The Ohio House Transportation Committee unanimously passed SEMA-model legislation to create a vehicle registration and titling classification for street rods and custom vehicles and provide for special license plates for these vehicles. The bill defines a street rod as an altered vehicle manufactured before 1949 and a custom as an altered vehicle at least 25 years old and manufactured after 1948.

SEMA and CMTC present the first “Profit 101” Workshop, which will guide businesses through the process of inspiring innovation.

Your website is the face of your company for millions of Internet users, so design and functionality can make or break your web enterprise. A knowledgeable web designer can help lead customers to your site and make it easy for them to find your products. Learn how to choose the ideal team by tuning in to SEMA’s exclusive new webinar: “How to Select and Prepare for a Web Designer.”

SEMA Show exhibitors: Generate more buzz for your company and its products at the 2010 SEMA Show by offering products to builders through the SEMA Products for Project-Vehicle Builders list.

More than 20 well-known rodders are designing and building their own pinewood cars for the annual SEMA Pinewood Drag Races in Pasadena, California.

The SEMA International Buyer's Guide is an easy way to expand your business to buyers around the world. An exclusive directory of exhibitors interested in growing their sales outside of the United States, the SEMA International Buyers' Guide is distributed to every international buyer attending the 2010 SEMA Show and throughout the year at international trade shows.

Hacking, once the province of teenage boys spreading graffiti for kicks and notoriety, is done today by organized, financially motivated gangs, said researchers of "Security Threat Report: 2010," an extremely in-depth look at the evolution of the web's criminal element. The report was recently published by cyber security firm Sophos. [Read more]

The cool dude in the hat and shades driving Jamie Musselman's '33 roadster is Boyd Coddington. Rolling alongside is Lee Kelley, then editor of Hot Rod magazine, in a Contemporary Classics Cobra replica. The photo was taken for the magazine's July 1982 cover, the first of many to feature Boyd and his custom creations.

For more, read "Smooth" in the May issue of SEMA News. 

SEMA Show organizers are working with Las Vegas hotels to ensure the best lodging deals for Show attendees, and several hotels have now agreed to waive or have chosen not to institute resort fees during Show week.