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My Personal Top 10 Deuces

There are many different measures to use to compile a "Top 10" list. Most influential? Most awarded? Most “famous”? Most money spent? You get the idea. For example, in 2007, the Ford Motor Company assembled a panel of 25 experts to pick the "Top 75 Most Significant ’32 Fords". From this list, 67 cars were brought together and displayed at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, CA in the same year. It’s a great collection of cars and many of the cars they chose are also on my list.

My list is very personal, I have based it on cars which have influenced my tastes. Cars that I think would be fun to own and drive. Cars that have been lovingly used and driven by their owners who I admire. They may not be “perfect” in a conventional sense. They are absolutely not “period correct”. Many of them are fiberglass. The thing all of these cars have in spades is soul and character. They are eminently drivable hot rods. Some were game-changers in their day. Most have been favorites of mine from a very young age, long before I could drive, let alone have a 1932 Ford.

Barry Lobeck's roadster. Now owned by Bruce Meyers, it no longer resembles the car it once was.

Phil Cool's roadster. Check out the July '78 cover of Hot Rod Magazine. In a time of trailer queens and resto-rods, Phil's roadster was a blast of fresh air. It won the "America's Most Beautiful Roadster" award for 1978 as well. It still looks the s… — Phil Cool's roadster. Check out the July '78 cover of *Hot Rod Magazine*. In a time of trailer queens and resto-rods, Phil's roadster was a blast of fresh air. It won the "America's Most Beautiful Roadster" award for 1978 as well. It still looks the same today.