In June 2013 we submitted the entry form for to take the 1951 chopped Ford 4 door to the Grand National Roadster Show at the Fairplex in Pomona (LA) California and received acceptance in November.
I sent the car to Hot Rods by Dean in Phoenix to have the stainless trim around the windows and glass channels re-done as the welds could be seen from the chop then spent 4 weeks cleaning & polishing the top, bottom & engine and made props for the display, the theme was "need for speed".
We loaded up the car into the trailer behind the truck & camper and headed to LA Wednesday morning.
Arrived after noon at the KOA across from the Fairplex, unloaded the scooter and I rode around to see the lay out of where we would go to unload the car.
Thursday at 9 AM we got in line at the staging area and waited for over an hour to be let into the building area where the car was to go into Building #7.
We were rushed to get the car carpet and display unloaded then moved the truck camper trailer to the far end of the building. Only to find out several hours later that we were hemmed in badly. I had to back up a 1/2 building length and then was told to drive around fountains between hand railings for buildings ... not fun at all.
We unrolled the carpet then had to maneuver the car back and forth in between two other cars to get it in place that caused the carpet to be wadded up under the car and around the tires, it took 1/2 hour and a borrowed floor jack to straighten out the carpet then we could tape it down.
We spent about 2 hours setting up the display with Karen and Charlie's help.
This is the show board sign that Hot Rods by Dean made up for us
The display had a stained glass window with a light box behind it, old race track picture and a Kodak picture display showing the build photos.
I have some drag race poster from the 50's that I framed and used in the display along with the build photo album.
The display turned out very good and we used LED strings of lights under the car so the judge's could see the bottom.
My hard work under the hood looked good.
Some other cars: Studebaker modified into a woody station wagon
This car was all hand formed that won several awards.
This is the 2014 AMBR winner.
Another Studebaker named "Stupedbaker" Bonneville salt flats car.
beautiful chopped Lincoln
Speed record holder Jet car
Very nice Lincoln Zephyr
Chopped Hudson
1934 Ford 4 door with a 501 CI engine
The stained glass I made for the show
One of my bucket list items to have a car good enough to compete at the Grand National Roadster Show (old Oakland Roadster Show from my high school days) now 50 years later its here.
I received 2nd place in Radical Hard Top class.
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