''Impact'' is a
custom-built
1934 Ford roadster built by Richard Berg. It won the 2001
America's Most Beautiful Roadster award.
History
''Impact'' was inspired by Ron Whiteside's 1934
3-window.
Whiteside began building his '34 in 1986. He showed pictures to
Boyd Coddington
Boyd Coddington (August 28, 1944 – February 27, 2008) was an American hot rod designer, the owner of the Boyd Coddington Hot Rod Shop, and star of ''American Hot Rod'' on TLC (TV channel), TLC.
Early life, education and early career
Coddingto ...
, asking Coddington to finish it, hoping to have a
Ridler Award
The Detroit Autorama, also known as America's Greatest Hot Rod Show, is a showcase of custom cars and hot rods held each year at TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan, in either late February or early March.
It is promoted by Championship Auto Shows Inc ...
-winning project.
Chip Foose, who worked for Coddington at the time, also saw the pictures, and conceived a sister car, a '34 roadster, for Betty DiVosta, whose husband Buz owned two other Coddington creations.
Then, as a result of the failure of
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, Coddington's rod shop closed. The unfinished roadster was sold at auction to Berg, who completed it as ''Impact''.
''Impact'' was entered in the
2001
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Oakland Roadster Show The Grand National Roadster Show (a.k.a.: GNRS, or sometimes referred to as ''Oakland Roadster Show'' but never officially called that), started in 1950, and is one of the oldest and longest continuously operating exhibitions of custom vehicles in t ...
. It won that year's America's Most Beautiful Roadster award.
References
External links
Foose bio
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