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Each year, the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, CA is used to award one entrant with the prestigious title of America's Most Beautiful Roadster. At this year's 64th annual show, which took place last weekend, a beautiful burgundy 1927 Track T Roadster owned by John Mumford took home the nine-foot tall trophy as well as a check for $10,000.

Oddly enough, according to Hemmings, the inspiration and desire for this car actually came from a set of rare Ardun heads, which Mumford had collected wanting to make the focal point of a hot rod. After sending the car off to hot-rod builder, Roy Brizio, the heads are just one of many reasons to love this particular roadster. Just to show how competitive the event is, Mumford's '27 Roadster beat out a '33 Ford Roadster that had set a pair of speed records at Bonneville last year and a '32 Ford High Boy Roadster owned by Ford executive vice president Jim Farley.

Be sure to check out our live gallery showing more of Mumford's award-winning car as well as some of the roadsters it was up against, and also check out the car's build here.

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2010 Grand National Roadster Show - Click above for high-res image gallery

The 61st annual Grand National Roadster Show took place at the Pomona Fairplex this past weekend, playing host to some of the world's premier hot rods and customs. After our inaugural attendance last year, we made sure to attend again for 2010 and spent an afternoon walking through the various buildings of the world's longest running indoor car show. Among this year's highlights included an exhibit featuring the "History of the Race Car" and a hall dedicated to cars featured on the covers of Rod & Custom and Street Rodder.

The main attraction of the show, however, is when the coveted "America's Most Beautiful Roadster" award is given out to one of the nominated hot rods. This year, a '33 Ford roadster owned by Mike and Dianna Dingman and built by Scott's Hot Rods and Customs in Oxnard, CA took home top honors. You can check out this year's AMBR and the rest of the best (and worst) of the 2010 Grand National Roadster Show in our high-res gallery below.


Gallery: 2010 Grand National Roadster Show


Photos by Drew Phillips / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.

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