To appreciate the significance of the Don Ridler Memorial Award one has to understand the importance of the Detroit Autorama and Don Ridler to the world of indoor car shows. That's the easy part.

For those unfamiliar with the custom car world, Detroit Autorama dishes out one of the biggest accolades in the industry -- the Don Ridler Memorial Award. The award celebrates craftsmanship as ...

The Don Ridler Memorial Award is presented to cars that exhibits the most creativity, best engineering, and highest quality of work. Any car at the Autorama is eligible, as long as it is making ...

Yes, a family-built and -owned car won this year’s Ridler award at Detroit Autorama. Wesley Wren The 2020 Ridler Award winner is this 1963 Chevrolet wagon built by Show Cars Automotive.

A Nebraska car that won the coveted Ridler Award from the Detroit Autorama will be on display this weekend in Grand Island at the Tri-City Street Rods auto show at the Pinnacle Bank Expo Center at ...

Named for Don Ridler, an early Autorama promoter who established the show as a Detroit must-attend back in the 1950s, the Ridler award is to hot ... way—at first. The car requires a closer ...

Now sponsored by Meguiar’s, the Ridler Award has some very strict rules. The top one is that the car must debut at the Detroit Autorama. If the car, or any unique part of the car, is shown in ...

and Detroit Autorama promoter Donald George "Don" Ridler, the award has been bestowed annually since 1964 on the most jaw-dropping custom debuting at the famed custom car show. Throughout the last ...

Who said station wagons were lame? The Ridler Award for the best hot rod among the hundreds at this year’s Detroit Autorama custom car show went to a 1959 Cadillac called the CadMad, because it ...

Perhaps the most prestigious award in all of hot rodding is the Ridler Award, presented to the top car at the Detroit Autorama every winner. To contend for the Ridler, a car has to be beyond ...

Check out how Dave Kindig and his team spent five years building this 1953 Corvette from scratch for the Detroit Autorama! Hot rodding has always been about mixing artistic style with driving ...