Featured Build Contest

Tell the whole story of your vehicle

Document your vehicle here — the work, the history, the people behind it — and put it forward. We read every entry, and the one that tells its story best gets featured.

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Every kind is welcome.

Restorations, survivors, race cars, family history, or the build nobody else would have attempted.

The record stays yours.

The record you build stays yours whatever happens with the contest, and it travels with the VIN.

You're already entered.

Entering is not a separate form. Document your vehicle, hit Request to be Featured, and while the contest is running you're in it.

Entries are open Entries close December 26, 2027. Read the contest rules.

The build we choose gets One winner will be selected to have their vehicle and story featured on The Legacy Car Show. Our film crew will travel to the winner’s location to capture their vehicle, its history and the people behind the story for a professionally produced national TV segment..

What this is

A reason to document the whole thing.

Most vehicles online are a handful of photos of a finished car. The story — what it came from, what went wrong, who did the work, why it mattered enough to keep — usually lives in somebody's head and a shoebox of receipts. This is an invitation to put it somewhere permanent.

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A garage workbench: an open notebook still blank, beside photographs of a restored classic car, its blueprints and the car itself in the doorway.

How to enter

Four steps, and you already did the hard one

The work of building the vehicle is behind you. This is just writing it down.

Create an account, free.
Add your vehicle by VIN.
Document it — a description, photos of the exterior, interior and frame, and at least one service record.
Hit Request to be Featured on your record page and tell us what makes it worth reading.

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A restorer's desk: handwritten restoration notes and a dated build timeline, a paid service invoice, photos of the finished car inside and out, and the vehicle's VIN plate.

What makes a strong entry

The story, told properly

We're not judging the vehicle against anyone else's. We're reading how completely and honestly its story is documented.

Detail beats polish. What broke, what you'd do differently, and the part that took three tries all read better than a clean beauty shot.
Show the sequence. A record that moves from where it started to where it is now tells a story a single photo can't.
Credit the people. Shops, family, the person who found it — a build is somebody's time and judgment, and saying whose is part of the record.
Receipts, dates and service history are the backbone. They're what turns a good story into a documented one.

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A photo album open to a four-frame sequence of one build — rusted shell, bare chassis, primed body, finished car — beside separate photographs of its interior and engine bay.

Quick Details

Who can enter: Open to U.S. residents 18 with an interesting vehicle and a story worth telling. Entrants must create or claim the vehicle on My Steward Registry and document its history and story.
When: August 25, 2026 – December 26, 2027
Prize: One winner will be selected to have their vehicle and story featured on The Legacy Car Show. Our film crew will travel to the winner’s location to capture their vehicle, its history and the people behind the story for a professionally produced national TV segment.
How to enter: Document your vehicle, then hit Request to be Featured. There's nothing separate to enter.
How it's won: We read how completely the story is documented — not the vehicle's condition or value.
Published by: My Steward Registry

A summary, for reading quickly. The official rules are the terms that apply.

Read the official rules