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Notable Custom Car Articles

To Do List

 * Every AMBR winner, 1949 to present, some are notable for the car or who built it or how or all of the above. I still remember James Ells "Ferrarirod" from the 80's.
 * Every Ridler Award winner, 1st time shown for every entrant
 * Kookie Kar, 1st t-bucket
 * Ala Kart ("cart"?) (1st custom A pickup?)
 * Hirohata Merc, update/edits?
 * Silhouette, oh yeah
 * Ed Roth's Mysterion, Pretty much ANY Roth car is notable since their were so few of the full custom one-offs
 * The Orbitron, The Beatnik Bandit, The Beatnik Bandit 2, The Outlaw, Little Jewel, Surfite, Tweedy Pie, Road Agent, Rotar, Druid Princess


 * Darryl Starbird's stuff for the same reason
 * The Red Baron, for sure, wasn't it a model kit car first, THEN became a real car?
 * Anything that became a Revell-Monogram kit car
 * The California Kid three-window (I've also seen a build article on it, describing how it got chosen for the movie.)
 * Milner's Coupe, the Deuce from "American Graffiti"
 * Bob Falfa's '55 Chevy coupe, Harrison Ford character's car from American Graffiti, early example of a 'street legal' gasser which evolved later into 'street machines'
 * The Monkeemobile, the GTO Phaeton, oh yeah!
 * the "Munsters" Coach and (Dragula, these two go hand in hand. I have a good Dragula story for you someday. I know Barris and the guy who is reproducing Barris' stuff with his permission.
 * Pete and Jake's '33 three-window, Eliminator, built for the ZZ Top video ).
 * CadZZilla
 * The Boydster
 * Aluma Coupe
 * Polynesian: '50 Olds sedan built in '51 by Neil Emory and Clayton Jensen for Jack Stewart, on cover of Hot Rod in August 1951.
 * Dobbertin Ghia (VTW or HWV cover car; June-August '85? '88?)

--limit to streetable rods, & exclude show-only cars? Well, yes and no, that would simplify the list, but exclude a lot of fairly influential cars and builds. For the record, even the "all show and rarely go" cars of the GNRS (cripes, THAT needs an article!!) has to be able to start, move forward 10 ft, reverse and move backward 10ft for it to qualify for the show. Trust me, I've seen cars excluded for this and the screaming fit at the judge that followed the disqualification. I'd say that its to some extent a case by case choice as long as we come up with reliable criteria for exclusion. Make sense? There are plenty of NON-notable show-only cars to be excluded IMO. Scalhotrod (talk) 01:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Other related articles

 * The Grand National Roadster Show, how did this go overlooked for so long...?!? The show has its own historian and published author!

Info Sources Found
Hot Rod Garages, By Peter Vincent, MBI Publishing Company, 2009 - Transportation - 224 pages.