Introducing “POSSESSED”, the 2010 America’s Most Beautiful Roadster (AMBR) winner at the infamous Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS). The GNRS is now in its 65th year. Once known as the Oakland Roadster Show, it is the longest running indoor car show in the world! Produced at the Fairplex in Pomona for the 10th consecutive year. AMBR is the ultimate recognition of an “open” hot rod in the world.
Winning AMBR gets recognition on the 8 feet tall trophy, and some of the most famous hot rods of all time have won it. The names of each year’s AMBR winners are inscribed in plaques affixed to the trophy’s base. There are a few simple rules. The winner has to be a roadster, defined as a two-seat convertible. And since Ford stopped making roadsters in 1937, that’s the cutoff date.
The concept behind the design was to blend the car Ford built in 1933 with the designs employed by European coachbuilders of the same era. Every component of the body is handbuilt. The engine is a highly-modified injected 392-inch Ford. The project took two years to complete, almost to the day, and ends in the best way imaginable.
