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60TH GRAND NATIONAL ROADSTER SHOW; Everything old is new again-and chrome-plated.(NEWS)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
THE "SPORTS-CAR-INFLUENCED HOT rod of Harry Willett took top honors at the 60th Grand National Roadster Show on Jan. 25, beating out a typically strong field of 14 cars at one of the most prestigious car shows in the country.
The show, held for many decades in Oak-land, Calif., moved south to Pomona five years ago and has grown under new management. You might think that an old hot-rod show eventually would age and fade away, but this year's event had the biggest crowd and the most entries ever.
The star of any Grand National Roadster Show is the America's Most Beautiful Road-ster, or AMBR, category, which is sort of the Nobel Prize and the Olympic gold medal of hot-rodding. Of the 700 cars entered for all kinds of awards, only a handful go for all of the marbles in the AMBR competition.
Roy Brizio's "32/'33 Ford Roadster with Ferrari V12 power had an understated elegance for which the south San Franciscan is known. The Chuck Lombardos Jr. and Sr. built their roadster around a supercharged Jaguar V8 from a wrecked S-Type R and sprinkled it with English roadster themes. Roger O'Dell's "36 Ford roadster featured an array of cues from different eras, held together by the sweeping fenders of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, 60TH GRAND NATIONAL ROADSTER SHOW; Everything old is new again-and...