America's Most Beautiful Roadster contenders

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According to the Street Rodder coverage, #4 won.


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NO f**king way! As much as I LOVE topless cars, that's one of the ugliest, paint and interior combo's, I've ever seen... and that means it's coming here AGAIN and I've got to look at it. Nightmares are gonna start

 

That '36 is old news. It was at last year's Autorama in Detroit as a Ridler contender. Although I love '36's, that color combo is butt-ugly.

 

At least they're all roadsterish--I was just looking through a book on AMBR history, and there was a horrible period of things that resemble dune buggys and random assemblages of Hot Wheels parts.

 

more pics for anyone who missed my post
http://www.vondrunk.com/VDgnrs/

 

That '36 is an abortion. Looks like they took one of those cartoony '37 glass bodied things and decided to throw on something that resembled a '36. But hey, I get sensative when people start fucking up '36 Fords...

 

Amen about screwing up 36's Django!

 

Did anyone see that '37 that was called a 1939 ford roadster? I forgot to take a pic, It bug the shit out of me that is wasn't even remotely a 39 ford.

 

I probably have a pic of the 39 that was called a 37.. take a look at my link to all my pics. I tried to get a pic of every car whether I like it or not just for history reference...

#4 was nice but seems to lack something.. I think it was the interior that I disliked the most, the choice of wood was not my fav.

I have to agree with Jeem's comments above, thou the cars are not this sites preference, the quality of work and the ideas that can be taken from most of the cars is exceptional..

 

Number 3 is my idea of a Deuce, black, traditional, simple and well maintained, well, too maintained so it probably rarely hits the streets.

 

My opinion(s)

The color sceme is metrosexual. I wouldn't be surprised to see it on a car driven by Richard Simmons in West Hollyweird any more than being driven by a blue hair in Newport Beach, but I would be surprised to see a HAMBer driving it.
The interior looks like it was taken out of a Lexus (which ain't bad) and squished into the roadster.
The angle of the column drop really really bothers me. It should be at the same angle as the console part of the dash.
The trunk cut line is really neat the way it opens at the seat but they should have pancaked the hood and cut it the same way... It's called continuity of design.
The headlights are ugly blobs and the novelty of using new car lights in pods on rods got old half way through the first year of Dodge Neons. The headlights and tail lights should have been treated the same, either both tunneled or both "floating" in "pods".

I guess it had the cleanest chassis of the bunch and no fluids, oil, or grease has ever been put in it.
That's what it takes to win. What it actually looks like is just one item on the long list of "Is this clean? Is that clean?