Just A Car Guy: AMBR winner

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Wednesday, January 08, 2025

the GNRS is on it's 75th anniversary. The show will have a dozen Barris builds, from the Galpin collection, and 50 AMBR and Al Slonaker Award winners

More than 50 AMBR and Al Slonaker Memorial Award winners, the largest collection of past winners ever assembled under one roof, including iconic builds by George Barris, Roy Brizio, Chip Foose and many more.

Larry Wood and Robert Williams are being inducted into GNRS Hall of Fame on Friday, Jan. 31

On-site parking is $20 per car.

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

the 1964 AMBR winner built by Tognotti and painted by Winfield is coming up for sale on Bring A Trailer

https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1913-FORD-MODEL-T-CUSTOM-ROADSTER-KING-T-197187

Rawlings is selling some of his collection, and 25 vehicles will be sold on Bring A Trailer in Sept

skip to 1:22 to bypass the promotions blitz bullshit, and get to the interesting behind the scenes explanation of why these aren't getting sold at the Scottsdale auction companies

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-gas-monkey-garage-guy-is-offloading-his-car-collection

https://bringatrailer.com/2022/08/23/gas-monkey-garage-collection-coming-soon-to-bat/

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

the only Chevy to ever win the America's Most Beautiful Roadster award.

https://www.instagram.com/hotrodmagazine/

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

only one Chevy has won the America's Most Beautiful Roadster award, and it took the additional work of Rad Rides by Troy and Chip Foose to get it the award

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1935-chevy-phaeton-ambr/

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

I'd never until now ever heard of, or seen, what was done to Vic Edelbrock’s historic black Deuce roadster to win the AMBR, it was also the first Deuce roadster to win the trophy.

Eddie Bosio proudly shows off what he did. This included narrowed ’40 Olds bumpers, outside headers/exhaust, a curved custom windshield, cycle fenders (with mudflaps!), and lots of chrome and gold plating.

Bosio kept it for decades, refusing to sell it to Vic Jr.

Edelbrock finally prevailed, and got Roy Brizio to fully restore the car.

https://patganahl.com/2019/05/27/quick-pics/

Friday, February 08, 2019

most amazing thing I found this week? That the 1961 AMBR winner was begun in 8th grade, however, Rich Guasco is best known for “Pure Hell”, his famous AA Fuel Altered Bantam. I'm simply slack jawed stunned

Rich’s relationship with his roadster began with a pristine ’32 Ford coupe that had been retired to his family’s wrecking yard when he was 13, in 8th grade.

His dad owned the Santa Rita Garage, a wrecking yard in the then-rural east San Francisco Bay community of Pleasanton. A family friend named Al Stanton (whose uncle had sold the yard to Rich’s father) drove in one day in his ’29 highboy roadster.

Barely a teenager, Guasco was mesmerized, recognizing a real hot rod from similar cars he’d seen in magazines left in junked cars. Stanton told Guasco it had a ’32 Ford frame in need of bodywork.

Seeing this as the basis for his “dream car,” Rich proceeded to tip it on its side and cut off the unwanted body and fenders (remember this was just another 20-year-old used vehicle at the time). Then went into the junkyard and promptly tipped a nice five-window '29 coupe on its side and cut off the body and fenders.

A hopped-up Flathead and a genuine 4-inch dropped Mor-Drop axle were soon added and Rich had himself a honest-to-goodness hot rod.

in 1962 Guasco's Top Fuel Dragster won the America's Most Beautiful Competition Car trophy.
At the Grand National Roadster Show in Oakland. Rich Gausco is the only person to win them both

from Muscle Car Review
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/0110sr-rich-guasco-roadster/
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/0603rc-1929-ford-roadster/
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1929-ford-highboy-roadster-2/

Thursday, May 24, 2018

The AMBR winner for 2018 is significant in a couple ways other than winning the trophy

it's the first 1931 to win the AMBR
the first time a car from HR&H has won
first for it's owner

I found it surprising to learn a 1931 Ford roadster has never won before

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/winners-2018-grand-national-roadster-show/#001-1931-ford-roadster-gnrs-jpg

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Winner of the 2018 AMBR is the Martin Special, a 1931 Ford

This is the third iteration of this car, which began back in 1982. The roadster even found itself onto the pages of Street Rodder twice before, once in February of 1986 and then again May of 2006.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

the 2017 competitors for Americas Most Beautiful Roadster

I think it's likely to go to the above, owned by James Hetfield, a member of the Beatniks of Koolsville. After last years award going to the fundamental and fantastic car of Darryl Hollenbeck, I'm inclined to think the judges are feeling a conservative return to the historically classic look vs the strange customs like the Dean Jeffries Manta Ray (Hey, I love the Manta Ray, I'm just using it as an example of art vs factory looking car)

But if the classic look of a factory looking car isn't going to be a trend, I then think that this wonderful car will get it, in a direction more toward the AMBR winners of the 60s and 70s. It's by Taylor Made Kustoms and paint by Art Himsl

If I missed any, it was not intentional, this is the first year I can think that I tried to get a gallery of each of the competitors. In past years, I only took photos of the ones that impressed me the most.

I'll have galleries of these all up soon, maybe tomorrow, but certainly this week

Monday, September 26, 2016

the Manta Ray in '67 vs 65, and some time in the 70s

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/

Here in 1965 http://coffincorner.proboards.com/thread/11612/vintage-1-show-rod-pics

though we are used to seeing it completely white, Dean seems to have painted it occasionally to add some new factor to it while on the show circuit...