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1960 Chevy Pickup Truck - The BluesmobileWritten by on October 1, 2009 Classic Truck Style
It's not often one can relate Jake and Elwood Blues' Bluesmobile to trucks, but when it comes to Max Cross' '60 Chevy it's more or less a kissing cousin. Underneath all that classic GM sheetmetal lays a cop motor, cop brakes, and a cop tranny.
Growing up in his dad's salvage yard Max Cross grew to understand, respect, and know automobiles. But it wasn't until he got to help his older brother build a '56 Ford-when he was just a kid-did he grow to love automobiles, and especially trucks. His soft spot was always the '60 Chevy, and as soon as time and money permitted Max built himself a show-stopping '60 Chevy truck. However, the ride was short lived because he had to part ways with it. (And no he didn't trade it away for a microphone like Elwood did.) Needless to say, that day had always haunted him, and he vowed to get another one someday. So when a customer came into Cross Auto Body, Max's collision shop, and said he was short on cash but had a '60 Chevy truck he was willing to pawn off Max didn't hesitate. From that day on, Max set his sights on building the '60 to fill the void that had been left open for so many years.
Max started off by stripping the truck down to its bare hull. From there the stock torsion bar setup was yanked and the crossmember and suspension from an '87 Chevy was placed between the rails. To correct the factory stance a set of Early Classic Enterprises 2-inch drop spindles and Air Ride Technology airbags were thrown in the mix. For a powerplant the idea of a GM Tuned Port Injection motor burned in Max's head, but as the Rolling Stones said, "You can't always get what you want." However, what the Stones didn't mention is that sometimes what you end up with is better than what you wanted! Max's brother, Allen, turned him onto a totaled '94 Caprice police car equipped with an Impala SS LT1 motor. The idea of a TPI motor was long gone. Being that the LT1 was equipped with a Police Interceptor tune, it was plenty sufficient on horsepower, and found its way under the hood. To get things to gel Max did fabricate a custom air intake with a K&N air filter and added a Street and Performance ignition system. The motor exhales through a set of polished stainless steel MagnaFlow pipes and mufflers. Backing the motor is a cop 4L60E. Max also tossed the cop rearend into the '60, which not only equipped the truck with a stout posi-trac rearend but it also added disc brakes to the build. To complement the front suspension a set of ART airbags were installed in place of the coil springs on the trailing arms. Lastly, a No Limit Engineering gas tank was installed and Max plumbed the entire truck with braided stainless line.
Since the day Max had to sell his first '60 Chevy truck to make ends meet, he pined over the day he would be able to get the behind the wheel of another one he could call his own. Therefore, when it came time to build this '60 Chevy truck he was leaving the appearance of it stock. But if you ask Max if there was any custom work done he'll tell you plenty, because it took hours upon hours of work to get all that vintage sheetmetal straight again! Once everything was squared away Max rolled the Chevy into the paint booth at Cross Auto Body and laid down a decadent PPG Victory Red paintjob. In a few key areas Max decided to break up all that red with hints of PPG Tan. As for that bitchin' '60 Chevy trim it was sent off to Extreme Metal Custom Polishing for David Meeks to straighten and polish. The bed is a new Oak bed floor coated in urethane clear. Topping it all off is a set of American Racing Hopster 17-inch rims wrapped in Goodyear rubber, 225/50 up front and 255/55 out back.
For the most part Max was a lone ranger when it came to restoring the Chevy, but when it came time to finish off the interior some hired guns were in order. But first, Max equipped the cab with an '87 tilt-column and LeCarra steering wheel. Next, he installed a set of Dakota Digital gauges inside the '60 Chevy dash pod. In order to cruise in comfort an Old Air Products air-conditioning system was ordered and installed. Yet, something was still missing before final upholstery, a center console. Max and his wife, Brenda, built the custom center console that houses cup holders, a Sony radio and speakers, air vents, and the ever-so-important airbag switches and vital signs. At that point the truck could then be dropped off at Rick Fisher Custom Upholstery to get outfitted in tan leather. With the truck all done, the final thing to cross off the list was to christen the Chevy and hit the road. Max settled on "Changes," because although he has witnessed many changes, one thing has held steady, his love of '60 Chevy trucks. Even Jake would be glad to call this machine the new Bluesmobile.


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Is there a way that you can verify that the Nemo Wide is capable of 3 Nitrox mixes and its ability to handle oxygen concentrations of up to 99%?
Hello Jose, if you go to: http://www.mares.com/products/computers/wrist-computer/nemo-wide/349/?region=us. That will take you to the computer specs from the manufacture directly. Yes it will do 3 different gases and the bottom mix is the only one that goes to 50% O2. The travel and deco mixes will go to 99% O2. If you have any other questions or would like to place an order please feel free to give us a call at 1.800.347.2822.
Hi, in your specs you state that the Nemo Wide is capable of 3 nitrox mixes and up to 99%. Can you please confirm these facts because I downloaded a manual and it does not say anything about 3 gas mixes and is only capable of up to 50%, not 99%. Is your Nemo an upgraded version? Thank you.
can this unit be mounted in a console or attached to the console? i am using an old aladdin dive computer that has been d but cannot get it into a nitrox setting. i would like to replace with this but not as a wrist mount.
Hi can you help me with these. If you have to decide between the mares nemo wide ir the mares matrix Which Will be the best computer and why? Thanks you
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Two hot chicks at a bar will have a really nasty fat ugly bitch hanging out with them, refered to as a "DUFF".
"Wow that fat DUFF is hanging out with those two attractive ladies, too bad."
"Wow that fat DUFF is hanging out with those two attractive ladies, too bad."
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Designated Ugly Fat Friend.
That 3rd girl is definitely the duff of the group.
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An abbreviation for 'Designated Ugly Fat Friend'. Often in many large groups of women (usually adolecents) there will be a D.U.F.F. as a means to look better by comparison.
I only hang out with her becuase I need a D.U.F.F., otherwise, she'd be, so, history.
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A unattractive female who is always seen with another female who is marginally more attractive. It is usually impossible to score with the hotter female without the duff receiving her fair share of the action.
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Starting Line: Name That Project CarWritten by David Freiburger on January 15, 2013
Brace yourself for glaring hypocrisy in 3, 2, 1: I'm not into naming cars. This from a magazine guy who does just that for a living. I pick and choose what's cool or not based on nuance that only exists in my own head.
Mostly, I can't stand using people names for cars. My parents do it. Their MG is Monte, their Grand Cherokee is Elliot, and the flatfender Jeep is Eugene. The latter is somewhat tolerable with its connection to Popeye's Eugene the Jeep character, which is likely where the vehicles got their brand name. But typically, the anthropomorphizing of cars gets under my skin. I can't even stand it when people refer to cars as she or her and he or him.
Everyone these days wants a project-car name that's either wordplay or pun-based. That's probably the fault of magazine guys; the first example I can think of is HOT ROD's 1957 Plymouth land-speed racer called Suddenly, a reference to the 1957 Plymouth ad line, "Suddenly It's 1960." Popular Hot Rodding magazine's famous Project X came in 1965. Car naming went rampant in the 1980s and 1990s: Who could forget CadZZilla, the Cheez Whiz 1955, or FrankenStude? I'm responsible for the seemingly memorable Cheap Thrills Dart, Crusher Camaro, and F-Bomb. Finnegan and I would not have bothered with that 1974 Jaguar we messed with in the last issue had we not realized we could call it the Draguar, which made us laugh. Even when a magazine car has no name, if it's popular, readers assign it one. People still ask me about a Car Craft project that's become known generically yet universally as The Orange Duster. The 1966 Buick project in this issue also has no name.
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California's Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan has identified hot rodding's historic El Mirage Dry Lake area as the potential site of an electricity-generating wind farm. See www.DRECP.org, and politely share your opinion that this simply cannot happen.
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Looks better than last weeks phantom/fake depth chart.
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It says page not found when I clicked on it
it is on the cyclones.com website under the team roster if the link doesn't work
Originally Posted by brianhos
Looks better than last weeks phantom/fake depth chart.
I wonder what was up with the Dailey putting that one out, or where they got that info....
Is there any chance that Braaksma's weight is being intentionally underreported?
I thought Sandvig was going to start at CB. Other than that, very few surprises.
yeah, the only surprise i really saw was Bell & Singleton starting at the corners. they must have had a great last week of practice.
Bell & Singleton started the GridIron Scrimmage. Berg was the surprise for me.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" - Winston Churchill
I'm very interested to see the real James Smith (broken ankle last year).
It's still not coming up for me...
Go Sssssssssyclones!
Biggest suprise to me was no Milan Moses. Also Trey Bassinger at backup tackle and Travis Ferguson #2 DE.
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It's still not coming up for me...
Sounds like a personal problem you should keep to yourself...
I'm surprised at the d-line 2 deep. I was hoping that some of the other juco d-lineman would have stepped up by now, especially Tate. I was really hoping he would challenge Braaksma - I like the kid, but I just worry about his size at the Big 12 level. He's listed as 262 on the roster, and 254 on the 2-deep. Weird.
Originally Posted by zmjames6
Biggest suprise to me was no Milan Moses. Also Trey Bassinger at backup tackle and Travis Ferguson #2 DE.
True, no moses, very surprising. Baysinger has been getting some rave reviews though. I'd like to see him redshirted to save some eligibility as we have some really young tackles on the team.
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Royals Charities partners with Heart to Heart for tornado relief effort
Royals Charities, the charitable arm of the Kansas City Royals, has announced its support of local relief efforts for two area communities – Joplin, Mo., and Reading, Kan. – that were hit by devastating tornadoes over the weekend with a $35,000 donation to Heart to Heart International, an emergency response organization based in Olathe, Kan.
Royals Charities is contributing $25,000 to the Heart to Heart relief effort in Joplin after a massive tornado tore a six-mile path through the heart of the city yesterday. Early estimates suggest 25 to 30 percent of Joplin was destroyed, and the tornado left many dead, injured or displaced.
Heart to Heart, which has already deployed volunteer medical professionals, supplies and a mobile medical clinic to Joplin, expects to be in the area for several days to offer medical supplies and services to rescue workers and residents.
In addition, Royals Charities will also be donating $10,000 to the relief efforts in Reading, a small community of 250 people located approximately 50 miles south of Topeka, Kan. Reading was hit by an EF3 tornado on Saturday evening.
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Students robbed at Foothill College
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Foothill College Campus Police reported that a young man allegedly armed with a gun confronted two male students and stole their backpacks Nov. 19.
Foothill College spokesman Kurt Hueg told the Town Crier the suspect encountered the victims on a footbridge connecting the school's gymnasium to the main campus area. Statements from the victims claimed that the suspect had a gun tucked into his belt during the robbery, which occurred at approximately 9 a.m., Hueg said.
The suspect, who remains at large, was last seen running on the school's footbridge onto the campus. He is described as an 18- to 25-year old African-American standing 5-foot, 7-inches tall and weighing 160 pounds. He has close-cropped black hair and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.


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What do you think happened to President Obama's "red line" regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria?
As a woman who's been through more than one delivery, valor in service that is worthy of a CMH and labor to deliver a child into this world are two very different things.
Apples and oranges.
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Thank you for your time of service to your country, willgrr and all the vets who did or didn't post here.
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One of the finest men our family knew was a WWII Marine who saw action at Iwo Jima. He didn't talk specifically about his experiences. He was a gentle man who loved his family, his friends, his gardens and his country.
Every clear day, my kids saw this man raise the US flag in front of his house. Every evening, he lowered it and folded it "regulation." He was pleased to teach my kids the proper way to treat the flag. It had to be done right too.
At his funeral, we found out from his daughter that he had a highly developed sense of humor. We knew him as the best of neighbors. We sure miss him.
A part of his younger life was spent serving us, the people of his country. Vets like him should receive good treatment from their country afterwards. This is just my opinion.
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OK, all. It's time for me to come clean.
I didn't, did not, serve in the armed forces. I have a brother, a sister, and other extended family members who have served, but that's as close as it got for me.
I have much respect for those who have given a portion of their lives in service to their countrymen. The ones I have the most feelings for are the Vietnam vets, who received contempt for their service instead of the respect they should have received.
Wars are hell. Men and women who have the uniform on during a war go through*****too. Our country should do what it can to be of service to our vets after they've served their time for us.
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I would bet that it took BDGI at least two or three hours to come up with that question. Now, you definitely need that nap.. Oh, and take your alzheimers pills too.
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Did you think of that all by yourself, BDGI? You must need a nap by now. Such a huge strain on you. Maybe you are just good at conspiracy theories.
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Your grandson certainly got his spine from his mother because your sniveling, crybaby, whining would not serve him well in the service. Your massive hatred, racism, and plain lack of intelligence make you the poster boy for the far right wing crazies. Yep, you aren't much of a man and yellow certainly is your color.
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Veritas, I've said before that you and willgrr have that Rant Patrol On Conservatives Only (RPOCO) thing all sewn up. billdoesnt, dustoff, and more don't stand a chance of having any of their posts ignored.
Why would I get in the way of all that diligence?
Get after it. No holds barred. Call every conservative post a hyperbolic rant.
It is simpler that way, isn't it, to think that all conservatives are one and the same. And I have seen many liberals think that, but I won't say ALL liberals think that.
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You hatred know no bounds. Going over and over Benghazi is just showing how little you know. Your information is incorrect and at best an indication that you have nothing to put forth but lies and hatred. Oh, and I am sure you have a grandson over there and he is probably the commander of the entire war zone. You guys always have experience or knowledge of things at the highest level. That yellow sheen is coming off your back and it is visible even through your hatred and rage.
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Yep, dusty, when you have nothing, you repeat nothing over and over. I stated that Tripoli was not a secured airfield and the jets could not land there. That was a factual statement and follows international rules and military protocol. But, you know nothing about that as with most all of your posts.
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"During the eight years that Bush was in office, the image of America abroad took a pretty hard hit. In Bush's last year in office, I spent some time volunteering in a village in Peru. A farmer took me to see his donkey tied behind the shed. He pointed at it and said, "His name is Bush." Excerpt from an article written by Adam Hogue ten months ago. How true.
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hyperbole (noun)
1. obvious and intentional exaggeration. 2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as "to wait an eternity."
"Hope the time off was good for you and yours, Veritas. Coincidentally, it was good for some of us here too. Now we can get back to "normal" again..."
Hmmm...is it hyperbole or not?
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No, Veritas, I said the time off (from your lib talking points - thanks Missy) was enjoyable.
I think you're being thick-headed on purpose.
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Back at ya, Centerfield. You only hear and read what you want. And your point is? Oh yea, you want, you are owed, and Obama promised. Everyone but the Liberals are Racist, hates women , hates everything. I got your talking points. Get Real, yourself.
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Back to the right wing philosophy. Never met a war, you did not like. But, lets do this. You want boots on the ground, how about putting your grandsons in the first wave of those ground troops. Lets see your yellow streaks show up on you backs.
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Come on missy, get real. Right wing summaries don't count for much. Now, the Pew Foundation did a report in 2008 covering the previous ten years. Not what you want to read. Bush's was viewed as " little confidence/no confidence" in foreign countries was uniform-- He averaged between 75-80% with an unfavorable view of him. Not just European countries but all around the world.
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billdoesntgetit...little o was at the golf course on the back nine today while the UN was deciding to go to war on WMD that Saddam himself sold to Syria
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Now, when did Saddam get those weapons that Bush could not find? Well, When the messiah was in office, Iraq used those weapons against Iran. Gosh, did we know that for a fact...Yes we did. Ronnie knew it but said nothing. Iran even came to the UN with samples but the US did nothing. Selective reasoning. So, did Saddam have those weapons at one time or another. YEP, he did. Did Bush find them after killing so many innocent people??.. NOPE. Did the US look like a fool in the eyes of the world? YEP
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Gosh, mini and BDGI, you must have missed the question. How many civilians (Iraqi and others) (innocent) (shock and awe heck) were killed by Republican (Bush/Cheney/Rumfeld) lies. Oh, as long as you are looking, look up how many Allied soldiers were killed, how many were wounded, and how many have committed suicide since it began. Now, maybe you could site your sources to verify the transfer of these weapons to Syria. Now, calm down. I am not saying that Iraq at one time did not have those kinds of weapons. After all, you brought it up. You prove it. Or, as Veritas says, another conspiracy theory which is the staple of those who know nothing. So, don't be like loco, who brings things up but cannot defend them. Oh, shucks, you guys are already doing that...
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By the way just Google it. You can get the facts. (In case you didn't know.)
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Veritas, nice try. I have more important things to do than you. Look up your facts and report back. With your one finger.
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The worlds opinion of the administration of (2001-2008) was just arrogant,disrespectful & just plain stupid!!!
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Just had to say it again!
veritas...list your source and date as proof of what you can say what you want huh...
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veritas... why are you on the defensive??? As namexxx would say have another beer...and enjoy...Never retract...Distract! The Republican way...
It's an ongoing book with 4 pages so far...What can I say?
veritas...that's your words, and what has little o have done smoke and mirrors and saying that DC is distracted by these phony scandals!!! Man you got jokes tonight
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Veritas, look it up. Say what you want, who cares? And by the way, You have no Proof. Just your "Liberal over and over and over again", talking points. Big deal.
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The Wildcats came into the national meet ranked No. 27 in the country and ran terrific as a team, taking home 10th with a strong race by Jeremy Bryan who took 46th in a time of 25:34 leading all Wildcats.
The freshman won the Heart of America Athletic Conference Individual Championship and finished just 16 spots out of All-American status on Saturday. The Top 30 finishers earned All-America honors.
Aaron Caldwell took home 61st on Saturday in a time of 25:46 and Eric Larson finished 99th with a time of 26:08.
The men's 8K race had 309 total runners and Justin Bryan finished just behind Larson in 102nd-place in a time of 26:11.
Taylor Nall helped Baker to that 10th-place finish with a time of 26:22 and 120th-place individual finish.
Cooper Clark and Vincent Tadokoro rounded out the final seven spots for Baker with a 281st-place finish for Clark and a 293rd-place finish by Tadokoro.
Jaqua finished 60th in a time of 19:04 and Ashley McBride and Kerry Kurta placed 135th and 216th respectively. McBride finished the 5K race in a time of 19:45 and Kurta finished with a time of 20:24.


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This post takes us to Slovenia, by way of Greenwich Village.
A winter weekend lunch in a now chilled Manhattan, wind finding its icicle way up cuffs and sleeves, and a revolving door pushed around to a warm interior. Warm walls, warm colors. Reds, oranges. The smell of garlic and flatbread.
What to order from a list so long, in such tiny print it makes one think of miniatures and meticulous manuscripts? Italy sprawled out, not only geographically, but in the hills and gullies of winemaking styles. A Super-Tuscan? A carbonic natural wine? Something aged in anfora? A spit-clean Brunello? Something luscious from Paolo Bea? Well, not with the bottarga, please.
Sitting on the left side of the page was a small series of words that drew my eye: three or four in a row, lines ending in "Vitovska."
Having spent most of my wine-drinking life within the pleasantly diverse confines of the Gallic hexagon, I still get a thrill from forays into the beyond. Oh! A Ridge Zinfandel! A Nikolaihof Grüner Veltliner! Dry furmint from Hungary!
Vitovska is still a grape that looks like a vista I will not know. A sea of crisp, floral newness.
So a bottle of 2007 Zidarich Prulke was ordered. It's not actually a vitovska, just most of it. (It's got malvasia and sauvignon blanc in the mix.)
The wine was poured and, though still on its first breath of air and a bit of a refrigerated chill, it showed the skin-contact tannins and spicy appeal of its style. It was taut in the glass, with a lighter color than I had expected, a kind of orange iridescence.
Over the next hour, it went places. Places I wanted to go along with it. It opened into something of increasing textural complexity, with spicy and floral playing together in an offhanded and compelling way. The wine was also exceptionally pure.
Pure is not usually a qualifier that comes to mind when describing the so-called "orange" (skin-contact white) wines. More often, such as Movia's Lunar or Radikon's Jakot, they're a bit cloudy, and their appeal stems from their bold contradictions and intemperately prepossessed oddity rather than from any sense of fineness, chisel or purity.
Yet here it was in my glass, a chiseled thing. A chiseled orange thing.
Often times, as wine fiends, we think we know our tastes, supremely confident in the knowns and unknowns to us, the preferred and the shunned or slighted. Some good friends of mine (more in America, as France doesn't have the informatique infrastructure) make their wine purchases online and have the wines sent to their home, bypassing any physical act of wine store purchase.
To my senses, they're missing out on something crucial: shooting the breeze with smart, like-minded folk.
There is nothing to compare to stumbling into Caves Augé or Chambers Street Wines and seeing familiar faces and talking about the latest tastes. If travel expands your world, I think that talking to other people who are passionate about wine expands your palate, pushes you to new fields (regions, grapes).
Of course, there can be flubs. Poor pairings, let's call them. Or a careless caviste. I'm never going to like that Riesling, mea maxima culpa. And I'm certainly not interested in paying thrice as much as my enjoyment for something I don't quite enjoy.
But when I think back over the past months of my wine experiences, I get a little smile on my face when I see Chris Barnes at Chambers Street bringing over a Valdespino Inocente sherry. (Salty sharp zap to my brain!) Or Tim Mortimer offhandedly mentioning Lioco Indica at Discovery Wines in the East Village. (Oh, how pretty that is.) Or Max Delorieux giving the down-low on black wax Overnoy at Augé in Paris. Or Josh Adler at Spring Boutique pulling a cork on a Burgundy I have never tried.
This is our tribe, after all. Tempting as a thousand, thousand candy stores, the smart friends of the bottle wait for us to push the door open and embark upon new landscapes.
It's a playground sprawling throughout the city, throughout the world.
Joe Dressner has left us. I choose that expression carefully. In concrete reality, he passed away from brain cancer on Saturday morning. Also, though, he has left us, well, so much.
He was an impassioned importer of "real" wines from France, Italy, and Spain. A champion of candor who tirelessly cut away the bla-bla of marketing and aspirational thinking and swindlerism. A friend of honest work in vineyards and cellars. An unabashed curmudgeon of unpredictable views and angles. A man who gave to Doctors Without Borders and Partners in Health. One of the funniest people ever, who left us with a body of writing in which kernels of truth hide amid uproarious floods of the absurd.
He was also a friend, to me. We shared wine, and didn't talk about it. We could argue or gossip in that particular brand of French that was his own. His real frankness and humanity allowed for conversations to swing from the acerbic to the intimate.
The wines he imported to America and which his team will continue to bring us are a good reflection of him: Clos Roche Blanche Sauvignon is preposterously good, almost blindsiding you; Domaine de la Pépière Clos des Briords is limpid, earthy, frank; Eric Texier's Rhône wines are deeply intellectual; Christian Chaussard's are hilarious, until you notice the firm backbone of seriousness.
The wines speak Joe Dressner, as do the writings and memories of him we have.
I just read an amusing article about a drunk elk that got caught in a tree in Sweden. Apparently, it was running after fermenting apples. Fortunately, I have never so much as gotten my foot caught in a sewer grate running after bottles of wine in the city.
However, several recent events have reminded me that when you catch the wine after running around town after it, you might not want to lose it again. Let me explain what I mean by that. It's that my mind has once again been jostled into the recognition that writing down the wines you taste is a good idea, along with maybe a word or two about them. (One hates to be stuck thinking: Was that blaterle* a white or a red?)
Exhibit A: "Any recollection of what we had on Aug 7th and Aug 9th?" writes S, a couple of days ago. Oh yeah, those two great dinners with friends and stupendously good food and lots of bottles. My brain now saw the evenings, though, like a scattered puzzle—of which many pieces had skittered under the radiator or behind the sofa. I remembered a Coche-Dury and offered, "I think it was a 2002, but which?" To which I was, humblingly, told: "Right, the Volnay." Ah, right. Coche-Dury red. Now I remembered, though my slipshod recall had been casting about for various Meursault Rougeots or the like.
Exhibit B: I went to a lunch just a few days ago—vibrant food and company, and a set of wines I had never seen nor tasted before, a sneak preview of imports soon to hit these shores. Talking about that meal with another friend who had not been there, I was asked, "What were the wines?" One might hang one's head to admit it, but for almost all of them, I had to go look at the pictures one of the lunchmates had taken and posted on a social networking site. For shame!
"Remember," said my friend, sitting there in scentless sensibility, "it's not unimportant to write down what you taste. There are reasons we do this."
So I will. And here, too.
*Don't worry, dear reader, I am certain that you know which color wines the blaterle grape makes.
Photo by Melody Dye
When I was a teenager, I liked to talk with my uncle about his early days training as a clinical psychologist. We would talk about the different approaches and schools. The fact that the mind had so many ways of coming at it fascinated me, and I read around, ranging and rooting for ideas. One day, we started talking about behaviorism and B.F. Skinner.
My uncle said, "He was a failed writer. He wanted to be a novelist, you know. But he had nothing to say. So he went back to the lab with his rats. Much more comfortable with the rats."
My uncle was teasing me, because he knew my perfectionism, my striving, sitting on the stairs with my composition notebook and my fountain pen. But attempts at perfection in writing do not create diamonds; they create a blank.
So, here I am before a blank blog page, and I ask myself: do I need rats, or can I grow words out of wine?
I put a picture of Causse Marines' Gaillac above, because I have always found it amusing and inexplicable that they should boldly state that no badgers are allowed in, on, or around the wine. I think I should use this as an allegory and impetus to avoid creeping beasts and get on with it.
Champagne is not dead!*
It is fairly telling that a tasting organized by a group of like-minded young Champagne growers and held on a sunny spring day in the town of Aÿ would drape itself in this rebellious slogan:
One day, eighteen growers, pouring vins clairs and finished wines. Coming from all corners of the region, from Merfy, north-west of Reims, all the way down to Les Riceys, some 200km south, and all the way west to Crouttes-sur-Marne, almost abutting the Paris region: these were the vignerons of Terres et Vins de Champagne. If their vineyards were relatively far-flung, a shared spirit of revolt united them, however.
Revolt. The word is important. It snaps off the tongue; it is a banner and a flag of pride for the group: a front united by friendship. Ask anyone, even wine geeks who like champagne, and you're likely to hear that it is the most "artificial" of wines; that it bespeaks its terroir the least; that it is a marketing entity; that the landscapes of the region are dead.
To a large extent, commercialism and the lucre-seeking tactics of some big négociants have made this true.
But Champagne is budding. This new guard of growers—and what is equally exciting is that I can think of many others who are doing similar things in a similar spirit—believes in place. Believes in both tradition and the earth.
I was struck when Aurélien Laherte told me that his cuvée Les Clos, which is a field blend of all of the 7 authorized grape varieties in Champagne (chardonnay, pinot noir, pinot meunier, arbanne, petit meslier, pinot blanc and fromenteau) was not a wine that had been calculated with such and such a percentage of each to create a technical marvel. It was done as a "kind of archival act," he said, of conserving roots in the past, keeping alive those little berries that had their use (petit meslier keeping up the acidity in a warm year when the pinot meunier might get too flabby). "Who knows, if we have another vintage like 2003"—the heat-wave year—"we might be saved by petit meslier."
Some of the growers have ungrafted vines, like Chartogne-Taillet's Les Barres and Tarlant's Vigne d'Antan, both distinctive, and deep. Some forgo sulfur, such as Benoît Lahaye in his excellent cuvée Villaine. Many opt for low or no dosage, which ripeness allows for. We are worlds away from technical laboratories and vast quantities of wan juice tricked up with sugar and a little bit of old wine so that they taste the same from year to year.
These growers are aware of the land, the soils, the climate, and what their practices are doing. Pascal Doquet has been converting his vineyards to organic farming over the past decade, and he said with startlement that very quickly, the roots of the vines went from being spread out almost horizontally very shallowly beneath the soil to plunging downward—here, with the gesture of a hand, he showed the roots no longer rebuffed by the tight, unbreathable soil in which everything had been killed by pesticides.
But of course, the cool thing is that this is not just talk. Tasting the vins clairs showed the stuffing of what would be elaborated into finished champagnes. And those champagnes. They are so good. This is why we care.
At the end of the day, all I had in front of me was a comfortable train ride from Epernay back to Paris. How could I not beg a glass of Pascal Doquet Vertus here, or René Geoffroy Pureté or Bérèche Vallée de la Marne Rive Gauche there?
I did so. I drank them down, and every drop was real good.
*By the bye, this lovely picture of vines in Vertus was taken by Pascal Doquet.
When people have asked me over the course of the past mumblemumble many weeks why I've been away from my blog, I've responded, "Oh, I haven't been away. I've been lurking."
I kid, but it is clear that I do need to feel the firm grip of vinous passion wrap itself around my, say, upper arms, straighten me in my chair, and put both of my hands on the keyboard, index fingers on F and J.
Tap, tap, tap—but where to start?
A wine post is a snapshot, a burst of light and words. Wine itself is a crystal ball.
The last glass of 08 L'Anglore Sels d'Argent is a snowglobe of... what?
If I can look through the specks into the depth of its gold, what do I see? Actually, it is a good marker, for me, of two things. I discovered this wine last summer and have since come back to it with enjoyment, enjoyment, enjoyment, and delight (and maybe a couple more enjoyments and a delight or two).
For me, it marks both the discovering of new wines and the low-level thrill of tasting the variations of a single pleasure. (On that note: there is nothing wrong with drinking Prévost's La Closerie early and often, or vice versa.)
Let's take it a shade darker.
Some of the most compelling wines I have had in the past months have been uncompromising, heavy wines. Wines that are hard to follow up with another, "meditation" wines. I should suspect myself for that. But how can you not go limp with a glass of 2001 Radikon Oslavje, all deep spice and wonder, in your hand? You can't not. You'd have to be an ascete.
1999 Ganevat Vignes de Mon Père spent 130 months in its topped-up barrel and left me, one night a couple of weeks ago, sitting on top of the butte Montmartre as though I were on the highest spot on earth. You could smell it from the decanter across the table.
But just as music that is all clash and bombast gets tiring, we need a little flutey lightness to get a kind of contrapuntal vibe going.
It was not felicitous to follow god's own Ganevat, that night, with a frilly little carbonic grolleau. But I will admit It was a nice evening out, a week later, the night I wended my way over to a wine bar in a sooty part of the 9th arrondissement with some contraband chicken liver pâté I had made at home to share a bottle of 09 Landron Muscadet Amphibolite with a friend.
My dabbles with the Melon grape have been middling to poor, but I won't give up. A current thrill is the 09 Domaine de Cadette Melon, from that variety's native land, Burgundy. I don't love it (only) for its woodcut or for the memories of Vézelay that spring in my head when a bottle gets near (or for that matter, for a happy memory of an insufficiently air conditioned hotel in Avignon where a cool bottle of Cadette Melon was a chill and a breeze and a delight)—I love it because it's deceptively simple. Something you can drink down, but then step back and nod with that pursed-lip look of being impressed. And the lime curd thing, too.
These three aspects of wines have me thinking and typing again.
A lot of people haul out champagne for the holidays; it's like that, it's suggestive. I, however, as someone who guzzles the stuff at every wine bar and restaurant and private residence in the land, rejoicing when a muzzle is offed and a conic cork removed—well, you'd think I would turn a sour eye at all the transient enthusiasm.
Hell, no. Are you, dearest reader, senseless? (I think not, and thank god this is only a rhetorical turn, because you, dearest reader who makes my blog worth continuing, are crazy like a fox.) Far from pooh-poohing the seasonal gold rush, I embrace it with all the more fervor. Everybody else wants to, too! More for all! More deliciousness!
Do it, it's les fêtes! Order another bottle of Lassaigne, of Prévost, of Egly-Ouriet, of Tarlant, holy crow. Get out the Bérèche, the Boulard, the Françoise Bedel, that crazy Vouette et Sorbée fizz. Remember your stash of Veuve Fourny, some stockpiled Gaston Chiquet or that vintage Jean Milan. Crack the new year open with Chartogne-Taillet or Diebolt-Vallois. Decide you don't have to afford to replace Selosse, 'cause it tastes so good now.
In that spirit, and in the spirit of my calamitous blog sparseness, which I intend to correct with the new year, I am currently enjoying a brand new site by the Boston-based champagnophile Peter Czyryca, Recent Disgorgements.
I would also love to hear, in my pruriently curious way, what anyone traipsing through this post might have in mind to drink, champagne-wise, for the night that turns this year into 2011.
Seamus wasn't looking quite himself this morning. I'd made a Halloween pumpkin, carved out a carefully plotted set of eyes, one nose, one mouth. It glowed prettily with its fangs and squint, set on a windowsill. But that was a week ago. So long, Seamus, I glibly proffered as I clacked the door shut.
A week later, I'm back. Back in the night from a trip to the country, feeling around in the dim for just the right place to set the keys down, finding the way to bed in a trail of shoes and socks and pants and slipping into the covers.
This morning, I walked out in short clothes to make coffee. Oh, goodness. Seamus, no. He'd gone from ten to eighty in a few days. Time-lapse without the flow; a jerky leap into the derelict future. Wrinkled and cowed, he looked a pity. I should have kept him in the fridge like some Michael Jackson during my absence.
Farewell, fall friend.
–End flashback–
Wine is, of course, like that. Yes, I have it on good recommendation that such fare as Ca' de Noci's Notte di Luna can hold up when one leaves a part-empty bottle be for a bit. Ditto Radikon (but, sorry, when has a 500ml bottle of Radikon ever survived an evening?). Wine, though, doesn't hold once open to the air and all things that modify and corrupt it. It's an almost Dante-ish view of the world (everyone now reread the Purgatorio and hold hands).
Yet once again I'm curious about these different side- and after-effects of our passion for wine. I am, too, about how little is known regarding the chemical specifics. Why do some wines (I've heard) require a full-day decant? Others start to fall to pieces minutes (minutes!!! (she said, striking fear into hearts everywhere)) after uncorking?
Ah, it might be just that uncertainty and those flashes of unstable and unpredictable beauty that make wine such a wily and willful partner.
But it also might be that œnology should be considered a worthy science. Some money should be put into this stuff, smart people put on the case, and then we won't have to wonder and ask and do imprecise and costly experiments with aging and storage and all of the bugbears that thwart, challenge, and enflame wine lovers.
Despite my desire for a flippant conclusion, I'll remain staunch. Our fruitlihood is at stake.
Oh, psssh, this blog hasn't flatlined, what are you talking about?*
Mysteriously, no post has appeared in two months. It could be that they do not sprout, like mushrooms after a rain, but rather must be hewn from the living blogosphere, like so many sculpted soaps.
The wine-writing bug is still jumping about in me, wearing a little sombrero—but like the fable of the grasshopper and the ant, I've been chilling with the cicadas in Avignon, rather than following those little Formicidae down a dampened Parisian street to, say, Spring wine bar, sipping something and running back to type.
I have things I want to talk about. Things I have only known since my last post here. Like 1996 Pascal Doquet Le Mesnil! 1970 López de Heredia Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva! And so much more! (All for only $29.99! Yours! With this free tea cosy!)
I am back. Fall's fallen. It's wet and the windows are closed, and I am here to sip, and to write.
*Though thanks to TWG for the clarion-clear reminder of just how many days it'd been. Noah and a half!
Every summer from mid-July to early August there is an outdoor cinema festival at the Parc de la Villette in the northeast corner of Paris. As night falls at 10.30pm or so in these long days of the year, the film starts late, leaving a broad expanse of time to go tipple elsewhere or—which is more gratifying—directly in the park.
Aside from a couple of shameful tourist spaces—I'll name names: the Champs-Elysées and the Champ de Mars (that flat mown park in front of the Eiffel Tower)—where boozing has been proscribed, everywhere else in this fine town, one may bring one's bottle(s) and corkscrew, stemware, whatever else seems apposite, and tuck in.
Picnics abound.
And, oh my brothers, a few days ago they showed (in the original with subtitles) "A Clockwork Orange."
It had been warm that day, nearly 80°F after a week of chill, overcast and mediocre dashed-hopes summertime. No, this day was hot and sunny. It was still fine out as night fell, but it was also nice to have a woolen blanket (rentable from the park) and to sit on a canvas lawn chair and watch that still startling, still hilarious film under dark and beautiful yet calm skies, with a wind that kicked up.
My friend Meg brought the last of her stash of 2007 François Chidaine Montlouis, bought in a frenzy of appreciative relief in, I dunno, March or so, at a wine festival.
We'd had a curious bottle of bubbly back at the ranch (viz., her flat nearby) before striking out to the park, whetting our filmgoing vinous appetites with NV Domaine de L'Ocre Rouge "La Perle," a méthode champenoise from the south of France, about 11 miles north of Nîmes. Half pinot noir, half chardonnay, it rides the back of a very Champenois blend. And it has an ace up its sleeve: the vigneron is in fact a son of those chalky hills—Ayméric Beaufort, of the family renowned for the exuberantly good Champagne Jacques Beaufort. But given the dramatically different climate, the wine was a curious creature; dry with a bit of citrus pith, but also a pearish tone. An interesting discovery, and a fair friend for the small round yellow zucchinis my host had prepared, stuffed with ground pork and spelt, robed with a few leaves of basil. We should all eat basil when we go up to heaven.
Then: the park. The film. That dark yet clement sky. The savory Montlouis (damn, Chidaine is a monster of pitch-perfect winemaking). The lovely silence amid many. All were quiet. I hate to say it, but films are better when lots of people are watching them. I always go alone, but here we were all alone, and all enrapt.
But we were drinking best.
I had a madeleine the other day.
Not the tea cake, but y'know, one of those things that jogs you, like a cobblestone sticking up that catches your foot and makes you stumble into the past. A wine remembered from earlier times, one that conjured up those times. So I thought it would be interesting, amusing and perhaps even illuminating to submit this blog (and myself) to the vinous version of the (in)famous Proust Questionnaire.
Forthwith, rendered into terms propitious for wine:
1. Your most marked characteristic?
In wine, I like being (as they say in French) a horse that eats from all the troughs. There are styles of wine I like less (moelleux springs immediately to mind), but I like to test periodically my so-called wine prejudices. Sometimes there have been fabulous turnarounds. I've been seen proselytizing for chenin, of late!
2. The quality you most like in a
man red wine?
I like ethereal red wines. I also like a certain rusticity. What I don't like is overbearing viscousness or jammy fruit. My gamut might span from Pineau d'Aunis to Cornas by way of Pinot Noir and cru Beaujolais. (And indeed, I am mixing up grapes and appellations. At least I don't say "varietal.")
3. The quality you most like in a
woman white wine?
I like slightly oxidative whites. Like a woman showing her flesh. Or a barrel giving a sigh.
4. What do you most value in your friends?
I'm friends with those wines that take themselves seriously. Not in their outer trappings (unless we're talking high-quality corks)—heavy bottles, designer labels or consequential pricing. But wines that are not funny. They don't referment or reek, just as they don't float, aromatically, with the remnant particles of toasted wood chips. They are honest but honed.
5. What is your principle defect?
I break stemware.
6. What is your favorite occupation?
Two, where wine is concerned. One is obviously sitting at a table with good food and opening bottles with friends, enjoying them over the course of the evening. The other is visiting a vigneron, seeing where and how the wine is made, by whom, and tasting it there.
7. What is your dream of happiness?
A really fine Burgundy with the right amount of age. Or, at the opposite end of the spectrum, something I have never heard of before that turns out to be astounding. I could make my short dream list. I have friends with quirky taste.
Hm, I feel so serious! So sententious! This is the first third. Maybe the others I'll do more Dada in style. Stay tuned.
This is my latest thrill. And it's thrilling*
2008 Domaine de L'Anglore "Sels d'Argent," which I tasted a couple of months ago twice, two days in a row, made my eyes pop.
2008 Clos de l'Origine "Les Quilles Libres," tasted recently, confirmed that I must inquire more into the grape, which is simply unheralded. This wine has such utter acidity, such wiry and unpredictable aromatics, it cannot be from the Côtes Catalanes, yet it is. And it's gorgeous.
Readers (if I have any left, given my desultory posting frequency of late; a lapse I intend to right, right away), please do tell me of grapes I should be drinking more.
And do not correct the "grapes ... drinking" sentence structure: it's a synecdoche, I swear.
*Fittingly for a thrill, you'll tell me.
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(USA Today) -- A performer in the Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show Kà was killed Saturday night in a 50-foot fall during the show, the Las Vegas Sun reported Sunday.
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The Sun quoted audience members who said that Guyard-Guillot fell during the show's dramatic final battle scene, in which many of the artists are suspended from wires along the massive, vertical stage.
Guyard-Guillot, who was nicknamed Sassoon, "was being hoisted up the side of the stage and then just plummeted down," audience member Dan Mosqueda told the paper. "Initially, a lot of people in the audience thought it was part of the choreographed fight. But you could hear screaming, then groaning, and we could hear a female artist crying from the stage."
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It started April 1 and continues through May 9 (Mother's Day)--this is the span of dates officially designated National Card and Letter Writing Month.
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Joaquin's mission is bringing awareness to the non-Native population on how they approach American Indian health. On the fast track to become a dentist, he says it is important to increase the number of Native health professionals and Native health researchers.
Joaquin, a junior public health major at the University of Colorado, has taken his cultural, academic, and professional experiences to create opportunities to help his people by doing what he describes as walking in other worlds.
"There is the Native world, the Anglo-American world, and then the medical world - and you have to be able to understand and navigate all three if you are going to make a difference," he says. "I have to be coherent and competent enough to be well-versed in all three to make a difference, but continue to work and be a productive member of my family, tribe, and community."
Joaquin initially planned to become a medical doctor, then became interested in oral heath during his internship experience at the prestigious Center for Native Oral Health Research at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus in Colorado, one of three research programs in the nation that looks at oral disparity among minority populations. Joaquin is the only undergraduate student on the research projects. His experience at the center is assisting him academically and professionally. He says he has gained an appreciation for oral health care and its importance to overall well being, especially in Native communities.
"There are actually fewer Native dentists than doctors," he says. "I believe I could be of more assistance to the community to be dentist. Diabetes and oral health care correlate; we are working on a project studying that because what you put into your mouth affects not only your teeth, but also the oral tissue, blood, organs in your body, and well-being. If you look at the statistics, the Native population has the highest diabetes rates [which relate to oral health] and highest [incidence of] early childhood cavities, so for me, this needs to be addressed. I am passionate about the health of the American Indian population."
Joaquin, a recipient of multiple American Indian College Fund Full-Circle scholarships, learned early in his academic career to balance the priorities of a "college atmosphere that does not support the ideals of Native Peoples but rather promotes ideals of mainstream society." For most of 2009 and 2010 he traveled back and forth from Colorado to New Mexico to be with his mother while she was hospitalized. During the six procedures she underwent, including two brain surgeries, he spent a great deal of time missing classes and making up schoolwork.
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Joaquin is passionate about the work he does for American Indians and giving back to those that helped him. He is focused on his future and that of other Natives by succeeding in his studies to be able to make a difference. "Our ancestors became what they had to become in order to survive and help their people transcend through that time period. And so today, Native youth have to find out what they need to become in order to transcend this time period to a successful future."
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Mecum Auction Top Sellers - HistoryWritten by Brian Brennan on July 26, 2013 Contributors: Eric Geisert, Randy Lorentzen, Tim Bernsau, David Newhardt That's What Makes one Hot Rod Worth More Than any Other
All of us at one time or another have had to or wanted to sell one of our projects. We diligently try to "buy low" and "sell high" as this is, for the vast majority of us, how we go about funding our next project. Well, we try.
There are those cars that are destined for financial stardom but, seldom, if ever, did they start out that way. They start out like any of our own projects but circumstance and, of course, history smiles upon them and these hot rods become the "rock stars" of our hobby. I'm not talking about the million-dollar builds. History has shown these cars do not retain their value. Because they were costly to build doesn't project history will look favorably upon them. If you were to assemble a Top 10 list of the most desirable hot rods the common denominator wouldn't be their initial build cost but, rather, their place in history. In time all of us come to respect history, or at the very least acknowledge it, but few have the deep pockets to bring history home. Recently two such hot rods, long recognized for their iconic stature, proved once again their standing within the hobby.
And that brings us to a '32 Ford highboy roadster once owned by Tom McMullen, founder of what is now considered a publishing empire, and the ex–Jack Calori '36 Ford coupe. One epitomizes a hot rod while the other is most assuredly a custom. Once in a STREET RODDER editorial meeting Debra Starbird, yes, the daughter of that Starbird, now married to former STREET RODDER Editor and then corporate Vice President Tom Vogele, told me how any one of us could tell if a car was a hot rod or custom. "If you look at a car long enough it will tell you." You know what; she was right and those words ring true today.
Resting before me at the first-ever Mecum Auction held at the 815,000-square-foot Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, are two of our hobby's most recognizable cars: Lot S109, the '32 Ford highboy roadster once owned by McMullen, and Lot S116, the '36 Ford coupe once owned by Calori. Both cars have long pedigrees, whether it be in print, then and now, as well as recognition outside their normal arenas, such as the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance (Monterey, California) where the McMullen roadster captured Third in class in 2007, while the Calori coupe took First in class in 2005. (The original McMullen roadster graces this month's cover.)
It should be recognized that the then owner of both cars was Jorge Zaragoza. After obtaining both from Don Orosco, a longtime California hot rodder, the McMullen roadster was fully restored at the shop of Roy Brizio Street Rods in the Bay Area to its April '63 Hot Rod cover car appearance. Brizio also restored the Calori coupe for Zaragoza. While owned by McMullen the highboy had many looks and powerplants but the Hot Rod cover is the one most of us remember the best. (Look for the complete McMullen roadster story in the Summer issue of SRP, at newsstands in June.)
In case you are wondering how much each of these cars brought, well it's probably best if you are lying down on your favorite creeper. The McMullen roadster sold for a whopping $700,000, while moments later the Calori coupe garnered $300,000. A tidy sum of $1 million for two of our hobby's historically significant and cornerstone cars. Possibly more amazing is that one man, a Canadian car collector with hundreds of cars, rolled both cars onto a car hauler and took them home.
While the entire weekend's sales totaled $15.2 million from 750-plus vehicles, there was no denying the two celebrities were the Deuce roadster and '36 coupe—Henry would have been proud.
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The Calori coupe is wearing its Pebble Beach First Place ribbon while presented on the auction block.The Buick skirts and 3-inch top chop yield the distinctive custom look along with the '41 Hudson taillights and '41 Ford bumper.The McMullen roadster was brought across the block at a prime time for Discovery's Velocity Network, which broadcasts live during all days. (How do we know? I received texts from all over the country telling me to get off the stage and out of the way of the roadster!)The '32 Ford highboy roadster represents the quintessential hot rod look; couple that with black paint and traditional flames and anyone knows this is a hot rod.Originally the "over the top" pinstriping by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth gave yet additional distinctive look rapidly identifying the car. The license plate goes back to the McMullen era.Can't have a hot rod without Firestone rubber and American five-spokes and, yes, throw in a Halibrand quick-change.It's the auctioneer's rapid fire cadence (bid), volume, and enthusiasm that keeps both the audience and buyers emotionally charged—and the Mecum Auction does it as well as any auction group.


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RIVERDALE, Ga. -- A student was arrested after allegedly bringing a loaded gun onto the campus of Riverdale High School on Friday.
A Clayton County school resource officer arrested the student after discovering the child had a loaded 9mm pistol inside the school.
11Alive's Ross McLaughlin says there was an altercation between two students around 10 a.m, and a teacher and the school officer stepped in and pulled them into a bathroom. That's when the gun fell to the ground.
The school was placed on lockdown as police investigated. That lockdown was lifted by 11:30 a.m.
The assistant principal did fall and hurt is elbow while running to the scene. No students were injured.
Some parents expressed concern about the safety of their children after the incident. The school does have metal detector.
Vicki Gavalas of Clayton County Schools said they only use that metal detector under special circumstances.
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School officials said they would likely use the detectors next week.
The 16-year-old student is facing a felony charge and three misdemeanor charges. Another boy involved in the fight is also facing three misdemeanor charges.


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R&B star Lauryn Hill has been granted permission to put her home detention sentence on hold and head out on tour.
The former Fugees singer/rapper walked free from the Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut on Friday after serving three months behind bars for tax evasion.
As part of her sentence, she was also ordered to spend three months under home confinement, but Hill is determined to kickstart her career again and asked a U.S. judge to give her a pass to hit the road.
According to TMZ.com, her request to tour from Nov. 15 to Dec. 31 was authorized, allowing her to start booking shows, although her probation officer will still have to sign off on the final details.
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Hi everyone,
I am looking to have a hosted mail server running on zimbra open source.
Then I will charge people via usage or size of emails, etc by end of every month.
is there any addon or services which I can buy or download free to track the usage, etc?
Just like websites, there's CPanel for tracking. How about zimbra?
Any help? Thanks.


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