America's Most Beautiful Roadster contenders

Just got home from the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona. It was a good show, with most being ones that I have never seen in person. I took 400 pics but it will take time to get some of them on my site. Thought I would share the candidates for the Most Beautiful Roadster

 

candidate #2

 

#3 my favoite but not to nostalgic to win I think

 

#4

 

#5

 

$6

 

#7. I think this will be the winner if the nostalgic Ardun power does not win...

 

#3 Got my vote

 

#3 is my vote also

 

I think #3 is from SoCal Speedshop.

 

I like the oldie black one......all the rest look like all wheel drive-town &country- Boydsters.

 

If #3 is from SoCal Speed Shop it has a chance. Traditional or not, they have friends in high places.

It's all politics.....

JH

 

#3......But I just look at the wheels........OLDBEET

 

#3-I think #5 is a bit hideous..But it's better than I could do.....

 

Is that all the candidates?

If so, give it to AlaKart again!

 

#5 has shiney tires.

(I vote #3)

 

I dig #5...kinda different...COOL!!!

 

i'm going to go out on a limb and say #7... i think you can look PAST wheel choice and look at the entire car. #3 doesn't do anything for me at all...

 

Were they all told the couldn't spend more than $339.95 on their displays?
They all look so...Utilitarian!

Where's the turntables and soft music and dancing girls?

 

#6 should win.....It would be just as lame as it was last year.
Clark
PS ...I wish I had the money that was put into just one of those cars. I could build a house and a couple of cars to boot.

 

The winner should be the red Austin Healy. ain't no reason to ever go to that show again. Talk about medeoker. None of those cars contending were "beutifull" Maybee underthought and over painted is a better ***le. And thats supposed to be a level to aspire to? I havn't wasted that much money going to a show ever.....................

 

AlaKart

 

They judge them on how friggin clean they are, white gloves thing like at a Concourse so the car that's been kept in a GERMetically sealed container the most will win.
Read that in one of them magazine articles on how to win the big one.


Or the most popular Name$ with the judge$ maybe...Naw, those judges are totally impartial!

That aluminum bubble on the side of the So.Cal car reminds me of a goose egg on kids forehead...but the rest is, well only typical of their cars..

ALAKART!!!

 

i really like the color on #5.

#6 makes me want to throw up.

They are all pristine and polished and perfect, which is ok, but no trailer-queen will ever get my vote.

I appreciate all the work that went into them, but if you have to put mirrors under your car to show off how much money you invested, then its just not hotrodding to me, and its not fun. I wont even look.

I wish theyd have the companies that worked on the car listed at the shows, and the actual talented people that made the car into what it is, give the real artists some credit, not just the owner.

I think that there are two kinds of people at cruise-ins, rod runs and show n' shines. the ones that built them, and the ones that bought them.

Thats definatly just my own personal opinion. I'm not trying to get personal or knock anyone that owns or knows people that own cars like these.

 

I'm goin' for #3 as well... Not much on the trend of rollin' on 20s...

 

I think it's cool when u like a car and it's engineering, that you have to get down on all fours to have a proper look underneath..thats cool...cars on freakin milk crates aint....

 

Could you do us a favour and post a few more pics of the #3 car if you have any?

 

#4 is very old news, been around

#2 looks fimilar as well

#7 has my vote. I would have done alittle liter color interior but all in all a beautiful piece of rolling artwork.

Thanks for taking the time to share your photos. It's a nice treat in the middle of winter.

 

I vote for the AlaKart, in the background of number 2.
Or else I will vote for #8...

 

Out of these cars, I'd choose #3 for myself, but it's completely traditional -- except for the hood blisters, there's nothing on that car that we haven't seen a hundred times. I think the AMBR should go to a car that's in some way fresh and innovative.

The type of car exemplified by #6 and #7 -- stylizations, or caricatures, of traditional Ford shapes by Chip Foose or another skilled designer, seem to me closer to the spirit of the AMBR, but we've already seen it done with the '32, '34 and '35 body styles in the last several years' winners. I'd pick #7 for the award, which purports to be a '36, because it really is good looking and we haven't seen that particular thing done before. It looks to me like a '34 dressed up in a '36 costume, but it's still the most novel and the best looking of the "designed" cars.