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Four-Links – Driveable Dreams museum, FWD, 6×6 Renault, Wildfire build book
* Car museums typically display everything in pristine condition – to the point where some people describe their restored cars as museum-worthy. Not the Beller Museum outside of Chicago, however. As Austin Coop wrote on Roadtrippers this past week, the Beller Museum is dedicated to displaying its cars and trucks in unrestored, as-used, real-world condition.
* When we looked into the origins of four-wheel drive a few years back, we started with Otto Zachow and what became the F.W.D., but didn't spend much time on his cars. David Greenlees at The Old Motor expanded on Zachow's story this week with more on how the carmaker became a truckmaker and refined its four-wheel-drive system.
* Better than four-wheel drive? How about a six-wheel-drive Renault 5? Torchinsky explored the reasons for and brief history of the Christian Leotard-conceived, Tissier-built six-wheeled R5 that ran Dakar in 1980, that inspired an even crazier twin-engined Turbo version, and that still exists.
* Geoff Hacker at Forgotten Fiberglass presented the story of father-son team Ed and Phil Cox building a Woodill Wildfire last year, and now he's collected all three parts of the extensive story into a free e-book.
* Finally, Peter Brown of the Provincetown Banner this week pointed us to the story he wrote on explorer Donald MacMillan's Ford Model T snowmobile – probably the lowest-mileage Ford Model T out there – and the effort to restore it after it sat out in the elements for several decades.
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.
New Old Stories: "The Motor Pirate"
As regards the appearance of his assailant, Mr. Bradshaw can give few particulars, save that he was clad in a large leather motoring coat, and his face completely hidden by a mask. The car can, on the contrary, be easily identified. It is boat-shaped, running to a sharp cutting edge both in front and behind. The body is not raised more than eighteen inches from the ground. The wheels are either within the body, or so sheathed that they are completely hidden. It has apparently seating accommodation for two persons, the seat being placed immediately in the center of the car. Mr. Bradshaw is quite convinced that petrol is not the motive force used for its propulsion, and as he cannot imagine that an electric motor of any kind was employed; the rapidity of motion, the perfection of the steering, the absence of noise and vibration, are so remarkable that he is utterly at a loss as to what build of car was driven by the stranger."
Copyrighted in 1904 and straddling the science fiction and "shocker" (aka murder mystery) genres, The Motor Pirate has much to teach us about the early days of the automobile, some of it quite intriguing. The 261-page 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-like novel written by G. Sidney Paternoster is about a highwayman terrorizing the English countryside around London with his beyond-the-state-of-the-art automotive mount.
Ostensibly intended for young people—a fact supported by the inscription in my copy signed "From Mother"—the high quality of the writing means that in all likelihood the novel would have found a much wider audience; a "motor-mad world"—as one Boston Herald reviewer enthuses—"will thoroughly enjoy reading [it]." Though the storyline is predictable, the book is not without some remarkable revelations. Original copies can be had for as little as $10, or you can read it for free here.
Let's tick off some of what's not necessarily surprising in The Motor Pirate, but nevertheless useful to be reminded of:
- Early roads were highly variable in quality from place to place and across weather conditions, both in the United States and in England. In a single drive, one could encounter everything from broad boulevards and bumpy paving stones to deep, rutted quagmires and cow paths. In good weather, dust was a real problem, and driving at any appreciable speed necessitated the driver and passengers wear masks and long coats.
- Piloting an automobile for any significant length of time (in the book, five hours was enough) led to cramping and severe pain in the hands and the head, as well as intense thirst, sickness and even delirium. A recognized remedy was champagne, much as it was for French racer Jules Goux when he drove in the 1913 Indianapolis 500 that he won after stopping to drink the stuff. Whiskey and soda is also carried onboard the protagonist's car in The Motor Pirate, "for emergencies."
- Tires were one of the weakest points of an automobile, frequently falling victim to punctures or catastrophic blowouts. They're seen as enough of a trouble in The Motor Pirate that one of the characters spends his leisure time testing new forms that he's invented in an effort to improve them. Precise steering and engine vibration were also troubling automotive concerns.
- Headlamps were of the acetylene kind, were actually thought bright by users and were often demountable for use as portable torches. Automobiles, at least in England, were obliged to repeatedly toot their horns as they drove through towns to warn people and animals out of the way. And automobile clubs could be employed to assist in road-related concerns, in the case of The Motor Pirate, to search for the criminal who was plundering travelers.
As you might expect from a sci-fi novel about cars, the really cool stuff in The Motor Pirate has to do with automobiles. As seen in the passage at the top, the hallmarks of the rogue's miraculous conveyance are its extreme speed—at one point in the book, it is calculated at 100 MPH—and its relative silence and quality of running.
According to some sources, The Motor Pirate was actually first published earlier, in 1903, a full year before Henry Ford's 999—a far more unwieldy contraption than the Pirate's—set a world land speed record of a comparatively slow 91.37 MPH.
Considering that the protagonist, in an effort to increase his likelihood of capturing the Pirate, purchases the fastest production automobile of the time—a 60-hp Mercedes—this date remains plausible if Paternoster was a fast writer. With a top speed of 68 MPH, the Mercedes is set then to participate in what may be the world's first fictional car chase, one that, stretching from the area around London to the southernmost tip of Cornwall, would easily surpass Bullitt in audacity and excitement.
Given a date of 1903, the means by which the Pirate's car is able to achieve such speeds—aerodynamics and a very special powerplant—are particularly intriguing. Streamlining for production automobiles at the time was non-existent, and airplanes, long credited with inspiring aerodynamics in car design—had yet to take to the air. It would be December before the Wrights' powered aircraft would fly, and even that would be entirely devoid of wind-cheating cones, curves and fairings, though ovoid airships with tapered noses and tails had been around for nearly two centuries.
While the cover art of the 1905 edition, published by Stitt of New York, was likely influenced by the ballistic shapes of three American land-speed record setters: Walter C. Baker's electric Torpedo-1 and Torpedo-2 of 1902 and 1903, and Louis S. Ross's January 1905 twin-Stanley Steamer-powered car, Paternoster's inspiration was probably nautical, a fact born out by the terminology he uses to describe it and the ship-like vehicle depicted in the frontispiece, which has been present since the first edition.
As to the powerplant, and in light of a fairly straightforward plot, discovering its motive principle ends up being the driving—ahem, sorry—force that keeps you reading. Even by today's standards, the Pirate's car's performance is enviable. In 1903, it was intoxicating. Paternoster speaks to the primal part of every speed lover when one of his characters muses…
Imagine what the possession of that car means on a night like this, with the roads clear from John-o'-Groat's to Land's End. Fancy flying onwards at a speed none have ever attempted. Can you not see the road unwinding before you like a reel of white ribbon, hear the sweet musical drone of the wheels in your ears." (46)
I won't spoil the surprise, as The Motor Pirate is worth a read for folks interested in the details, attitudes and dreams of early motoring history. The cutting-edge car in this science-fiction novel is not driven by internal combustion, nor electric power or even magnetism. Let's just say… There's a great future in hydrogen.
Wheel Stories from the Patent Files: Barely getting off the ground – the story of the RoadAir
Editor's note: Ryan Chirnomas is a patent attorney and classic car enthusiast in Washington, D.C. In this series, he examines the intersection of those fields by looking at design patents—which protect aesthetics rather than functionality—of the forgotten and forgettable in automotive history.
Flying cars and jetpacks. That's what the world was promised in the 1950s. Like many dreamers, Herbert Trautman did his best to make that dream a reality, and he got further than most. An aviation enthusiast, inventor and employee of Douglas Aircraft, Herb was the originator of a design patent on a "Combination Automobile and Airplane" (U.S. Design Patent No. D177445, issued 1956).
Unlike many flying car concepts over the years, Trautman's design didn't share much in common with a conventional airplane or with a conventional automobile. With a design that could perhaps be called a partial "flying wing," his inspiration may have come from the XB-35 experimental flying-wing bomber, which also featured a "pusher" propeller arrangement.
XB-35. USAF public domain photo.
Of course, a full "flying wing" design would be far too wide for automotive applications, so Trautman cleverly packaged the wings such that they could be folded away for storage while driving, and folded out when it was time to fly.
His initial design was a tricycle, with two wheels up front and somewhat of a teardrop shape in side profile.
Amazingly, Trautman not only received a design patent, but by 1959, actually built a full-scale, 25-foot wingspan prototype, which he called the "RoadAir." The RoadAir differed from the initial patent drawings in a few ways. A fourth wheel was added in front, presumably for extra stability when driving. The V-type stabilizers were replaced by a more conventional pair of uprights, joined by a horizontal stabilizer. Power came from a flat-four air-cooled Continental O-190 engine, putting out 85 horsepower, which drove both the propeller and the rear single wheel. Pedals in the cockpit controlled not only the rudders when airborne, but also the pair of wheels under the passenger compartment when driving. Herb hoped to sell the RoadAir for $10,000.
The Trautman RoadAir. Photo by Valder137.
Unfortunately, the RoadAir was a bit heavy at approximately 1,000 pounds, and perhaps the diminutive fold-away wings didn't create quite enough lift. As the story goes, one day Trautman lifted the front-opening hatch and stepped into his creation for some tests on a California runway. After getting comfortable with the vehicle, he got it up to a speed of about 90 miles per hour and, as the poem goes, "slipped the surly bonds of earth." Then he got wise. Apparently, Trautman had got about three feet off the ground, but felt himself losing control. He put the RoadAir down safely and immediately put it into storage, and the prototype vehicle never flew again.
Photo by Valder137.
As incredible as that story is, more amazing is that the RoadAir survives to this day. In the 1980s, the RoadAir was on display at Orange County Airport, on loan to the Tallmantz Collection, an aviation museum founded by two Hollywood stunt pilots. When the Tallmantz Collection was purchased by noted aerobatics pilot and collector Kermit Weeks in 1985, an elderly Mr. Trautman decided to sell his project for an undisclosed sum. It was later restored, and is now both roadworthy and probably about as airworthy as it ever was. Until recently, the RoadAir was displayed in the Fantasy of Flight museum in Florida, but will soon be coming home to California to be exhibited at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica.
Peter Brock and the 'Original Venice Crew' rethink the 1965 Mustang G.T. 350R for its 50th aniversary
The donor K-Code Mustangs during disassembly. Photos by Randy Richardson, LA SAAC.
Shelby American's original racing Mustang, the G.T. 350R, captured the SCCA's B-Production championship from 1965-'67, but its designers still believed the car could have been better. Next month, on the 50th anniversary of the G.T. 350R's first win, Peter Brock (keynote speaker at the 2015 Hemmings Motor News Concours d'Elegance) and other members of the Shelby American "Original Venice Crew" will have a chance to prove this by debuting a pair of custom-built 1965 G.T. 350R Mustangs at California's Willow Springs race track.
Brock, Marietta, Sutton and Carling (The Original Venice Crew) with Randy Richardson of LA SAAC.
The idea for the project came about at the 2013 SEMA show, when Brock and colleagues from Shelby American's Venice, California, days met at dinner to discuss past projects. It didn't take long for the team to realize that they still had the drive to build the car the original G.T. 350R could have been, and, perhaps remarkably given the team's overall age (ranging from 67 to 77 years old), they still had the ability to execute such a plan. Preparation began in mid-2014, with the goal of producing two cars in time to commemorate the G.T. 350R's February 14, 1965, win at Texas's Green Valley Raceway.
Sutton and Marietta in engine bay.
As competitive as the G.T. 350R proved to be, the car was still designed and built with a tight budget and an even tighter time frame. An independent rear suspension (IRS) was planned, and Ford's original cost estimates totaled $15,000 for the IRS project. Eager to get word out, Ford's Competition department advertised that 100 lucky buyers would soon be able to purchase a "Cobra-Mustang" with an independent rear suspension, similar to the one in Ford's GT40 race car. A closer examination of costs showed that the $15,000 estimate was off by roughly $70,000, so the project was dropped after just a few prototypes were built. Though Shelby American tested an IRS, it never made it into the G.T. 350R models that were raced.
Brock inspects the revised front valance.
Brock believed that the 350R would have been a better car with an independent rear suspension, so that's just one of the changes envisioned for the "new" 1965 G.T. 350R. Two cars will be built, but only one will receive the IRS, while the other makes do with the traditional live axle; once the cars are tested at Willow Springs, the difference in lap times should answer the question "What if?"
Other changes planned for the cars include a reshaped front valance for improved airflow, altered brake ducts for better cooling, a repositioned front suspension (modified beyond the original's lowered upper control arm pivot point) and a redesigned Plexiglas rear window that should enhance the car's top speed, particularly on long straights. All these ideas originated in late 1964, but the original Shelby team ran out of time (and in some cases, money) before the designs could be implemented.
Sutton and Marietta fabricating.
The starting point for both cars will be K-Code 1965 Ford Mustang fastbacks. Each car will be stripped down in preparation for its race car conversion, then each will receive the modifications necessary (such as the fiberglass hood, Plexiglas side and rear windows, roll bar and enlarged front disc brakes) to update the cars to G.T. 350R specifications. As with the original G.T. 350Rs, the output from the rebuilt 289-cu.in. V-8s should be in the area of 350 horsepower, a significant gain over the road-going G.T. 350's 306 horsepower.
The build is taking place at Brock Racing Enterprises in Henderson, Nevada, and while volunteers (and other members of the Original Venice Crew) will be on hand to assist, the bulk of the work is expected to be done by Brock, Ted Sutton, Jim Marietta and Duane Carling. On February 13, the completed cars will be shipped to California's Willow Springs circuit for testing, where setup drivers will include former Shelby American stars (or immediate family)
Jerry Rick Titus, John Morton and Allen Grant.
On February 14, the 50th anniversary of the G.T. 350R's debut win, the cars will return to the track to commemorate the occasion, as well as to lead a two-day open track session for owners of G.T. 350Rs and other Ford-badged performance cars.
IRS assembly on hoist
Other plans for the three-day weekend include a Shelby American team member reunion; a Los Angeles Shelby American Auto Club (LA SAAC) car show; a display of cars from the Lynn Park Cobra Collection; and a dinner banquet (with panel discussion) on Saturday night. For additional details, visit LASAAC.BigCartel.com.
UPDATE (23.March): We just received additional images from the February 14 event, courtesy of William Deary. Enjoy the gallery below.
French twist streamliner: 1922 Gerin Aerodyne prototype to cross the block
The Gerin Aerodyne prototype. Photos courtesy Bonhams.
Mathematician and aeronautical engineer Jacques Gerin believed the very principles that made a sound aircraft would also make a sound automobile. Gambling the bulk of his family's fortune, Gerin designed and funded the construction of an innovative streamliner that proved a bit too futuristic for the French motoring public in 1922. Next month, the Gerin Aerodyne prototype crosses the stage in Paris as part of Bonhams's Les Grandes Marques Du Monde Au Grand Palais sale.
Though uncommon, streamlining was not unheard of in early 20th century automotive design. Camille Jenatzy's La Jamais Content (The Never Satisfied) used its aerodynamic shape to help set a land speed record of 65.8 MPH in April of 1899, making the battery-powered streamliner the first automobile to break the 100 kilometer-per-hour barrier. The 1906 Stanley Steamer Rocket also used a wind-cheating shape to achieve a land speed record of 127.66 MPH, becoming the first car to break 200 km/h in the process.
In 1914, A.L.F.A., the forerunner of Alfa Romeo, worked with coachbuilder Castagna to construct a streamlined passenger vehicle, an odd zeppelin-like conveyance built for Italian count Marco Ricotti. Seven years later, German manufacturer Rumpler introduced its Tropfenwagen (Drop Car, named for its droplet shape), which carried up top five passengers and proved capable of attaining a 70 MPH top speed.
Whether Gerin was influenced by these earlier attempts is hard to say, but his concept of the ideal automobile relied on far more than just a slippery shape. Using experience gained with Aéroplanes Voisin, Gerin designed a stressed spaceframe to be constructed of Duralumin, with a floor of Alpax (an aluminum-silicon blend). Steel subframes would be used in front and rear for added strength, but to save weight, the bodywork would consist of an aluminum undertray and fenders combined with stretched fabric upper panels, a common practice in airplane construction of the period. The roof would be made of a heavy waxed paper, which would transmit light to give the cabin a spacious and airy feel. Construction of the Aerodyne's frame (less the fabric bodywork) was entrusted to Paulin Ratier, whose company had experience building airframes for Voisin and Breguet.
Gerin's design innovations didn't stop with the body construction. His Aerodyne would use a four-wheel independent suspension of his own patented design (later licensed by Citroen for the 2CV), and the rear drum brakes would be mounted inboard to reduce unsprung weight. Front brakes were hydraulic, with four shoes per corner pressing on the inside of each wheel to reduce velocity. The sliding rack steering was another Gerin design, and the steering rake was manually adjustable to suit a driver's preference.
The Aerodyne's 2.0-liter, overhead-valve four-cylinder engine, mounted ahead of the driven rear wheels, was built by Janvier Sabin of Montrouge, but the car's "variable friction drive" transmission was designed by Gerin. To ease servicing, the entire driveline was said to be removable by one man, using just two wrenches, in six minutes.
Gerin accumulated an estimated 5,500 miles on his uncovered Aerodyne, but failed to generate interest from the motoring public or automakers of the day. His ideas, perhaps, were just too far-reaching for a continent still recovering from the effects of World War I, and ultimately the Aerodyne sat, largely forgotten, for nearly nine decades. Acquired in 2012 (after a 15-year search), the prototype is said to be mostly original, with the exception of ancillary electrical wiring, a replacement steering wheel and replacement control pedals. Offered with copies of Gerin's patents, engineering drawings, renderings of the fabric-wrapped body and its creator's personal notes, the Aerodyne is expected to command a price between €130,000-€180,000 ($150,000-$200,000).
The Les Grandes Marques Du Monde Au Grand Palais sale takes place in Paris, France, on February 5. For additional details, visit Bonhams.com.
UPDATE (5.February): The Gerin Aerodyne prototype sold for €184,000 ($209,944).
UPDATE (12.February): The Gerin Aerodyne was acquired by the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum. Per Olivier Cerf, a thorough restoration is planned once the complete details of the car are sorted through French patent file research.
Midweek Matinee: Road Runners, 1952-ish
Mel gets a ticket. All photos are frame grabs from video below.
Mel and Thera are your prototypical teenage couple in Santa Ana, California, in the early 1950s. Mel's certainly doing well enough, sporting about in what—best we can tell—is a 1948 Buick Super Convertible Sedan (56-C). Or is that a Roadmaster? Mel's primary issue is that he's a total jerk behind the wheel. He can easily afford to pay yet another moving violation ticket, so what's to be Mel's motivation to straighten up and keep in line?
Mel stumbles across a drag racing event at a nearby abandoned air strip (presumably that which opened in 1950 as the country's first commercial drag strip by C.J. "Pappy" Hart at Orange County Airport), notably populated by far more disciplined drivers. He runs against his New Best Nemesis (NBN), Dave, who soundly whips Mel's butt.
Mel is quite taken by this grand assortment of speed seekers from clubs like Hood Lifters, Throttle Jammers, Shifters, Chaparrals, Knuckle Busters, Clutchers, Dusters and Sidewinders who pilot streamliners, hot rods, belly tankers, T-roadsters, chopped coupes and the like. But can he fit in?
First thing you know, Mel sells the convertible, buys a hot rod and tries his hand at engine modifications. This is where we sense that Mel is not a natural gearhead, and, worse, that he must now go to NBN Dave for expert advice. Turns out, Dave's quite a friendly sort and all the fellows are more than happy to work on Mel's hot rod.
Can Mel overcome his creepy personality and learn how to play well with others? Will he win a Southern California Timing Association trophy at El Mirage? And, of particular interest, what becomes of Thera? Invest 12:34 minutes to find out.
Public domain archival footage courtesy of the Internet Moving Images Archive, in association with Prelinger Archives.
Inspired there, replicated there: Italian builds homage to Edsel Ford's 1934 speedster
All photos courtesy Riccardo Grasso.
Typically it's Americans who replicate Italian cars, what with all the Fauxrarris, Lampostorghinis, and Seventies kit cars built, not the other way around. One exception exists, however, and it rather makes sense, given that European coachcraft inspired it in the first place: Riccardo Grasso's tribute to Edsel Ford's 1934 Model 40 Special Speedster.
Edsel, whose sense of style far surpassed his father's and who in many ways ensured the success of Ford Motor Company, commissioned a number of specials and speedsters for his own use throughout the years. Perhaps one of the more famous of his specials (aside from the one that would go on to influence the production Lincoln Continental), the 1934 Model 40 speedster, began as a directive from Ford to E.T. "Bob" Gregorie to build him something "continental," by which he meant low, sleek, stylish, and racy. Gregorie started with a 1934 Ford chassis, but designed an entirely new aluminum two-seater body that positioned the driver far back in the chassis and that eliminated running boards, doors, and pretty much all unnecessary decoration. Originally built with a single vertical divided grille, the speedster later was fitted with its distinct lower horizontal grille to add cooling capacity.
The speedster remained in Ford's possession until his death in 1943, was sold for $200, then bounced from one end of the country to the other, popping up in Hollywood in the Forties and Fifties, then in Florida from the late 1950s on. Amelia Island Concours founder Bill Warner owned it for a time, before selling it at auction to collector John O'Quinn, whose estate later sold it to the Edsel and Eleanor Ford Estate, which restored it in its current gray livery and debuted it at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. It's currently part of the Dream Cars exhibit which will make its way to Indianapolis later this year.
After reading about the speedster's debut at Pebble, Italian collector Riccardo Grasso said he fell for its charm and couldn't get it out of his mind. He read up on Ford, on the speedster, and finally decided in September 2012 he had to build a replica of the car for himself. Rather than start with a 1934 Ford chassis, which had to be next-to-impossible to find in Italy, Riccardo began by tearing down a 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan that he bought in Milan for parts. The frame ended up the wrong shape and size, he said, so he found a Twenties light truck frame of unknown origin that fit the bill. To it he added the Lincoln's rear suspension and Dana 53 axle and a complete Ford transverse-leaf front axle and suspension that he imported from Southern California. For power, he decided to go with the Lincoln's 154hp 337-cu.in. flathead V-8, backed by a GM four-speed manual transmission.
He couldn't exactly make his way to the United States just to take measurements of the speedster, so he said he had to improvise. He started with a wheelbase measurement he found in published articles on the speedster – 112 inches – and the size of the wheels – 17 inches – and derived the rest of the dimensions from photos that he laid grids over. While Riccardo outlined the shape of the body with 6mm steel wires, he said he turned to his friend and retired aircraft master fabricator Marco Binetti to shape the body panels by hand from 1.26mm aluminum, a process that took him just three months.
Unfortunately, it wasn't until after he had the body and chassis made to those dimensions – that is, too late to make any significant changes – that he discovered the car's overall length, not its wheelbase, measured 112 inches. Still, he said, the proportions came out right, "but if the two cars park aside, mine should result bigger."
Since finishing the speedster in April 2014, Riccardo has taken it on several classic car outings in northern Italy and Switzerland and shown it at the Milano Autoclassica car show, driving it to and from each event rather than trailering it. He said it drives well ("exhilarating performance, impressing me with its massive torque at an incredible low RPM"), but has found the power to be too much for the tube-style tires and has found the Cosmopolitan's rear axle too short for such a light and sporty two-seater. "Consider that at 2,000 RPM my babe speeds 85 KMH (53 MPH), that's good on a 5,600 RPM engine, but not on a 3,500 RPM flathead!" he wrote. Using adhesive to glue the tires to the rims has seemed to solve the former problem, he said, and he plans on having a more suitable ring and pinion set made for the Lincoln locally.
Riccardo said he's taken it upon himself to educate the Italians about Edsel Ford's speedster and his inclinations toward European automobile design. It seems he now has the perfect tool to do that with.
Carl Grimes's 1954 "De Oldsley," the first NHRA Nationals-qualifying dragster, sells for $22,000
Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson.
Somebody's gotta be the first. And in September 1955 on an old airstrip that once saw B-26 bombers come and go, that somebody was Carl Grimes, who said he just happened to be first in line for inspections at the first-ever NHRA Nationals in Great Bend, Kansas, with his homebuilt 11-second wagon. While many others followed in Grimes's footsteps as a competitor, nobody ever built another car quite like his "De Oldsley," which sold at auction this week for $22,000.
Grimes, a mechanic from Oklahoma who spent the prewar years racing cars and motorcycles on the Muroc dry lake in California, moved to Arizona after the war to open his own garage. Sometime afterward, the new trend toward drag racing caught his eye and he began organizing midnight street races in and around Phoenix, partly for fun and partly as a way to advertise his services. "It was just a bunch of guys together," he said decades later. "We'd hold our own drag races until someone would call the cops and then we'd scatter. It used to be more like a friendly competition."
In about 1954, he began to put together a car specifically for drag racing, starting with a 1941 De Soto chassis, to which he added most of a 1948 Crosley station wagon body, a 1953 Cadillac 331-cu.in. V-8, a 1950 Oldsmobile rear axle, Model A fenders over the protruding rear wheels, and the grille from a World War II Dodge truck. When he heard that the NHRA planned its first Nationals for the following year in Great Bend, he and Lewis Rogers, his daughter's boyfriend, gassed up the creation and headed east.
The 1955 Nationals were by no means the first organized drag races nor the first NHRA event. Fran Hernandez and Tom Cobbs reportedly met in the first drag race in April 1949 near Santa Barabara, California; the NHRA, formed by Wally Parks in 1951, held its first race a couple years later in Pomona, California. It took the lobbying of the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce—which had found itself with an abandoned air force base and no clear purpose for the property—to convince Parks to bring the first Nationals to that former cowtown and its 8,000-foot runway smack dab in the middle of the country over four days in late September and early October of 1955.
More than 200 cars and 15,000 spectators converged on Great Bend for the Nationals, and though heavy rain cut the event short by a day, only the two-way record runs for the fastest competitors were canceled. Grimes apparently only made one elimination run and lost—he later said that it proved too heavy for serious competition—but he apparently convinced Parks to reschedule the record runs for that November in Phoenix, leading to Grimes's formal association with the NHRA as a regional advisor and as a dragstrip safety advocate.
According to information compiled by collector Tom LaFerriere, Grimes soon afterward built a much faster Fiat powered by a Buick V-8 and using the first known fliptop body, so he gave the dragster to his daughter Sally, who would campaign it in drag races over the next year and apparently with some success. The wagon's best quarter-mile time of 11.15 seconds at 128.93 MPH likely came during this period, when Grimes and Rogers installed a series of V-8s, including a Buick and the triple Stromberg-fed 1954 Oldsmobile 394-cu.in. Rocket V-8 that sits under the hood nowadays. Then in 1956, when Sally and Rogers married, they put it on the street as their everyday car.
Rogers ended up selling the wagon in 1959 and though it made its way to California over the following decades, in 1990 he tracked it down, bought it back, and restored it. He later sold it to Chuck Rahn of Phoenix, and in latter years it made its way to LaFerriere's collection on the East Coast. Grimes, who quit racing in 1961, was later inducted into the NHRA Hall of Fame despite his insistence that the presence of money in drag racing ruined it as a sport.
Offered on Wednesday at no reserve at Barrett-Jackson's Scottsdale auction, the dragster sold for $22,000. Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale will continue through Sunday. For more information, visit Barrett-Jackson.com.
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Sometimes it takes more than a bag of sand and snow tires to get around in the wintertime. Sometimes you need a little more ingenuity and a cache of old auto and airplane parts, which North Dakotan Roy Berg had plenty of in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and which he used to create a series of homebuilt snow planes.
After a recent comment from reader Rudy Radke mentioning Berg's snow planes, we followed up, looking for more photos and info. He put us in touch with his cousin and Berg's son, Gerry Berg, who filled us in on the contraptions. Gerry said the snow planes were built mostly for fox and rabbit hunting. "As I remember, the county paid a two dollar bounty for fox," he wrote. "Starting the engine was a two-man job. One person would sit in the driver's seat and the other person would turn over the engine by hand. The person at the engine would turn the engine over several times without spark. He would then call out "Contact." The person in the driver's seat would flip two toggle switches one for each magneto. The person at the engine would crank the prop as hard as he could and get out of the way."
Regarding the first snow plane, pictured above, Gerry said that it was built in 1947. "My brother was born in 1946, and he looks to be about two years old in the picture. It had a single seat and short wings. I'm not sure why it had wings. Maybe for some lift but it needed the skis on the ground for stability."
"The second snow plane was built in 1949 or '50, based on my brothers age. As Rudy suggested, it looks like it used a bomber fuselage. It had long wooden skis without suspension."
"The third snow plane was built around 1952. The fuselage was from a plane, and it looks like the front hood off of some car. As you can see, it used automotive axles with wooden skis set on long sheets of steel."
The fourth plane I think was built in the mid to late Fifties. In 1955 my folks built a new house, so I don't think they would have had time to work on snow planes. I can remember this one being built and can still smell the dope being put on the fabric to shrink it tight. I was born in late 1950. You can tell from the picture that this was a well engineered snow plane. Very streamline with four-point suspension. The plane would go 50 to 60 MPH with good conditions. The front skis pivoted on kingpins at the ends of the front axle. The front hood opened to store the foxes and rabbits. This plane had a four-cylinder horizontally opposed Continental engine. I think about 60 HP. The fuselage and engine came from a Piper Cub airplane purchased at the Fergus Falls airport. This snow plane was converted into a three-wheeled crop sprayer in the mid-1960s. I don't have any pictures of the sprayer. The last time it was used as a snow plane was in the late 1960s. The engine was overhauled, but the pistons were too tight and it overheated, if I remember correctly. It was never run after that.
Gerry said all that remains of the four is the frame of the last one, which his brother now owns after it sat outside for years. They do, however, still have a few of Roy's other contraptions, including an Allis tractor turned skidloader, a four-wheel drive tractor that he built for $500, a homebuilt garden tractor, and another skid-steer loader that he built in 1962 for $200 .


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If you love figs , here is an interesting recipe that lets you add figs to your everyday cooking. Delicious figs in your favorite dishes. This fig-stuffed baked apples is a simple and easy recipe that has the mouthwatering flavors and tastes of figs. So now you can enjoy both cooking and eating it too
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Jack's Mannequin Announces 2012 Tour Dates
Jack's Mannequin have announced 2012 tour dates in support of People and Things, which was released on October 4th. The band just wrapped up a five week nationwide tour this weekend with a pair of hometown shows that included the sold-out annual Dear Jack Foundation Benefit Concert at Los Angeles' El Rey Theater on Friday that raised money for frontman Andrew McMahon's Dear Jack Foundation, a volunteer-run charitable organization that helps raise awareness and supports charities that help young adult cancer patients. Jack's Mannequin will perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on December 5th, and then in the new year will set off on a string of US dates that kick off in St. Louis on January 19 and run through February 11 in Washington DC. Following the US tour they will head to Australia for the Soundwave Festival before heading to Japan for a handful of dates.
People and Things debuted at #1 on Billboard's Alternative Albums Chart and at #9 on the overall Billboard 200 chart, as well as at #9 on Spotify's album chart. American Songwriter called the first single "My Racing Thoughts" "a superb piece of piano rock that rivals some of Elton John's best '70s hits" and calls People and Things "easily the most musically cohesive album in the band's catalog thus far." Absolute Punk agrees that "it isn't a stretch to call People and Things the best record of Andrew McMahon's career. It's almost a given that no pop album this year will be able to match the depth of this release."
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The creative Asian-influenced dishes Pino Maffeo prepares at his Boston eatery, Restaurant L, have led the chef to be called "part chef, part amateur scientist."
On The Saturday Early Show, Maffeo brings his inventive style to our Chef on a Shoestring challenge, preparing a Memorial Day barbeque for four on a $40 budget.
The following is his menu: Poached & Fried Asparagus Salad and Barbequed Pork Ribs with Green Chili Sauce, followed by Grilled Summer Fruits with Vanilla Lime Suntan Lotion.
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Johnny Cueto reached double figures in strikeouts, fanning 12 Pirates en route to a 4-0 win over Pittsburgh on Wednesday at Great American Ball Park.
Bettors who backed the Reds were rewarded as -109 favorites at sportsbooks. Over-Under bettors saw the total score go UNDER the closing total of 7.5.
Cincinnati got 9 innings from Johnny Cueto, who gave up 0 earned runs on 3 hits, while striking out 12. He earned the victory, while the Reds got 2 RBIs from Joey Votto in the win.
Pittsburgh's starting pitcher Francisco Liriano worked 7 innings, giving up 6 hits and 3 earned runs while striking out 7 in the loss. They got 1 hit from Andrew McCutchen in a losing cause.
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Egypt's ruling military council head has testified in the trial of Hosni Mubarak in a hearing that could decide the fate of the ex-president accused of responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of demonstrators earlier this year.
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi arrived under military escort on Saturday morning at the heavily guarded courtroom in Cairo for the nearly hour-long testimony, which is under a complete media blackout. Mubarak was present in the courtroom during Tantawi's testimony, lying on a gurney inside the defendants' cage.
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Tantawi, who was defence minister for two decades, could provide critical insight into Mubarak's alleged role in the deaths of nearly 850 protesters as well as insider revelations about the former regime's final days.
The trial is also seen as a test between Egypt's traditional power structure and the impatience for clear breaks with the past, seven months after Mubarak was toppled in February and power shifted to a military council headed by Tantawi.
As Tantawi testified, dozens of activists and families of slain protesters rallied outside the court, chanting, "Tantawi, tell the truth, is Mubarak a killer or not," as they waved pictures of those killed in the uprising.
A group of pro-Mubarak supporters also rallied outside the courtroom, separated from the families of the slain protesters by anti-riot police and army troops.
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Gomaa Ali, a lawyer representing the family of 17-year-old slain protester Mohammed Abdel Gawad, said he expected Tantawi's testimony to be "decisive in convicting Mubarak" because he was part of the former president's inner circle.
"He was inside the operation room, behind the closed doors all during the days of the revolution. He knows all the secrets," said Ali.
Tantawi was initially set to testify on September 11, but failed to attend the session citing a busy schedule and instead offering to submit a written testimony. The development at the time raised suspicions of hesitation by Mubarak's former allies to face him in court and possibly shed embarrassing secrets.
But the judge summoned Tantawi again and he agreed to appear at Saturday's hearing.
The trial depends heavily on accounts of members of the former president's inner circle who testified last week. Among those who testified was spy chief Omar Sueliman, who was appointed vice president by Mubarak during the uprising.
Egypt's Chief of Staff Sami Anan - the second highest-ranking figure on the military council - is expected to testify on Sunday.
The lawyers of victims' families had demanded Tantawi testify because he had publicly suggested the army rejected the use of force against protesters.
Addressing a graduation ceremony of police cadets in May, Tantawi said the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces convened in the middle of the uprising and decided not to open fire at the protesters. But he didn't elaborate on who gave the orders for security forces to turn their weapons against protesters.
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We're now looking at the shapes that I united in the previous exercise and if you want to catch up with me I'm working inside of the document called United shapes.ai that's found inside the 06_Edit_transform folder, and I'm still viewing the shapes, and I'm still viewing this one continuous path here inside of the outline mode. If I wanted to see it in the preview mode I would Control or Command click on the Little Orphan Annie eyeball over there in the Layers palette. And there it is. Now, it strikes me at this point that my fingers are too thin and I need to thicken them up a little bit and one way to thicken them up would be to go ahead and select this shape and give it a stroke. Notice that there's no stroke assigned to this shape right now. So I could go to the Stroke palette and I would say, Hey I want 6 points of stroke, give it to me. And then it would go and thicken up those lines, would it not, by stroking the outlines and recall that when you're applying a stroke, by default Illustrator goes ahead and puts one half of the stroke on the inside of the shape and the other half of the stroke on the outside of the shape. So we're bulking up the fingers in the spiral by three points outwards, so we're expanding 3 points outward.
Compare that to another way of working. I'm going to go ahead and undo the addition of the stroke there. The other thing we could do is go up to the Object menu and choose the Path command and then choose this guy right there, Offset Path, which goes ahead and bulks up the path by actually moving it outward by actually tracing new lines outward. So I'll go ahead and choose the Offset Path command. By default Illustrator wants to go ahead and assign an Offset value of 10 points, which is way too much if you turn on the Preview checkbox, you'll see. Wow it goes way too far there. Even a value of 6 is too high, and why is that too high? Because it's actually going outward 6 points, and I was telling you with a 6-point stroke, it's going out 3 points.
So what we want is to offset by 3 points in order to get the same effect we got with the strokes just a moment ago. And that is what I want. So I'll go ahead and click OK at this point, in order to go ahead and expand that path 3 points outward. Now notice that I've got two paths. The offset path command always creates a clone of your original path. So notice if I were to return to the outline mode by Control or Command-clicking on the eyeball, that we do indeed have two versions of the path, one on the outside, that's the new offset version, and one on the inside that's the original. Well that's actually really great in a way. It's not something I need long-term. I'm not going to need this path long-term, but I am going to need it in order to create the beveled edge. See how there's this light beveled edge going around the hand in the background here inside of the big unite template. Well that's something I need to create as well and I might as well expand it outward from the original path definition here.
So I'll select that inside path once again. Then I'll go up to the Object menu and I'll choose the Path command, and I'll choose Offset Path once again and this time I'm going to enter an Offset value of 8 points and I'm going to turn on Preview, so I can see that I'm doing the right thing and I am, isn't that wonderful? Yes it is. I'll click OK. Again it goes ahead and creates a clone of the path and leaves the original behind. All right fine. I don't need that original anymore so I'm going to click off the paths. Then I'm going to click on the original and I'm going to press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac in order to get rid of it.
So now we have these versions of the paths here. I'm going to select the outer one, the one that's serving as the beveled edge, and I want to offset it, and by offset it, I mean I want to nudge it over. I don't want to apply the Offset Path command. I want to nudge it into a different position. And I'll do that, assuming by the way that you set your keyboard increment to 0.2 point, here inside the Preferences dialog box, as I asked you to do, way back in Chapter 2. Then in that case, you can press Shift+right arrow and then Shift+down arrow. That's all you have to do. Just press Shift+right arrow and Shift+down arrow and you'll have nudged the path into the proper location.
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Washington needs a different lens to see Lebanon and Hezbollah or its strategy to weaken Hezbollah will cripple Lebanon and add fuel to a burning Middle East, stresses Rima Merhi.
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To this day, Washington considers Hezbollah a militia in the best case scenario, or a terrorist organization in the worst. American media reinforces this false image. Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Fateh el Islam - all one category of "terrorists" responsible for September 11 in the misinformed American mind. From Washington's lens, this 'militia' must be disarmed as per Resolution 1559, and every measure should be taken to cripple Hezbollah in order to save the world from the dark forces of evil. The real problem is- Washington only sees Hezbollah as a security threat and a military wing linked to Iran. It fails to appreciate the multiple faces of Hezbollah, the diversity of Hezbollah supporters and the danger of alienating more than a third of the Lebanese population. Washington needs a different lens to see Lebanon and Hezbollah or its strategy to weaken Hezbollah will cripple Lebanon and add fuel to a burning Middle East. The US government must begin by respecting the fact that Hezbollah became part of the Lebanese government in the elections of 2005, and recently won 13 seats in the elections.Here in America - this is not the point where Hezbollah is acknowledged as a legitimate player in Lebanese politics, rather it is a moment to sell Lebanon as government that harbors terrorists. Now, Obama needs to carefully break away from Bush's isolationist policy and manage its detrimental effect in the Middle East. Washington's narrow security lens to view Hezbollah can be clearly seen in three strategies adopted by the administration in recent history to weaken the group. These strategies proved ineffective because they were built around the wrong assumptions: In July 2006, the US supported Israel's attack on Hezbollah. In 33 days of war, Israel brought mass destruction to Lebanon, lost over 100 Israeli soldiers, killed over 1000 Lebanese civilians, displaced over a million people Lebanese who unlike their Israeli counterparts went back to search for their homes in the rubble. All this damage did not achieve any military objectives against Hezbollah. This was the ultimate blow to American foreign policy in the Middle East as it bolstered the role of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the region, and gave greater legitimacy to their arms. Post July 2006, the US government looked at Hezbollah with greater fear and alarm particularly given its failure to halt the nuclear program of Hezbollah's main sponsor-Iran. Another blow for the US administration came when Ahmedinejad rose to power again in the last Iranian elections. Then Washington moved in the direction of Hezbollah's ally-Syria. Particularly after Obama took office, the US administration opted for rapprochement and after a four year gap, Obama decided to send a US ambassador to Syria. Given that the US withdrew its Ambassador in February 2005 to contest the assassination of Premier Hariri based on a suspicion that Syrian intelligence was behind the bombing, it is likely that this diplomatic relationship will be in jeopardy if in fact the international tribunal finds any Syrian high ranking officials guilty of the crime.To make any headway with Hezbollah, the US needs a deeper and wider lens. This administration needs to appreciate the religious, political, social and economic ties that connect Hezbollah has with its supporters, and acknowledge the danger-both national and regional- of alienating over a million Lebanese, mostly Shiites, who are loyal to Hezbollah. Most importantly, Washington needs to understand the history of Hezbollah. "We are a nation of today and tomorrow. Others look at the past. We are in peril if we do not do the same," said Ambassador Ryan Crocker recently, as he pointed out that Hezbollah was in fact created in 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon in the civil war. The real path for sustainable peace is the only path that the US has not tried, and it involves Hezbollah's biggest enemy-Israel. For too long, the US has failed to play the role of an effective broker and opted for a piecemeal approach with quick fixes, without addressing the root causes of the conflict. As an urgent first step, the US can use its influence in the UN to step up pressure against Israel and Hezbollah to make sure there is respect for Resolution 1701 that ended the Lebanese Israeli war in 2006. As a second important step, the Security Council needs to move beyond recent complaints made by both sides in violation of Resolution 1701 and address once and for all the root causes of the conflict between Lebanon and Israel. Three main issues have floated around for too long because the political will to move forward on them has been absent: 1) The US can capitalize on the auspices of the UN to resolve dispute over land still occupied by Israel (including Shebaa farms). Israel's stance on Shebaa farms is unacceptable: Israel claims that it did not give them back to Lebanon in 2000 when it pulled out of the south because Shebaa farms are Syrian. But, this is not the point. The point is- this land is not Israeli, and the UN needs to resolve this meaningless dispute once and for all. Improved US-Syrian relations may prove beneficial to resolve this land dispute. 2) Given that the last war broke out when Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, it should be a priority for the international community to pressure both Lebanon and Israel to put a plan forward to return all prisoners of war. A very important step took place last year when Israel gave back 5 soldiers and the remains of tens of Lebanese soldiers, in return for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. There is a need for official statements on remaining prisoners of war from both sides, followed by a final settlement. The US and international community can apply a carrot approach and link the financial assistance granted to both countries with this political objective. 3) The UN needs to find a just and durable solution for some 300,000 Palestinian refugees living in despair in twelve camps in Lebanon. This ties the Lebanese conflict with the larger Arab Israeli conflict. Lebanon's stance for 60 years is as clear as the Palestinian: Resolution 194 and the right of return is non-negotiable. In the very least, the international community owes the Palestinian refugees a decent life where their basic human rights are met. These international issues clearly need an international solution and the US as a superpower can play an important role towards achieving peace.But the most important step will depend on the Lebanese government. Only a strong government that is representative of all the Lebanese working together to develop a national defense strategy to protect Lebanon- and particularly a vulnerable population on the Lebanese-Israeli border- will be sustainable for peace in the long run. Even Hezbollah realizes that in the long run, it cannot be a force in the government and a military force outside the government. The future of Lebanon lies in a strong army capable of protecting the whole Lebanon. This will require time, resources, and a commitment on the part of all factions in the Lebanese government. If Washington is looking for simple fast solutions, it will never find them in Lebanon. The only way forward is a long term strategy that is sensitive to these complexities looking at Lebanon and the region with a wider and deeper lens. This lens needs to be reflected in American media to better educate Americans about Lebanon and the region. What hurts me most as a Lebanese living in America is the knowledge that we have failed to educate American public opinion about our culture, politics and history. And when they hold office, they can't relate to us beyond Hezbollah as a "terrorist" organization, or a country torn by political divisions, violence and corruption. When I was in Mount Lebanon looking at Lebanon through my broken camera lens, it was stuck on images from May 7, 2008. Now from America, I zoom into Lebanon and I understand for the first time that an attack on any one party in Lebanon is an attack on all of us. We have a choice - either we give up on this broken camera lens and dump the whole camera down a blind alley, or try to glue the parts together to the best of our ability and build our country. I don't want my children to sit in a class at Harvard some day and hear any professor say: "Lebanon is a divided country with a weak army."Rima Merhi is a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and graduate in political science from the American University of Beirut.
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Election Reform / The Help America Vote Act
The nation's primary federal legislation governing elections, passed in the aftermath of the 2000 debacle, has had a significant impact on voting procedures in the United States. Century's publications evaluate how HAVA has worked and ideas for reform.
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TCF Fellow Tova Wang is the author of the forthcoming Century Foundation book published by Cornell University Press, The Politics of Voter...Dec 28, 2011
Commentary: The Best and Worst in Election Reform, 2006It was a roller coaster of a year in the area of election reform and voting rights. Yet hopes are high for better times in the year to come for the cause of advancing political participation.Dec 25, 2006
7:00 PM: I'm still here at the Election Protection operation, spearheaded by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and as we expected, there are problems throughout the country concerning voter identification.Nov 6, 2006
Commentary: Problems to Watch for on Election DayAs most people have heard by now, there is a potentially explosive combination of conditions brewing this election year that could boil over in some places on election day. The convergence of close elections, tremendous political ramifications, new voting machines and new voting rules could mean major problems both at the polls and after they close. What everyone wants to know is this: where are the biggest fires most likely to break out?Nov 5, 2006
Commentary: Voter ID Deja VuVoter identification has become one of the hottest topics in the debate over election reform, both in Congress and in states across the country. The rationale for requiring photo voter identification at the polls, proponents argue, is that there is widespread fraud that must be stopped. Largely overlooked in the current tempest is the extent to which virtually the same debate has occurred again and again throughout American history since the 1800s.Oct 29, 2006
Commentary: More Post-Katrina MalfeasanceAs if the citizens of Louisiana don't have enough to be outraged about, now the federal government is denying displaced residents a full opportunity to determine their own future by preventing them from participating in the New Orleans city elections in April.Feb 12, 2006
So many grinches this year, Who-ville is more worried than ever about its democracy. The Georgia state legislature. The Department of Justice. Tom Delay. It was enough to make us believers in voting rights think we would be left with nothing under the tree. But despite a commitment to reform two sizes too small in so many quarters, there were at least some indications that 2006 might bring progress on elections after all.Dec 26, 2005
Democracy Fellow Tova Andrea Wang discusses election reform in the states at NCSL's summer conference.Aug 17, 2005
TCF Democracy Fellow Tova Andrea Wang appears at NASED's 2005 annual conference to discuss the recent working group report Balancing Access and Integrity.Aug 13, 2005
Commentary: A New Motto for Election Reform: Be PreparedThree years and another presidential election after the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was supposed to restore confidence in American elections, we are still haunted by the ever present specter of post-election legal battles. This is largely because we have created a system that plans for resolving disputes after election day, rather than ahead of time.Aug 7, 2005
Commentary: Identity PoliticsWhile controversy rages across the country over whether computerized voting machines may result in lost or manipulated votes, there is another change in the election system this year that could lead to lost voting rights: Some people who show up at the polls will now have to show identification in order to cast a ballot. The federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) requires first-time voters in a jurisdiction who register by mail and who do not include verification with their registration form to present identification. The identification can be a photo ID, utility bill, bank statement or government document that shows the name and address of the voter. Despite the apparent limited reach of the new requirement, there is already evidence that it could lead to disenfranchisement of minority voters in particular. Officials in South Dakota are investigating complaints from voters-primarily from counties in which Indian reservations are located-that they were not allowed to vote in the June primary when they could not produce photo identification, as is required for all voters under a recently passed South Dakota law. Although poll workers were also required by law to offer such voters affidavit ballots, they did not do so and simply turned them away. Similar complaints came out of the Ohio primary in March. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the voter empowerment coordinator for the NAACP received at least fifty phone calls from black voters who were required to present identification in Cuyahoga County - a suspiciously high number considering that, according to the Cuyahoga country board of elections, a total of only 185 voters in the whole jurisdiction were required under HAVA to present identification. A leader of the Greater Cleveland Voter Registration Coalition also received such calls from black voters. In Mississippi, a state with a long history of creating hurdles for minority voters, a bitterly partisan dispute over enacting a voter ID requirement for all voters-not just the narrow group identified in HAVA-rekindled conflicts from the not-so-distant past about racial discrimination at the polls. Most white legislators argued that this is a sensible anti-fraud measure. But African-American legislators reminded their colleagues of the barriers minority voters have had to overcome throughout American history, especially in the South, such as poll taxes and literacy tests. The voter identification requirement, they said, represents a new obstacle that is likely to fall disproportionately on minority voters. Mississippi blacks remember that as recently as 1993, the governor wanted to require people registering under the new motor-voter law-intended to make registration easier for minorities-to show identification. There are many ways an ID requirement can be used to disqualify people from voting. For example, poll workers might-purposely or inadvertently-fail to give voters the complete list of alternative nonphoto IDs HAVA allows the voter to present. Also, any person who cannot present acceptable identification is supposed to be offered an affidavit or provisional ballot. But that may not happen-as in the South Dakota case-or even if it does, depending on state law and whether the voter voted in the right precinct, that ballot might not be counted. In addition, other voters might not have the kind of identification required by the law. For example, it is not unusual for only one spouse to be listed on household bills or for low-income people, senior citizens, people with disabilities and students not to have driver's licenses, bank accounts or paychecks. States can spell out in their implementation rules the many types of documents that can be construed to meet this requirement. In California, the Secretary of State has said this includes such items as a student ID card, public housing ID card, drug prescription or tax return. But other states may interpret the types of acceptable identification more narrowly, and some voters could simply find themselves disenfranchised. Finally, there has long been concern among civil rights advocates that election officials and poll workers might selectively enforce the Help America Vote Act identification provision-say by only asking minority voters to produce documentation. The nation is justifiably focused on the problems of the machines voters will be using this fall. In the meantime, however, let's not forget about the problems that may prevent voters from entering the booth in the first place. Tova Andrea Wang is Senior Program Officer and Democracy Fellow at The Century Foundation. This article originally appeared in the August 16, 2004 issue of The Nation.Aug 15, 2004
Commentary: New York Stalls on Election ReformThis week, the federal Election Assistance Commission met to discuss progress in improving the election process, including the use of federal payments to the states to modernize voting machines, increase poll worker training and recruitment, implement new registration procedures, and ensure that all who arrive at the polling site on election day are able to cast a ballot. Unfortunately, this discussion was irrelevant to the State of New York.Jul 14, 2004
A Forum on NY's Quest for New Voting Technology New York is poised to replace its antiquated fleet of voting machines. This forum will address issues associated with the changeJun 24, 2004
Commentary: Return of the Chads?In an effort to respond to the 2000 presidential election debacle, President Bush in 2002 signed the Help America Vote Act. When signing the bill, he proclaimed, "When problems arise in the administration of elections, we have a responsibility to fix them."Feb 4, 2004
Commentary: To HAVA and HAVA NotPresident Bush signed The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) with great fanfare in October 2002, but his enthusiasm for the legislation - designed mainly to prevent a replay of the Florida chad-counting melodrama that rewarded him with the presidency - always seemed more than a little contrived.Oct 27, 2003
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The commission, led by former Presidents Ford and Carter, which laid much of the groundwork for the 2002 Help America Vote Act.Jun 30, 2001


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