You won't see any till the week of as part of the rules. I can say for certain, a shop we all love from AZ is bringing 4 cars that are going to blow everyone out of the water, including AMBR.
Brizio had John Mumford's SOHC 427 orange Deuce last year and lost to the Rad Rides Myers '36. Previous year Brizio won with Beth Myers '32 phantom Phaeton. In 2022 Mumford had the V12 '34 with stainless steel (or nickel) roof, lost to an amazing build in Jeff Breault’s ’34 Chevy, off topic for sure but leaps and bounds above its compe***ion. John won in 2013 with the Kelly Brown T. If it is the Offy powered T it will be a strong contender on "MERIT" not "reputation" I have seen the right car win since they changed the rules. In general people mostly see the winners thru the prism of their preferences and think, how did the winner win? Simple, they were the best! I always enjoy seeing the cars that show up, there are always 2 or 3 real contenders that could win, except for last year that was in the bag not through favouritism but through mind blowing excellence! On a side note I am looking forward to seeing the Slonaker contenders, I still think Slonaker has surp***ed the Ridler in importance/prestige
@Jimmy B your post just made the light bulb go off. I feel stupid that it didn't click before. It's often a few of the same names competing, and I realized that these take years to conceptualize and create. But never put two and two together. Right now, these people have cars in the final push to compete in this year's show AND have another or two somewhere in the design, fabricate, collect, plate and paint process for future shows. Wow.
Any new news? I recently talked to Mike from Big Creek Restorations in Ellis Kansas and he'll be there with a customers Speed 33 he's been m***aging on for several years. Has it entered in the AMBR field.
When you figure these winners have 4-5 million invested it's hard to fathom the total. 1/2 a dozen capable builders, 2-3 projects in the fire and you could end up with 60-80 million dollars floating around. At some point this hobby will require some real money.
Totally agree, but it's still fun to see what unlimited resources can produce. Makes the winter a little more tolerable!
And its great that they exist so all these fantastic craftsmen can ply and push their trades to such extraordinary levels.
True, they are creating at crazy levels, but they are building works of art that are based on the cars we love. They also share them at the shows with us to pick up details and finishes we can discuss and maybe emulate in our own way. @anothercarguy is doing an amazing job on his convertible, and I know @Tim_with_a_T 's car is going to be a knockout too. They have more money in theirs than I do, but it's more about the time and sweating the details. https://www.socratic-method.com/quo...nius-is-an-infinite-capacity-for-taking-pains
One thing that impresses me is the design of parts and the cohesiveness of a project. There are many of us that do really good work but don't have the imagination to be that creative. If you go back before people were using designers, It was the small things that seemed to make the difference. I was at the 50th and made notice to every previous winner that all the details were as good as somebody could do them. Whether we agree with what is the end result, we surly can agree on the talent and dedication it took to build a contender.
I was part of the crew for my buddies roadster that competed for the AMBR last year. He is an 80 year old (and circling the drain as he puts it) old school hotrodder just like the rest of us. He built his car in his 2 car garage with the help of friends and local resources, and built his car to be driven (he's a CanAm Curmudgeon...and we like to drive our cars). He has a reasonable amount of money invested in his car (I say "reasonable" by which I mean if he sold it for market value, excluding his labor he might break even or not get hurt too badly). Now, it was pretty clear which car was going to win last year...but he was on the floor, has the jacket, flag and plaque to prove it, oh yeah, and he received an award for outstanding detail. So it can be done. Thanks Rod.
This is exactly how it's done. It just comes down to how much you and your friends can do. It does not take a huge amount of money. It takes p***ion and a strong desire to do it.
That’s great! Lots of memories made there in all that. “Circling the drain”. Lol. I’ve never heard it put quite like that, but that’s funny.
And it's a damn nice car. I am glad he is driving it. So many of these "cars" end up as nothing but garage art.
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