Monday, March 16, 2009

New Shows...New Project

We have a new PROJECTS page up, featuring Larry Cote's rebuild of his black Impala. Check it out here.

So far, HotKarz has posted 5 upcoming shows, with plenty more in the works. If you are organizing a show, be sure to get all the info into us as soon as you can, because a lot of our readers fill in their calendar early.

For those of you who have not visited our home page recently, we have a special "Pic of the Week" up this week - 3 pix of something we've not seen for awhile. Check it out here.

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

HotKarz Best of the Best Awards 2009

Well, the new season is upon us. And once again HotKarz will sponsor special trophies for the most deserving of vehicles. Only there will be a difference this year.

Due to the rather poor economy, we realize that a lot of folks simply will not be able to make as many cruises as they might like, so we are changing the trophy format to move away from cruises and more to the shows. And, unlike last year, you need not attend anything in order to vote. This should make it a lot easier for everyone.

Here is how we think it will work (we are still working out the kinks).

At every qualifying show (those that Hotkarz can get to - we will post it in advance), Hotkarz will post pictures on the Internet of the First Place winners in each category, provided the winners do not split before we can get the pix. Then, ANYONE with a computer can vote via email for the ONE vehicle among those winners that they think is best. One vote per email account per show. If we get to 20 shows, you can vote 20 times, but only for one winning vehicle from each show.

At the end of the season, the votes will be tallied and trophies awarded for the HOTKARZ Best of the Best for 2009.

Or something like that. We are trying to work out kinks, because not all shows make it easy to get pix of the winning vehicles.

The trophies have been ordered - I will post pix when they arrive next week. The SMALLEST ones are 28" tall, which is 2" taller than our 1st place trophy last year. Our 1st place this year will be 36" - a full 10" taller than last year.

As always, any car owned/showed by me or my family will be ineligible.

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts/suggestions.

Bill

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