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Larry Olson’s Bobby Alloway Built 1933 Ford Wins America’s Most Beautiful Roadster At Grand National Roadster Show


Larry Olson’s Bobby Alloway Built 1933 Ford Wins America’s Most Beautiful Roadster At Grand National Roadster Show

If you think that hot rods should be black with flames, then you are going to love Larry Olson’s Bobby Alloway built 1933 Ford that just won the 2015 AMBR, America’s Most Beautiful Roadster, Trophy at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona. It’s black, it’s flamed, it’s got a Hemi, and the big and littles just scream hot rod.

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The middle of this particular ’33 has been stretched 4 inches, uses sedan doors, and is shaped to be as sleek as any ’33 we’ve ever seen. The paint is spectacular, and you can’t argue with the color combo of the black paint and georgeous yellow and orange flames. It’s hot rod timeless for sure. The black leather interior fits the car just right, but is not something spectacular with regards to design. This one say hot rod in every way, and there is nothing inside that takes away from the outside.

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What’s special about this car is the Red Ram Hemi that is under the hood. Dodge’s little Hemi is outfitted with ultra bitchin EFI, a T-5 Transmission, and a quick change out back. Details abound on this car for sure. And as you expect from Alloway, this one is capped off with his trademark big and littles.

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We have to send out congratulations out to Larry Olson and Bobby Alloway, and the Alloway Hot Rods team. This is a beautiful roadster for sure. We have to say, that even though EVERY car in the AMBR competition is a contender, there are always a few standouts. Of those, we were not expecting this one to win. It wasn’t a shock by any stretch, but the talk throughout the show was so mixed that we didn’t know which horse to back. Congratulations to all the competitors, these cars are amazing, and each of them should be proud to have been in the running for 2015. Truly amazing hot rods.

Here are all our photos of Larry Olson’s winning car.

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15 thoughts on “Larry Olson’s Bobby Alloway Built 1933 Ford Wins America’s Most Beautiful Roadster At Grand National Roadster Show

  1. doug gregory

    The judging for this has to be as hard as the work to pick the riddler. I have no idea how you scrutinize cars at this level and find any one more or less something verses another. That said, if you looked up Hot Rod in the dictionary this likely would be the picture next to it. Its classic and yet not absent hi-tech stuff. Looks clean and smooth. Excellent….!!! Glad I don’t have to pick one.

  2. Gary Smrtic

    Bu-bu-but, it looks just like a whole fleet of cars Alloway has built already. I don’t get it. Execution, sure. Creativity? Meh…
    Congrats, I guess.

    1. TJ Martin

      Amen to that ! I can’t eve begin to count how many of thes Bobby has built over the decades ;

      AMBR 2015 . The year of the clones . Boyd clones , nostalgia clones , Foose clones et al . What a disappointing year this is starting out to be . Making one wonder how bad the Riddler will be

  3. Stu Lord

    When it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to have someone build you a trophy winning car, what exactly did that prove? My checkbook is bigger then yours?

  4. Chip

    I loved the original, especially with the rompin’ stompin’ motor that was in it. It was lost in the Alloway shop fire. This is a new car built to an even higher standard than its predecessor. Mmmm… love me some Ohio style flames.

    Gettin’ to be a lot of haters in here lately….

    A patron of the arts hired a group of artisans to do what they do best, and has presented it for all of us to see. What a terrible thing. Go tell George Poteet he ain’t a hot rodder and see what happens. I’ll wait.

    1. doug gregory

      Exactly. Maybe they are sad it isn’t powered by an LS or doesn’t have 20s in front and 22s in back. Maybe the lack of 300lbs of sound equipment and a game console has them in a tizzy. The thing is clean, powered right, and has killer stance. Only thing I want them to do to it now is get it dirty. Biggest checkbook doesn’t instantly mean you get the best artists and hit the vibe that resonates with all the judges. This year this car hit that vibe or else it wouldn’t have won. Next year it will likely be something completely different. The devil is in the details that most of us would miss. that’s why I stated that I wouldn’t want to be the one to pick between all these awesome cars. This one couldn’t have been the personal favorite style of all the judges so it had to have something to put it over the top.

  5. ANGRYJOE

    Thumbs up for “Ohio Style Flames” Thumbs Meh for the car…It is nice, quite beautiful…but the MOST beautiful….seems very…well….meh.

  6. Rich

    Boooring!!!!

    I don’t see one bit of imagination in this thing.

    It’s just like every other car he has ever built.

  7. Patrick

    Good looking car, seems like it looks like a few others? Not much outside the box stuff, predictable?

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