Hilton Hot Rods/Ross Racing Engines winner of the Good Guys 2017 Hot Rod Of The Year in Nashville. Paint was by Tuki, interior by mikeyseats. With a doubt a 100% deserved winner. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
What is the criteria that makes hot rod of the year? It seems it's has been model As for the past couple of years. This car is a cool car I've seen in Detroit. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I liked that sedan the first time I saw it when someone posted a pic a while back. The Hilton/Ross camp puts out some top notch hot rods, rightfully recognized once again.
Actually there have been 4 model A's in the last 4 years in the top five...... with 2 wins....... Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
From the Good Guys site... "The basic criteria for the award are: It’s driven regularly, has a mean attitude, and screams the words “hot rod”. No cream puffs!" The sedan was driven from VA to Austin and back and is treated like a real hot rod. Bobbie threw it down the drag strip, burning the tires off of it. Lots of cream puffs were in attendance ...one was being driven in socks so as not to spoil the interior, seriously!! Then they had the cheek to wonder why they didn't win. This photo shows how hard and long some of them are driven.
Thanks I wasn't trying to offend I was just wanted to know. And like I said I think the car is cool when I seen it in Detroit. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Here is a Hilton Hotrod owned by John & Beth Stivala of Pittsburgh, Pa that did not fair out to well at the show. They were rear ended at a red light on the 100 mile hot rod tour. What a shame for this recently finished total rebuild. Fortunately no injuries and Bobby and the crew will make it look new again.
Can anyone tell me why they have declared Hot Rod of the Year so early? Is this their custom? I would have at it would be closer to the end of the year like October or November. We're not even finished with the fifth month of '17!
It would be cool for that car to win. You should get bonus points for war wounds. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Here's the press release from Goodguy's / Fuel Curve: GOODGUYS HEMI POWERED HOT ROD OF THE YEAR May, 21 2017 Written by John (@John D) Drummond Photos by Mike (@Buick59) Harrington and Steven Bunker Fourty-two hot rods. One winner. That is how it went down this past weekend at the Goodguys 12th Nashville Nationals in Music City USA. Heard round the country, the rallying cry for real, genuine, hell-raisin’ hot rods went out in January when the award was officially announced as part of the Goodguys 2017 Top 12 Awards program. When the chips were pushed to the middle of the table Ralph and Linda Miller’s candy-colored, supercharged Hemi powered Model A Tudor sedan cashed in by winning the Goodguys 2017 Tank's Hot Rod of the Year award. It marked the second time in the last five years an “Angry A” from the Hilton Hot Rods team of builders Bobby Hilton and Tony (@GOATROPER02) Lombardi won this award. The two also brought it home in 2014. We simply don’t recall a more bitchin’ hot rod sedan than the Miller’s Hemi hauler. The pearl teal blue fades and layered panels scream Larry Watson. The polished baby Moon’s take us back to Dean Moon’s 60s identity. The blown Hemi by Lombardi’s Ross Racing Engines wakes the dead. Together with its propensity for high-speed highway jousts, thunderous burnouts, and rambunctious attitude – it embodies everything a hot rod is. If you have been following the Hilton and Lombardi builds, every car they produce has bad-to-the-bone hot rod characteristics. Playing to that credo, the Wilson’s Tudor is chopped, has a perfect rake, dropped axle, deuce rails, plentiful polish, driveshaft headers, skinny wheels and bias ply tires, and a leather trimmed interior along with serious attitude. The fit and finish is on par with rodding’s elite but make no mistake – this is no car show queen. With just 30 miles on the clock, the Hilton Angry A crew saddled up and drove 3,000-miles round trip to the Lone Star Roundup in April. This group of hot rod rebels consider it an annual carbon-blowing right of spring to boogie south. About that Hemi. Lombardi assembled it with his usual bullet-proof bottom end, added a 4-71 huffer, dual 94-series carbs and a retro Vertex mag. It looks like mechanical jewelry sitting in front of the stamped, pearl blue firewall.
No kidding, I'm sure I'd clean up with my build this year. If I ever got it finished Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
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