{"id":8408,"date":"2010-02-28T20:23:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T03:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2013-02-14T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T05:23:13","slug":"2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Ridler Winner Announced: Gold Digger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2F2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F02%2F2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton2.jpg&amp;description=2010+Ridler+Winner+Announced%3A+Gold+Digger\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[8408]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"2010 Ridler Winner Announced: Gold Digger\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=2010 Ridler Winner Announced: Gold Digger&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\" data-text=\"2010 Ridler Winner Announced: Gold Digger\" data-desc=\"Pictures by: Doug Nykanen The votes are in both in Cobo Hall at the Detroit Autorama and here at MyRideisMe.com where you could Vote for your favorite \"Great 8\" car.\u00a0 Funny thing is, by 2 votes, the very unofficial voting picked \"Gold Digger\" same as the judges in Detroit. We'll have more pictures\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton2.jpg\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8408]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8409\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"2010 Ridler Award Winner Gold Digger 1933 Ford Phaeton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton2.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Ridler Award Winner Detroit Autorama, ridler\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton2-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton2-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Pictures by: Doug Nykanen<\/p>\n<p>The votes are in both in Cobo Hall at the Detroit Autorama and here at <a title=\"Hot rod and custom car community\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MyRideisMe.com\" target=\"_blank\">MyRideisMe.com<\/a> where you could <a title=\"Vote for the Ridler Winner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-detroit-autorama-hot-rods-customs-and-ridler-contenders-oh-my\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vote for your favorite &#8220;Great 8&#8221; car<\/a>.\u00a0 Funny thing is, by 2 votes, the very unofficial voting picked &#8220;Gold Digger&#8221; same as the judges in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more pictures of the Ridler winner and the rest of the Detroit Autorama soon, but for now, here&#8217;s the shots we have of this beautiful hot rod.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8408]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8410\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"2010 Ridler Award Winner Gold Digger 1933 Ford Phaeton - Interior Shot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton3.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Ridler Award Winner pictures, photos, photography, Detroit Autorama\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton3-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this level, every car is perfect. Without sitting inside or hearing from the builders how they did it or why, or maybe cranking up the tunes, we just get to stare and go&#8230; yea, that&#8217;s extremely well done.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8408]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8412\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"2010 Ridler Award Winner Gold Digger 1933 Ford Phaeton - Engine \" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Ridler Award Winner Engine picture, photo, pic, Detroit Autorama\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone have a picture showing this engine compartment in a little more detail? (I asked, and Kevin from extrudabody.com hooked me up! Thanks to Tammy, the owner for sending it to him)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ridler-winner-engine2.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[8408]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8500\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Ridler Winner engine compartment detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ridler-winner-engine2.JPG\" alt=\"hot rod fuel injection ridler winner engine\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ridler-winner-engine2.JPG 1048w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ridler-winner-engine2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ridler-winner-engine2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ridler-winner-engine2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1048px) 100vw, 1048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice: A total lack of wires, even for what&#8217;s must be electronic fuel injection.\u00a0 When&#8217;s the last time you looked under the hood of a modern car. If you&#8217;d remove the over-sized engine cover, you&#8217;d see a MESS of wires and clutter. That&#8217;s when you truly appreciated the detail of a show car like this.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8408]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8413\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"2010 Ridler Award Winner &quot;Gold Digger&quot; 1933 Ford Phaeton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton4.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Ridler Award Winner Detroit Autorama pictures, photos, pics\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton4-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton4-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-Ridler-Award-Winner-Gold-Digger-1933-Ford-Phaeton4-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So here it is, the 2010 Ridler Award winner <em>Gold Digger <\/em>owned by Tammy Ray of Dahlonega, Georgia. The builder was\u00a0 T&amp;T Customs. I&#8217;d include a link to them, but I can&#8217;t find it. Someone help me out.<\/p>\n<p>Like the 2010 <a title=\"2010 AMBR winner at GNRS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-americas-most-beautiful-roadster\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;America&#8217;s Most Beautiful Roadster&#8221;<\/a> winner, &#8220;Possessed&#8221;, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;ll be some heated (and sometimes just hateful) discussion about &#8220;Gold Digger&#8221;.\u00a0 I hope you&#8217;ll discuss it right here in the comments. (you don&#8217;t have to be a member to comment)<\/p>\n<p>Mike Dingham, owner of Possessed, defended his AMBR win and gave his side of the controversy about being disqualified at one point during the show.\u00a0 Any time you assemble great roadsters like the <a title=\"4 Great rides from GNRS competing for AMBR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-gnrs-ambr-contenders-4-winners-at-any-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">AMBR contenders<\/a>, a somewhat heated discussion&#8217;s bound to happen. Plus, unlike Gold Digger, the styling of <a title=\"2010 AMBR winner at GNRS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-americas-most-beautiful-roadster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike&#8217;s 33 Ford<\/a> left more than a few people scratching their head.<\/p>\n<p>The Ridler Award and America&#8217;s Most Beautiful Roadster are, in my mind, the top two hot rod awards in the country. (Agree?) So congratulation to Tammy Ray (I heard she&#8217;s a gold mine owner\/operator, thus the name&#8230;) for a great car and a great achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Let the discussion begin.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2F2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=2010+Ridler+Winner+Announced%3A+Gold+Digger\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"2010 Ridler Winner Announced: Gold Digger\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=2010 Ridler Winner Announced: Gold Digger&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/2010-ridler-winner-announced-gold-digger\/\" data-text=\"2010 Ridler Winner Announced: Gold Digger\" data-desc=\"Pictures by: Doug Nykanen The votes are in both in Cobo Hall at the Detroit Autorama and here at MyRideisMe.com where you could Vote for your favorite \"Great 8\" car.\u00a0 Funny thing is, by 2 votes, the very unofficial voting picked \"Gold Digger\" same as the judges in Detroit. We'll have more pictures\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p>Email Pictures by: Doug Nykanen The votes are in both in Cobo Hall at the Detroit Autorama and here at MyRideisMe.com where you could Vote for your favorite &#8220;Great 8&#8221; car.\u00a0 Funny thing is, by 2 votes, the very unofficial voting picked &#8220;Gold Digger&#8221; same as the judges in Detroit. 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