2024 Triple Crown of Rodding | Official Documentary

The Triple Crown of Rodding has created a tremendous buzz throughout our industry. This grassroots event has attracted the best cars, trucks, people and brands in hot rodding to Nashville, Tennessee to celebrate friendship, craftsmanship and philanthropy. Brian Brennan from Modern Rodding is about to give you an inside look at the 2024 Triple Crown of Rodding. We’ll go behind the scenes with the event founders to hear the story of how they started the event, we’ll follow along with one of the celebrity judges as he picks his award winner and we’ll experience first hand what it’s like to compete. By the end you’ll see why you can’t miss next year’s Triple Crown of Rodding.

To tell the story of the Triple Crown of Rodding, we have to start with the founders: Bobby Alloway and Gary Case. Bobby, the owner of Alloway’s Hot Rod Shop, is the builder of iconic and trendsetting street rods, and winner of all the major awards. Gary founded the Sport Truck Nationals in 1989, which became the nations premier truck event, and has owned multiple companies over the years such as Hot Rod Hardware.

Bobby & Gary came together to start the Triple Crown of Rodding with the idea of emulating the old Hot Rod shows. While this event is grassroots, it was already named by USA Today as one of the top three events in the US. We believe that Bobby & Gary started the Triple Crown of Rodding with the right intentions and it really shines through.

Over 2,000 cars made the journey to the Nashville Speedway to attend this year’s Triple Crown of Rodding. Of those cars, 400 decided to enter into the award judging. The custom trophies for the awards are amongst the most coveted in our industry. The awards include:

TRIPLE CROWN OF RODDING
-STREET ROD OF THE YEAR - PRESENTED BY ARP
STREET MACHINE OF THE YEAR- PRESENTED BY ARP
-STREET CRUISER OF THE YEAR - PRESENTED BY ARP
TRUCK OF THE YEAR UP TO 1972 - PRESENTED BY LMC TRUCK
TRUCK OF THE YEAR 1973-1987 - PRESENTED BY LMC TRUCK
TRUCK OF THE YEAR 1988-1998 - PRESENTED BY LMC TRUCK
TRIPLE CROWN OF RODDING "TOP 30"
PRESENTED BY CLASSIC PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS TRIPLE CROWN OF RODDING "ELITE 10"
PRESENTED BY CLASSIC PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS

Presenting your 2nd Annual Triple Crown of Rodding presented by PPG Refinish WINNERS
Street Rod of the Year - ‘32 Ford built by Johnson's Hot Rod Shop / owned by Mekenzie Murphy
Street Cruiser of the Year - ‘53 Corvette (Twelveair) built by Kindig-it Design / owned by Dave Maxwell
Street Machine of the Year - ‘68 Charger built by Classic Car Studio / owned by Ed Ganzinotti
Late - 72’ Truck of the Year - ‘34 Ford Pickup built by Vintage Fabrication, LLC / owned by Bill & Cainya Paul
‘73 - ‘87 Truck of the Year - ‘85 Chevy C10 built by Goolsby Customs / owned by Bruce Griffin
‘88 - ‘98 Truck of the Year - ‘93 Chevy Pace Truck built by Twin States Rod Shop / owned by Ty Zito

One of the unique aspects of the Triple Crown of Rodding is the celebrity awards. Each judge, or pair of judges, gets the opportunity to create their own unique trophy and pick the car they feel is most deserving. The celebrity judges who created and gave way their awards included:
• Foose Design (Chip Foose)
• Rad Rides by Troy (Troy Trepanier)
• Roadster Shop (Phil & Jeremy Gerber)
• Ringbrothers (Mike & Jim Ring)
• Goolsby Customs (Jonathan Goolsby)
• Street Machinery / Patina Plantation (Boris Maryanovsky)
• Johnson Rod Shop (Alan Johnson)
• Greening Auto Company (Jesse Greening)
• F40 Motorsports / Chasing Classic Cars (Wayne Carini)
• Big Oak Garage (Jim & Will Posey)
• Detroit Speed (Kyle Tucker)
• Pete & Jakes (Jerry & Jason Slover)
• Brizio Street Rods (Roy Brizio)
• Posies Rods & Customs (Ken Fenical)
• Kindig-It Design (Dave Kindig)
• Classic Car Studio (Noah Alexander & Charles Crews)

Our hobby wouldn’t be what it is today without the support of the aftermarket industry. Many of the people behind these brands started their business out of necessity: they needed parts that didn’t exist and that drive to innovate continues to this day. Over 160 automotive brands came out to support Bobby & Gary. We are thankful for the brands that helped support this Documentary: Billet Specialties, Dakota Digital, Design Engineering inc., Forgeline, Powermaster performance and Steele Rubber Products.

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