Top 10 Most Ridiculous Rides of SEMA 2011

One of the best aspects of the 2011 SEMA Show is the unbridled creativity that is unleashed on all manner of vehicles. From custom paint jobs to one-off frame designs, there is no limit to the amount of effort put into creating something different and new that grabs attention.

There's a downside to this no-holds-barred creativity, however, and it's hard to miss. Some guys just can't help themselves. They have to do it bigger, brighter and with more doors than anything else on the floor or in the street. That brings us to this list, the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Rides of SEMA 2011. These vehicles didn't just cross the line; they saw it, backed up and took a running start to jump over it. SEMA wouldn't be the same without them.

Bertone Gone Bad: This guy couldn't leave a perfectly good chopped-roof Volvo 262 alone. Just had to add some questionable bodywork and a trunk full of subs. The Chevy V8 up front is actually quite nice, but he should have stopped there.

Camaro Catastrophe: At some point, customizers will leave the Camaro alone. Until then, we get stuff like this. From the awful, over-the-top body kit to the logo-infested wheels, this perfectly good Camaro convertible is now doomed to a life of sitting around and looking, well, ridiculous. For shame.

Dodge Ram Snow Plow on 54s: Yes, that would be 54-inch wheels and tires. Guess the snow gets pretty deep in the part of Colorado this truck is from. Hopefully the roads are fairly smooth, since it looks like the chassis on this thing is a bit weak in the knees. Then again, we're pretty sure it's the only vehicle on this list with an up-to-date registration sticker on its license plate.

Excursion Aquarium: Ah, the soothing sight of a well-stocked aquarium. What better theme for a jacked-up Excursion riding on 44-inch Super Swampers? Made perfect sense to someone, somewhere.

General Lee on Dubs: As far as we can tell, this is a relatively clean Charger with some nice paint and straight bodywork. Then the dubs were added. Sorry, but one hard landing and those things are going to shatter in a million pieces.

Optimus Quad: Bad SEMA ideas are not exclusive to cars. Exhibit A: this Can-Am Spyder that was lovingly converted into a four-wheel, quad-like thing so there was more room for flames and Transformers logos.

The Pretend Porsche: Nothing like a little "German" engineering to get the blood pumping, eh? But wait, this is no Stuttgart escapee, this is a...350Z? Oh yeah, thought they might pull one over on us, but that turn signal stalk has Altima written all over it. Sad to see this much work go into a car that's just pretending to be something else, but such are the ways of SEMA.

S10/300C: Hmmm...where to start on this one. Pretty sure this thing was a Chevy S-10 before it got the 300C rhinoplasty up front. And it went downhill from there. Note that all three doors open differently, while both the hood and the bed cover get the jaws of death treatment. Then there's the 700 gallons of orange paint that were applied to every last piece that didn't already happen to be chrome plated. Comfy-looking interior, too, eh?

Wooden Gixxer: There's simply no explanation for this one. The only thing more confusing than the existence of this bike is the fact that someone thinks the roughly $12,000 bike is now worth $25,000. Wonder what they would take for a trade?

Wrong Way Wrangler: Nothing like taking a perfectly capable Jeep Wrangler and turning it into this largely useless show piece. Eye-catching maybe, but it's not quite the go-anywhere, do-anything vehicle it once was.