2017 America's Most Beautiful Roadster...and the Winner is...

[tim boyd]

Makes me wonder if a 1/1 scale version of this car might have been a winner at the GNRS (Oakland) back in the day...

9 more images and detail shots at the link.....thanks for looking.   TIM  

 

 

[Impalow]

and the winner... some great build photos in this link as well.

 

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/2017-grand-national-roadster-show-americas-beautiful-roadster-is1936-packard-hollywood-hot-rods/

 

[lysleder]

Respect and congratulations to the winner. 

It is not so often that a custom wins that one.

[Casey]

T5 5-speed. 

I'm not crazy about the fender skirt wave nor the color of the car, but it is nice looking overall. Kind of a "meh" collection of candidates this year.

[gtx6970]

 

I'm not crazy about the fender skirt wave

Agreed, I think it would have been cleaner had the lower skirt continued with the lower lines of the running boards. But other than that I REALLY like it .

[Spex84]

I appreciated that the candidates this year had a lot of subtlety going on, with attention paid to history, color, complimenting and contrasting materials, etc.

All the contenders are awesome in their own way. The only thing I "icked" on was the nose on Proboscis. But heck, with a name like that, the builders/owner obviously knew they had something eccentric on their hands, and decided to call attention to it rather than downplay it. That takes a sense of confidence and humor! And I wasn't a huge fan of the yellow fade job on the 60s style show rod, but major props to the builders for entering it...probably the most "punk" car in the room that day, and IMHO hot rodding needs to keep as much of that spirit as possible.