Unbelievable. Round TEN already? Where did the time go...

Following this round, of course, the CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS will be coming - after a short intermission to allow all of the finalists to post up one last picture of their truck.

(This gives them time to go after that "BEST OF ALL" picture that might make the difference)

It has been a stunning and rewarding experience to present and follow all of these rounds of fantastic competition!
Below I have posted a "TIME MACHINE":
Links to the poll threads for all of the preceeding rounds

ROUND 1

ROUND 2

ROUND 3

ROUND 4

ROUND 5

ROUND 6

ROUND 7

ROUND 8

ROUND 9

"From such meager beginnings" as they say...

Anyway, the rules recapped as usual:
1) Contest open to all model and year Ford Trucks (includes vans, SUV's, All Wheel Drive, all levels of customization, etc)
2) Number of entries in each round limited to the first ten who enter a round. If after two weeks have passed there are less than ten but more than one entries, the entries for that round will close and the deciding poll will run anyway. If there is only one entry it wins by default and moves on to the CHAMPIONSHIP round. (If there are NO entries I have failed!). Contestants may only enter ONE TRUCK per round.
3) To enter - post a picture of your truck at least 640 by 480 pixels in size (no links to other sites. Picture must be displayed in thread) Avoid extremely large images, please. (1024 pixels largest side of image). Huge pictures may interfere with some connection speeds. ALL images will be tailored to size by committee to fit in poll thread. You may only enter ONE truck in each round
4) RULE OF OWNERSHIP: You must have owned the truck AT THE TIME YOUR PICTURE OF IT WAS TAKEN to enter it. You may not enter anyone elses truck FOR them. No exceptions
5) CHAMPIONSHIP RULES:
The first place finisher in each round qualifies and is entered in the CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND.
After ten regular rounds, the CHAMPIONSHIP consists of the first place finishers from the preceeding ten rounds running in a "Best of the Best" contest.
6) VOTE MONGERING: You may enlist your buds and chapter, other groups or whatever to vote for your entry. HOWEVER - be warned that all of the polls are annonymous, and your buds can always vote for someone else. There is no way to know! SPAMMING the forums should not be done at any time for this purpose, be careful what you do...
7) Once a poll is up for a round, it will be active for exactly 14 days. These polls close by themselves and whoever wins does. If for some reason there is a tie - a tie breaker poll will run until the following sunday night at the latest. Local midnight is based on Central Time in the USA.
8) NON-EXCLUSION: Employees of FTE and/or IBI welcome to enter including moderators or other unpaid affiliates as well as sponsors of the site
9) REPEAT ENTRIES: Out of sportsmanship, it is asked that if you want to enter a following contest, enter no more than two in a row. After waiting for one in between, you may enter again. THIS WILL NOT BE ENFORCED! It is a request, in order to give others a chance
10) PRIZES: 1st place winner in each round will recieve a free one year paid membership to Club FTE, which provides access to extra features such as the Club FTE Members Only forum. Those who already are supporters will be given a twelve month extension to the membership they already have. For the Championship Round we are considering passing the hat to purchase trophies - this is under development.

And WITH THAT ~ BEST of LUCK TO ALL !!!



~Link to Round Nine Poll for Continuity~

 

The new header for this round is over the top Dutch!

Major kudos to Dutch for putting this whole thing together, and to all that have participated. Good luck to all!

 

Great job Dutch, love the angles of all the round winners.

 

Thanx! I tried to include the most distinctive features of the many fine machines that have carried the day so far. But of course, for an "EXPY" that happens to be...

You know - when I look all the way back to the beginning and how plain-jane it looked back then, nothing suprises me now.
It's been a "Long strange trip" to get to this point with it, one that I wouldn't have missed for the world.

~Dutch

 

woohoo...almost done!!

 

I agree!! Nice work Dutch.

 

Now all we need is the contestants....where are they?

 

Steve, my father (PlatinumPete) is on his way to post some pictures of his truck now.

 

Now that's a super clean nicely lifted Platinum Edition PSD, saw it last week at the CT GTG first hand.

 

finally made it here in time! i've been trying to make it into this thread since the first round, but never catch it in time.

 

Here is some picture's of my 53 that is original paint, and interior truck, that I will soon be putting a Marmon Herrington running gear under it. It has the flat head V/8 engine.

 

I would like to throw my name into that hat

 

How can one vote for just one there all so BEAUTIFUL. I do like the 53.

 

Yes the 53 is an pretty truck, I would say a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into it

 

Thanks guys, the 53 is original but I have done a lot to get it back in shape. I will have the 53 MH four wheel drive under it soon can't wait to see it in the air.