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H.R. 294 (103rd): To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to add Morro Bay, California, to the priority list of the national estuary program.
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This SoCal collector has a soft spot for Italian-American hybrids. The offerings include two of the eleven Intermeccanica Murenas ever built (supposedly of Elvis and Dean Martin), a cool looking Indra, and a perfectly restored Vetta Ventura. Find them all here on his private photo page in San Diego, California. Contact us at email@example.com if you are interested in reaching the seller directly.
This guy can call "scoreboard" on anybody who claims to be a bigger Intermeccanica fanatic. Here is the basic run-down:
The Ford-powered Murena above has only 2k miles on it and was originally purchased by Elvis Presley. It is the highest priced car of the bunch but we prefer the Indra below for its cool styling and Chevrolet LT-1 V8.
These cars are unusual for sure, but the condition and rarity of the models in this collection is noteworthy. They would be great to view and drive, and the project Murena is likely the only one you will ever find.
I am looking to give an Apollo or Vetta Ventura or an Indra a permanent homw to cherish and show and drive.
If you have one available , please contact me @ 214-718-0607
Thanx in Advance!
Richard Wright
Interesting collection of eclectic vehicles. The Intermeccanica Italias and the Apollo are beautiful vehicles
Are these cars still for sale? the website is still up- so i guess so!
Hi there.
I'm the author of a book published this year by Veloce Publishing entitled The Story of the Prancing Bull, a fully illustrated history of Intermeccanica.
Check it out to learn all about this wonderful company and family-owned and operated business.
OK, time for me to wade in. I am going to admit, right up front, my ignorance on matters relating to the IM cars listed here on this thread. Having said that, I have a long-simmering question for the group.
I have been curious, on and off, for some…..(well, I won't say how many) years about a car that I happened upon in the adjacent service line at the local Chrysler dealership in West Los Angeles while dropping off my mom's new Chrysler Tuna Boat Wagon for service. I was a mere lad in high school but driving by then, so this would have been around 1971, 2, or 3 I believe.
The car in question was brand new, looked like a Ferrari, and had the drive train of a Chrysler (440 I think). I have always remembered it as an Italia with body by Ghia (saw a name badge on the rocker, I think).
Now I am telling you this car was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous – style like a 70's Ferrari – ummhh, something like this:
Seemed to be a 2+2 with minimalist jump-seats in back, wire wheels, top notch glove soft leather, fall over in a dead faint wrap around dash and guages, elegant auto gear-changer in the center console, lots of real wood, blah, blah, blah…
I asked someone working there and they told me it was new and did indeed have a Chryser drivetrain and that it was in the shop for it's new car go-through before sale. I think the dealer was selling them at the time.
I have never seen anther since and until this blog, every reference to an Italia that I can find yielded pictures of something far different looking than what I saw. I don't have time to pore over this collector's album right now but I do quickly see some bodies in the main pic that seem more along the lines of my winsome lass. When I get back to this thread tonight, I was hoping you guys could help fill in some of the gaps for me…..?
Diggin' this site,
Along with my partner Charlie Schwendler we designed and had built 10 Murenas at Frank Reisner's factory in Turin Italy; Intermeccanica Automobili(in 1969)We showed the car at the NY Auto show November 1969. The show car was sold to Prestige Motors in Beverly Hills(a Maserati dealer). We then brought in the other 9 over a 6 month period(through our import company, Murena Motors, Inc. I can tell you that we never sold one of these cars to either Elvis or Dean Martin
As stated above, all of these cars are a part of a private collection by a San Diegan businessman. After retiring this private collection has been his hobby for the last 3 years. In total he has around 30 cars located in San Diego.
Might as well rant, too… DW, read my post again.
T-Birds clearly commented on as solid sale material.
Speedster's faux-ness won't dissuade the BJ crowd.
Deferred maintenance is the same on all cars, just depends on how long that deferment has been. And fair assessment, just opinion of course, seems very fair.
Where did you say your restoration shop is again?
For someone with such an obtuse, opinionated writing style, reading with comprehension must be a chore.
Listening without prejudice is good.
Learn something new every day.
Such as: Alfettas rule!
@Darrell Wilhelm: I've let a couple days pass so as not to go off topic – but I really have to ask what makes the Alfa Romeo Alfetta Sedan a piece of "four-wheeled garbage"? Have you driven one? Owned one? Are you just repeating the SCM rating? What is it that makes people love to bash these cars? They have the same engine as every other 4 cyl. 2 liter Alfa that was sold – so it's not the engine. They were made with the same crappy rust-prone Russian steel that every other contemporary Alfa/Fiat/Lancia was built with – so you can't single it out for that. They were assembled alongside the Bertone GTV (which in Europe was built through '76), so it can't have worse build quality than that car. It does have a transaxle with inboard rear disk brakes that give it 50/50 weight distribution, it's a fantastically comfortable and nimble touring/sport sedan, with amazing packaging for 4 adults plus plenty of luggage. So what gives?
And yes – I own one, and have owned one continuously for over 16 years as my daily driver. I've had other cars (and currently also have a Fulvia) but none (including the Fulvia) do everything as well as the Alfetta does with as high of a fun-to-drive quotent.
Off my rant – back to regular programming ;)
Interesting group of cars. Probably more Intermeccanicas in one place than were even in the factory at one time. I'm not sure of the business sense in such a venture, but you have to admire the single-mindedness of the owner.
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As the first person said "Wow". I want that Murena Wagon. Once again "Wow".
Pirate- I still want a German-built Ford Capri. If I had one, I would definitely save it.
Shoog, when I referred to deferred maintenance, I was talking about things like the brakes and wiring, which are probably not the same as on a Corvette, Mustang or Charger, RDH, you apparently forgot about the two-seat T-birds, which are not "niche" cars, and the Porsche Speedster replica doesn't even look like the real McCoy, Geoffrey, they only built 11 Murenas, and perhaps half of them still exist, and Pirate, there are a few people out there who like German-built Ford Capris. I am one of them, and I think that a Capri in good condition with no rust makes a good first special-interest European car or unique daily driver.
I do agree if I was to spend 250 large on a Elvis it better be a Caddy or 426 Hemi Cuda with macthing #'s and photos of Elvis performing bizarre sex acts in the back seat with a copy todays New York times plainly visible. But these cars are only worth what some eBayer will bid in the long run. Im just always glad to see a car collection that someone has put together gives me hope for the day mine hits the auction block and I hear all you guys say "Why would anyone save german built Ford Capri?"
How many of those Murena's are there? Because that 69 looks exactly like one we had in our shop in CT several years back for some interior work… same color, same wheels, same everything. It has to be the same car. It was a bit of a piece of you-know-what, a big, awkward, bitsa car- but interesting to look at for a little while anyway.
I had no idea it was an ex-Elvis car. Still, considering that I've seen it in person, the Elvis factor doesn't make it any nicer.
Hey, I love this collection; so much cooler than a bunch of Camaros or Mustangs! I differ from the comments above, Ill take that Iso any day!
I actually like that Elvis Murena a lot. Looks like an overgrown Hot Wheels car, very 1960's Kal Kustom. But $250K seems like very wishful thinking, unless the Elvis provenance makes a car worth 3X what it would be otherwise.
Geez, such seriousness. You have to admit it's an odd bunch of cars under one roof. Yes, Elvis's Murena can be driven… but $250K? Lights look to be Fiat units, and interior parts.. well, they only built a handful so who's to say (or care) what's correct? The Martin Murena even sports a Ferrari badge and appears to use Fiat 850 tail lights. Most of these cars have potential with the right audience and would probably do best with Barrett Jackson. After taking some time to wade through the photo albums, it's fair assesment time.
The GT500 is a money maker, the other Mustangs and the Cougars should do OK. Tupperware Speedster? B & J seems to sell 'em regularly for top dollar. Tired Merc SL in yellow, good luck. Decent Healy should be OK.
The Rivieras will find happy buyers in Lowrider world.
Decent T-Birds always find buyers. Unusal to see an E-Type based Jamaican, that might be all it takes but still an oddity. Avanti II's? Uhhh, no. The group of Intermecanicca's are compelling for rarity and if presented well to say, a Gooding's or RM audience, might just be hits. Let's encourage the seller to consider better marketing and wish him well.
Well this dosent appear to be a dealer but a collector, who is letting us look at his pirvate photo page. The photos seem to be takin with a Canon Powershot SD900 which is 10 mega pixil (and better than my camera). Not enough steel in the Shelby GT500KR, 1964 corvette, Buick, and Mercedes for you, the 1956 Porsche might tip the scale. As so far as, the guy collecting ugly cars, well there's no accounting for taste and I'll say again if I had a small fraction of these cars in my garage I would deem it a worthy collection. Oh and by the way not all Italians speak with a Jersey accent, capiech.
I am shocked no one has said anything about the '69 Sport Wagon!
C'mon, give the kid a break. He may just be a car guy with some really really reeaallyyy strange taste and an iPhone, but he's still a car guy.
Elvis's car is worth "10x Deano" because, for one thing, it could actually be driven. Even if you could restore the Dean Martin car, when was the last time you saw interior parts or tail lights for a seriously decrepit Murena? The 429 under the hood poses no problems, but trying to make it look like something would be a monumental pain in the bee-hind.
I see gold chains and printed Quiana shirts in many of these car's histories.
We know the guy (or his kid) owns a Mac and an iPhone,
and has a warehouse full of ugly… somehow it's not surprising he wouldn't hire a professional to catalogue his treasures. "Hey, Patch, dese cahs ovaheah, you want dey should be photographed?" "Nah, fughetaboudit."
Excepting the Healy, Mustangs & Buick, the collecting continuity here seems to be fiberglass and "niche" market. Good luck with the sale, paisan!
The Murenas are kinda cool, though… but should Elvis really be worth 10X Deano? That's not amore.
Interesting. Mostly ugly but interesting. Wouldn't he want to actually hire a photographer and post high res images of these? I don't get it. Looks like they used an iPhone pointing towards the sun to take most of these, and then posted them at really low res. GLWTS.
So is that photo page all there is for this dealer's website? What about details and pricing? Am I missing it, or what?
Deferred maintenance? These Italian cars are all have American V8s and can be rebuilt or revived easily with parts from NAPA.
An interesting collection, but homely styling across the board.
These are all very nice and very rare cars, but always watch out for rust and deferred maintenance when buying an Italian car from the 1960s or 1970s. Also, the Vetta Ventura was nice and quite similar to the Apollo featured last month, but the Iso Lele also seen on the Intermeccanica seller's website is not a good-looking car at all and is not as well-liked as the Grifo, Rivolta and Fidia, to say the least, giving it very low marks for collectibility in Keith Martin of Sports Car Market's "Collecting Cars" book. The Intermeccanicas are all nice cars, and are arguably more reliable than a contemporary Ferrari or Maserati, but it's a shame that the Iso Lele is ranked with the Triumph TR7, Alfa Romeo Alfetta sedan and other pieces of four-wheeled garbage. It doesn't deserve to be there, regardless of popularity and appearance.
Um, wow. One of the nicest stables of classics I've seen. At least a dozen cars on my wish list. Just Wow.
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Among the best offerings of spring�s garden are the tender new roots that flourish in the slowly warming earth�the slim young carrots, bright beets and radishes, and sweet baby turnips. Rarely found in conventional markets, these delicacies are what make growing one�s own produce, or at the very least, finding the nearest Farmer�s Market, worthwhile.
Spring turnips in particular have a sweetness and delicacy that all too soon gives way to more robust flavors as the vegetables grow large and fat in summer�s lusty heat. To preserve their delicacy and bring out their best, I rarely look any further than this lovely two-hundred-year-old recipe from one of the South�s earliest (and still best) cookbooks:
Ragout of Turnips.
Peel as many small turnips as will fill a dish; put them into a stew pan with some butter and a little sugar, set them over a hot stove, shake them about, and turn them till they are a good brown; pour in half a pint of rich high seasoned gravy, stew the turnips till tender, and serve them with the gravy poured over them.�
� Mary Randolph, The Virginia House-wife, 1824.
Mrs. Randolph�s ragout is actually a classic French recipe for glazed turnips, one that she almost certainly learned from the French-trained cooks at Monticello. Jefferson�s great granddaughter, Martha Jefferson Trist Burke recalled having had the dish there, but unhappily her recollections were dim at best and her attempt at a recipe was, to put it bluntly, completely inept. Fortunately, her great-grandfather�s cookbook-writing cousin was paying better attention, because her rendition is lucid and absolutely right.
At Monticello, this would have been prepared (as Mrs. Randolph suggests) on the stew stove in the state-of-the-art French kitchen that Jefferson added to the south wing dependencies in 1809. Here, for modern cooks, is the same recipe with a little more illuminating detail.
Ragout of Turnips (Navets Glac�s, or Glazed Turnips)
Serves 4
2 pounds very small young turnips of the same size
2-3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon sugar
1 cup rich, well seasoned veal or beef broth
Wash, peel, and trim the turnips to uniform rounds or ovals. Over medium heat, melt the butter in a saut� pan that will comfortably hold the turnips in one layer.
Add the turnips and raise the heat to medium high. Shake the pan until they are evenly coated with butter and then sprinkle the sugar over them. Saut�, shaking the pan to keep them rolling, until they are uniformly golden brown, about 4-to-5 minutes.
Add the broth, bring it to a boil, and then cover and reduce the heat to medium low. Simmer, frequently but gently shaking the pan, until the turnips are tender, about 10-15 minutes.
What Mrs. Randolph doesn�t tell us is that the �gravy� should be reduced to a glaze. If it isn�t, uncover and briefly raise the heat and cook until the liquid is almost evaporated, again gently but almost continuously shaking the pan. She also doesn�t mention what I usually do�swirl in a pat of fresh butter at the end, which is in keeping with classic technique.
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Efficient Hydroformylation in Dense Carbon Dioxide using Phosphorus Ligands without Perfluoroalkyl Substituents
Koeken, Ard C.J. and Benes, Nieck E. and Broeke, Leo J.P. van den and Keurentjes, Jos T.F. (2009) Efficient Hydroformylation in Dense Carbon Dioxide using Phosphorus Ligands without Perfluoroalkyl Substituents. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 351 (9). pp. 1442-1450. ISSN 1615-4150
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Abstract: | Rhodium catalysts modified with triphenylphosphine, triphenyl phosphite, and tris(2,4-di-tert-butylphenyl) phosphite have been evaluated for their performance in the hydroformylation of 1-octene using carbon dioxide as the solvent. It is demonstrated that these catalysts are very efficient for the hydroformylation in carbon dioxide, although they are not designed for use in this medium. In particular, the catalyst prepared in situ from dicarbonyl(2,4-pentanedione)rhodium(I) and tris(2,4-di-tert-butyl-phenyl) phosphite gave rise to an initial turnover frequency in excess of 3×104 molaldehyde molRh h-1. Such a reaction rate is unprecedented for hydroformylation in supercritical carbon dioxide-rich reaction mixtures |
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We had a great breakfast buffet with a view of the water. Delightful and a really yummy meal! The staff was also very helpful.
We had a great breakfast buffet with a view of the water. Delightful and a really yummy meal! The staff was also very helpful.
We had a great breakfast buffet with a view of the water. Delightful and a really yummy meal! The staff was also very helpful.
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Wonderful location for a very nice older hotel that has lots of charm. Located right along the water, it gives you a nice feel of the New England coast.
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On a late evening recently, we enjoyed a quick dinner at Heckman's Pub at The Nonantum Resort. The Heckman Burger was one of the best I have had. The half rack of Blueberry Ribs, were fall off the bone delicious. The Pub is a delightful, intimate place. I could also imagine a small group gathering for a drink at the... More
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My husband and I visit Kennebunkport twice a year and always dine at 95 Ocean. The food is excellent...my husband is addicted to their ribs in a blueberry sauce. They are so tender and tasty! The restaurant has nightly specials that are always very good and also very reasonable. On our last visit I had the Lazy Man's Baked Stuffed... More
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Talented chef with a balanced menu. Had the bbq ribs - like heaven. My husband had the salmon - exceptional. Service very attentive, even with a tour bus to feed in the adjacent dinning room.
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If your idea of a "Maine Lobster Pie" entree for $29 is my wife's soup bowl of corn chowder with some bits of lobster floating in it (in total, we estimated, about the amount in one claw), then this is the place for you. It's not for us. Nor was the 12 minute wait after we were seated with no... More
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Ate the Sunday special, with lobster, seafood chowder, mussels, corn and baked potato for $20 or so. I would have been happy to pay more and get higher quality food; the chowder and mussels were good but the lobster was not good quality nor was the corn and potato. The server was sweet but slow; I think she had too... More
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The food was excellent but they are a little pricey. We would go back though as it was very good. The service is excellent and they offer nightly entertainment in the summer. We had a lovely pianist and this added a nice touch to our meal.
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Nov. 22, 2009
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"It was a tough game. Give credit to Baylor. They travel to some touch places and Kim does a good job of getting them ready. I think they were a tougher team tonight. They did what they needed to do to win the game. They pushed tempo and played aggressive. We fell back on our heels and did not do what we needed to do."
"I am most disappointed in our offense. The shooting percentage is low, but what I am most disappointed in is that no shots are coming out of the flow on offense. They are rushed one-on-ones. We only had eight assists on 59 attempts. Nothing is out of the flow of the offense. As much time as we have spent on quarter-court execution, we can shoot the ball. We can make shots. When you are trying to go one-on-one in every opportunity, you are not going to get good looks, especially against a really good team."
"We are in search of some chemistry on the offensive end. Right now the rotations are out of sorts because there is not a natural rhythm to what that rotation looks like. I feel like our hands are forced. We need to have a natural rhythm and a good substitution pattern. We are in search of it right now and that is not where anyone wants to be."
"Early on we tried to change it [the defense on Griner] up as much as we could. We tried pressing and double teaming. Once she got into the flow, and she got that little turnaround jumper working, we were late to the double teams. We were playing some trapping defenses and people weren't in the right places. I think defensively we'll come along. I am not as concerned about that. I can see where that is headed. It is developing. I am more concerned about the speed that we play on offense. Do the kids know what they are looking for? Are they cutting hard. The flow of that is a little disturbing. We need to get a better flow."
Senior guard Alexis Gray-Lawson
"I was trying to be a little bit aggressive in the beginning and they were taking things away, and I just didn't adjust."
"We are a young team and we just have to continue to work hard. We are not doing that part right now. That is one of the things that sets us up to be successful. We have to work hard."
"We gotta find a way to win. That's Cal basketball, that we find a way no matter. We can't make excuses for ourselves and what we could have done or should have done."


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Talk from the top -- how to pass your business audition.
Steve Williams can make or break a business. As chief executive of Gulf Finance, he's judged hundreds of applications for funding from firms across the region. He's sent many a small business on the road to success, and politely had to turn down dozens of other hopefuls.Doing the latter gives him no pleasure. It's a bit like being a judge on a talent show like American Idol, he explains, adding: "You are kind of rooting for them as an individual even if you know the road that they are going down is just wrong -- it is the wrong product or it is at the wrong timeC* and then the best thing that we can ever do to them is hold up the mirror and say 'I am really sorry, but we don't think this is right and this is why'."
When it comes to deciding which businesses are worthy of his firm's money, Williams is looking for a particular breed of firm. If you're a fresh-off-the-boat entrepreneur trying to bring an idea from a more developed market to the UAE, he is happy to leave you to a private equity firm or wealthy 'angel investor'. If you're a sophisticated and long-established firm you can go to a regular bank.
But if you're one of the hundreds of small firms with an established track record who need help to take them to the next level then you're right up his street. Pass that test, and his firm's experts will sit down with a business and meticulously go through its incomings and outgoings, its invoices and ideas.
"This isn't to catch people out, this is really to make sure we are doing right by the client and not putting them in a position they can't afford to then pay us back," he says.
"If all they can do is talk a good story, then it is not in our interest to lend that individual money because they could very easily be in over their head. That's terrible for them, and it's not really good for us either."
Even if you have a solid business plan your firm can still face serious problems further down the road. Williams has seen it many times. "The number one casualty-causer for businesses in this environment is over-trading. Biting off more than they can chew," he says.
"That comes from the energetic environment that exists in Dubai. When you get into business out here it is a case of 'go, go, go' -- let's get the website, let's get the branding, lets get the premises, let's hire two or three people and off we go." All too often, many firms soon find themselves struggling with a cash flow problem as clients don't pay their bills on time.
"Most of us, if we didn't have a salary coming in, after two months we'd be in a jam, after three months we'd be almost destitute. Now apply that to a business scenario," Williams says. As company managers chase suppliers for payment instead of doing what they should be doing, their firm's performance starts to slide -- the start of a vicious cycle that can be the beginning of the end.
Williams' advice, is that "for any period in the first two to three years you have to have the ability to trade for six months without any money coming in". If that's a reminder of just how tough growing a small business can be, at least UAE firms are now operating in a far better environment than was the case a few years ago.
"I think there is a lot of optimism, but I don't want to badge it as 'the boom is back'," he says. "I would rather say I think there is a period of stability where we can get things going." A self-confessed optimist, he is confident there are plenty more success stories to come for Gulf Finance, which has financed enterprises to the tune of Dhs3 billion in recent years.
But what about those ventures he has politely decided his firm can't help? He says: "If they decide to go on and go for it, we wish them every luck in the world. I am very, very happy to be proved wrong."
Name: STEVE WILLIAMS
Firm: GULF FINANCE
Position: CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Q WHATCeWAS YOUR FIRST JOB?
A I joined Lloyds bank at a very early age as a cashier, having done about four weeks as a paper boy before that.
A The particular individual who taught me the ability to assess credit. That it is not a checklist of things, it's more subjective -- how does it feel in your gut? This guy taught me that 20 years ago, and he's retired now, but I fly him out here about two or three times a year to teach the same thing to my staff.
Q WHATCeWAS THE BEST DAY OF YOUR CAREER?
A We have board meetings and we go through 20 or 30 deals one after the other, and it is incredibly mentally challenging. But at the end of it, if you come out and approve six or seven per cent of those deals and you know that some of those businesses are going to be successful, then it feels satisfying.
A My wife Claire and I are gym junkies so I go to the gym a lot. As you would expect from somebody who is finance I play a bit of golf, but I don't play very well. I have a fabulous family who are the best kind of relaxation of all.
Q WHAT ARECeYOURCeREMAININGCeCAREERCeGOALS?
A I think Gulf Finance can be the biggest regional finance company. There isn't one at the moment. There are companies that operate in the UAE, in Kuwait -- but no-one is across the region. We are expanding into Saudi Arabia later this year and we will be the first regional finance company. We're called Gulf Finance, we've got the perfect brand -- it's what we do and it's where we do it.
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