Two custom cars on display
in the PPG booth won noteworthy awards. "Wild Cad," a
radically chopped and channeled 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille
painted in PPG neon purple by the legendary Gene Winfield
took the General Motors Design Award for best GM passenger
car.
A second 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, a custom
restoration by Todd Lewis of Xtreme Restorations,
Slatersville, Rhode Island, received the Mother's Shine
Award which recognizes the best finishes at the show. Both
cars added to the diner's retro 1950s "Happy Days" motif
attracting and exciting gearheads galore.
Crowds also gathered around the PPG exhibits to meet
celebrity painters Gene Winfield, Tom and Mitch Kelly,
Charley Hutton, and Dave and Jody Perewitz who were on hand
to sign autographs and discuss their techniques for painting
with PPG Vibrance Collection® custom finishes and Envirobase
High Performance waterborne coatings.
For more information visit
www.ppgrefinish.com.
