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special section 42
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Playing the Odds
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Surf City Collection
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Couple of SoCal Yanks at Lord March’s Court: Goodwood, 2016
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Highlights of Monterey Historic Car Week
On the Cover
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Our cover garage is a 3-car garage professionally decorated to reflect a fine British drawing room. Photo by Don Weberg
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Publisher’s Note
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Lance’s Column
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Phil’s Column
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Garage News
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Tales from the Garage
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Personality Profile
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Auction House Journal
Closing out the Year
Malibu Mayhem
Lucky Lancia Lovers
How Swede it is
Jim King
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Business Profile
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Last Minute Guide for Holiday Shopping
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Book Reviews
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Matt’s Column
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Garage Bazaar
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Garage Meanings
Making it Easier
The King of Coolest Garages I never got to See
John Clinard
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Predictability and Traditions
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remember being a kid, anticipating Christmas with a giddy anxiety that made it nearly impossible to sleep. Today, as the Dad, I still anticipate Christmas with giddy anxiety to see the look on my little daughter’s face when she sees what Santa has brought. A friend of mine, whose son was born a few years before my daughter, once said, “you get to see the world through their eyes,” referring to one of the changes in having a child. And, he was so right – her observations and comments, her ideas and insights on various things astound me. And, Christmas is part of that I guess. Getting to see the magic of Christmas again through the eyes of someone very young is truly remarkable. A few times a year, I go back to the town I was born and raised in to make various appointments. I like going back because it kind of keeps me in touch with things that once were, even if they are no longer. Places I played at have been developed; places that were once nice have gone a bit ghetto; schools I attended are still there, but very different – but there’s a familiarity to it all. Much like Christmas and other holidays, there’s a tradition to them, a familiarity. Predictability is a very comforting thing. Maybe that’s part of why people celebrate traditions so fondly – not so much because we have to, but because we want to, it’s what’s familiar to us, it creates a rhythm of predictability in our lives, and can bring us moments of happiness, togetherness. And in this day and age, predictability is indeed a comforting thing. In this issue, you’ll find our famous Last Minute Holiday Buyer’s Guide offering quick solutions to gift ideas for the car folks in your life. I’d also like to encourage you to renew your subscription to Garage Style Magazine as a gift to yourself and buy your fellow car enthusiasts a holiday gift subscription. After all, it’s a gift they’ll receive quarter-after-quarter, a gift that keeps on giving, as the saying goes. Or, maybe order a calendar for yourself and a few friends. Similarly, they keep on giving month-after-month with great pictures of garages and collections the year ’round, and either costs just a few bucks, easy on the budget. With that said, I bid you all Happy Holidays and Happy New Year… thank you for visiting. I hope you like what’s in this issue, a few very cool garages, some neat profiles and features, and, of course, the infamous Last Minute Holiday Buyer’s Guide. To renew or buy a subscription, call 888-881-5861. They can also line you up for a calendar or two as well. See you next year, - Don
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MALIBU MAYHEM A
ppraising special interest and collector cars for the past 24 years has been very enjoyable. At times it has also been life threatening. A woman contacted me to schedule an appointment to appraise a car that was part of a divorce settlement. Divorce appraisals occasionally result in situations with one member of the formerly “until death do us part” union, usually the soon to be ex-husband, becoming very hostile. Previous experiences in this situation caused me to ask, “Will your husband be at the inspection and, if so, will he be a problem?” She said that he would not be there and I had no reason to be concerned. She was wrong. I arrived at her rural residence (her husband had long ago moved out) and was taken to the garage to begin my inspection. The car, a 1966 Chevrolet Malibu, was more a pile of parts than a complete car. The running gear and interior had been removed and were spread out in various piles. Oh well, it was not the first time I’d been asked to appraise what had previously been an automobile. Everything was going fine until the moment that the “No, he will not be there” husband walked into the garage. He immediately became aggressive and began questioning my ability to correctly appraise the car. He had brought along a friend who aimed a video camera at me and began taping the conversation. I informed the ex-to-be that he was not my client and, therefore, I was under no obligation to answer any of his questions. He was not happy with that answer. I continued my inspection and his sidekick continued videotaping my actions. My “day job” is spent standing in front of a camera so I did not find this situation to be very intimidating. Things began going from bad to worse. Soon my client and her husband began screaming at each other. A few neighbors came onto her property to offer assistance in case he became physical. At this point she called the police. I did my best to continue the inspection despite the vocal and potentially violent distraction nearby. It felt more like watching an episode of COPS rather than actually being present during a potentially dangerous situation. The husband’s cameraman decided to stop taping, likely because his buddy was coming across like a nut case. Could the situation get worse? Yes.
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Another neighbor came on the scene and went ballistic with the husband. This was when I learned that the husband had just been released from prison after serving a sentence for a despicable crime that I will not ruin your day by describing. The neighbor was yelling at the top of his lungs about what he was going to do to the husband. Most intelligent individuals would wisely extract themselves from this situation, but on that afternoon I was neither wise nor intelligent. I found the actions of all parties very interesting and entertaining. I did not, however, completely forget the dangerous scene before me. I continued watching the activity while continuing on with inspecting the Malibu. I also planned my escape route out of the garage if a gun suddenly appeared. Soon a gun did appear, but fortunately it was on the hip of a County Sheriff’s Deputy. I felt sorry for the officer because he was alone and had to deal with the three (wife, crazy husband and angry neighbor) all yelling at the same time. It was at this moment that another neighbor and I made eye contact and, oddly, we both burst out laughing. The situation was not funny but the absurdity of it was funny. I watched the officer do his best to take control and wondered if I’d have the opportunity to help him if needed. I felt like I was watching an episode of The Andy Griffith Show with my client playing the part of Aunt Bea and Charles Manson playing the part of her almost ex-husband. The Sheriff’s Deputy did his best to take control by making the most vocal neighbor return home and the wife go in the house. The husband’s actions began a roller coaster ride of reasonable to risky. The officer repeatedly warned him to stay calm unless he wanted to be restrained. I needed to leave but did not want to leave the Deputy alone with this explosive screwball. Finally another Deputy arrived on the scene to help take total control of the situation. As I was departing, the first Deputy nodded in my direction. I took this gesture as a “thank you” for my waiting for reinforcements to arrive on the scene. I spoke to the client later that day to see how things had turned out and she said, “The cop made it clear that my husband was going to be arrested unless he calmed down. He took the Deputy’s advice.” I completed the appraisal the following day and never heard anything more about the outcome of the divorce. My guess is that she went on with her life in the country and he returned to his life behind bars. -Lance Lambert
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Phil Berg’s Dispatches from the Ultimate Garage Tour
Lucky Lancia Lovers M
usician Jay Geils called me up one day to find out where he could get parts for a classic Lancia he kept in his tidy five-car garage on the outskirts of Boston, where back in engineering school in 1966 he met Magic Dick Salwitz and Danny Klein and later formed an eponymous band you may have heard about. I had just returned from a fantastic garage in eastern Pennsylvania, the largest place where you can find NOS (New Old Stock) parts for Lancias, run by long-time Lancia fan Mike Kristick. Go read some vintage Lancia forums, and the conversation always points to Kristick. Kristick, now 81, first fell in love with Lancia’s Aurelia and Flaminia models in 1960. “It was the design of the cars more than anything,” recalls Kristick. In 1980, he bought his first Lancia, a 1967 Fulvia Coupe Rallye 1.3—a front-driver with an 87-hp, 12.8-degree V-4—which he still owns. What began as a search for parts for the Fulvia has become, three decades later, what may be the largest inventory of salvaged and new-old-stock (NOS) Lancia parts on the continent. The obsession is contagious: Kristick’s son Michael, son-in-law Heath, and brother Walt all drive and race pre-Fiat-era Lancias. What, specifically, appeals to Kristick? “The Fulvia’s front suspension upright looks like a piece that Boeing would use as landing gear. This headlight bucket is brass. You take this piece made of brass, and then you chrome plate it. Just like a high-quality faucet, it will never rust. We have to send old piston rings to Italy for comparison when we order new parts. There are hardly any new exterior trim pieces left. They’re all stainless and no longer made. You have to search for NOS or used parts.” Lancia officially began selling cars in the U.S. in 1906 and in 1969 the struggling company was purchased by Fiat, which later rebadged some Fiat and Ferrari-sourced parts shelf models as Lancias, but pre-Fiat Lancias are favorites of collectors, such as Geils, the late Brock Yates (whose archetypal Car Guy book Sunday Driver includes the story of Yates as a racing driver in a Lancia), super garage guy David Sydorick and gentleman racer Anatoly Arutunoff. The sleek Aurelia coupes and roadsters introduced in 1946 the world’s first production V-6, with hemispherical combustion chambers (five years before Chrysler’s first Hemi design), sending power to a unique rear transaxle and clutch. The newer Flaminia coupes—one the personal car of design legend Pinin Farina— became low-volume, nearly hand-made successors to the Aurelia, a business plan some say sank the company. Lancia faded out of the U.S. marketplace after 1982. Lancia’s final model offered in the U.S. was the Zagato targa-topped Beta coupe/convertible. Pre-Fiat Lancias teased Mike Kristick, who first fell in love with several Aurelias and Flaminias at a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, import car dealer in 1960. So Kristick waited, and with kids grown in 1980, he had the cash for a 1967 Fulvia Coupe Rally 1.3, a front-
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driver with a V-4 engine, which today is beautifully restored in Kristick’s “parts barn”. When Fiat left the U.S., parts for the Fulvia became mysterious and fleeting. Kristick had moved into an eight-acre hobby farm next to a 100acre state park in 1969, and built a barn and other structures for his plant nursery hobby. Today the plants are long-gone, replaced by likely the largest inventory of salvaged and new-old-stock Lancia parts in the U.S., stacked in two buildings and a basement, and customers include noted vintage racer Arutunoff and collector Jay Leno. “People have told me--but I don’t believe them--that I’ve saved a whole lot of cars from rotting away. Their cars would die, would be sitting decaying in a field, if I wouldn’t have gotten them the parts to keep them running.” - Phil Berg
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Ford Motor Company gives back, promotes literacy Ford Motor Company Fund is bringing the Ford Driving Dreams initiative to students in the Detroit area. Ford Fund, in collaboration with First Book, is donating 10,000 new books to kindergarten through elementary school students in the Detroit, Michigan area as part of the Ford Driving Dreams initiative. In collberation with First Book, 10,000 new books were donated; a celebration and reading party took place at the Ford Resource and Engagement Center (FREC) for 65 third graders from Amelia Earhart Elementary School. Former professional boxer Oscar De La Hoya read to the students along with Ford representatives. “Education is central to our mission of improving people’s lives,” said Jim Vella, president, Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company. “Encouraging our young people to read and explore the world through books is a tremendous way to empower future generations and enable them to reach their full potential.” De La Hoya, former professional boxer known as the “Golden Boy” and 10-time world champion, will read to the students from his children’s book “Super Oscar.” Through his firm Golden Boy Productions, De La Hoya started a charitable foundation to help underprivileged youth find a path in education. “Reading is a fundamental skill that needs to begin at an early age, but unfortunately, not all children have access to books in their
community. I am honored and excited to be a part of an initiative that educates and inspires the kids of Detroit to get excited about reading books every day,” said De La Hoya. Launched in 2012, the program has reached more than 75,000 students in California, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Texas, and Panama. Ford and its philanthropic arm, have invested $161-million over 10-years in Southeast Michigan. In the past year, Ford has invested $20-million in local education, arts, cultural, diversity, hunger relief, and social organizations. By the end of 2016, 50,000 new books will have been delivered to children in need in Michigan, Texas, and Florida. In addition to Ford Driving Dreams, Ford Fund educational programs include Ford Blue Oval Scholars Ford Blue Oval Scholarships, Ford Freedom Award, Ford STEAM Lab, hackathons, and Detroit career academies.
Musgo sign sells for $230,000 at Mecum At their Walworth, Wisconsin Road Art sale, Mecum Auctions moved many remarkably unique pieces, but this Musgo sign astonished. Made by Veribrite Signs of Chicago, this Michigan Mile Maker branded sign is one of roughly 20 signs that were supposedly used as septic covers. This destroyed most of the signs on one side, but this prime example is mint on both sides, likely taken home by an employee and cared for.
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Bugatti exhibit showcases family’s creative genius The Petersen Museum in Los Angeles, California unveiled their latest exhibit, “The Art of Bugatti,” in the Peter and Merle Mullin Salon October 23. Among the amazingly rare automobiles will be the Type 57SC Atlantic, a Type 41 Royale, and for a brief period, the newest Bugatti Chiron super sports car. Further expanding upon the genius of the Bugatti family DNA will be paintings, sculptures, and furniture crafted by members of the Bugatti family. “They are one of the greatest art dynasties of the 20th century and yet many people are only familiar with their automotive works,” said Peter Mullin, chairman of the board of directors for the Petersen Automotive Museum. “The purpose of this exhibit is to help the public see how four generations of one family have been creating beauty in different ways – furniture, sculpture, paintings, writings and automobiles. The mediums differ but their passion and aesthetic is constant.” The Art of Bugatti exhibit lends a wider look at the history of the Bugatti family, beginning with Carlo Bugatti and his unique path through the arts which included a mastery of architecture, painting, Art Nouveau furniture design and silversmithing. It then transcends into the work of his sons, sculptor Rembrandt and carmaker Ettore Bugatti, as well as Ettore’s children and studies the influence of Rembrandt’s animal-life sculptures on his brother Ettore’s art-deco era automotive designs, both of which incorporate the Fibonacci sequence, or “golden mean.” Art of Bugatti also offers a history of the family itself, including correspondence and historical artifacts. “This is the most significant Bugatti exhibition ever mounted. It is a great honor for us and we would like to thank the Petersen Automotive Museum, and Peter Mullin in particular, for making this possible,” said Stefan Brungs, member of the board of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. for sales, marketing and customer service.
“No other automotive manufacturer could display the history of the brand with sculptures, furniture, paintings, and many other objects of decorative art in addition to a host of dazzling automotive masterpieces, which is crowned by Bugatti’s latest creation, the new Chiron.”
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Playing the Odds A three-car garage is the finishing touch to a well-decorated home Text and Images by Don Weberg and Michael Lydon
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Surf City Collection Private collection in Huntington Beach merges business and fun Text and Images by Don Weberg
This page features the SCG collection, a cacophony of neon and porcelain décor with dozens of vintage cars and motorcycles; opposite, beyond the GTO, adjacent the white GTO, a replica gas station has been built and furnished inside.
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n Huntington Beach, California, Tim Miller founded Surf City Garage to produce what the company calls “Enthusiast Grade” car care products. A car enthusiast to the core, he fed his passion by working in the construction field, developing various properties for over 30 years. “We don’t buy cars to flip them, we hold onto them,” said Tim. “We’ve had a lot of these cars for better than 20 years, and we have a line of cars awaiting restoration.” Surf City Garage waxes, polishes, and cleaners can be found in a variety of places including Pep Boys and Walmart, and while some balk a bit at their slightly higher prices, Tim reminds that SCG products are produced to much higher standards than many other cleaners.
“These products were custom blended for us to care for our cars,” he said. “In creating them, we used higher-quality ingredients and higher levels of them. The result was a more expensive formula, but one that protected better, provided deeper shine, and was easier to use, but truth be told, we were having fun making the cleaning products.” Established in 2007 with the help of Matt Rigdon, business development manager, Surf City Garage made a splash with their unique and proprietary labels and product names, each very reminiscent of the beach and motoring lifestyle. Products like Barrier Reef Wash and Wax, Pacific Blue Wash and Wax, Wipe-Out Scratch Eliminator, Road Trip Grime Destroyer, and many more combined with colorful, graphically interesting labels to entice car
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Tales from the garage
How Swede it is Text By Rodney Kemerer | Images by Jan Lopez and Darshan Bagivalu
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ales From The Garage sometimes start before we get to the garage itself, sometimes it is a story of the delivery room. The arrival of a car in your life can be easy, calm and fun or sometimes, not so much. My wife and I seldom fight. No, really, after 30 years what’s the point? But, there’s always a but… one of the most aggressive and memorable fights we ever had was over a car. Really? Hard to believe, but yes. My wife had been driving her red 1985 Honda Prelude for 12 years and it was time for a change. She had just started a new job and the squared-off Honda with its “closed eye” headlamps was looking a bit dated and it lacked airbags and ABS braking. I have described, lovingly of course, my wife as having a, “low tolerance for luxury,” and that is still true. No fancy jewelry, clothes or, as we are about to learn, cars. So when it came time to look at cars, the available “field of dreams” was limited. Her dream cars in the late 1990’s were a Saab or a Volvo. My jaw dropped. Of everything that was available this is what she wanted. How about a nice E-Class Mercedes or 5 Series BMW? No. Her mind was made up. I kicked the Saab to the curb
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immediately. I just did not get it. No styling, no performance, no luxury, it did not make sense and it was not cheap. Also, what’s with turning the ignition key in the floor? That left me with the Volvo. I sunk into a deep depression. You remember the 1990’s Volvos, boxes on wheels. So square-looking they seemed to defy forward movement. Like a concrete block with seats. While reading every car magazine known to man, I became aware that Volvo was going to, “crawl out of the box” so to speak in 1997. Suddenly there was a sneak preview photo of the new Volvo called the C-70 Coupe. An actual stylish Volvo, the first since the iconic 1800 ES. It looked good even in one limited photo. This was the winter of 1997. Availability was slated for that summer. I had been stalling my wife’s request for a new car for many months by this point with the hope that her desire for a Volvo was a virus that she would recover from quickly. Now with this photo, hope revved its little engine. Scissors in hand, I cut out the photo of the sleek Volvo and placed it on her desk with a note, “How about this? Summer delivery.”
At Goodwood, rain doesn’t prevail - here, Jaguars negotiate a turn just like they were new.
Couple of SoCal Yanks at Lord March’s Court: Goodwood, 2016 Text and Images by Steve McCarthy
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ake the best day you ever had at a Renaissance Pleasure Faire. Double it. Put it on Steroids. Then make it for Car Guys and Gals. You might just get close to the amazing sensory overload that is the Goodwood Revival. You cannot really claim to be a Car Guy and not go. Better than Monterey, Amelia Island, or any vintage race you’ve ever been to. First off, everybody (well, 95% of the attendees) dress up. The English do love their “fancy dress!” From spectators to people in the shops, to mechanics, everywhere you look, it’s as if Dr. Who (and yes, there was a proper Police Call Box there) took you back to the Golden Ages of Motorsport, circa 1930-1966. There’re 50s Airline Stewardesses in perky hats, the Mods and Rockers, Men in Tweeds, Women in furs and “Fascinators” (that’s the little lace, ribbon, and feather concoction perched precariously on their heads at a 45 degree angle), and at least a full division of American GIs, Tommys, Tars, and RAF Fly Boys. Enough to at least invade Brighton and take it from the dreaded Hun. As Yanks, we were quite touched by how many Brits honor American GIs this way. And don’t forget the daily flyovers by Spitfires, Mustangs, and Mosquitos. Then there are the shops. Row upon row upon row of vintage Stuff. Dresses, tweed suits, handbags, furs, signs, cars (do you want the re-pop Aston Martin DBR1 or the C-Type?), and food booths with all the usual delights of English Cuisine. Fish and Chips, mushy peas, Ale that isn’t ice cold, Bangers and Mash, fried cheese bread, and those thin pork chops they call bacon. It’s all there, and it’s good!
But most of all, of course, it’s about the cars! No Trailer Queens here. These are all Race Cars and they come to Race. Wheel to wheel, fender to fender, with a clear belief in the old NASCAR dictum, “If yew ain’t rubbin’, yew ain’t racin’.” I mean, who sticks the nose of their D-Type Jag down inside a Ferrari GTO and “lays a little metal on ‘im?” These guys. This is not for the faint of heart or anyone without a panel beater on call! Since they all race on period tyres, they also slip and slide a whole lot more. No radials, no slicks, no gumballs, real racing tyres. Skinny ones. We never knew that E-Types oversteered so much! And the drivers are no weekend warriors. The likes of Jean Aleisi, Martin Brundel, Tom Chrisitiansen, along with several from the ranks of British Touring Car racing. These cars slip, slide, squeal, and smell of Bean Oil. There is nothing like it. The best thing about the Goodwood Circuit is the fact that spectators can get reasonably close to the Action. The course is lined with a five foot tyre wall, and spectators are on a berm above, behind a waist high fence. This means that with a reasonable lens, you can get great photos and be close enough to the action to see the drivers as they saw back and forth on the wheel, smell the smells, and make a true connection with the race. Now, the cars aren’t as fast as modern ones, especially the cornering speeds, but drafting, passing, and racing are the name of the game. They also limit the cars to the era when Goodwood was extant as a race track. So, 1948-1966 is about it. The 2.4 mile track is a fast one,
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helby American in Las Vegas offers a fabulous gift shop and a museum with some great vintage cars on display. It’s well worth a visit, even a tour while you’re in town. It’s easy, call Shelby American’s main office and they’ll set you up on a free tour. Your tour guide will be Jim King, he is Shelby’s Company Historian, and he will take you through Carroll Shelby’s world. Jim is one of those people who can reach into his extra-large hard drive and pull out events that happened with dates and names, for many not the easiest thing. Jim was no different than most kids; when he was around 6-years old, he started collecting Dinky toy cars, and when he was around 10, he moved onto the real ones. He found a 1949 Ford two-door sedan and it was painted red primer with glass pack mufflers. As every young boy, money was in short supply but he was able find a way to get parts for his Ford. “I even sent away for a customizing kit for it through mail order,” said Jim. One day, Jim was driving his Ford and met one of the locals in town who saw his car. At the end of the conversation Jim had a 1946 Ford Business Coupe in – primer red. Jim went to work for his local Ford Dealership in 1956 as the PDI guy and in those days a PDI was a car washing before delivery. In 1957 he found a not-quite-finished custom 1947 Ford convertible with a ’53 Buick Nailhead engine and 1937 Ford stick shift with Frenched head lights and a ’47 Olds grille. “There was so much lead in the deck lid, it took two guys to lift it,” he said. “It had Olds Fiesta hubcaps, and when I got it it was also primer red.” Jim knew a guy that had a bunch of old paint cans, so he went to his shop and asked if he had any paint left over in the cans.
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Highlights of Monterey Historic Car Week
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he automotive events that annually take place in Monterey during the week of August are best described as “world class.” The Monterey Classic Car Week is a culmination of events that both set and define the pulse of the classic car world. It is a week-long festival encompassing a multitude of activities spread over multiple venues. What originated as a road race along the streets of the scenic 17 mile drive of Pebble Beach has transformed into an automotive happening that includes vintage racing at Laguna Seca Raceway, Cars on the Avenue, multiple auctions, RetroAUTO, Rennwerks, Concorso Italiano, Mission Classic / Blessing of the Cars, the LeMONS Car Show and Rally, the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance all culminating with the world famous Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The sheer size and scope of the events require multiple staff to even begin to cover the festivities. At the conclusion of the week, GSM staff sat down and voted on their highlights of the week.
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This year marked the 6th Annual Tour by GSM. A bit like the Gumball Rally without the speeding, GSM keeps this event on the intimate side and quiet. Roughly 70 people attend, and each year, we have the opportunity to visit some of the most fascinating garages along the Monterey Peninsula. Our scheduled day has always been the Monday that kicks off the Monterey Classic Car
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week and after fueling up for the day, our first garage stop was at David Hutchings in Carmel. In response to many of our readers requesting single- and dual-car garage features, David’s man cave is a small single-car garage that houses his 1961 Corvette. An original garage from the 1930s, the single-car space does not allow the option to fit cabinetry or anything that impedes into the
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Matt Stone MCQUEEN’S MOTORCYCLES: Riding and Racing with the King of Cool Even nearly 40 years after his passing, Steve McQueen’s star burns as white hot as ever. Known as a lifelong motorhead, McQueen is every bit a cult icon as a motorcyclist as he is for great automobiles and car racing. This book dives deep into McQueen the cyclist, from his first bikes, racing in the International Six Day Trial in 1964, his famous desert sleds, the making of The Great Escape, collecting bikes by the dozen late in his life, and his bikes today. Triumphs, Indians, Hondas, Harleys and Huskys – all there. Pre order now from publisher Motorbooks or Amazon.com
ISKY: The Camfather. The Ed Iskenderian Story and the History of Hot Rodding 95 year old Ed Iskenderian is one of the original pioneers of the aftermarket speed parts industry. This book gives you an inside look at Isky Racing Cams’ 70 years in business as one of the foundations of Southern California hot rodding, drag racing, and Bonneville Salt Flats competition. Many archival photos from Isky’s personal collection plus new photography of his shop, family, business and cars. Foreword by Vic Edelbrock. Coming early 2017, pre-order now from publisher CarTech Books or Amazon.com
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Lot 217 – Collection of 14 Strutco tin toy trucks in six boxes. Longest truck is 22” long. Various colors and conditions. Sold: $400 Lot 179 – Set of four tire signs. Goodrich (18”x78”), Lee (17”x72”), Goodyear (46”x12”), Goodyear (48”x12”). Paint on tin, good condition, minor wear. Sold: $850
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Lot 85 – Collection of Cans, Mobiloil B, Mobil-Laurel Home Kerosene, Energol Motor Oil, Castrol Wakefield, Shell X-100, Neptune Oil, Castrol XL, and Essolube glass bottle. Various conditions, none bad. Sold: $1,116 (Australian Dollars, AD) Lot 7 – Double-sided acrylic Talbot sign with wall mounting flange. Sign manufacturing mark reads, “Enseignes Porte Fabrique of Lyon.” Measures 135cm x 122cm. Sold: $1,488 (Australian Dollars, AD) Lot 100 – British Goodyear diamond-shaped SSP sign. Manufacturing mark reads, “Imperial Birm.” Measures 49.5cm x 81cm. Good overall condition, one large chip at the top. Sold: $868 (Australian Dollars, AD)
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ll too often, outfitting a garage with nice looking, quality cabinets can come at a steep price. In reality, not many homeowners want to shell out the kind of money powder coated steel cabinets can cost, let alone custom fitted to the garage. And, while those cabinets are truly remarkable, should the home be sold, in most cases, the cabinets must remain, thus sending the seller into a new home having to redo everything that’s been done with the new space. Whirlpool, makers of various home equipment products for decades, thought there might be a better way for homeowners to achieve a nice look at a modest price with relatively universal portability by design.
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“The idea was to create a line of products that would be cost effective to most homeowners, provide a handsome-looking, quality-made system of modular cabinets and shelves and garage equipment that would organize the space, make it look better and not cost an exorbitant amount of money,” said Josh Gitlin, general manager of Gladiator GarageWorks. In short, Gladiator GarageWorks succeeded. Their extensive line of products can help virtually any garage become a showroom space. To boot, Gladiator expanded their offerings to help organize other rooms in the home as well, such as the entryway, laundry room, home office and more.
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t has been my privilege to research and author two books about Steve McQueen as motorhead actor; the first, a decade ago about McQueen’s cars and bikes, plus cars and bikes he rode, raced or put into his films. That one’s called McQueen’s Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon, first published in late 2007; it pleased me a lot that it was reputedly 2008’s bestselling car book. The second, which will be published around the first of the year, 2017, is focused on his two wheeled passions and exploits, entitled: McQueen’s Motorcycles: Riding and Racing with the King of Cool. But my purpose here isn’t to plug them. In between movies, wives and homes, Steve McQueen kept most of his toys in a large hanger at the private Santa Paula Airport in rural agricultural Southern California. Many committed car guys have hangars, as they are a superb place to set up shop, store one’s cars, and just hang out. Late in his life, meaning 19751979 or so, with his passing November 7, 1980. He also lived there for a time with girlfriend then fiancé then wife Barbara Minty. After the personally draining filming of Le Mans in 1970, McQueen had begun winding down his racing activities, and really amped up his acquisition of vintage motorcycles; he’d been gathering them for decades, his favorite old two wheelers appearing to be pre WWII Harley-Davidson track racers, and a bevy of Indian Chiefs. He’d also gotten his pilot’s license, and picked up a few vintage Stearmans along the way, and of course needed a place to store them, likely the genesis of the need for the hanger. He and “Barbie” picked up and were remodeling an old Victorian house not far from the Santa Paula airport, and while that house was under construction, the hanger was a logical place to live. It was relatively private, quiet, away from the lights and cameras of Hollywood, and his lady, his toys, and his friends were nearby. Barbara is an accomplished photographer, and was astute enough to snap away during Steve’s final days and years. She’s published a wonderful book, which I recommend, about herself, and her
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courtship and brief marriage to Steve. It’s called Steve McQueen: The last Mile, still available from Dalton-Watson books; you’ll see how fetchingly attractive she is, and some marvelous photos of Steve, his cars, trucks, planes, bikes, and the Santa Paula Hangar; there are many great photos of Steve washing down the pad in front of the hangar, drinking a cup of coffee, sitting and BSing with his pals, or just taking a nap. You’ll get a little weepy at the end, as I did, as she describes his final months and days, their quiet times together, Steve’s meetings with Rev. Billy Graham. She handles it all with a deft touch, all a bit sad but utterly heartwarming. Given all of his car and motorcycle racing, some people think McQueen had a latent death wish. I say NO: he had a life wish. He didn’t enjoy enough days on this Earth, passing from complications of Mesothelioma at just age 50, but he unequivocally made the most out of every minute of them. - Matt Stone
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John Clinard, Ford Motor Car Ambassador
John Clinard resides in Irvine, California and serves as Ford Motor Company’s ambassador to the auto enthusiast community. This is a case of “the job found the man” because his entire life, including more than 40 years with Ford, has been about cars. He’s always sought out career responsibilities that tie-in to his passion for cars. Most notably, he was marketing manager for Ford Special Vehicle Operations in the 1980s, intimately involved in the company’s return to motorsport and specialty production car pursuits including Formula One, IMSA, TransAm and the list goes on. He has been a judge at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance for more than 20 years, assigned to both European sports and racing car classes (and, for the course, Shelby Mustangs when they were featured in 2015). In 2006, he and Ford’s Freeman Thomas founded the original Cars and Coffee gathering at the Ford Design campus in Irvine, rescuing the every-Saturday gathering at nearby Crystal Cove that had outgrown its space. This continued for eight years until Ford also ran out of space, and today the Cars and Coffee phenomenon has taken root worldwide. John also assists the Ford Car Club Council’s Fabulous Fords Forever! every April at the Knott’s Berry Farm theme park. The event attracts 15,999 people and 2,000 Fords of all eras. What is your favorite item in the garage space and why? Tools! I suffer from the classic male affliction of being unable to walk through Sears and not leave without one or more new tools! The feeling of the proper tool for the job is very satisfying and my kids will attest to my statement, “You can’t have too many tools.” Early in my career, I think it was 1973, I went out to buy a birthday gift for my wife Linda. I didn’t know what it would be and I only had $40 cash. Walking through Sears, I happened upon a great toolbox on sale for $38 and…the next day Linda opened a nicely wrapped package to discover a new tool box. We’re still married, and I still have that toolbox! What is the strangest item in your garage? Without a doubt, that would be my “chain saw” (pictured). Knowing that I work a lot with tools, a journalist made this and gave it to me as a fun gift years ago. It’s a hacksaw with a link chain replacing the blade, and a spark plug soldered on top. It’s fun to watch people’s reactions when they see it on the wall with other tools. They don’t know whether to take it seriously or not! What are you doing most of the time when you’re in the garage? I’m wrenching away. No lounge, no refrigerator, no eye candy
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John with the latest projects: 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce and 1971 Porsche 911Ss
except the cars. Usually one at a time. I keep the completed cars in my three kids’ garages up and down the state. My kids are the ones with style! Did you grow up around the garage? Oh, boy did I! I grew up in North Carolina and a nearby neighbor had a 14-car garage filled with 14 Ferraris. This was in the 1960s/70s and they were an awesome lineup of mostly one-off and competition cars, many of which I saw with new owners at Pebble Beach and Monterey decades later. I spent many happy hours working on those cars and driving them with the very generous owners. It was a fairy tale and I lived it. My parents were also generous, allowing me to bump them out of the family garage with my Sprite, Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider and Autodynamics Formula Vee that I raced in SCCA. My teenage and college years were consumed with cars, and I could usually be found in a garage or at the local Texaco station that a fellow SCCA racer managed. How does your garage make you feel? I’m amused when people talk about taking vacations, planning for weeks and going here and there. Every time I walk into my garage, I’m on vacation … in Italy with an Alfa Romeo or Ferrari, in Germany with a Porsche, in England with a Sunbeam Tiger. With apologies to Disneyland, for me, my garage is the happiest place on earth! - Cindy Meitle
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