It's one of the intriguing joys of life, that as time goes by, I learn more about a specific topic, and the eventual outcome... like the tv series Space Patrol tv series, that I posted about, I just learned they took it around the country on a publicity tour, prior to giving it away

Ten-year-old Ricky Walker won the first prize in the Space Patrol TV show's Name the Planet Contest sponsored by Ralston Purina.

The grand prize was a 40-foot long rocket clubhouse on a trailer, a replica of Commander Buzz Corry’s battlecruiser, the Terra IV, and a truck to pull it. Ricky's winning name for Planet X was "Cesaria," and the Ralston Rocket clubhouse was delivered to Ricky on 12 January 1954 in the town square of his home town, Washington, Illinois.

Schwinn World Traveler bicycle were the second prizes.

Eventually the novelty wore off and Ricky’s parents sold the rocket playhouse to a traveling carnival for the sum of $1000. 

In 1985 it was discovered on the property of a small construction company in Gent, New York.

Then they destroyed it and sold the metal as scrap

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/03/space-patrol-lead-actor-ed-kemmers.html

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/328/

https://atomicscout.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/the-rolling-ralston-rocket-clubhouse-the-story-of-a-national-sensation
https://atomicscout.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ralston-rocket-at-night.png

https://www.facebook.com/100077262622146/posts/one-of-the-ralston-rockets-was-part-of-a-contest-for-children-in-the-1950s-ricky/612696656795150/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10231504726269723&set=a.1201792213383

https://www.facebook.com/groups/326073837423894/permalink/1949142695116992

http://solarguard.com/ralrcksearch.htm

https://spacemanstoychest.blogspot.com/2011/01/day-ricky-won-rocket.html

The small print over the car, says 1st prize Miss Personality contest at the Pantages

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/313/

How many car-on-the-marquee have you ever seen? T

June 1926 

There are "9 BIG Features" in the stage show including the Cyclone Revue and Mahon & Cholet. We can't see it in this shot but the feature film was "Bride of the Storm." 

UNDER the marque is a arrow sign about the Miss Personality contest

https://sanfranciscotheatres.blogspot.com/2017/06/orpheum-theatre.html

I wonder if anyone won this contest, and got the cool stuff? A 65 Barracuda, a college scholarship, and a trip to LeMans

https://www.slotforum.com/threads/car-model-may-1966.195755

my post this morning about the contest Rambler resulted in Terry remembering to tell me that he won a 67 fastback Mustang, 390 engine, after buying a 10 dollar raffle ticket!

thanks Terry! Extremely lucky guy! 

Livingston Sunset Drive In, most in one car contest 1968

 

https://photobygibson.com/archive/collections/archive/Columbia-County-1960s/

173,500 people applied to be the new marketing personality for Dodge, the Chief Donut Maker. Here are the top 10, 6 men, 4 women, who will head to racing school to begin the four-week competition to reduce the group to the final two candidates. The chief donut maker to be named on HEMI Day, April 26.”

Marine corps vet, Hellcat owner/racer, and organizer of the Challenger Fest, and you tube channel content creator of new mopar cars how to "Speedy's Garage"

Love this guys sense of humor, he too has a Hellcat, and he knows a thing or two about making a great impression, at the end of his video "I'm your next chief donut maker, let's get to work" .. very cool

I love her attitude, and her husband comes with, this is a package deal right? She had a couple great video ideas, showed moxie and hustle

Little Miss Lead Foot, with a Super Compo license

masters in education, teaches motorcycle racing, AND special needs kids. Races a motorcycle, does sand dune stuff

great opening idea, sense of humor, and race track instructor

Army vet

ummm, saying something nice..    .EARNED a 2015 Challenger for high school graduation, already owned a 70 R/T her entire life. Should have had it in the final group shot

ummm, saying something nice..   great location, and has raced a variety of Mopars

ummm, saying something nice... he used to have a Charger Scat Pack, and seems like a great guy

Their first challenge will be face-to-face interviews (aka: interrogations) with Goldberg

https://www.dodgegarage.com/chief-donut-maker

I should have sent in a video, not that all of these people didn't do better video production, and are more at ease in front of the camera, but I think I'm a better choice than at least the 2nd half of them. Yes these are in order of how I rank them, what about you? Who is your top choice?

there is a contest for the best Go Pro video for bicyclists. Right now, there are no entries. So, if you enter, and no one else does, you win. It's that simple

You. Your bike. Any line. Anywhere. Raw POV.

GoPro and Pinkbike have teamed up once again to bring you the GoPro of the World: Best Line Contest!

Sending some sweet jumps? Riding a rowdy line with your friends? Taking your bike where no bike has gone before? Here’s your chance to share and WIN!

Submit your stunning, technical, just plain rad unedited raw GoPro footage to be eligible to win, with over $10,000 cash prizing up for grabs.

Contest Dates:
August 6th, 2020 - Contest opened for entries
October 9th, 2020 - Entries closed
October 19th-29th 2020 - User voting
October 30th, 2020 - Winner announced

Judging Criteria:

Composition and Framing - 25%
Performance and Style - 25%
Overall Creativity - 50%

How To Enter: 1. Film a MTB Top To Bottom Trail POV themed footage using your GoPro camera.
2. Upload your clip using the form below.

Submission Guidelines:
- Must be shot on a GoPro camera.
- Videos must be in MP4 format in HD or Higher Resolution (720p, 1080p, 1440, 2.5k, 4k) with no watermarks.
- Must not be of poor visual and/or audio quality.
- Submission must be original.
- No duplicate Submissions may be submitted.
- Recommended length 2-3 mins.

https://www.pinkbike.com/contest/gopro-bestline

if you don't mind trading your phone number and email to marketers in exchange for a possible chance at winning a new Corvette

https://www.chevrolet.com/corvette-sweepstakes

K&Ns 50th Anniversary 50 Days of Giveaways

https://www.knfilters.com/kn50th

Optima has a video contest... sorry about that to my fellow non video recording auto enthusiasts who don't consider ourselves the next Spielberg of the Ken block set.. and you can submit a video demonstrating why you ought to be awarded a ride with the following

https://www.optimarideshotgun.com/

You can also enter to win an Optima Yellow Top battery

https://www.optimarideshotgun.com/sweepstakes

I thought I'd posted about it, but it seems I haven't yet, so, here's the Petty Superbird tribute by Smithfield Foods give away car from 2017 SEMA that Mike came across. I never did see it. It's that easy to miss a car at SEMA

To pay tribute to Richard Petty’s accomplishments, and celebrate the long line of Mopars that helped carry him to greatness, Smithfield Foods commissioned Petty’s Garage to build a retro-themed, Hemi-powered Pro Touring Superbird from a donor project that had been dissassembled and forgotten for 15 years. There was so much rust, and so much work, there's no mystery why they gave up on blowing a fortune to make it right.

you can check out the entire build at http://www.hotrod.com/articles/smithfield-giving-away-superbird-clone-build-part-1/



The guy who won, Verl McCown, only entered once. His nephew was there for the event though.



 The nationwide sweepstakes was advertised in Hot Rod and other magazines

He received it in March 2018 and lives in Portland, so the 1st car show he brought it to was the Portland Roadster Show. https://www.facebook.com/IWonTheKingsCar/photos/a.1999344673668884/2115235518746465/?type=3   It won Best In Class.

https://www.facebook.com/IWonTheKingsCar/  for more photos and info
https://www.facebook.com/KitsSuperbird/
www.iwonthekingscar.com  also

remember hearing about a radio station contest to win a car by keeping you hand on it the longest (it lasted 5 days in Texas)? Well, a play was made about that! It received three Tony Award nominations

What you are willing to do for your dream? Would you stand under the searing Texas sun for days with nine other strangers? Endure sleep deprivation, hallucinations and numbness of limbs for a chance to drive off the lot in a brand new truck?

This is the inadvertent question asked by the 2012 La Jolla Playhouse production, Hands on a Hardbody. Based on a 1997 documentary about a group of Texans vying to outlast each other by placing one gloved hand on brand new Nissan truck in hopes of driving off with it

The creative force behind Hands on a Hardbody consists of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Winning writer (and Texas native) Doug Wright, music composed by Trey Anastasia (founder of the band Phish), lyrics by Amanda Green and stage choreography by Benjamin Millepied.

The cast each have their own motivation of the same force of economic depravity. The truck, symbolizing the American Dream is the notable 16th character, which lights up, honks and moves fluidly on the stage with the characters.

Each character’s story unfolds through song. The catchy melodies and heart-felt lyrics draw the audience into their struggles. The truck means something different for each person: a one-way ticket to Hollywood; God’s will; or a means for college tuition.







there are more clips on you tube, just look on the lower right side of the web page https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=from+hands+on+a+hardbody

http://blog.sandiego.org/2012/05/hands-on-a-hard-body-la-jolla-playhouse/

above is a short version of the below... you'll enjoy either, but the one below goes further into it



the below gets some info from the contestants about how they tried to use strategy on eating and what to wear on their feet.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_on_a_Hardbody_(musical)

Atlanta resident Sherri Hudgins was randomly selected out of 16,264 entries for the Cragar Guitar Sweepstakes.

Found on https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=cragar

Off to a bad start, when "the Official Rules which will be available at the start of the contest" aren't posted a week after the flyers were handed out

What I was hoping for was to find that there was a cool little contest all set and ready for me to tell you about, but there isn't.

Because at the Friday night (nov 6th) at SEMA's Ignited car show there were a dozen women handing out postcards about some "Hunt" for an Alfa 4C. You have to register to get the first clue, then try to solve the mystery of where the car is to win it.

Well, not exactly win it, even though the tag line is "First person to find it, keeps it". One of the women passing out the post cards said you don't win it, you get it for 2 years to use, then return it. See, it's getting leased from Alfa for the promo, and likely, by this new startup auto website for their use from the test drive http://www.thedrive.com/article/134 until the contest and 2 year drive is over

and the sponsor of this contest, well, looks questionable.

TI Media Solutions sponsors a lot of contests, and they give different physical locations, but never a website. The one address that says 31st floor, is also the address for Sports Illustrated Magazine.

The building at 1271 Avenue of the Americas is known as the Time Life Building, and I suspect, TI Media is Time Inc Media (TI Media Solutions Inc. 2 Associated Publishers. Time Inc. TI Media Solutions Inc found on https://sensortower.com/android/publisher/ti-media-solutions-inc/TI+Media+Solutions+Inc./ )

Time Inc., the publisher of Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Architectural Forum magazines initially occupied 21 floors. http://www.placestogoinnewyork.com/places/2501660-Time-Life-Building/

Sponsor:  TI Media Solutions Inc., 225 Liberty St., New York, NY 10281.

The Sponsor of this Contest is TI Media Solutions, Inc., 1271 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10020.
The Sponsor of this Contest is TI Media Solutions Inc., 1271 Sixth Ave., New York, NY 10020
The Sponsor of this Contest is TI Media Solutions, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 31st Floor, New York, NY 10020
 TI Media Solutions  PO Box 62222  Tampa, Florida  United States of America
is the address given by "the Ripoff Report" http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/QSP-TI-Media-Solutions/Tampa-Florida-33662/QSP-TI-Media-Solutions-Problem-with-billing-and-getting-through-Tampa-Florida-837223

but Bloomberg gives their address as PO Box 920 Pleasantville, NY 10570
http://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/2942795Z:US-ti-media-solutions-inc
http://www.thedrive.com/thehunt

Simplest drawing I've ever come across, Eastwood restoration tools and products only wants your name and email, and you're entered

http://bestofeastwood.com/

Finally!

the air valve stems are used as the volume and switch knobs, and the lug nuts are real Cragar lug nuts

https://www.facebook.com/McSwainGuitars

Stephen McSwain of McSwain guitars from Kimo Easterwood on Vimeo.

Go to facebook.com/cragarwheels for details on how to enter. Terms are basically "18 and over, U.S. residents only (with some exclusions)." You can enter multiple times.

http://sweepstakes.cragarwheel.com/

Going to SEMA? Like books about car stuff? Register to win 50 books from Motorbooks

http://blog.quartoknows.com/quartodrives/2015/10/08/motorbooks-50th-anniversary-giveaway/

https://www.facebook.com/QuartoDrives?sk=app_228910107186452

Eastwood is having a product give away drawing

http://bestofeastwood.com/  I learned about this on https://www.facebook.com/hotrodmag

Royal Purple is having a ticket giveaway to SEMA and the Las Vegas Red Bull GRC Finals (I only learned of this today... the last day of the contest)

https://www.gettheroyaltreatment.com/  https://www.facebook.com/RoyalPurpleFans

late 50's early 60s taillight and tailfin test... difficult

http://www.americantorque.com/game/tailfins/

I got 45 of 56 correct, its really rare to see these Olds, Pontiacs, Buicks, DeSotos, and Packards