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April 1966 W. W SEXTON 3,246,653
BINDER FOR PERFORATED LEAVES Filed Aug. 9, 1962 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 [MENTOR Vl i/h'am [4/ SGXfon ATTORNEYS April 19, 1966 w. w. SEXTON 3,246,653
BINDER FOR PERFORATED LEAVES Filed Aug. 9, 1962 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 [JV VENT OR United States Patent Ofiice 3,246,653 Patented Apr. 19, 1966 3,246,653 BINDER FUR PERFUTRATED LEAVES William Wait Sexton, North York Township, Gntario, Canada (1% Maxorne Ava, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada) Filed Aug. d, 1962, Ser. No. 215,812 2 flaims. (Cl. 125 -41) This invention relates to improvements in binders for perforated leaves, and the application is a continuationinpart of my United States patent application No. 32,365, filed May 27, 1960, now abandoned.
It is common practice to use stiff binder rings of fixed diameter to retain perforated leaves in loose leaf and book form. Such binders require rings considerably larger in diameter than the combined thickness of the leaves they bind in order to provide free movement of the leaves around the rings and reduce tearing of the leaves at their perforations. Large rings have the disadvantage of increasing the thickness of the binder along the bound edge resulting in very uneven stacking and waste space when storing. Another disadvantage of using rings of fixed diameter is their inability to adjust to varying numbers of leaves.
The primary object of this invention is to provide a binding band for perforated leaves and covers which automatically contracts in diameter when the covers are closed, to bind the leaves closely together for even stacking and compact storage.
A further object of this invention is to provide a resilient binding band which will pull closely against the covers when the covers are closed without any detrimental effect on the leaf transporting properties of the binding band.
A further object of this invention is to provide a binding band which automatically expands in diameter when the covers of the binder are opened to allow free movement of the leaves around the band, to reduce tearing at the leaf perforations.
It is a further object of this invention to provide the binder band with releasable and adjustable attachments to one or both covers for inserting and removing perforated leaves and for adjusting the binder band to varying numbers of leaves.
A further object of this invention is to provide couplings for sections of binder bands so that the sections can be separated and reconnected for the insertion and withdrawal of perforated leaves.
A further object of this invention is to prevent parallel edges of leaves and leaf perforations from catching and tearing when leaves are being turned.
A further object of this invention is to provide a binder which will allow the top cover and leaves to be turned around and under the bottom cover through a complete circle.
A further object of this invention is to provide leaves with specially shaped perforations for easy threading with the binder bands and also to facilitate registering the leaves to keep them neatly bound.
Other objects of this invention such as simplicity of construction and resulting savings in cost of production will become apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a binder embodying this invention and shown in an open position;
FIG. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of the binder illustrated in FIG. 1 shown in an almost closed position;
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view of a binder embodying this invention showing an alternative means of looping a binder band and of releasable attachment of an end of the binder band to the cover;
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of a binder embodying this invention illustrating another means of releasable attachment of one end of a binder band to the binder cover;
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of a further alternative means of releasable attachment of one end of a binder band of circular cross-section to a binder cover by means of a spring clip; FIG. 5 also shows leaves with egg shaped perforations for use with binder bands of circular cross-section;
FIG. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of yet another means of releasable attachment of one end of a binder band;
FIG. 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of sections of a binder band illustrating a means of joining such sections;
FIG. 8 is a fragmentary perspective view of a means of joining sections of a flat binder band;
FIG. 9 is a fragmentary plan View of a leaf or cover illustrating a trapezoidal perforation and a notched edge;
FIG. 10 is a perspective view of two binders of different thicknesses stacked one upon the other; and
FIG. 11 is a perspective view of a binder in an open condition.
Referring to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, a smooth resilient elongated band is attached to a pair of binder covers 2 and 3 and is looped through perforations 5 and 6 adjacent one edge of the binder and through perforations in loose leaves 7 between the covers, the perforations of the leaves registering with the perforations 5 and 6 when the covers are closed. Referring to FIG. 2 it will be seen the diameter of the loop formed by the band automatically contracts as the covers 2 and 3 are closed to lie against the interposed leaves 7. The contracting and expanding action of the binder band loop, as the covers move together and apart provides a tight binding when the covers are closed (FIG. 10), and free movement of the leaves around the expanded loop when the covers are opened (FIG. 11).
The ends of the band 11 may be permanently attached to covers 2 and 3 where perforated leaves are to be permanently bound in book form, or the attachments of band 1 may be releasable or adjustable or both for loose leaf binding. The attachments are adjacent the edge of the binder about which the covers swing. The resilient band 1 may be made of flat strip material, FIG. 2, or of material having a tubular or substantially round crosssec-tion as at 1A, FIG. 5.
Referring in more detail to the drawings herein, the adjustable expanding loose leaf binder of FIG. 1 has a flat Smooth resilient band 1, with end 4 permanently attached to cover 2 by any suitable means such as by stapling or glueing. The resilient band ll defines a loop extending outward from its attached end 4 through perforation 5 in cover 2, thence inward through perforation 6 in cover 3, thence through perforations of the leaves '7 and again through perforations 5 and 6 to an adjustable and releasable attachment 13 for its end 8. The attachment 13 for the end 8 is made of a thin flexible strip 11 coated on its under surface with non-drying pressure sensitive adhesive. The strip 11 is attached at its end 12 to the inside of cover 3 with its own said adhesive or by other suitable means. A portion of the opposite end of strip 11 is folded under and fastened with its own said adhesive to form a lifting tab 14. Small cuts 11A at the sides of the strip 11 form anchors 12A against complete removal of the fastener when lifted by its tab. The length of the loop formed by the binder band 1 (and thus the relative positions of the covers) is varied to accommodate different numbers of leaves by adjusting the point along the length of the free end 8 at which the band is held between the adhesive surface of the strip 11 and the 3 cover 3. Thus, as indicated in FIG. 10, the size of the loop can be indefinitely adjusted within the limits of the length of the band to accommodate a large number of leaves, as in the top binder of FIG. 10, or a smaller number of leaves, as in the bottom hinder, the covers of the binder being free to lie flat against the leaves despite variations in the numbers of the leaves, so that several binders can easily be stacked one upon another. If more leaves are to be inserted into a binder, the loops are lengthened, thus adjusting the relative positions of the covers to accommodate the additional leaves. Preferably the lengths of the bands between the points of attachment to the covers are such that when the covers are closed the bands are pulled flat or nearly flat against the outside surfaces of the covers.
Each binder illustrated in FIG. has two bands 1 for binding the covers and leaves together, and the bands 1 constitute a hinge which is the sole connections between the covers. The bands must be sufficiently flexible that the covers of a binder can lie closed against the leaves of the binder without swinging apart, as in the case of the top binder in FIG. 10, and the bands must also be sufficiently flexible to allow the covers to be swung away from each other through the position of FIG. 1 to a position where the covers are back to back. Furthermore the material of the bands should be capable of repeated flexing without breaking. On the other hand, the bands must be sufiiciently stiff and resilient that as the covers are swung open from the closed position the loops expand, retaining a generally circular form rather than merely collapsing or folding upon themselves. Bands of dimensional (high density) polyethylene, or of polyester film (sold for example by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. under the trademark Mylar), have been found to have these desired properties. The bands should have smooth surfaces so as to pass freely through the perforations without catching.
If one wished to make the cover 2 of the same material as the bands, the latter could of course be attached to the cover as integral parts of the cover.
As shown in FIG. 1, a smooth releasing base 3A is cemented to the cover 3 or applied as a varnish under the adhesive strip 11 to provide, for the cover 3, a smooth compact surface which prevents the adhesive of the strip 11 from picking up loosely packed fibres from cover 3 when the cover is made of cardboard and the like. This will lengthen the useful life of the attachment 13. This attachment could be located on the outside of cover 3 to hold the end 8 without passing it through perforation 6.
An alternative attachment for the end 8 is shown in FIG. 3, in which an aperture 10 base been cut out of the cover 3, and a piece of tape is secured to the outside of the cover with its adhesive side facing inwardly, the adhesive being a non-drying pressure sensitive adhesive. The end 8 is received within the depression, formed by the aperture 10, and the end becomes secured to the adhesive at the bottom of the depression. The aperture 10 is widened at 10A for inserting the finger nail when releasing the end 8. If end 8 extends past the depression 10 it can be gripped with the fingers. The end 4, FIG. 3, can be glued or stapled adjacent the edge of cover 2 as shown in full lines or it can be widened and perforated for passage of the band 1 and attached to the upper or lower side of cover 2 as shown in broken lines.
A11 alternative releasable and adjustable attachment for one or both ends of binder 1 is shown in FIG. 4, where the end 8 is attached to cover 3. Spaced apart notches 15 are provided along the length of one or both sides of end 8 and are adapted to engage in a longitudinal slot 17 located in cover 3, adjacent to binder band perforation 6, said slot 17 being closed at both ends and extending, away from the edge of the binder about which the covers swing, parallel to the longitudinal axis of end 8 when in attached position. The slot 17 is of a length greater than the width of the band 1 and of a maximum width less than the width of the band save at the notches. To attach end 8 to cover 3 the end 8 of the resilient band is twisted so that its width is along the length of the slot, and the end is advanced through slot 17 until a desired notch 15 is reached. The end is then released and it twists approximately degrees into normal position across the slot 17 to engage a pair of its projections 16 with the cover 3, as shown in FIG. 4. The diameter of the loop defined by the binder band 1 is easily varied by locating the desired notches 15 in slot 17. A single notch may be placed at one end of a binder strip for a releasable attachment in a slot 17 in one cover and a series of notches placed at the opposite end for an adjustable and releasable attachment in a slot 17 in the other cover for an inexpensive binder kit.
A releasable and adjustable attachment for a resilient binder band 1A of circular or tubular cross section is shown in FIG. 5 in which a spring clip 18 is attached to the cover 3 and extends across an aperture 19 in cover 3 to hold the binder end 8A at any position for adjusting the diameter of the loop of the band 1A. FIG. 6 shows a spring clip 36 for adjustably attaching, to the cover 3, the end 8 of a band formed as a fiat strip. The clip has prongs 37 embedded in the cover and a pressed out reinforcing finger 38 extending through the cover, the prongs and finger fixing the clip to the cover 3. The clip can be lifted at its free end 39 to release the binder band from the cover.
Referring to FIG. 7, a means is shown of joining and separating sections of a binder band 1A of tubular crosssection (as in FIG. 5) and made of resilient plastic material. A metal pin 20, with a plurality of sharp annular rings or projections 22, is provided coaxially with the sections to grip the interior tubular surfaces of the sections by indenting grooves 21 in the resilient material of the band 1A, as the pin is twisted into the sections. The sections can thus be connected end to end by the pin to provide a loop that is free of lateral projections that might catch on the covers or leaves, and the frictional gripping action of the pin increases as the loop of the band 1A is tightened and its diameter decreased upon covers 2 and 3 being closed. A strong pull on the sections will, however, release the pin from at least one of the sections to permit the insertion or removal of binder leaves. The plastic material of the hand must of course be sufficiently tough that it is not torn by the removal and insertion of the pin.
FIG. 8 shows an alternative device for joining and releasing sections of a binder band made of resilient fiat material similar to the band in FIG. 1. It consists of a clamp having a lower diamond-shaped plate 24, of stiif material, with upwardly bent teeth 25 and 26 and two connecting sections 27 merging upward into a split circular top plate 28 having a downwardly projecting tooth 29. The plates 24 and 28 constitute minor lateral projections of the completed loop. One section 30 of the binder band is held permanently between top plate 28 and bottom plate 24 by means of teeth 29 and 25, fitting into the corresponding grooves in the section 34). The other section 31 of the binder band is detachably held in position between top plate and lower plate 24 by tooth 26 of the bottom plate fitting into a corresponding groove in section 31. Lateral movement of the two sections 30 and 31 relative to each other is prevented by notching the section 30 to fit the pointed end of section 31. The sections 30 and 31 can be separated by pressing downward on plate 28 and lifting section 31 free of tooth 26. The sections are connected by inserting section 31 be tween the plates 24 and 28 in a downward direction till the tooth 26 engages its corresponding groove in section 31.
Referring to FIG. 9, a trapezoidal or tapered perforation 33 can be used to assist in threading loose leaves and covers with the band end 8. The wider portion of the perforation provides for easier threading when leaves are out of register, while the narrower portion 33A nearest the bound edge 7A of the leaf or cover is made equal to the width of the binder band and serves to register all the leaves after they are threaded on the binder band, simply by holding the binder with its bound edge upward. An egg shaped perforation 40, FIG. 5, or a large and a small circular perforation overlapping may be used for bands of circular cross-section so that adjacent the bound edge the perforations conform to the size of the bands. It will be noted that in FIG. 9, the edge 33A of the perforation 33 is parallel to the edge 7A of the leaf, the edge 7A being along the bound edge of the binder. Where the edges of the perforations nearest to such edges of the leaves are parallel to such edges of the leaves it is found that, as the leaves are turned, there is a tendency for such edges of some leaves to catch such parallel edges of the perforations of other leaves. This tendency can be avoided by notching the edges of the leaves adjacent the edges 33A, as at 35, FIG. 8, the notches decreasing in width from the edges of the leaves towards the perforations, and the notches at their widest points being wider than the adjacent edges 33A, of the perforations.
What I claim is:
1. A binder comprising a pair of covers, each cover having at least two perforations adjacent one edge of said cover to register with perforations of variable numbers of leaves between the covers, and at least two elongated bands constituting a hinge which is the sole connection between the covers, each band being rigidly attached to one cover adjacent the perforated edge, each band defining a loop extending from the point of attachment of the band to said cover outward from said cover, thence passing inward through one of the perforations of the second cover to extend through perforations of leaves, thence passing outward through a perforation of the first cover past the point of attachment of the band to said first cover, thence passing inward through the perforation of the second which was previously passed through, and thence passing through a releasable clasp attached to the inside of said second cover through which said band is stiflly slidable in the direction of its length to allow infinite adjustment of the loop diameter within the limits of the length of the band, the band being sufficiently flexible that the covers can lie parallel to each other at different distances apart when closed against different numbers of leaves and can swing away from each other about the hinge, the bands being capable of repeated flexing without breaking but the bands being also sufliciently stiff and resilient that the loops expand as the covers swing away from each other, and said bands having smooth loop surfaces to pass freely through the perforations of the covers and of the leaves.
2. A binder as claimed in claim 1, wherein the releasable clasp is a thin flexible strip coated on its undersurface with a non-drying pressure sensitive adhesive, one end of said strip being attached to the inside of the second cover, the other end of said strip having a lifting tab.
References Eited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 826,460 7/1906 Wirt 12941 1,037,314 9/1912 Proudfit 12941 1,556,049 10/ 1925 Trussell 1291 1,733,503 10/1929 Maas et a1. 12941 1,776,376 9/ 1930 Sadtler 12941 2,063,548 12/1936 Greer 1291 2,495,180 1/1950 Phillips 1291 2,910,068 10/1959 Lane 1291 2,911,977 11/1959 French 12941 FOREIGN PATENTS 1,081,968 6/1954 France.
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WALTER A. SCHEEL, Primary Examiner.
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Typhoid fever behind fall of Athens
The plague began in Ethiopia and passed through Egypt and Libya to Greece in 430-426 B.C. It changed the balance of power between Athens and Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles and Athenian dominance in the ancient world.
An estimated one-third of Athenians died, including Pericles, their leader.
Knowledge of the epidemic had come largely from an account by the Greek historian Thucydides, who was taken ill with the plague but recovered. Despite Thucydides' description, researchers could only narrow the possibilities down to a range that included the bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax and measles.
The new study, led by Manolis Papagrigorakis of the University of Athens, found DNA sequences similar to those of the modern day Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, the organism that causes typhoid fever. The work is detailed online by the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Typhoid fever is transmitted by contaminated food or water. It is most common today in developing countries.
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Please see if you can answer the "Help with caladium growth habits" question!
Caladiums may not show vigorous growth until the soil temperatures warm to thier liking, for a significant amount of time during each day. Consider the area they are planted; if the soil is in full shade it may not be warm enough for optimum growth as of yet. Here in the Dallas area, the soil has been warm enough for maybe the last month. We can try to plant them early, but the cooler temps will still retard the growth, and if it rains before they begin to grow, the tuber may become to moist and rot. Soil temps above 70 F are generally safe to plant. Their tropical origins can be difficult to replicate sometimes.
I have had some luck by wetting the bulbs with luke warm water, then letting them dry, for about 3 weeks prior to planting. I do this once on the first week, then twice the second week, and then evey other day for 4 to 6 days. This needs to be timed for the end to occur when the bulbs can be planted in a warm soil. If outside conditions are still too cool, they need to be planted in peat pots. This technique seems to spur the bulbs to life and cuts 7 to 10 days off the early development time.


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As soon as the invitations went out for Alexander Stewart and
his cousin Jacque Hulburd's joint 21st-birthday party, there was a
surge in
Caledonian Society memberships. For they were celebrating with
a ceilidh at Alexander's beautiful family home, Coldoch, in
Perthshire. Happily, most of the guests were students at either
Edinburgh University or St Andrews, so they descended by the
busload to dance the Gay Gordons and Strip the Willow. After the
fireworks, a lot
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- took the wrong bus home and wound up not in St Andrews but in
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce.
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Live as if life is for loving and giving.
Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.
live for today die for tomorrow because tomorrow turns into today and today turns into yesterday live for the people you meet today and die for the people you meet tomorrow because it could change your life
Live for true love for life. Becasuse, you ought to live for true love throughout your lifetime.
Live for true love for life. For, you ought to live for true love throughout your lifetime.
Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
Live life to the fullest because everything else is uncertain
Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.
Live life with a purpose and live it full out."
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
Live the wonderful life that is in you.
Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
Living in/worrying over your past life/mistakes is only crying over a spilt milk and of which there is no help for it.
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.


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Display engines from GM, Ford and Chrysler add affordable lots to Las Vegas sale
1953 Dodge Red Ram Hemi V-8 display engine. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions.
Last weekend's Rogers Classic Car Museum sale in Las Vegas, Nevada, truly offered something for everyone interested in mostly postwar American automobiles. In addition to the 200-plus cars that crossed the block, the sale featured an affordable array of display engines from American automakers, covering the period from 1949 to 1966.
Sold for display purposes only, most engines were incomplete and likely suffering from a variety of mechanical problems, making them potentially unsuitable for use in restorations. Unlike most display engines, none were cut away to show the inner workings of valvetrains, or pistons within cylinders, or transmission gear selection. As mechanical sculpture, they were interesting pieces, guaranteed to spark conversation, and ideal centerpieces for a finished garage or rec room
1959 1950 Oldsmobile Rocket V-8 display engine.
The most interesting, and hence the most expensive, was the 240-cu.in. 1953 Dodge Red Ram Hemi V-8 that sold for $2,400, complete with transmission. A 324-cu.in. 1959 Oldsmobile Rocket V-8, equally complete, brought $1,400, while earlier examples of the engine brought $1,000 (for a 1952 302-cu.in Rocket V-8); $900 (for a 1956 324-cu.in. Rocket V-8); and $900 (for a 1949 303-cu.in. Rocket V-8), respectively.
1954 Mercury 256-cu.in. V-8 display engine.
Some were little more than engine blocks, painted and likely awaiting the addition of parts as sourced. A Chrysler 318 V-8, undated but likely from the late 1950s, drew a winning bid of $300, but was little more than a block, heads, valve covers and an oil pan. A 1954 Mercury 256-cu.in V-8 in a similar state (but complete with water pump and thermostat housing) also sold for $300.
1949 Chrysler straight-eight display engine.
A selection of straight-sixes and straight-eights was offered, too, including a 264-cu.in. 1953 Chrysler six, sold for $700 with an attached transmission; a 240-cu.in 1966 Ford six, sold for $500 without transmission; a 323-cu.in. 1949 Chrysler eight, sold for $1,100 with transmission (but, oddly, without an oil pan); and a pair of 268-cu.in. 1954 Pontiac eights, which sold for $1,000 each.
1962 Rolls-Royce Mulliner drophead coupe, the top sale at $320,000.
Cars were the big draw, and the sale's top-10 included a 1962 Rolls-Royce Mulliner drophead coupe, which sold for $320,000; a 2010 Rolls-Royce Phantom drophead coupe, which sold for $232,500; a 1953 Chevrolet Corvette, which sold for $200,000; a 1956 Dual-Ghia convertible, which sold for $190,000; a 2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom coupe, which sold for $185,000; a 2007 Rolls-Royce Phantom sedan, which sold for $150,000; a 1953 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, which sold for $135,000; a 1995 Rolls-Royce Corniche IV convertible, which sold for $115,000; a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible, which sold for $100,000; and a 1953 Oldsmobile Fiesta convertible, which sold for $100,000.
1949 Crosley Hot Shot.
In the realm of the affordable and turnkey, a 1948 Chevrolet Fire Truck brought a price of $3,000; a 1984 Avanti coupe sold for $10,000; a 1928 Chevrolet one-ton flatbed truck sold for $10,000; a 1946 Chevrolet COE Dually stakebed truck sold for $10,000; a 1928 Chevrolet National Coach sold for $10,000; a 1955 Kaiser-Frazer Manhattan sedan sold for $10,000; a 1949 Chrysler Windsor club coupe sold for $11,000; a 1928 Whippet sedan sold for $11,500; and a 1949 Crosley Hot Shot sold for $12,000.
In total, the sale raised $9.5 million to assist the Rogers Foundation, a charity that supports higher education in Southern Nevada started by Jim Rogers prior to his death in June of 2014. For complete results from the Rogers Classic Car Museum auction, visit Mecum.com.
Motostalgia Auctions and SVRA announce joint venture
The SVRA's Trans-Am class runs at Circuit of the Americas. Still image from video below.
This year, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association will host 18 vintage racing events from coast to coast, at which an estimated 5,000 drivers will participate. Given this captive market, a tie-in to an auction company makes perfect sense, and on February 19, Motostalgia announced it will be entering into a long-term relationship with the SVRA to host sales at select vintage racing events, beginning in 2015.
The first such auction will take place during the SVRA's Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, scheduled to take place from June 10-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Though details are still being finalized, Motostalgia is planning a gala and auction preview for Thursday, June 11, followed by the auction itself on June 12. Additional sales will likely be added to the SVRA racing calendar, though it's not yet clear how many and at which events.
Founded in 1981, the SVRA sanctions vintage races at renowned tracks from coast to coast, including Sebring, Road America, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Mid-Ohio, Watkins Glen, Sonoma (formerly Sears Point) and Willow Springs. In 2013, the series introduced a U.S. Vintage Racing National Championship at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
For additional information on Motostalgia Auctions, including past results and upcoming sales, visit Motostalgia.com. For more details on the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association, visit SVRA.com.
Actor Jackie Cooper's 1955 Austin-Healey 100S to cross the stage in Amelia Island
Photos by Clint Davis, courtesy RM Auctions.
Best known for his acting career, which earned him an Academy Award nomination at age 9, Jackie Cooper also had a passion for automobiles, particularly those from Austin-Healey. Already an Austin-Healey 100 owner (and racer) when the 100S was announced, Cooper was among the very first clients to submit an order for the limited-production, track-ready sports car. Next month, the Austin-Healey 100S delivered to Cooper at Sebring in time for the 1955 race will cross the stage at Amelia Island as one of the featured lots in the RM Auctions sale.
Austin-Healey built just 50 of its 100S model, each designed to deliver victory on the race track. To keep curb weight below 1,900 pounds (1,876 pounds, to be exact), alloy bodies replaced steel bodies, bumpers were deleted and the standard windshield was replaced by a minimalist Perspex windscreen. The car's 2.7-liter inline four produced 132 horsepower, a gain of 42 horsepower over the base Austin-Healey 100, much of it attributable to Weslake-designed cylinder head, high-compression pistons and 1 ¾-inch SU carburetors fed by twin SU fuel pumps.
Among the car's most unique features, however, were the four-wheel Dunlop disc brakes, chosen for their performance and fade resistance compared to the base 100′s unassisted drums. The design for the braking system was tested and finalized on chassis AHS-3504, the very one that would later be shipped to Cooper (finished in his trademark Spruce Green paint) in time for the Sebring race.
Each 100S was built by hand at the Healey Works in Warwick, England, and each modified 2.7-liter engine came from Morris Engines in Coventry, but only after balancing and proper run-in. Such attention to detail is expensive, and in 1955 the 100S sold for a price of $4,995, at a time when a base 100 model sold for $2,985. Despite the steep price of the 100S, it was rumored that Donald Healey lost money on each example sold, but such was the cost of promoting Austin-Healey as a manufacturer of competitive sports cars in an ever-more-crowded market.
A total of seven Austin-Healey 100S models were entered at Sebring in 1955, including a factory effort driven by Stirling Moss and Lance Macklin. Cooper, paired with co-driver Roy Jackson-Moore, was running in seventh overall when faulty wiring led to a dead battery, leaving the actor stranded by the side of the track. To cross the finish line, Cooper reportedly pushed the car for over a mile, earning the team a 42nd place finish, but giving Cooper the "Auto Sportsman of the Month" award in the pages of Sports Car Illustrated.
Cooper drove AHS-3504 for the remainder of 1955, though by early 1956 it was being driven by Fred Allen. Then, like any other used race car, it passed through a series of owners before falling into the hands of Austin-Healey collector Bill Wood in 1976. Wood had acquired the engine and transmission from Cooper's car some years earlier, and entirely by accident while seeking a replacement 100S grille. Years later, Wood ran across a 100S chassis, sans driveline, and hastily made a deal for the car; coincidentally this chassis turned out to be AHS-3504, and the collector found himself with the opportunity to reunite the car as built in 1955.
Fourintune Garage in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, handled the restoration and subsequent reassembly, as the shop had previously restored four of the rare 100S models on its premises. Shown at the Meadow Brook Hall Concours d'Elegance in 1990, chassis AHS-3504 captured the Peter Helck Trophy for competition cars, and was kept by Wood until 1997. Its next owner, Italian collector Tommaso Gelmini, ran the Austin-Healey in the revived Targa Florio as well as the Mille Miglia Storica, adding impressive credentials to the 100S' resume.
Four owners have graced the driver's seat since Gelmini sold the car in 2002, and most have actively raced it in vintage events. It will be sold with a collection of spare and original parts, including the Weslake head installed at the factory (but later removed for vintage racing). Given the car's rarity and ownership history, RM is predicting a selling price between $975,000 and $1,375,000 when the car crosses the block on Saturday, March 14.
For more information on the Amelia Island sale, visit RMAuctions.com.
UPDATE (16.March): The 1955 Austin-Healey 100S once owned by Jackie Cooper sold for a fee-inclusive price of $1,012,000.
Last-remaining standard wheelbase Cord L-29 Murphy Town Car to cross the stage at Amelia Island
Offered by Cord in sedan, brougham, convertible coupe and convertible sedan body styles, only a handful of L-29 chassis were sent to coachbuilder Murphy for the addition of a Town Car body. Of these, most were said to have been built upon a stretched wheelbase measuring 152 1/2 inches in length, instead of the L-29′s standard wheelbase of 137 5/8 inches. Next month, a 1930 Cord L-29 Murphy Town Car built upon a standard chassis and claimed by Bonhams to be the last surviving example will cross the block in Florida, as one of the noteworthy lots in the firm's debut Amelia Island sale.
Unique for its front-wheel drive and X-braced frame, the Cord L-29 was supposed to span the gap in pricing between the automaker's Auburn and Duesenberg models. Powered by a Lycoming 298.6-cu.in. inline eight cylinder engine producing 125 horsepower, the car's 4,700 pound curb weight and tall gearing meant that performance was merely adequate; still, the L-29′s long and low appearance attracted a considerable amount of interest at the car's 1929 debut.
History, however, did not work to the L-29′s advantage: Two months later, the stock market crashed, and potential Cord buyers disappeared overnight. Undaunted, E.L. Cord reportedly came up with a new idea to market his cars to those unaffected by Black Friday: He'd turn them loose on Hollywood by getting custom-bodied L-29s in the hands of movie stars.
It isn't clear if Cord commissioned Murphy to build a series of four Town Cars on spec for Hollywood clients, and it's equally unclear if Cord sold or loaned these cars to stars of the day. What is well-documented, however, is that John Barrymore, Dolores Del Rio and Lola Montez were all seen being driven in Cord L-29 Murphy Town Cars. Even E.L. Cord himself reportedly owned one.
Chassis 2926823, the Cord to be offered at Amelia Island, was said to be built for Dolores Del Rio, though only anecdotal evidence exists to support this claim (which conflicts with the Nethercutt Collection's belief that its 1930 Cord L-29 Murphy Town Car is the Del Rio car). Former owner Jay Hyde, who died in 2014, acquired the car in 1959 and was told of its provenance by the Cord's previous owner, Fred Thorsen. Thorsen purchased the Cord in the early 1950s, reportedly from E.L. Cord's daughter, who likely originated the story of its history. Could Cord have embellished the tale to up the price of the car? Perhaps, but at the very least this example has ties to the Cord family itself, assuming the sales history can be documented.
Hyde was said to have enjoyed the car sparingly, using it (especially in the early days of his ownership) for the occasional tour or concours event, but otherwise keeping the L-29 safely tucked away. It appeared at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 1987, in a custom-bodied Cord class, and made its final public appearance at the Forest Grove Concours d'Elegance in 2000. Since then, the car's been garaged on Hyde's property, but has been "sympathetically cleaned and mechanically checked over" in preparation for its upcoming sale.
Whether or not the Cord is the same one used by Del Rio is almost irrelevant, as its rarity, claimed original interior and overall state of preservation are enough to make the Cord desirable to collectors. The orange windows in the passenger compartment are evidence of the now-delaminated safety glass, further proof of the car's largely unrestored status. Most of the car's paint is believed to be original as well, though some areas have reportedly been touched up over the years.
Bonhams predicts a selling price between $750,000 and $1 million when the Cord crosses the stage on March 12 at Amelia Island. For more information on the company's inaugural Amelia Island sale, visit Bonhams.com.
UPDATE (12.March): The Murphy-bodied Cord far exceeded its pre-auction estimate, selling for a price of $1,760,000 including buyer's premium.
One-off Buick Blackhawk show car could fetch up to $450,000 at auction
Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions.
Any resemblance to the Y-Job is purely intentional. Yet while the original Buick dream car will likely remain in GM's possession as long as there's a GM to possess it, the 2003 Buick Blackhawk show car that took general inspiration, if not specific styling cues, from the Y-Job will come up for auction later this year.
Conceived to celebrate Buick's centennial, the Blackhawk showcases an amalgam of parts from throughout Buick's history, all blended together in a 2+2 convertible body. Michael E. Doble, then Buick's special vehicles manager, came up with the idea of a centennial car, but he didn't have it done in house. Instead, he turned to Steven Pasteiner, a consulting designer with Advanced Automotive Technologies in Rochester Hills, Michigan, as well as a former Buick designer. According to Gizmag, Pasteiner's association with Buick stretched back to the 1960s and included designs for the production GS as well as for several concept cars.
While Pasteiner started with a 1996 Buick Riviera powered by a 240hp L67 supercharged 3800 V-6, he left little of the original front-wheel-drive luxury car other than the VIN to build around. Instead, it uses a scratchbuilt front-engine and rear-wheel-drive 129-inch-wheelbase chassis, Corvette-sourced independent front and rear suspension, a circa 1970 Buick 455 fitted with electronic fuel injection and good for 463 horsepower and 510 pound-feet of torque, and a 4L80E four-speed automatic transmission. Pasteiner added a 1939 Buick grille, sheetmetal from 1941 and 1948 Buick Roadmasters, hidden headlamps that directly evoke the Y-Job, a carbon fiber hardtop, and retained the 1996 Riviera's interior.
Reportedly good for a sub-5-second 0-60 time, the Blackhawk bypassed the traditional car show circuit and instead made its way to Buick enthusiast events and even onto film as Will Smith's ride in Bad Boys II. "The folks who attend those shows are very excited and knowledgeable about cars," Doble told Gizmag. "We felt we needed a custom Buick for that audience, but not a hot rod. Hot rods tend to have simple bodies, exposed engines, large rear wheels and lots of chrome. But when you build a custom, it's like you're redesigning a car."
After its initial tour, the Blackhawk made its way back to Detroit and eventually took up residence in the GM Heritage Center. But then in 2009, in the midst of the recession, GM put several dozen of its Heritage Center vehicles up for sale, including the Blackhawk. It sold at that year's Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction for $475,000 ($522,500 with commission) to Paul and Chris Andrews of Fort Worth, who have consigned 75 vehicles from their collection with RM Auctions.
RM's pre-auction estimate for the Blackhawk ranges from $300,000 to $450,000. Though less than the purchase price from six years ago, another Pasteiner/AAT-built car similar to the Blackhawk, the 1939 Cadillac La Salle C-Hawk hardtop convertible, sold for $269,500 at Barrett-Jackson's 2013 Scottsdale auction and then for $410,000 at this year's Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction. The Blackhawk will sell with no reserve.
The RM Andrews collection auction will take place May 2 in Fort Worth. For more information, visit RMAuctions.com.
Upcoming auction to feature the first car to wear the Lotus badge, Colin Chapman's 1952 Mark IIIB
Photos by Mathieu Heurtalt, courtesy Gooding and Company, except where noted.
At some point, we all gotta go to work to pay for our hobbies. In the early 1950s, Colin Chapman paid his bills by putting in days at British Aluminum, but his passion for motorsports required another income, one that he quickly found by building replicas of his domineering lightweight race cars for others. The very first of those customer cars and the first to wear a Lotus badge, the 1952 Mark IIIB, could soon command nearly half a million dollars when it goes to auction for the first time ever.
Until 1950, Chapman kept himself busy building stripped-down Austin Sevens into trials cars (cars that would later retroactively be dubbed the Mark I and Mark II, the latter of which Chapman nicknamed "the Lotus"), but in 1951 he built on that experience to shift his attention toward on-track racing, specifically toward the 750 Formula, a class that mandated the use of Austin Seven parts to keep costs down. That year, he also joined forces with Michael and Nigel Allen, partly to gain the use of their well-equipped garage, and the three decided to build a car apiece for 750 Formula racing. In the end, they built three chassis, but just one complete car for the three of them—a boxed Austin Seven chassis fitted with a split full-size Ford front axle and a de-siamesed Austin Seven four-cylinder engine and draped in a homebuilt aluminum body, now known as the Mark III—but it proved itself more than capable of winning races.
Based on that success, Chapman formed Lotus Engineering Company in January 1952 and later that year fielded a request from Dunlop employee Adam Currie to build a track car just as competitive as theirs. Because Chapman and the Allens were still racing their first Mark III, they built another using one of the chassis meant for the brothers' cars to roughly the same specifications. Rather than the tiny Austin engine, Currie had his car—dubbed the Mark IIIB—fitted with a larger 1,172-cc Ford Ten flathead four-cylinder.
Currie in the Mark IIIB in August 1953 at Silverstone. Photo via Lotus7register.co.uk.
Currie took delivery of the Mark IIIB—which he registered as ONK 408—in October 1952 and raced it throughout the next year. William Taylor, in The Lotus Book, wrote that the car "took nine awards in an eventful season dogged with engine unreliability," but according to records compiled by RacingSportsCars.com, it finished five of the five races it started (but DNS'd in two races), placing as high as third once. Regardless of its racing record, the Mark IIIB secured its place in history as the first in a long line of customer cars to come from Lotus, cars that allowed Chapman to quit his day job and pursue his passion full time.
According to Gooding's description of the Mark IIIB, it "serves as an iconic physical representation of the brand's entrance into racing and the beginning of what would be a long racing history for the marque," and has only changed hands three times (in 2004, when his book was published, Taylor noted that it belonged to United States-based Lotus collector Charles Levy), never before appearing at public auction. Gooding's pre-auction estimate for the Mark IIIB ranges from $250,000 to $450,000.
Gooding's Amelia Island auction, where the Mark IIIB will be offered, will take place March 13 at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation. For more information, visit GoodingCo.com.
UPDATE (13.March): The 1952 Lotus Mark IIIB sold for $247,500.
Sotheby's buys a 25 percent stake in RM Auctions
Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions.
After years of working together in limited capacities, RM Auctions and Sotheby's have made their partnership formal, with the latter buying a 25 percent stake in the former.
Announced Wednesday, the partnership will give Sotheby's an established presence in the global collector car market, which RM estimates at $2 billion, to go along with its fortes in the art, jewelry and wine auction markets. The two companies have conducted joint auctions for at least the last several years, staging events in Maranello, London, and most recently—in November 2013—in New York City. Sotheby's has also dabbled in the collector car market in Australia.
Both Rob Myers, founder and chairman of RM Auctions, and Bill Ruprecht, chairman and CEO of Sotheby's, mentioned the overlap in the two companies' client bases as a significant factor in the tie-up. As noted in the press release, the terms of the deal allow Sotheby's to take a larger ownership interest in the future. Neither RM nor Sotheby's disclosed the purchase price for the 25 percent stake.
Myers, who started with a car restoration business in 1976 and pivoted that into buying and selling classic cars, founded RM Auctions in 1991. For 2014, the Ontari0-based company reported $470 million in auction sales between RM Auctions and its subsidiary, Auctions America.
Sotheby's, a publicly traded company, which dates back to London bookseller Samuel Baker's first auction in 1744, conducts 250 auctions per year in 90 locations. Annual revenue for the company in 2013 totaled $853 million.
For more information on the deal, visit RMAuctions.com.
One of six remaining, Steve McQueen's 1915 Cyclone board track racer to cross the block in Las Vegas
1915 Cyclone board track racer. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions.
From its debut in 1913 to its demise in 1915, the Cyclone board track racer was, perhaps, the most technologically advanced motorcycle of its day. It's estimated that nearly 300 were built over three years of production, but just six are reported to survive today; when a 1915 Cyclone once owned by Steve McQueen crosses the block in Las Vegas next month, speculation is that the motorcycle could become one of the priciest bikes ever sold at auction.
Built by the Joerns Motor Manufacturing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, the Cyclone's most unique feature was its overhead camshaft 61-cu.in. V-twin engine, designed by engineer Andrew Strand. Featuring cams driven by a shaft-and-bevel gear drive arrangement, the 45-degree V-twin also utilized semi-hemispherical cylinder heads with oversized valves, measuring 1¾ inches on both the intake and exhaust side. Caged ball and roller bearings were used throughout the driveline, reducing friction but increasing manufacturing cost, and the Cyclone quickly earned a reputation as a giant killer, handily beating machines from established manufacturers like Indian and Excelsior.
In the fall of 1913, rider J.A. "Jock" McNeil reportedly piloted a Cyclone to a then-unbelievable speed of 108 MPH at a board track in Minneapolis. A year later, in Omaha, Nebraska, McNeil ran his Cyclone to a calculated speed of 111.1 MPH, but the Federation of American Motorcycling flatly refused to accept the record on the grounds that such a speed would not be possible at the Omaha track.
It was a November 1914 speed contest, however, that would forever guarantee the Cyclone a place in American racing lore. Joerns Motor Manufacturing factory rider Don Johns (who, at age 19, already held numerous records earned at rival Excelsior) agreed to take on the legendary Barney Oldfield at the Phoenix State Fairgrounds, a track where Oldfield's record of 48 seconds was considered unbeatable. Also looking to set a new record was aviator Lincoln Beachey, who would be using an aircraft in his attempt to best Oldfield's time; at stake was a $1,000 prize for the fastest time of the day around the mile long dirt course.
To Oldfield's utter amazement, Johns lapped the track in 46 seconds, beating Beachey in the airplane by over four seconds. Oldfield, driving a massive front-drive Christie racer, was not only unable to beat the time set on the Cyclone, he was unable to match his earlier time of 48 seconds, producing a best run of 48.8 seconds. The "best driver of the day" had been beaten by a young rider on a Cyclone motorcycle.
Such publicity should have produced record Cyclone sales for Joerns, but the company faced a series of mounting problems. Though ideal for board track sprint races (popular with spectators, who eagerly paid the admission fee to witness the carnage that would occur at nearly every event), the Cyclone proved unreliable for endurance racing, prompting the departure of Johns (for rival Indian) after a pair of disappointing DNFs during the 1915 season. Though the company did build road-going motorcycles, it focused its attention on racing, and as its reputation for reliability began to falter, even sales to racers dried up.
The Cyclone was a complex and expensive motorcycle to build, meaning that even under ideal circumstances margins were thin. As costs mounted and sales fell off, Cyclone production was halted by early 1916, and existing examples were often campaigned to the point of failure, then discarded as nothing more than scrap metal.
The Cyclone once owned by Steve McQueen was restored by early American motorcycle historian Stephen Wright, author of several books on racing motorcycles of the early 20th century. With Cyclone replacement parts unavailable, a modified Indian frame and fork were used in the bike's rebuilding, but such modifications were common back in the day and will likely have little impact on the bike's value. The last time a Cyclone crossed the auction stage was 2008, when a second 1915 example sold for a then-motorcycle-auction-record price of $551,200.
Last October, the Captain America chopper from the movie Easy Rider reportedly sold for $1.35 million, establishing a new benchmark for a motorcycle sold at auction. Given the Cyclone's rarity and its ties to Steve McQueen, Mecum estimates that the screaming-yellow board track racer will deliver a winning bid between $650,000 and $750,000, making it the second-most expensive motorcycle ever sold at auction.
Part of the E.J. Cole motorcycle collection, the 1915 Cyclone is set to cross the block on Saturday, March 21. For more details on the Las Vegas sale, visit Mecum.com.
UPDATE (24.March): The 1915 Cyclone sold for a hammer price of $775,000, becoming the most expensive motorcycle ever sold at auction. Last fall's reported $1.35 million sale of the Captain America chopper from Easy Rider was never finalized.
Florida auction offers an impressive collection of low-mileage Shelby-badged Chryslers
1983 Dodge Shelby Charger, the first Chrysler produced with Carroll Shelby's input. Photos courtesy Auctions America.
In 1982, Chrysler's Lee Iacocca asked his old friend Carroll Shelby to help add performance (and hopefully appeal) to the automaker's front-wheel-drive product line. The immediate result was the 1983 Dodge Shelby Charger, a car that would solidify an eight-year relationship between Shelby and Chrysler, as well as lead to the rebirth of Shelby as an automaker. Next month, a collection of mostly low-mileage Shelby Chrysler automobiles, including four never titled, heads to auction, giving bidders a chance to acquire a bit of Shelby and Chrysler performance history.
1986 Shelby GLHS, the first car produced by Shelby Automobiles and sold through Shelby dealers.
Models represented in the sale include a 1983 Dodge Shelby Charger; a 1986 Dodge Shelby Charger; a 1986 Shelby GLHS (which represents Shelby's first product as a reestablished automaker); a 1987 Shelby CSX (Shelby Automobiles' performance variant of the Dodge Shadow); a 1987 Shelby Lancer; a trio of 1989 Shelby CSXs; and a 1989 Shelby Dakota pickup, Carroll Shelby's first rear-drive performance vehicle since his Mustang days.
As Allpar points out, the 1987 Shelby CSX, 1987 Shelby Lancer, 1989 Shelby CSX and 1989 Shelby Dakota remain on Shelby Manufacturer Statement of Origin (MSO), meaning that none has been titled in the name of its first owner. All come from a private collection, each is number six in the model range's limited production, and the entire lot has been kept in temperature-controlled storage since purchase.
1987 Shelby Lancer.
Perhaps the most interesting (and least well-known) model in the collection is the 1987 Shelby Lancer, built by Shelby Automobiles for a single model year. Based on the Dodge Lancer ES, the Shelby version was meant to go head-to-head with European sport sedans of the day. Unlike the performance-above-all-else philosophy behind the Omni GLHS, the Shelby Lancer was meant to be a bit more refined, offering "luxury" touches like power windows; power door locks; a power driver's seat; a leather-wrapped steering wheel; and a 10-speaker, 120-watt Pioneer audio system that boasted one of the first CD players offered in an American car.
The Shelby Lancer was meant to take on European sport sedans of the day.
Power came from a 2.2-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, producing 175 horsepower and mated to the buyer's choice of a three-speed automatic or a five-speed manual transmission. With the five-speed, the Shelby Lancer was capable of running from 0-60 MPH in 7.7 seconds, completing the quarter-mile in 15.7 seconds at 89 miles per hour. Shelby intended the Lancer to be fast in more than just a straight line, so the sedan also received an upgraded suspension with Monroe Formula GP dampers, alloy wheels with Goodyear Gatorback tires and four-wheel disc brakes with vented rotors up front. As a result, the Shelby Lancer produced .85-g on the skidpad, a relatively impressive number for a sedan in the late 1980s.
The 2.2-liter turbocharged four produced 175 horsepower.
Despite its upgrades and pedigree, the Shelby Lancer was not a commercial success, perhaps due in part to its ticket-me Graphic Red paint and shadow graphics (originally, the car was to be a more subdued gray, but supply chain issues between Chrysler and Shelby changed the livery to bright red).
Dodge would try again in 1988 and '89, offering the Chrysler-built Lancer Shelby (name reversal intentional), which carried over most of the original's performance parts, through neighborhood Dodge dealers. Again, sales were dismal, with deliveries of just 279 units in 1988 and 208 units in 1989, despite the addition of white and black to the color palette.
The odometer reads 22 miles.
The 1987 Shelby Lancer to be offered shows just 22 miles on the odometer, its front seats are still wrapped in protective plastic, and the Monroney sticker is still displayed in the left rear window. Like all manual-transmission examples, this one gets by with cloth sport seats, instead of the leather seating offered to buyers of automatic transmission cars. It is one of 800 examples built (and one of 400 with row-your-own gears). Auctions America predicts a selling price between $20,000 and $30,000.
Also for sale at no reserve is this 1984 Dodge Daytona CART/PPG Indy Car Series pace car.
Though not Shelby models, the collection also includes a few other performance Chryslers of note, including a 1985 Chrysler Laser XE hatchback, a 1984 Dodge Daytona CART/PPG Indy Car Series pace car (as used in competition), and a 1984 Dodge Charger drag car said to hold numerous NHRA National records.
All cars in the collection will be offered at no reserve, with most pre-auction estimates coming in below $30,000. At a time when most auctions seem to offer an endless array of seven and eight-figure Ferraris, such affordable (and potentially collectible) performance is a welcome change of pace.
The Fort Lauderdale sale will take place on March 27-29, 2015, at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For details, visit AuctionsAmerica.com.
From rust to gold: Baillon Collection cars deliver $28.5 million in sales
The record-setting 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider, on the Baillon estate. Photos courtesy Artcurial.
When the 59 lots from the no reserve Baillon Collection finished crossing the stage last Friday in Paris, auction house Artcurial (which still had 116 other consigned vehicles to sell) had racked up an impressive $28.5 million in sales, with four lots from the Baillon Collection breaking into the sale's top-10 results.
The Baillon Collection's bargain was this Singer Roadster, which sold for $14.5k.
Thanks to extensive media coverage of the "chateau find" Baillon Collection in the months leading up to the sale, interest in the Retromobile sale was high. Artcurial reported 1,600 registered bidders, with an estimated crowd of 3,500 on hand in the salesroom to witness the lots crossing the stage. On the affordable side, the 1987 Lancia Thema sold for €8,344 ($11,260) and the tired Singer Roadster sold for €10,728 ($14,477), but on the opposite side of the financial spectrum, the collection's star, a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider sold for a tax and fee-inclusive price of €16,288,000 ($21,980,656), setting a new auction record for the model and exceeding its high pre-auction estimate by over €4.3 million ($5.8 million, based on Artcurial's conversion factor of 1.3495 dollars per euro).
This 1949 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport coupe sold for $2.3 million.
The Ferrari wasn't the only price record realized by the Baillon cars, either. The second-most valuable lot in the collection proved to be the 1956 Maserati A6G 2000 Gran Sport Berlinetta Frua, which set an auction record for the model by selling for €2,010,880 ($2,713,683), €800,000 ($1,079,600) over its high pre-auction estimate. A pair of Talbot-Lagos once owned by Roger Baillon also did exceptionally well, with a 1949 Saoutchik-bodied T26 Grand Sport SWB selling for €1,702,000 ($2,296,849) and a 1948 Saoutchik-bodied T26 Record Cabriolet reaching €745,000 ($1,005,378).
1936 Panhard et Levassor Dynamic X76.
Roger Baillon never realized his dream of starting an automotive museum with the cars he saved from the scrapyard between 1950 and 1970, but Artcurial reports that an estimated 15,000 visitors per day came to see the Baillon Collection cars on display in the days heading up to the auction. While most lots were purchased by collectors, at least one, a 1936 Panhard et Levassor Dynamic X76 coupe junior (which sold for €56,024, or $75,604) was acquired by a French transportation museum, ensuring that the dream of Roger Baillon will live on, if in abbreviated form.
This 1987 Lancia Thema, the Baillon Collection's other bargain, sold for just over $11K.
Other lots in the top-10 at Artcurial's Retromobile sale included a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Berlinetta, which sold for €1,988,000 ($2,682,806); a 1938 Mercedes-Benz 380 K Cabriolet A, which sold for €1,416,000 ($1,910,892); a 1968 Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada, which set an auction record when it sold for €1,244,400 ($1,679,318); a 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster, which sold for €929,760 ($1,254,711); a 1962 Maserati 3500 GT Spider Vignale, which sold for €858,240 ($1,158,195); and a 1961 Maserati 3500 GT Spider Vignale, which sold for €834,400 ($1,126,023).
For complete results from the Retromobile sale, visit Artcurial.com.


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Disclaimer: this is based on looks only. budgets are generally not considered...
Planter in middle with seating around
Love these rectangular concrete slabs
again with the rectangular slabs. Rocks would be easier to maintain, but will require regular sweeping/tidying.
cool fireplace
you could do real wood fireplaces if they were in the wall like this. harder for drunks to fall into as well...
pavers with grass
love this wall, love the pavers. A built in water feature, the lights, it's all good.
simpel wooden benches like this would be great for brewery vibe. also cheap and easy.
a cool little entry thing like this would be neat.
that liitle fence is cool
you could have some area with pavers/grass, then an elevated sectio with decking... making different little areas/niches would be cool
shade covers for patio. retractable would be great so you could pull them back at night.
bamboo plants look good and easy
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Questions from a 2nd Year Southern Gardener (NW Arkansas)
Sorry this got so long...
Last year was my first year gardening in the south. I didn't have a lot of space, but I made room for quite a bit of space and my landlord was happy to give me free reign for modification. Which I have zealously embraced.
I moved from Oregon, so that's where I learned what I know. Some of what I knew does not work here. Even though temps are about what they were in southern Oregon, the sun - even taking humidity into consideration - seems much more intense here. What I planted in the hot western afternoon Oregon sun did not work in the hot western afternoon Arkansas sun. Dahlias fried. Sweet potato vine withered. Celosia or Gerbera daisy didn't even really get western sun or the petunia's either and they couldn't take the heat one bit.
I did find a few things took the intense sun beautifully. Vinca, salvia, angolina and verbena, zinnas (WOW) moss roses, cardinal climber - although the moonflowers wouldn't bloom when it was 95+ degrees.
I am composting a little garden for flowers in a corner of the fence that gets intense and all afternoon western sun. The grass was always fried there. I like to try new plants from seed every year and I'm wondering how the following would perform in that sort of constant intense afternoon heat:
Love Lies Bleeding
Irish Eyes
More to add to the list...still going through the seeds.
Also - someone told me zinnias will reseed themselves here! And cardinal climbers and pretty much all vines. I wanted to do Spanish Flag and Canary Climbers and Black-Eyed Susan Vine this spring, but I've heard they come back as well...and there are already morning glories everywhere from previous residents! I don't want to have 10 different kinds of vines to try to control!
Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks.
Larkspur does fantastic in the cracks between the street and the curb around here, so I'd say that would do well there. Do you like Sedums? Are you stuck on smaller plants? What about a rambling rose on the fence? A Lantana covered with visiting butterflies? Evergreen Rosemary?
Delphinium - no, I think of that as more of a cool season plant in the south.
General info: in the south and southeast plants that are for "sun" will generally need afternoon shade, at least some shade. The afternoon sun is the harshest. You will need to mulch with some organic matter (shredded bark, shredded leaves, compost, here around Tupelo MS I use pine straw mostly). Your plants may do better if you irrigate more often. If you are like me, I cannot and will not water all the time, so I have to eliminate plants/flowers that need alot of water. But if you have the money and time and inclination, you will probably see your plants doing much better if you water deeply and often in the very hot days w/o rain. I am not familiar with the other flowers you asked about. Zinnias love heat, also black eyed susan, lantana, sedum, coneflower, and herbs like rosemary, thyme, sages. Laurie
I've had good luck in my sunniest areas with the smaller marigold varieties (like Queen Sophia or Dwarf Bolero), Centratherum, the Cosmic series of Cosmos, hollyhock, rattlesnake master, and herbs (in addition to Zinnias, annual and perennial Salvias, coneflowers, and black-eyed susans. The most successful in this area is Ageretum (floss-flower), but I've found it wildly invasive, and spend hours pulling seedings each year.
Thanks everyone. Sorry for the late reply. I would love to do a climbing rose or something bigger, but I'm trying to stay away from anything that might be neglected by future tenants and cause a nuisance for neighbors. There is a wisteria here that is out of control and the neighbors hate it. The yard was a little neglected when I moved in. I have seeds for marigold Jaguar and several different Cosmos, coneflowers and black eyed Susan. Save BES, I've started all of those indoors. I have Irish eyes coming up. Do they like heat? The package says full-part sun, but I often have different results then the seed company =) I would kind of like to do a love-lies-bleeding with Irish eyes in that corner, I think that or some marigolds would look striking together. Anyone had a love-lies-bleeding? I had never heard of them until someone posted a photo of hers on here a couple years ago. I saw it and knew I had to try it! Wondering what conditions they do best in?
Not really into yellow, but wish I had some of that Amaranthus to talk about. Very pretty! My Mom is always messing with BES's and it seems that if they have enough sun they get dry, so then you water, which they resent more... less sandy soil and thicker mulch would probably help, IDK.
IME, when a label says something other than full sun, it's the hot part of the afternoon that can be too much. Morning and/or afternoon sun is usually great for those plants. As one goes farther south, the less sun would be tolerated/needed.


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New York City elects socialist mayor, because why not?
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Will Rahn
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November 6, 2013
Bill de Blasio will be the next mayor of the nation's largest and most important city.
He will be the first Democratic mayor of New York City since 1993, when Rudy Giuliani defeated David Dinkins amid high crime rates and racial strife. De Blasio worked in Dinkins' City Hall, and prior to that volunteered with the radical socialist Sandinista movement in Nicaragua.
At age 26, de Blasio "went to Nicaragua to help distribute food and medicine in the middle of a war between left and right. But he returned with something else entirely: a vision of the possibilities of an unfettered leftist government," according to the New York Times.
De Blasio, who currently holds the largely symbolic position of "public advocate," will now have the chance to put that vision in action. He campaigned far to the left of his opponents in the Democratic primary, promising to roll back education reforms opposed by teachers unions and raise the city's already high taxes.
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I have to admit I had a good laugh at Glenn Beck's freakout the other day over Obama's recitation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Obama was apparently asked to recite Lincoln's original draft, aka the "Nicolay Version," which did not contain the words "under God" — and predictably the right wing pundits went nuts. Glenn Beck predictably shouted that Obama intentionally left the phrase out because, in Beck's words, "The man has an issue with God," and "he is changing our history, he is changing our traditions."
Ah, well, if only it were true. Imposition of religious belief by one faction on or via the nation's government is a travesty of huge proportion, and those who do so demand are, indeed, the ones engaged in the apparent never-ending process of "changing our history, . . . changing our traditions." And yes, it's a widespread truism that a great many Americans (myself among them) do indeed have "an issue with God," and would really appreciate it if believers would simply agree to practice their beliefs to their hearts' content — in their homes, their churches — and graciously allow the rest of us the privilege of practicing that which WE care to believe with similar freedom, all with no dogmatic imposition — via any official permission or authority — of any theological premise on the citizenry entire. Period.
In any case, Beck's freakout based on his vapid thesis that Obama has "an issue with God," reminded me of something I wrote many years ago, a poem which essentially defined MY "issue with God" in the context of efforts by so many to impose their narrow view on the expansive view of so many. So. Just for today, I dedicate the following to Glenn Beck and all other right wing nutcases who can't comprende any potential reality that lies elsewhere than in the (scant!) gray matter implicit between the ears of the insufferably narrow minded! Hi Glenn!
A Discourse
Dedicated to Creationists everywhere
And their adversaries
A godman and a skeptic met
To promulgate their views,
With godman's premise, Genesis,
And skeptic's, more the muse.
"God made the heavens and the Earth!"
The passioned godman says,
"And, furthermore, He did all this,
In only seven days!"
"But whence came God?" the skeptic asked,
With some temerity,
The godman said, "Don't question that,
For such is blasphemy! "
The skeptic glowered for a time,
Then asked, "How old's the Earth?"
"Six thousand years!" the godman said,
"Including day of birth!
"With firmaments united, then,
The Earth was paradise,
Where beasts and fields, and finally men,
Enjoyed all without vice!
"And God made Adam first, then Eve,
Who were, as you shall see,
Progenitors of all mankind,
Of all humanity!
"For from their loins came many sons,
Who married, then produced,
Our father's father's ancestors,
As, biblically, deduced!
"Thus, all the Earth is born of God!
And man's the child of Eve!
So, lie thee down in prostrate form
And hail the Lord! Believe!"
Then godman smiled, smug, and secure
His theses were correct,
For Genesis came straight from God,
In veritas, direct.
"Oh, I believe," the skeptic said,
"Though not the way you think,
From what I've heard, the Universe
Arrived in just a wink.
"A coalescing, then a flash,
And galaxies were cleaved
From ether, dust, and energy,
If science be believed.
"Five billion years, or ten, or twelve
Had passed, when life arrived,
And finally men, though not like us,
From lower forms derived.
"And, furthermore, a question, sir,
About the sons of Eve,
Whence came the daughters, for her sons,
Mankind, therefrom, conceived?"
The godman cringed and raised his hand
Toward heaven, in disgust,
"If those are your beliefs, my friend,
You'll burn in hell, please trust.
"For God, I know, has no rapport
With those who pray to see
The wisdom He withholds from men
For all eternity."
"Your last remark makes little sense,"
Said skeptic, feigning dread,
"If you are asking we believe
God deems our brains be dead.
"For, if somewhere in endless space
A Creator exists
Who gave us minds to seek out truth,
Then why should we resist?"
The godman's face showed beads of sweat,
He offered no reply,
He simply stared toward heaven' s void
As wispy clouds rolled by.
May heathen burn, the godman prayed,
They're evil, stubborn men,
And Lord, as why you sent them here?
Well, that's beyond my ken.
Perhaps to try me, for a time,
Before I'm laid to rest?
Convert some souls to heaven's song?
Yes, likely that's my test.
But sure it is now's not the time
To use the Holy See
As evidence, Your true intent,
Thy Word's inerrancy.
Then godman turned toward skeptic, sad,
This man, his nemesis,
Would not accept such grand design,
God' s apotheosis.
"We'll meet again, my wayward friend,
By then, perhaps, you'll learn,
That only through the Word of God,
In hell's fire, you won't burn!"
"I doubt it, sir," the skeptic said,
"For you've confirmed my choice,
That words beyond the biblical
Can speak with reasoned voice.
"And, too, you see, I have no need
To live in metaphor,
I'd rather seek, expand my mind,
Maintain an open door.
"To blindly mimic premises
Is not what God has deemed;
It seems more likely He mandates
That light, from dark, be gleaned,
"And so, my friend, while I suggest
That your beliefs you keep,
Accept your God views men as lambs,
Though not, I think, as sheep."
Then skeptic turned and walked away,
Face bent as if to smile,
Safe Genesis was put to bed,
If but for just awhile.