[PICS] CorvetteBlogger’s Favorite Corvettes From SEMA 2025!

The City of Las Vegas is unique all over the world. Only a couple of hours east of Los Angeles, it is essentially an amusement park open to all, no walls or admission needed to enter. The boundaries of this park, a.k.a. “The Strip” are Paradise Avenue on the east side and I-15 on the west.

Because no one wants to live around a 24/7 amusement park, the surrounding area is a bleak landscape. A remake of the cantina scene in “Star Wars” could be filmed here, no sets or props needed. Located in a barren desert, the city exists in this arid wasteland due to Rat Pack fame, entertainment, modern irrigation, air travel, and a major freeway.

2025 SEMA Blooms in Las Vegas

Every year, The SEMA Show lands in the middle of this desert wonderland and takes up court in the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) for almost a week. SEMA is the automotive event of the season, and it attracts vendors, builders, industry celebrities and fans from around the globe. The venue is a one million square foot facility and it’s breathtaking in its scope and sprawl.

For Corvette fans, SEMA is the promised land. Many builders choose the event to showcase their latest ‘Vette projects and the 2025 show was no exception. CorvetteBlogger hoofed the vast expanses of the LVCC grounds and brought back our favorite Corvettes in no particular order. The list comes in chronologically at one C1, one C2, two C3s, a C6 and a C8 bringing up the rear. Let’s dive in and take a look.

Motor City Solutions | XL-57 | Greening Auto Company – Builder

First up, check out this stretched and tweaked “XL 57” Corvette creation that brings the 1957 C1 into the modern world. The manufacturer showed the car in basic roller form and then backed it up with a fully kitted out build from Greening Auto Company, based in Cullman, Alabama.

Owner Jeff Adwell’s Motor City Solutions, out of Taylor, Michigan, creates a brand-new fiberglass body with a stretched wheelbase, 2″ deeper interior footwells, and wider fenders and rocker panels, just to name a few.

The finished car has a laundry list of heavy hitting hardware including a modified Roadster Shop SPEC7 chassis specifically for XL-57, a blown LT4 V8, GM 8L90 transmission, Baer brakes, and custom Greening Auto Company wheels, 18s up front, 19s in the rear. The best part about XL-57? You can create one any way you want without cutting up a cool, but ancient old Corvette.

1966 Corvette Coupe “Serious 66” | HP Tuners | Kuhnhausen Metal Concepts – Builder

Meanwhile over at HP Tuner’s booth, we spotted a very nice 1966 Coupe dubbed “Serious ’66.” It was super sanitary in every aspect and had the retromod swagger we love so much. Built by Kuhnhausen Metal Concepts out of Oregon, this car debuted at SEMA 2025 as an entry into the Battle of the Builders. Resplendent in Lemans Blue with a contrasting baseball glove colored cabin by BUX Interiors, it glimmered under the lights of the Convention Center.

“Serious 66” is running the best hardware money can buy, including a Art Morrison chassis, a 650hp LT4 V8, automatic transmission and Forgeline RS6 wheels. The build took five years and 10,000 hours to complete. Larry Shinoda and Bill Mitchell are smiling from up above.

1968 Corvette | Coker Group | V8 Speed and Resto Shop, Red Bud – Builder

Next up, is a 1968 Corvette that was wowing show goers over at the Coker Group booth. Built by the V8 Speed and Resto Shop, out of Red Bud, Illinois, its running a fuel-injected ZZ427 big-block V8, TREMEC TKX five-speed tranny and Wilwood brakes.

The deep-sea blue exterior and black guts combo was breathtaking and the perfect canvas to show Coker’s new ProTrac tires. If you look closely, you’ll see the passenger side has white-letter tires and the driver side has redlines.

We loved both but the electric blue and redlines reminded us of a full size Hot Wheel car from late sixties. The panel and gap fit, and the attention to detail were impressive. The interior took the classic C3 cockpit styling to the next level. The only thing we’d change is we’d ditch the luggage rack and lower the ride height by just a skosh. Other than that, this thing was darn near perfect.

1972 Corvette Roadster | Roadster Shop | GAP Industries – Builder

Roadster Shop showed off many builders utilizing the company’s hardware. This metallic red 1969 Roadster built by GAP Industries out of Hockley, Texas was a showstopper. Running the obligatory RS chassis, its packs over 1000 hp from its Sonny Racing Engines’ 582 Rat Motor backed up by a Bowler T56 manual transmission.

The body work is meticulous, yet brutally voluptuous. The paint and overall build quality were surgically executed with tight gaps and wave free fiberglass. The creamy white leather cockpit perfectly complements the metallic red paint.

2006 Corvette Coupe | Top Gun Performance

Jorge Ramos might be a textbook example of the modern Corvette enthusiast. No denim shorts or size thirteen Reeboks here, just a young guy building fast Corvettes at his shop, Top Gun Performance, in Loredo, Texas.

This C6 Coupe is swathed in very slick carbon fiber body work and runs a blown, 6.0L LS2 with three fuel pumps that can deliver gas, alcohol, and nitrous. With over 1000 horsepower on tap this in no trailer queen. Jorge races the car regularly and what he learns from his track days he transfers to his shop where he fabricates go fast parts for your modern Corvette.

2025 Corvette | Milltek Exhaust | Label Motorsports – Builder

Finally, this C8 Corvette was magical in execution and maniacal persona. The car was luring showgoers into Milltek’s booth, a maker of high-performance exhaust systems. Built by Label Performance, it uses the company’s 47-piece Carbon Fiber Widebody package and custom wheels and it comes together quite nicely. This Z06 is running a 5.5 DOHC V8 that incorporates oodles of Milltek goodies. Label also dreamed up the interior in a combo of purple, green and charcoal leather and suede. The “Vette Looked very good on the floor of the Convention Center.

So for now, as crews tear down the displays and the cars rumble back to where they came from, we say goodbye to Las Vegas and try to decompress from the spectacle that is the SEMA Show. We look forward to returning to Sin City this time next year for SEMA 2026. Which one of these ‘Vettes was your favorite? Please let us know in the comments.

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Photos by Dave Cruikshank

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