This year’s SEMA Show packed a huge surprise. For more than a year, we’ve been working on a ’35 pick-up truck based on the proven ’33 Hot Rod chassis. We introduced the truck and made the truck section of our website live on the first day of the show. The truck wasn’t the only thing new at SEMA for us. This year, we would try a radical experiment having only two crew members from Factory Five in a massive 20′ x 80′ booth filled with seven cars! How did we do that? Customers. We asked several customers to help us for the week, we brought some customer cars, and the week went great.


The crew from the Factory Five Build School check out the new ’35 Hot Rod Pick-Up Truck before SEMA kicked off on Tuesday morning.


Power Automedia’s Dennis Pittsenbarger previews the Factory Five ’35 Hot Rod Truck with Dave Smith and Tony Zullo.


Customer Ron Ewerth’s 818R was one of three customer cars featured in our booth this year. Ron races his 818R out west.


Customer Wayne Mills’ brought his show-winning GTM Supercar to flank Ron’s 818R. The modern Factory Five designs were staged on one end of our booth with the vintage Hot Rods on the other side with Coupes and Roadsters in-between.


Customer Erik Treves stole the show with this stealthy twin-turbo Coyote-powered Gen 3 Type 65 Coupe. The SEMA Show would be the first time anyone saw the car completed while many people followed Erik’s build on The Factory Five Forum. Erik built his latest Coupe with a United States Army theme as Erik is a pilot in the US Army.




Next to Erik’s Coupe was our brand-new Gen 3 street car, serial #001.