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Hemmings Muscle machine of the Year Votes Needed!!


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My fellow AACA members, I am asking for your help. I was humbled to learn last week that my '71 Olds 442 W-30 has been nominated by Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine for their annual Muscle Machine of the Year award!! A little history on this car, I purchased it from the widow of a good friend and fellow AACA member, and did the restoration myself. It was awarded its First Junior in Hershey in 2010, then Senior at Stowe, Vt in 2011, Grand National this year in Shelbyville and was fortunate enough to get a National Award in Philly this February (R.E.Olds Award)

This vote with Hemmings is an online vote, where you can only vote once per email address, so if you would please follow the link below and vote! My car is the second one down, just click on the circle next to the car and submit at the bottom of the page..

Hemmings Muscle Machine of the Year 2012 | Hemmings Motor News

Thank You, Ed

Ed Pienta

Wilkes-Barre, pa

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VERY happy day to day Steve, don't pop pills or booze, I look at post counts, and get tired of the gimmy gimmy, me, me , outlook of the world today. Bob

Bob, you need a happy pill today!:rolleyes: Ed is an AACA member and of course since he has an Olds he has my vote! Be happy, Hershey will be here soon.
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VERY happy day to day Steve, don't pop pills or booze, I look at post counts, and get tired of the gimmy gimmy, me, me , outlook of the world today. Bob

Guys, Thanks for your kind words of encouragement, and votes!!

Bob, I am certainly NOT looking for a handout, just looking for some support from fellow AACA members, that can appreciate a restoration on a classic car, almost exclusively done by the owner, not the guy who has a fat checkbook and plops down a bunch of cash for a car at an auction...

As far as post counts, we all have to start somewhere, don't we?

And to your comment of you "not being a fan of late model cars" .... Although Pre -War cars may not be "my cup of tea" I certainly do appreciate them and the labor of love that all us members go through to restore and preserve all these cars! I probably spent more time at the Grand National show this year in awe of the craftsmanship and exquisite workmanship in some of the Pre War cars in attendance , than I did looking at the muscle cars and late models....

Thanks, again!! Ed

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Got my vote, nice car, congratulations!!!

Mr. Nolen... Thank You!!! I remember all those spectacular "big cars" you used to show at Super Chevys from the mid 1990s on!! I have a black '67 Chevelle that I used to show there in the Gold Class.. Went to many of these with my friend, Jack Tomshack, who bought this Olds before he passed... Miss him!

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Guys, Thanks for your kind words of encouragement, and votes!!

Bob, I am certainly NOT looking for a handout, just looking for some support from fellow AACA members, that can appreciate a restoration on a classic car, almost exclusively done by the owner, not the guy who has a fat checkbook and plops down a bunch of cash for a car at an auction...

Ed, you have my vote!! I've been arguing this fact for years!! 99% of awards should go to the restoration shops, not the owners.

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Mr. Nolen... Thank You!!! I remember all those spectacular "big cars" you used to show at Super Chevys from the mid 1990s on!! I have a black '67 Chevelle that I used to show there in the Gold Class.. Went to many of these with my friend, Jack Tomshack, who bought this Olds before he passed... Miss him!

Ah....Thanks for the reply, I didn't realize who you were. I think of Jack often and wonder about his wife Stella. I saw her last at the GN Meet in 2004, she had the Olds there. Take care, maybe see you at Hershey

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A 1971 car is a late model? Thanks for the best laugh I've had in a while. When I think of late models, it's the nondescript appliances I see on the roads every day, not a 41-year old car that was uncommon even when new.

I am aware of the mindset that anything later than 1955 is just a used car though. I don't get it, but to each his own.

That said, your Olds has my vote. Hmm- I have three email addresses, so I can stack the deck a little... Or is that 1 vote per IP address?

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