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THE MOTOR WEEK Audrain’s Newport Concours & Motor Week, which will debut this fall in Newport, Rhode Island, is poised to be a benchmark event.

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1953 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible $125,500  Engine: 6 Cylinder Transmission: Manual Exterior Color: Blue Mileage: 321 Miles Stock Number: 8208 VIN: P6EA18208

1959 Ferrari 250/500 TRC DK Engineering Call for Our Price Engine: 12 Cylinder Transmission: Manual Exterior Color: Red Interior Color: Black Stock Number: 2423 VIN: 2423

1963 Ferrari 250GTE III $349,500 Engine: 12 Cylinder Transmission: Manual Exterior Color: Black Interior Color: Red Mileage: 98,323 Miles Stock Number: 4533 VIN: 4533

1973 Ferrari Dino 246gts $495,000 Engine: 6 Cylinder Transmission: Manual Exterior Color: Azure Interior Color: Black Mileage: 23,475 Stock Number: 5498 VIN: 05498

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2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG $179,500 Engine: 8 Cylinder Transmission: Automatic Exterior Color: AMG Le Mans Red Interior Color: Classic Red/Black designo Mileage: 2,500 Stock Number: 9282 VIN: WDDRJ7HA4CA009282

1958 AC Ace Bristol Roadster $325,000 Engine: 8 Cylinder Transmission: Manual Exterior Color: Red Interior Color: Black leather Mileage: 74,957 Miles Stock Number: x331 VIN: BEX331 1996 Porsche 993 Turbo $165,000 Engine: 6 Cylinder Transmission: Manual Exterior Color: Silver Mileage: 25,780 Miles Stock Number: 5394 VIN: WP0AC299XTS375394

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THE TITLE AND LYRICS to the Rolling Stones’ “Time Waits for No One” are applicable to all of us mortals, especially those relish having fun. If you are reading this, your idea of fun probably involves automobiles, and it’s likely you had lots of fun plans for your car this spring, but you never got to them because of the lame weather. Now we are looking at the back half of July and headed right for August. Time didn’t wait for us. But we are hearty souls here in the Northeast, and we seem to have fun regardless of what Mother Nature throws at us, whether it’s rain, sleet or snow. So, we are now locked and loaded to enjoy the rest of the summer. For our cover story in this issue, we catch up with Rick Shad and David DeMuzio at the Audrain Automobile Museum as they and their team prepare for the inaugural Audrain’s Newport Concours & Motor Week, to be mesh /meSH/ held October 3 through 6. We as a verb: get some firsthand insight on (of the teeth of a gearwheel) lock together or be the caliber and scope of Motor engaged with another gearwheel. Week, which is poised to be one “one gear meshes with the input gear” of the top automotive events synonyms: engage, be engaged, mate, connect, on the East Coast, and in time, lock, interlock. among the best in the country. We also feature the second part of a two-part series about the development of the bench team that will support the car industry and the car hobby. We talk to Casey Putsch, CEO and founder of the Genius Garage, a program he created to bridge the gap between academia and the auto industry. Through mentorship and hands-on experience, the Genius Garage gives students with spark an opportunity to develop their skills and prove their worth to potential employers. For something completely different, contributing writer Linda Zukauskas visits John C. Webb Jr., whose passion is buses. He shares the story of his 1954 Greyhound Scenicruiser, which underwent a 25,000-hour restoration. Enjoy the stories and photos we have painstakingly put together for you, and remember: Drink in your summer, gather your corn The dreams of the night time will vanish by dawn And time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for me

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contributors In the late 1970s and early ’80s, while working in TV production, Marshall Buck was also custom-building model cars for himself and a few select customers, one of whom convinced Buck to go into model-making full-time (that gentleman remains a client to this day). Hence, in 1982, Buck founded Creative

Miniature Associates, now CMA Models Inc. Since the start of CMA, he has been involved with the finest high-end automotive miniatures as a collector, model maker, manufacturer and boutique dealer, catering to collectors worldwide. For more than 30 years, Buck also has been authoring feature articles and regular columns on models and collecting for various publications, including Cavallino, Vintage Motorsport, and Sports Car Market, as well as Mesh New England. He is also cofounder and editor of AutoMobilia Magazine. Master restorer Wayne Carini is best known for his shop’s restoration work, but for the past 13 years he has also been known for his television show Chasing Classic Cars, which is shown in 42 countries and is about to air its 200th episode. Carini was born into the restoration business, with his father founding the Model A Restorers Club in 1951, the year Wayne was born. Eight years later, Carini was sanding cars at his father’s shop and has never stopped. Today, Carini enjoys filming his TV show, traveling the world and meeting fellow car friends, and working with 4

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Impala and a not-so-much 1966 Mustang. She traces her love of American muscle

his crew restoring cars for his customers. Carini and his family live on a farm in rural Connecticut. His daughter Kimberly was diagnosed with autism at an early age. Because of Kimberly’s autism, Wayne and the entire family have made helping autism charities a major part of their lives.

Jeff DeMarey is on the Classic Car Club of America’s national board of directors, and he is the director of the New England region CCCA. For nearly 30 years, he has run a specialty insurance agency for classic and collectible cars, Stonewall Insurance Group in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He is also a frequent judge at classic car shows, including the Greenwich Concours (for the last 18 years), the Elegance at Hershey, the Boston Cup (for the last nine years), and scores of Classic Car Club of America events. DeMarey has planned many successful car events throughout the years, including most recently the CCCA New England Caravan in 2016. He is also a “Chowderhead,” a proud member of the infamous Madison Avenue Sports Car Driving and Chowder Society.

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to when she was a little girl, sitting in her neighbors’ driveways and sketching the logos of their cars’ grilles and hubcaps. She has driven cross-country twice, lived in six states, and traveled through all but eight states. She has decided that, by far, Maine is the best place. As the owner of Focus Firearms Instruction & Safety Training, McDonald works with people just beginning in the shooting sports and offers situational-awareness and defensive-tactics training. She spends her free time with her two lovely daughters (and teaches them how to change the oil) and enjoys tasting new whiskeys.

Cory “C Pez” Pesaturo has an ongoing musical relationship with the Red Bull F1 team, which has led to his friendships with many F1

drivers. He is the only person to ever win the trio of world championships on acoustic, digital and jazz accordion, and he is the only accordion graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. Pesaturo’s resumé includes four performances at the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton. His first was when he was 12, making him the

youngest person ever to perform at a State Dinner. At 16, he performed with the Brockton Symphony Orchestra and became the youngest accordionist ever to solo with a symphony orchestra in the United States.

Josh Sweeney’s passion for cars and photography was obvious by the time he was 6 years old, when he would keep himself busy by taking pictures of model cars with his Mickey Mouse camera. He eventually got hold of a real camera and started photographing everything,

to the Nürburgring. He has vintage-raced his own Devin SS, Kellison J-4R and B-production 1967 Corvette, and he won an SCCA Championship with a Mazda RX-7. Taylor’s restoration shop, Minisport, has created cars that have been displayed at SEMA and the Detroit and New York auto shows. He and his wife, Jean, have raised more than $2 million for North American charities through Vintage Rallies Inc., which has organized over 100 vintage car rallies.

Linda Zukauskas has giving him a great eye for composition and detail. A friend introduced him to executive director Sheldon Steele and the staff at Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he became an intern and photographed a wide array of collector cars. Today, he does work for Lamborghini, Amelia Island Concours, Mecum, RM Sotheby’s and Bonhams, as well as Mesh New England and Larz Anderson. From track events to luxury galas, you will find Sweeney capturing the moment. Straight from graduate school, Rich Taylor started out as managing editor of Car and Driver. Since then, he’s published more than 5,000 magazine articles, 27 books and hundreds of special sections for Car and Driver, Popular Mechanics, New York Times and other clients. Taylor has won motorcycle and automobile races everywhere from Laguna Seca to Daytona

always loved cars. She graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor’s in English before working as a tech writer for software development firms, then as a freelance writer. While interviewing the owner of a small automotive shop for a local newspaper feature, she was thrilled to accept his invitation to join his vintage racing crew. She took on the title of CCO (Chief Cleaning Officer). She’s having a blast writing about the many ways to enjoy cars— racing, restoring, building, buying, selling, showing— but, for her, it all comes down to amazing stories about the wonderful people she is honored to meet and call friends.

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8 short shifts Our contributors discuss a variety of topics: the danger of driving

with flip-flops, the risk of flipping restored cars, and experiencing the Indy 500 with Giampaolo Dallara.

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12 nuts & bolts Auction Ready: Establishing a Value. Part 1 of a three-part series in which

Wayne Carini helps you navigate the steps to successfully selling your car at auction.

20 a great drive The story of the New England 1000 vintage rally starts in 1991, when

writer Rich Taylor and his wife, photographer Jean Constantine, drove a classic Lancia in the Mille Miglia Storica, the vintage car rally around Italy.

28 model review Marshall Buck, our master modeler extraordinaire, reviews a 1:18 scale

1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Coupe by the French model maker Ilario Chiera.

32 calendar of events Up-to-date events including the top auto shows, club gather ings, races and road rallies in New England and beyond.

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34 event highlights A celebration of highlights from the latest auto shows, rallies

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and races that take place in the Northeast.

46 I’ve Been Everywhere We catch up with John C. Webb Jr. to see and hear all about

his 1954 GMC PD-4501 Greyhound Scenicruiser bus and the 25,000 hours spent on its full restoration.

52 Genius Garage In this second part of a two-part series on the education and

mentorship of the next generation of automotive hobbyists and professionals, we visit Casey Putsch, CEO and president of the Genius Garage in Bowling Green, Ohio.

58 A Whitehall Car We visit Tom White Sr. of Whitehall Restorations in

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to learn more about the shop’s award-winning restorations of Dual-Ghias and Chryslers.

64 The Motor Week Audrain’s Newport Concours & Motor Week, which will take place

October 3 through 6 in Newport, Rhode Island, is poised to be a benchmark event.

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Vehicle Involved

by Jeff DeMarey

ollector cars are my vocation and my avocation. I love them—and most everything else that rolls under power. I travel nationwide representing the Classic Car Club of America’s New England chapter, and in doing so, I get to see and experience a lot of what goes on in our community of automobile enthusiasts. As for my vocation, our business, Stonewall Insurance Group, is one of the largest collector car insurers in the country. With Stonewall, I come across many interesting incidents in which things didn’t go as planned, such as the one described below. Hagerty Classic Insurance, with which Stonewall works directly, shared this example with us. In future issues of MNE, look for more examples from Hagerty of automotive mishaps that serve as teachable moments. VEHICLE INVOLVED: 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 WHAT WENT WRONG: Flip-flops and sandals are not only cooler to wear than shoes (literally, at least), they’re easy to slip on and off. They’re perfect for pool parties, a day at the beach, running errands or simply walking to the mailbox. But for driving? Not so much. Flipflops increase the risk of an accident, because they can slide off your feet, or worse, get caught on the pedals. Add a little distraction to the mix, and well…. The owner of a 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 was backing out a parking space at a grocery store when his water bottle fell on the floor. As he simultaneously leaned down to pick it up and moved his foot to the brake, his flip-flop got caught on the gas pedal, causing the car to lurch backward and crash into a light pole. DAMAGE/LOSS: Fortunately, the driver was not injured, but the Camaro sustained substantial damage to the bumper, trunk and a rear fender. The repair costs were paid by Hagerty. LESSON: Flip-flops and sandals are comfortable and convenient alternatives to shoes, but never wear them when driving. Driving barefoot is legal in the United States and Canada, so kick off those sandals and put them on the floor—on the passenger side, not under the driver’s seat, where they can slide under your feet if you brake hard. And if something falls on the floor, don’t reach down to pick it up while the car is still in gear.

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Playing Chicken

by Miranda McDonald

NEVER NAME A CHICKEN if you plan to eat it. Never hold a puppy if you don’t plan to keep it. And never buy a car unless you plan to sell it. In my short career in the auto restoration world, I have flipped a few cars. My first experience with flipping was wildly successful. It involved a true barn find and an excited collector. I thought I could be pretty good at this. Next, I picked up two Chevy Impalas on the cheap, sold each for a fair price, and used the profits to fund my own ’67 Impala restoration. I hated to sell those cars, because I was seeing progress with my build and thought I could keep them, fix them up a bit, and flip them for even more money. But I had to let them go. My neighbors were complaining of the accumulating wrecks in my driveway, and I needed the dinero. Next, I went in on an immaculately preserved Max Wedge Polara with a business partner. It was a huge investment, but we were certain we could flip it for the right price. I liked this car a lot. It had a fascia that sneered like a dock worker and a motor that roared like teenage angst. It took almost a year, but when we finally sold it, we took a slight loss. My business partner needed the garage space, and after a while, cars, like guests, need to go. When he told me the Polara had sold, I drove over to the garage just in time to see it loaded up and say my goodbyes. I learned that sometimes it takes money to make money. I also learned I’m a sentimental person. That leads me to my current inventory. I have a 1965 Mustang fastback, a little automatic straight-6 in horrible condition. Nothing about it is desirable. I cringe when I think about the work it needs to become drivable, never mind presentable. (Remind me again why I purchased it.) But upon seeing the car after I bought it, my 13-year-old daughter named it Peggy and declared that it was hers. So now it sits in storage, waiting for the first phase of a restoration. I’ve drawn up the list of repairs that need to be done, and I’ve established a budget. And I’ve learned to never let your kid name the chicken. THE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

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tant person in the last 50 years of chassis building and one of the most interesting men in all of automobile history. He once had Enzo knocking on on his door, asking him to return to the prancing horse, and he was one of the guys who stayed after work at Lamborghini to create my all-time favorite car, the Miura. He also is the nicest and most down-to-earth famous person I have ever met. Sorry, Michael Buble. Spending an hour eating prosciutto with Mr. Dallara, you would never know that all GP2 cars, W-Series cars, IndyCars, and HAAS F1 team cars wear Dallara badges. The US government would charge him with operating a monopoly if it ran the racing world. During my crazy 2015 trip to Europe, 10

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where I went to play accordion for a team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and ended up running tires 22 straight hours for them (a story for another time), Mr. Dallara had me play for him at his factory. While I was there, I met some important dignitaries. One was Andrea Tosso, who designed the DW12 and headed the two-seater program. That meeting enabled me to eventually get Mario Andretti to give me a lap at Sonoma, or Sears Point for us nostalgia fans. That experience with Andretti eventually led to my hanging at last year’s Indy 500, where I went for action and watched the entire race from the pits. Unlike with F1, you can literally be feet from the guys changing tires. You can

also touch the cars with the team staring right at you. And if you have a baby, you can ask if the baby can hold the wheel. If you so much as look at an F1 car, a sniper from Turn 14 will take you out. The Indy 500 paddock buildings, where the rich and famous hang out, is accessible with a general-admission ticket (no pit pass is needed). So if you’re as good of a talker and bebopper as my dad, you can meet pretty much anyone you want with the right timing. At this year’s Indy 500, I was directed by Stefano Di Ponti (the most Italian person you could ever meet) to play at two private parties on Saturday and then enjoy Sunday. So this year, I went for a grand view instead of the action in the pits. I

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was across from the start-finish line, on a roof with a view that stretched from Turn 4 all the way to Turn 1. The famed scoring tower and a jumbo TV for the ABC coverage was in front of me. I came across the celebratory milk in its little cooler, being carried around by an official like a president’s dog. I also saw the baby BorgWarner trophies that the winning team and driver get to take home. But the best part of the Indy 500 is something that most people know nothing about. It’s picture day, on Monday morning. Because every IndyCar car was a Dallara, he won automatically, and I had the incredible honor of being one of only 200 or so people who got to hang out at the eerily empty track with the winner, the winning car, and the BorgWarner at picture day. Just 16 hours earlier, 400,000 spectators filled the joint; you could still smell the tire marks on the track. It was like something out of a movie. To stand there and think of the drivers who have won at the hallowed track—Schumacher, Clark, Mears, Andretti, Foyt, Montoya—is otherworldly. A true win for the Dallara factory is a race with no accidents or no accidents that involve flipping cars, flying tires, major debris or injuries. Sorry, crash fans. That was the case in 2019, and so everyone was all smiles. Here’s one last tip for anyone who is planning to attend the Indy 500 in 2020: Make sure you visit the incredible museum, where you can read about the history of the race and study the absolute heck out of Ray Huran’s Mercer, which won the first Indy 500 in 1911. I think the Mercer is the most innovative car ever built, and no, not just because it was the first car to be equipped with a rearview mirror; that’s just one of the many forward-thinking features it boasts. I must sincerely thank Giampaolo Dallara and his team once again for a fabulous time at the greatest spectacle in racing. I hope to see you at the race in 2020 so that I can give you other secrets of the Indy 500. And oh, I could write a short book on the double block plus fake dummy block that Simon Pageanud put on Alexander Rossi on the backstretch of lap 200. But we’ll save that for a real-life convo with video aid. THE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

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t the 2014 Quail Lodge Motorsports Gathering, which I got into only because I was playing the accordion for a company involved with the event, I noticed that Lamborghini had brought Giampaolo Dallara to introduce the new race-spec Huracán. I waited until he was sitting alone behind the stage to introduce myself. “Ciao, Signor Dallara, mi chiamo Cory Pesaturo, phisharmonicista….” Before I could tell him that I was a huge fan of his, he opened his eyes wide and said, “Accordion! I love the Accordion!” As was the case with Dr. Helmut Marko and others in the car world, the old squeezebox was my in. Mr. Dallara is, without question, the most impor-

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Establishing A Value Part 1 of a three-part series in which Wayne Carini helps you navigate the steps to successfully selling your car at auction.

f you are thinking about bringing a car or cars to auction and are new to the process, I recommend hiring a qualified individual to help you understand all the different facets of this business. I say this right up front, because the more educated you are about this process, the better the outcome will be for both buyer and seller. Beware of individuals who are motivated only to put money in their pockets. Find someone who works in his or her clients’ best interest and is motivated to position the automobiles for the best possible outcome at auction. I have a very simple arrangement with my clients: I ask for a percentage of the selling price, so the more the car sells for, the higher my fee is. I think this is the best and most transparent way to work with clients, and I admire others who take a similar approach. My best clients are knowledgeable

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an oxymoron, because, to me, hiring a person to appraise your car is a waste of money. That is, unless the appraiser has been trained in the vocation through the American Society of Appraisers and has become an expert in the field, like Donald Osborne or Dave Kinney, who through years of experience just know in their gut what a car is worth. An immediate appraisal by Osborne or Kinney is usually within 10 percent of the car’s selling price. They both got their start in the ASA and are now at the top of their game and teaching others the profession. In my opinion, appraisers schooled at the ASA are well worth their fees. You also could pay a qualified individual to pinpoint your car’s condition on the 1-to-5 scale. Every car is a No. 1 in the owner’s mind. You hear things like, “I’ve got this car. It was my father’s car, and he won seven trophies with it at Joe’s Drive-In Cruise Night, and this makes it a number No. 1 car.” Well, not necessarily. What if all of the other cars at the cruise night were subpar? They had to give the trophy to somebody, right? Having your car accurately rated on the 1-to-5 scale is paramount to knowing what it’s really worth. Basically, for every 10,000 cars, there is one No. 1 car, and that’s the car that goes to Pebble Beach and sits on the lawn. It’s pristine, without a speck of dust on it. Absolutely perfect. Even if your car is in super condition, it is probably a No. 2 car.

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he story of the New England 1000 vintage rally starts in 1991, when writer Rich Taylor and his wife, photographer Jean Constantine, drove a classic Lancia in the Mille Miglia Storica, the vintage car rally around Italy.

“The Mille Miglia was wonderful for its mix of vintage sports cars, beautiful scenery and enthusiastic crowds,” says Taylor, “but not so wonderful for its down-market hotels and restaurants, traffic-clogged roads and exhausting schedule. It was also totally disorganized. There was lots of arm

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waving and shouting in Italian, but not much got done. We came home and said, ‘Jeez, we could do a better job than that!’” “For decades,” Taylor continues, “Jean and I had been on trips all over the world as guests of auto manufacturers introducing new cars. We stayed in incredible hotels, ate in Michelin-starred restaurants and drove prototype cars on fabulous roads or race tracks. The best of these over-the-top press trips were organized by our great friend Leo Levine of Mercedes-Benz. So a MercedesBenz press trip became our event model.” Over the course of the next two years, Taylor and Constantine formed Vintage Rallies Inc. to operate their rally, convinced Mercedes-Benz to sponsor the rally, put together a mailing list of all their car-owning friends, sent out brochures, recruited a crew of “wranglers” to work during the rally, enlisted mechanics from RPM VT to follow the drivers, and established a route around Vermont. Why Vermont? The state has great roads, beautiful scenery, little traffic and luxury hotels. In addition, Constantine’s family THE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

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has been prominent in Vermont for three centuries, so she and Taylor were able to meet with Governor Howard Dean and tell him they wanted to organize a vintage sports car rally inspired by the Mille Miglia and make it a charity event. Governor Dean wanted to do something to help the children of Gary Gaboury, a sergeant with the Vermont State Police who had died recently while trying to recover the body of a drowning victim. So, the charity that Taylor and Constantine would help through the first Vintage Rallies event would be called the Gary Gaboury Fund, and that first event would be called the New England 1000. “We knew that if we were successful, we couldn’t just drive around Vermont,” says Taylor. “Our initial idea was to drive 1,000 miles around a different New England state each year. Our joke was that one year we’d have to do 50 laps of Rhode Island.” The initial New England 1000 was in May of 1993 and involved 23 couples, who weren’t exactly sure what they’d gotten themselves into. Taylor drove his 1958 Devin SS vintage race car, while other collectors showed up with a wide range of cars that included a 1927 Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix racer, a Model T Ford hot rod, a 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing, and a 1965 Aston Martin DB6 convertible that had just won its class at Pebble Beach. Everybody had fun, decided to do it again the following year, and donated $5,000 to the Gary Gaboury Fund. Over the next few years, the New England 1000 raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to send Gaboury’s children to college. The charity eventually was renamed the Vermont State Police Scholarship Fund. It still exists and is one of hundreds of local charities that Vintage Rallies has helped over the last three decades. The 27th edition of the New England 1000 will take place October 20 through 25, starting and ending at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. Drivers will spend two nights at Laurance and Mary Rockefeller’s Woodstock Inn and one night at the Sagamore, located on its own private island in Lake George. The 1,000-mile route will twist and turn through the Green Mountains, White Mountains, Adirondacks and Berkshires. Like all Vintage Rallies events, the New England 1000 is limited to 50 sports cars, each of which has to have been built before 1991; exotics from any year are also eligible. THE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

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Over the years, participants have traveled from Europe, Japan, India, South America, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and every state in the Union to take part in the rally. “There are so many stories,” says Taylor. “One of our favorite rallyists is a medical doctor from California who only drives his cars in our East Coast events because he doesn’t want his patients to know he can afford a garage full of Ferraris. “One year, we had an executive from Toyota in Japan whose father had designed the rare Toyota 2000 GT back in the sixties,” Taylor continues. “The son brought not only a 2000 GT, but also his wife, his personal assistant, two collectors from Maine with their own 2000 GT cars, and eight Japanese journalists, who drove around in a minivan, taking pictures of everything that moved. “Remember, our events are just for fun,” he adds. “Another year, we had a Canadian vintage racer who hired John Buffum’s A 1971 Ferrari Daytona coupe on Whiteface Mountain.

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national championship pro rally navigator, Tom Grimshaw, and all his rally computers to navigate for him in the New England 1000. They got beaten by a husband and wife who did their timing using the wife’s wristwatch, which had no numbers on the dial.” By the third year of the New England 1000, it was obvious that Vintage Rallies could expand by organizing and operating more rallies. Spurred by a request from the president of the Ferrari Owners Club, Taylor and Constantine started an October rally called the Forza Mille, which was just for cars powered by V-12 engines. In 2005, this event segued into the Mountain Mille, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. When Bill Warner started the Amelia Island Concours in Florida, in 1996, his friends Taylor and Constantine organized a rally called the Forza Amelia that supported his event for a decade and raised huge amounts for Warner’s Amelia charities. In 1999, Ford SVT asked Taylor and Constantine to organize a rally in Texas that it would sponsor. The Texas 1000, a 1,000-mile 24

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drive around the scenic Texas Hill Country, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in November. The Texas 1000 has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to local charities. A primary beneficiary has been Service Dogs Inc., an Austin-based group that rescues dogs from the pound and trains them as service dogs, many of which then help wounded veterans. Talk about a win-win-win. Vintage Rallies also organized the Northwest Passage, a ride around Washington State and through the Canadian Rockies, and the Southwest Passage, which takes drivers from Santa Fe, New Mexico, through the Colorado Rockies and back. Including private tours for MercedesBenz, the Petersen Museum’s Checkered Flag 200 rally, the Fairfield Concours, the Concours d’Caffeine, the Greenwich Concours, and a rally for a group of Duesenberg owners led by Sam and Emily Mann, Taylor and Constantine have organized 110 events in 27 years. In the process, they’ve raised nearly $3 million for various charities in North America. Thousands of people have had a lot of fun at these events. More than one couple have gotten engaged during a rally, and Taylor even negotiated a real estate deal between two couples during a running of the New England 1000. Of course, hundreds of vintage cars have been restored so they could be driven in Vintage Rallies events. Rallyists range from the car nut next door to world-famous race car drivers. Billionaire car collectors and entertainment-industry celebrities, such as country music star Alan Jackson and his wife, Denise, have also driven in Vintage Rallies events. David E. Davis Jr., Peter Egan, Pete Lyons, Keith Martin and Donald Osborne are among the automotive-world celebrities who have been rally participants. “We like to think we’ve brought some pleasure into the world, made people laugh, shown them a good time, let them experience out-of-the-way places they’d never take the time to discover themselves,” says Taylor. “Our reward is at the end of the week, when people—especially women who were reluctantly dragged to our event by their husband or boyfriend—say, ‘That’s the most fun I’ve ever had,’ or ‘This is the best thing we’ve ever done with cars!’” For more information about the New England 1000 and other Vintage Rallies events, visit vintagerallies.com. THE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

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July Tuesdays from 5 p.m. to dusk, through September 27: Antique Cars and Bikes, Bentley’s Saloon, Arundel, ME, bentleyssaloon.com 207.985.8966 7/4 48th Annual Bay State Antique Auto Club Car Show, Endicott Estate, Dedham, MA, bsaac.com 781.459.8800 7/6 Castle in the Clouds Antique & Classic Automobile Show, Moultonborough, NH, castleintheclouds.org 603.476.5410 7/7 Bath Heritage Days/Rusty Nuts Car Show, Front Street, Bath, ME, 207.389.4279 7/8 Herb Chambers Cars and Coffee, Lexus of Sharon, Sharon, MA, herbchamberscarsandcoffee.com 7/10–7/14 Land Speed Records, Old Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME, loringtiming.com 207.227.1693 7/14 Microcar Classic Event, Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, MA, mot.org 617.522.6547 7/18–7/20 Vermont Mountains Jeep Jamboree, Killington, VT, jeepjamboreeusa.com 508.757.3134 7/19 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Series/Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT, limerock.com 860.435.5000 7/19–7/21 Misselwood Concours d’Elegance, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, misselwoodconcours.com 978.232.2347

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7/27 23nd Annual British Cars of New Hampshire Show of Dreams, Hudson, NH, bcnh.org 603.772.1116 7/27 Adirondack Triumph Association Lawn Show, Saratoga Auto Museum, Saratoga, NY, saratogaautomuseum.org 518.587.1935

August 7/31–8/4 Maine Lobster Festival, Rockland, ME (not a car event, but still a great take), mainelobsterfestival. com 207.596.0376 8/2–8/4 Carlisle Truck Nationals, Carlisle Fairgrounds, Carlisle, PA, carsatcarlisle.com 717.243.7855 8/4 Tutto Italiano, Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, MA, mot.org 617.522.6547 8/4 Vintage Rally Stable Charity Concours of New Hampshire, Sanbornton, NH, 603.286.7488 8/4 45th East Coast Camaro Club Bud Run, Anheuser-Busch Plant, Merrimack, NH, 978.858.3988 8/10–8/11 Vintage Sports Car Club of America Mount Equinox Hill Climb, Manchester, VT, vscca.org 860.355.1804 8/11 BMW Day, Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, MA, mot.org 617.522.6547 8/9–8/18 Monterey Car Week (not in New England, but this special automotive week is full of exciting events, auto shows, rallies, concours and car auctions that culminate with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance), whatsupmonterey.com/events 8/15–8/18 Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, New England Dragway, Epping, NH, newenglanddragway.com 800.322.1263

7/20 41st Annual Founder’s Day Car Show, Paris Hill Green, Paris, ME, hamlin.lib.me.us 207.743.2980

8/24 Jaguars at Saratoga, Saratoga Auto Museum, Saratoga, NY, saratogaautomuseum.org 518.587.1935

7/14 Micro Car Classic, Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, MA, mot.org 617.522.6547

8/29–9/1 Land Speed Records, Old Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME, loringtiming.com 207.227.1693

7/21 Third Annual Porsches in the Park, Bug Light Park, South Portland, ME, derpca.com

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Concorso Ferrari & Friends 6/23 LaSalle Road, West Hartford, Connecticut Lots of exotic hardware graced LaSalle Road in West Hartford, Connecticut, on June 23 for the 19th annual Concorso Ferrari & Friends event supporting Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. More than 10,000 automobile enthusiasts converged on the street to admire a collection of over 170 supercars, all of which were parked on LaSalle Road and in the surrounding parking lots. Admission was free, but vendors selling raffle tickets, T-shirts and refreshments helped raise an impressive sum of $190,000. The money will benefit Connecticut Children’s Family Support Fund and have a profound impact on patients’ families. Car enthusiasts from as far as New Jersey and New York flocked to West Hartford Center to catch a glimpse of the many rare supercars on display: Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Aston Martins and Alpha Romeos. The event had strong support from local businesses, including Union Kitchen and McLadden’s Irish Pub, both of which pledged 10 percent of their proceeds from the day to the cause. Bricco was a supporter as well, hosting a VIP lunch in support of Connecticut Children’s. The restaurant

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Concorso Ferrari & Friends, continued even had a Ferrari 330 P4 on display in its lobby—a beautiful 1:8 scale limited-edition model from Amalgam. The highlight of the event was the Patient Parade, in which several of the supercars cruised down LaSalle Road, carrying a total of 40 patients from Connecticut Children’s. When they arrived in West Hartford Center, thousands of cheering spectators greeted the kids. After their ride, the kids got to meet the day’s special guests: Connecticut basketball coaching legend Jim Calhoun and Jillian Duffy, Miss Connecticut and a former Connecticut Children’s Medical Center cancer patient. Calhoun and Duffy greeted each patient as he or she walked the red carpet. On this day, these incredible kids, who are cared for by a variety of specialists at Connecticut Children’s, were able to step away from their diagnoses and simply enjoy their childhood. Summer Sivetz, the organizer of Concorso Ferrari & Friends, said this year’s event was “awesome!” and credited the day’s gorgeous weather for much of its success. She also noted what made this year’s fundraiser so special: The money donated will go to the Family Support Fund, which helps fund items that aren’t covered by insurance. The event was a resounding success, and it will return next year for what is sure to be a special 20th edition. —Russ Rocknak

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Trans-Am Series Memorial Day 2019 at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut, was indeed memorable. After a four-year absence, the Trans Am Series returned to the 1.53-mile track to rock the area’s densely wooded hills with the roar of V8 engines. Fans were glad to see the cars back on track and found more to love this time around. The long holiday weekend included races that featured the vintage cars on which today’s racing technology is built. The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association presented 12 racing groups, including two races that honored the 55th anniversary of the Trans Am Race Company. Tony Parella, the president and CEO of the SVRA and the majority owner of the Trans Am Race Company, described his vision of a true festival of motorsports, one that included International GT. The variety of racing provided spectators with the opportunity to admire their favorite cars, and it gave them a new access point to a sport that continually offers something more to learn. While fans were spoiled for choice, a few locals took advantage of the Trans Am/Lime Rock reunion and found their way to the winners podium. Chris Dyson of Poughkeepsie, New York, said he remembers spending almost every Memorial Day watching his father, Rob Dyson, circle Lime Rock’s challenging track. But this year’s holiday will likely be the one he never forgets. Driving the No. 20 Plaid Ford Mustang, he won the feature race of the Trans Am Memorial Day Classic, finishing the 100-mile, 67-lap race with a time of 59:55.42. Thomas Merrill drove the No. 26 Mike Cope Race Cars Ford Mustang to win Saturday’s TA2 Powered by AEM race. The victory followed his recent win at Laguna Seca. Merrill is a driving instructor at the Skip Barber Racing School, so to win on the track where the school began was something special for both him and the school. The SVRA champions included Glenn Taylor of Shelton, Connecticut. Piloting his 1979 Club Ford PRS, Taylor won both of his races on Monday. Joe Riolo of Woodbury, Connecticut, went four-for-four, winning the vintage endurance race and three more races in his 1972 Datsun 38

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Trans-Am Series, continued 240Z. Family and friends cheered as the gold paint on the car he calls Bruce winked to the spectators who were taking in the sun on the hill overlooking the esses. The campground was filled to capacity, and when the track became tranquil on Sunday, the 10th annual Sunday Royals Car Show presented by Hagerty offered an amazing selection of more than 300 vehicles. Bruce Martin’s 1966 Fairlane 500R was chosen by members of the military in attendance as the winner of the Veterans’ Vote; the park recognized the significance of the holiday by offering free admission to active and retired military servicemen and women and their families for the entire weekend. The crowds, drivers and even Mother Nature warmly welcomed back Trans Am, as though it were an old friend. We’re glad the Trans Am Series has returned to Lime Rock Park and look forward to more amazing moments to come. –Linda Zukauskas

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Art of the Automobile IV 5/11 Copley Square, Boston

Kicking off the 2018 New England outdoor car show season was the Art of the Automobile IV, which featured more than 125 antique, exotic and tuner automobiles lining the streets of Boston’s Copley Square. The event was sponsored by Tinsfe Consulting, European Auto Solutions, Asfalia LLC and ClassicMotorcar.com, and it benefitted the Martin Richards Foundation. The show, which shut down a large part of Copley Square, was the largest and most diverse Art of the Automobile to date, and it was a great day for our car community to get out and drive and shine. New this year was the Tour d’Art, in which owners drove their show cars from the Larz Anderson Museum in Brookline to Copley Square. The museum organized the Tour d’Art, and the Boston Police Department provided an escort into town. Setting the pace for the Tour d’Art was Ron Savenor, in his freshly delivered silver (with a black and orange racing stripe) Ford GT. This time when he drove his GT, he didn’t have to worry about the blue lights in his rearview mirror. When Savenor is not out running errands in his new car, you can find him setting track records at Palmer Motorsports Park in Palmer, Massachusetts. Savenor is well acquainted with the Ford GT: He also owns an example of the model’s

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Art of the Automobile IV, continued previous generation, a 2006 that he bought new (see MNE Holidays 2018). The first Mercedes-Benz-branded vehicles were produced in 1926, after the merger of Daimler and Benz. A 1970 280SE cabriolet, a beautiful example of a 1970s-era Mercedes-Benz, was on display at the show, courtesy of European Auto Solutions of Waltham, Massachusetts. The company specializes in Mercedes-Benz and BMW service and sales and has been a supporter of the Art of the Automobile since the beginning. The 280SE’s owner is Tom Zarrella, who really likes to drive his cars—no matter their value. Another collector who enjoys driving his cars is Bruce Male; he has run the Mille Miglia 18 times. Male came to the show with his 1948 Delahaye 135M, driving it from his home on the North Shore of Massachusetts. The Delahaye is a French-made convertible that features a custom body by the French coachbuilder Figoni et Falaschi. In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful cars on the planet, and judging from the attention it received at Copley Square, I’m not the only one who feels that way. Standing in sharp contrast to the Delahaye was David Geisinger’s black, right-hand-drive Land Rover, which looked like it would be much happier river-crawling instead of sitting static at an auto show. Aptly nicknamed Odd Job, it graced the square with a presence that evoked Mike Tyson: poised and ready to knock out any challengers that came its way. The Delahaye and the Land Rover were representative of the diverse selection of automobiles that founders John Bailey, Ed Owen and Peter Ladas (opposie page, left) had in mind when they created Art of the Automobile. It was a great time for everyone and a superb way to start the outdoor season. Kudos to all involved! —R.R.

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I’ve been everywhere, man I’ve been everywhere, man Crossed the desert’s bare, man I’ve breathed the mountain air, man Of travel I’ve a’had my share, man I’ve been everywhere —Geoff Mack (recorded by Johnny Cash and others) “I’ve Been Everywhere”

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WHY HIRE SOMEONE to spend 25,000 hours restoring a 1954 GMC PD-4501 Greyhound Scenicruiser bus? John C. Webb Jr. explains his reasons for doing so. “I fell in love with buses when I was 5 and my grandmother took me into New York City on a New Jersey Transit bus. I couldn’t get over how the driver was able to keep this big machine on the road. I was fascinated.” Years later, after Webb’s family moved, he regularly rode the bus from New York back to Pennsylvania to visit his grandparents. “My parents would put me in the front seat and ask the driver to keep an eye on me,” he says. “That was my first introduction to Greyhound, and it was all I needed.” Overland transport enjoyed a glamorous status in mid-century America. Men and women would wear their best clothes and hope to obtain seats on the Scenicruisers, which were designed by Raymond Loewy to evoke the romance of cross-country train travel in the dome cars of the era. Adding to the glamor and popularity of the Scenicruiser, a dapper Cary Grant stepped off of one in 1959 in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, just before the sequence in which Grant’s character is chased though a field by a crop duster. 46

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This is a life-long dream come true. I never thought I’d own Attention to detail in the shop has made all the difference at the show. Since the restoration, the a Scenicruiser, and now I’m in disbelief.” Siata has won at the Greenbrier Concours d’Elegance, Sunday in the Park, Radnor Hunt Concours d’Elegance, Atlanta Concours d’ Elegance, and more. SHOW-READY SIATA PHOTOS BY RUSS ROCKNAK

“It wasn’t uncommon to walk into a terminal in New York, St. Louis or Chicago and see lines of people waiting to go,” Webb says. “As one bus filled, another pulled up, with drivers waiting on standby to fill demand.” The Scenicruisers were manufactured exclusively for Greyhound by General Motors and used on long-haul runs. Webb knows his bus was first assigned to the New York-Miami run and estimates it traveled approximately 4 million miles from 1954 through the early 1990s. “These buses would do 100,000 miles a year,” he says. “Once everyone was off at a stop, the bus would go into a garage for fuel, clear the lav, and be on its way again 30 minutes later. Really, it’s anybody’s guess as to how many miles this bus has done.” Webb considers the design of the Scenicruiser something of an optical illusion. 48

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“These buses aren’t any taller than an average bus, but you feel as if you’re climbing high, and with all the glass, you can see all around. People loved that.” The upper level included space for an oversized luggage bay, which was large enough to hold a spare engine that could be delivered to a disabled bus. Greyhound eventually used the extra storage space to haul packages and increase its revenue. “When I was 10, my grandmother urged my grandfather to buy me a share of Greyhound stock,” Webb says. “I would read the annual reports to find out what the company was doing and its plans for the future. I still have those reports.” Webb relates the story of Carl Wickman, a former coal mine drill operator who opened a Hupmobile auto dealership in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota. Unable to sell any of the seven-passenger vehicles

in stock, he bought one and began transporting miners to and from work for 15 cents per ride. Thus he founded not just the first bus company but an entire industry. “The story I heard was that one miner told Wickman, ‘Your buses are so good and reliable, they run like greyhounds.’ The name stuck.” When he entered the workforce, Webb wanted a job driving for Greyhound, but he was too young; the minimum age for a Greyhound driver was 24. So, he went to work for Ritchie Bus Lines in Northborough, Massachusetts, before joining his family’s insurance business. While Webb enjoyed driving for Ritchie, visiting places he’d never seen before and bonding with passengers on his charter runs, there was really only one bus for him. “One day, a friend saw this bus for sale in a magazine. I got on the phone THE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

and talked to the owner for an hour and a half before agreeing to buy the bus, sight unseen. I was so glad that I did, because I don’t see any for sale now.” For a decade, Webb struggled to find the help he needed to restore the bus. He was frustrated by broken promises and false starts before he found Matt Pfahl of Pfahl’s Mack & Antique Truck Restorations in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Preparing to cross three states to pick up the bus and transport it back to his shop, Pfahl loaded almost every piece of equipment he could grab, including a forklift. He nearly underestimated the job. “Most people buy a bus to convert it to a motor home,” Pfahl says. “First, they open the windows, which are hinged at the top for emergency egress, and toss out the seats and luggage racks. Next, because the seats are elevated, the typical WWW.MESHNEWENGLAND.COM

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Not content to just remember the rides of his youth, John C. Webb Jr. persevered for years to complete the award-winning restoration of his Scenicruiser. If you’re ever lucky enough to watch as the countryside slips past the bus’s panoramic windows, you’ll understand how, in the middle of the last century, the Scenicruiser elevated coach travel to a glamorous and luxurious experience.

ambitious owner cuts into the floor to make it even and maximize headroom. That’s when the unibody construction becomes structurally unstable. Usually, the empty bus is put out to pasture to rot.” Webb’s Scenicruiser had no wheels or axles. Pfahl and his team knew they couldn’t just roll it onto their trailer. Instead, they spent three hours with the forklift and other tools to shift the metal hulk onto dollies and then onto the trailer. They spent another five hours loading pallets of boxes packed with thousands of pieces, including trim and molding. With the sun setting behind one trailer filled with boxes and another holding the bus, Pfahl phoned Webb to announce, “I’m finished.” Pfahl laughs when remembering Webb’s response. “I had to stop him and tell him I meant I was done with the loading and we 50

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were ready to roll home. He was so happy that the restoration was actually going to start, he told me to take my guys out to dinner and celebrate.” Another seven years passed before Pfahl used the word finished again in reference to the Scenicruiser. His team of restoration specialists included Tom Davis, Jesse Dunlap, Tom Gereg, Bob Grandpre Jr., Bill Lockwood and Keith Wilcox. All 45 seats—43 passenger, one driver, and one toilet—were long gone, as were the person who had originally dismantled the vehicle and any documentation detailing where the parts should be reinstalled. Relying on years of restoration experience and the book Greyhound Scenicruiser by Tom McNally, the team first restored the floor and added new sheet metal to the exterior, using 45,000 rivets. Only 1,000 seats were originally pro-

duced for this model, and Pfahl pulled a few rabbits out of his hat to source the proper upholstery in a turquoise-andyellow combination for the front of the bus and black for the rear, with removable headrest covers. The luggage racks came from a donor bus. A Mexican fabricator needed three years to recreate the 19 pieces of curved glass and another year to replace pieces broken in transit. The flat glass was a little easier to obtain. It was manufactured by Plymouth Glass in Thomaston, Connecticut. Other components came from Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky and New York. General Motors’ design for the Scenicruiser specified twin 4-cylinder diesel engines. The idea was that if one engine failed, the other engine would provide enough power to deliver passengers safely to the nearest terminal. The configuraTHE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

tion proved to be a failure shortly after the Scenicruisers went into service, which led to a legal dispute between General Motors and Greyhound. The problem wasn’t resolved until the Marmon-Herrington Company replaced the dual engines with one 8V71 Detroit V8 diesel paired with a Spicer four-speed manual transmission. In addition to those early engine woes, the Scenicruiser had air-conditioning issues. The system was pitted in a losing battle against the greenhouse effect caused by the abundant glass on board. Some bus operators resorted to painting the skylights white to mitigate the problem. The Scenicruiser buses were upgraded three or four times over their years of service during the middle of the 20th century, receiving new paint jobs to indicate their refreshed status in the marketplace. This particular restoration project WWW.MESHNEWENGLAND.COM

used the 1962 Super Scenicruiser livery that Webb remembers fondly. The paintwork consumed eight gallons of white paint and four gallons of blue. Extensive investigation went into finding the right decals, from the reflective Greyhound logo and lettering to the signs on the interior of bus cautioning that smoking was allowed but only where it was not prohibited by law. Next to the smoking sign is a plaque for the driver’s name. According to Webb, drivers wore full uniforms, including a hat that Greyhound mandated be worn as passengers were loaded or unloaded. The drivers commanded Webb’s respect, and not just for their professional appearance. “These buses are four-speed and a challenge to drive with two reardrive axles,” he explains. “To avoid grinding the gears on 38 feet of linkage, you

have to time a shift just right. You double clutch and listen to the engine. When it gets to just the right point, you can slip into the next gear and build up a rhythm where you don’t hesitate or miss. If you miss it, there’s a horrible noise and the passengers wonder what you’re doing.” Pfahl’s restoration earned Webb’s Scenicruiser the Antique Automobile Club of America’s National Bus Award in 2017, a First Junior award in 2017, and a Senior award in 2018 at the AACA Eastern Fall Meet in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Webb smiles when he looks at the bus now. “This is a life-long dream come true. I never thought I’d own a Scenicruiser and now I’m in disbelief. When we were five years into the project, I told Matt I didn’t know if I could keep going. But then, I figured I’d kick myself if I got as far as we did and quit. I’m glad I didn’t give up.”

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GENIUS GARAGE In this second part of a two-part series on the education and mentorship of the next generation of automotive hobbyists and professionals, we visit Casey Putsch, CEO and president of the Genius Garage in Bowling Green, Ohio. words by Russ Rocknak

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or those who aren’t aware, 2019 is the sixth year for the Genius Garage, a nonprofit program in Bowling Green, Ohio, that forms a racing team from some of the country’s brightest and most driven college students. Their academic backgrounds range from engineering to fine art, music, business and journalism. The racing team provides a crucial “vehicle” for the students’ experiences, as few professions are as demanding and competitive as auto racing is. Genius Garage is run by volunteer professional mentors. The program’s volunteers, speakers and leaders have included global CEOs, sports professionals, fighter pilots, racing engineers, members of Interpol, entrepreneurs and even the former chief of staff for Sir Winston Churchill. The program was founded and is directed by Casey Putsch, an entrepreneur, philanthropist and race car 54

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driver who is known for his automotive creations. “When I was in college at Trine University [in Indiana] in the early 2000s, it was a struggle for a young, creative person— an engineer, a designer—to find a mentor,” explained Putsch. “You are going to have trouble finding a direction and the confidence to follow it at that age, unless you are blessed with the right mentors who really get it. That was my experience in school. After that, I went on to successfully build a business using my engineering skills and had some fun along the way doing some vintage road racing on the side. I was also mentoring engineering students in fabrication and building and such. I kept seeing firsthand just what was missing from the education component. “One day back in 2013, I was in the shop and there was a Lola T70 Mk I in there, a prototype car,” continued Putsch. “After mentoring these engineering stuWWW.MESHNEWENGLAND.COM

dents, it just hit me like a ton of bricks that I have all of the components—the shop, the education, the experience of planes, trains and automobiles—and I have a pretty neat Rolodex of awesome people who are not only car collectors and vintage racers, but also people with lifetimes of wisdom and experiences that they can share. It just hit me that if I was going to participate in a vintage race or go to a concours, why don’t I do it in a structured way so that I can mentor college-age students and help form their careers. That was it; we formed Genius Garage from there. “We started in vintage road racing, because we could be a team. Vintage road racing also offers a great opportunity for people to restore and learn about some pretty high-end, serious cars. But it is really all about the environment. It is very exciting, and young people are going to get right in there, hands on, and learn some history while they are at it. We can

take an F1 car or a Can-Am car, and the students can build, engineer, modify and prepare it for a road-racing team, and we mentor them as they do it. “I wanted to get Genius Garage involved with IndyCar and Champ racing teams and run the cars at Mid-Ohio or Watkins Glen. We would teach the students the early engineering program and have a CEO, who flies in on his own jet, mentor them as well as tell them what a great job they are doing. It would be a tremendous confidence builder and remain as a shining example in their hearts. “That is exactly what this program has done for the past five years, and I get to see all of these kids blossom, especially during the six months that they are here, in the program. Just having this on your resume is incredibly powerful, as I keep hearing of students who are getting job offers before they graduate. Opportunities from Tesla, Goodyear and General Motors roll in. And as a matter of fact, the person

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who runs Tesla’s Model 3 plant heard of this program and has very quickly connected with a number of my students and wants to hire them. He has flat out said, ‘If what I’ve got for you doesn’t interest you, let me know what you want to do, and we will figure it out.’ That’s pretty powerful stuff. And when you really think about it, you don’t want a bunch of greenbehind-the-ears mechanical engineers who only know theoretical stuff. That’s not the type of people you want to throw into an environment where they’re working live on projects. The Genius Garage programs provide the hands-on component missing from today’s regular curricula, and what was once just a concept is now a proven success.” This year will be similar to previous years at the Genius Garage, with the students preparing for more competitions and going on field trips. But an even greater emphasis will be placed on team building and learning from mentors, be56

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cause as of last year, the Genius Garage has expanded into both the aerospace and automotive-design industries. The racing team will be working with a 1997 Reynard Champ/Indy Car, an opencockpit WSC LeMans endurance prototype, and an IMSA Corvette project. The team members will find themselves in the rarified air of the professional racing world’s mountaintop. The inaugural year for the Aerospace Team was dedicated to building a World War I Sopwith Camel biplane from the ground up, and the students were in awe as the plans for the historical aircraft came to fruition in front of their eyes. According to Putsch, a goal of the Genius Garage is to build on its successes in the high-end automotive racing world. This educational model works well and is already credited with getting students jobs, internships and scholarship attention. The vision is to ultimately have automotive, aviation and hydroplane

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racing sub-teams competing under the greater Genius Garage brand. In addition, the Genius Garage wants to get younger students involved in the program and maybe open an interactive museum/ learning center focused on auto, aircraft and hydroplane racing. As a nonprofit organization, the Genius Garage is well suited to seeking out collaborations between itself and manufacturers, racing teams, business and educational institutions, museums and generous privateers. These collaborations serve to give the brightest young minds their shot at showing what they are capable of and starting careers that enable them to achieve their full potential. We look forward to having these bright minds in our midst, for without them, neither the automotive hobby or automotive industry can sustain itself. Kudos to Casey Putsch and his team at Genius Garage for continuing to educate and inspire our youth. THE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

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A WHITEHALL CAR We visit Tom White Sr. of Whitehall Restorations in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to learn more about the shop’s award-winning restorations of Dual-Ghias and Chryslers. words and photos by Russ Rocknak

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just like cars,” said Tom White Sr., as we sat in his office at Whitehall Restorations in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. “I grew up in a family that really had nothing to do with cars. I had three brothers and a sister. I was the one who started doing valve jobs and then rebuilding and swapping motors in cars at the age of 13.” I caught up with White at his workshop initially to discuss his passion for the DualGhia. Through many channels I had heard that his name is synonymous with worldclass, award-winning restorations, mainly of Chrysler-based automobiles. I was particularly interested in learning about his penchant for the Dual-Ghia, and the opportunity to get a little education on the story behind this beautiful, limited-production automotive icon from the 1950s in the process presented a win-win scenario for me. After meeting White and touring his shop, I realized that the Dual-Ghia aspect is just one of several fascinating facets of his story. “I ended up going into engineering and spent 13 years as an electronic design engineer,” White said, “and I worked on the Apollo, the lunar-exploratory vehicle, the deep-submergence rescue vehicle, and my last stint was at MIT. “With my engineering work, I was commuting in and out of Boston every day to Hopkinton [about 25 miles], and I hated it. I ended up getting connected with an insurance conglomerate that worked nationally. I started buying cars from this insurance company. It was just a hobby—one here, one there. Some would have a little damage; some would be recovered thefts. So here I was, working the engineering job by day, commuting home and working on cars at night. While doing this for many years, I kept telling myself I would have to work too hard to make ends meet just working on cars, because I had very good benefits and salary with my engineering work. Finally one day, the commute just got to me, and I quit my day job and decided to give it a try. I started working with the cars, and from that fateful day back in 1970, I never worked for anyone but myself. “I had built quite a little car collection 45 to 50 years ago, and I would go out to Barrett-Jackson,” said White. “This was in 1978, when they were in a little blue tent on Van Buren Street outside of Phoenix in Tempe. Everything was cash. I would go out and just watch, and I discovered very quickly that Fords and Chevys were being sold a lot of 60

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the middle of nowhere, we started taking some pretty high awards for the work we had done on my own toys. This gave us recognition in the community, and people then wanted to buy my cars, but they weren’t for sale. “Our restoration shop came about because a couple of collectors decided they really wanted my cars, but once again, they weren’t for sale,” White continued. “So, they eventually asked if we could do some work for them on their own cars to bring them back up to show quality. At that time, I thought it would be good to take on some outside work. One of my first restorations was a 1957 Chrysler 300C convertible, and the first time I showed it at an AACA [Antique Automobile Club of America] national meet, a person approached me about a collector named Noel Thompson from New Jersey. Thompson was pretty intent on getting in touch with me regarding a trade. ‘I have a Dodge Firearrow,’ Thompson said to me. ‘I would be interested in making some kind of deal with you.’ I was happy at that time with my car, and it was my first time out there, so I just kind of blew him off. Quite a few years later, I was on the block at Barrett-

I drove a 1959 dual-quad Plymouth Fury Golden Commando when I was 19 years old, so I was bit by the Chrysler bug long ago.”

working on the cars. Tom Sr. saw that, like himself, Tom Jr. worked very meticulously. “After a while, I said, ‘You take the restoration end of it, and I’ll take care of the business end with the other boys, Larry and Chris. He restored a car a year for me, and all of a sudden we were getting invited to all these fancy shows. For a little place in

Jackson, bidding against Don Williams on that Firearrow. I fell out very quickly, because it ended up selling for $1.3 million.”

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With a body designed and built in Italy by Ghia and running gear provided by Chrysler, the Dual-Ghia is a beautiful automobile at any angle. Tom White Sr. initially traded T-Bird parts for this car, serial number 46. It is now fully restored and was the first runner-up for this year’s AACA Zenith Award.

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purchased the rights to the design. By 1957, his Dual Motors company (named for the twin-engine trucks that it once produced) had a modified version of the Firearrow in production. It was known as the Dual-Ghia, and it featured an unbeatable combination of reliable Motor City–bred Dodge V8 power and gorgeous hand-formed bodywork by the Italian coachbuilder Ghia. Casaroll personally chose his customers from a list of clamoring applicants. Frank Sinatra, who was the brightest of all stars at the time, was a natural choice, as were his friends Peter Lawford and Eddie Fisher. The car’s cachet was such that legendary Hollywood columnist Dorothy Kilgallen once quipped that a Rolls-Royce was the “status symbol for those who can’t get a Ghia.” During the car’s production run, from 1956 to 1958, only about 110 examples of the Dual-Ghia were built. Except for a pair of coupe prototypes, all were convertibles. Only 32 remain in existence.

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other project. Then lo and behold, I came across another Dual-Ghia. “The second one was a 1958. When I took delivery of it, I saw that it had been modified, and I panicked, because without knowing about the modifications, I had sold it to a customer. I had heard of another Dual-Ghia going up for auction, so I hustled out to the auction and bought that car, too. I called my customer and told him the situation: ‘I have serial number 5 as well as one of the last ones produced, serial number 86. I know all the history to the serial number 5 car, and the later car has had modifications done to it. You can take your pick.’ He liked green, and number 5 was green, so I sold him that one, and I kept number 86, the modified car. “Serial number 46, the car I traded for the Thunderbird parts, is the blue car you see gracing these pages, fully restored,” said White. “It was originally sold to Charlotte and Hugh Miller, who we believe were a couple close to Ann Miller, the dancer, but there isn’t a literal tie to that lineage. The car still has it sterling silver plaque on the dashboard.”

I started buying DeSoto Adventurers and Chrysler 300s, and I always bought ragtops, because I like ragtops and I thought they would be the most desirable.”

what a mistake I had made by blowing off Mr. Thompson’s offer with the Firearrow— I came across my first Dual-Ghia, which is basically a Firearrow,” said White. “It was a 1957, serial number 46. A Thunderbird guy had it, and I ended up swapping T-Bird parts for it. I got the car, stashed it upstairs out of the way, and got involved with an-

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The Modified Car Most of the records for the Dual-Ghia production run burned in a factory fire, making documentation difficult but not impossible. Dr. Paul Sable, an historian who has been tracking these rare automobiles for years and is the keeper of the Dual-Ghia Registry, is regarded as one of the foremost

authorities on the model. “Paul helps make sense of all of the history,” explained White. “From him and from periodicals written 40 or 50 years ago, I came to learn that the Dual Motors factory was not doing much of anything in 1961, so at that time, you could bring your 1957 or 1958 car back to the factory to get it completely updated with all of the new running gear. It turns out that my crazy modified car that I panicked over wasn’t modified by just anyone, but by the factory itself. “It is a 1958, one of the last cars built, and it has a complete 1957 Dodge D500 drivetrain. Which means that instead of a 315-cubic-inch Hemi it has a 325-cubicinch Hemi with a torque-flight transmission and a Posi rear end,” White explained. “The whole drivetrain was changed, and in order to do that, everything in the engine compartment had to be changed, too. So, a lot of modifications were done, but in this case, they were done by the factory.”

The Appeal of Chrysler “My first car was a 1949 New Yorker convertible, but I really wanted a 1949 Town & Country convertible. It has always made an impression on me, so I have one today,” said White. “I don’t bring it to shows, and it is not for sale. I just drive it and have fun with it. Back in the day of my going to auctions in Arizona, I knew that with a Chrysler, you could track everything about the car: its build sheets, paint codes, production run, et cetera. For a $45 fee, you could get a copy of the original build sheet from Chrysler, even for my 1949 New Yorker or a Plymouth Fury, a DeSoto Adventurer, or a Chrysler 300. Chrysler has build sheets going back to the 1920s and ’30s. They document the fact that there were 82 DeSoto Adventurer convertibles built in 1958—period. There are only five survivors, and they are documented. There is no fudging one, and if you do, it is easy to tell that it has been fudged, because you don’t have the paperwork for it. “I started buying DeSoto Adventurers and Chrysler 300s, and I always bought ragtops, because I like ragtops and I thought they would be the most desirable,” said White. “Over the years, I have stashed away about 20 of these cars, and occasionally we will pull one out and restore it. Today, we have not only a national reputation, but an international reputation for restoring awardwinning automobiles. If it is a Whitehall Restoration car, it usually gets invited to shows sight unseen.” EARLY SUMMER 2019

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THE MOTOR WEEK Audrain’s Newport Concours & Motor Week, which will take place October 3 through 6 in Newport, Rhode Island, is poised to be a benchmark event.

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here has been a lot of buzz about this year’s inaugural Audrain’s Newport Concours & Motor Week, which will take place October 3 through 6 in Newport, Rhode Island. I traveled to Newport to meet with Rick Schad, the executive director of the event, to get the full story right from the source. “I have been working on this idea for a few years,” explained Schad, as we sat in his office above the Audrain Automobile Museum. “I am a

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branding guy, a designer and illustrator for over 30 years. In the last 10 years, I started to focus more on the automotive world. From a design and branding perspective, I’ve had the good fortune to work with NASCAR and IMSA, and I did some stuff with Formula 1. Then I started getting involved with some marquee automobile deals. “I started with this concept: a car show, but a car show on steroids” Schad continued. “I’ve been to some of the best car shows and events worldwide, but there was something missing:

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We are really excited about bringing this motor week to life and celebrating the automobile in grand style—all in Newport, Rhode Island, a breathtaking city by the sea.”

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lector, whose vast collection ranges from antique automobiles to one-of-a-kind supercars. He shared with me that not only was Newport the perfect town to host something of this scale, but it also had an extensive automobile and sporting history that began with the earliest Vanderbilts, who resided on the very street the museum is located on. Soon, I had a job at the museum, working alongside the executive director and curator, David de Muzio, to make this dream come to life. The concours team and I have been running full steam ahead ever since, creating and executing our vision with plans to become one of the greatest automotive events in the world. We are really excited about bringing this motor week to life and celebrating the automobile in grand style—all in Newport, Rhode Island, a breathtaking city by the sea.”

annual gala and the spokesperson for the motor week. Best known for playing the role of J. Peterman on Seinfeld, O’Hurley has become one of the entertainment industry’s most versatile players. He is an award-winning actor, a show host, an advertising spokesperson, and a feature film star, and he was selected as one of People Magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive. He has served as host of The National Dog Show presented by Purina on NBC since its inception in 2002. Clearly, this looks like our opportunity to get behind what could be one of the biggest events on the collector car calendar, and Rick Schad and his team at the Audrain Automobile Museum are building a full head of steam to get this off the ground. I’ll be there, camera in hand, and I look forward to seeing all of you there.

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Motor Week at a Glance

Newport has become a destination for vacationers, students, athletes and historians from throughout the world. In the late-19th century, America’s wealthiest residents reveled in the area’s natural coastal beauty and built their summer “cottages” there to escape the hustle and bustle of city life. With the wealth came sport and luxury. Golf, tennis, polo sailing and auto racing all got their American start in Newport. Newport’s extensive automotive history dates to the Gilded Age. The first American car race, the Vanderbilt Cup, took place near Newport. On September 6, 1900, Willie K. Vanderbilt and some of his friends traveled to a nearby horse track to race their newly imported automobiles. Little did they realize the impact the Vanderbilt Cup would have on American racing culture.

Last October, the Audrain Automobile Museum held a press conference at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, to announce the launch of Audrain’s Newport Concours & Motor Week. The event’s inaugural edition will take place this fall, from October 3 through 6, at various venues around Newport. On hand at the press conference were Rick Schad (at the podium), the event’s executive director; David DeMuzio, the museum’s executive director; Todd Martin, CEO of the hall of fame; and Donald Osborn, chairman of the Motor Week Concours d’Elegance. To Schad’s immediate right is Crystle Welch, the museum’s senior events manager.

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a show of that magnitude right here in the Northeast. Looking at the passion and sheer volume of individuals here in the Northeast who love automobiles, this was the place to have it. “I started to network around,” Schad said. “I went to the Boston Cup and met with Crystle Welch, the Audrain Automobile Museum senior events manager, who was there representing the museum. I shared with her this idea about a motor week, and I asked if THE HUB OF NEW ENGLAND’S CAR COMMUNITY

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The Audrain’s Newport Concours & Motor Week will welcome the greatest automotive brands, car collections and aviation brands, while offering the finest foods and beverages and much more. This worldclass event will touch all demographics and lifestyles. The chairman of this year’s Audrain’s Newport Concours & Motor Week is entertainment superstar Jay Leno. The concours d’elegance chairman for 2019 is one of the world’s premier automotive experts and a TV personality, Donald Osborne. John O’Hurley will be the MC for the Audrain’s

October 3–6, Newport, Rhode Island Concours Village at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, vendors, private treaty cars from Gooding & Company, vintage motorcycle display, automobile show, food and beverage, official Concours & Motor Week store, open daily, 10/3–10/6 GM prototype exhibition, the Audrain Automobile Museum, open daily, 10/3–10/6 Car manufacturer displays and events, historic properties, open daily Car club gatherings, state and city parks, Thursday through Saturday, 10/3–10/5 The Gathering at Rough Point, Rough Point Mansion, Thursday, 10/3 VIP reception, Ochre Court Mansion, Thursday, 10/3 Symposium/academic panels, Concours Village at the ITOF, Friday and Saturday, 10/4 and 10/5 Concert featuring John Legend, Concours Village at the ITOF, Friday, 10/4 Tour d’Elegance, beginning at Newport Bridge, Saturday, 10/5 Tour Luncheon, La Forge Casino Restaurant, Saturday, 10/5 Audrain Annual Gala, The Breakers mansion, Saturday, 10/5 Concours d’Elegance, The Breakers mansion, Sunday, 10/6 EARLY SUMMER 2019

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