PPG SEMA Booth to Feature Celebrity Customizers and Designers

Some of the most accomplished custom automotive and motorcycle artists in the nation will appear in the PPG booth #23093 at the annual SEMA show to be held November 4 – 7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. They’ll be there to display their latest work: a series of custom painted surfboards. Each surfboard reflects the artist’s interpretation of the booth’s colorful theme which marks the introduction of PPG’s new waterborne-compliant Vibrance Collection® coatings and demonstrates there’s no need to compromise creativity when working with the line’s colors and special effect finishes.

The list of celebrity artists reads like a Who’s Who of customizers. Scheduled to appear are Charles Armstrong, Justin Barnes, John Deel, Marcos Garcia, Keith Hanson, Art Himsl, Charley Hutton, Mitch Kelly, Tom Kelly, Troy Lee, Dave Perewitz, Troy Powell and Larry Wood, chief designer at Hot Wheels®. Booth visitors will have a chance to meet and chat with their favorite artist and get autographs.

In addition, the 2008 PPG Hot Wheels® Spectraflame® PAINT YOUR RIDE Contest trophy will be awarded at the booth. Larry Wood will help present this esteemed award.

SEMA show attendees are encouraged to visit the PPG booth, #23093. The schedule of events is as follows:

Tuesday, November 4th
Meet and Greet the Artists:
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Charles Armstrong Justin Barnes
Keith Hanson John Deel
Art Himsl Charley Hutton
Dave Perewitz Mitch Kelly
Troy Powell Tom Kelly
Troy Lee

Wednesday, November 5th
11:00 a.m.
PAINT YOUR RIDE Award Ceremony with Larry Wood

Autograph Sessions:

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Larry Wood
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Dave Perewitz
Thursday, November 6th
Autograph Sessions:

11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Charley Hutton
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Dave Perewitz
Friday, November 7th
Meet and Greet the Artists:
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Charles Armstrong John Deel
Justin Barnes Marcos Garcia
Keith Hanson Charley Hutton
Art Himsl Mitch Kelly
Dave Perewitz Tom Kelly
Troy Powell Troy Lee

Would you buy a car online?

So as some of you know, I’m on something of a mission to work out how online consumers (Both private and corporate) in South Africa think and I guess what they would and wouldn’t buy online.

My two part question for today is pretty simple:

- WOULD YOU BUY A CAR ONLINE?
- WOULD YOU SOURCE A CAR TO BUY ONLINE?

Upfront I would say I wouldn’t buy a car online simply because I hadn’t seen it or done a test drive in it so I wouldn’t be able to make a fair assessment of the car.

But then car sites like Auto Pedigree (See right) and Carfind wouldn’t do the business they do.

At the same time, people use an auction site like BidOrBuy to actually buy cars on auction. There is this competition they have running here.

Here are some examples of prices that people have paid for cars on BidOrBuy recently - as you can see not exactly chump change:

2008 Chery QQ3 8.0 TE. Market price: R59,900.00; winning bid: R50,051.00
2008 VW Tena City 1.4l. Market price: R75,300; winning bid: R68,000.00
2008 Suzuki Swift. Market price: R131,900.00; winning bid: R123,506.00
2008 Toyota Yaris. Market price: R100,300.00; winning bid: R88,200.00

Looks like you can get some nice deals there!

Dunno - tell me what you think - would you buy a car online?