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October 31, 2008
CarDomain Pumpkin Carving Contest Winners!
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
There sure were some incredible entries in our first-ever CarDomain Pumpkin Carving Contest. Hot damn, you guys sure are good with tiny little knives! The contest is now closed, and because there were just too many awesome pumpkins for us to pick a single winner, we’ve decided to award a couple of runners-up as well, who will each receive a CarDomain beanie for their efforts.
Overall winner: Paul’s Trans Am pumpkin! As one of the commenters said, it’s like a photograph. The depth and detail makes the Firebird really pop, and the lettering is great too. Paul gets a CarDomain tee-shirt and beanie!
Runner-up #1: Aydar’s "Pumped Smart." You’re not even going to believe this insane smart-car pumpkin "build." CUBE is famous for clever photos involving his smart, but he takes it to a whole different level for the contest!
Runner-up #2: Eli’s Dodge Stealth pumpkin. Nicely rendered, beautiful shading. I wish I had the skills!
Congrats to all on some absolutely fantastic pumpkin carving, and thanks to all for participating in the most car-crazy carving contest on the net. See the runners up and honorable mentions below the jump—each pic links to the carver’s ride page. There were also a selection of logo pumpkins which can be viewed in the comments of the original contest post. Happy Halloween!
Aydar’s Pumped Smart:
Eli’s Dodge Stealth:
Amy’s 300ZX:
Joal’s SE-R
Yousuf’s GT-R pumpkin
Porsche Purist’s 911:
Nolan’s Saturn Vue:
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kap0w
Nov 4, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Emailing or messaging Jen with your name and shipping address is a good plan but yeah – I wouldn’t expect to hear much until after SEMA.
Steve
Nov 3, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I’m glad to see someone used my GT-R pumpkin design! I’m Steve Neill off of carspyshots.net
CUBE
Nov 3, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I seriously doubt that we will hear from the guys till after the SEMA.
They having fun right now!
Paul Myers
Nov 3, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Hey Eli, I was wondering the same thing the other day. What I did was I sent a private message to Jen Dunnaway using the link at the top of the Blog to get to her homepage. I left a message with my shipping addy. I haven’t heard back from her though?
Hey Jen, any details we need to know about?
Eli Hays
Nov 2, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Great job to everyone who entered, there is a lot of talent on CarDomain. I was very excited to see my name on the list, thank you. I’m sure you will all see an entry from me next year as well.
On a side note, could someone point me in the right direction to claim the Beanie?
amys300zx
Nov 2, 2008 at 8:35 pm
well said Paul!!
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I’m glad to see all the love for everyone has for their rides. next year will be interesting – since im sure everyone will have more time to submit. =)
cknarf
Nov 2, 2008 at 4:42 pm
the smart kicked twice as much ass than the others.
Paul Myers
Nov 2, 2008 at 3:53 am
Wow, didn’t even know that I won until now.
Cube, thanks for the congrats. I really thought your Pumped Smart kin would take the gold.
Amy, I know your pain. Any kind of carving that is over 20 minutes really starts to cramp up your hands and fingers, but its the outcome that makes it worth it and your 3D ‘kin was definitely worth it as its one of the coolest ones I’ve ever seen!
Congrats to all the entries for showing their car love Halloween style!
For the comment that says that I somehow cheated because I used pic that was a couple years old, there was no where in the rules that it said that so I thought it fair. I’ll just carve a new one of my Solstice for next years contest. I really don’t do it to win, I did it to show the love for my car and I thought that is what all this was about.
Schitt Shmears
Nov 2, 2008 at 1:46 am
USE YOUR NOGGIN, PUMPKIN CARVIN’
amys300zx
Nov 1, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Congrats to the winners!!
I wish mine could have been seen in person, its much more impressive that way lol. An Exacto knife + a potato peeler + being up all hours into the night = priceless. Hahaha…
Im excited for next year so I can try this technique again!!!
Anonymous
Nov 1, 2008 at 4:40 pm
That sucks, I think that the pumpkin carving contest should be for ones that were carved recently. I think you should give his shirt to the guy that cut up the mobil oil bottle! He probably will enter that pumpkin pic next year and win again…not fair!
Anonymous
Nov 1, 2008 at 3:13 am
I am not sure if that even matters, but on Paul’s page he said that he carved that pumpkin in 2004.
CUBE
Nov 1, 2008 at 2:29 am
Paul,
Congrats on the Pumpkin Contest win!!!!!!
Anonymous
Nov 1, 2008 at 2:25 am
that 3000gt should have won. it’s shading is immaculate!