Each year we blow up our social media feeds with our favorite vehicles from SEMA. This year we decided we’d take it a step further and give the owners and builders of some of our favorite vehicles notoriety for their hard work. After some brainstorming the Eastwood “Hands-On” Awards were born. The idea behind these awards are to recognize some of the standout vehicles from the show. We judged on a number of factors from quality of work, execution of concept, and just outright ridiculousness of the finished product. Really the car needed to have something “special” to catch our eyes and earn the award. We’ll admit we leaned heavily on the smaller shops and DIY builders that didn’t have a million dollar dream team of employees and tools to finish the car, there’s plenty of awards out there for those guys!
Eastwood Hands-On SEMA Awards
Customer Favorite Award #10- Chevy Impala Lowrider
Whether you love or hate lowriders you can’t deny the quality of the paint jobs that these guys are laying down on their cars. This Impala SS named “Lifestyle” is no exception with glass smooth custom paint that we could stare out for days! Aside from the insane paint, the […]
Customer Favorite Award #9- Classic Jeep Track 4×4
Unconventional and absolutely badass is this classic Jeep bay window truck with a track conversion in place of the wheels. With winter coming closer everyday we’re wishing we had something this darn cool to get around in during those heavy snow storms!
Customer Favorite Award #7- 1934 Dodge Brothers Sedan
With the perfect mix of traditional custom, lowrider “bomb”, and street rodder smoothness, this oddball sedan grabs your attention without the use of ultra-bright paint, rims, or over the top styling. This is a PERFECT example of restraint when building a custom car and we couldn’t get enough of this […]
Customer Favorite Award #6- 1932 Ford Roadster
There isn’t much more timeless than a 32 Ford roadster. This example is the perfect blend of traditional hot rodding and modern street rod technology. Those factors mixed with a shined up and bitchin’ flathead, we couldn’t pass up including this beauty!
Customer Favorite Award #5- 1937 Packard Street Rod
With enough money anyone can build an old Ford into a street rod or custom, but building up something different takes some guts and some luck. This ultra-smooth ’37 Packard custom street rod ticks just about all the boxes for us!
Customer Favorite Award #4- 1968 Dodge Charger
There’s mean muscle cars and then there’s muscle cars that look downright pissed off like this smoothed out Dodge Charger in the T.E.N. booth this year. All we know is that we want a ride!
Customer Favorite Award #3- 1942 Willys Gasser
Gassers generally are mean machines that are meant to perform and looks are secondary but this particular Willys has both looks and the GO. The paint still looks wet and deep as the ocean on this mean machine.
Customer Favorite Award #1- 1965 Chevy Suburban
This custom ’65 Chevy Suburban is as smooth as can be with its brown sugar-esque metallic paint. This would surely be the ultimate family cruiser!!