Best of SEMA: Hi-Risers

By Rob

Editor-in-Chief

It was pretty easy to narrow it down to five hi-risers, because, well, there weren’t too many at SEMA. But those that were there made a big impression. So here are the five for today’s vote: the ’71 Riviera in the MHT booth, the ’72 Skylark vert in the DUB booth, the Rides ’85 Caprice, King of the Street’s ’89 Caprice, and the crazy Cadillac Limo. So take a look and then vote for your favorite. You can see more pics of these hi-risers over in the SEMA 2007 group page.

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Posted at 7:57 pm in Best of SEMA, High Risers, Rob Einaudi, SEMA 2007

Comments

Arce
Nov 6, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Not a big fan of lifting it too far off the ground..but these old cars on big rims definitely make all your girls look.. If u have the money why not flaunt it.. Not everyone that owns one of these vehicles is broke and lives in the hood.. Most of these people have their own house and have a great job. As in my case.. Spend your money on what you like.. Im a fan of all cars.. Most of the people that hate are broke and envy what the other has…

jimbo
Nov 23, 2007 at 3:58 am

all these piece of crap high risers, id love to see them try n race me in my blown 69 Charger, i guarntee that even if they had the power to keep up those retarded stupid rims would just break the axles HAHAHAHAHA

07nitr0
Nov 21, 2007 at 9:50 am

Where can i get a set of “clears”??

Paul
Nov 21, 2007 at 5:56 am

Cellonedirect.com?

$30,000 Rims seems like a massive waste of money, no matter how you look at it. They are obscenely huge, and while they look more at home on SUV’s, they look like toys on these lackluster old cars that they are put on. I don’t care so much that the cars are being lifted (although I do think it looks terrible, and is certainly one of the worst automotive trends since neon and fart cans…)It annoys me that everyone in town that has one pretends to be a “tru Gansta”. I’ve seen people with plenty of money buy an old Cadillac or other boxy looking thing, put bags and chrome on it, and be gangsta… what is the fascination with trying to emulate people who never advance very far in society, have the utmost disrespect for the law, and do drugs like its nobody’s business?

CELLONEDIRECT.COM
Nov 21, 2007 at 1:56 am

WOW IF U HATE HI RISERS WHY TAKE THE TIME TO CLICK ON THE LINK. LOOK AT THE PICS.GET JEALOUS CUZ U DONT HAVE ONE AND THEN HATE ON THE PPL WHO DROP $30 GRAND OR MORE JUST ON THERE RIMS WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT $100 MUFFLER BEST FITS ON YOUR NEON.. YOU GUYS MAKE ME SICK.. HATE HATE HATE. BUT IT IS ALL GOOD.. THESE PPL FEED OFF OF YOUR HATE.. THERE HI RISER WILL GET MORE + ATTENTION AND MORE LOOKS THEN ANY CAR THAT U DRIVE.. YOUR CAR WASNT AT SEMA WAS IT.. YOUR CAR DOESNT HAVE $30,000 RIMS..CAN U AFFORD $30,000 RIMS… THE ANSWER IS NO NO AND NO.. SO WHY HATE???

Derick
Nov 20, 2007 at 10:55 pm

I would never get on, but I think they’re pretty cool. i definitely favor some of the other cars at SEMA. I’ve been looking at a lot of them on the SEMA Insider website. All I can say is I wish I could have gone!

eric
Nov 20, 2007 at 9:00 pm

I thought the one at ASANTI was the best HI-RISER, but the clear 30″ were cool too. By the way i see that we still get so many positive comments by all the members here about HI-RISERS lol.
They will figure out something else to hate eventually.

Keep doing your thang though love to see the creativity here.

Trever
Nov 20, 2007 at 7:13 am

I hope this fad ends soon im tired of seeing these things it seems like they are in like every other blog post now

haley
Nov 19, 2007 at 8:32 pm

there all stupid i hate those things