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"Jim's a tough guy and you can see his personality is all over this football team," Fitzgerald said.
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For her to wipe her nose like that.
Goodells going to cut the lights after Tate takes the second half kickoff to the crib.
Harvin is gonna get the kickoff not Tate. Seahawks should watch out for an onsides though. Denver needs a spark
So close. Right outcome wrong player
IMO college FB is just more fun to watch. Only 7 more months?
Newman and George look like they haven't aged a day since Seinfeld went off the air
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Surprised NFL agreed to this song. Guess you can sing about sex, but just not dress provocative.
For anyone interested in some sundry Denver stats, they have gained 123 yards on 42 plays, which is good for 2.93 yards per play. Further, all this has come despite a 17-23 performance from Manning, although not many passes have going for yardage typically found in a Manning performance. Seattle is outgaining the Bronco by nearly a 2:1 margin right now...
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the brother that won the superbowl couple years ago?
Best halftime concert since the Britney Spears/Aerosmith combo
I don't know... The Prince halftime show was pretty amazing imo. Covering Hendrix/Dylan, Foo Fighters, etc... Its the only haltfime show I remember (outside of wardrobe malfunction)
I was playing a drinking game where I drank everytime they said Peyton Manning. I'm pretty drunk now.
I don't there has been a worst combination of commercials and halftime show to go along with an only ok game that this year.
Game is way different than I thought it would be but that is a good thing. Go Seahawks!!!
So these halftime show planners thought "let's do a Bruno Mars medley, that would be great." Better yet, let's throw in the red hot chili peppers in the middle doing "give it away" and not have them play another song. Wtf.
fact. The first halftime show was University of Arizona Symphonic Marching Band & Grambling State University Marching Band
I am a little shocked that Seattle is able to do this well against Denver. At the same time, EVERYTHING seems to be going Seattle's way.
Everything? Did you miss the two fumbles Denver nearly lost or the replay call that could have went either way that went Denver's?
I loved the original Leon Sandcastle commercial
Bruno was solid.....guy has great talent.......also Jerry Ricecake
The U-M Marching Band performed at Super Bowl VII, 1/14/73.
Onside kick? Aw, boo!
In retrospect, that might have been better.
the intensity?
Do they need to?
he's still runnin
The game's not over.
But it's over.
Joe Buck: Good Kick...... and Percy Harvin is going to go!
And like *poof* any chance of a comeback is gone.
Congrats on getting destroyed on national television.
Peyton hasn't been great, but how about the entire team shitting the bed, not just Peyton.
than those with Brady.
Then that happened.
LOL.....so much fail Denver.
So I guess Harvin was worth the $13M for 1 game
Very Desmond-esque
This is why I never get hyped for any SB. This sucks
It official. We're watching for commercials now.
Wow WTF is with the Broncos tonight?
Game. Blouses.
who would be the MVP?
Probably Harvin at this point... or just pick any one of 22 starters for Seattle.


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Supply and demand balance reports issued by Bentek Energy LLC, an energy analyst based in Golden, Colo., have indicated in recent weeks a significant drop in North American natural gas production.
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"In the past week, production has recovered back to about 49 bcf as of Jan. 25. However, this level remains 2.6 bcf below the average production rate in January 2006."
Meanwhile, analysts at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. (FBR), Arlington, Va., said in a separate report that Canadian gas exports to the US are expected to decline by 4%, or 400 MMcfd in 2007, following a similar drop in 2006. "We expect exports to decline...as a result of reduced drilling outlook for 2007 and increasing oil sands consumption as existing projects ramp back up and new projects come on line," said FBR researchers.
The weather factor
Based on its canvass of various market participants, Bentek said weather was one of the factors contributing to the current steep decline in US production. Although media coverage has been unusually muted, Bentek analysts said individual operators reported sizeable shut-ins of gas wells because of sustained freezing temperatures, particularly in the Rockies region.
"Unusually large snowfalls have disrupted operations. In addition, there is an expected dip in production that occurs about this time each year due to environmental constraints on producing activities," said Bentek analysts. "The Gulf [of Mexico] region started to decline a few days before cold weather set in due to maintenance and operational curtailments on several pipeline systems."
The result is "a double-whammy" for the natural gas supply-demand balance: a huge increase in demand combined with a significant decrease in supply. "Since winter weather finally appeared 2 weeks ago, 352 bcf has been withdrawn from storage. The recent storage withdrawals have resulted in an abrupt shift in market expectations for end-of-season storage inventories. In early January, most market participants expected a large storage overhang to depress prices in the spring. The large storage withdrawals over the past 2 weeks have eased that expectation," analysts said. Bentek's latest weekly market study projected another large withdrawal—195 bcf—for the week ended Jan. 26.
Canadian outlook
Canadian drilling and completion activity is expected to drop 10-15% in 2007 as a result of higher drilling costs, lower crew productivity, lower and more volatile commodity prices, and widening market differentials. "The drop in fourth quarter 2006 drilling activity combined with less drilling activity outlook for 2007 will result in 2007 production declining by 300 MMcfd, according to our estimate. This compares [with] our previous estimate of flat production," said FBR analysts.
"The key demand growth in 2007 will be increasing natural gas consumption in the oil sands as existing projects ramp back up and new projects come on line. We estimate that this will increase gas consumption by another 100 MMcfd, in line with our previous estimate," they said.
Canadian gas exports declined an estimated 400 MMcfd in 2006, with 100 MMcfd accounted for by increased oil sands consumption. Canadian well completions totaled 15,362 in 2006 vs. 15,355 in 2005. However, gas completions dropped significantly in the fourth quarter, down 8% from the previous year's level. "The decreased gas well completion activity was mostly due to fewer shallow gas wells being drilled. The fourth quarter reduced completion activity will be felt in the next few months," FBR analysts said.
Energy prices
Despite volatile trading with seesawing prices, the benchmark US crudes contract climbed back above $55/bbl, jumping by $1.19 to $55.42/bbl Jan. 26 on the New York market, a 4% gain for the week as cold weather rallied heating oil demand in the Northeast.
The front month natural gas contract also climbed back above $7/MMbtu to $7.18/MMbtu as temperatures dropped to 9º F. Jan. 26 in New York City, the lowest level in 2 years.
Meanwhile, the FBR group forecast "a 10% decline in refined product inventories over the next 2 months." Analysts said, "Strong gasoline and diesel demand in the first few weeks of 2007, coupled with refinery maintenance and a negative Europe-US East Coast arbitrage spread (limiting imports), indicate that inventories could fall 10% over the next 2 months."
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The University of North Carolina School of Medicine's Standardized Patient (SP) Program serves students across all four years of medical school in addition to students from ten other health professional schools on campus. A member institution of the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE), the SP program is administered through the Office of Educational Development, which is responsible for student assessment; course design; curriculum evaluation & development; faculty development; educational research & program evaluation; and special programs for the recruitment, preparation, and retention of minority and disadvantaged students.
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UNC students work with Standardized Patients (SPs) for two purposes- to learn and practice professional behaviors and clinical skills, and to demonstrate their competence in these same areas.
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Finally HTC took the wraps off it's new flagship device, HTC ONE announced today at a launch event in London HTC One is a powerful beast with some awesome features coming out from the box. The new device is considered a good competition for existing smartphones like Galaxy S3 and other upcoming devices like the Galaxy S4 and the iPhone 5s as this time the company does boast some top-notch specs in the device like the Sony Xperia Z and the Xperia ZL instead it gets the users a totally different experience of the Android devices with some new features.
The HTC 1 runs on 1.7 GHz Quad-Core snapdragon processor which is surely that will get the mouth of the users wide open accompanied by 2 GB on-board RAM that surely the user experience very smooth and fluidic. As expected device runs on Android 4.2 the Jelly Bean which is quite smooth and lag free to use on the device. HTC 1 has 4.7 in full HD display with a resolution of 441 ppi, highest on the any Android device till now and all this stuff is powered by a battery of 2300 mAh which would easily get the device of the charger for atleast two odd days.
The company has introduced here a "Ultrapixel" camera which is totally unique and not present in the devices available till now. "UltraPixel" camera that comes with a program called Zoe that "gives people the ability to shoot high-res photos that come to life in three-second snippets" and that "automatically creates integrated highlight films from each event… set to music with professionally designed cuts, transitions and effects." HTC 1 also uncovers the Blinkfeed interface which according to the company "transforms the home screen into a single live stream of personally relevant information such as social updates, entertainment and lifestyle updates, news and photos with immersive images so that people no longer need to go to separate applications to find out what's happening."
HTC 1 Full Phone specifications
- Android 4.1.2 with HTC Sense 5
- Processor: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 600, quad-core, 1.7GHz
- Total storage: 32GB/64GBi, available capacity varies
- Battery: 2300 mAh embedded rechargeable Li-polymer battery
- BSI sensor, Pixel size 2.0 μm, Sensor size 1/3′
- Dedicated HTC ImageChip™ 2
- F2.0 aperture and 28 mm lens
- Optical Image Stabilization (OIS)
- Smart Flash: Five levels of flash automatically set by distance to subject
- Front Camera: 88 wide angle lens with HDR capability
- 1080p Full HD video recording for both front and back cameras
- HDR Video
- Continuous shooting and VideoPic
- Slow motion video recording with variable speed playback
- HTC Zoe™ with highlights and HTC Zoe™ Share
- Retouch with Object Removal, Always Smile, and Sequence Shot
- 3.5 mm stereo audio jack
- NFC capable
- Compliant with Bluetooth 4.0
- Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX™ enabled
- Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 a/ac/b/g/n
- DLNA® for wirelessly streaming media from the phone to a compatible TV or computer
- Support consumer infrared remote control
- micro-USB 2.0 (5-pin) port with mobile high-definition video link (MHL) for USB or HDMI connection (Special cable required for HDMI connection.)
- Dual frontal stereo speakers with built-in amplifiers
- Studio-quality sound with Beats Audio™
- HDR Microphone
- Sense Voice
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
- WCDMA (1900/2100 (B2/B1) MHz)
- CDMA (800/1900 BC0/BC1/BC10, Sprint)
- Frequencies will vary by region/operator
- Gyro sensor
- Accelerometer
- Proximity sensor
- Ambient light sensor
- Internal GPS antenna + GLONASS
- Digital compass
- Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
- DC output: 5 V and 1 A
- SIZE: 137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3mm/4mm (max/min)
- WEIGHT: 143 grams with battery
- DISPLAY: 4.7 inch, Full HD 1080p, 468 PPI
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Shark on the hook for Amelia Island Concours
I have a little clock on my desk that shows me how much time we have left until our 1962 Shark Roadster debuts at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance this Sunday. The clock, which has been running since late last year, showed 144 hours left this morning. You would think that having owned the car for 32 years that planning would be paramount and time would be a luxury. Well, half of that statement is right and that concerns "planning." We started the planning of the restoration in October last year, started gathering parts in November, and this gave us three months to get the Shark ready. Ninety days. Age must not have brought wisdom for me but it did bring me friends who are talented, enthusiastic, far smarter than me, and who have helped at every stage of the restoration. If you're planning to see Amelia this year, stop by and say hi.
Forgotten Fiberglass – Victress, the world's fastest sports car, part 1
Doc Boyce-Smith with a Victress S5
Doc Boyce-Smith started with a vision to create and sell sports car bodies to those interested in building sports cars. This was at the dawn of the modern sports car age, and building one was nearly the only way you could have an American sports car back in the early 1950s. Doc was the right person, at the right place, and at the right time.
In his late teens and early 20s, he had been greatly involved in the dry lakes racing scene both with his own car and working with other cars too. His involvement was significant enough to earn him first mention of thanks in Veda Orr's 1946 Lakes Pictorial – a seminal publication that captured the excitement of dry lakes racing in post-war America in photographs and stories. Doc was also involved with circle track racing at the time, and built and raced two track roadsters. One was driven by Don Freeland of future Indianapolis 500 fame, and he drove the other himself. Both cars raced at Ascot Park Speedway in Gardena, California, Saugus Speedway in Saugus, California, as well as other locations.
When the first fiberglass bodied sports cars were introduced at the Petersen Motorama in the fall of 1951, Doc wanted to have a part in the new trend. He was in his final year of college at UCLA, California, and started working with good friend and fraternity brother Hugh Jorgensen to design a car – a car he wanted to be more stunning than all others of its era. Doc and Hugh originally met in 1951 when Hugh was a pre-med freshman at UCLA and pledged Doc's fraternity, Theta Delta Chi. He didn't know it then, but Doc had found the right person to design the car. In late 1951 / early 1952, Hugh began work to design a car that would, in Doc Boyce-Smith's words, "out Jag the Jag." Hugh's task was to start with the 1948 Jaguar XK120 as the basis of design but with four significant changes:
New book profiles history of the 1947 Kurtis-Omohundro Comet – America's first postwar sports car
In preparing for the Sport Custom class at this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, we were honored to work with Ken Gross and to provide history, photographs, and pertinent cars that would measure up to Pebble Beach standards. We see this as a great way to spread the word about these hand-built cars we have spent years tracking down and researching.
While we've already been privileged to spread the word and showcase some of those cars at Amelia Island in 2010, at the Petersen Automotive Museum that same year and at the Milwaukee Masterpiece in 2011, this year we decided to pull out all the stops and create something new, the culmination of five years of research into a single car: At Pebble Beach on August 19, 2012, we are releasing our first book, 1947 Kurtis-Omohundro Comet – America's First Postwar Sports Car.
Books are tangible – something we can touch. In creating this book, we set forth two requirements: First, it should combine elements of the best coffee table books – it must be visually appealing and enjoyable to review, and second, that we be able to distribute the book online in its full form for review free of charge as well as in print (for a charge).
This will be the first of many books we hope to share about unique and wonderful cars, car marques, and their history – all nearly forgotten in the pages of time, but shared both online and in paper form. This book is about both the car and the era into which it was born, so it supports the 1940s Sport Custom era and features some of the cars that will be shown at Pebble Beach in this same class, too.
Below is an excerpt from the book's foreword that gives insight into the orientation of the book and the depth of the research involved to produce it. If you like what you read, check out the full-length version online and look for hard copies of the book, which will be available in late fall or early winter of this year.
Research is a funny thing. You never know where it will take you. But what you secretly hope is that someday you'll "grab a tiger by the tail" and find yourself in a full-blown adventure.
That "someday" happened for me when I met Phil Fleming in 2007.
I began a quest with my co-author, Rick D'Louhy, and Phil Fleming to find two special cars from Phil's youth – two Kurtis-Kraft sport cars from Phil's hometown of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan – lost to time. Ultimately, this search would culminate in finding and writing about what are now known as America's first postwar sports cars, a class of car known then and now as "Sport Customs."
Documenting early postwar sports cars has been a passion of mine that has led to assembling the largest and most comprehensive collection of American literature relating to cars of this type known today.
It was from this cumulative database that Rick and I were able to determine chronology, production, and creation of coachbuilt, custom built, and hand-crafted American postwar sports cars. This movement started in 1945 with the design of the first Kurtis-Omohundro Comet (Motor Trend, October 1950) and culminated in the late '50s.
From a close review of this information, we learned that the "Comet" – designed by Frank Kurtis of Glendale, California, and built by Paul Omohundro of Bellflower, California, was a very special car. It was the earliest conceived, designed, built, and written about sports car in postwar America – with production plans to boot. Two cars were ultimately built.
During this research, uncovered documentation revealed:
• An initial press release in 1946 of the "Comet" with specifications and plans for its design and production
• The appearance of the "Comet" in 1947 in the first printing and distribution of Dan Post's California Custom Car Photo Album
• Continued appearances in various Dan Post publications showcasing sports and custom cars from 1947 through 1955
This heritage makes the 1947 Kurtis-Omohundro Comet the first coachbuilt sports car that was documented, photographed and written about in postwar America.
These early postwar sports cars are often referred to as "Sport Customs," because of the interesting nexus they occupy.
Larger and more powerful than their prewar sports car counterparts of Great Britain (MG's, Singers, etc.), American Sport Customs simultaneously reveal both elements of custom cars and sports cars at a time when both genres were at their genesis in postwar America.
As America advanced beyond the early postwar years, sports and custom cars would diverge from their common heritage. Sports cars would shrink in size (the Comet had a wheelbase of 112 inches) and grow in power while "custom cars" would begin to incorporate more elements of "restyling" than "innovation" in design.
We hope you enjoy learning more about the birth of sports cars in postwar America as presented on the field by the class of "Sport Custom" cars at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on August 19, 2012.
One-off sport customs to gather for featured class at Pebble Beach
Norman Timbs Special. Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker
Not quite a sports car, not quite a custom car, the one-off cars we've come to call sport customs blended a little bit of both and have always been considered in a class of their own. At this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, a group of significant sport customs will take the field in a literal class of their own.
Most stories about custom cars start in the 1950s and stories about American sports cars start with the introduction of the 1948 Jaguar XK120 and the MG in the post-war era and the influence they had. Those are great mile markers, but what we're finding out is the best stories about American sports and custom cars are the ones that led up these events – the history and heritage of America's sport custom cars.
From left, the Vince Gardner bubbletop Studebaker, the Emil Diedt-built Rochester Special, and the Templeton-Saturn Mercury Special
Back in the 1940s and 1950s, custom cars were truly one-of-a-kind cars that were all, or nearly all, built by coachbuilders of the day. These included cars built by Frank Kurtis, Bohman and Son (of Bohman and Schwartz fame), Derham, Diedt & Lesovsky, and others. One-off uniquely designed custom cars were also built by individuals such as Jay Everett (Astra).
What we would now call customs – which involved taking a stock car or stock component parts and modifying them extensively to get a new look and/or design – were then referred to as "restyled cars." Some of these were modified so extensively that it might have been easier to build the same car from scratch! Examples of restyled cars included ones built by Gerry Huth (Custom Cadillac), Robert Monroe & Alexis Dowydoff (Rogue), and Lloyd Templeton (Saturn). Of course the coachbuilding shops restyled many cars too, so some of their work belongs in this category, as well.
After the 1940s, sports car design separated from custom car design and each became a distinct classification of car. Sport customs continued being built through the 1950s, and most of these were designed as large, "sporty," cars – an "American boulevard cruiser" type of design. That's what makes this class of cars so interesting – and their history compelling. Like my favorite Forgotten Fiberglass cars of the 1950s, Sport Custom Cars are always handcrafted, taking hundreds – if not thousands – of hours to complete.
Most of the cars that we'll see in this class at Pebble took more than 2,000 hours to build back in the day. That's 50 weeks of 40 hours a week work – and two weeks off for good behavior – one full working year. In modern terms, at 50 bucks an hour, you'll arrive at $100,000 in labor before accounting for the first bolt. The Sport Custom cars that will be on display at Pebble Beach took quite a bit more than 2,000 hours for their builders to complete, and represent some of the best of what was fabricated at the time.
From left, the Kurtis-Omohundro Special, a Maverick, the Coachcraft "Yankee Doodle" Special, and Arthur Bentas's Raven
Over the last several years, Rick D'Louhy (my co-author and partner in these car research adventures) and I have been tracking the early history of the cars we call Forgotten Fiberglass, and our research on sport customs grew out of that focus. The history of modern fiberglass cars started with the Glasspar G2, Irwin Lancer, Skorpion, and the Wasp. Each of these debuted at the November 1951 Petersen Motorama at the Pan Pacific Auditorium. As Rick and I began to learn more about this pivotal time in 1951 and 1952, we began focusing on what led up to the creation of these cars, and that's when things got fuzzy.
We had trouble finding one source that told the story of American sports car development in the 1940s. Sure, there were individual stories about independent car companies and individual efforts, but nothing that strung together the story from the 1940s forward. As we researched the sport customs and the men who built them, we found that, not surprisingly, the story of individual effort and achievement turned out to be much like the same stories of design and entrepreneurship that percolated through our Forgotten Fiberglass stories. These were exciting stories to write, interesting cars to review, and fascinating people to meet.
One of my favorite interviews was with Gerry Huth, who started Hollywood Plastics with Bill Campbell (fiberglass cars and boats), but is best known for his company, Huth Mufflers, and the bending equipment he designed and built in the 1950s. Gerry built one of my favorite cars from the 1940s, the 1948 Huth Custom Cadillac, pictured above. I interviewed Gerry about this sport custom, and was curious about why he built it. "I built it to attract attention to our muffler business, which was much more like a speed shop than what you think of a muffler shop today," he said. "People were fascinated by the new designs of cars right after World War II and crowds would gather at our shop to watch the progress. It was a lot of work, but worth the effort – just once, though. It took me over a year to build that car! I built cars before the Custom Cadillac, but that one was my last."
I asked Gerry what shows he took his Custom Cadillac to. He burst out laughing and said, "Geoff, there weren't any shows back then to take cars to. That didn't start until later." Indeed, the first car show of significance was the Hot Rod Exposition in 1948. The Huth Cadillac, by the way, has been missing since 1950, so if anybody knows where it is, we'd like to hear from you.
Fortunately, we are lucky that two people were documenting what was happening when it was happening: Dan Post and Ed Almquist. Post started publishing manuals on how to customize your car in 1944 and Almquist soon after, in 1946. Photographs, techniques, illustrations – all of these were being documented at a time before the first post-war automobile enthusiast magazine appeared (Speed Age in May 1947). Both Dan Post and Ed Almquist sold their booklets through magazines that were available prior to then, such as Popular Mechanics and Mechanix Illustrated. By the time Speed Age started publication, Post had been selling books on custom cars for nearly three years; Almquist about a year.
We believe the sport customs out there have long been denied their place in post-war automotive history, so we're more than excited to see sport customs getting their day on the lawn at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Special thanks goes to our good friends Rik Hoving and Tony Miller; both worked with us to help provide the best information possible about the history and heritage of sport custom cars in America. And, of course, great thanks goes to Ken Gross for making the Sport Custom class a reality for Pebble Beach this year. While we've been honored to help with information and support, it has taken Ken's insight into these cars and their importance – as well as all the right persuasion and effort – to develop the first recognition of Sport Custom cars at a major concours event ever.
This year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance takes place August 19. For more information, visit PebbleBeachConcours.net. And for more information on sport custom cars, visit SportCustom.com.
Geoff Hacker is a Tampa, Florida-based automotive historian who specializes in tracking down bizarre, off-beat, and undocumented automobiles. His favorites are Fifties American fiberglass-bodied cars, and he shares his research into those cars at ForgottenFiberglass.com; more recently he started SportCustom.com, BellyTanks.com, and Undiscovered-Classics.com.
Forgotten Fiberglass – On the road again to Amelia Island
One of the important tenets of Forgotten Fiberglass is the sharing of knowledge about rare, vintage fiberglass sports cars with everyone who is interested. What better way to do this than to embrace world-class opportunities to showcase these cars with the public at large – this time at the 2012 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.
I'd be proud to say this was our idea, but the credit for it goes to Amelia Island founder Bill Warner, who has been an enthusiastic supporter of Forgotten Fiberglass since we met him in late 2006. Bill first invited us and our fiber-tribe to debut several fiberglass cars at Amelia in March 2007, when we had a chance to meet George Barris and show him our 1957 LaDawri Conquest.
This year we brought our LaDawri Conquest again to participate in a class comprised of former cover cars for Road & Track magazine. Every appearance for us is an honor at Amelia, and getting there is half the fun! Read the rest of this entry »
Forgotten Fiberglass – Glasspar and the Alembic I: The show goes on the road
Bill Tritt in foreground working front of buck for new Glasspar G2 being produced
At the turn of 1951, there were two completed Glasspar G2 sports cars: the Brooks Boxer and the Alembic I, both identical in all respects except for the front grille opening. Bodies that were built using Glasspar's first G2 mold had two openings that allowed the front grille to show through, while the creation of the mold for the Alembic I showed that the mouth of the sports car was opened up and the fully cast aluminum grille was fitted to the body.
Just a few bodies were made using this original mold, perhaps just two or three, and maybe less. But when the Alembic I was produced in late 1951, the new grille opening was the last major change made to the body, and Bill Tritt was off and running. And boy was he running!
Orders for fiberglass bodies were pouring in, to his delight, and so many things were happening at once. First, he and the folks at Naugatuck Chemical were keenly aware of the upcoming appearance of the Glasspar fiberglass car in the February 1952 issue of LIFE magazine. The timing was perfect. It was exactly what Naugatuck needed, because they were planning to debut their car – the Alembic I – at the National Plastics Exposition at Philadelphia's Convention Hall in mid-March 1952. Bolstered by the LIFE magazine article, they wanted to make a splash, so what to do?
Road Trip!
As Naugatuck PR man Bert McNomee recalled, Earle Ebers wanted to prove that the fiberglass G2 was a viable product that could be driven without danger, so he decided to drive it to the exposition – from California. Here's what McNomee recalled about this cross-country tour in an article he wrote for Shark Quarterly back in the summer of 1997:
He (Earle Ebers) decided to drive it, with his wife, from Costa Mesa to the plastics exposition in Philadelphia. It was the winter, so he planned to use the southern route as much as possible, but it was still quite an undertaking. I told Earle that if he was going to do this, we had to make some press opportunities. I gave him a bunch of press kits and the LIFE story.
I told him to stop at all the newspapers in the bigger cities along the way and see if he could get coverage. He hit up Dallas, Tucson, Meridian, Raleigh, Richmond, and some other places. Of course, there were several places where he got some unusual responses.
In Meridian, Mississippi, the city editor said that he had seen the LIFE article and wondered if he could come out and stand on the hood of the car too. When Earle said yes, he asked then if he could get the whole city room to stand on the hood. Earle agreed, so the guy whistled up the whole damn city room and out they went.
Earle told them that they had to take off their shoes so they wouldn't scratch the paint, and up they got. That was a terrific exposure. They ran that picture six columns wide on the front page. In Raleigh, they were having a record cold spell. The car didn't have anything but side curtains, so it was cold. This must have caught the attention of the feature editor, because he wrote it up. I remember it well:
"A young engineer came into town today, blowing his nose…" And then he went on to describe the car and talk about the record cold spell. He wrote a fairly good article, but it was a very odd lead. In some places, the reception wasn't so good. In Richmond, Virginia, the editor of the Times Dispatch said it was too commercial and the paper wouldn't cover it.
Just before Earle got to Philadelphia, I had gone down to see if I couldn't get some kind of welcoming event going. I talked with the local newspaper editor and he also thought it was pretty commercial. But he said that if we could get the official greeter for the mayor to come out to see it, he would cover the story.
So I went down to the mayor's office and the official "greeter" said he was interested and that the mayor would meet Earle on his arrival in Philadelphia. Now at the same time, I had also put out a press release to all the weeklies and professional journals. So about the time the car arrived in Philadelphia, the car was creating quite a stir.
We had the television stations out and everything. The upshot was, seven GM engineers came down to look at the car. They hadn't given us the time of day before and they hadn't looked at the previous efforts we had put forward, but the LIFE article proved the spark that ignited the enthusiasm of GM engineers and designers.
They spent nearly a week down there with Ebers and Tritt, asking about everything.
As reported in the Naugatuck Chemical publication in 1952, "The Story of the Vibrin Plastic Car Body," the Alembic I didn't stop traveling. Here's what they had to say in this booklet:
The Alembic I, the car with the Vibrin Plastic body (Vibrin was the trade name for the resin made by Naugatuck Chemical), over a seven-month period has traveled more than 35,000 miles. During this seven-month period, the Vibrin body has been exposed to storms, the winter cold, the summer heat and humidity, the wear and tear of the desert winds and the continued stress of grueling travel. Its career is far from ended.
We always wonder where these historically relevant cars end up. The Alembic I may or may not still be out there. McNomee offered these tantalizing clues as to the disposition of this car:
Just in wrapping up, I should mention that Earle Ebers personally owned one of the Kaiser-Darrin cars and an Alembic I. He drove both of them around up in Naugatuck, Connecticut, and they were always a big item. But as I recall, one of those cars was washed away into the Naugatuck River in the big flood they had there in (August) 1955.
In collaboration with Bill Sigworth, retired executive from Chemtura Corporation (the legacy company of Naugatuck Chemical and U.S. Rubber), we've found some additional information. Specifically, we have pictures of the devastation caused by the flood in 1955, and amid the rubble is what we believe is Ebers's Kaiser-Darrin. Although it looks to be in good shape, it may have been flood damaged.
Interviews conducted by Bill with retired employees of Naugatuck confirmed that a car did go into the river and was recovered. The person who provided the information was the very person who pulled the car from the river, and he remembered it was the Alembic I, not the Kaiser Darrin. This same person remembers that this car was returned to Glasspar in Costa Mesa, California, to be restored, circa 1955.
Two people shared with Bill Sigworth that the car was still in Ebers's possession in the 1970s. Although the car was light green originally, these folks remember that Ebers had his G2 repainted red. So Alembic I may still be out there, gang. Anyone want to go on a fiber-expedition?
Geoff Hacker is a Tampa, Florida-based automotive historian who specializes in tracking down bizarre, off-beat, and undocumented automobiles. His favorites are Fifties American fiberglass-bodied cars, and he shares his research into those cars at ForgottenFiberglass.com.
Forgotten Fiberglass – Bill Burke, Mickey Thompson, Roy Kinch and the birth of Atlas / Allied Sports Cars
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker
To any gearhead, the names of both Bill Burke and Mickey Thompson are synonymous with speed. Yet they were both also noted innovators, and in the fall of 1952 they collaborated on one of the most beautiful fiberglass sports cars the post-war world had ever seen, the Atlas Swallow.
Burke was into hot rodding back in the late 1930s and thus was heavily involved in the pre-war lakes speed scene. He frequently appeared in Throttle, the first automobile enthusiast magazine published in America, and in the March 1941 issue, Burke is shown in a photograph officially becoming president of the Road Rebels club. He was at the beginning of the hot rodding movement, well before it exploded in the post-war years.
Thompson was also a record setter, but a bit younger than Burke. When Burke was shown in Throttle, Mickey was just 13 years old, but his time would come.
Burke was best known for his introduction of the famed belly tank streamliner at various dry lakes locations in 1946. By the close of the same year, he had already sold his tank to Howard Wilson and Phil Remington, and was working on his next tank, a larger one that would be rear-engined and ultimately named Sweet 16. It would be in this very tank that Burke and friend Don Francisco would be recognized as having built and run the world's fastest hot rod with a two-way average of 151.085 MPH in July of 1949.
Build it and build it good; Burke and his friends did this each and every time. Throughout his life, if you asked Bill about what he had accomplished, he would always focus on what he was working on, or on his future plans. It's like that with these guys. They didn't dwell on the past – they focused on the future.
Forgotten Fiberglass – Bill Tritt, Glasspar, Naugatuck Chemical, and the Alembic I
Images courtesy Geoff Hacker
Bill Tritt and his company Glasspar were growing in the fiberglass boat business by leaps and bounds, and while the bulk of their business was always boats and ships, in late 1949 he had started working with Ken Brooks to produce a fiberglass sports car body. By early 1950, Bill was looking to expand and take on new business, and in that year Tritt brought on investors that would allow his company to grow.
Their first order of business was to get more space, and they expanded their company to a location on Harbor Boulevard on the outskirts of Costa Mesa. This occurred around the summer of 1950, so while the Brooks Boxer started its life in a shop on Industrial Way, it came fully into this world as a fiberglass-bodied sports car on Harbor Boulevard in June of 1951.
Things were looking good for Glasspar, and Tritt wanted to add sports car bodies to Glasspar's product list, but there was a problem. Lots of companies needed supplies, but none more so than the U.S. government. The summer of 1950, when Glasspar began its expansion plans, was also the same time that the Korean War started (Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950), and this war continued through the summer of 1953.
Resources were in scant supply, and everyone wanted what was available. It was in that setting that Tritt pressed forward to find more supplies – polyester resin and fiberglass mat – in Southern California. At every corner he turned, supplies were being dedicated to the war effort. Glasspar's dreams of expanding were suddenly in a precarious position.
In 2000, Daniel Spurr interviewed Bill Tritt about this very moment in time for his book Heart of Glass, a terrific story on the birth of the fiberglass industry in postwar America and how it revolutionized the boat industry. Here's what Tritt had to say:
At this critical point in Glasspar's growth, the story becomes one of great serendipity and plain luck. The Korean war dealt us a near mortal blow. We suddenly were unable to obtain polyester resin because it was all going to aircraft and other military products. Our purchasing history was laughable, as was I in my fruitless search for suppliers.
Then, strictly by chance, I saw a notice of the opening of a new chemical company in a warehouse in South Los Angeles. I had never heard of the company, Naugatuck Chemical, although it turned out to be a division of U.S. Rubber. I didn't know what the warehouse was to house, but with nothing building in the shop, on a nice day, I borrowed the Boxer from Ken Brooks and drove to the warehouse.
It was large and appeared empty, but I went inside and found a little office. In the office was a personable young man named Bud Crawford, who informed me that the warehouse primarily handled shipments of polyester resin from Connecticut, headed then to the big boys.
He was most sympathetic to our problems, but he had no way to divert any of the resin without an order from the War Department. We concluded there was no way I could get even a drum of our lifeblood's chemical equivalent from Naugatuck. We walked out to the loading dock to bid farewell and, when Crawford saw the Boxer, he asked, "Hey, what's that?"
Less than twenty-four hours later, Earl Ebers, head of Naugatuck, a chemist and devoted proponent of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic, arrived in California, came to the (Glasspar) plant, and committed Naugatuck Chemical to sending us an immediate (air freight) supply of resin (trade name Vibrin).
This historic moment was captured by more than one person. Back in 1951, Bert McNomee was in the operations area of the public relations department for Naugatuck Chemical. From 1968 to 1976, Bert was the director of public relations for U.S. Rubber, but during 1951, he was at ground zero of what was about to happen with Glasspar and fiberglass sports cars.
Bert reviewed his memory of these early years back in Shark Quarterly, a magazine about Corvette history, in the summer of 1997. Here's what Bert had to share:
In 1950, Bill Tritt had designed and Glasspar built a custom body to update a friend's wife's jeep chassis (note: see previous story on Glasspar for correct reference to a 1940s Willys). This work caught the attention of our West Coast man, Bud Crawford, and he told Mr. Ebers about it. When he heard about Tritt's work he decided we would go out there.
We arrived on a Saturday and, I remember, checked into a little known place called the Mayfair Hotel. Then on Monday, Bill Tritt took us out to Costa Mesa to see this car. I thought, "Holy Mackerel, look at this car!" It looked like an early Jaguar. They asked me if I wanted to take a ride in it. I surely did. So off we went. It was amazing; it cornered well, and with the light body it was peppy.
Mr. Ebers asked me, "So Bert, what do you think?" I said that I thought we had a chance to get it into LIFE Magazine, like he wanted. But first we need some good pictures of the car. Now a lot of things happened pretty much at the same time. My job was to get busy on the press coverage.
For my part, I hired Tom King of the Blackstar Association, locally, to take some pictures. These were just the preliminary photos so I could get some interest going at LIFE Magazine. When we got back to New York, I called Bill Payne of the "new products" section at LIFE and showed him these preliminary photos.
Bill was also a car buff so he was quite interested in the idea of a fiberglass car for his section. We met for lunch with Earl Ebers and talked about how the car body could be presented to make a really interesting story.
We had to make it clear, pictorially, that this was a car body that was different from any other car body you had ever seen. I told him that before the car was painted, the body was actually translucent. That did it. It lit up all kinds of ideas in Bill's mind. He started talking about how we could lower the body over the car and light it from underneath. The ideas came together and he sold the story to his editors.
At this time, Earl Ebers went up to Naugatuck to meet with George Vila, who was the General Sales Manager, and John Coe, who was the Vice President. They both agreed that Naugatuck Chemical would subsidize the construction of four prototype cars, which was the amount Tritt wanted to justify setting up the bucks and molds.
They also agreed to send Earle out to Costa Mesa to work on the first four models and to oversee the operation.
And so Glasspar and Naugatuck were joined at the hip in terms or making fiberglass sports cars a reality, and no small job was laid out in front of them to make this dream a reality. In fact, in just a few short months Bill Tritt would have to:
* update the plaster buck so a new mold could be produced (changes in the grill design occurred at this step)
* create a new mold that could stand the rigors of production
* debut the Brooks Boxer at the Petersen Motorama in November 1951
* and finish at least one full sports car that Naugatuck had paid for, preferably by the end of 1951
Bill Tritt commented in Heart of Glass about the meeting in late summer as follows:
We had unbelievable credit and an order for a car to show at Philadelphia Plastics Exhibit in (March) 1952. Life magazine was set to do a feature story. One hundred eighty degrees from a few days before.
In the Fall of 1951, the team from Naugatuck Chemical returned with Life Magazine photographer J. R. Eyerman. During this time, they photographed the Brooks Boxer in action shots for the magazine, captured Bill Tritt working on the plaster buck for the G2 sports car, showed the steps in making a fiberglass body, and more.
In fact, in photographing the sports car body being built, they would be capturing the very first body being built from the production molds. This would become the second Glasspar sports car built – the Alembic I.
In preparation for today's story, I called Bert McNomee (he's doing great and has been a constant source of support and information for the history of these times), and asked him about how the name Alembic I came to be for the second sports car built by Glasspar.
Bert reminded me that Naugatuck Chemical was a chemical company first, and in chemistry, Alembic has its origin in equipment involved in the distillation process. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of Alembic is either an apparatus used in distillation or something that refines or transmutes as if by distillation.
And so, with great excitement, enthusiasm, and the backing of a large company, the second Glasspar sports car was born, the Alembic I. Bill Tritt, Glasspar, and Naugatuck Chemical pressed forth, and to the delight of all, Life Magazine published the article in February 1952 and the world of fiberglass sports cars was never the same.
But the adventure with the Alembic I sports car was just getting started. A cross-country trip was planned with media stops at every city – and this was in the dead of winter! How would the fiberglass sports car fare? What public reaction would greet the car and entourage at every city? More on that story next week.
Geoff Hacker is a Tampa, Florida-based automotive historian who specializes in tracking down bizarre, off-beat, and undocumented automobiles. His favorites are Fifties American fiberglass-bodied cars, and he shares his research into those cars at ForgottenFiberglass.com.
Forgotten Fiberglass – Bill Tritt, Glasspar, and the Brooks Boxer
There are points in time when thoughts, materials, events, and inspiration converge, and Bill Tritt was at the juncture of one of those times. He was unique – a talented boat designer, a hard-working and industrious entrepreneur, an innovator, and he was the right person at the right time in the right place.
Southern California in the immediate post-war era was exploding with new-formed optimism in all areas of life. Sports cars from Europe were starting to appear and make an impact on what people wanted to drive. The economy was starting to take off and business opportunities for those willing to make their dreams a reality were more possible than ever. Astute young men like Tritt saw all of these events coming together and the promise of new opportunity, first in a one-off sports car, then later sports cars for a hungry public. But first he had to prove his ideas were possible.
It was 1950 and Bill Tritt was 33 years old. Since the end of World War II, he started expanding his boat-building business in Costa Mesa, California, and things were going well. Bill had moved from creating wooden boats to fiberglass boats in the late 1940s and his skills as a craftsman and innovator were in high demand.
Alongside his growing fiberglass boat business was the burgeoning hot rod and sports car culture in Southern California. Everyone was building one of these cars or buying a sports car – if they could find one – from overseas. The Jaguar XK120 was the most sought-after car at this time, and Tritt favored this one too.
People would stop by and talk with Tritt as he worked, exploring new ideas they had for boats or just talking about their current projects. His shop was on Industrial Way in Costa Mesa, which was and still is a place where nearly anything boat- or car-related can be built, fixed, repaired, or created. Bill Tritt (and for those of you who remember last week's story about Eric Irwin) had his shop on this short powerhouse of a street.
One of the folks Tritt met was Air Force Major Ken Brooks, who lived on nearby Lido Island. Back in 2007, I interviewed Tritt about this pivotal meeting where fiberglass met one-off sports car, and he shared the following:
Ken Brooks was building a hot rod – something to go fast in and have fun. The first time I went for a ride in it, it was too exciting for me. It was a fast car, and had no floor or body yet. I just saw the ground rushing by. Ken was a wonderful mechanic but didn't have an eye for design, and the chassis and drivetrain were from the hot rod he was building. Ken was going to have the body built out of aluminum, which was going to be expensive. I was already building fiberglass boats, and convinced him that fiberglass would be durable and much more cost effective for a sports car body.
And so the project began. There has been much said about the chassis that was the basis of this first Glasspar sports car. Let's address that first. In the mid- to late 1950s, the easiest choice for a guy wanting to build a sports car was to start with a car that had a frame with a 100-inch wheelbase. This choice usually led to the Henry J. With independent front suspension and sports car proportions, it was a popular choice during this time as the basis of a sports car build.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the same principles applied, and this choice often led to the late 1930s and early 1940s Willys automobiles. Ken Brooks had chosen a 1940 Willys, which sported a 102-inch wheelbase. This was a popular choice at the time, and guys like Brooks would hop-up their engines. The Willys engine, which later went by the nickname Go Devil, was an inline-four with 148 cubic inches and 66 horsepower (Note that the stock Willys engine produced 61hp; it may be that Brooks used an optional aluminum hi-compression head offered by Willys in '40 or a more powerful aftermarket product). It might sound like an interesting engine choice to you, but let's hear how Joseph Wherry reported the performance of this car in the November 1952 issue of Modern Man:
About two years ago, Major Kenneth Brooks, of Costa Mesa, California, conceived in his mind a fiberglass-bodied sports car on the pre-war 102-inch wheelbase of the Willys chassis. He decided to modify the frame but to use the scatty little four-cylinder Willys engine. Approaching Bill Tritt of the Glasspar Company, manufacturers of fiberglass boats, Brooks laid down his conception for an ideal sports car. Less than two years later, after the usual difficulties encountered by pioneers in any enterprise, Ken and Dolly Brooks startled the placid residents of Costa Mesa as they proudly tested their unique car. Christened the 'Boxer' by its owner, the little job was found to be capable, because of extensive chassis rebuilding to eliminate excessive springing action, of cornering 90-degree turns with no more than a two- or three-degree roll at speeds that would lead conventional cars to the junkyard.
And so Tritt's first fiberglass sports car, known as the Brooks Boxer, was born – finished and running in June 1951. It debuted at the Petersen Motorama in November of the same year.
Interest was building and fiberglass for sports car bodies seemed to be a reality, so Tritt turned to ideas of production. He had based the design of the Brooks Boxer on his favorite sports car at the time, the Jaguar XK120, and he liked the finished result. So without changing the body style, he renamed his sports car design the G2 and moved forward. Tritt went to expanding his organization, and looked to add sports car bodies to the products of Glasspar.
It was during the last stages of the Brooks Boxer build that Bill Tritt moved his growing company from Industrial Way in Costa Mesa to the outskirts of the town on Harbor Boulevard, and the Brooks Boxer was finished at this location. This was a short-term move, and by late 1951, he relocated again to his third and final location in California, on Newport Avenue in between Costa Mesa and Santa Ana.
But the full story of how the Brooks Boxer, a one-off sports car, became the basis for the production model Glasspar G2 sports car is the next part of our story.
Geoff Hacker is a Tampa, Florida-based automotive historian who specializes in tracking down bizarre, off-beat, and undocumented automobiles. His favorites are Fifties American fiberglass-bodied cars, and he shares his research into those cars at ForgottenFiberglass.com.
Forgotten Fiberglass – Eric Irwin and His Lancer
One of the most interesting stories of early fiberglass history is that of Eric Irwin and his Lancers – yes, more than one of them. Despite being one of the first to be recognized as creating a fiberglass sports car, alongside his good friend Bill Tritt, Eric Irwin has been virtually forgotten, which makes him a perfect topic for us.
Back in 1951, Eric Irwin and Bill Tritt were neighbors on Industrial Way, a business street in Costa Mesa, California. Tritt was growing his newly formed company, Glasspar, which built fiberglass boats, and Irwin was building a 50-foot motorboat for his own use. Both of these men were artisans in woodworking, and Tritt had already made the transition to working in fiberglass. Irwin didn't know it at the time, but he was soon to follow.
Irwin started building his car – which would ultimately be called the Lancer – in the fall of 1950. He was inspired to change directions and work on a car after watching Tritt work out the requirements for producing a sports car body in fiberglass. Why fiberglass? Tritt had convinced the person who commissioned the car to be built – Air Force Major Ken Brooks – that fiberglass had the perfect properties for a sports car body: It was lightweight, strong, and easily repairable when damaged. Aluminum was lightweight, but required much more time in the shop if repairs were needed. Brooks agreed, and Irwin – a nearby fly on the wall during these conversations – took notice.
According to noted author Joseph H. Wherry in an article published in Modern Man in November 1952, Tritt finished his sports car (initially called the Brooks Boxer before he changed the name to Glasspar G2) in June 1951 and Eric Irwin finished his in May 1951. These sports cars seemed destined to race from the beginning of their design, and at mile marker 1 – the finished product – Irwin was ahead by a month. Lots of activity surrounded these two men from the summer of 1951 through late 1952. For example, Harley Earl stopped by and spent half a day with Irwin, then later retained Tritt as a consultant to GM. Both of Tritt's sons remember their father making more than one trip to Detroit, contributing to the knowledge base of building a fiberglass sports car – and GM wanted to build a car that numbered in the thousands, which would be quite a feat.
But that was just the first of the story for both of these men. Eric continued promoting the use of fiberglass as a new wonder material for car bodies across the world. To get a feel for his work at the time, think about carbon fiber today. This is the new wonder material for our generation, and we stand in awe of a car built of carbon fiber composite. It's handcrafted, resilient, lightweight, strong, malleable, and acts just like fiberglass in many ways. If you're one of those car guys who think carbon-fiber cars are the pinnacle of modern automotive engineering, then you would have fallen in love with fiberglass as both Tritt and Irwin did from 1951 forward.
The reason Irwin's story is fascinating to us at Forgotten Fiberglass is that he's unknown to virtually all car guys nowadays. Yet he accomplished so much in the early years of fiberglass:
* He authored the first article written on how to create your own fiberglass-bodied sports car, which appeared in the November 1951 issue of Motor Trend.
* He wrote the first book that you could buy on how to create your own fiberglass sports car.
* His fiberglass sports car, the Lancer, was available for purchase in early 1951 before other fiberglass manufacturers – including Glasspar – tooled up and made their bodies available.
* The first article to appear about a fiberglass car being built that you could buy was published in the U.K. magazine The Motor and was published on January 30th, 1952.
* His Lancer was even featured in the program for the 1951 Petersen Motorama where it debuted – the only fiberglass car to be shown in the program.
* It went on to appear in a number of other publications, including Motor Trend, Auto Speed and Sport, Westways, Popular Science, Modern Man, Road & Track, Cars, Auto Sportsman, Hot Rod, Modern Plastics, and the Los Angeles Times
The last contemporary mention of Irwin's Lancers appeared in the Spring of 1955 in Herb Shriner's first and only issue of a magazine titled Motor America.
Irwin built 12 bodies for his sports cars from 1951 through 1955, according to his nephew, 72-year-old Brian Jennings of Arizona. I was very excited when I heard from Brian last year, and was able to peruse the family archives for clues about Irwin and this history of his cars. Thankfully, Irwin made it easy for me. He wrote the history of his company and cars out across several pages detailing his company, the cars he built, the bodies he made, and the people he met. For a one-man operation, Eric represented the industrious fiberglass-driven hard-working young man of the early '50s. He finished what he started with great energy, focus, and drive.
Eric built three variations of his sports car. All would be considered large, but each used the following specifications:
* Overall length: 172 inches
* Wheelbase: 100-112 inches
* Tread: standard
* Cockpit length: 33 inches
* Hood length: 87 inches
* Tail length: 52 inches
* Clearance: 7 inches
* Height to coupe top: 46 inches
* Height to body top: 30 inches
* Body depth: 29 inches
* Width: 71 inches
* Weight: 200 pounds (body alone)
He noted in his brochure that "the body shell is shipped without wheel cut-out. This allows greater leeway in adapting the body to your chassis." Most cars we've seen or have found have the 112-inch wheelbase. For comparison, a typical car from the era has a 100-inch wheelbase.
The first Lancer he made – the one that debuted at the Petersen Motorama in 1951 – was unique. The others used different configurations or designs for the front, and sometimes the rear. In between, it was the same body style. One of the pictures shown inside his brochure shows three of the body styles together with Irwin in between the two nearest cars. This will give you a feel for the man and his sports cars.
So we're on a mission at Forgotten Fiberglass, and that's to share and celebrate the accomplishments of the craftsman, artisans, designers, and fabricators who used fiberglass as their medium in helping realize their dreams of building the perfect sports car. We take our fiberglass hats off and salute you, Eric Irwin, a pioneer in fiberglass who accomplished so much in so short a period of time.
Geoff Hacker is a Tampa, Florida-based automotive historian who specializes in tracking down bizarre, off-beat, and undocumented automobiles. His favorites are Fifties American fiberglass-bodied cars, and he shares his research into those cars at ForgottenFiberglass.com.


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The concert took place at The Fillmore Silver Spring, which is a new venue that just opened last month. The venue is pretty nice, although the bar prices were a couple dollars higher than other venues of comparable size. Also, a word of warning... If you plan to tailgate at this venue, don't park in the parking garage that is listed on The Fillmore's website. As we were leaving the garage, we saw the cops hassling concertgoers and writing citations.
As for the show, the start time on the ticket was 7:00pm. But that must have been when the doors opened, because the show didn't start until 8:00pm. BTBAM took the stage at 10:00pm and played for about 90 minutes. Here's the setlist:
Augment of Rebirth
(B) The Decade Of Statues
Disease, Injury, Madness
Specular Reflection
Old Albums Medley
White Walls
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The "Old Albums Medley" included [I]Alaska[/I] and [I]All Bodies[/I], plus a few other songs from their first 2 albums that I don't know the names of. Blake also did an awesome drum solo during one of the songs, I think it was [I]Specular Reflection[/I].
I don't have the TesseracT or Animals As Leaders setlists. Perhaps someone else could confirm if they were the same as [URL="http://www.metalsetlists.com/showthread.php?t=18441"]the show the night before[/URL]?
how is the sound at the venue? i haven't been yet and im hoping the sound for Anthrax next weekend is going to be good.
Sound was about average for a club of that size. No complaints, but nothing special either.
Where'd you get that picture of the setlist?
[QUOTE=mets4life;409308]Where'd you get that picture of the setlist?[/QUOTE]
After the show, I asked the sound guy for his setlist and he gave it to me. I scanned it at home with my scanner.
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Lights, camera, car: Tips on how to photograph your car on Hemmings TV
Photo by David Traver Adolphus.
It pays to be able to take good pictures of your car, whether you're planning to sell it or you're purchasing insurance for it or you simply want to show off your pride and joy on an online forum. Yet we hear car owners time and time again tell us that they can never take a good picture of their car, no matter how hard they try, so we got our own Richard Lentinello to offer some basic tips on shooting your car for the latest episode of Hemmings TV. For those of you who plan to give these tips a shot, make sure to share the results on the My Hemmings photo galleries or the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool.
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Very good tips! I try to follow them as much as I can, but I cannot resist taking pictures of great cars even if they are at crowded car shows with open hoods surrounded by coolers, folding chairs and orange traffic cones.
The most important detail I took away from this video was something I already knew but apparently forget on a regular basis: Look before you shoot! So many times I get this great shot of a special car and when I see it on my screen I notice some obnoxious little detail that I could have avoided getting into the shot had I only followed the advice. It would save a lot of Photoshop time!
This is my kind of story! I can't get enough of these helpful-hint articles, please keep these coming at a regular interval.. whatever that may be.
I'm a professional architectural photographer and haven't been able to master vehicle photography, yet. I'm still plugging away at it because all I think about, or, most of the time, is cars / trucks / motorcycles / snowmobiles / vehicles-of-any-kind; mainly vintage or classic.
Great video!
Hope we get more snow this year.
Oh oh, did I do a faux-pas mentioning "snowmobile" on Hemmings?! Sorry about that if that's a no-no.
Good tips. Dan photographed my car years back and stressed the importance of lighting. Since it is a white car, he waited until late evening for the best photos; rather than in the bright sunlight as I had assumed.
Matt and Jim photographed another car I had. They were fanatic about the reflections. A truck parked a quarter mile away was too close, and a white piece of paper keeping the floor mat clean was affecting the picture. However, these guys are all very professional and not everyone has that kind of patience!
what color cars are the easiest and hardest to shoot? And tips for shooting them
Yellow cars are a nightmare.
Black is alot of fun.
I have been taking photos of vehicles for 70 years plus. Nothing spectacular. Started with a $2.95 camera and, of course, black and white film. Have always tried to have the sun or other light at my back and tried for the best "pose" I could get. No regrets, just have had a ton of enjoyment and now have , I believe, 16 or 17 big albums of all kinds of cars, trucks, motorcycles, tractors, race cars and more!! Of course, have tossed away hundreds of photos "to make room".
This is likely the best 1:56 minutes many of us will spend in our day. If you can consciously follow these tips when taking pictures you will notice a remarkable improvement in your photos regardless of what kind of camera you are using. As Daniel mentioned, take many shots at many angles to get the right shot. Often you will only notice pesky background images like overhead wires, porta potties or people after you get home.
Great tips! Take a ton of pictures from a lot of angles, you are bound to have some great shots. Do some with a flash and some without, sometimes the flash will provide some balancing to the light
Rule Number 1 is "no wide-angle lens!"