The official results are in and the HAMB's own Mike Russel won the 2009 Traditional Homebuilt Heaven award. Congratulations!!!! Here's the story from the Goodguys website... The ultimate “Do it Yourself” hot rodders were honored by Goodguys and Timberland as the national winner’s of the Timberland PRO “Homebuilt Heaven” compe***ion. The compe***ion is divided into two distinctive categories: Homebuilt Heaven (contemporary street rod, truck or custom through ’72 vintage) and Traditional Homebuilt Heaven (traditional hot rod, truck or custom through ’72 vintage). The 2009 Homebuilt Heaven National winner is Zach and Brenda Straits of Staunton, Virginia. The Staunton’s were originally picked as Homebuilt Heaven award winners at the 12th PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. Their beautiful red ’61 Ford Starliner features a stock 390 engine/automatic ******, stock red & black interior, Ford hubcaps and rolls on BF Goodrich rubber. The Straits did the frame off restoration themselves! It is a truly deserving, flawless car. The Traditional Homebuilt Heaven winner is Mike Russell of Springfield, Illinois. Mike’s chopped 1930 Ford Model A was chosen as a finalist at the 21st Hot Rod Nationals in Indy. The blue coupe sports a quickchange rear, a dropped and drilled I-beam axle, juice brakes and a flathead topped with an Edmunds intake. Each winner was selected via online voting which was held the entire month of January 2010 on www.good-guys.com. Both the Straits and Russell will receive a special trophy from our friends at Timberland PRO as well as a $1,000 shopping spree at www.timberland.com
Cool!!!! I'll bet that's the first time two Fords, powered by fords won at the same time. (at a Goodguy's event) Pretty rare these days.
Thanks everybody this is a pretty cool deal for me, there were some awfully nice cars to pick from. Yes thats Jims old coupe its a funny story how I ended up with it. I really wanted the 3 window he is building now but he beat me to it so I ended up with his '30. and luckily I got a lot of good HAMB'er buddies here that helped me turn this car out in about 6 months. here are a few build pics
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