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elcome to the November issue of Classic American! You’d think things would be winding down for the magazine at this time of year; however, things are actually busier than ever as we prepare for the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at Birmingham’s NEC. For many folks it’s the last event of the year before going into classic car hibernation until the spring… whenever that may be! Classic American will have one of the biggest stands in the American section of the show, with all the finalists of this year’s Footman James & Kingstown Shipping Car of the Year competition on display. We’ll be announcing the winner on Sunday afternoon, but of course the main point is to put on a good front for the American car scene in this country and hopefully spread a little Classic American love in the greater classic car community. If you make it along to this excellent event, make sure you stop by the Classic American stand in Hall 5 and say hi!
The recent passing of Burt Reynolds inspired us to put together a tribute to him in the form of his best (and worst!) car movies and probably his most famous co-star: The Bandit Trans Am. I have stuck my head above the parapet in the great “to MoT or not to MoT your classic” debate and decided that I will continue to MoT my classics. You can read my reasons why on page 79. Happy cruising!
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Burt Reynolds 1936-2018 Iconic screen star of Smokey and the Bandit suffers fatal heart attack.
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f course we know and recognise Burt Reynolds now as a massive film star, but his ‘overnight’ fame took many years to achieve. Born Burton Leon Reynolds Jr, Burt Reynolds frequently claimed he was born in Waycross, Georgia, although in 2015 also stated he was actually born in Lansing, Michigan. Either way the date was February 11, 1936. After the war the family moved to Florida where his father became chief of police. A gifted football player, Burt received multiple college scholarship offers and attended Florida State University on a football scholarship, playing halfback. He planned a career in professional football, but injured his knee in the first game of the season. Soon after he lost his spleen and injured his other knee in a car accident, and in 1957 gave up football for good. Reynolds considered becoming a police officer until his father suggested he finish college and become a parole officer. He began taking classes at Palm Beach Junior College. During his first term English teacher Watson B Duncan III, hearing him read Shakespeare in class, cast him in the lead role of a play he was producing. It led to Burt winning the Florida State Drama Award and later referring to Duncan as his mentor and the most influential person in his life. Summer theatre in New York led to Reynolds’ Broadway debut in Look, We’ve Come Through. He received favourable reviews and toured with the cast, driving the bus as well as appearing on stage. However, during a film audition in 1957 Reynolds was told he
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could not be in the film because he looked too much like Marlon Brando and it was suggested he instead go to Hollywood. He eventually did and ended up guest-starring on various television shows, later quipping: “I played heavies in every series in town.” In 1962 Gunsmoke – a top-rated television show of the period – cast Reynolds as blacksmith Quint Asper, one of several Native American roles he would play throughout his career. He stayed there until 1965 when he finally got his first lead in a film, the low budget Operation CIA. Further television and film parts followed throughout the Sixties and along the way Reynolds turned down a part in M.A.S.H. and even rejected the opportunity of playing James Bond, replying to Albert R Broccoli’s request: “An American can’t play James Bond. It just can’t be done.” Reynolds returned to the stage and, having established a reputation as a witty and interesting interviewee, successfully sat on the other side of the desk to guest host the Tonight Show. But he still wanted to follow his first love of screen acting. His big break came with the 1972 film Deliverance. “It’s the first time I haven’t had a script with Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s fingerprints all over it,” quipped Burt, “the producers actually came to me first. I’ve waited 15 years to do a really good movie, I made so many bad pictures. I was never able to turn anyone down.” Notoriety, and excellent publicity for the film, occurred when Burt posed nude for the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Another career-defining moment occurred with the 1973 film White Lightning, a tongue-in-cheek moonshine and car chase movie. “It was the beginning of a whole series of films made in the South,” Reynolds later remarked, “about the South and for the South... you could make back the cost of the negative just in Memphis.” Car chase films and ‘good ole boy’ parts would soon be Reynolds’ bread and butter. By decade’s end he was one of the 10 most popular American box office stars and stayed that way virtually throughout the Eighties. A series of car-caper movies such as Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run (see page 23) made Burt Reynolds a household name, but also typecast him against getting any serious acting roles. However hard he tried, virtually every film he made in the late-Eighties flopped. He was still seen as the Bandit. Reynolds returned to television. The sitcom Evening Shade (1990-1994) where he played a high school football coach was a considerable success, earning him an Emmy and helping revitalise his acting career. His comeback movie role was the successful Boogie Nights (1997) for which he was Academy Award-nominated as Best Supporting Actor. Rarely out of work, Reynolds contributed to several cartoon series including American Dad! and Archer and was involved until his death in several, as yet, unreleased titles. Burt Reynolds died of a heart attack on September 6, 2018. He was 82. MR
BACKING THE BIRD
Don Scott’s thunderous 860-horsepower Plymouth Superbird nostalgia stocker – the massively-popular tribute replica of Richard Petty’s No. 43 NASCAR machine – will be re-entering the fray next year supported by American Autoparts of Redhill in conjunction with Lucas Oil. American Autoparts is now helping with the preparation of this most versatile competition car, under the in-house care of Darryl Setchell. Powered by a mighty 572cu in Keith Black aluminium hemi
(that’s 9.4 litres!), the car regularly performs at historic NASCAR demos during the Brands Hatch American Speedfest, becomes a 9.91-second quarter mile car in the Nostalgia Super Stocks class at Santa Pod Raceway and appears at selected car shows around the country. The ‘bird’s best terminal at SPR thus far is 141mph. Don considered retiring the car at the end of this year to race a ‘69 Chevelle, “but the winged warrior’s fans won’t let him!” said American Autoparts’ boss Mike Lintern.
Photo: John Kennedy.
Don Scott’s Superbird.
RALLY OF THE GIANTS
DATE UPDATE!
Putting on the Ritz at the RoG.
Last month in our blue events pages the date for next year’s Rally of the Giants show, organised by the Pre-’50 American Auto Club was shown
as July 7. This was incorrect and it is actually July 14, so get it in the diaries folks for next year: Rally of the Giants on July 14, 2019!
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News Real people from all over the world explain the interesting stories behind their classic American cars. Best of all? It’s free to watch on YouTube now, just search for Torque American… Photography: marialgeophotography.com
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hot on location in Missouri, Florida, Sweden and around the UK, Torque American brings you the stories behind some wonderful classic American vehicles and their interesting owners. We all have a dream car, but how many of us really pursue that dream? The Torque American series starts by following its founder and main protagonist, Karl Baumann, a British guy who got tipsy while on eBay and ended up purchasing his dream 1970 Dodge Charger (bet you’ve never heard of that happening before!). Karl visits the vendors of the Charger in Missouri and imports the dilapidated muscle car to the UK. Karl’s long restoration journey begins and he meets others who share his passion for American classics: BIG JOHN – The Restorer – John has been restoring American classics in the UK since 1976. MIKE – Karl’s great friend and influencer – Mike owns two American classics and aspires to own more. CHRISTIAN – Workshop Wizard – has a ’68 Charger that had a celebrity owner. DEREK – His classic was subjected to an arson attack, but he turned it into a show winner. TESSA – Modelling since 1969, Tessa loves her ’67 Mustang and uses it for road trips to France. SEAN – Crazy about Camaros – he hunted for a specific 1980 Z28 for 30 years – now he has it. LOLA – Loves her ’72 Yenko Chevy Nova and pet rabbits – rare to find a girl in her 20s who is into classics. JAMES – Bought his first Cadillac at 14 and has been restoring USA cars ever since. RICK – A former USAF serviceman who settled in the UK, Rick is restoring two Coronets and others. “I was co-ordinating producer of the NFL coverage for 16 years at Sky Sports TV in the UK,” explains Karl. “But I’ve always had a dream to own a Charger after watching the Dukes of Hazard as a kid. The internet is taking over TV
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James Calligan shows Karl one of his Cadillacs.
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Torque TV! Karl films Mike Holyoake as he drags his ’69 Charger.
Chris Gaunt with Karl in his ’68 Charger.
Three Chargers at JC American Autos.
Lola Cavey is shown the footage Karl has shot.
Putting the Charger on the ramp for disassembly.
as the premier platform for video content and now I’m freelance I am pleased I can harness my extensive production experience and apply it on YouTube to share my journey and other people’s stories with the world. “Torque American will be different to other car shows, I’m the protagonist and I’m not a star presenter or anchor by any means. But I believe that doesn’t matter; people who like classics will watch, even with a ‘regular Joe’ explaining things. I’m just a normal guy with a dream and a camera. I just let each character I meet tell their story about their classic. My journey started in November 2016, so clearly Torque American will NOT be a formulaic, ‘big reveal at the end of each episode’ series. It’s genuine people taking about American Classics, but mostly outside the USA.
“I hope Americans will like the fact people outside the USA really adore the fins on a ‘50s Cadillac and the grunt of a Trans Am.” Filming trips are confirmed for LA and Las Vegas in 2019. Germany, Finland and a return to Sweden are also in the planning stage. “I’d love to fly over Brian and Katie from Missouri, the wonderful people I bought the Charger from, to the UK to see the car when it’s done,” says Karl. “I want them to like it because they are part of my story and they helped me by storing the car while I arranged shipping.” For enquires and information call (+44) 7711 976590 or email Karlbaumann54@yahoo.com WEB: www.torqueamerican.com FACEBOOK: Torque American INSTAGRAM: Torque_American TWITTER: @TorqueAmerican
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Classic American
News Rockingham. Where did it go so wrong? Another UK racing venue lost as Britain’s premier oval racetrack will close at end of this year. Mike Renaut investigates what happened and how we ended up here…
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ad news for racing enthusiasts as Rockingham Motor Speedway is closing its doors. CEO Peter Hardman confirmed that all motorsport events will cease at the end of 2018. The 350-acre site is then likely to be used for car refurbishment and vehicle storage. Rockingham began as the £50 million, 25-year dream of race fan Peter Davies to make Corby in Northamptonshire the home of British motorsport. Davies bought the land for £60,000 in 1991 with planning
permission granted for a circuit in February 1993. The derelict former quarry site had been used for steelmaking until 1980 and was one of several locations around Corby where thousands of tonnes of toxic waste was dumped in the Eighties and Nineties. Despite local concerns about increased noise and traffic, the racetrack scheme went ahead, although Rockingham struggled to get serious backers despite proposals that it would include sufficient facilities for Formula 1 racing.
Images courtesy of Rockingham Motor Speedway.
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With his five years of planning permission for the circuit running out, Davies took an excavator to the site one day in 1998 to start digging and thus legitimised his planning permission. Soon after, his backer Guy Hands – later to own the EMI music empire – agreed to fund the project. Yet by 2000 Davies been ousted from the board. With a 1.5-mile oval track, 36 pit garages and the potential for 130,000 seats, Rockingham Motor Speedway (not to be confused with Rockingham Speedway in North Carolina) opened January 15, 2001 and was formally opened by the Queen in May 2001. Supposedly, Davies watched the first race from the public stands. The Corby Telegraph described the first six months of operation as a ‘disaster,’ but bosses were still hopeful for success. Rockingham was the first oval track in the UK since the closure of Brooklands in 1939 and they hoped to capitalise on an obsession for oval racing. The track hosted two seasons of the US-based CART series in the early 2000s, as well as the ASCAR; a race category very similar to the American NASCAR championship. The Champ Cars series drew huge losses and was ditched in 2002, but several rounds of the British Superbike Championships took place at Rockingham between 2001 and 2003. As did Formula 3 racing, GT and Pickup Truck Racing Championships. The British Touring Car Championships visited the circuit’s infield road course for 11 consecutive seasons and, with ASCAR now renamed the Days of Thunder series, 2004 saw 20,000 fans attend for
musical performances by 50 Cent and Blue. Yet that vision of NASCARstyle racing in the UK was never as successful as the original developers had hoped. According to accounts for the year to March 31, 2017, the Speedway increased its turnover from £3.1 million to £3.5 million and cut its pre-tax losses from £1.2 million to £448,418 but it still wasn’t enough. The stadium was sold several times, supposedly only once making a profit in 2017/18. The site had been up for sale as a ‘development opportunity,’ since 2016 after owners Bela Partnership went into administration, virtually sealing the venue’s fate. New owners Rockingham Automotive intend to build a ‘world class logistics hub to de-fleet and re-market’ over 20,000 vehicles at any one time. A statement from the circuit reads: “A sale of Rockingham Motor Speedway Ltd has now completed and as a result there will be changes in business operations at the venue. We would reassure all customers that these changes will not impact any aspect of events scheduled to run during 2018, nor the opportunity to stage further events this year. Until the end of the year, the Rockingham team will remain 100% committed to delivering the venue and associated services as professionally and proudly as ever before.” The last racing event will be the Super Send Off; two days of racing open to all categories on November 24 and 25 (see www. rockingham.co.uk for details.) But with no autosport planned at Rockingham for 2019, England has almost certainly lost one of its most dramatic, diverse and short-lived racing venues.
Keith Harman drums up all the news, views and latest stuff on the hotrod and custom scene…
BEACH RACING, THE NEW TREND?
In recent years we’ve all see the rise of events staged on firm sandy beaches, harking back to the earliest days of motoring when racetracks were few and far between. This trend was kicked off simultaneously (and by complete co-incidence), on the same weekend a few years
back, when the Vintage Hot Rod Association held the first Pendine beach races, and on the east coast of America, the first Race of Gentlemen, (or TROG as it’s known) was held. Both events have thrived since then, despite, (or because), they’ve stuck to their respective
formulas of vintage and period machinery only. These now well-established events have now been joined by the Romo Festival in Denmark, which was held for the second time this year with an even stricter pre-1947 rule. We also heard (and we’ll have some coverage of it in next month’s magazine) of a new British event called Race the Waves, an eighth-mile beach drag race held on the seafront at Bridlington in early September. Open to cars and motorcycles as well, from the images posted online it looked a lot of fun. One to watch for next year maybe?
30TH ANNIVERSARY HOT ROD DRAGS Check out the full report on the Hot Rod Drags in next month's issue and on the Classic American website, but our first impression of the event, now moved from Shakespeare County Raceway to Santa Pod, was where were all the hot rods? In this context when we refer to ‘hot rods’ we are referring to the cars, or ‘Street Rods’ that make up the majority of National Street Rod Association members. Thirty years ago the event was devised as another date on the NSRA’s calendar where members could bring along their street cars and enjoy pitting them against each other in a Run What Ya Brung format. Sadly fewer and fewer members seem to be participating themselves, especially when you compare the numbers of cars that turn up for their summer ‘show ’n’ shine’ type events. Still, it’s early days and we have hopes for this event in future years!
Race the Waves, 2018.
Back in the Family While at the Victory Wheelers Run, we were pleased to once again see the e iconic ‘Coffee Grinder’ hot rod on display. This unique Model A Roadster was first built in Pennsylvania in the late Fifties by a young hot rodder called Adam Coffee. Back then it was ahead of its time in so much as sported a small block Chevy V8 within months of the engine becoming available at Chevy dealers. Not surprisingly, it cleaned up at the local drags and at car shows too, with its cool custom features and show quality finish. In the Sixties it was bought and imported to the UK by pop artist and sculptor Gerald Laing, possibly making it the first hot rod imported to the UK. It changed hands,
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VICTORY WHEELERS The first hot rod to arrive on these shores.
and for the next 40 y years was owned by a colourful character on the swinging London Sixties scene who owned it until his death. East End hot rodder Dave Haskell was commissioned to restore the car which had fallen into disrepair over the years. With its channelled body and moulded fenders it represents how hot rods looked on the East Coast back in the Fifties, and is
close to how it appeared pp when featured in US hot rod mags around that time. The restoration was completed around 12 years ago and the car hadn’t been seen much, but has now been bought back by the Laing family as a tribute to Gerald who passed away in 2011. It’s not known whether Gerald ever saw it restored, but we’re sure he would have been proud to see it back in its prime.
After last year’s washout, we were glad to see that this year’s Victory Wheelers rod run at Stansted House near Havant in Hampshire was a success, especially the Sunday show and Shine. Good weather prevailed meaning there was a fine selection of rods, customs, trucks, American vehicles and bikes too, all displayed on the large grassed arena in front of the impressive stately home. The Wheelers have a long standing track record of events and shows stretching back nearly 40 years! That’s some achievement for a local custom club club, we’re sure you’ll agree agree.
Stansted House.
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Huw Evans
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Cars like the Mustang II can be seen as valuable to some and undesirable to others.
What’s it worth? Evans looks at the emotion surrounding the purchase and sale of classic and special-interest Detroit iron.
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or many of us in the classic car hobby, the raison d’etre is passion for certain vehicles and marques. Maybe we lusted after them in our teens, or maybe as a kid our dad, mum, aunt, uncle or other relative took us for a ride and we were hooked from that moment on. Many of us have scrimped and saved our hard earned cash to find the classic American car of our dreams even if, at times, the budget meant we couldn’t find the best example. Nonetheless, when we put our minds to something, we often find a way to accomplish it and classic car ownership is no different. With the vehicle acquired, we often spend countless nights and weekends restoring, tinkering and upgrading it. Then one day, we fire it up and take it out for a drive in its new state. It’s an absolutely wonderful feeling when you see the fruit of your efforts and equally rewarding when you drive it and get admiring glances and comments for others. Yet sometimes, there comes a point in life when you’re faced with the need of having to sell the vehicle, maybe because of family commitments, because you need to move house or any number of other reasons. What I’ve found is that when you list your car for sale, you never know who is going to contact you and who is going to show up. I’m sure many of us are familiar with people who waste our time online, offer nowhere near what we’re asking for it, or make an appointment and then don’t show up to actually look at the vehicle.
It can be a very frustrating experience at times, yet often, just when you think you’ll never sell it, the right buyer shows up, asks the right questions and gives you a good offer, if not always the offer you were looking for. What I also find is that what a car is perceived to be worth is so subjective, no matter what you have and what you’re asking for it. Okay, so most of us tend to look at current market values for our particular vehicle but it’s always interesting what other people perceive it to be worth. The big stateside auctions are a good example of that. Whether it’s a Fifties or Sixties classic, hot rod, muscle car or pickup, what it sells for (or in some cases doesn’t sell for) can vary by a huge margin depending which auction it goes to, the day of the week, the time of the day and how market trends are impacting the value of particular vehicles at any given time. For example, a 1970 440 Six Pack Plymouth ’Cuda could sell for $150,000 at one auction and bring under $70,000 at another. It might be the exact same car, or it could be a very similar car with similar pedigree. Whether its colour, options, history, paperwork, human emotion, nostalgia, or even the weather, there are so many variables that can affect the sale price… Yet like everything else in life, classic car ownership is cyclical in nature, though for some of us, those cycles happen faster than for others. At the end of the day, when it comes to value and buying and selling, somebody will pay for
a vehicle what they think it’s worth. Having said that, I also feel that for a successful transaction to take place there needs to be a bit of flexibility on both sides. I’ve found that quite frequently, people have unrealistic views on the perceived value of a car and also the amount of work it might require to get it back to 100% (if that’s the buyer’s goal). The other day, I had a serious buyer show up to look at one of my cars and he brought two friends along, one who said he was a mechanic. I could see straight away he was disappointed with the car. “It’s not what I thought it was from the ad,” he said. After the three of them pored over the vehicle we couldn’t agree on a price. He felt it was only worth so much and although I tried to meet him at one price, we couldn’t come to an agreement. Yet while one person might be disappointed, another might be delighted; as they say, one person’s junk is another’s treasure. I think it’s important for all of us to keep that in mind, especially considering that we often have quite a bit of money and emotion tied up into each of our cars and letting them go can seem to be a very hard thing to do. I find, however, that a good way to think about it is that if I’m no longer inclined to pour time and effort into a vehicle, I’d rather see it go to a good home than left to rot in the yard or garage. What are your thoughts? Huw Evans – news & views from North America
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