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58th Annual Detroit Autorama
Cobo Center
Detroit, MI
February 26-28, 2010
Pictures By Jack Lawford
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Jack Lawford Jr., Maryann and Jack Lawford Sr

The Detroit Autorama was FABULOUS! We had a great time! We have some extremely talented builders in our industry and we were very glad to have been a part of this great show!


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Entrance to Cobo Hall

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For those of you who have never been to detroit...Here is a little tour of downtown

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We had never been to downtown Detroit and were just in awe of it’s fantastic skyline.... it’s a shame many of these wonderful old buildings are empty.

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Overhead View

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GM Building

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When they were bringing the Ridler Award into the show office they made a stop at the Hotrodhotline booth with it for a “Pre Award” photo op ! WOW

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The Prestigious Ridler Award... this was taken the day before the award was actually given out. It was under lock and key in the show office.

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Ridler Award Winner for 2010, Tammy Ray, here in the Hotrodhotline booth holding her prestigious award ... this was one happy girl !

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Pictured here with Jack is the Builder, T & T Customs, of “Gold Digger, The Ridler Winner

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We talked “Speedy Bill” Smith into a “photo op” when he stopped by our booth. We’re proud to have Speedway Motors as one of our premium advertisers. 

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The Ridler wasn’t the only award given out .... HotRodHotLine.com won an “Outstanding Commercial Display” award, presented here by Bob “JR” and Bonnie Larivee. 

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Rich Udell, owner of the fabulous “Timeless” stopped by our booth to show us his “Great 8” award right after the award was handed out.

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Rose Novosel, Hotrodhotline Roving Reporter stopped by to say “Hi”

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Our friend and Hotrodhotline Roving Reporter, Thomas Jutkowski, had a great time at the show.

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Just had to have a picture of this Detroit Road Knights jacket... it’s a great old Detroit club.

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There was a breakfast on Saturday with the Great 8 given out and lots of fun stuff.

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1948 Ice Cream Truck owned by Nick and Gary Tisch

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Without a doubt... the best part of going to Autorama for us was that we were on the home turf of some of our favorite people....Al Tawse of the Michigan Hot Rod Association is our very good friend... here with his brother Les.

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This is Al Tawse’s 61 Falcon Sedan Delivery...

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Les Tawse owns this very cool 54 Willys... you won’t see many of these cars around !

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Les Tawse also owns this Falcon wagon

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1933 Willys owned by Jim Matuszak

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1950 Buick Roadmaster

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