Photo Gallery: Trucks and 4x4s of SEMA 2024
American love pickups and 4x4s, so it was no surprise that the annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas was packed with plenty of trucks and SUVs to pore over. There are always a line of massive lifted trucks outside lining the street outside of the SEMA show, and 2024 brought another crop of customs with reinforced chassis, beefy axles, and enough ground clearance to straddle a lowrider. Overall, the quality of builds was impressive, and so was the quantity. It was hard to pick out a dominant theme, but retro was big this year, with throwback paint schemes, and plenty of restomods to go along with the new iron. Here’s just a sampling of some of the builds that stood out to us as we tried to take in the thousands of unique rides the show had to offer.
Rutledge Wood’s 1994 Toyota pickup is powered by a 1JZ inline-six and is a fantastic melding of drift power and components with show-winning minitruck style. The paint looked amazing, especially in the engine bay where you’ll find some great lowrider-style touches.
The Surf concept 4Runner kind of stole the show at the Toyota booth as far as new 4×4 builds, but they had plenty of great trucks that looked ready to tackle the trail. We were drawn to this Tacoma, a build that’s rather understated by SEMA standards. With Ford and GM opting to build only crew cabs, Toyota and Nissan are the only midsizers with extended cab options, and that makes this build a bit of a novelty. The graphics are great, we’re ready for a return of wild looks on trucks built to have fun off-road.
This Brazilian Chevy 4×4 was quite popular. There can’t be many of these in the United States. It was powered by an LS V-8 with an individual-runner intake.
That’s not the turbocharged inline-six you expected to see in a Dodge pickup. Torque & Tungsten built this Hurricane-powered D150.
MESO Customs showed off its impeccable fabrication skills on this Tacoma. The wide body incorporates Tundra design cues, but the highlight was the Hellcat powerplant revealed by the tilting front.
RJ Fabrication stretched a 1949 Willys Jeep pickup truck to create an extended cab and placed it on an Ultra 4 tube chassis with 21 inches of travel up front and 30 inches of travel in the rear. It’s sitting on 40-inch BFG Baja T/A KR3s and is powered by a 930-hp Whipple-supercharged LS3 built by Moruzzi Race Motors. We’d love to see this charging across the desert.
Expedition One built this colorado ZR2 to highlight the bumpers and rock sliders it builds in Ogden, Utah. The 3/16-inch steel bumpers protect the body and manage to stay tucked up and out of the way for improved approach and departure angles. Both bumpers get square LED lights, while the front bumper also holds a Come Up winch. A slight lift from ReadyLift allows for 35-inch Falken Wildpeak tires.
There are amazing builds all over SEMA, and one good place to find great interiors is the North Hall, where you’ll find all of the audio companies. HKI’s booth had this beautiful Chevy C10 build by Joker Rod Shop in San Antonio. The interior is simple and modern, while still fitting the square body’s aesthetic.
Of course, there were hundreds more trucks and 4x4s at the show, and we didn’t have to time learn about all of them. Here are a few more that caught our eye.
