MOST BEAUTIFUL
ROADSTER This 1932 Ford Highboy Roadster
owned by acclaimed custom car builder
and painter Darryl Hollenbeck won the
2016 America's Most Beautiful Roadster
(AMBR) award at the Grand National
Roadster Show recently held in Pomona,
Calif. It was the third time Hollenbeck
has painted an AMBR winner and the
first time he captured the prize with his
own build.
Starting with a Brookville all-steel
body, Hollenbeck and his colleagues
Dan Webb and Cory Taulbert built
the car at Hollenbeck's Vintage Color
Studio. To create the roadster's
unique color, dubbed "Rotten Avocado
Green," Hollenbeck applied a
custom mix created with the
PPG ENVIROBASE
®
High
Performance system.
THE GRASSHOPPER REBORN This wicked roadster is a clone of the powerful 1950s
street rod dubbed "The Grasshopper," a 1915 Ford Model T that was cool enough to be showcased on the cover of Hot Rod's
October 1959 issue. Dave Shuten and Beau Boeckmann of Galpin Auto Sports in Van Nuys, Calif., recreated The Grasshopper last
year. Celebrated painter Darryl Hollenbeck, owner of Vintage Color Studio in Concord, Calif., duplicated the original car's dark
emerald green metallic finish using PPG's ENVIROBASE
®
High Performance waterborne basecoat and EC800 Ultra Fast 2.1
Clearcoat. Eric Reyes did the striping and lettering, and Hollenbeck re-cleared with EC750 Appearance Clear.
