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La Carrera concept car – Buick Centurion tribute competes in the last great road race
Photos by Steve Berry.
What better way to commemorate a vintage race that harks back to the Fifties than with a tribute to one of the most iconic concept cars from that era?
When Jorge Seman, an experienced Mexican road, rally and stock car racer, decided to compete in the week-long, 4,000-kilometer, occasionally flat-out La Carrera Panamericana for the fourth time last year, he didn't just modify yet another Fifties Studebaker or Sixties Ford Falcon, renowned as they are on the race. Instead, he had his Seman-Baker racing team create a fiberglass-bodied, tube-frame re-creation of the 1956 Buick Centurion, one of the stars of GM's traveling Motorama car show.
Last fall, when Hemmings digital general manager Steve Berry headed down to Mexico from his home base of Austin, Texas, to crew for the Apple Farmer Racing team, he became fascinated with the Buick Centurion tribute that more than held its own in the Sport Mayor class, which is essentially the over 2.0-liter sport class. While not as fast as the top-level Turismo Mayor entrants, where there are fewer restrictions, Sport Mayor still offers plenty of opportunities for some serious speed on the Mexican highways.
Entered by Jorge, who drove alongside his navigator, Jorge Amezquita, the Centurion tribute contains no actual Buick parts, concept or otherwise, though it is powered by a cast-iron GM Vortec 350-cu.in. V-8 with aluminum heads and a 600 CFM four-barrel carburetor, the latter at class limit. Though most days of the week Jorge runs his industrial show and event business, he also campaigns a car in the Mexican NASCAR Toyota series with driver Xavier Razo at the wheel. That experience racing pushrod V-8s certainly helped the team, but the chassis was not built to NASCAR specs. After all, a stock car has no contingency for a navigator or his right seat, let alone the sorts of on-board equipment needed by the navigator – or both men – should they need to effect minimum roadside repairs as simple as a flat tire or loose wire.
Though heavy emphasis is placed on the historic cars that competed in the original events during the 1950s – races that the country of Mexico used to display to the world their section of the then-new Pan-American Highway – there are plenty of custom vehicles, purpose built to compete in the popular revival of the classic event. Most of those thousands of kilometers are run on regular, open public roads at relatively sane speeds, in and among regular traffic, but there are the special stages each day where outright speed earns the highest score.
Of course, no long-distance rally is won on a single stage. Reliability and durability are critically important in La Carrera. In an interview with Hemmings, Jorge discussed building and racing the Centurion tribute.
"The truth is that it drives very well," he said. "It does have problems in the rain, so we didn't take it out on rainy days. However, it behaved very well and drove very well, even though we didn't have a lot of time to test it. It was the first time we raced, and when La Carrera Panamericana arrived, we only had two days to practice with it – very little testing. But we drove 3,900 kilometers without any problems. We were very happy with it."
Jorge did clarify that problem-free experience, which is a relative term when racing for days across Mexico: "We had some problems with the rear axle shafts that broke the first day. It made it very hard to drive the car, but we just had to go a little bit slower on the stages. And then we had some problems with the hydraulic steering, making it hard to steer. We lost some important hours. Then we had problems with the gearbox, but only when shifting from third to fourth, also losing time from Querétaro. But after this, the car behaved very, very well. It was marvelous."
The top teams in La Carrera don't go alone, and the Seman-Baker entry was no different. "We had two drivers in the support trucks," Jorge said, "and four more people in each truck. One went ahead of us and the other drove behind us, if we had mechanical problems. During the nights, they handled the regular service. We had to have practically double of each piece of equipment for each service truck.
"When we had problems, there was only one night to fix them. But these problems are normal with such a race, with so many kilometers and curves." On top of the pressing need to get things sorted out quickly, the teams on the race take care of each other. "One of the beautiful things about La Carrera is that people always help other people with problems. And we do the same, with pleasure."
As for the greatest moments driving the Centurion, he points to a specific section on the way toward the famous pyramids outside of Mexico City: "There was the stage between Oaxaca and Teotihuacan, which, for me, is the most difficult, but the car was very good. It behaved very well, even in the tough Mil Cumbres section [in Michoacán]." To give you an idea of the challenge faced by Jorge, his navigator and the Centurion, Mil Cumbres literally translates to "thousand peaks." Challenge indeed.
Though Jorge and the Centurion aren't listed in the final results from the race, he and Amezquita had battled their way up to 33rd place overall and second in class by the end of the next-to-last day of the race. For full results from last year's La Carrera Panamericana, or for information about this year's race, which takes place October 17-23, visit LaCarreraPanamericana.com.mx.
Four-Links – vintage Nash papercraft, RC concept Fords, building Bugatti's Tank, gangster's last day
* Ever wanted to have your own car dealership? Geoff Hacker of Forgotten Fiberglass recently found a fairly inexpensive way to do so. Of course, the cars don't run and you have to assemble the whole thing yourself. And watch out for papercuts. And you have to like Nashes.
* As we mentioned in our story on Alex Tremulis's time at Ford, he turned a couple of his designs into 3/8-scale radio-controlled cars. Antics ensued. Bill at Mac's Motor City Garage recently came across a little more on those RC Fords, including a video of one in motion.
* What does it take to put a Bugatti Type 57G Tank back on the track again? Well, you could petition Dr. Simeone, who owns the only Bugatti-built Tank left, or you could build your own Tank from some Type 57 bits and pieces and a scratchbuilt engine, as one Bugatti restorer recently did. Mate Petrany at Jalopnik has the story on the world's newest Tank.
* Pittsburgh gangster John Volpe was a sharp-dressed man, and he had a sharp car to match. Over at The Old Motor this week, David Greenlees recounted Volpe's last day and included the above photo of his V-16 Cadillac.
* Finally, speaking of the intersection of organized crime and automobiles, John Heitman this week posted his presentation from the recent SAH conference on the early history of auto theft, anti-theft measures, and countermeasures.
Linda Vaughn's 1979 Hurst/Olds sells for $200,000
1979 Hurst/Olds, formerly the property of Linda Vaughn. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson.
Linda Vaughn, better known as Miss Hurst, still has what it takes to get people's attention. Climbing aboard a replica of the 1969 Oldsmobile 442 Hurst Shifter convertible (complete with trunk platform and nine-foot golden Hurst shifter) on Friday night, she helped the car reach a sale price of $200,000, with proceeds going to benefit the Darrell Gwynn Foundation. A day later, the 1979 Hurst/Oldsmobile once presented to Vaughn for her service to the company also sold for $200,000, with this sale's proceeds going to benefit cancer research.
The 1969 Oldsmobile Hurst Shifter convertible sold was a replica of the original car that once carried Miss Hurst at drag strips coast to coast. Built by Thornton Motors of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the car featured the same white with Firefrost Gold stripes as the original, and packed a period-correct 455-cu.in. V-8 mated to a recalibrated Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 transmission (shifted, of course, with a Hurst shifter). By far its most noticeable features, however, were the Hurst Armed Forces Club logos on the doors, along with the trunk-mounted stage platform and oversize golden T-handle shifter, which are presumably removable to accommodate conventional garage door clearances. When the hammer dropped on Friday night, bidding had reached $200,000 (with the usual 10 percent buyer's fees waived), putting the 1969 Oldsmobile Hurst Shifter replica solidly into the auction's top 10 list.
The original 1969 Oldsmobile Hurst Shifter convertible (not the car sold at auction).
The 1979 Hurst/Oldsmobile was one of the final vehicles given to Vaughn by the Hurst Corporation, and Miss Hurst reportedly used the car as a daily driver for a period of years. Based on the Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais, the Hurst/Oldsmobile came to market with the special two-tone paint, Hurst/Olds emblems, gold-finished aluminum wheels, gold-painted sport mirrors, a Hurst Dual-Gate shifter and a 350-cu.in. V-8 mated to a Turbo Hydra-Matic 350 transmission. Purchased for $270,000 at Barrett-Jackson's 2014 Scottsdale sale (again to raise money for cancer research), the car was re-donated for the Palm Beach auction, where it brought an additional $200,000 (with buyer's fees waived) for The Cancer Research Fund at TGEN.
1946 Ford Sportsman convertible.
Other cars rounding out the sale's top 10 list included the first 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, which sold for charity for $1,000,000; the first 2015 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, which sold for charity for $500,000; a 1935 Packard 1207 V-12 Convertible Coupe, which sold for $330,000 including buyer's fees; a 2013 Ford Mustang fastback from the movie Need For Speed, which sold for charity for $300,000; a 2005 Ford GT with less than 1,000 miles, which sold for $242,000 including fees; a 1946 Ford Sportsman convertible, which sold for $209,000 including fees; a 2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder, which sold for $181,500 including fees; and a 1968 Shelby GT500 convertible, which sold for $165,000 including fees.
1967 Mercedes-Benz 250S.
Those of more modest means could have taken home a 1979 Cadillac Seville with less than 34,000 miles, which sold for $9,075 (all prices including fees); a 1976 MGB convertible, fresh from a recent restoration, which sold for $7,700; a 1984 BMW 633 CSi with a five-speed manual transmission, which sold for $5,500; a 1967 Mercedes-Benz 250S four-door sedan, complete with its original paint, which sold for $5,170; a 1969 Lincoln Continental Mark III, reportedly stored for 35 years, which sold for $4,400; or a 1966 Chevrolet Corvair custom, which sold for $2,860.
For complete results from Barrett-Jackson's Palm Beach sale, visit Barrett-Jackson.com.
Bonnie and Clyde death car controversy takes center stage for upcoming anniversary
Fake Bonnie and Clyde 1934 Ford. Photos courtesy Volo Auto Museum.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow left a bloody wake across multiple states during their highly publicized two-year crime spree, killing dozens and robbing countless others before they themselves were gunned down on a rural Louisiana highway. Their story didn't end there, though, and their legacy continued to spawn entanglements with the law, according to an upcoming presentation that considers the multiple frauds that popped up related to the 1934 Ford in which the outlaws were killed.
While Barrow allegedly wrote Henry Ford directly in April 1934, praising the performance potential of Ford's V-8, "For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got every other car skinned," he did in fact show a predilection for V-8-powered Fords. Photos that he and Parker took of themselves and their gang before they were killed show them with a 1932 Ford convertible sedan and a 1933 Ford five-window coupe; one of their accomplices, W.D. Jones, barely made note of any other make or model of car in his accounts of the spree; and the six-man posse that caught up to the couple shot them more than 100 times as they sped along in a 1934 Ford Model 40 V-8 Fordor.
That particular 1934 Ford (engine number 649198) in fact belonged to Ruth Warren of Topeka, Kansas. She and her husband, Jesse, bought it that March and they had just finished breaking it in a little more than a month later when Parker and Barrow stole it – an act made all that much easier by the keys that Warren left in the ignition. The Ford reappeared another month later, on May 23, in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, riddled with bullet holes and stained with the two criminals' blood; almost immediately the car became the subject of a federal lawsuit, brought by Ruth Warren against the local sheriff for refusing to release the Ford to her. Even after getting the Ford back, Warren had to go to court to retrieve it yet again, this time from an unscrupulous promoter, and the Ford would figure prominently in the Warrens' divorce proceedings.
Crowds surrounded the 1934 Ford as it was towed into town after the ambush.
What's worse, according to Brian Grams of the Volo Auto Museum, multiple bullet-riddled 1934 Ford Fordor sedans began appearing on the county fair and carnival circuit over the next few years, claimed to be the actual death car. The various owners sometimes vigorously defended their claims, too, casting doubt on the authenticity of even the real car. Aside from the damage to historical accuracy, the frauds cut into the revenue generated by Ruth Warren and the huckster shilling glimpses of the actual death car around the country. "It was a lot easier to get away with passing off a fake car as real back then, back before Twitter and Facebook," Grams said. "Where there's profit, there's fraud."
Interest in the Bonnie and Clyde death car waned by the late 1940s, but picked up again about 20 years later, when Warner Brothers released Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Tucked away in storage, Ruth Warren's 1934 Ford – which had changed hands at least a couple of times by then – and the several frauds again saw the light of day and again sparked a series of lawsuits challenging the various claims to authenticity.
Among the hucksters parading the fake death cars around the country was the Lam-Sir Corporation of Houston, which shot up another 1934 Ford Fordor and exhibited it around Texas and the South before police confiscated it, Grams said. Warner Brothers then came across it and reportedly bought it not for use in the movie, but as a template for the movie cars.
Nowadays, it's generally accepted that the actual death car sits on display on a casino floor in Primm, Nevada, after passing through the hands of a few different casino owners. While a few Fords made for the 1967 film are still around, Grams said he knows of only one of the fraudulent death cars, the Lam-Sir car, still in existence; according to Grams, Warner Brothers sold it to the Museum of American Tragedy, and when the latter closed in 1993, a private individual in Georgia bought it, intending to turn the Ford into a street rod; however, un-rodded, the Ford made its way into the Volo's collection last year.
As the 80th anniversary of the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde – and the death car's launch into infamy – approaches, Grams said he has prepared a history of the fraudulent Bonnie and Clyde death cars that he will present over Memorial Day weekend at the museum while alongside the Lam-Sir car and reproductions of the various signs and ephemera that accompanied the death cars, both real and fake, as they toured the country.
For more information on the presentation, visit VoloCars.com.
For $33.4 million, you can (almost) be Bond, James Bond
1963 Aston Martin DB5, bearing the registration plate seen in Goldfinger. Photos courtesy Miami Auto Museum.
As a globe-trotting superspy, James Bond not only had a girl in every port, but a car and maybe a boat or aircraft in every exotic locale too. That makes for quite the collection, and one such assemblage of vehicles associated with Ian Fleming's best-known character recently came up for grabs, with a few strings attached: The buyer must take delivery of all 59 items as a single lot, the non-negotiable price is 20 million British pounds ($33.4 million), and a license to kill is not included.
The collection, offered by Miami-based real estate developer Michael Dezer, covers films from 1963′s From Russia With Love (the Fairey Huntress boat) to 2012′s Skyfall (Audi A5, Land Rover), and includes just about every form of motorized transportation imaginable. The collection has two sports cars equipped with skis, including an Aston Martin used in filming The Living Daylights, along with the Lotus Esprit used in For Your Eyes Only; a Soviet T55 seen in Goldeneye, as well the "Dragon Tank" seen in Dr. No; a helicopter shell (procured for, though not used in, The Spy Who Loved Me), a hovercraft from Die Another Day, the Little Nellie Autogiro (acquired for You Only Live Twice, but not used in filming), the Parahawk glider from The World is Not Enough, and a replica of the Mini Bede Jet seen in Octopussy.
Toyota 2000 GT convertible replica, similar to the car seen in You Only Live Twice.
Of the collection's 59 vehicles, about 42 were actually used in filming the Bond movies, while the rest are replicas. Among the cars claimed to have been used in filming are the 1971 Ford Mustang driven on two wheels in Diamonds Are Forever and an Aston martin Vanquish from Die Another Day. Replicas include an AMC Hornet similar to the one seen in The Man with the Golden Gun, a Citroën 2CV like the one seen in For Your Eyes Only, and, according to BMT 216A: The James Bond Vehicle Library, a Toyota 2000 GT, missing its top and equipped with the same communications equipment seen in You Only Live Twice. As fans of Japanese sports cars will point out, Toyota never officially built the 2000 GT in a convertible variant; instead, the topless cars were created especially to accommodate Sean Connery, who was too tall to fit in the 2000 GT coupe. It's also not clear if the BMW Z8 in Dezer's Bond collection was the car used in the filming of The World is Not Enough, as this really wasn't a BMW; because the automaker didn't have a production example ready in time for filming, Z8 body panels were fitted to a Dax Cobra V8, which served as a stand-in for the actual car.
As Britain's Express newspaper pointed out, the lot is being offered for sale exclusively by U.K. brokers Stuart and Barbara Donovan, likely due to their familiarity with its contents. Dezer bought the bulk of the collection in 2011 from the now-defunct James Bond Museum in Keswick, Cumbria, England, and Stuart Donovan was the broker behind this original sale. Since then, Dezer has added to the collection and displayed it in the Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection.
In a phone conversation, Dezer said that he's in no hurry to sell the collection, which is priced high to eliminate tire kickers. In fact, Dezer admitted that he's fine with keeping the collection if the right buyer can't be found, although it's likely he'll split its contents between his museum in Miami and Hot Rod City, a combination showroom and auto museum owned by Dezer in Las Vegas. Tourists in Miami, Dezer admitted, prefer the beach to museums, while tourists in Las Vegas are perpetually looking for new things to see and do.
Donovan describes the Dezer Collection as the "best private collection of Bond cars in the world," and in addition to the lot's 59 vehicles, the sale will also include Bond-related memorabilia, meaning that a new museum is simply a very large check and sufficient exhibition space away from being a reality.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Pontiac Firebird
It's the passion that makes this hobby great. Why else would somebody spend so much time, energy, and money to convert this 1982 Pontiac Firebird for sale on Hemmings.com into a replica of KITT from the TV series Knight Rider, complete with convertible top, special nose section, and all the electronic gizmos that the Eighties could throw at a car? The end result looks rather well done, too. From the seller's description:
the 80s are calling you Back !!! With this star car
This is a fresh Conversion Fresh painted … this is the best of the best, it was rare before it went to the foundation . this is a 1982 converted convertible with all orginal oem parts. every detail was taken to make this replica a stand out kitt convertible
the engine has been gone over with a fine tooth comb. its a powerful v8 4bl new heads new power steering complete new radiator new brakes rotors master cylinders new carb new exhaust . all new interior , new molded rear and cockpit carpet new knight industries floor mats. new console new console lid all oem new new radio trim plate . cd player with auto hidden antenna. new 100 percent leather seats same color as orginal. new door panels. new window switches and harnesses
wraith innovations ge commercial screen used nose was also the screen used nose in the comedy central roast of david hasslehoff.. hella 450 fog lights, scanner, blackout, 15 inch turbocast with oem caps, new convertible top, comes with correct 4th season deck lid not installed but left off for use of new convertible top, lower console with super pursuit mode panel and floppy drive and functional buttons with ton generators, seat extentions for long legs, all buttons work with either tones turn on /off devises
two true tone mp3 players 20 buttons that function . on remote with 12 tones that play phases from kitt at 50 feet away. duel amplifier systems, first is the remote system will play phases that you select the first already installed 5000 will be provided . psh a button the voice box will talk as well as say the phase inside in outside via the interior separate 100amp speaker and exterior waterproof 400amp speaker. bluetooth receiver with amplifier will play phases via your smartphone and phases that are provided to you a toggle switch in the lower console is provided to switch between the two functions they can not be used at the same time as i wanted it to talk and have visual display and audio at the same time
dash is made with all features with foam for no noise driving ( works ). tv frame with a 9 inch touch screen hooked to a smart box pc with wifi and on demand videos no joke lol and provided with the kitt two disk display videos already pre loaded. also has hook up via usb for touch screen and vgi for addtional computer interface. each pod button does a function push a button either a light will turn on or a tone will be sound. lower console also controls auto drive pursuit and normal drive displays aswell as fog lights mini computer and duel mp3 boards
See more Pontiacs for sale on Hemmings.com.
Four-Links – fake collector cars, slammed brochure cars, Opel's calendar cars, Porsche before cars
Photo by Craig Howell.
* The Detroit News this week turned its spotlight on the prevalence of fakes in the collector car hobby and the rea$on$ why they're becoming increasingly common.
* We've linked to photochops of car brochure illustrations slammed to the weeds here and there in the past, but this week came across a blog dedicated to nothing but.
* Curbside Classic this week pointed out Martin van Duijn's collection of Opel publicity photos, including the images used on the German brand's calendars for several decades.
* Among Ferdinand Porsche's designs for Germany during World War II, the Typ 175, a solid-tire four-wheel-drive tractor built by Skoda.
* Finally, the folks behind the Gran Turismo video game recently released a three-part series talking with Mario Andretti about his first race car, a 1948 Hudson and, meanwhile, building a replica of that car. Part one is above, and the other two parts are on the GT6 site.
A childhood dream realized, as a TV car rises again
Ed Straker's car. Photos and images courtesy Sean Robinson.
The year is 1980, and the earth is under attack by aliens. All that stands in their way is Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization, or S.H.A.D.O., a top-secret force that employs aircraft, submarines, moon-based interceptors and other weapons to destroy incoming UFOs.
Overseeing this vital operation is Commander Ed Straker, who, to all outward appearances, is the head of a film studio in England. Naturally, the commander has a car at his disposal, and not just any car–it's a long, low, gullwinged, gas-turbine-powered coupe that can outrun pursuing space aliens.
We're talking about the British TV series UFO, which aired in the U.K. in 1970, and was shown in the U.S. in 1971-1972 (the female crew of Moonbase wore metallic purple wigs, if that helps jog your memory). The series sprang from the prolific imagination of the late Gerry Anderson, probably best known in the U.S. for his "Supermarionation" TV series like Thunderbirds and Fireball XL5, and the live-action Space: 1999 that came later. But Commander Straker's car itself was very real, and it caught the attention of a six-year-old Brit named Sean Robinson, nowadays of West Berkshire, between Bristol and London. "I knew that it was not a model, it was a real car. That sort of transfixed me. That car exists somewhere," Sean says. "And I just wanted that car from the very first second." The car's role in the show was part of its appeal, but more than that, "it was just a gorgeous looking car. I couldn't believe what I was looking at. It was this gorgeous thing."
The car had been styled by Derek Meddings, who had been Anderson's visual-effects specialist since the Supermarionation days. It, and two similar cars, had been constructed for Anderson's 1968 film Doppelganger (also titled Journey to the Far Side of the Sun). Two of the cars were used for UFO; besides Straker's, there was one used by another major character, Colonel Paul Foster. Viewers were always sure of seeing Straker's car; it was featured early in the credits, and was shown in many of the episodes.
As Sean became older–and, not coincidentally, became a filmmaker, writer and director, too–he began trying to track the car down, but no one seemed to know where it was. He learned that it had been sold in the mid-1970s to a BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, Dave Lee Travis, who had used the car for promotions, but from there the trail grew cold. Sean wasn't deterred; he made inquiries, followed leads, and, two years ago, tracked the car down.
"Dave Lee Travis had sold it to the garage that did its repairs, or kept it running, for a song. He wanted rid of it, he was sick of it," Sean says. The new owner, too, used the car for advertising, until he, too, grew tired of it. "He told one of his employees to take it down to the dump, and the employee said, 'No, no, I'll take it home.' It was taken to a back garden [backyard] in the Midlands, and that's where it stayed, under a tarpaulin."
The car had suffered from exposure to the weather. The underlying chassis, from a Ford Zephyr, was badly rusted, so badly that Sean's hand accidentally went through the firewall. "It was like tissue paper. If you lifted the car up, it would probably fold in half," he says. Even the aluminum skin was in poor shape.
Sean tried to buy the car–he still holds out hope that the owner will agree to sell it to him–but instead got the next best thing: permission to make a plaster cast of its aluminum body, from which he would be able to make a perfect replica in fiberglass. This was challenging work, but his film connections helped; a technician named Grant, who had molded the Ford Anglia for the Harry Potter movies, offered to help mold Straker's car.
The owners had built a brick wall next to the car, making it impossible to remove the car without a crane, and so Sean and Grant did all the molding work in the owner's backyard. They ended up with six heavy plaster molds. "We had to carry them the length of the bottom of the garden, over a six-foot hedge, to another garden, over another hedge, out onto the road, and then load them into a van. And we had to do that with each piece," Sean says. "I had visions of not making it."
Safely back in the workshop, the plaster molds were used to make castings of parts of the body shell, which were then assembled with the help of wooden jigs. "Once the castings were in the correct place, the car was re-fibreglassed underneath to secure all of the pieces, and then months of rebuilding and smoothing began," Sean says. "It took a long time to get it right, but finally it was ready to make a new mold."
From the new mold, a new one-piece body emerged. "The entire full-size bodyshell of Ed Straker's car is sitting in my workshop. It's amazing to look at when you walk in the door, to see Ed Straker's car looking at you. Pretty amazing."
There's much more to be done, including all of the mechanical work. Sean isn't keen to replicate the car's original specification, which included a 1.3-liter four-cylinder from a British Ford Escort. (The camera was slowed down for driving shots, to make the car appear to be moving quickly when the film was played back at normal speed.) "In Derek's exact words, it was a pig to drive," he says. "It was very underpowered, it was huge, and there was no power steering." The gearshift lever for the four-speed transmission had been sawed in half, so that it could fit within the console. "You had to actually put your hand down a hole to change gear. And the center console of that thing was quite high, so your elbow as right out in the air. You had your hand down a hole and you were trying to change gear and steer at the same time. Quite horrific," Sean says.
The replica will be an entirely different story. Sean has bought a 2002 Jaguar XJ8, and he's planning to have the roof cut off, and a tubular steel framework welded on to support the fiberglass body–something like Superleggera construction. "The beauty of the Jag is, it's exactly the same wheelbase. I went and measured people's cars," he laughs. He'll keep the beautiful leather Jaguar interior, and "just add bits around that to make it look the way it should have looked, actually. It'll be an up-to-date version on the inside, but the outside will look exactly like it did."
The exterior will be painted in the same shade of metallic bronze as the original, but with a twist. Sean secured a piece of the original paint that peeled off the aluminum body, and will have it color-matched. But because the car was always brightly lit by halogen lamps when it was filmed, he intends to tweak the color a bit, so that under natural light, it looks just as bright as viewers remember it being.
The original car's gullwing doors never worked properly–they weren't motorized, or sprung, so there would always have to be someone out of the shot to raise and lower them. Sean plans to use gas struts, to make them fully functional.
His hope is to have the car ready for its public unveiling at Andercon 2014, the official convention for Gerry Anderson fans on April 19-20 in London. No promises–"I'm a busy filmmaker, I'm a producer and a director, and getting the time to do this is quite difficult, so we might not make that," he says.
With a mold already created, might he make more replicas? The thought has crossed his mind. "There's a friend of mine who wants to make a series of them. So what we're thinking about doing is getting the first one done, showing it off, then saying, 'Right, we'll make six, and then we'll destroy the mold. Who wants one?' That's the idea that's being bandied around."
There was never a thought of making a static replica of Straker's car–the childhood dream could only be realized by something that could be climbed into and driven. And with Jaguar V-8 power, Sean's car will have performance to match his fantasies. "It'll go like stink," he enthuses. "It'll go like a rocket!"
Hemmings Find of the Day – Ferrari 250 body-forming bucks
Run a shop that specializes in restorations, rebodies and recreations of high-end sports cars, and you're bound to encounter some interesting customers. Such is the case with Ross Coleman and his shop, Alchemy Creation, in Hailey, Idaho, which is selling a pair of Ferrari 250 body-forming bucks for customers who have changed their minds on upcoming projects. One, a buck for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GT Spider California short-wheelbase variant (and reportedly not associated with the Cal Spyder replica, despite the description), even includes a skin and assorted body components; the second buck is for a Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Pininfarina Series I, though this is offered without the skin or body components. For those seeking the ultimate Ferrari fabrication challenge, these bucks will get you one step closer to your goal; for shops that specialize in Ferrari restoration, these bucks may come in handy, assuming one has the shelf space to store them. Given the escalating prices of both vintage Ferraris and fine art, it's probably not a stretch to call them sculpture, either. From the seller's descriptions:
Accurate Ferrari 250 Cal Spyder forming buck with skin and assorted Cal Spyder components.
Ferrari 250 Series I Cab Buck – hang it on your wall or build a car.
Find more body & exterior parts on Hemmings.com.
Pair of JFK Lincoln limousines – one real and one clone – head to auction
1963 Lincoln Continental Presidential Limousine replica. Photo courtesy Bonhams.
On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald as the president's motorcade passed the Texas Book Depository building in Dallas, Texas. The Lincoln Continental limousine in which Kennedy was riding, officially known as SS-100-X and now in the collection of The Henry Ford, likely will never come up for sale, but a clone of it and another Kennedy limousine will head to auction in the coming weeks.
The limousine that Bonhams will offer at its upcoming Zoute sale in Belgium, chassis number 3Y82N420576, is currently owned by France's Musée automobile des voitures de chefs d'État. Originally constructed by Hess and Eisenhardt as a limousine, the midnight blue convertible replicates a number of features that were unique to SS-100-X, including bumper steps and grab handles for the Secret Service security detail, the United States Presidential Seal on both sides of the body and on the floor mats, and the bumper-mounted red flashing lights. Those observant of details will also point out that SS-100-X was a 1961 Lincoln fitted with a 1962 front end, while the Lincoln being offered by Bonhams is a 1963.
1963 Lincoln Continental Presidential Limousine replica. Photo courtesy Bonhams.
The Bonhams auction description doesn't indicate for whom the limousine was originally built, noting only that its current owner found it in Florida in 1985 and has overhauled its drivetrain since then. Though the auction house makes no direct ties between the Lincoln offered for sale and Kennedy's, it notes that the auction represents "a wonderful opportunity to acquire a faithful replica of this historic vehicle on the eve of the 50th anniversary of that momentous event." The pre-auction estimate for the limousine ranges from €90,000 to €160,000 ($120,000 to $220,000).
Photo by Michael Furman, courtesy RM Auctions.
Meanwhile, not long after the anniversary of the assassination, RM will offer a Hess and Eisenhardt-bodied 1962 Lincoln Continental actually used during the Kennedy administration at its Art of the Automobile sale in conjunction with Sotheby's in New York City. The Secret Service ordered the limousine – chassis number 2Y82H410667 and officially known as SS-297-X – after SS-100-X proved successful and had it outfitted with a transparent fixed roof. Like SS-100-X, SS-297-X featured lights and sirens integrated into the bumpers and two-way radio telephones inside. While in service, it carried not only the president and Jacqueline Kennedy, but also President Lyndon Johnson, Pope Paul VI, and the Apollo astronauts.
Photo by Michael Furman, courtesy RM Auctions.
Also like SS-100-X, SS-297-X remained in presidential service well after the assassination, though it appears SS-297-X was never fitted with armor and bullet-resistant glass as its predecessor was. Officially retired from the presidential fleet in 1970, it then went to The Henry Ford, where SS-100-X joined it in 1978, but The Henry Ford then sold the limousine in 1985 to the Imperial Palace collection. Lawyer and collector John O'Quinn bought the limousine in 2005, and then following his death the estate sold it at auction in 2010 at RM's Monterey auction for $429,000 (against a pre-auction estimate of $500,000 to $750,000). This time around, RM's pre-auction estimate for SS-297-X ranges from $750,000 to $1 million.
Other vehicles linked to President John F. Kennedy that have sold at auction in recent years have also brought six figures. In 2011, a Pontiac ambulance rumored to have carried the body of JFK from Andrews Air Force Base to the Bethesda Naval Hospital sold at auction for $132,000 including fees, despite significant pre-sale evidence that the actual ambulance used had been crushed in 1985. And in 2012 a 1964 Cadillac hearse also reported to have carried the president's remains sold at auction for $176,000 including fees.
The Bonhams Zoute auction is scheduled for October 11, in Knokke-Heist, Belgium. For more information, visit Bonhams.com. RM and Sotheby's Art of the Automobile auction is scheduled for November 21 at Sotheby's showroom in Manhattan. For more information, visit RMAuctions.com.
UPDATE (16.October 2013): The clone at the Bonhams auction appears not to have sold.
UPDATE (21.November 2013): The Hess and Eisenhardt-bodied 1962 Lincoln Continental was removed from the RM Auctions "Art of the Automobile" sale.


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Starling Geneva Hotel and Conference Center - Le Grand-Saconnex, Geneva
Route François-Peyrot 34 - Geneva
1-877-662-6988If you are looking for a luxury Le Grand-Saconnex hotel that is connected to the airport, check out Starling Geneva Hotel and Conference Center, offering free Wi-Fi to all its guests.
Enjoy brunch, lunch and dinner at this 4-star Le Grand-Saconnex hotel's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit all tastes. If you are in need of rest and relaxation you can find a spa tub, a sauna and a steam room on offer. Be sure to leave some room for your swimsuit as this hotel features an indoor pool, a nice way to unwind. Outfitted with a bar/lounge, you'll find the perfect place to have a drink. Knowledgeable staff available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide tour/ticket assistance, express check-in and express check-out.
Planning a meeting? This hotel has 43 meeting rooms, as well as a business center. The reception also has a safe deposit box should you need to lock away any valuables during your stay. Other amenities include a roundtrip airport shuttle, a hair salon, gift shops/newsstands, dry cleaning/laundry and an elevator (lift).
Hotelroom was very clean and quiet despite the location just next to the airport! ...
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Breakfast at Starling Geneva Hotel and Conference Center
Breakfast is available between 5:30 AM and 10:30 AM for a fee.
Facilities at Starling Geneva Hotel
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Conference room
- Bar
- Restaurant/Dining
- Cafeteria
- Laundry service
- Lift/elevator
- Hairdresser
- Gift shop
- Pets accepted
- Entire property is non-smoking
- Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
- Indoor swimming pool
- Front desk - safety deposit box
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Luggage room
- City tour
- Health club
- Sauna
- Steam bath
- Hydromassage Jacuzzi
- Internet/Email services
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Check-in: after 2 PM.
Check-out: before noon.
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
City tax and/or any other fees charged by the hotel
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Breakfast fee: CHF 39 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: CHF 20 per day
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the hotel:
- A tax is imposed by the city: CHF 4.00 per person, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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Starling Geneva Hotel reviews
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Hotelroom was very clean and quiet despite the location just next to the airport! It was a bit small though but ok for an overnight stay for us three. We got the room 37.. and this was more like a motel than a hotel room. But that was not the major problem, more the unfriendlyness of the staff late at night. The 2 or 3 Gentlemen at the reception where unpolite and short - not very welcoming overall. Staff on the other day in the morning was friendly and helpful.
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Book your luxury accommodation at Starling Geneva Hotel and Conference Center, offering 496 guest rooms with climate control and free local calls. Satellite TV channels and pay movies provided in each room are great for unwinding at the end of a long day. Business travelers visiting the Geneva International Airport area will have access to free wireless high-speed Internet access as well as desks and safes.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with bathrobes, slippers and complimentary toiletries. Irons/ironing boards, minibars, coffee/tea makers and hair dryers are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs. Rooms also include soundproofing and blackout drapes/curtains.
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- Coffee and tea maker
- Soundproof rooms
- Hairdryer in each room
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- Satellite TV
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Distances from Starling Geneva Hotel
Geneva Palexpo Fairground - 0.2 km / 0.1 miGeneva School of Diplomacy - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
Ariana Ceramics and Glass Museum - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
United Nations European Headquarters - 2.2 km / 1.3 mi
CICG Congress Centre - 2.4 km / 1.5 mi
Chateau de Voltaire - 2.6 km / 1.6 mi
Botanical Gardens - 2.6 km / 1.6 mi
La Perle-du-Lac Park - 3.1 km / 1.9 mi
Paquis Baths - 4 km / 2.5 mi
Grand Theatre Opera - 4.4 km / 2.7 mi
Rath Art Museum - 4.4 km / 2.7 mi
Bastions Park - 4.4 km / 2.7 mi
Flower Clock - 4.4 km / 2.7 mi
English Garden Park - 4.4 km / 2.7 mi
Barbier-Mueller Archeology Museum - 4.4 km / 2.8 mi
The preferred airport for Starling Geneva Hotel and Conference Center is Geneva (GVA-Cointrin Intl.) - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi.
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"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is a song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie. It was written and released in June 1967 to promote the Monterey Pop Festival
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is a song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie. It was written and released in June 1967 to promote the Monterey Pop Festival.
dave and myself in San Francisco
Live guitar music still warbles from street corners, tie-dyed t-shirts are hawked by the handful, the smell of pot permanently wafts, colorful peace signs adorn windows of businesses like the Red Victorian Bed & Breakfast — institutions better suited to an earlier time.
But said nostalgia is often overshadowed by the sad realities of a neighborhood that has long since evolved from the remnants of a revolution: the wayward teenagers, the tourist traps, the vagabonds, the $6 corporate ice cream cones sold at precisely San Francisco's most famous intersection.
During its heyday, which culminated in 1967's infamous Summer of Love, young dreamers converged in the Haight by the thousands. Historians deem the neighborhood the birthplace of the hippie movement, marked by peaceful protests and psychedelic experimentation. The era's greatest luminaries, from Jerry Garcia to Allen Ginsberg to Jimi Hendrix, all lived nearby.
Then the movement waned, and the area began to decay along with it. "By the fall of 1967, Haight-Ashbury was nearly abandoned, trashed, and laden with drugs and homeless people," blogger Jon Newman wrote in his essay Death of the Hippie Subculture. "With the Haight in ruins and most of its residents gone, it was simply unable to operate as a hub for music, poetry and art."
Of course, the Haight still has a certain appeal. There's no better jazz-and-pizza combo in the city than at Club Deluxe, Amoeba Music offers a truly epic collection, a parklet just popped up in front of Haight Street Market and the 12-piece band that assembles in front of American Apparel on Sunday mornings always move crowds to dance in the street.
Yet we can't help but heave a sigh while pushing past gaggles of gawking tourists or stepping over the man sleeping on the sidewalk at noon. While a stroll down Haight Street today certainly evokes nostalgia, it also makes us yearn for a place that was once the epicenter of peace and love and youth in revolt, a place we never had the chance to experience ourselves but will be forever engrained in San Francisco's complex, progressive history.
A History Of Hippies
This is a short documentary about the Haight Street kids living in San Francisco.
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The Culture High
The Culture High
Journeying across the North American landscape, The Culture High is the riveting story that tears into the very fiber of modern day marijuana prohibition to reveal the truth behind the arguments and motives governing both those who support and oppose the existing pot laws. With budgets to fight the war reaching billions and arrests for simple possession sky rocketing to nearly a million annually, the debate over marijuana's legality has reached epic proportions. Utilizing the quirky yet profound nature of its predecessor, The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, The Culture High raises the stakes with some of todays biggest names, unprecedented access to footage previously unobtainable, and incredibly moving testimonials from both sides of the spectrum. Top celebrities, former undercover agents, university professors and a slew of unforgettable characters from all points of view come together for an amusing yet insightful portrait of cannabis prohibition and the grasp it has on society as a whole. The Culture High will strip search the oddity of human nature and dare to ask the question: What exactly is going on here?
Read 11 Free Articles by Hunter S. Thompson That Span His Gonzo Journalist Career (1965-2005)
Gonzo Journalist Career (1965-2005)
Most readers know Hunter S. Thompson for his 1971 book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. But in over 45 years of writing, this prolific observer of the American scene wrote voluminously, often hilariously, and usually with deceptively clear-eyed vitriol on sports, politics, media, and other viciously addictive pursuits. ("I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone," he famously said, "but they've always worked for me.") His distinctive style, often imitated but never replicated, all but forced the coining of the term "gonzo" journalism. But what could define it? One clue comes in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas itself, when Thompson reflects on his experience in the city, ostensibly as a reporter: "What was the story? Nobody had bothered to say. So we would have to drum it up on our own. Free Enterprise. The American Dream. Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas. Do it now: pure Gonzo journalism."
You'll find out more in the Paris Review's interview with Thompson, in which he recounts once feeling that "journalism was just a ticket to ride out, that I was basically meant for higher things. Novels." Sitting down to begin his proper literary career, Thompson took a quick job writing up the Hell's Angels, which let him get over "the idea that journalism was a lower calling. Journalism is fun because it offers immediate work. You get hired and at least you can cover the f&cking City Hall. It's exciting." And then came the real epiphany, after he went to cover the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan's: "Most depressing days of my life. I'd lie in my tub at the Royalton. I thought I had failed completely as a journalist. Finally, in desperation and embarrassment, I began to rip the pages out of my notebook and give them to a copyboy to take to a fax machine down the street. When I left I was a broken man, failed totally, and convinced I'd be exposed when the stuff came out."
Indeed, the exposure came, but not in the way he expected. Below, we've collected ten of Thompson's articles freely available online, from those early pieces on the Hell's Angels and the Kentucky Derby to others on the 1972 Presidential race, the Honolulu Marathon, Richard Nixon, and wee-hour conversations with Bill Murray. But don't take these subjects too literally; Thompson always had a way of finding something even more interesting in exactly the opposite direction from whatever he'd initially meant to write about. And that, perhaps, reveals more about the gonzo method than anything else.
"The Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders" (The Nation, 1965) The article that would become the basis for Thompson's first book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. "When you get in an argument with a group of outlaw motorcyclists, you can generally count your chances of emerging unmaimed by the number of heavy-handed allies you can muster in the time it takes to smash a beer bottle. In this league, sportsmanship is for old liberals and young fools."
"The Hippies" (Collier's, 1968) Thompson's assessment of the actual lifespan of American hippie culture. "The hippie in 1967 was put in the strange position of being an anti-culture hero at the same time as he was also becoming a hot commercial property. His banner of alienation appeared to be planted in quicksand. The very society he was trying to drop out of began idealizing him. He was famous in a hazy kind of way that was not quite infamy but still colorfully ambivalent and vaguely disturbing."
"The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" (Scanlan's Monthly, 1970) A report from the bacchanal surrounding the Kentucky Derby, America's most famous — and, in this depiction, by far its most grotesque — horse race. Also Thompson's first collaboration with his longtime illustrator Ralph Steadman. (See also further background at Grantland.) "Unlike most of the others in the press box, we didn't give a hoot in hell what was happening on the track. We had come there to watch the real beasts perform."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Rolling Stone, 1971) The Gonzo journalism classic first appeared as a two-part series in Rolling Stone magazine in November 1971, complete with illustrations from Ralph Steadman, before being published as a book in 1972. Rolling Stone has posted the original version on its web site.
"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in '72" (Rolling Stone, 1973) Excerpts from Thompson's book of nearly the same name, an examination of Democratic Party candidate George McGovern's unsuccessful bid for the Presidency that McGovern's campaign manager Frank Mankiewicz called "the least factual, most accurate account" in print. "My own theory, which sounds like madness, is that McGovern would have been better off running against Nixon with the same kind of neo-'radical' campaign he ran in the primaries. Not radical in the left/right sense, but radical in a sense that he was coming on with a new… a different type of politician… a person who actually would grab the system by the ears and shake it."
"The Curse of Lono" (Playboy, 1983) Thompson and Steadman's assignment from Running magazine to cover the Honololu marathon turns into a characteristically "terrible misadventure," this one even involving the old Hawaiian gods. "It was not easy for me, either, to accept the fact that I was born 1700 years ago in an ocean-going canoe somewhere off the Kona Coast of Hawaii, a prince of royal Polynesian blood, and lived my first life as King Lono, ruler of all the islands, god of excess, undefeated boxer. How's that for roots?"
"He Was a Crook" (Rolling Stone, 1994) Thompson's obituary of, and personal history of his hatred for, President Richard M. Nixon. "Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
"Doomed Love at the Taco Stand" (Time, 2001) Thompson's adventures in California, to which he has returned for the production of Terry Gilliam's film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas starring Johnny Depp. "I had to settle for half of Depp's trailer, along with his C4 Porsche and his wig, so I could look more like myself when I drove around Beverly Hills and stared at people when we rolled to a halt at stoplights on Rodeo Drive."
"Fear & Loathing in America" (ESPN.com, 2001) In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Thompson looks out onto the grim and paranoid future he sees ahead. "This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed — for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush."
"Prisoner of Denver" (Vanity Fair, 2004) A chronicle of Thompson's (posthumously successful) involvement in the case of Lisl Auman, a young woman he believed wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a police officer. "'We' is the most powerful word in politics. Today it's Lisl Auman, but tomorrow it could be you, me, us."
"Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray" (ESPN.com, 2005) Thompson's final piece of writing, in which he runs an idea for a new sport —combining golf, Japanese multistory driving ranges, and the discharging of shotguns — by the comedy legend at 3:30 in the morning. "It was Bill Murray who taught me how to mortify your opponents in any sporting contest, honest or otherwise. He taught me my humiliating PGA fadeaway shot, which has earned me a lot of money… after that, I taught him how to swim, and then I introduced him to the shooting arts, and now he wins everything he touches."
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WOODSTOCK-THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY Bethel, New YorkIt was held at Max Yasgur's
600-acre (240 ha; 0.94 sq mi) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake
in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County,
is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster
Need to recharge your flower power? Explore "The Sixties" all next week, Monday through Friday, August 18-22 at 9 p.m. on CNN.
(CNN) — Officially billed as The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, An Aquarian Exposition, the festival that came to be known, simply, as Woodstock is the stuff of legend.
Friday marks the 45th anniversary of Woodstock, which took place from August 15-18, 1969.
Woodstock didn't take place in Woodstock, New York, but in Bethel, about 60 miles away.
"It was really called Woodstock because (festival co-creator) Mike Lang thought it had the right vibe," Bob Spitz, journalist and author of "Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969″ told CNN.
"Woodstock was where Bob Dylan lived," said Spitz, "It's where The Band hung out and he just liked the whole feel of the word. No matter where they were gonna have it, it was always going to be the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Everything about Woodstock has to do with the vibe."
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Max Yasgur provided Woodstock's venue by leasing out his 600-acre dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the Catskill Mountain community of Bethel, New York, 100 miles north of Manhattan.
The posters promised "3 Days of Peace & Music," but the festival's initial concept "depends on who you talk to," said Spitz.
Lang and festival promoter Artie Kornfeld wanted to have a blowout that was "the biggest party the counterculture had ever seen," said Spitz. "If you talk to their partners, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, who were the money guys, it was to make a lot of money."
For the crowd of 350,000 to 450,000 young people in attendance, Woodstock was all about peace and love, and that's no myth.
"The entire Woodstock festival was peaceful and the kids were respectful because of one word: marijuana," said Spitz. "Everybody was high. If it had been other drugs it would've been chaos. But because of dope and LSD, everything was peaceful there for those three days."
Festival organizers who had been expecting a crowd of 80,000 to 100,000 people were blindsided when quadruple the crowd showed up. No one was prepared for a surplus of 300,000 people. With no system in place to charge them, Woodstock became a free event.
Cars within a five-mile radius were at a standstill. New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller declared a state of emergency in White Lake. By Woodstock's second day, authorities publicly pleaded for anyone who might be on their way to the festival to turn around and go home. Eventually no one could get out or in unless they needed to be airlifted. Festival managers scrambled to fly in 30 extra physicians from New York City.
Santana vocalist Gregg Rolie spoke to CNN while promoting the Blu-ray release of the director's cut of the 1970 Academy Award-winning documentary "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music."
Rolie recalled arriving with the other members of Santana via helicopter.
"We flew in because everybody parked on the highway," said Rolie. "It was kinda like 'Close Encounters' or 'Field of Dreams,' you know? 'If you build it, they will come.' The highways were closed. Upstate New York was like a parking lot. So we had to fly in on helicopters."
Santana's appearance is considered one of the festival highlights. The band played early on, before the first of two downpours that reduced Yasgur's alfalfa field to a sloppy, slippery slew of mud puddles.
All of Santana's music was new at the time and the band was virtually unknown. They had not yet released their first album. Woodstock is credited for jump starting Santana's career.
"If you played at Woodstock, you had a career," said Rolie, who had no idea that the festival's legacy would resonate so powerfully 45 years later.
Woodstock's lineup also included Joan Baez, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Joe Cocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Band, among others.
Jimi Hendrix closed the festival. By the time he began his Monday morning set, which included his celebrated rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the crowd had thinned out to 200,000. Many had to get to work, school, wanted to get a jump on the traffic or simply could not endure the close quarters any longer. Even so, Hendrix had never performed in front of such a big group before and nearly bailed.
Although Woodstock has been lifted onto a pedestal in certain ways, by all accounts the festival lived up to the fable. The fairy tale, though largely drug-laden, was a reality for those in attendance.
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It can be difficult to connect the storybook reality with Woodstock's harsher realities like overflowed toilets, lack of food and water, and a makeshift, 20-bed hospital tent to accommodate roughly 3,000 medical emergencies.
A tractor crushed a teenage boy in a sleeping bag, fatally wounding him. One young man died of a heroin overdose, another died of a burst appendix. A young woman broke her back falling off of stage scaffolding.
In addition, there were about 400 bad acid trips, sprained ankles from sliding in the mud, and many a gashed foot as a result of stepping barefoot on broken glass.
Two babies were born, too. One child arrived in traffic en route to the festival, and the other was delivered in a hospital after the mother was airlifted out of the field.
A lot of sex was going on at Woodstock and, according to Spitz, a lot of women forgot to pack their birth control so supplies of birth control pills were flown in.
For an event where facilities were strained far past capacity, not a single fight or incident of violence erupted among the crowd, which endured near-unbearable conditions.
Town elders, residents, shopkeepers and local police couldn't get over how courteous and considerate the kids were — all 450,000 or so of them.
Woodstock's financial backers were not so lucky. They took a bath — and not a mud one — to the tune of $1.3 million.
Spitz called Woodstock "the beginning of the end of the '60s" because it, along with the moon landing, represented a bright period after the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, and before the breakup of the Beatles and the deaths of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
Woodstock is legendary for many reasons, but what made it magical was the value people placed on one another.
"If these are the kids that are going to inherit the world," Max Yasgur said at the time, "I don't fear for it."
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#5. Everyone on the Highway Is Boning
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Our nation's highways are so full of people fillin' 'er up that it's a wonder our species hasn't died in a massive orgiastic pile of twisted metal and bared flesh.
And truck drivers can see all of it.
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"How about closing the sunroof so we don't have to smell all of it, too?"
"Every truck that passes you has a driver perched comfortably on the summit of Mount Watch-You-Fuck," Quis told us. "So whether you're into highway head, roadway romps, slingin' salami, or the two-finger tunnel run, know that you will be seen."
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Truckers and comedy writers share a love of sexual euphemisms.
"I passed a guy once who was on the receiving end of a very energetic cock gobble. For the briefest of moments our eyes met, and he smiled as if to say, 'Yup, she's blowin' me.' I've seen a woman who was so far into her own snatch that she had one leg propped against the dash … My all-time favorite, though, belongs to the greatest old man ever. When I say old, I don't mean he's a little past his prime, either. This dude was easily on the losing side of 60, and he passed me beating his dick like it just spray painted graffiti in Singapore."
This stuff is so common, Spline says that "one of the best ways to spot a newbie truck driver is when they blow up the CB radio by calling the action like Howard Cosell*: 'He's past third and heading for home!'"
Fat chance. Nobody could call road sex like Cosell.
*Dear younger readers: Howard Cosell was a baseball commentator.**
**Dear nerdier readers: Baseball was something like Quidditch, but much more homoerotic and played while secretly on drugs.
#4. The Truck That You Think Doesn't Belong on This Road Probably Does Not Belong on This Road
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Have you ever been driving along some twisting back road only to get nearly run off a corner by some 80-foot mega-beast that surely has no business being on that road? Well, it probably didn't have any business on that road, and that trucker wasn't an asshole, he was a spider: He was more scared than you were. It's hard to imagine anyone getting thoroughly lost in the days of smartphones and GPS, but that's not always the best option for a trucker:
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Plus, the highway patrol is really leery of sextant navigation.
"The primary reason trucking companies want us using GPS is because they plot the absolute shortest route possible, regardless of how efficient or safe," Quis told us. "But believe me, shorter does not equal quicker." His GPS once led him down a street that "a pickup would have trouble turning around in," and he ended up knocking over a streetlamp without even realizing it. Trucks aren't supposed to go into residential areas, but at the same time, they often have to make deliveries to residential areas.
Spline ended up in a worse situation. Near where she lives in Oregon, there's a road called the 242, which (on paper) is the shortest route between Sisters and Eugene — but in reality, it's not a route you can take with a truck. But your GPS doesn't know that, and if you don't do your own research, you'll be slaloming a metal whale across a winding highway that even sport bikes have trouble taking at speed.
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"Just shift down to third, wuss. You'll be fine."
#3. Yes, Prostitutes and Drugs Are Everywhere
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If you've ever been to a truck stop, you've probably interacted with a prostitute and not known it. Or absolutely, unquestionably known all about it. It really depends on the subtlety of the prostitute. "Lot lizards" are a permanent fixture at most depots, and will work in conjunction with drug dealers and pimps to keep professional rambling men buried in their chosen vice. Spline told us this story:
"The dude I was driving with — he and I were, well, you know — and there was a knock on the door. Turned out to be a prostitute who wanted to know if we wanted extra company."
That's how bold the lot lizards are: They see you right in the middle of boning, and they still try to sell you some boning.
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There may be worse ways to earn rent, but we sure as hell can't think of any.
The dealers use the CB radio waves — that's the thing you use to holler "10-4, good buddy" and sing "Convoy" and then say "I'm sorry, I'll stop now and never use it again" — to advertise "white smoke" (meth). When the cops show up, truckers repay the favor by telling the lot lizards where they are, sometimes letting them hide out in their truck until the heat dies down.
Which makes sense, because the cops are way more interested in nailing the women than the johns. That's something they've got in common with the johns, actually.
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Of course, after spending all your time at a rural truck stop, jail is probably welcomed relief.
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Henri Matisse's simple statement on the creative personality is powerful and complex. It does take courage living with uncertainties and hoping for possibilities. We spend our days sharpening skills taking classes, training, staying in loop, and getting ready for the moment lady luck knocks at our door. Yes true grit, selecting a career where worth and professional success are based upon others' opinions who may or may not have more skill and talent.
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Characteristics of a Creative Mind: Anxiety and Stress
Living a creative life sounds exhilarating and it is; when is good it's great when it's bad well…you've read the stories of troubled artists and the depths of their depression. Theanxiety, stress and phobias stem from of the creative process can bring the most successful to their knees unable to cope or manage the smallest bump in the road.The stakes are high in creative fields, your uniqueness, individuality your entire self is defined by what and how much you create. It's one thing to be the "that funny entering friend" and another thing to be the "nailed the audition, got the job, can pay the rent guy" and the more you have vested in a situations outcome the higher the anxiety. Performing artists' live in a nameless field of the unknown, with no guarantees of success; yet success is only an audition or connection away. Worrying feeling edgy, preoccupied with the future are all part of the creative process.
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Dorothy Carmon Poole beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother of Calgary, passed quietly into the presence of our Lord on November 28, 2012 at the age of 88 years.
Dorothy was born on March 28, 1924 in Cudworth, SK. She grew up on a small farm in the Cudworth area. She married Don, son of Herbert and Victoria Poole, on May 4, 1944. In 1951, they moved to Edmonton, AB where in addition to raising her four children, Dorothy attended the University of Alberta and obtained her Education Degree. Dorothy then taught in the Edmonton public school system until 1985. After retiring from teaching, Dorothy and Donald travelled across North America by motorhome and also to other places around the globe. They moved to Calgary in 1992 to be closer to their children and grandchildren. Dorothy then spent a number of years devoted to caring for her husband until his passing in 1996. In her last years, Dorothy remained active and independent and enjoyed spending time with friends and family. She was a particularly skilled bridge player and will be missed at the card table by many.
She is survived by her four children, son Wayne Donald Poole and daughters, Carole Mitchell, Judy Poole and Darra-Lee Poole; ten grandchildren, Katherine, Jennifer, Erin, Gillian, Michael, Christopher, Laura, Holly, Olivia and Vanessa; and six great- grandchildren, Isabella, Jackson, Dylan, Meghan, Sebastian, and Avalon. She also leaves behind her sister Audrey Liden and numerous nephews and nieces. She was predeceased by her loving husband of fifty- two years Walter Donald "Don" (1996), her parents Charles and Ethel Beck and brother Lyall Beck.
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