Featured Hot Rods 2025 GNRS Contenders

Usually by now there's some advance pictures of the AMBR & Slonaker entries for 2025. Kind of quiet this year?

 

https://blacktopmagazine.com/hot-ro...r-stage-at-75th-grand-national-roadster-show/
"This year’s contenders include a T-bucket, two Model As, three ’36 Fords and five ‘32 Fords."
No more info there.
From my understanding, they have a rule/agreement to keep things under wraps until it's open.
In the past, there have been 'leaks' and acknowledgements that some are competing, but most are pretty quiet.
I can speculate that Piero @Evel is the T, but no word on that, just that he's entering the show. I'd also guess that a number of them will require hall passes from the moderation team just to be posted here.

Past winner on display
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...bute-memorial-build-and-info-ambr-1955.415187

Someone knows of one, but no leak.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/bad-voltage-regulators.1329683/#post-15479786

 

As mentioned picture of the finished cars are not allowed before they show up at the venue for prejudging. Usually don't see anything until load in.
Pretty sure the RadRides hand built fenderless '36 is one of the cars.

 

I bet the Las Vegas odds are dam good that the Rad Rides roadster is the big winner.

 

Having followed the build on Instagram it would be a worthy winner. Some stunning work being done on it.

 

Looking forward to the coverage...

 

I'll be filming Friday morning We are headed to the Petersen on Thursday, and then hopefully Mooneyes on the way back out to our hotel.

 

A fenderless 36 that actually looks good. Who would've thought.

 

Move-in is Wednesday and Thursday, so photos won't show up till then. We move in on Wednesday between 4-8 pm in Suede Palace.

 

The 'Rad Rides' refined roadster makes one wonder why the many decades of 28-34 highboy trend didn't carry on through the 35-36 model years, while a totally different venue the East coast cut down modified oval track coupes were perhaps partly inspirational in that regard.

 

Looking forward to seeing lots of photos, can't get there this year. Hope everyone has a good time. That fenderless '36 looks great, Back to Back winner with a different car would be a first wouldn't it? Bob

 

Probably because this car has been so heavily reproportioned it's not really the same as an actual '36. They had a '36 roadster body to start with and abandoned it to scratch build the body because it was easier than making all the changes to the actual '36 body.

 

I asked permission from the builder to post a few pics but haven’t gotten permission yet.
I will if he gives the okey-dokey.

 

The Rad Rides 36 was the subject of a series of articles appearing in Modern Rodding magazine last year. The amount of fabrication and “one off” pieces for this car is overwhelming along with the details of construction.

 

I agree, massaging the bulky bodies by slicing & dicing & trimming the fat so to speak, would be much more involved for the back yard enthusiast back in the day, where as a couple buddies could transition a 28-29 to a 32 chassis in an afternoon.

 

I saw a pic on instagram of a Chevy six long block that said it was going to be going into a car there so that could be interesting, can’t find it now though.

 

I think that might be a Slonaker car. Roseville Rod and Custom is building a "'32 GMC coupe" with a straight 6 that they are not really showing everything of.

 

Just a hint, the Colorado Springs entry is a 32 Ford but it's a RPU.
Very HAMB friendly and a beautiful truck.

 

The green one with the 4 banger? It looks nice from what they have shown.

 

Yes, that's the one.

 

The only car those headlights would look good on! JMO!

 

Looks like Modern Rodding is starting to post pics of the contenders

 

Found the car I was talking about. Someone we know. It’s bloody fabulous!! https://www.instagram.com/p/DFbFIJrzlOG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed. Go back to Instagram.

 

Got the ok for the 32 RPU

 

Lets be honest, unless it's an historical "saving" it's an "ick" from me! And the P/U not feeling it! Again, JMO! Critiquing is kinda fun!

 

@e1956v I wasn't trying to call you out. Completely good to wait under it's cleared.

 

Any pink contenders?

 

The RPU is amazingly detailed. Love the gloss black ceramic coat headers and the fuel tank paint job. But why go to the work of polishing the head, side cover, fantastic pipes... and using Nycop lines and brass fittings? It would look far nicer and detailing to match the rest of what I see if they had used SS and ran it across the buffer. IMO.

 

I am interested not much to add here though.