ACHIEVEMENTS

Worlds Most Beautiful Custom

Hot Rods By Dean took a 1951 Ford Mercury that

they built for Tom to Sacramento Autorama for the 57th

annual running of the Word's Most Beautiful Custom, the

weekend of February 9-11 2007.

Among the 15 participants were Lucky 7 Customs,

Oz Customs and Rick Dore Customs, just to name

a few. We were honored to take home the Award's,

being that it was our first custom and to beat out some

of the top custom car builders in the country was a

wonderful surprise.

Great 8 - 2008

Hot Rods By Dean brought out this '67 GMC pickup to compete in the Radical Pickup class only to find them-selves in the running for the Ridler Award by making the Great 8 presented by Pirelli. To say this pickup has numerous body mods would be an understatement but the most noteable are the 4 1/2 inch top chop and the suicide opening doors. The chassis is based on a custom 2x4 inch rectangular steel tube frame suspended by a custom independent front suspension and 9-inch Ford rearend, Air Ride rests at the corners. Speaking of corners, the one-off designed wheels were a collaboration in design by Dean Livermore and Jimmy Smith in a gasser style wheel. The 355 inch small-block Chevy features a FAST computer to run the Imagine Injection.