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I ran across these pavers at Lowe's several months back. Thought they might be good to paint and create "people"--I first thought about a pair of Raggedys or a garden lady. I could see painting it and adding some wood cutouts, silk flowers, etc.
Anyone ever painted this kind of paver? Got any ideas for using them? They are very inexpensive just like the other pavers we have painted. Here's a front and a side view of it. Luvs |
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That should be excellent for painting people. I haven't seen those before. I'll have to check out my Lowe's. I'm seeing a group of carolers for Christmas. What other upright creatures could you do. Maybe a penguin? ha Gingerbread people. Snowpeople. An angel. A ghost. I think the more you stare at it the more things you can imagine. A barbershop pole. ha A gumball machine. Gas pump. hahaha. This is fun. If you laid it on it's side and could attach some kind of wings it could be a butterfly body or some other kind of bug. Perhaps a fish. Keep staring at it Luvs. There's lots more lurking in there. ha |
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Fri, Jun 8, 07 at 0:50
Wow! You are full of ideas there. Christmas carolers would be cute--too bad I can't make them different heights, that would look good. I can see it as a penguin, especially since it looks so "stiff" (duh, it IS stiff) I think I have some penguin patterns too. An angel or butterfly would be fairly easy too. I'm glad I asked for suggestions--thanks. Luvs |
I left you a link on the Craft forum Luvs. Hope it helps! I need to get back to some that are stacked in my garage! LOL The ones I have right now are the Europavers not the ones you got, but I'd love to do some of the curvy scalloped ones too. |
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Sat, Jun 9, 07 at 21:21
Hi Nodakgal, I got your link, thank you so much. I've painted the square top pavers, just hadn't noticed these before. Another poster sent me pics of gingerbread men and a snowman too. I'll just have to make up my mind and get busy. I only bought two of them so far. Since you are a painter too, hope you will check out our gallery section and the other posts on here, and then add some pics of projects you have painted too. The more the merrier. ;o) Luvs |
nodakgal~ I really liked all the great ideas on the link you posted on Crafts. Thanks for the great site. Hope you'll come back here and share some of your painted stuff with us! ~Anj |
Those are really cute! If you wanted differant heights find a guy with a wet saw. |
Good idea Diana. (Hi btw, long time no see!) Luvs, I think if you take them into Lowes or Home Depot they will cut them there for you for free? Give em a call if you decide to do that project and really want them different heights. ~A |
LOL Girls, I painted til about 4 years ago and things have just not gotten done since then. Life gets in the way you know? My poor scrollsaw has cut very little wood and my paints have barely been out of the tote they are in. I miss it and some day would like to get back into it....just have no idea when is all. I have checked the gallery and the posts and you all do fantastic work! |
Well, when you feel like dusting off those paints we'd sure like to have you join us more, nodakgal! ~Anj |
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Mon, Jun 11, 07 at 11:11
Sweets, your Santa is just darling, love his little face. You can either repair him, or keep him "as is" and say he's antiqing! Your mixing salt with the paint reminds me of my painted Valentines cookies that I sprinkled with regular sprinkles for cookies/cakes. Except that mine disolved! LOL P.S. Next time, I think I might try sand or sawdust--I think that might work. Luvs |
Sweets~ that is a funny place to have Santa reside. ha I kinda like him distressed looking. He does have a darling face. I'm gonna have to get some of these to try. Gosh, can my to do list get ANY longer??? You learn something new every day. Never thought to put salt, sand or sawdust in with the paint to give it dimension. Good ideas. ~Anj |
- Posted by altacountrygirl (My Page) on Tue, Jul 10, 07 at 1:37
Hello all - I'm brand new at this and just discovered all the painted paver pictures on the internet. Wow - these are all awesome! So cute! But, can you please tell me what paints to use and what sort of stuff do I use to make ears, wings, antenna, etc - are they pieces of felt that is cut out and glued on? I want to make some of these myself soon. I sort of have an advantage for the pavers themselves - I work in a landscape supply center and we sell all sorts of pavers in many shapes and sizes! I can't wait to hear from someone and get to making some of these. |
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Tue, Jul 10, 07 at 10:58
Hi Altacountrygirl, Welcome to the painting forum. Hey, you could even take some of your painted pavers to work--I'm sure your coworkers and customers would enjoy them. They are so easy to paint--but use your old brushes, they are sort of hard on brushes. I just use my acrylic paints and then spray two or three coats of sealer on them. You could also use the Patio Paints and skip the sealer, or even use left over house paints. There are two books out with cute patterns. You might check www.artistsclub.com or your Michael's store. I have one of them--will have to hunt for it and give you the name and author. You can use anything on them. The fun foam would be best if you intend to put them outside. Regular felt would not hold up outside. You can add wire or chenille stems for antenae on the ladybugs. You can glue eyeglasses on some things. You can add some bling by gluing some pretty half marbles or old jewelry on. Just use your imagination, and the sky is the limit! Hope you have lots of fun with it, and please come back and share your pics with us. Luvs |
Hey Luvs, Found something to do with those pavers!! Heehee While looking for the Grinch paver someone did on one of the boards a long time ago, I came across these, and remembered your post. Oh, and Sweets....love that Santa! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tall Pavers
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 07 at 15:58
Gram, I just got my computer working again so couldn't respond until now. Thanks so much for that site, I had not seen those. I still havent' painted my two pavers. Maybe will get to it after the New Year. So many projects I'd love to do, how about you? LOL Luvs |
I've got my 2 sitting here beside my desk waiting to be painted as well. ha I've already warned everyone here they are gonna be seeing Christmas projects from me until well into the New Year since I didn't get to paint any before. ha Thanks for pulling this up Gram. ~Anj |
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 07 at 2:33
I'm in favor of that Anj. Maybe we should just continue on with our Christmas/Winter creations at least through January. Maybe that way, we will have some of them ready to enjoy next Christmas! I don't usually do too much for Valentine's--I think I have one or two patterns I would like to paint, but those could be done in February--surely two weeks would be long enough if I get myself in gear! LOL How about the rest of you? Got any projects you haven't had time to finish before Christmas this year? Luvs |
I just love all the paver suggestions. They are so helpful. I am curious as to what type of adhesive everyone uses to attach the wood, felt, embelishments, etc. I was told I needed to use a special kind but I can't remember the name. Please help. Thanks! |
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The 41-year-old swimmer, who goes by her married name Amy Van Dyken Rouen, was injured Friday. She was airlifted to a hospital and had surgery to stabilize her spine.
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Maxxis uses its carefully match dual tread compound for low rolling resistance and long tread ware in the center and a stickier compound on the side tread for enhanced grip in the corners. This tubeless road tire also employs Maxxis's proprietary Silkworm material for puncture protection, along with a high-strength carbon fiber bead.
Been riding road tubeless since day one. These are the first Maxxis tires I've used. They are way ahead of the other BigName brands. They were very easy to mount on DuraAce wheel set. Ride em at 85-90 psi. Very smooth ride. Only time will tell how durable they are.
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The strategy you included will work fine, maybe a little tweaking on incrementing the $time variable, but generally pseudo-codally that works.
I would probably make sure my publish datetime value is an actual MySQL DateTime data type, which includes microseconds, so the possibility of a duplicate happening with that kind of precision is extremely remote. If the admin only enters date, hour and minute, you can randomize the seconds and microseconds to bring the chances you'll have a duplicate down to around .0000000001%.
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Supply chain segmentation involves clustering services or capabilities that together are used to meet a specific set of requirements, explains Wadhwa, vice president of global supply chain operations at Avnet.
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Switch Window 1.0.1
We all have faced a situation when we need to keep dozens of windows open -documents, e-mail client, several web browser windows - all mess up the Taskbar resulting in poor computing experience and frustration. SwitchWindow is a freeware tool that provides two important functions from virtually any spot you can right-click: it allows switching to the desired window using menu as well as closing unwanted windows with CTRL+Right Click combination!
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WinTopMost Site License 1.2
Set close window button disabled and manage applications to be topmost when running on your desktop. Can set a window automatically topmost or close disabled based on a window caption containing specific strings. WinTopMost intercepts windows captions when programs are running. Disables or enables close button of any window. Can be used in command line for batch processing.
See also: window, quit, exit, customize, disabled, system, ftp, window, main, WinTopMost, logout, buttons, add-ins, logiciel, utilitaire, download, free, systray, desktop, unload, telnet, application, topmost, batch, button, close, disable
Shutdown Manager and Tools 22.214.171.124
- Power Monitor - Clipboard Viewer/Saver - Catch others Shutdown attempts - Allows Fast Mode (forced) - File Finder - Wait for windows - Connect to remote - Tasks before closing Windows - Full screen shots with Browser - Calendar - IP's to clipboard - Disable Start Menu, TaskBar, Keyboard - Memory Defragmenter - Animate Start Button. - Time Server - Tray Icons to Open CDs - Query Recycle Bin - Screen saver Utility - and more...
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NCT Win Manager 2.1.2
You don?t want spywares who use you unusefully your system resources ? NCT Win Manager Pro is made for you ! In only one click, you can list all the active processes or better, create a list of the visible and hidden programs with their corresponding icon. Then with an other click, you can close the harmful programs. Try it now !
See also: exe, app, see, close, anti, spywares, spywars, spy, manager, win
CloseApp 1.02
CloseApp is a small command-line tool which closes all the running instances of the process whose executable name is specified as a parameter. Run closeapp.exe in a Command Prompt to learn more about its syntax.
See also: process, instance, application, terminate, close
Actual Window Manager 4.2
Thinking about having 2 desktops instead of one to avoid constant switching between windows? Save your money and relax now! Try Actual Window Manager and you will like your work more! Eliminate the need to minimize and restore windows, free the task bar space for more urgent programs and exchange information between applications immediately by using such handy tools as Stay on Top, Minimize to Tray/Screen Edge and Roll Up! No stress, no problems!
See also: windowmanager, minimize, tray, stayontop, desktop, taskbar, icon, close, transparent, translucent, transparency, minimize, maximize, startup, close, popup, automate
CloseApp 1.01
CloseApp was originally written to automatically close Acrobat after use when scripting from dos .bat files, but CloseApp can used for any windows application or window! CloseApp enumerates through multiple windows and closes all matches & is very easy to use. Example dos usage: CloseApp.exe "Adobe Acrobat"
See also: Close, App, Window
ShellDispenser 1.0
No more "Kill task" via Task Manager to kill Explorer (which is the improper way); no more fidling around in the "Turn off computer" screen. ShellDispenser allows you to restart the shell with the press of a key! If restarting the shell is a part of your job, then ShellDispenser is the tool you have been looking for. * Close and (re)start the shell with the press of a key * Closes the shell the proper way * Complete command line support
See also: windows explorer, shell, easy, restart, close, command line, task manager
EscapeClose 1.6
EscapeClose is an absolutely free tiny utility, allowing you to close or minimize the active window by pressing the Esc button. Or, to work more carefully, it can position the mouse cursor in the upper right-hand corner of the active window, where the Close button is located. Using this program, you will make fewer movements, which will increase the productivity of your work.
xStarter Web Pilot 1.84
xStarter is an advanced automation tool that allows system administrators to automate their repetitive tasks. The program uses its built-in scheduler to automate backups, file archiving, FTP synchronizing, starting specific applications, controlling their output and more. The Web pilot edition includes a built-in web browser interface that allows you to deploy tasks to remote computers and control their execution.
See also: automation, scheduler, system utility, launcher, automate, dial up, dir event, macro, copy, coping, file, dir, service, start, stop, download, ftp, http, ping, message, cd-rom, eject, close, connect, cron, zip, time, date, idle, window, event log
EPC Title Bar Changer 2.10
EPC Title Bar Changer is intended to change the title bar and title icon of any windows,which can change text and icon of any window's title bar,add antiboss key(hot key) to minimize or close all windows or hide all tray icons,automatic change window's title bar according to historic changes .
See also: title bar chane, title bar edit, close all windows, minimize all windows, close all windows, hide tray icon


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Recent Mentions and Recipes
3-4 Pork Chops
1 bottle Rickards Red Beer
2-3 TB Molasses
1-2 TB Kosher salt
Salt/pepper or your favorite bbq rub
Mix together the beer, salt and molasses until desolved. Immerse the pork chops into the liquid and refridgerate for 2-4 hours. Remove, rinse and dry with a paper towel. Sprinkle with salt and pepper or your favorite bbq rub.
Meanwhile, prepare your grill for direct high heat grilling. Grill the pork chops for about 3-5 minutes and turn once color has been set. Grill the other side and then move to a cooler spot on your grill. The pork chops are done once the internal temperature reaches 155 F. Rest for 5 minutes before devouring the pork chops.
Serve with grilled sweet potatoes, saute'd apples and of course Rickards Red.
2 cups Whole Pecans, Dry Roasted Peanuts and/or Cashews
2 cups Dry Peanuts
1 cup Brown sugar
4 TB House of Q House Rub (or your favorite bbq rub)
Melt the sugar in a sauté pan and add the House of Q House Rub. Coat the nuts with the melted sugar and rub then bake at 350 F for 40 minutes. Cool, break apart and serve with Rickard's Dark, Red or White beer!
4 Onions
2-3 tbsp. Olive oil
Maple wood chips
1 bottle Rickard's Dark Beer
1 L Chicken or beef stock
Prepare your grill for indirect, medium heat cooking by only turn half of your burners on. Place unsoaked wood chips on foil and crumple them up enclosing the chips.
Trim and peel the onions. Coat the onions with olive oil and salt and place them on the side of your grill that is turned off. Place the wood chips on the hot side, close the lid and smoke for 30-40 minutes or until the onions are cooked through. Remove from the grill, cool and slice vertically from the root to the stem end.
In a metal pot over medium heat add the smoked onions and the flour. Simmer until the onions have soaked up all of the flour then add Rickard's Dark beer. Stir until the beer has stopped foaming and the flour has dissolved. Add the stock. Season with salt and pepper.
Serve with a baguette or soft bread, your choice of cheese and of course, Rickard's Dark beer.
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2 lbs Beef – sirloin or round, cut in 1-inch cubes
3-4 tbsp. Olive oil
2 Onions – diced
2 cloves Garlic – minced
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Pepper
½ tsp. Thyme
½ tsp. Basil
3 Bay leaves
3 tbsp. Flour
1 bottle Rickard's Dark beer
4 cups Beef stock
2 Carrots – sliced into medallions then quartered
1 cup Barley
Prepare your grill for medium heat (300 – 350 °F), direct grilling – which means all of your burners should be turned on. Coat the beef with olive oil and sear to create a crust on all sides of the beef. Remove and set aside.
Meanwhile in a preheated stock pot on your kitchen stove (or if ambitious on a side-burner on the grill), add the remaining olive oil, onion, herbs and seasonings stirring regularly until the onions are soft. Add the flour and stir until it is completely absorbed. Add Rickard's Dark, stir until absorbed then add the beef stock. Add the grilled beef, any drippings from the beef, carrots and the barley then stir to mix through.
Place the uncovered pot in your grill at a low temperature with the lid closed for about one hour. Stir every 10-15 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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Recreation Opportunities
Wildlife Observation and Photography
Studying, viewing and photographing the island's wildlife and scenery are popular activities throughout the year. Over fourteen miles of trails are open to hiking and bicycling, however, no motorized vehicles are allowed north of the public parking lot. Wildlife viewing is best during the spring and fall months when migrations are at their peak.
Environmental Education and Interpretation
Environmental education programs and interpretive tours are available for school, civic and conservation groups by appointment only. These tours are generally given by trained refuge volunteers and therefore require a minimum of two-weeks notice. Interested parties should also be prepared to have alternative, acceptable tour dates. For further information or to schedule a program or tour, please contact the Savannah Coastal Refuges Complex headquarters at (912) 652-4415.
Guided interpretive tours for individuals and families can be arranged through our special use permit holders (fees may apply). These are private, commercial or non-profit organizations that maintain a permit with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in order to conduct business on the refuge. Click here for a list of authorized interpretive tour guides.
Hunting and Fishing
Each year the refuge holds a one-day quota deer hunt to ensure that population numbers remain in balance with the surrounding habitat. Applications for this hunt must be received at the Savannah Coastal Refuges headquarters office by August 31. Click here to download hunt brochure and application.
Fishing is prohibited from the land portions of the refuge, however saltwater fishing from boats only is allowed in the surrounding waters of Skull and Mackay Creek. Boats may access these areas from the public boat ramp located off U.S. Hwy. 278 across from the refuge entrance and are not allowed to come ashore or moor their boats at any other point on Pinckney Island. Shellfishing is also allowed in designated areas. Consult refuge brochures for regulations.


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'Forgotten Fiberglass': 37 Posts
Forgotten Fiberglass – Vintage 'glass and the big screen: Johnny Dark, 1954
We all celebrate the accomplishments and achievements of the designers, builders and drivers of the cars we enjoy, and it is no different for those of us who have come to appreciate the vintage fiberglass cars of the 1950s. But America is not just car-crazy – we also look toward the feature films of Hollywood for our recreation and entertainment. And when Hollywood turns its gaze upon cars, well, it doesn't get much better than that.
That's exactly what happened in the early to mid-1950s, when Universal International Pictures cast Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, and several early fiberglass cars in its 1954 film Johnny Dark. The movie was filmed in 1953; and while GIs had popularized European sports cars among American drivers in the years since World War II, the drum beating across the land for an American sports car was at its height. What new sports cars would emerge? Which company would be first? Which would be the best performer?
All of these themes were interwoven into the movie, and the directors wanted to keep the American public hungering for more. So they "cast" eight cars that were virtually unknown in the starring roles of the second race in the film. Five of these cars were brand-spanking-new fiberglass specials. They were:
* The Woodill Wildfire, a fiberglass special. This was a new body style that had debuted in the summer of 1953. It was brand new when it was being filmed in race scenes near Reno, Nevada.
* The Victress S1 Roadster, a fiberglass special. The Victress had debuted in late 1952, and the Guy Mabee Special using a Victress body had just become the world's fastest sports car at Bonneville in 1953, with a record speed of more than 203 MPH.
* The Glasspar G2 Roadster, a fiberglass special.
* The Grantham Stardust, a fiberglass special.
* The Irwin Lancer, a fiberglass special.
* The Bohman Special, a handcrafted sports car by Chris Bohman. Chris was the son of Maurice Bohman of the Pasadena Coachbuilding firm Bohman and Schwartz.
* The Chuck Tatum Special, a handcrafted sports car built by Chuck Tatum with a body designed and built by Jack Hagemann.
* The Kurtis Kraft Sports Car, built by Frank Kurtis of Glendale, California.
We've seen the trailer for the movie here before on Hemmings. It's always fun to watch:
Our gang at Forgotten Fiberglass has been collecting Johnny Dark memorabilia for years. Recently, we found an original script from the movie in great condition! As shown in the script, here's how the movie opens:
Medium close shot external track tower…
Emory, Pit-Chief, in white smock, a mechanic in white coveralls, and a young engineer, in sports clothes, are watching off to foreground… heads turn as the on-screen cars speed by. A short-wave set and transmitter installation is set up near the men. William Scott, known as "Scotty," Chief Engineer of Fielding Motors, comes on background – camera dollies up closer as mechanic reaches for mike. Scotty speaks to Emory – mechanic moves away from mike – camera dollies to close up of Scotty and Emory – they talk – Emory speaks into mike, "What kind of engines you got under those hoods, Mister Emory? They don't sound like…"
Johnny Dark is a car-crazy-guy kind of movie. It centers around the exploits of Johnny Dark – played by Tony Curtis – and his passion for building a sports car where he works, Fielding Motors. In reality, he's driving one of the first Woodill Wildfire Series 2 bodies that came out in the summer of 1953. This movie is what the guys at Forgotten Fiberglass and those with these types of cars watch and celebrate – it's our "trip to mecca" for our hobby.
One of our friends of fiberglass, Chuck Tatum, was not only in the movie, but so was his car, a famous West Coast race car in the early to mid-1950s. Recently, Chuck reminded me that this was an A-level movie all the way, back in 1954. We tend to think of this as a superficial movie with scant attention to the subject matter, but it was far from being a B-movie. The fact that both Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie starred shows the A-level performers that Universal dedicated to the movie.
And that wasn't all.
Production notes that were released with the movie touted the importance and timing of this film and its subject. Here are the opening two paragraphs of the seven-page typed production notes from the movie, released to the press in 1954 as a promotional tool:
Johnny Dark: Production Notes- Universal International Films: The sports car craze now sweeping the country provides the thematic background for Universal-International's Technicolor production of Johnny Dark, produced by William Alland, with George Sherman directing a cast headed by Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase, Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Hampton.
One of the most vigorous movements in the nation's automotive field, the widespread interest in sports-type vehicles is fast beginning to revolutionize Detroit's busy assembly lines, with U-I being the first studio to base a feature film on the timely subject.
The Production Notes go on to say…
In staging the filmic road race, depicted as a border-to-border run from Canada to Mexico, additional location work took the peripatetic troupe over more than 2,000 miles of territory between the boundaries of the neighboring nations. To facilitate photographic coverage, cinematographer Carl Guthrie used a helicopter especially adapted for the addition of camera gear.
The film debuted in June of 1954 to reviews such as this one from the June 26, 1954, edition of The New York Times:
RIGHTLY assuming that a good many auto passengers also are driving addicts, Universal has put together a mild but rather pleasant little picture called Johnny Dark. Featuring Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie and Don Taylor, the Palace's newest vaudeville partner remains about as obvious and unstartling as a typical speedway poster, with the same superficial attractiveness.
The plot, in a nutshell, has a bright young engineer, Mr. Curtis, launching his own speed model, winning a Canada-to-Mexico race and the granddaughter of the boss. Not for a minute will anybody doubt his success on all three counts, abetted and opposed, in turn, by the smitten Miss Laurie and his pal, Mr. Taylor. What really sets and sustains the tone of the picture, however, is the familiar, seasoned amiability of Paul Kelly, Sidney Blackmer and Ilka Chase, standing by.
Better still, the goings-on at the Fielding Motor Company, where all six work, hold some tastily authentic shots behind the automobile assembly line. The excellent Technicolor of William Alland's production is even more enhancing to the climactic race, a full-throttle but standard one. Credit the photographer, nevertheless, for some extremely effective hairbreadth coverage from a helicopter, judging by the shadow.
Pictorially, for that matter, the clean, scrubbed looks of the star trio are no less appealing throughout. Likewise their behavior. Their personal drama, as written by Franklin Coen, just isn't particularly interesting. But under George Sherman's casually good-natured direction, the youngsters and their elders make up some pleasant, uncomplicated people, cheerfully doing what they relish. And no harm done.
We may never know why the Corvette and Kaiser Darrin did not appear in Johnny Dark. Both were available – at least in prototype form – in 1953. Filming for all road race scenes started in September 1953 and finished in 3-4 weeks, so the timing would have worked. Perhaps this was too soon for either manufacturer to commit to a final product before their official release.
We may never know the full answer. However, we do know this: American fiberglass sports-car specials – ones built by the factory and built by young American men – were available and leading the way as to where American sports cars were going in designs for the future. These cars were the "supply" of American built and designed sports cars. They were on magazine covers and featured in article after article in publications across the country.
Universal International Films focused on this phenomenon, and thus fiberglass sports cars of the early '50s ended up taking center stage in the movie. So, if you want to take the pulse of the nation and feel what they felt back in '53, when American sports cars were on the doorstep and dream of every young American man (and some American women too), check out out the film Johnny Dark.
Geoff Hacker is a Tampa, Florida-based automotive historian who specializes in tracking down bizarre, off-beat, and undocumented automobiles. His favorites are Fifties American fiberglass-bodied cars, and he shares his research into those cars at ForgottenFiberglass.com.
Forgotten Fiberglass – The Big Bang of Fiberglass: Petersen Motorama, November 1951
Bill Tritt's Glasspar
Welcome to our first installment of Forgotten Fiberglass on Hemmings.com. Over the years, you may have seen the numerous mentions Hemmings has made to Forgotten Fiberglass and my efforts to document (and sometimes retrieve) lesser-known fiberglass-bodied cars of the 1950s, and now we're honored to be able to bring these stories directly to the Hemmings community via regular guest posts.
Forgotten Fiberglass is not just a place to learn about history. Our team is far more than a few hard-working car guys on the fiberglass fringe. It's a living, breathing place where our group shares what we learn and discusses the significance of what we find. In the theme of building your own sports car, we are rebuilding the history and heritage of these cars with research, collaboration, and cooperation. Reassembling this history, fiberglass bit by fiberglass bit.
You see, the story about building your own fiberglass sports car is unique to each and every one built. Most of the conventional car stories we read start when a payment was made and an excited individual drives away from the deal, car in hand (or under foot, rather). True, the back story of how a specific manufacturer model came to be can be a fascinating story about a business, but it's not about the owner/builder dreaming, designing, building, and then driving his own car.
The stories on fiberglass cars and building them in the Fifties is much, much more. All of these companies started in small garages, and most of them stayed there. That seems fitting because most of the cars finished and built back in the day weren't built using MIG welders on epoxy floors by men in uniforms with pneumatic tools – they were built by young men who wanted to realize the dream of building and driving their own sports car. Often with a bag of tools, in an unlit garage and under inhospitable conditions. For those cars that were finished and finished right, the ultimate reality of this dream could be breathtaking.
For these reasons, we at Forgotten Fiberglass believe that the stories of the fiberglass companies, the men who founded them, and the cars built by young men across the country is the best American car story never told.
I picked today's topic of the bursting forth of fiberglass sports cars to the American public in 1951 as appropriate for our first guest post here. What better way that to capture the birth of two things in one fell swoop.
Whenever we hear the word "Motorama" we think of the GM Motorama. But when you add the word "fiberglass," I think of the Petersen Motorama, from the same Petersen Publishing that brought us Hot Rod, Motor Trend, and many other car magazines.
GM Motoramas were fantastic. Futuristic cars and all the current models all under one roof. But Petersen Motoramas were a much more interesting breed of animal. Hot rods, race cars, boats, planes, custom cars, sport customs. Everything you could imagine, and if you built something good enough, you could apply for and display your fantastic creation right alongside other famous cars in the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles – the same place the GM Motorama was often held when it traveled to the West Coast. The Petersen Motorama phenomenon was the flip side to the GM Motorama – the only difference was the Petersen Motorama allowed the American public on both sides of the show experience.
Eric Irwin's Lancer
And – starting in 1951 – the world's first fiberglass cars debuted at the Petersen Motorama. These were cars that you could build yourself, so the public learned that they could build their own fiberglass-bodied sports car for the very first time. They learned this from Eric Irwin, who had finished his Lancer fiberglass sports car just a few months earlier. They learned this from Bill Tritt, who finished his Boxer (later called the GlassparG2) at the same time. In fact, it's no surprise that Irwin and Tritt both finished their fiberglass cars in the summer of 1951 and displayed their cars at the Petersen Motorama: They were next-door neighbors on Industrial Way in Costa Mesa, California. Bill Tritt had his fiberglass boat shop going there, and Eric Irwin had set up his shop to build a 50-foot motorboat. Ultimately, they helped each other build their fiberglass cars.
The Crosley-based Skorpion
But they weren't alone. John Willis and Ralph Roberts debuted their Wasp and Skorpion fiberglass sports cars – both diminutive in nature, but also small, lightweight, fun, and sporty to drive – at the Petersen Motorama, as did Molt Taylor with his Aerocar, which had a skin of fiberglass.
If only we could turn back time.
In the early 1950s, fiberglass was where it was at, and all sorts of people, organizations, and associations gravitated toward this new wonder material and learned how it could bring various dreams to life – especially the dreams of young, hard-working, talented men, who wanted to build the sports cars that American auto manufacturers didn't offer.
And that's the mission of Forgotten Fiberglass. To recapture the history and share the enthusiasm of a time long lost – and lost to the American car culture public – until now.
Geoff Hacker is a Tampa, Florida-based automotive historian who specializes in tracking down bizarre, off-beat, and undocumented automobiles. His favorites are Fifties American fiberglass-bodied cars, and he shares his research into those cars at ForgottenFiberglass.com.
Four-Links – Pinto Air Freight Crosley resto under way, Camille Jenatzy, Kellison brochure, Pete Hagenbuch
* Frank Pinto has been picking away at the restoration of the Pinto Air Freight Crosley mini-rig over the last year or so and recently started a website to document the restoration.
* You may have heard of Camille Jenatzy: At the helm of his La Jamais Contente electric-powered automobile, he set the world land speed record in 1899 and became the first man to break the 60 MPH barrier. He also had a prolific racing career and died under quite unusual circumstances, as we see from Howard Kroplick's profile on Jenatzy on The Vanderbilt Cup Races blog.
* One of the more aggressive-looking fiberglass-bodied cars was the Kellison, and Geoff Hacker over at Forgotten Fiberglass this week treated us to scans of a Kellison brochure for the J-3 and J-4 from the late 1950s.
* Sad news came to us this week from Allpar, which reported the death of Pete Hagenbuch, a Chrysler engineer, who worked on the 426 Hemi, the B/RB-series big-block V-8s, the LA-series small-block V-8s and the Australian Hemi six-cylinder, and built slot cars – from scratch – in his off time.
* Finally, another automaker employee's personal project, this one the Saab Facett, which Saab designer Sigvard Sorenson built from one of the six Sonett 1s. IEDEI has the story.
Junkyard find: McCormack coupe
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker
Our friend Geoff Hacker is on the road again, his nose to the wind to sniff out the fine aroma of half-century-old fiberglass cars that few people even know exist, and he's struck gold with a McCormack coupe, located in a junkyard in northeast Pennsylvania.
Built in 1955 by Henry McCormack of Orange, California; he debuted his car at the 1955 International Motor Revue Show in Los Angeles. According to an article on the car in the February 1956 issue of Motor Life, McCormack initially wanted it to be a four-place, rear-engine coupe that used "a DeDion rear axle and a reverse drive unit to get the engine as far back as possible, but space limitations and the expense of such an operation changed his mind to a more conventional design." McCormack set the car atop a box-section tube frame with a wheelbase of 106 inches and adapted a Ford Thunderbird windshield and contemporary Buick taillamps. What exactly he used for a drivetrain, the article didn't say, but in McCormack's own cutaway drawing of the car, it appears to be a Cadillac 331-cu.in. V-8. While not an exact copy, it certainly looks like McCormack took inspiration from Jay Everett's 1952 Astra coupe, the latter aluminum-bodied and Olds Rocket-powered.
Of the McCormack, Geoff wrote:
It took two years to track down all the info on this car, but the time and effort was worth the wait – and what a way to celebrate the holiday! With the help of new friend Marc Reed, we tracked down and made plans to save a McCormack fiberglass sports car, and December 2011 was the season to do the saving.
The McCormack owner, Bob, had kindly pulled the car out of its resting place and had it ready to go for my trailer and winch. As with any fiberglass car from the era, you can't just put it on the trailer and get ready-set-go. Instead, you have to do quite a bit more – partly because of the age of the car and partly because of the construction methods used at the time. When transporting one of these cars, you have to anchor the chassis to the trailer; the body to the chassis; and the top to the body. It's kind of like playing the game "pick up sticks" in reverse, but where you add various ratchet straps and bungee cords to the game, too.
We were lucky today – it didn't snow. It was about 40 degrees and didn't rain either – until we pulled the McCormack on the trailer. Two hours later and soaking wet, we finished securing the McCormack, and went out to celebrate at a local tavern with food and drink for all.
Geoff, of course, did all his homework before setting out, including tracking down the above-mentioned article as well as a brochure from McCormack Plastics, showing that McCormack intended to sell bodies. No word on how many, if any, he did sell, though. According to Geoff, McCormack built 10-15 cars, of which Geoff has located three or four. This particular McCormack appears to have the engine mounts for a small-block Chevrolet V-8 and was allegedly drag raced at Atco in New Jersey.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Victress S1A
If anybody knows Geoff Hacker like we do, then you'd know that he doesn't easily let go of the fiberglass cars and other oddities he collects during his research and travels. This 1956 Victress S1A for sale on Hemmings.com, however, which Geoff has dubbed the Dick Foster Special for its original builder, is the rare exception. From Geoff's description:
Custom-built tubular chassis built for speed and strength. Original plans from '58 still exist and are retained with the car. Specials of the '50s often emphasize weight distribution as an overriding design factor, and the design of this car shows this well. The Olds engine is positioned behind the front crossmember and lowered in the chassis as well. This typifies the best approach to chassis design and engine placement for the era.
Few specials of the '50s utilized custom-built tube chassis, and these were often built by Frank Kurtis or designed and built by a talented fabricator and/or machine shop. In this case, Dick Foster was an engineer and both designed and built his own tube chassis based on the best of designs available.
This Victress body is sound, and Dick Foster's chassis was built for speed. This car has great potential to become a vintage racer because of the chassis and the tilt front-end – it's very streetable too. Also, you'll probably be the only one in the paddock with one.
This is the only known Victress Sports Car where the car and its original builder are both still with us – 80-year-old Dick Foster of California. In addition, the original chassis drawings have been retained with the car, with original photos (slides) scanned from the Dick Foster collection. This car also retains its original pink slip/title from California from 1956. It's remarkable that the pink slip has survived, and is itself a true piece of history.
The car has been in dry storage for the last few years here in Tampa, Florida. It's in turnkey condition and is in remarkable shape for a survivor and has been shown at both a Concours d'Elegance event as well as a major West Coast California Design exposition show, too. In order to compete for top honors at a concours, it would need to be fully restored. Additionally, if it were to be used as a vintage racer, it would need to be brought into competition standards and condition.
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Victress for 1955
Lest one be misled by my story on Steve Steers's Victress S-1A in the May 2011 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines, Victress built fiberglass bodies to more designs than just that one, as we see from the full 1955 Victress brochure that Geoff Hacker of ForgottenFiberglass.com recently posted. There's the S-1A, designed for a 99-inch wheelbase, along with its little brother the S-5, designed for a 94-inch wheelbase. Note as well the S-4, designed for larger wheelbases with lines that more approximated an American convertible, as well as the purpose-built Dragster, which shows how innovative and flexible a fiberglass manufacturer could be in the 1950s.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Devin Special
Fiberglass cars from the Fifties not only depend thrive on provenance, they depend on it. Without a known history, they tend to be just an assemblage of miscellaneous parts and questionable fiberglass repair – interesting, and full of potential, but often overlooked by high-end collectors. With a known history, however, they take on a certain cachet reserved for race cars and limited production specials. This 1957 Devin Special for sale on Hemmings.com falls into that latter category. From the seller's description:
The "Gary Special" was race purpose built at the Devin, El Monte, CA location with the assistance of James Gary, Esq. The car was entered in the 1957 Concours d'Elegance and participated in several California races in 1957. The car was featured in several Devin ads.
Following the 1957 season, the car was sold to Donald Shaw in Ontario, Canada. Shaw raced the car through several seasons. At some point, the car was re-powered with a race purpose built Buick 215.
This is a complete body-off restoration. The engine was completely rebuilt to original specs, but de-tuned from CR 12.7/1 to 10/1. Aluminum radiator, electric fan with aluminum shroud, Edelbrock carb., aluminum Offenhauser intake and valve covers. Hydraulic clutch, aluminum T-10 four-speed transmission. All inner panels and firewall are aluminum. Body was undamaged. Original 72-spoke wires with Pirellis (available) were replaced with new chrome knock-off Daytons and BFG performance tires. Aluminum seats reupholstered, new interior and carpet. Steering column replaced with Ididit, quick-release steering wheel, turn signals for road use. Rack and pinion steering, front disc brakes, rear finned aluminum drum brakes. Coil-over front suspension and leaf spring on highly modified TR chassis. Prior to completion, car was shown at 2011 Detroit Autorama, 4th Place and St. Johns Concours d'Elegance 2011.
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Four-Links – NYC cars, Cycolac, Coronado Speed Festival, first auto race revisited
* Christopher Benton emailed us this week to let us know about his new website, comprised of photos of older cars shot on the streets in and around New York City. He said he likes to hit up industrial areas and neighborhoods off the beaten path – Williamsburg, Red Hook, Long Island City – so expect to see more driveable dreams than six-figure exotics.
* I could have sworn we've previously written about the Cycolac Research Vehicle here on the blog, but I guess we haven't. However, Geoff Hacker, over at ForgottenFiberglass, did write about the CRV this week and included scans of a CRV brochure in his story on the unique clamshell automobile.
* Jesse, the justacarguy guy, headed down to the Coronado Speed Festival last month and came back with a great selection of photos.
* Finally, regular readers may recall our mention of Jonathan Klinger's 365 Days of A project, which he kicked off last year and just wrapped up this week. Looks like he was successful in his goal of driving a Model A every day for a year, and sharing his experiences through his blog. (via)
* One of the selling points for "La Marquise," the world's oldest operating vehicle, was the claim that it participated in the world's first automobile race, though as Steve at Serviside pointed out this week in a detailed and well-written post, that claim is dubious, considering that the race took place many years after the 1878 Wisconsin steam buggy race we wrote about back in June.
Four-Links – Charles Gould in the NYTimes, cliff-diving Glasspar, on fitted luggage, classic dragsters
* Charles Gould, a good friend of Hemmings and organizer of the annual Microcar and Minicar Classic Event in Boston, was recently profiled in the New York Times, leading us to learn that he's not just into pocket-sized cars.
* How best to demonstrate the strength of your fiberglass car body? How about getting some pretty girls to push it off a cliff? Geoff Hacker has the story over on Forgotten Fiberglass.
* There are blogs for everything, including one for things used to carry other things called Carryology. On said blog, they took a brief look at the nuances of automotive luggage. (via)
* In a completely separate corner of the automotive world, we recently stumbled across ClassicDragsters.com, dedicated to photos of drag racing, salt flat racing and other such hooliganism.
* Finally, returning to the haute couture side of old cars, How To Be A Retronaut recently gathered several photos by John Rawlings, fashion photographer for Vogue and Glamour, all focusing on a specific theme of fashion models paired with cars.
Four-Links – George Barbaz, RPU jump seat, Brooks Stevens on the victory car, the Covington Shark
* Over at Dean's Garage this week, Dick Nesbitt posted a reflection on George Barbaz, a designer with Ford from 1945 through 1981.
* NealinCA's recent (and well deserved) Tech Week win over at the H.A.M.B. came for the jump seat he built from scratch for his bare-metal roadster pickup. Check out the step-by-step to see how a true craftsman works.
* The prognostication about what the post-war car would look like – as published in the December 1942 issue of Popular Mechanics and reprinted by Modern Mechanix – would have been just another idle bit of paleofuture were it not for the byline of Brooks Stevens. It's interesting how close he got in some respects and how far off the mark he got in others.
* For more on the conception of the Covington Shark, we turn to Geoff Hacker's recent post on Forgotten Fiberglass.
* Finally, an excellent shot, courtesy David Greenlees at The Old Motor, of John Cobb catching some air in the Napier-Railton Special at Brooklands.


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