Bird’s Eye View of the 2013 AMBR Contending Hot Rods
The Air up there: 2013 America’s Most Beautiful Roadsters
Vote for your favorite below by leaving a comment…
There are a few advantages to being tall. If you can put up with bumping your head hard enough to see stars once in a while, you get shots like these without carrying a step ladder. So… even though I shared the Best 7 AMBR Contenders already, here’s another look from up high.
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Can’t wait? Click here to see pictures of 2013 AMBR winning roadster
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contender – Bad in Black 1932 Hot Rod!
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contender – 200+ MPH Bad & Beautiful
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contender – Australian Hot Rod
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contender – The Kid’s Cruiser
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contender – Indy Racer’s Dream 1932 Hot Rod
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contender – Cooper Elegance
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contender – Track Nose Champion
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contender – Possessed Pickup
Which one’s most beautiful and which is your favorite? Are you answers different? Feel free to vote for “America’s Most Bitch’n Roadster” too!
Please leave a comment below and tell us which of roadsters will win and why!
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As a family we are very proud of our brother Joe Cane & his beautiful tub.
Thank you for your comment Rae-Anne. It’s a wild car and the front runner for “America’s Most Bitch’n Roadster” even though he hauled it in from Australia! G’day Australian Hot Rodders!
I’m confused! I love the winner and I love traditional but I think we are going backwards with being innovative with hot rod design. I like the new rules but maybe they need to have a category for traditional cars.
BILL YOUR SO-RIGHT !!! THANK YOU !!
A TUB IS NOT A ROADSTER !! A RACE CAR IS A RACE CAR !
OK ARE WE GOING TO CHANGE THE TITLE OF THE AWARD ??????????
Continuing the discussion on AMBR…….I think the entry needs to be a TRUE Roadster ( 2 doors no bed or back seat )……….They should reflect current trends and technology ( not futuristic )……..The car that won was my favorite but not for AMBR, it could have competed with the very 1st winner……….How about a Preservation Award……My thoughts only.
Bill, man… you said alot there! Thanks for the comment. I think they hold pretty true to the classic roadster rules, and I’m glad you like the winner… have you considered that “current trends” are a classic, traditional looking hot rod?
For me, there were 2 kinds of roadsters in the AMBR judging: Work-of-art Rods and Classic Hot Rods. Squeeg’s Roadster and the Coulter’s 1933 Roadster were elegant works of art compared to the more traditional and hard core hot rods from the boys in Washington with their 1928 Woodward, Farely’s 32, the Tub from Australia and Kelly Brown’s AMBR winner.
This discussion would make for another good story…
Craig; I agree that there were 2 types. Squeeg’s and Chapman’s are the types that should be encouraged to compete. You described them for me correctly. This is a specific competition (Americas most Beautiful Roadster) and I think they need a specific kind of vehicle to compete. Just think they need to encourage innovative, new trends, driveable, clean air and “Work of Art Classic Hot Rods”. Are they having trouble getting cars? 7 cars and 3 didn’t fit the Roadster category.
Hi Bill and Gary, thanks for the lively discussion!
I think it’s hard to look for, and award the AMBR, to anything “new” (trends or innovation) because of the history of the award. I haven’t been to the show every year like some, I wonder if rewarding-new was ever practiced and accepted for the AMBR? Or did they even care? Before wasn’t it an ISCA style judging that seemed to be a simple, “points for detail” system where anything without windows and a top could win? (really, I’m asking).
This is tough… on one hand, I’d like to see the AMBR stick with traditional hot rods, but I don’t want to see a room full of flatheads… maybe that’s just me.
I guess I’ll have to make the “My Ride is Me” award. If I gave out $10,000 with it, would that make anyone care? Or do I have to wait 60+ yeaars?