2008  
Class Award, Outstanding Custom, Outstanding Interior, Outstanding Paint, Outstanding Display, Outstanding Engine, and the prestigious Championship Auto Show’s cup,
San Antonio Autorama, January 2008
   
2007  
Class Award, Display Award, Paint Award
Grand National Roadster Show, January 2007
   
   
Featured car at Albuquerque Supernationals, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2007
   
   
Class and People’s Choice Award, Classy Chassis Concours, Houston, Texas, June 2007
   
   
Class Award, Outstanding Custom, Outstanding Interior, Outstanding Paint, Outstanding Display, and Outstanding Engine
Houston Autorama, November 2007
   
2006  
Mike Lavalle Killer Paint Award
2nd Place Display Award
Grand National Roadster Show
Pomona, CA*, January 2006
   
   
Best Display, Best Paint, Best Engine, Best Interior
Houston Lowrider Show, July 2006
   
2005  
Gold Class Award and Best in Show
Pomona Super Chevy Show, January 2005
   
   
Car and display invited to Blackie Gejeian’s “Invitation Only” Fresno Autorama, March 2006
   
   
Josef Sifuentes, Rice student, wins the James Waters Prize for Creative Engineering for his construction of the video “Heavy Metal Fusion,” featured in the Chevelle display, May 2006

* All paint work was done by Randy Borcherding of The Painthouse, Houston, Texas (see “Paint and Body” section). Randy won all three of the paint awards at the Pomona Grand National Roadster show in January of 2006. In addition to the award for the Chevelle, he also won the Killer Paint award for motorcycles, with Ron Mangus’s cycle, and the paint award for roadsters, with Danny Santoro’s roadster.

 

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