2011 SEMA Show Interviews Posted

New Videos Posted from This Year’s SEMA Show

Since the team returned from this year’s SEMA Show, we’ve been going through all of the photos and video from the show. We’re starting to complete the videos and are now posting them on our YouTube channel. Here’s the first one with Dave Smith talking with the Christian Rodders and Racers Association. Stay tuned as we’ll have a couple more videos posted soon.

Dave talking with Morrisville College and the Right Coast Nationals Organization about the car they built together to raffle off at this past summer’s show in Syracuse.

In this video, Dave Smith talked with Jim Ryan from KONI Shocks and customer Gary Cheney about the Factory Five GTM that was built for the KONI booth at the show.

Dave Smith talked with the crew from SKJ Customs about the Gen 2 GTM that they built recently for a customer. The car was featured in Factory Five’s booth during SEMA 2011.

Factory Five President Dave Smith talked with pro-builder Bart Brown about his sinister matte black GTM which was on display during the week long event.

Factory Five President Dave Smith talks with customer Jim Copland about his ’33 Hot Rod which was on display at the show.

SKJ Customs brought the Factory Five Racing Mk4 Roadster and ’33 Hot Rod that they built. FFR President talked with SKJ at the show about the cars.

Visit the Factory Five YouTube Channel to see more videos.

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