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Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 591733)

See Al --- Rudy nor I thought that car should have even entered..... We both voted it the ugly duckling. LOL

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Originally Posted by Al Moreno (Post 591732)

I agree.

I'm nit so sure not one stood out.

The amount of creativity that went into this 28 was amazing! Literally everything on it was fab.

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I had no idea that car car had anything cool since it was just plain UGLY. I had to stare at it to even figure out what it really is beside just UGLY.

/\/\/\/\/\ HEY! It took a LOT of swap meet shopping to find those 14" wheels!! Give 'em a break!

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Originally Posted by Al Moreno (Post 591735)

GWEN'S '33 but with fenders....

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Originally Posted by ironworks (Post 591738)

I had no idea that car car had anything cool since it was just plain UGLY. I had to stare at it to even figure out what it really is beside just UGLY.

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Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 591742)

/\/\/\/\/\ HEY! It took a LOT of swap meet shopping to find those 14" wheels!! Give 'em a break!

When I saw pics that said this thing was a contender, I thought it was a joke. You can take 250K worth of parts and build a 500K car or a 50K car. This well.............it takes all kinds I guess. No doubting the work and effort, but this screams build as you go and see what you end up with. There is no way they had a rendering to go off of. I hope.

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Originally Posted by ironworks (Post 591738)

I had no idea that car car had anything cool since it was just plain UGLY. I had to stare at it to even figure out what it really is beside just UGLY.

I thought it was "kind of" cool but over all was missing that thing that says "this is the front of the car" and "this is the rear". Kind of like a kids wooden car toy.

Honestly I didn't like the styling of most of the contenders, but that is just me. Of all the choices for me it would have been the slick black one posted above or Pinkee's rivet roadster.

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Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 591723)

One of the biggest reasons we chose not to enter AMBR judging with the '33 was A) that was never the intent B) Brizio won the year before meaning there's no way he's winning two years in a row

I agree with you Al - there were several other entries that weren't nearly so 80's and ordinary (not that an Alloway is ordinary in build quality). But WTF - Technically last years winner isn't even a Roadster.... so apparently there is no figuring this out.

I was going to say but glad you did first. cars shows :bang:
if I had to pick from looks and style I would have gone with the gold hemi powered one. or Troys just because of the level of detail.

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Originally Posted by Musclerodz (Post 591792)

Honestly I didn't like the styling of most of the contenders, but that is just me. Of all the choices for me it would have been the slick black one posted above or Pinkee's rivet roadster.

I was certain the Rivet Roadster (Pinkee's) had it won... It was the only one there that used fresh color combos to highlight different items on the car. They mixed up gloss and mat finishes... The wheels were custom... there were other one off parts and details... And it had details that made you say "that's cool!".

If you tossed out UGLY -- the green 14" wheel "race car".... and the twin turbo'd abortion... and eliminated the "ordinary" cars like Alloway's - and the nicely done black '34 which was really nice but we've all seen that car a 1100 times.... There were mostly very uninspiring builds on display. We found plenty of really killer cars at the show overall -- but the AMBR thing needs to really pick up the pace because the last couple years have been pretty sad. I mean really -- the little baby blue "almost stock restoration" and The Grass Hopper? Come on --- I built that model when I was 9 and the was half a century ago!

I mean come on -- this is an AMBR entrant?? WTF!

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Can we get more 1960's than this???

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PUT THESE IN THE FUGLY CONTEST!!!

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Oh yeah!! That top is real stylin' buddy! REALLY?? Did it fall off something in front of you and land on this car?

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I don't care where this car came from (Stockholm) it's just something that was in the back of a warehouse.... they washed it and brought it to the show. Big Daddy was going to put a glass bubble on it and call it the ZORTNIK or something... LOL

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THESE ARE ALL AS ORDINARY OF A BUNCH OF CARS AS YOU CAN GET..... Super nice to be sure! But so what...

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This particular car has an interesting story to it --- and I discussed it with the builder and Steve Moal when we were in Victoria BC last summer for Deuce Days. The owner died 2 weeks before it was completed... a nice and little different - lots of details - looks like something Moal would build but didn't. I like it but it's not an AMBR winner to me....

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...-1-640x400.jpg

This was a nice car that was caught in the '70's with the wire wheels..... again real ordinary. The kind of car that you'd see at any parking lot show all across the country. It fit between the FUGLY and the ORDINARY.

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