Americas Most Beautiful Roadster - 2014 -- Oakland Roadster Show

will · WALKERTON, ONT

Americas Most Beautiful Roadster - 2014 -- Oakland Roadster Show

fatstax · COBOURG, ONT

funny to see a 4 door car win that title, people always hatin on the 4 door cars

Model A Guy · STROUD, ONT

Nice to see something other than a '32 Ford [no offense Will] win the AMBR! Sure helps when you can afford to have Foose and Trepanier involved in building your car!

I am surprised no one on this sight commented on the mishap that happened during the judging. Sad situation all around for those involved at the GNRS, no matter who was at fault!

fatstax · COBOURG, ONT

what happened during the judging? the ghost of boyd showed up with a curse for them if they didnt vote for a 32 ford?

Cat in the Hat · BRANTFORD, ONT

The president of the car show was run over by a show car driving in the building to the judging area.

No broken bones....not critical......but in the hospital

Molten · CAMBOURNE, ONT

slim · DUNDAS, ONT

When did a four door phantom touring car become a roadster. WTF . Nice car but call it what it is.

Sell out or stupid pick one.

will · WALKERTON, ONT

slim wrote:
When did a four door phantom touring car become a roadster. WTF . Nice car but call it what it is.
Sell out or stupid pick one.

You can find your answer in the following

http://blogs.hotrod.com/14-grand-national-roadster-show-winner-is-104305.html#axzz2rzi7Vwg0

Gearhead · ELORA, ONT

Molten wrote:

???? WHAT THE??? How did that happen?? Rubbernecking the autograph girls?? What a shame

As for the Phaeton, I would have liked to see it look more like the concept art myself...but that's just my tastes.

fatstax · COBOURG, ONT

Grumpsbodyworks wrote:
The president of the car show was run over by a show car driving in the building to the judging area.

No broken bones....not critical......but in the hospital

thats an incident alright, crazy!

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

It isn't a "phantom" car, it is a Phaeton, which is a four door roadster.
The car involved in the accident may be from Edmonton or somewhere up here.

slim · DUNDAS, ONT

jarvis1 wrote:
It isn't a "phantom" car, it is a Phaeton, which is a four door roadster.
The car involved in the accident may be from Edmonton or somewhere up here.

Tell that to my spell check.

Roadster

In 1916, the Society of Automobile Engineers defined a roadster as: "an open car seating two or three. It may have additional seats on running boards or in rear deck."^[2] Additional seating in the rear deck was known as a rumble seat or a dickey seat. A roadster is still defined as an open car with two seats

Phaeton

After 1912, American use of the term began to be most closely associated with the "triple phaeton" body configurations that had room for three ("rows" of) seats, whether all three were installed or not. Common usage further evolved to refer to a car body style with a rear seating area extended for added leg room or for an extra row of seating. This often gave the vehicle the appearance that it was meant to be chauffeur-operated.This also led to the term "phaeton" becoming similar to, and eventually interchangeable with, the term "touring car

Nice car still not a roadster My guess would be they make this crap up so people dont get bored to death looking at 500 32 fords stuffed in one building. The wrecked car is the pineapple princess II . I think the rod shop in Calgary built it.

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Thanks for the nice post Will.

shazzbott · WHITBY, ONT

rote:
slim wrote:
When did a four door phantom touring car become a roadster. WTF . Nice car but call it what it is.
Sell out or stupid pick one.
You can find your answer in the following

http://blogs.hotrod.com/14-grand-national-roadster-show-winner-is-104305.html#axzz2rzi7Vwg0

its not a phantom........its a phaeton and a real 1935 Chevrolet standard series EC phaeton mike

shazzbott · WHITBY, ONT

There have been 3 phaetons who have won the GNRS...AMBR trophy before.......1974, 1976, 1985 and now 2014.

roadster pickups have won in 1958 1959 = ala kart, 1970 1971, 1975, 1977,

there has been 4 custom bodies 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969 probably track roadsters that have won

The GRAND NATIONAL ROADSTER SHOW = gnrs , AMERICAS MOST BEAUTIFUL ROADSTER = ambr. IS OPEN TO ALL OPEN CARs usa MADE 1937 AND BEFORE.

ITS IN THEIR RULES

That phaeton is one of 217 for 1935 produced by Chevrolet in the USA, Canada produced 3.

mike

el toro · LONDON, ONT

But Chip Foose said it's a roadster so must be a roadster. My El Camino must be a coupe' w/open trunk. After all I've seen a 53' Corvette kit car win "BEST ORIGINAL CAR OF SHOW" in Leamington, even the best shows mess up. I like it when the little guy wins and could care less about any corporate build.

-- Edited by el toro on Sunday 2nd of February 2014 01:23:14 PM

shazzbott · WHITBY, ONT

simplistically, roadster roadster pickup, touring/phaeton, none of them has glass side windows, they use cloth curtains with glass inserts , attached to the body and windshield by snap fasteners to keep the weather out.

Convertables, cabriolets, convertible sedans, all have roll up side windows, that designates them as convertibles.

mike

teejay99 · BELLE RIVER, ONT

I'm OK with the phaeton ...good looking car .....surprised it's not Ford powered ....oops , my mistake , it's all the Ford roadsters ( coupes , phaetons ) that are "uniquely" 350 Chevy powered ...I had it backwards . biggrin biggrin