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Roland Leong "The Hawaiian"
Joey-You and Ron Hodgson have so helped get our pal and dear friend back in the spot light; Thank you!
Yeah, when I saw pics of Roland in the car I smirked; and knew it was at least a hundred years since he put her off the end at Long Beach.
He tells the story best. He makes his ONLY pass at The Beach and goes into the weeds…Keith Black tells him-“Roland, how am I ever going to tell your mother that I killed you? You need to find a driver. I know this painter in the Valley, his name is Prudhommer…”
GODSPEED & RIP Mr. Black----you so changed so many lives
240 Gordie Bonin
"The Hawaiin Dragster" of Roland Leong is displayed at the 2009 SEMA show in Las Vegas. It was interesting that the car was displayed next to Don Prodhomme's car. Don of course, in his earlier career drove the dragster.
2009 Nationals-Las Vegas. As in past years we have had several customers take their cars to this popular event. You may have wated on our site the 1970 Grande Coupe progect progess over a couple of years. We are very happy to hear it won 1st in class "E Body Restified" . We would like to acknowlede Kori Alexander for his contribution and involement in preparing the drive tain for this project.
Past project in 2008 car show: We are proud to have been involved ( a few years ago) with this car's body and paint. It has been featured in national magazines and the "50 years of Mopar Muscle" book. The list of awards for this car is long and what is best is the owner actually drives the car when showing it all over the western U.S. and Canada.
World's Ultimate Mopar at 2008 EMDA Auto Show We will feature more than fifteen examples of our work during the 2008 "New Car Auto Show" . One feature will be this 1971 440-6 Pack Road Runner. In 2007 the car was judged to be the best in the world. It won the “Worlds Ultimate Mopar" at the Mopar Nationals in Las Vegas.
2005: The Tenacity Funny Car Team wins " Best Appearing " award at the IHRA National event in San Antinio Texas. Joey's Place is very happy to been apart of this project.
2008: Tenacity Funny Car Team For the second time wins "Best Appearing" award but with a diifferent paint design done at Joey's Place. It was won at the IHRA Rocky Mountain Nationals in Edmonton. Joey's Place congratulates Tenacity Funny Car Team and thanks them for allowing us to be involvement in their project.
A Joey's Place Restoration. This 1947 Chevy Nomad was an all laquer paint job. As seen here on display in the museum in the Imperial Palace Casino in Las vegas.
Mopar Nationals Competeion in Las vegas. Joey's Place had almost a dozen customer projects at this meet. This is a "one of one" pink 440-6 pack Charger. It won 1st place at the Mopar Nationals in Vegas and was then featured at the biggest Mopar event that takes place in Carslile, PA.
Mopar Collectors Guide Magazine has done feature stories on several of our restorations. This issue features a 1969 baracuda convertible with a 426 Hemi-4-speed.
Bodyworx feature story was this 1970 AAR Cuda built at Joey's Place. It finished in the top three for "The World's Ultimate Car" award at Las vegas Mopar Nationals.
Joey and the shop are the feature story in this industy magazine distributed throughout Canada.
This magazine cover is of the tallest vehicle painted at our shop. The GMC crew cab features a multi-color paint job.
For a corporate display at SEMA 2004 in Las Vegas we were asked to custimize a GMC pickup.
The "Fanboni" is one of our more recognized projects. Designd and painted at Joey's Place (in collaboration with Flying Colors) this customized Zamboni was done for the NHL Edmonton Oilers.
Joey's Place has an on-going involvement with The Edmonton Motor Dealers "New Car Auto Show". For the event we are asked to display 14-18 of our current creations. This display adds something different to all the new vehicles displayed in the other three halls.
Joey's Place Live TV: We have been very fortunate on four different occasions (two different channels) to have been the host for a two hour morning breakfast show.
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