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As for my SEMA "Wild One" Award, that has to be Team ETC's outrageous 'Vette-engined Saturn Sky they quite rightly call Super Sky.

This bunch of Canadian gearheads took GM's cute roadster, created a complete new carbon fiber coupe body, ditched the weenie 2-liter Ecotech motor and dropped a 1,000-horsepower, supercharged and nitrous-injected Corvette LT1 V8 in the back.

Looking like a scaled down Porsche Carrera GT, this tube-framed projectile actually has a bit of Porsche in it – it uses a Porsche transaxle to channel that massive power to the 22-inch rear rubber.

But don't count on sharing the experience of taming 1,000 horsepower with your buddies – the Super Sky has only one seat, which is in the middle, McLaren F1-style.

GM's sister car to the Saturn Sky, the Pontiac Solstice, got an absolutely stunning makeover for SEMA by GM's own design team. The Solstice SD-290 concept shows how the car might look as a cool track racer. And "cool" is the only way to describe it.

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Its smooth, lightweight, wind-cheating body features a passenger cockpit tonneau cover, a new hood with heat-extracting vents, forged 19-inch thin-spoke alloys shod with Hoosier rubber, and shimmery metallic red paint.

Up front, the little Pontiac's 2.0-liter Ecotec turbo motor is bumped up to 290 horsepower and comes with a big-bore exhaust with center-mounted pipe. Stick a set of vinyl numbers to the doors and couldn't you just picture yourself on the starting grid at Laguna Seca?

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Parked close by the racing Solstice on the GM stand was the winner of my "Lean, Mean, Green Machine Award" – Jay Leno's awesome Corvette C6RS, created by Pratt & Miller Engineering.

The beauty of this 8.2-liter, 600-horsepower road-burner is that is can run on mushed sweetcorn, better known as E85 ethanol. "I love the idea of having 600 horsepower at my disposal, but using a home-grown alternative to gasoline," Leno told show-goers.

The C6RS features a stunning carbon fiber body pretty much identical to Pratt & Miller's five-time Le Mans-winning Corvette Racing C6.R GT machines. As for wheels – a vital ingredient for any car being shown at SEMA – it rolls on center-locking black chrome forged alloy BBS rims covering massive, pizza-sized Brembo rotors. The black paintwork on the show car was so deep and rich it could double as a shaving mirror.

And the good news that this isn't some one-off created for the car-crazy Leno. Pratt & Miller plans a limited run of around 25 of these super-Vettes. When they start building them next April, they'll probably cost around $225,000, including the price of a Z06 donor. But for those who can't wait for Chevy's long-awaited Blue Devil/Corvette SS/Stingray/Z07 650hp-plus super Corvette they're still thinking-up the name – this might fill the gap.