The Specialty Equipment Market Association show is over, but memories linger of the annual event where those that produce and sell accessories to customize vehicles unveil what’s coming:

n A wireless system that uses four pinhole cameras mounted in your car to record what’s happening while you’re gone and feed pictures of thieves and vandals to a video play “card” you carry with you; a virtual reality instrument panel so you can design your gauges and color schemes; and a portable DVD player with 7-inch screen that fits into a carrying pouch that plugs into the cigarette lighter.

n There were 40-inch radial tires designed for pickups; chrome door handles to give your car a “50s look; wheel shields that make it easy to spray off brake dust; neoprene seat covers that resist moisture for Jeep Wranglers to be taken off-road and near water; and a array of performance gauges called “attitude monitors.”

Customizers use SEMA to show what motorists can do to make their vehicle stand out. The best example was a Hummer H2 with the body 3 inches below the chassis. It’s so low you step down to get in, and you can see over the roof when standing alongside.

When the Grand Am bows

Pontiac has said that its 2005 G6 replacement for the Grand Am will bow as a sedan. Word is that a coupe will follow at an unspecified date and then the lineup will be expanded to include a convertible.

Jim Mateja writes for the Chicago Tribune.