Check Out Our Pick for 2015 Street Rod of the Year

Check Out Our Pick for 2015 Street Rod of the Year, The Painless Performance Products/ STREET RODDER Top 100 affairs was started aback in 1995 and seems to aces up drive every individual year. It works like this: STREET RODDER goes to 10 arresting car shows about the U.S. and awards 10 winners at anniversary show. At the end of the year, we baddest one of those Top 100 cars as the Painless Performance Products/ STREET RODDER Magazine Street Rod Of The Year. That ultimate champ receives a altered abstract anorak and an SROY accolade engraved with the angel of their car.

The abstraction is simple, but the beheading is difficult. It’s harder acrimonious alone 10 cars out of a acreage of several thousand at the shows. It’s appropriately harder to aces one Street Rod Of The Year from 100 aces candidates. All the board accept hardly altered tastes, but we all acknowledge imagination, creativity, and craftsmanship—qualities begin in the 2015 Painless Performance Products/ STREET RODDER Street Rod Of The Year and the 10 runners-up.

Jeff Norwell

East Garafraxa, Ontario, Canada

1932 Ford Five-Window Coupe

You apperceive the name Jeff Norwell. If you’re not acceptable with names, you apperceive his artwork. His automotive art—in abounding assorted styles—shows up everywhere from T-shirts to accident posters to boutique ads, online, and in abundant publications. Jeff has contributed to STREET RODDER, as able-bodied as to Rod & Custom, The Rodder’s Journal, and added magazines.

Being acceptable at cartoon hot rods and getting acceptable at architecture hot rods isn’t a affirmed combination, but in Jeff’s case, it happened to plan out that way. Jeff is not a pro builder. He’s a amorous enthusiast, whose four-car accumulating includes an early-’60s-style 1932 Ford auto he bought added than 25 years ago; an in-progress 1930 Ford Model A auto annoyance chase car powered by a blown, Hilborn-injected 392 Hemi; a 1957 Ford Custom (also in progress) that runs a Ford FE engine with tri-power; and the Hemi-powered 1932 Ford five-window auto that is a Painless Performance Products/ STREET RODDER Top 100 champ and our 2015 Street Rod Of The Year.

In accession to pens and brushes, Jeff’s been alive with wrenches back an aboriginal age, starting with the 1968 Camaro he bought if he was 16. That car is best forgotten, but his aboriginal ’60s-style Deuce chiffonier auto is one to remember. For this project, he enlisted the talents of Neil Candy at The Candy Factory and Bob Owens at Owens Salvage, a part of others.

The unchopped auto has been kept hoodless to appearance off the Rod Ram Hemi engine, crowned with a supercharger and a brace of Rochester carbs. The T5 manual is confused application a 1939 Ford shifter. At the rear, there’s a Winters quick-change. The Deuce framerails accommodate the abject for a period-style suspension. Skinny bias-ply Firestone tires are army on 1940 Ford wheels. The tan awakening autogenous fits the appearance of the auto to a tee.

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