2022 SEMA Hall of Fame Inductees Announced

The Specialty Equipment Marketplace Association (SEMA) announced that a few marketplace legends will be inducted into the SEMA Corridor of Fame: Walker Evans, Jack Roush and Robert Eugene “Gene” Winfield.

Created in 1969, SEMA Hall of Fame honors are bestowed on trailblazers who have appreciably impacted and improved the progress of the automotive market. Its customers are thought of heroes, and each and every unique has a unique tale to convey to. The marketplace is invited to join in honoring the new SEMA Hall of Fame associates during the 2022 SEMA Awards Gala (previously recognized as the SEMA Set up Gala) on July 29 in Anaheim, Calif. A quick recap of this year’s inductees is as follows:

Walker Evans

Walker Evans commenced off-street racing in 1969 and turned the 1st off-street racer to gain the Baja 1000 as a driver of a comprehensive-sized truck in 1979. Above the program of his job, he has won a lot more than 150 off-highway desert and short program races, which includes championships in the Baja 500, Baja 1000, Fireworks 250, Mint 400 and Parker 400. Over and above racing, Evans is a pioneer in the off-street sector, getting collaborated carefully with automakers this kind of as Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge labored with major tire companies and suppliers made purpose-constructed products to meet off-highway racers’ requirements and paved the way for new possibilities and progress. In 2004, Evans joined SEMA as a delegate on a take a look at to China to produce new business enterprise prospects and partnerships for the industry. Evans is a role model who evokes younger customers to offer with rising technologies and rigorous laws, and encourages innovation and creative imagination in sustaining SEMA, as properly as the racing and substantial-effectiveness industries.

Jack Roush

For more than 40 a long time, Jack Roush has been committed to winning on and off the race track. Early in his career, he founded Roush & Gapp — a race staff he fashioned with Wayne Gapp that received multiple championships in NHRA, IHRA and AHRA Pro Stock drag racing. Later on, he established Jack Roush Overall performance Engineering and commenced supplying racing engines and factors for drag, oval-monitor and hill-climb automobiles as perfectly as for offshore ability boat contenders. In 1984, Roush was commissioned by the Ford Motor Co. to acquire autos and engines for the SCCA Trans-Am and IMSA Camel GT racing sequence. Roush even more expanded his Roush Racing functions in 1988 right before establishing Roush Fenway Racing in 2007. The workforce has claimed two NASCAR Cup Championships, 4 NASCAR Xfinity championships and one particular NASCAR Truck Series title. Roush also made big protection contributions to inventory auto racing, which includes the advancement of roof flaps to prevent rollovers. In addition to his racing successes, Roush is founder and chairman of Roush Enterprises, a international supplier of products progress companies, together with style and design, engineering, prototyping, screening and production he oversees Roush Effectiveness Solutions, a supplier of aftermarket effectiveness parts and he manages Roush CleanTech, a maker of alternative gas methods.

Robert Eugene “Gene” Winfield

Robert Eugene “Gene” Winfield is an American automotive customizer and fabricator who has been associated in the marketplace for more than 70 decades. He begun building sizzling rods in the yard of his mother’s dwelling in the 1940s, and came to national prominence in 1959 with a gorgeous quad-headlight just take on a 1956 Mercury two-door hardtop immortalized as the Jade Idol. Apart from fashioning his very own exceptional model of customs, Winfield became renowned for inventing the fade paint career. Winfield also performed a key job in advertising custom made car or truck modifications to the typical general public by providing modified cars for films and Tv displays, which includes a automobile in the legendary 1982 film Blade Runner. No fewer than a few Winfield creations have won the America’s Most Lovely Roadster award, which is the Finest Picture Oscar of the sizzling rod earth. Revered as “The King Of Kustoms”, Winfield was highlighted in the 1st DVD in a collection named The Kings Of Kustoms — a documentary highlighting automobile customizers.

In addition to formally introducing Evans, Roush and Winfield as SEMA Hall of Fame members through the 2022 SEMA Awards Gala, the annual occasion on July 29 will include recognitions of the newly elected and the outgoing SEMA Board customers. All SEMA members and business specialists are invited to be a part of the celebration by paying for tickets at sema.org/gala.