Featured Event Coverage AMBR 2026 Contenders

Apparently it is prototype/experimental 302 Ford
From Brizio website

 

fDo you call it a contender if there is only one real option?

 

Personal taste aside, JF builds some phenomenal cars.

 

I'm just thinking that a couple of those cars may look way better in person than they do in those particular photos. As much as I love Black early Fords Black Early Fords are the hardest ******** car on the planet to photograph and show the details on indoors. Those photos kind of remind me of the school cl*** photos where the photographer had the camera on a tripod and you walked in one by one and sat on a stoll and they took your photo and you got up and walked out and the next person walked in. The hottest gal in town often didn't look great in those photos even though she had spent an hour on her makeup and another hour on her hair and Looked better than the actress in the beach movie down at the Liberty.

 

No pink ones


Yawn

 

The car isn't my taste, but I'd be happy to see him win.

 

Thanks - the distributor was throwing me and the vertical water outlet is a Cleveland thing while the intake flange being horizontal has been a modular engine indication.

 

I definitely agree with you on that one. Not my cup of Tee but It would be nice to see a Canadian built car win.

It was neat to see by JF’s Roadster he built and entered a few years ago at Deuce Days. I thought his car was just like mine 28 Roadster on 32 rails how much difference could there be? Well when you see the level of detail and fit and Finish it makes you realize who the amateur is and who a Professional is.

My pick off just the limited pictures would be the Blue 32 with the Nail Head. But nobody asked me to judge the show.

 

The door shape on the Brandie Laird car keeps throwing me off. It's like the bottom of a 3W door on a Phaeton. Not saying I dislike it, I don't know. It's different.

 

I was too late to enter the compe***ion. Maybe 2027.

 

This is one of the Brookville Phaetons Chip Foose designed, think it is a run of 32. The door is based on a 3w. I like the concept but feel the length of the door is 4-6" too long.

One of these bodies was used for the 2024 winner built by Brizio for Beth Myers

 

Looking at others built with that body, I think the front of the door might have been reshaped on the Laird car?

 

The hood louvers look neat.

 

Todd gets my vote……but it don’t count…. There are some u**y cars this year!

 

For the sake of comparison . . . Here's a side-view of Beth Myers' two Deuce Tudor Phaetons:

NOTE: Both were built by using the Limited Edition / '32 Phantom bodies . . . though the body on her 2024 AMBR was extensively modified.​

. . . and here's a side-view of Brandie Laird's Deuce Tudor Phaeton:

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The Nicole Baird car gets my vote, and the one I'd be happiest to see in my garage, its lush

 

Top hinge placement on these bodies feels out of place to me, I understand it is located there due to that is the location of the 3w body hinges but with an open car body it feels too low, it needs to be at the belt line like Model A, '32, '33/'34 & '35/'36 open car. For me it sticks out.

 

I really like the Nicole Baird car. Has there ever been an AMBR winner with an injected Nailhead?

 

Nicole Baird's car is very tasty and John Farleigh a close second.

 

To be fair, I think some version of that is stated every year. The initial photos of the GNRS contenders are usually the least flattering ones we see.

 

Thanks for those angles, at that angle they look same to me.

 

The Pillado car is great but missed the mark for me on the placement of the rear top bow placement. I feel it should have been shortened up and pulled in a couple inches.

 

This is a couple years old, but I think it's still current, 'cept for maybe the $ prize.

 

I’m digging the blue nailhead 32 !

 

Same here.

 

Funny, that's what I like about the top on that car.

 

That would explain it. Interesting idea. I might like it better with the shorter, squared off door though.

I agree with 05snopro440, I like that top better than the others. I was trying to figure out why I liked that one more than the Ardun car, and I think it's the subtle difference in top shapes. Both are very nice, don't get me wrong. But I like the boxier top, it seems more period appropriate.

 

The Chavik car is enough hot rod and elegant roadster so it gets my vote. Just my opinion.

 

It's really cool and looks like a lot of fun.