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Associate artistic director Maxwell Williams stages the comedy which also features Leslie Hendrix (18 years of "Law and Order" as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers), David Gregory (TV's "Deception," Robert Ford in TV's "One Life To Live"), Stacey Sargeant (National tour of "Legally Blonde"), Caryn West (Broadway's "Crimes or the Heart") and Andrea Lynn Green (off-Broadway's "Harrison, TX")
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One of the more interesting moments in last night's not-uninteresting BBC1 documentary David Beckham into the Unknown, in which the footballing star and three of his closest male friends travelled by motorbike through the Amazon rainforests, occurred before he even left home.
Poring over a map of South America with wife Victoria and teenage son Brooklyn on the bed of an antiseptically clean and tidy-looking bedroom in their Notting Hill mansion, Victoria stated her main worry: not that her husband would fall off his bike or be bitten by a snake, but that his hair would frizz up in the humidity.
"You should wear a hat through the whole thing," she solemnly advised, father and son sharing a knowing glance.
The fact that David and Brooklyn felt able, however gently, to rib Victoria on camera was interesting – although perhaps, like most families, they just don't notice their dynamics any more.
Not that Victoria doesn't have a point. After all, the David Beckham brand is ultimately not really about the glittering football career but about the grooming and dressing. However, with his 22 years as a player now at an end, David felt in need of a bit of unstructured "me time" with his male muckers – Derek "a mate of mine from LA who knows a lot about motorbikes", Dave "my oldest and best friend" and American Anthony Mandler, who just happens to be one of the world's foremost music-video directors and who shot this film.
Beckham was right to trust Mandler to do a stylish job – after all, this is a man whose clients include Rihanna and Jay Z – and except for one shot where a mud-splattered Becks looks curiously like Ricky Gervais, even the hardships of the rain-soaked jungle didn't prevent our hero from giving his best profile.
And if Beckham was momentarily Gervais, then Dave Gardner (a successful football agent who has known Beckham since they played in the Manchester United youth team) was his Karl Pilkington, the jester at the court of King David. One of Beckham's more touching admissions was that he doesn't make new friends – he can't trust new acquaintances' motives.
Brand Beckham is ultimately not really about the football career but the grooming and dressing
In fact, the film worked best as in inside look at what it must be like to be globally famous, and the fact that Beckham was wearing a crash helmet – favoured headgear of assassins and shop stick-up merchants – was no coincidence. As it happened, the Yanomami people of the Amazon not only failed to recognise Beckham, they'd never even heard of football, a fact which those dreading the onrushing World Cup might call blissful ignorance. Had he ever tried to explain football to anyone before? Beckham was asked. "Only to my wife." Boom, boom, and there we go again.
He did seem genuinely happy helping the Yanomami harvest their lunch – and when his bike broke down in the middle of nowhere and there was no need to be anywhere. Above all, Beckham seemed like a man in dire need of a holiday.
There's no doubt that he is a genius at controlling a ball and marketing his image, but is he otherwise of any interest? This artfully executed travelogue revealed a decent and deeply ordinary family man, whose chosen bedtime "reading" is the latest level of Flappy Bird, but also a bloke in an extraordinary position: a 39-year-old who hasn't known the freedom to goof-around since he was 14 and who is chased and screamed at wherever he goes.
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Want to visit Cuba? The AACA Museum can help
A 1958 Chevrolet in Cuba. Photo courtesy AACA Museum and International Expeditions.
Though restrictions on visiting Cuba have eased somewhat over the past few decades, for most Americans traveling to Havana involves more than a visit to the local travel agent (or, more likely these days, Hotwire). In April of 2015, and in conjunction with tour company International Expeditions, the AACA Museum will make it easy to visit the island via Cuba: People, Culture & Classic Cars, a cultural exchange trip centered on the theme of vintage cars.
Cuba is famous for its well-preserved (and creatively modified) classic American cars, stemming from a time when Havana was the vacation destination of choice for celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, mob boss Meyer Lansky (said to be a friend of General Fulgencio Batista himself), Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. The Cuban Revolution put an end to that, and by 1960 the flow of cars from Detroit to Havana effectively stopped, freezing the island in a weird time warp of 1950s American cars blended with later Soviet models, and, eventually, more mainstream imports.
By billing the trip as a way of promoting "meaningful interactions" with Cubans who share a passion for cars, International Expeditions (which runs cultural exchange trips to Cuba on a regular basis) skirts the ban on private American citizen travel to the island. In its brochure, the travel company states that it's licensed by the United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control to, "engage, organize and conduct authorized people-to-people travel to Cuba." There is, however, a catch; participants must agree to partake full-time in the activities scheduled, many of which come with a Cuban government-provided tour guide.
While that leaves no time for leisure on one's own, the planned schedule of activities include enough classic car centered activities that few will complain. The first night in Havana includes dinner with the director of Deposito del Automovil, a "repository" created by the Office of the Historian of the City that is as close to a true automobile museum as one is likely to find there. There's also interaction with members of the Amigos de Fangio, a club centered on classic cars (presumably in all their weird and wonderful Cuban iterations).
In addition to seminars on classic cars and a guided tour of the Deposito del Automovil, the trip includes visits to Hemingway's favorite hotel (the Hotel Ambos Mundos), his former home (preserved as it was on the day of his death), art galleries, wildlife sanctuaries, farms and shops, and even travel outside of Havana. This, too, comes with a disclaimer reminding prospective visitors that touring Cuba sometimes requires a sense of adventure, which only adds to the trip's appeal (in our minds, anyway).
The nine-day trip is priced from $5,170 per person, including charter airfare from Miami to Havana and back. For additional details on Cuba: People, Culture & Classic Cars, visit AACAMuseum.org.
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More radical concept and dream cars would come along with exotic drivetrains, impossible bubbletops, technology out of sci-fi comic books, and outer-space styling, but few showed a more precise vision of the immediate future than the 1953 Buick Wildcat dream car. While that future has long since passed, the Wildcat remains around today and will go on display at next year's Buick Nationals.
Perhaps because it was designed and built under the supervision of Buick chief engineer Ned Nickles and not under the supervision of an advanced styling studio, the two-seater Wildcat – which Buick introduced at the inaugural 1953 Motorama show at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City alongside the Chevrolet Corvette, Pontiac Parisienne, Oldsmobile Starfire X-P Rocket, and Cadillac Le Mans – showcased a little more restraint in its styling. Its wraparound windshield had already seen limited production on the Cadillac Eldorado and Oldsmobile Fiesta; its proto-tailfins hardly rose any higher than those introduced by Cadillac four years prior; its 188hp 322-cu.in. V-8 was new for 1953, but no more powerful than that in the production Buick Skylark; and its general styling would go on to appear on 1954 Buicks.
The big advancement on the Wildcat – the one that Buick made so much ado about in its press materials and Motorama brochures – was its fiberglass body, but even that was shared with the Corvette and Starfire X-P. Buick noted that the use of fiberglass shortened the amount of time it took for a car design to progress from sketch to production and "afford(ed) an opportunity to 'pre-test' the motorists' reaction to various styling features." Indeed, as David W. Temple wrote in his book GM's Motorama, styling studios were just beginning to make use of fiberglass at about that time, and Chevrolet executives had intended to put the Corvette into production with a steel body until the demand created by showing it at the Motorama led them to scratch that next step and go ahead with a fiberglass body.
And perhaps because the concept seemed so grounded, not only did Buick appear to build two Wildcats, executives in Lansing also considered putting the Wildcat into production. The first Wildcat – which debuted at the Waldorf-Astoria painted black, but then appeared a month later in Miami and thereafter painted white – used covered rear wheels and a convertible top that disappeared under a hinged lid behind the seats; but photos of a second white-painted Wildcat show it with a hardtop and Skylark-style rear wheel openings. Then, as Temple noted, Motor Trend reported that – after the Corvette, which had already been slated for production before the Motorama – the Wildcat would be the next 1953 Motorama car to reach production, though bodied in steel. One can only presume that, when it came to halo cars, the Skylark sufficed for Buick customers and executives.
Buick would follow up the Wildcat with the Wildcat II and Wildcat III show cars (leading many to refer to the original as the Wildcat I) and, according to collector Joe Bortz, put the 1953 Wildcat out to pasture by either selling or giving it to one of the designers who worked on it. That designer then sold it to a collector in Detroit, "who never did anything with it," Bortz said. "It was very rough. The windshield was off the car and twisted like a pretzel, and it was all apart."
Still, almost everything unique to the car – including the heavily chromed, porcelainized, and smoothed V-8 engine, its original interior, and much of its trim- remained with it, so Bortz bought it in about 1985 or 1986 and commissioned a full restoration, which wrapped up later in the 1980s.
As for the second Wildcat, Bortz noted that one theory holds that Buick only made one Wildcat and that the open-wheel hardtop version preceded the closed-wheel convertible version. However, he said that during the restoration he never saw any evidence that the skirted area over the rear wheels wasn't original to his car. In addition, while he only had one of the two Roto-Static stationary hubcaps unique to the Wildcats when the restoration on his began (he had a second replicated), several years later another enthusiast approached him with a matching pair of Roto-Static hubcaps, reportedly found in the 1960s in a Detroit-area junkyard.
Since restoring the Wildcat I, Bortz has showed it at a number of events, including the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the 2010 Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance and the 2013 Geneva Concours d'Elegance. Next year, he plans to show it once more at the 2015 Buick Club of America National Meet, which will take place June 10-14 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Springfield, Missouri. For more information on the BCA National Meet, visit BuickClub.org.
In addition, Bortz said that he will display his two Motorama La Salles and the Brooks Stevens-designed Valkyrie at the Cadillac and LaSalle Club's Grand National, which is scheduled to take place June 24-27 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. For more information on the CLC Grand National, visit CadillacLaSalleClub.org.
'Two-Lane Blacktop' 1955 Chevy two-door sedan heads to auction
The 1955 Chevy from Two-Lane Blacktop. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson.
Is Monte Hellmen's 1971 ode to street racing, Two-Lane Blacktop, a time-capsule road movie or celluloid pablum lacking actors, dialogue, or even much of a plot?
Opinions on the film seem to fall exclusively along these two lines, but over four decades after Hellmen's look into "the far out world of the high-speed scene," it still spurs discussion among enthusiasts. Love the film or hate it, most will agree that the real star of the movie is a primer-gray 1955 Chevy two-door sedan, and next January one of three cars originally built for the movie heads to auction in Scottsdale.
The plot of Two-Lane Blacktop is simple, at least on the surface: Drifters "The Driver" (played by singer James Taylor) and "The Mechanic" (played by Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson) travel the Southwest looking to arrange street races for cash. Along the way, "The Girl" (played by Laurie Bird) joins the pair, and the trio ultimately embarks on a cross-country race for pink slips with "GTO" (played by Warren Oates), a middle-ager in a new 1970 Pontiac GTO who clearly represents "the establishment." Neither car makes it to Washington D.C., but that's beside the point, since the plot of the movie is only superficially about racing, or even driving cross-country.
In preparing for production, Richard Ruth was contracted by Universal Studios to build a trio of 1955 Chevys for filming. Chassis VC550041466, to be sold in Scottsdale at no reserve, was equipped with a camera rig and used to film the bulk of the car's interior shots; hence, it was the car driven most often by Taylor. A second car (with the now-famous primer gray finish) was used for the exterior shots, while a third car was built for planned stunts.
When production wrapped, VC550041466 was sold to a studio mechanic, while the other two cars were later used in the filming of American Graffiti. Of these, the stunt car was destroyed and later sold for scrap, while the black '55 survives.
Chassis VC550041466 passed through a string of owners over the years, before being rediscovered by Two-Lane Blacktop historian Walt Bailey in Canada in 2000. The car was authenticated by Richard Ruth, and the two men began a process of preservation where possible and restoration where necessary; today, the primered '55 Chevy is the only surviving Two Lane Blacktop movie car that looks as the hero car did during filming.
To save weight, the car sports a custom fiberglass front end, a fiberglass trunk, fiberglass doors and sliding plastic windows. Up front, the car rides on a straight axle hand-built by Ruth for the proper stance and fitted with coilover shocks. Power comes from a 454-cu.in. V-8, fitted with dual four-barrel carburetors atop a vintage Weiand manifold, and sent to a period-correct Positraction rear end through a Muncie M-22 four-speed transmission.
While output estimates aren't available, the car was said to be capable of quarter-mile runs in the 10s, which puts horsepower at "more than enough to get the job done."
Two Lane Blacktop was a critical success, but not a commercial one, and neither Taylor nor Wilson ever starred in a feature length film again. The movie has developed a cult following over the years, and Brock Yates even credited it as an inspiration behind the original Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. How much this will influence the car's value remains to be seen, and Barrett-Jackson isn't putting a pre-auction estimate on the no-reserve lot.
For more details on the 2015 Scottsdale sale, visit Barrett-Jackson.com.
Automotive Fine Art Exhibit: Carlo Demand
"Kaiserpreis 1907," pen and ink. All images courtesy Dr. Mark Moskowitz.
The best automotive fine artwork pulls in the viewer and brings the subject to light in a vibrant way. Even static images can jump off the page if the artist has the talent. One of the most talented and prolific automotive fine artists of the mid-20th century was Carlo Demand. Dr. Mark Moskowitz of Gastonia, North Carolina, keeps the archive of this AFAS-founding member artist's vast portfolio, and he has enabled a retrospective of Carlo Demand's transportation art to take place in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, at the Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Carlo Demand was born in 1921 in Frankfurt, Germany, to a French father and German mother. His precocious artistic talent made itself evident at a very young age, and his interest in automobiles may have stemmed from the fact that, when he was five years old, he attended the first race held at the Nürburgring. As a boy, he was exposed to road- and race cars, as well as racing airplanes flown by greats of the day like WWI ace Eddie Rickenbacker. A sketchbook, dating to when he was six, showed he loved drawing his toy cars, among other subjects.
Carlo attended Frankfurt's Staedel Academy of Art from the ages of 16 to 21, where he honed his illustrative skills. His first published work—in a 1938 Frankfurt newspaper—was a charcoal drawing of a "Silver Arrow" grand prix-racing Mercedes-Benz W154.
Carlo's talent earned him a job with the U.S. Army Recreation Service after WWII, and he became a naturalized American citizen in 1951. While his day job had him creating and overseeing art for recreational and sporting programs, he freelanced on off-hours, illustrating commercial art and book covers until his 1972 retirement from the Army.
Freelance artwork would be his vocation and passion from that point until his final retirement in 1991, and he painted and drew for companies like Coca-Cola, Texaco, Ford, Volkswagen, Volvo and Renault. Carlo's transportation pieces appeared in Motor Trend, Sports Car Illustrated, Playboy, Flug Review and Der Spiegel, among others.
This prolific artist would illustrate a number of books through the years, including Ernst Rosemann's 1955 title, The Big Race: The Story of Motor Racing, for which he created 128 charcoal drawings that covered motorsports from its inception to the contemporary day. A very popular title that highlighted his aeronautical illustration skills was 1968′s Conquerors of the Air: The Evolution of Aircraft 1903-1945, written by Heiner Emde.
Carlo passed away in January 2000, and was survived by his Louisiana-native wife, Margaret Demand. A career retrospective about this little-known, yet very famous artist, titled Carlo Demand in Motion and Color: Automobile Racing 1895-1956, was posthumously written by Gary D. Doyle and published in 2007.
This fascinating exhibition will run through Friday, December 5, so if you can get to this part of North Carolina to visit the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, you won't regret it.
To see a handful of Carlo's transportation pieces, enlarge the images in the gallery below.
The psychedelic Superbird, and one owner's quest for its original Hemi engine
Mike Hill's psychedelic 1970 Plymouth Superbird. Photos by author.
Old race cars never die. Some get rebuilt to go vintage racing, while others get restored. Then there were those old race cars that got customized with the latest period trends before hitting the streets for some traffic light showdowns. This 1970 Plymouth Superbird is such a car.
But this isn't your average Superbird, if there could be such a thing. It's a Hemi-powered Superbird, one of just 93 produced out of the 1,920 Superbirds built. And it's a former Summernationals class winner, so don't be fooled by its now disheveled custom psychedelic paint scheme. Remember what your mother told you: "Never judge a book by its cover."
I came across this gem in early November when I attended the weekend-long all-Mopar show at Don Garlits's museum in Ocala, Florida. There, parked in the swap meet, was this Superbird. So here's its story, according to the placard that was on display in front of the car.
In the 44 years since this hallmark Plymouth was built, it has only been driven 1,478 miles; most of those miles, we suspect, were put on a quarter-mile at a time. When it rolled off the assembly line, it was finished in B5 blue with a white interior, and the desirable "R" code stamped on its data plate signified that it was equipped with the coveted 426-cu.in. Hemi V-8.
It's referred to as "Tim Richards's SS/EA Hemi Superbird." Richards was the former crew chief for such racing greats as Joe Amato, Chuck Etchells, Connie Kalitta, Whit Bazemore, and the Bernstein brothers, Kenny and Brandon. He won six national championships, but before becoming a Top Fuel crew chief, Richards raced this Superbird himself. During that time, the car was owned by Paul Messemer, who worked in Vestal, New York, at Karl Gould Chrysler.
With less than 10 miles showing on its odometer, a special Hemi engine built by Sox & Martin (and used in their 1968 Hemi 'Cuda) was installed. Mainly raced at York 30 drag strip, its fastest time was a 10.98 at 127 MPH. Its ultimate achievement was winning the SS/EA class at the 1970 Summernationals, with Richards behind the wheel.
Its next owners were the Carpinet Brothers, who raced it with the "INFAMY" blue and white paint scheme. Two years later, it changed hands again, this time belonging to Frank Obitz of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and the man responsible for its current custom exterior. Obitz also installed a 440-cu.in. V-8 in it, but we don't know why.
This historic Superbird is currently owned by Mike Hill of Sumter, South Carolina, the car's sixth owner. Hill is desperately trying to find the car's original Hemi engine, as stated on the placard. "I am in search of the original 426 street Hemi that came out of this car. I have talked to both Tim Richards and Paul Messemer; both confirm the engine was sold to a fellow drag racer named Bob Chipper."
Hill went on to say: "A $1,000 "Finder's Fee" will be awarded for information leading to the whereabouts and purchase of this engine. Anyone having information on the whereabouts of the original engine for this car, please contact Mike Hill, 803-236-8828."
Don't call it a Dodge Omni: 1980 Talbot Lotus Sunbeam sells for over $79k at U.K. auction
1980 Talbot Lotus Sunbeam. Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions.
In the late 1970s, American manufacturers were oddly locked in a battle for World Rally Championship supremacy in Europe, and Chrysler's answer to the dominant Ford Escort RS was a Lotus-tuned Talbot Sunbeam, visually similar to (but significantly different from) the American Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon. Last weekend, a 1980 Talbot Lotus Sunbeam with less than 200 miles on the odometer shattered its pre-auction estimate of £28,000 ($44,000), selling for a fee-inclusive price of £50,625 ($79,414) at Silverstone Auction's NEC Classic Motor Show Sale in England.
To be fair, the Talbot Sunbeam resembled its American second cousins in appearance only. The Talbot featured a front-engine, rear-drive layout (a cost concession that allowed the car to use British mechanicals), as opposed to the front-wheel drive setup adopted for its Simca-derived American relatives. With a Lotus-supplied, double-overhead-camshaft, 16-valve, twin-carburetor four-cylinder engine beneath its bonnet, the Talbot Lotus Sunbeam sent 150 horsepower to its ZF five-speed transmission, and that was in street trim. In competition tune, the Talbot Lotus Sunbeam produced an estimated 250 horsepower, which proved sufficient for the car to deliver Talbot a WRC manufacturer's championship in 1981.
Built from the shell of a Talbot Sunbeam GLS, the Lotus-assembled version received a firmer suspension and larger anti-roll bars, yet (oddly) soldiered on with the stock car's rear drum and front disc brakes. Even the wheels were undersized (grossly so by today's performance standards), measuring 13 inches in diameter and six inches in width in both front and rear.
The Talbot Lotus Sunbeam was built to satisfy homologation requirements, and not specifically to give the automaker a distinctive hot hatch offering. Though targeted to buyers unable to afford other automobiles wearing a Lotus badge (which was prominently displayed on the Sunbeam's front fenders), the Talbot was considerably more expensive than performance versions of the Vauxhall Chevette and the Ford Escort, which ultimately impacted sales. Talbot had planned to build 4,500 units, but when the car's two-year production ended in 1981, Lotus had assembled just 2,298 examples.
Chassis T4DCYAL330837 was built in 1980, and delivered, unregistered, to a customer in Italy. As part of a collection, the car remained unregistered and unused for 34 years, until surfacing early this year. Prior to the sale, the car received a service that included new belts, fluids and filters, but is said to otherwise be in an "as-delivered" state. Described by Silverstone Auctions as, "the only unregistered and lowest-mileage Talbot Lotus Sunbeam in existence," the black with silver-stripe hatchback caught the eye of several bidders, who helped it achieve its impressive selling price.
For complete results from the NEC Classic Motor Show Sale, visit SilverstoneAuctions.com.
A no-sale in Monterey, 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB sells for $2.15 million in Anaheim
1965 Ferrari 275 GTB. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy of Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise indicated.
Even vintage Ferraris can get lost in the shuffle during Monterey Car Week, and when a well-documented 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB crossed the stage at Mecum's Monterey sale, bidding stalled at $1.8 million, which failed to meet the car's reserve. When the Ferrari rolled across the block in Anaheim, it was the star of the show instead of just another 1960s Ferrari, and bidders responded enthusiastically, driving the price to $2.15 million and making it the auction's top seller.
With styling by Pininfarina (based on the 250 GTO), the Scaglietti-built 275 GTB models are stunning automobiles in both short nose (early production) and long nose versions. They're historically significant, too, being the first road-going Ferraris to offer a fully independent rear suspension, but improvements to handling didn't stop there. The Columbo-designed 3.3-liter V-12 was rated at 280 horsepower, and mounted as far back in the chassis as possible for improved weight distribution. Instead of a conventional transmission, the 275 utilized a rear transaxle, again for improved balance. The result was a coupe equally at home on road or track, even if the 275 GTB was not purpose-built for racing.
Mecum claims that chassis 07633 was delivered new to David Rumbaugh, son of the actress and socialite (and C.W. Post cereal fortune heiress) Dina Merrill. If correct, the car left the family's ownership in 1972, a year before Rumbough's tragic death in a boating accident off of New York's Long Island.
The car's second owner would retain possession for 31 years, and in 1999 funded a complete restoration. Proof of the work's quality was delivered in the car's first outing, where it took second place in Class 3 at the Ferrari Club of America's National Concours d'Elegance.
The consignor had owned the car for the past decade, and used it "sparingly" according to the auction house. Despite the decade and a half age of the restoration, the car remained remarkably well-preserved, and as a "short nose" 275 GTB certainly had no trouble attracting interested bidders in Anaheim. Waiting for this auction proved to be the right move for the consignor, as the $2.15 million selling price was $350,000 more than the high bid in August at Monterey.
1954 Buick Skylark. Photo by Jeremy Cliff.
Other cars in the Anaheim top-10 included a 2006 Ford GT Heritage Edition, which sold for $375,000; a 2005 Ford GT with just seven miles on the odometer, which sold for $340,000; a 2005 Ford GT, which sold for $250,000; a 1953 Cadillac Eldorado, which sold for $210,000; a 1994 Porsche 911 Speedster, which sold for $175,000; a 1954 Buick Skylark, which sold for $132,500; a 1970 Plymouth Superbird, which sold for $127,500; a 1963 Volkswagen 23-window microbus, which sold for $125,000; and a 1968 Shelby G.T. 500KR convertible, which sold for $122,500.
The auction's best deal? This 1978 Dodge Diplomat, which sold for $750.
The auction wasn't just for high-rollers, either. Bidder with smaller bank accounts took home a 1972 Volkswagen Beetle convertible, which sold for $5,500; a 1966 International Travelall, which sold for $5,000; a 1975 Mercedes-Benz 280C, which sold for $5,000; a 1972 Ford F100 Custom pickup, which sold for $5,000; a 1983 Porsche 928S, which sold for $3,500; a 1953 Austin A30 Seven, which sold for $2,750; a 1985 Nissan 300ZX, which sold for $2,500; a 1985 Lincoln Town Car, which sold for $2,500; a 1988 Alfa Romeo Spider, which sold for $2,250; and a 1978 Dodge Diplomat, which sold for $750.
For complete results from last weekend's Anaheim sale, visit Mecum.com.
America to take on the world in Philly Auto Show face-off
Photo by the author.
On the global stage, the United States typically works with its allies to resolve conflicts of all sorts. Next year, however, the United States will have no allies to rely on as it takes on every other auto-producing country on its own in the third annual Philadelphia Auto Show Face-Off.
Conceived for the 2013 edition of the Philadelphia Auto Show – normally a display of the latest new cars – as a way to get local collector car enthusiasts to participate by putting their cars on the show floor – the face-offs pit two popular categories of cars in a static battle for the affections of other show attendees. While both prior editions focused on domestic rivalries (Ford Mustang versus Chevrolet Camaro in 2013, Ford versus Mopar performance cars in 2014), the 2015 edition will pit any and all cars built in the United States against those built outside of the country.
As was the case last year, the Philadelphia Auto Show tapped the staff at Carlisle Events to help fill out the rosters for both sides of the face-off.
"The people at the Philadelphia Auto Show are obviously fans of more than just domestic cars, so this is an opportunity to get them involved in the face-off as well," said Ed Scholly, Carlisle's associate director of business and event development, who is heading up Carlisle's involvement in the faceoff. "While domestics do get a lot of attention at our shows, we do get a strong showing from all brands at the Import and Kit Nationals."
No longer restricted to muscle cars, the faceoff will be open to any collector car from any era and from any manufacturer. The faceoff will also grow for the 2015 edition, with more room on the show floor dedicated to the cars taking part. Scholly said that rather than the 15 or so vehicles per side that took part in the last two years, the faceoff can now accommodate about 20 vehicles per side.
Show attendees will determine the winner of the faceoff by popular choice voting at the show. Anybody who wants to participate can apply for a spot through Carlisle Events.
The Philadelphia Auto Show is scheduled for January 31 through February 8 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. For more information on the show, visit PhillyAutoShow.com.
Futurliner No. 10 to go on National Historic Vehicle Register, finds permanent home
Photo by Marc Bochy.
General Motors didn't build its Futurliners to sell to the general public. It didn't build them to race. It didn't build them for the military. It didn't build them as design studies or as concepts designed to embody the future of transportation. General Motors didn't build the Futurliners for any entity other than General Motors. But it did build them for the public. It built them to be seen and to make a scene. It built them to inspire awe and wonder. So it's fitting that one of the remaining Futurliners will soon enter a permanent and public record, the National Historic Vehicle Register.
One of 12 behemoths that GM built starting in 1939 for its Parade of Progress traveling show, Futurliner No. 10 has perhaps remained in public view the longest of all the Futurliners. Its initial tour of duty – in a slightly different configuration that included more glass in the canopy and that likely used a GM 4-71 two-cycle diesel engine for power (though one of the original-configuration Futurliners used a 451-cu.in. gasoline engine) – only lasted one year, 1940, but more than a dozen years later, when GM decided to again canvass the country with the Parade of Progress, No. 10 and the other 11 remained ready to once again hit the road.
Not without some modifications first, though. The overall dimensions of the Futurliners remained the same – 33 feet long, 8 feet wide, more than 11 feet tall, and more than 12 tons heavy – but GM decided to swap out the diesels and their attendant manual transmissions in favor of military-grade 302-cu.in. GMC straight-six gasoline engines backed by Hydra-Matic automatic transmissions. The whitewall duallies front and rear remained, as did the driver's up-high and central steering position, but based on feedback from the previous Futurliner pilots, GM scrapped the bubble canopies and replaced them with panoramic windshields, more sheetmetal to shield the drivers from the sun, and air conditioning.
Futurliner No. 10 with its exhibits. Photos courtesy Futurliner.com.
According to Bruce Berghoff and George Ferris's book, General Motors Parade of Progress & A Futurliner Returns, Futurliner No. 10 hauled around a couple of displays for the Parade of Progress: Three Dimensional Sound, which demonstrated "how binaural sound helped build better cars;" and Opportunity for Youth, which included winning model cars from the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild and explained how budding car doodlers could enter the contest. Pretty much every weekend from April 1953 through July 1956, the dozen Futurliners and almost as many support trucks crisscrossed the continent, headed north in the summer and south in the winter. In all, they hit up 35 states and three Canadian provinces in nearly 150 stops.
The end of the Parade came not when the Futurliners quit, but when GM did. As Berghoff and Ferris wrote, a number of factors combined brought it to an end: rising costs, diminishing returns, other opportunities for more targeted marketing, and the rise of network television. GM executives decided to donate two to the Michigan State Police, then apparently sold the rest to Dick Knapp, whose Anchor Motor Freight company transported GM's show displays across the country.
Knapp apparently had no interest in the Futurliners other than to sell them off at a profit; among the buyers was musician Vic Hyde, who bought No. 10 and thought he'd convert it into a tour bus. He quickly changed his mind – he couldn't insure the Futurliner for the road – so he sold it to Goebel Brewing of Detroit. Goebel then repainted No. 10, installed a sound stage on one side of it and a beer dispenser on the right, and toured Michigan and surrounding states with it from 1957 through 1960. It then went to Detroit-based developer Pulte Construction Company, which intended to use it to promote a Florida subdivision, but No. 10 threw a rod on its way south, prompting Pulte to sell it to Dreisbach and Sons Cadillac in Detroit.
Futurliner No. 10 in its Dreibach and Sons livery. Photo courtesy Futurliner.com.
Dreisbach, which already had a couple other Futurliners, repainted No. 10 white with the company and Cadillac logos on it and used it to promote the dealership on Grand River Avenue in Detroit for a number of years. Then sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, a restaurant developer bought the Dreisbach Futurliners, added a couple more to the collection, and proposed cutting off the front ends to turn them all into a themed restaurant in Chicago. Instead, concept car collector Joe Bortz bought the five from the developer and kept them in a field outside Chicago until he realized he wouldn't be able to restore all four of the Futurliners, he said. So in 1993 he donated No. 10 to the National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United States in Auburn, Indiana, and sold the other four.
Futurliner No. 10 then hung around outside of the museum until 1998, when Don and Carol Mayton of Zeeland, Michigan, decided to take on the vehicle's restoration for NATMUS. The museum would retain the title to the Futurliner and help fund its restoration, while Mayton would gather a team of dozens to volunteer for the effort, assisting Mayton with transportation, research, parts acquisition, and general labor. Throughout the project, Mayton's team turned up original documents related to the Futurliners and started an outreach program for the hundreds of people who drove and worked alongside the Futurliners during the Parade of Progress.
Eight years after they began the restoration, Mayton and the team called it done. Even before they finished it, though, they began to show it, starting with the 2003 Eyes on Design show in Detroit, and they have kept it on the road ever since, taking it as far west as the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2008, as far south as the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in 2006, and to dozens of shows and events in between. One of the most memorable was the Ames Performance Pontiac Nationals in 2011, when it took to the dragstrip at Summit Motorsports Park and recorded a blistering 45-second quarter-mile time.
Futurliner No. 10 on display at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. Photo courtesy Futurliner.com.
Now, according to Mayton, Futurliner No. 10 has been selected for induction into the National Historic Vehicle Register, established earlier this year to document important vehicles in American history. To go on the register, a vehicle must meet one of four criteria: It must be associated with an important event in automotive or American history; it must be associated with a significant person in automotive or American history; it must be distinctive based on design, engineering, craftsmanship, or aesthetic value; or it must be the first produced, last produced, or be among the most well-preserved or authentically restored surviving examples. Selection to the register involves a complete documentation of the vehicle, including a fully referenced narrative of the vehicle's provenance and full photography, which will then be placed in the Library of Congress. No restrictions are placed on subsequent use or sale of the vehicle.
Previous vehicles placed on the Register include the Tucker "Tin Goose" prototype, the last remaining World War I Cadillac, the first Meyers Manx dune buggy, and one of the six Shelby Cobra Daytonas.
In addition, once Futurliner No. 10 returns from its current trip to Washington, D.C., for the documentation process and display during next year's Washington D.C. Auto Show, Mayton said that it will have a new permanent home at NATMUS. The museum had previously been unable to bring the Futurliner inside because it didn't have large enough doors, Mayton said, leading his group to seek other winter lodgings for the Futurliner. In the past, it has stayed in the AACA Museum, the Sloan Museum, and the Gilmore Museum, among others, while it awaited show season.
The Washington Auto Show will take place January 23 through February 1. For more information on it, visit WashingtonAutoShow.com. For more information on the National Historic Vehicle Register, visit HistoricVehicle.org. And for more information and photos of Futurliner No. 10′s restoration, visit Futurliner.com.
Psst – wanna buy a race track?
Slot Mods Cloverleaf Raceway. Photos courtesy Auctions America.
There are numerous problems with buying a race track of your very own: They're phenomenally expensive to purchase, difficult to insure and generally require a full-time staff to keep up with the constant maintenance that miles of asphalt requires. For most of us, the closest we'll ever come is a plywood table in the basement, wrapped in AstroTurf, with a 1/32-scale electric setup layout firmly nailed to the surface. Sure, companies like Slot Mods offer impressive pre-built layouts, but the prices are staggering: Neiman Marcus is offering a 30-foot by 12-foot Slot Mods raceway in its 2014 Christmas catalog, but the price (which includes an inaugural night party with Vic Elford or David Hobbs) is a jaw-dropping $300,000. What if we told you a smaller Slot Mods layout was about to hit the auction block, in time for holiday giving, at a fraction of the price?
Sure, the Cloverleaf Raceway layout to be offered in the upcoming Auctions America "Bid Anywhere" sale is smaller, but still measures 15.5-feet by 6.5-feet, which is likely a more manageable size for most basements or living rooms. Yes, it's pre-owned, having originally been built for Cloverleaf Auto Services in 2010, but that can be seen as a plus, too: Haven't all the bugs been worked out by the previous owner? Described as "exquisite" in the auction catalog, the track itself looks to be a challenging one, with several elevation changes, S-curves and decreasing radius corners. It's three-lanes wide, too, which is something you won't find in many off-the shelf slot car track layouts.
And then there's the scenery. Slot Mods has long been known for its attention to detail, and the layout up for grabs certainly doesn't disappoint. From the lush vegetation to the trackside cliffs (of which the FIA would never approve), the layout looks much like a short, fictional, real-world mountain road course, rendered in 1/32-scale. Unlike real race tracks, this one can be split into two pieces for easier transportation, and its grass never needs to be mowed.
How much this particular race track will impact your budget will be determined on Friday, November 21, but Auctions America predicts a selling price between $10,000 and $15,000. On the high end, that's still 1/20 of the price that Neiman Marcus wants for its own Slot Mods setup, but admittedly this track doesn't come with a break-in session by David Hobbs. At the end of the day, is his commenting on your "large attachments" as you out-brake him into a corner really worth $285,000?
The Bid Anywhere sale will take place on Friday, November 21; for additional details, visit AuctionsAmerica.com.
UPDATE (26.November): The Slot Mods Cloverleaf Raceway sold for $14,500, including buyer's fees.


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Downtown square a great place to hang out
Sitting in class at the Roblin Centre, Red River College's Princess Street campus, and looking out the window at gorgeous sunny days I'm missing in exchange for an education can be difficult at the end of the summer.
But hitting up Old Market Square during breaks helps ease me back into the swing of being trapped indoors all day. This beautiful little park is my favourite place in all of Winnipeg.
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There is nowhere I would rather eat lunch with classmates I'm just getting to know. Within the confines of the cafeteria, awkward questions about where one another grew up and went to school and why they're in the program, questions teachers ask as part of getting-to-know-each-other first class activities, circulate the table. Being at Old Market Square stimulates much more interesting conversation. The cube stage is a great topic to discuss with new school friends. Questions of opinions on the structure inevitably lead to tales of friends who tried to climb the monstrosity only to have their fun ended by cuts from the sharp edges or the discovery we were both there for the same Fringe performance a couple months earlier.
When this conversation subsides, it usually turns to poutines (inspired by Smoke's Poutinerie) or tales of late-night adventures through the Exchange District fuelled by the sight of the King's Head Pub. Before I know it, the time to head back to class rolls around and we're well past the questions the teachers will make us answer next period.
And if no one wants to join me? Instead of sitting in some dark corner eating my lunch alone and feeling like a loser, I am listening to music from free concerts and watching everyone from hipsters to hippies to suits wander through Old Market Square. With Mondragon just across the street, I can leave a few minutes early if there isn't anything too interesting going on and grab a strong cup of coffee to get me through the afternoon.
Being back in school can make finding time for old friends difficult, and with a busy schedule it's often necessary to get them to make the trek downtown to visit me. Old Market Square is the place to meet because even those suburban dwellers in my friends circle who wouldn't know how to find Urban Forest Coffee Shop can get there no problem. "You know that weird metal stage thing..." Of course they do.
It's also a place we can hang out on the weekend when our empty wallets limit our options to anything free. Even when the heavy curtains of the cube are lowered and there are no live performances, being in Old Market Square feels like actually doing something. Unlike hanging out in someone's backyard, you're surrounded by people having fun, chatting and keeping busy. I like to bring food or coffee and enjoy a little picnic before wandering around the area to do some window shopping. Or I'll bring a sketch pad and paper or camera to capture the architectural beauty surrounding the park. Even if I had a full bank account, there's seldom something I would rather do than kick back in Old Market Square.
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This is surprising to me, I sort of saw Heath's departure coming but I just assumed that Garrett would be there until the end. I wonder what he's going to study at school.
It's hard these days to make a living out of music...
Very mediocre band.
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Will be at 3/17 for everyone but Senses Fail.
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'Cause my love has become an affliction,
What did you expect from me? What did you expect from me?
As long as Buddy's still in I'm cool with it
Weird news.
GL at college?
BLOWS he is leaving. Stoked for this tour though. Will be there.
Ive always had a soft spot for these guys. Too bad Buddy is easily one of the worst live singers ive ever heard
So theres no original members left except for Buddy? Time for them to hang it up- they had a good run and will always have a cult following in the Long Island and Ridgewood areas.
Dan the drummer is an original member too.
Band ended with Buried a Lie.
Oh no. This does not bode well.
holy shit a tour that comes to pittsburgh?!?!?
lol no NJ dates? No home turf love? I just really wanna see Transit and TGI tbh.
And nothing significant was lost.
Not really a fan anyway
Crap...who the fuck leaves a well known band to go to college. Lame.
NOT ANOTHER ONE!!! Well at least Buddy is still around. Going to see them in StL!
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