2013 AMBR Winner

[Loren]

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Here is a show my buddy and I drove to last summer. Rained on us all the way until we parked our cars.
The '55 is like a hog on ice in rain. About a 200 mile round trip.


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That is such a bad ass 55...with that, I wouldn't never have a problem with anything else, ever.

[Deaf Bob]

It is DRIVEN as it should be...
Maybe some minor handling woes..
My 57 gets driven except in ice and snow..
Of course it isn't set up for the drags with slicks..

[Monk]

Here is a show my buddy and I drove to last summer. Rained on us all the way until we parked our cars.
The '55 is like a hog on ice in rain. About a 200 mile round trip.

[Deaf Bob]

^^^Mr Cool-As-Hell! ^^^
buddy of my son's has a 70 Chevelle.. He was so mad at his dad and bro for trailering it 2.5 hrs one way to cruise.. Always said his car will never be trailered.. Lol.. Now it is with him in one of the Carolinas.. In the service..
Same with my son and I, always drove our gas guzzlers!

[groucho]

Nice, pretty, has some cool parts on it..
Will I try to mimic it.. Definite no..
Respect the trophy it won.. Not really as it is a few folks idea of "best"..
If it was something the builder spent his own $$ doing instead of farming it out, I'd have more respect..
It seems a core group of builders " take turns" building and winning those awards..
I'd be like Gray Baskerville and drive mine..
Like Groucho seems to..
No car is worth having if you don't drive it..
Even the Hemi Cuda Vert that Scott talks about..
I'd like one...TO DRIVE! Yep as "rare" as it is.. If it was mine, it'd get driven!

Gotta drive em!! I drove my 38 Chevy in the rain to attend the show last Saturday with just Rain X at my side. After I built this I drove it 125 miles each way to Bakersfield for the March Meet, and 235 miles each way to Paso Robles on slicks.

[Monk]

Same goes with the Ridler Award cars. I am bored with deuce roadsters with an exotic engine and $100k paint job.

The Ridler Award astonishes me.......the money spent and all.

Yep.........I'll build mine for driving.

[Deaf Bob]

Nice, pretty, has some cool parts on it..
Will I try to mimic it.. Definite no..
Respect the trophy it won.. Not really as it is a few folks idea of "best"..
If it was something the builder spent his own $$ doing instead of farming it out, I'd have more respect..
It seems a core group of builders " take turns" building and winning those awards..
I'd be like Gray Baskerville and drive mine..
Like Groucho seems to..
No car is worth having if you don't drive it..
Even the Hemi Cuda Vert that Scott talks about..
I'd like one...TO DRIVE! Yep as "rare" as it is.. If it was mine, it'd get driven!

[Scott Liggett]

X2. Pretty boring for sure. It's funny how most the winners PAID someone else to build the car for them. How can you be proud of something you paid to get built? Silly. Like I said, different strokes.

It's the same wealthy man thinking of buying a 71 Hemi Cuda Convert. Bragging rights at the country club. To each their own.

[groucho]

Same goes with the Ridler Award cars. I am bored with deuce roadsters with an exotic engine and $100k paint job.

X2. Pretty boring for sure. It's funny how most the winners PAID someone else to build the car for them. How can you be proud of something you paid to get built? Silly. Like I said, different strokes.

[Scott Liggett]

Nice car. But, it's pretty amazing the money people will spend for that trophy, that they won't even own. They just get their name on it. Different strokes

Same goes with the Ridler Award cars. I am bored with deuce roadsters with an exotic engine and $100k paint job.

[groucho]

Nice car. But, it's pretty amazing the money people will spend for that trophy, that they won't even own. They just get their name on it. Different strokes

[Monk]

The Ardun heads on this car are the V8-60 heads, that is why they are so rare. The repo ones that are for sale are for the normal 24 stud flathead motors (read, common).
If you get a chance get your hands on the last issue of The Rodders Journal (#56) and there is a fantastic multipage article on the car just before it went for paint. Lots of cool stuff on this car that you will never see unless you read the article.

Good stuff..........I'll be out fethcing that mag today.

[starterguy]

The Ardun heads on this car are the V8-60 heads, that is why they are so rare. The repo ones that are for sale are for the normal 24 stud flathead motors (read, common).
If you get a chance get your hands on the last issue of The Rodders Journal (#56) and there is a fantastic multipage article on the car just before it went for paint. Lots of cool stuff on this car that you will never see unless you read the article.

[Deaf Bob]

I was thinking it was strange that it had 4 carbs... Then thought "period correctness"
Saw the radiator hose and didn't register..
Just thought it was a strange valve cover for a hemi head..
Ardun heads were way ahead of their time...too bad the small block chevy rendered them obsolete, rather shoved out of the spotlight

Ths car just got cooler..

[silver_bullet]

still lovin track tees