Murals, Chrome and Juice: Lowriders and Kustoms at SEMA 2026

A lowrider does not hide its work. On most show cars the trunk is storage; on a lowrider it is the second showroom, and the copper 1956 Bel Air convertible the display board calls "Vaselina" proves it: an airbrushed mural under the lid, chrome pumps and batteries, an engraved chrome undercarriage and a continental kit. On Thursday, Nov. 5, it held down a lowrider display in the convention center concourse with a candy blue early 1960s Impala convertible and an orange flake late 1970s Caprice, every trunk open.

Elsewhere on the floor, a white 1962 Impala convertible carried gold and bronze trim, gold and chrome wheels and oxblood leather; its placard credits Maharaj Customs. Luxor Wire Wheels hung a wall of all-gold wire wheels, one of them labeled the HMD Wheel, patent pending.

Then there was the Batmobile. Martech Corporation was listed to unveil the El Loco Murcielago Kustom Batmobile at its South Hall booth on Wednesday, Nov. 4. A day later its chameleon paint ran copper to purple to blue, an airbrushed Batman mural ran down the hood, and a placard credited the paint to House of Kolor. Same craft as the lowriders, different hero.

We shot all of it the way you look at a lowrider in person: up close, trunk first.

The concourse lineup

Drop top, gold spokes

The Batmobile