The 63rd Annual Portland Roadster Show, held March 15-17, heralded the arrival of car show season in the Rose City and beyond. While rain is the norm in the Pacific Northwest at this time of year, and in weeks prior to the event it had snowed intermittently, there was no precipitation and only sunshine throughout this weekend.

Since 1956, the Portland Roadster Show has been owned and produced by the Multnomah Hot Rod Council, a Portland, Oregonbased nonprofit organization consisting of car clubs in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. The Portland Roadster Show has become one of the premier hot rod events in the country, with entries from Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota, Colorado, and Canada.

Each year, three special awards are presented at the Portland Roadster Show, with the vehicle receiving the highest number of points garnering the Grand Sweepstakes Rose Cup and $10,000. The second award is the World Cup of Hot Rodding, which honors both the builder and the owner for their creativity and craftsmanship, reserved for ’48 and earlier roadsters, convertibles, cabriolets, coupes, sedans and customs, and the third is the King of Customs for vehicles from ’41 to ’72 which feature radical body modifications and attention to detail emulating that of Gene Winfield and the late George Barris. This years winners were: Grand Sweepstakes – Tim Kerrigan, Sonoma, California, ’33 Ford Roadster; World Cup of Hot Rodding – Babe Eckert, Molalla, Oregon, ’49 Hudson Business Coupe; and King of Customs – Jerry Logan, Hillsboro, Oregon, ’60 Cadillac Coupe DeVille.

…detail emulating that of Gene Winfi eld and the late George Barris

Five exhibit halls totaling over 333,000 square feet comprise the Expo Center, where the Portland Roadster Show is held, with much of the space occupied by an array of rods, customs, race cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Without the crowd to contend with, relax and enjoy the visual highlights of some of the best vehicles to be found in Stumptown.

…some of the best vehicles to be found in Stumptown

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