tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23692115175414044672024-03-12T18:16:22.107-07:00Cross-Country CorvetteTravels with our 2008 Chevrolet Corvette to interesting places, automotive-related and otherwise, and to meet the people and cars that make up the Corvette Community.Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-17946892034838360092022-09-06T02:11:00.016-07:002022-11-16T09:19:32.194-08:00Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, New York--September 6, 2022 (Part II)<p style="text-align: center;"> (PART I CAN BE FOUND <a href="https://crosscountrycorvette.blogspot.com/2022/09/antique-boat-museum-clayton-new-york.html">HERE</a>)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqzT7CIiV-Xm9SZyPQ1tcz0J_50FZX8OIeNW-tko6BshsHboRO3bc6TiDKa0bPBMsEG2ZABxwC43WCHxbP1roPFOM1U2xJH1fI-9V9ajZj8ug8Idh3RyR4pkRw5g-Wr-ZcXZFtcPdH0Hk5FY_gfB328JEFNrQ5F7cRLY6A4H7oYB-ekAtvTj5sZS4-7g/s5184/IMG_7812.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqzT7CIiV-Xm9SZyPQ1tcz0J_50FZX8OIeNW-tko6BshsHboRO3bc6TiDKa0bPBMsEG2ZABxwC43WCHxbP1roPFOM1U2xJH1fI-9V9ajZj8ug8Idh3RyR4pkRw5g-Wr-ZcXZFtcPdH0Hk5FY_gfB328JEFNrQ5F7cRLY6A4H7oYB-ekAtvTj5sZS4-7g/w640-h426/IMG_7812.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">If the Small Craft Building featured the more modest watercraft, the boathouse housing the in-water fleet, the McNally Yacht House certainly delivered the fancy stuff. Outside the building was a boat used for ferrying people around the various islands and to their cottages, "That's Her." 40 feet long and built in Clayton in 1933 (on the site where the museum currently stands), she was in service until 1989 as the ferry service dwindled as more people had their own boats and put into storage. Restored by a member of the family that bought the boat in 1945, she was relaunched in 2012 and spends summers at the museum as an example of a regionally designed, built and operated boat.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruquhneMfsnjj7bziqFQUnffWjXTEosov2BfE0C0-iv095KQeTn-i1ypJ4V6w6KbOvDtVPxaZiLXE4_iORKZCTDDLyfOCnzOsqOtpfGYHwqXIGhKWp0QHI-poD1Vk-JnpcQ3xq0YTC3447euTdD7fNjtaNzf1HA9jy1v1_GmUUn1p1wXupLDpXend0A/s5184/IMG_7817.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruquhneMfsnjj7bziqFQUnffWjXTEosov2BfE0C0-iv095KQeTn-i1ypJ4V6w6KbOvDtVPxaZiLXE4_iORKZCTDDLyfOCnzOsqOtpfGYHwqXIGhKWp0QHI-poD1Vk-JnpcQ3xq0YTC3447euTdD7fNjtaNzf1HA9jy1v1_GmUUn1p1wXupLDpXend0A/w640-h426/IMG_7817.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Moving into the Yacht House, one comes across what must be the crown jewel of the museum: a triple cockpit "runabout" built in 1948 by the Hutchinson Boat Works in Alexandria Bay for wealthy sportsman Charles P. Lyon to plans by legendary designer John Hacker. Built of Honduran mahogany and beautifully proportioned, <i>Pardon Me </i>appears to be a very large speedboat but in fact under the foredeck there is a galley, head and sleeping accommodations for four.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2kwWKlcevHjNScQiP5nqSl00lcxHd3RVw7Exz3oMlrtO-_Okw--tTjHAjFyvtHvSgQVDndebkLfaWsaiANB35qIukUlWMwjFlhcrQIoaToHo8JTC4lZD-bf94ovFNqUuTBeNrPqP1ZPL8zUdTTTSEklhVIX4o0SoU9SaNPIevibfSvcHDp0vN-DvfOw/s5184/IMG_7822.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2kwWKlcevHjNScQiP5nqSl00lcxHd3RVw7Exz3oMlrtO-_Okw--tTjHAjFyvtHvSgQVDndebkLfaWsaiANB35qIukUlWMwjFlhcrQIoaToHo8JTC4lZD-bf94ovFNqUuTBeNrPqP1ZPL8zUdTTTSEklhVIX4o0SoU9SaNPIevibfSvcHDp0vN-DvfOw/w640-h426/IMG_7822.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhROrObQKSfaWCV_BoHjfTIOgW3IjTYNtKVxxF_r-vETItQdL9n4YhiTTvCEpoy0R-NfVRvFSEgBo3-FbB2pdC_1IWz-ZouHRFGDmvMlWEVDjdeAM35cUNw8HO8V56VFyXGRJtnIUyZ9PGPvbpV1oePq8HpQXOPSVYtXIWhD48T2DYbv5eJoxNc38aOuw/s5184/IMG_7819.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhROrObQKSfaWCV_BoHjfTIOgW3IjTYNtKVxxF_r-vETItQdL9n4YhiTTvCEpoy0R-NfVRvFSEgBo3-FbB2pdC_1IWz-ZouHRFGDmvMlWEVDjdeAM35cUNw8HO8V56VFyXGRJtnIUyZ9PGPvbpV1oePq8HpQXOPSVYtXIWhD48T2DYbv5eJoxNc38aOuw/w640-h426/IMG_7819.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Lyon was unhappy with progress on the boat and had Hutchinson put it up for sale very soon after it was built as there were mechanical issues to be resolved. It was difficult to handle in close quarters due to its massive engine's power and Lyon only used it half a dozen times. The second owner, who purchased it in 1950, kept the boat for more than two decades, selling it in 1976. It underwent a first overhaul, including a new engine and cooling system, under the next owner. Then two of the museum's founders bought it in 1986 for donation to the museum and it underwent restoration in the museum's workshop and at a yard in Maine.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPObijfiS6SAXTeayIhtgseLJXMNmdQiMOlqK1Oucp9K_r4DvXM5YXD0bX4it6zFuTA8eR8cRbY8mDbS7PQHyQ95KiJ2KoctBgRHejnicK2dNX5aYDaLNq6u39KFIBb_HZGYUXY4HliGaK-HWZ21PmGAEdIlhMuLQmN6HaQ-9z1BCKeE-A05liGFB2g/s5184/IMG_7824.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPObijfiS6SAXTeayIhtgseLJXMNmdQiMOlqK1Oucp9K_r4DvXM5YXD0bX4it6zFuTA8eR8cRbY8mDbS7PQHyQ95KiJ2KoctBgRHejnicK2dNX5aYDaLNq6u39KFIBb_HZGYUXY4HliGaK-HWZ21PmGAEdIlhMuLQmN6HaQ-9z1BCKeE-A05liGFB2g/w640-h426/IMG_7824.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4_2ClBtR-tzs3Ni8tPmP1WtM6MI0OanTQKqn7ZAaXU81Bm-EdJJo0Ru1Uni6E0KF1HDvkwFg5sgrxCLMxzNOPsVQw86chWcI6NAP_2PE-8eNq2RfFoowviEPia2as5OuAt-zHTlt70C8v3tDQz0Qj7hG2GhxEK7nYW3lYsLspITvyM05tOcIWd0m2Q/s5184/IMG_7823.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4_2ClBtR-tzs3Ni8tPmP1WtM6MI0OanTQKqn7ZAaXU81Bm-EdJJo0Ru1Uni6E0KF1HDvkwFg5sgrxCLMxzNOPsVQw86chWcI6NAP_2PE-8eNq2RfFoowviEPia2as5OuAt-zHTlt70C8v3tDQz0Qj7hG2GhxEK7nYW3lYsLspITvyM05tOcIWd0m2Q/w640-h426/IMG_7823.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Packard 4M 2500 engine</b></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><i>Pardon Me</i> is powered by a massive 12 cylinder supercharged Packard 4M 2500 engine, the same type that was used on the famous PT (patrol torpedo) boats operated by the US Navy in World War II. It puts out 1500 hp and is capable of pushing the boat at speeds of up to 60 mph, while burning high-octane fuel at the rate of 100 gallons per hour. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGL67fOAIutrqzjuctLi24kuqWPPUu4OdGoQAhh_KeUninTb0qhZI3R7uNdZcd7JGvM-r-NQQ5bmgweIrzc1n3lEldgsEH4D_ZMmr6tV6Kz2qTfikEWKgwHAdihsP0qIedg5A0jP21eTKyrn_Wsdd8Lhe_O2YsKW7ZX0e1wWbWuchXEXWie04DCHuZA/s4721/IMG_7825.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3147" data-original-width="4721" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGL67fOAIutrqzjuctLi24kuqWPPUu4OdGoQAhh_KeUninTb0qhZI3R7uNdZcd7JGvM-r-NQQ5bmgweIrzc1n3lEldgsEH4D_ZMmr6tV6Kz2qTfikEWKgwHAdihsP0qIedg5A0jP21eTKyrn_Wsdd8Lhe_O2YsKW7ZX0e1wWbWuchXEXWie04DCHuZA/w640-h426/IMG_7825.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Pardon Me</i> was an extravagant throwback to the 1930s speedboat era as by the time of its construction the demand for custom boats had been replaced by the availability of factory models.</div><div><br /></div><div>At a somewhat more modest scale but still a throwback as well, the next boat on display was <i>Miss Thousand Islands III</i>, a 30 foot long mahogany Hacker runabout which was actually built in 2005. Since 1959, rights to the Hacker name and designs have passed through four owners, with the current company based in Queensbury, New York, just south of Lake George. This example of a fine Thousand Islands runabout is powered by a 385 hp Mercury 8.1 l engine and was donated to the museum in 2020 after 15 years of service.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCuRAMlc1CICYCKctXXCHzpjhGNr5awDru9ktQlRAlCeVCyfDewHBZdjphAKXdg7tSALQyT7Wci7Z1tR38YHnGS55Rl9BhnLAIKPgehXwBtThLOnhD8OiyhFLHDWilmEZoKwoE2PnAWZpszL6p7NMHdzHwBfsxzEyy6gTAo5h8diCiPjSvthABGS7c9w/s5033/IMG_7820.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3355" data-original-width="5033" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCuRAMlc1CICYCKctXXCHzpjhGNr5awDru9ktQlRAlCeVCyfDewHBZdjphAKXdg7tSALQyT7Wci7Z1tR38YHnGS55Rl9BhnLAIKPgehXwBtThLOnhD8OiyhFLHDWilmEZoKwoE2PnAWZpszL6p7NMHdzHwBfsxzEyy6gTAo5h8diCiPjSvthABGS7c9w/w640-h426/IMG_7820.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dgRQ1j2CNmtiCcurO1C-FoyNl2BwxYLsZThPwR3gOvk4rErwW4aRCOU34w_9JqWt-mtGFndPIN1p_3mGdmhFqpuY5xK5dqnWqLYyjBYxo-p2H24iBnzNa4iJ4unsCZFZMqr5DaKo926ndTlegAMvYsf_RXtIG6hGVMffVCTZdPeczHGEga_KHCmUsQ/s5184/IMG_7826.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dgRQ1j2CNmtiCcurO1C-FoyNl2BwxYLsZThPwR3gOvk4rErwW4aRCOU34w_9JqWt-mtGFndPIN1p_3mGdmhFqpuY5xK5dqnWqLYyjBYxo-p2H24iBnzNa4iJ4unsCZFZMqr5DaKo926ndTlegAMvYsf_RXtIG6hGVMffVCTZdPeczHGEga_KHCmUsQ/w640-h426/IMG_7826.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>An example of a Thousand Islands commuter boat, <i>Zipper</i> has an interesting history in that it was commissioned by John Stroh, of Stroh Brewery fame, in the early 1930s and while a respected naval architect, Ned Purdy, designed it, construction was delayed for four decades! Purdy's boatyard was gone by then but the Stroh family commissioned Staudacher Yachts to construct it in 1974. Using the original plans but modified by utilizing modern construction methods, the boat is built with a double-planked mahogany hull over steam-bent oak frames. Donated to the museum by the Strohs and serving as the flagship of the museum's in-water fleet, it has been used for cruises for major patrons of the museum. Zipper is powered by twin 454 cu. in Mercruiser V-8 marine engines and is 41'6" in length.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMNXDzm-sB_XOciMA8m9_BFdx5ItApRrw4d6s-Hkih5Q7LNWT_OGHy32SEKwb6gGOPAOsUie_DV0iTV5hqyd6yeyhEs1I5FSmUYjyMghphPXN-TW2VTzzVZjVnLJZSigBODS8Vdnkl0najIJuODQtBtbA7jkrV-_wGAivGUHCwnMQaCpbLPjK4JBBx-A/s4849/IMG_7833.JPG" style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3233" data-original-width="4849" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMNXDzm-sB_XOciMA8m9_BFdx5ItApRrw4d6s-Hkih5Q7LNWT_OGHy32SEKwb6gGOPAOsUie_DV0iTV5hqyd6yeyhEs1I5FSmUYjyMghphPXN-TW2VTzzVZjVnLJZSigBODS8Vdnkl0najIJuODQtBtbA7jkrV-_wGAivGUHCwnMQaCpbLPjK4JBBx-A/w640-h426/IMG_7833.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another example of a commuter boat is <i>Gadfly</i>, a 33'6" boat that was a product of the Hutchinson Boat Works in Alexandria Bay. Constructed in 1931, this "Island Commuter" was a type of craft meant to be a safe and reliable (and stylish!) way to carry people and goods to the camps and homes on the islands. After being operated in the Thousand Islands region, Gadfly went to Michigan, returning to the St. Lawrence in 1994 as a donation to the museum. Fast and comfortable, <i>Gadfly</i> underwent a 3,500 hour restoration in 2013-2014 and is reserved for major patrons.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_85YtVPuFA-VBeQWzDT2doNlkg6hBR8h1OW-QpMUkWrgDQJXyLDllBJMqd3UtNxucQ0rW2SJ3gTP3yRODDS8j3MJxuxrtXAhZueOc0sZ8oiYHOUGZIqJFEahQOSVx_bEowpuaZ5f59PSxQtZKPxAR8MuaXbljbnp12LWyQMtR3yF3AfsaBef3tZIXg/s5184/IMG_7829.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_85YtVPuFA-VBeQWzDT2doNlkg6hBR8h1OW-QpMUkWrgDQJXyLDllBJMqd3UtNxucQ0rW2SJ3gTP3yRODDS8j3MJxuxrtXAhZueOc0sZ8oiYHOUGZIqJFEahQOSVx_bEowpuaZ5f59PSxQtZKPxAR8MuaXbljbnp12LWyQMtR3yF3AfsaBef3tZIXg/w640-h426/IMG_7829.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh5u8W9iuLuim_WXxzmC2P5T7u4Vr0MWtmlTdKPmQCg1SCHSv0r4J8DkqpdVWPhgiasDaboK-NQEi4GhbxwTjRSYAujTjCSD-TrcBE6B5vhbr5NvTdiyfvrFd6JS4S63yeLpyKBDlJuirSfmZvdo06qmfx5Zwzc5UKJW1Db_L_XyjAD1L5HIhHutODg/s5184/IMG_7830.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh5u8W9iuLuim_WXxzmC2P5T7u4Vr0MWtmlTdKPmQCg1SCHSv0r4J8DkqpdVWPhgiasDaboK-NQEi4GhbxwTjRSYAujTjCSD-TrcBE6B5vhbr5NvTdiyfvrFd6JS4S63yeLpyKBDlJuirSfmZvdo06qmfx5Zwzc5UKJW1Db_L_XyjAD1L5HIhHutODg/w640-h426/IMG_7830.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Available for cruises for the general public is another classic-style three cockpit mahogany runabout, the 28 foot long <i>Teal</i>. </span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20;">Gar Wood Custom Boats, owned by the Turcotte brothers of Brant Lake, NY, are among the finest craftsmen now building mahogany runabouts to traditional designs, in their case by the legendary Gar Wood. Their faithful reproductions utilize the original lines enhanced by wood-epoxy construction techniques and modern power plants. </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20;">Teal</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20;">, constructed in 1989,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20;">is designed after Gar Wood’s 1938 triple-cockpit runabout and is powered by a 1994 GMC 454 OMC Marine Conversion engine.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cqB9vL884fzD8cL2bT1J40RkoNM__35DCiv7enWkACt8w4qzQKTPAbA7ZwXtLf_hyrVLgURCXGicr2VBVxTtS_bzUjcEq2N6lQiLSHZMe8fjP8fyQ2SS8LXCOP-p4AcXZVgwCA4OqIYrLiET9v3TFvA4F3MEBqt2qxgO8VVqqRGqVwjrzMLBUtEW8g/s4849/IMG_7827.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3233" data-original-width="4849" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cqB9vL884fzD8cL2bT1J40RkoNM__35DCiv7enWkACt8w4qzQKTPAbA7ZwXtLf_hyrVLgURCXGicr2VBVxTtS_bzUjcEq2N6lQiLSHZMe8fjP8fyQ2SS8LXCOP-p4AcXZVgwCA4OqIYrLiET9v3TFvA4F3MEBqt2qxgO8VVqqRGqVwjrzMLBUtEW8g/w640-h426/IMG_7827.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Teal (left) and Zipper (right)</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBvdSpsQAN50hxTtC1dU3JBuaZpKt8RKP8OyQSsgIPQLcVsC8S307RqX5oK1gG29CWA7iDXwMUscNMNTQ4sTgfb10vT8j09T1aT17hR20h656mVkXi4SCJUCEY1qNjM95bWXsz3FXfqsFNsZzH48RZO57_8zOK0VOLXjuWSmublKRAGvCdYtyc7TR7iw/s5184/IMG_7834.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBvdSpsQAN50hxTtC1dU3JBuaZpKt8RKP8OyQSsgIPQLcVsC8S307RqX5oK1gG29CWA7iDXwMUscNMNTQ4sTgfb10vT8j09T1aT17hR20h656mVkXi4SCJUCEY1qNjM95bWXsz3FXfqsFNsZzH48RZO57_8zOK0VOLXjuWSmublKRAGvCdYtyc7TR7iw/w640-h426/IMG_7834.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The last boat on the water in the Yacht House was <i>Flat Top</i>, a 29 foot long Chris-Craft which was owned by country music singing star Alan Jackson. Chris-Craft began in 1874 in Michigan when teenaged boat builder Christopher Columbus Smith started making boats for friends. The business grew and was noted for its sleek, finely-crafted and expensive speedboats. In the 1920s the company became one of the first mass-market producers of pleasure boats and reached the zenith of its reputation in the 1950s. Sold by the Smith family in 1960, Chris-Craft Corporation went through various owners until acquired by the Winnebago Corporation in 2018.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Flat Top</i> is one of only 36 similar boats produced by the company in 1955 and the only one in restored condition. Restoration work was undertaken by the Hickman Wooden Boat Works in Tennessee. Originally delivered to a customer on Lake Chautauqua, NY, it remained there until acquired by Alan Jackson in 2002. It is named for the most popular type of steel-stringed acoustic guitars. It was donated to the museum by Jackson in 2013.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmrKg2ixrTAzCK4WwB5zXw1fO5_RjyNaE-6elKPAAVI9bA4xS65DiT97Ttm5sTys5bAj-5XkkhkpXsuCBApNIhUaIZek0Pkzqh0Ua2PcOPHuEoG4iM0wRdSJToDO4X6vYfBL8_Oh6t57jqDeN6yEFsAY4CA9orz5H9dlqZVuJ5NURSY5HgpANEkrU8g/s5184/IMG_7835.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmrKg2ixrTAzCK4WwB5zXw1fO5_RjyNaE-6elKPAAVI9bA4xS65DiT97Ttm5sTys5bAj-5XkkhkpXsuCBApNIhUaIZek0Pkzqh0Ua2PcOPHuEoG4iM0wRdSJToDO4X6vYfBL8_Oh6t57jqDeN6yEFsAY4CA9orz5H9dlqZVuJ5NURSY5HgpANEkrU8g/w640-h426/IMG_7835.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRSs6E92X6zULm4R8SVMM3E9Zh6sUN2qFa4KYXfDjkEifqi7lst4d96lNhR1HA0umTQfZNQTbjKkyeEwfhjKtlvxoXlfuweCLmNUnLkqmoG6mSy16PLaxn-7wn3QOn18Ec2Q_6kA8Tt20Si8KDnNKwamR79NNLXOfKPmrftVfeGn5S1IYASzxJgIzGdg/s4893/IMG_7836.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3263" data-original-width="4893" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRSs6E92X6zULm4R8SVMM3E9Zh6sUN2qFa4KYXfDjkEifqi7lst4d96lNhR1HA0umTQfZNQTbjKkyeEwfhjKtlvxoXlfuweCLmNUnLkqmoG6mSy16PLaxn-7wn3QOn18Ec2Q_6kA8Tt20Si8KDnNKwamR79NNLXOfKPmrftVfeGn5S1IYASzxJgIzGdg/w640-h426/IMG_7836.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Leaving the Yacht House, the next structure on the museum campus is the Dodge Launch Building. The exhibition is designed to look like a big boat show of the past. This offers up speedboats, launches and boats with unusual powerplants but is dominated by two large Elco cabin cruisers. The boats appeared to cover a range from around 1900 to the 1950s.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLJXzXJ_zt-zy2aV0GZTVqiExiJIACcGVSyyjdTqWQPKm62lmCObyIHr-0xNZmPIOjAiHCyKHmSxPA2krFtcM64UhXVYl5cm1aSWLeQTfqvybjfL5g3ZWNORfr-slmWPh4RF7v6WkMBJzVQRggeWx22uY5VrZUaeY-3o6VqH-bmdjfzJSx-qbLhWZWbg/s5184/IMG_7840.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLJXzXJ_zt-zy2aV0GZTVqiExiJIACcGVSyyjdTqWQPKm62lmCObyIHr-0xNZmPIOjAiHCyKHmSxPA2krFtcM64UhXVYl5cm1aSWLeQTfqvybjfL5g3ZWNORfr-slmWPh4RF7v6WkMBJzVQRggeWx22uY5VrZUaeY-3o6VqH-bmdjfzJSx-qbLhWZWbg/w640-h426/IMG_7840.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSinik2W7Fsd4D1YlgdmpTZ_lFxBls0PXgbUIiLJgf2qbpvmJF78xBbjZShnXQPwoRq1uihF5epqNUzYLagkirdDkzFQFLvoej34OuoSuuwNeLuSiaJ9K8XZaNcf6uhxgR25rCo9JoYo3MsZ8H-vWCQAR8U_POim1329lMZ7e-xDHbfBVuArM97YTiBg/s5184/IMG_7841.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSinik2W7Fsd4D1YlgdmpTZ_lFxBls0PXgbUIiLJgf2qbpvmJF78xBbjZShnXQPwoRq1uihF5epqNUzYLagkirdDkzFQFLvoej34OuoSuuwNeLuSiaJ9K8XZaNcf6uhxgR25rCo9JoYo3MsZ8H-vWCQAR8U_POim1329lMZ7e-xDHbfBVuArM97YTiBg/w640-h426/IMG_7841.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3fUCdMpN97GfVfQGKfFqOd_8GzCsVTIZCIosuIVYHXDzvR5PyLQCJ4mzjazRxtP5dllvFKRDgCUyk592RKjPdGE-VeFQPVRlaDeufEX53rdOBsuR3r-NvJZrfeqh-5NASdTA42xQLbVAYeEpUiteKwPWCzPy949Zp3NPEVXx2Kj24dXbEmAjktSf2XA/s5184/IMG_7842.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3fUCdMpN97GfVfQGKfFqOd_8GzCsVTIZCIosuIVYHXDzvR5PyLQCJ4mzjazRxtP5dllvFKRDgCUyk592RKjPdGE-VeFQPVRlaDeufEX53rdOBsuR3r-NvJZrfeqh-5NASdTA42xQLbVAYeEpUiteKwPWCzPy949Zp3NPEVXx2Kj24dXbEmAjktSf2XA/w640-h426/IMG_7842.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>1929 Sea-Lyon 35</b></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first boat one comes across (and we are looking over the bow and in the cockpit in the two photos above) is a 1929 Sea-Lyon speedboat, built by Howard W. Lyon Inc. of New York City. It is powered by a Chrysler Imperial V8 engine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpZmYuYPXzXsLLMqCZGSkzGb2nS0oPsih95MfGuLC9GFbT6T8snYdnoVJKYBnrWIJaEQPvDVKSnHWfHUMq9TE83Hv7dnQcQwZRhrMGEohDUXgg4ZQkc7xFb2IDSrRr9OUWD-jmvhEO_K-15LXL1lPUcK6mADVH_47H7SazyyM0ccRIVtzRds9Tksv9w/s5184/IMG_7845.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpZmYuYPXzXsLLMqCZGSkzGb2nS0oPsih95MfGuLC9GFbT6T8snYdnoVJKYBnrWIJaEQPvDVKSnHWfHUMq9TE83Hv7dnQcQwZRhrMGEohDUXgg4ZQkc7xFb2IDSrRr9OUWD-jmvhEO_K-15LXL1lPUcK6mADVH_47H7SazyyM0ccRIVtzRds9Tksv9w/w426-h640/IMG_7845.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">This mahogany 21'6"
Runabout was produced by the Horace E. Dodge Boat & Plane
Corporation in Newport News, Virginia</span></b></i><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0008ff;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"> </span></span>
</p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0008ff;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Although
the names of John Hacker and Gar Wood are well-known in the world of
vintage wooden speedboats, in the 1930s one of the largest factories
in existence was that of the Horace E. Dodge Corporation.
Founded in 1923 by Horace E. Dodge, Jr., son of one of the brothers
who started the Dodge Brothers car company (the second largest in the
United States), Dodge was encouraged by his mother to launch his own
venture following his father's death in 1920. No expense seems
to have been spared in building a dedicated factory in Newport News,
Virginia, and while Dodge and his sister Delphine were speedboat
racing enthusiasts and had some success. The fine runabout on
display was one of four models in a lineup initiated in 1928 but the
Great Depression put an end to the demand for fabulous speedboats and
production ceased in 1935, although boats would be built in the plant
for naval patrol craft for use in World War II. The factory was
purchased by Gar Wood Industries in 1946 and stands derelict today.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #0008ff;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Horace
Dodge (1900-1963) was a colourful character who was married five
times and lived a life of impressive opulence although he never
received his inheritance as his mother (Anna Thomson Dodge) would
outlive him by seven years. Nonetheless, he never suffered
financially, moving between four mansions in the United States,
England and France, and throwing lavish parties but eventually was
confined to a wheelchair as a result of his alcoholism. The
boats from his company are considered of the highest quality and are
much sought-after for their design as well as their rarity.</span></span></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFpC3uD5FQBHN2FzDL7QYKk77XfaA1hfxhwnA45lqN2GflWgmR0BDlg30QuGbzwyMQEFcbkLsG7aLj4tWhCggx3Nfk9c9Dc88tNnufQaUeQwelTjH_w88QZqI2L3SW0giNK-VxyR9Eob4m6LqfiuwrDGL0k_y2xIR3QL4y3rMfkK5Xqw2NPjlGVtxRQ/s5184/IMG_7846.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFpC3uD5FQBHN2FzDL7QYKk77XfaA1hfxhwnA45lqN2GflWgmR0BDlg30QuGbzwyMQEFcbkLsG7aLj4tWhCggx3Nfk9c9Dc88tNnufQaUeQwelTjH_w88QZqI2L3SW0giNK-VxyR9Eob4m6LqfiuwrDGL0k_y2xIR3QL4y3rMfkK5Xqw2NPjlGVtxRQ/w426-h640/IMG_7846.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx829GeNnxxqxIT20I40-EjBLdx-Itadq8Uoty2jiRjD9Q1qJVUKl0bb3iXPyTFdNANbHm0I7OL_wUgNbIYLa6Db8ocDQDy2nudWQaHGyijdJ_R4cU7lMz-gS34gC2NdpLwZ7Uqi0Ll5uU_t9oA1WmPD2TXsyztSTpdGck9UkWncLR0r0ZWgLQsdUdiQ/s5184/IMG_7847.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx829GeNnxxqxIT20I40-EjBLdx-Itadq8Uoty2jiRjD9Q1qJVUKl0bb3iXPyTFdNANbHm0I7OL_wUgNbIYLa6Db8ocDQDy2nudWQaHGyijdJ_R4cU7lMz-gS34gC2NdpLwZ7Uqi0Ll5uU_t9oA1WmPD2TXsyztSTpdGck9UkWncLR0r0ZWgLQsdUdiQ/w426-h640/IMG_7847.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A very unusual boat on display was the 1902 Naphtha Launch built by the Gas Engine & Power Co. of New York City. Run on naphtha gas, this mode of power was a peculiarly American idea as small steam-powered launches were taken off the market as there was a legal requirement for steam-powered craft to have a qualified engineer on the crew, the result of accidents involving boiler explosions. While not a problem on large commercial craft, it was clearly not going to be practical for small private ones so this was a solution. Gas Engine & Power Co., founded in 1885, claimed to have sold more than 200 of its launches by 1900. Most vessels of this type were open boats of around 24 feet meant for pleasure cruising in nice weather. Surviving examples are extremely rare and the museum's may be one of only four remaining.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv7wspvwz4rfI7TbUx09POdlYUHbXV3k75chtqOnjAdO_N6FdcvBM9lshxiKIw6BrjKjeAMeM5UHePxySyZ98VTNwvyQW9i3Muhx7trKH36rgURs7XUjOEGrW4Rk_b6GF_4mOfYf6B2AZsIcTHLnJCxweyh-nAZdMAJttgHc1sQRO7M9sXNYeJlBif1g/s5184/IMG_7851.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv7wspvwz4rfI7TbUx09POdlYUHbXV3k75chtqOnjAdO_N6FdcvBM9lshxiKIw6BrjKjeAMeM5UHePxySyZ98VTNwvyQW9i3Muhx7trKH36rgURs7XUjOEGrW4Rk_b6GF_4mOfYf6B2AZsIcTHLnJCxweyh-nAZdMAJttgHc1sQRO7M9sXNYeJlBif1g/w640-h426/IMG_7851.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">1929 Fay & Bowen Junior Runabout</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Fay & Bowen Motorboat Factory was established in 1904 on Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. It constructed marine engines, rowboats and launches and, following bankruptcy, was succeeded by the FayBow company in 1929. That firm continued in operation until 1937. The Junior Runabout, using one of the firm's own four cylinder engines, cost $2,500 in 1929 and is a very fine example of a classic mahogany speedboat. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9P7b_K4lszRFZ3-OVCAbOjeBtybHtYLBmOo9w3Thg42K2WrkSHrAtkVFHCOJGIOEGMxySkwxUZ-HCbQmDs0dHKKRlxROMml600XK4B1EYXo1xlkXRASHLQlO1xPlHE7ygDCC_pKZCIElKBbRniMwxyAumYkYQn_G6rg6vXFQhO8NxBOxc2rJH_X90QA/s5184/IMG_7853.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9P7b_K4lszRFZ3-OVCAbOjeBtybHtYLBmOo9w3Thg42K2WrkSHrAtkVFHCOJGIOEGMxySkwxUZ-HCbQmDs0dHKKRlxROMml600XK4B1EYXo1xlkXRASHLQlO1xPlHE7ygDCC_pKZCIElKBbRniMwxyAumYkYQn_G6rg6vXFQhO8NxBOxc2rJH_X90QA/w426-h640/IMG_7853.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaIcjR9UCN3iaCJKm_WMHJ8M59kjcOnyqlPov8FLCSmdFz2tjfNcH6d26ZnsUdYmsKV48T9Yh-414-MhOVxyhRap__wBfTnaOD6h5j5qswXVUB7aXYozI4lXaLhKxs2_kNsPiGjahfGQb367rTanTbYZQ3jYReqBwaA-B-KZfdRBqFRZ0fHLd5MfzZw/s5184/IMG_7854.JPG"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaIcjR9UCN3iaCJKm_WMHJ8M59kjcOnyqlPov8FLCSmdFz2tjfNcH6d26ZnsUdYmsKV48T9Yh-414-MhOVxyhRap__wBfTnaOD6h5j5qswXVUB7aXYozI4lXaLhKxs2_kNsPiGjahfGQb367rTanTbYZQ3jYReqBwaA-B-KZfdRBqFRZ0fHLd5MfzZw/w640-h426/IMG_7854.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhylT5pu_1Ssnlwg1yK323_EmZBd1rDsWZlAdrYC4F4-wdEcntP_OO8vVIhPKCZGhegg4g1TsAMxvhiXmwKrTUV4_-mcVvr_IH2fFkd-eyUEZrgiJl0f5Kw4qbAAazjQSEmhOmd0bUSskj5WcLKtlP45GX4Dp21twoKDB6IfIOEm6qKuFj9ocUhe7-3Gw/s1282/fay%20and%20owen.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1282" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhylT5pu_1Ssnlwg1yK323_EmZBd1rDsWZlAdrYC4F4-wdEcntP_OO8vVIhPKCZGhegg4g1TsAMxvhiXmwKrTUV4_-mcVvr_IH2fFkd-eyUEZrgiJl0f5Kw4qbAAazjQSEmhOmd0bUSskj5WcLKtlP45GX4Dp21twoKDB6IfIOEm6qKuFj9ocUhe7-3Gw/w640-h270/fay%20and%20owen.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Fay & Bowen factory, Geneva, NY</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2jqMsKw2XaKEAzMNEBHXAf-FEjI9F71teliHDEvKoKcthkMz6E845-XzRRw2yKjWeA3Z1OmnOH05dWHnYQiohlRFvtpP_PAA0afv7gQNA2RIB0NJcaCoa99aOOXsxdL4ngwyD4-EqWklvfhIxyQcxfONiEuL_ZYCnlx_l7L8uaTUJ5ufMoKm-LdbQgg/s5033/IMG_7855.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3355" data-original-width="5033" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2jqMsKw2XaKEAzMNEBHXAf-FEjI9F71teliHDEvKoKcthkMz6E845-XzRRw2yKjWeA3Z1OmnOH05dWHnYQiohlRFvtpP_PAA0afv7gQNA2RIB0NJcaCoa99aOOXsxdL4ngwyD4-EqWklvfhIxyQcxfONiEuL_ZYCnlx_l7L8uaTUJ5ufMoKm-LdbQgg/w640-h426/IMG_7855.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left to right: Chris-Craft Deluxe, Hacker Runabout, Elco Cruiser</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table>The next boat I looked at closely was a surprise. I knew that Lozier was a manufacturer of extremely high-end automobiles in the Brass Era but was unaware of their boat-building activities. In fact, after Henry A. Lozier Sr. sold his flourishing bicycle factory in Toledo, Ohio, in 1900, he relocated to Plattsburgh, NY, with some of his engineers to restart as a manufacturer of marine engines. The company's products were meticulously designed and used the finest materials. After the death of Lozier Sr. in 1903, Lozier Jr. took over the company and shared the engineers' interest in motor vehicle and production of the first Lozier cars began in 1905. Exquisitely made and outrageously expensive as the autos were, Lozier car production shifted to Detroit in 1910 but the company was out of business five years later.<div><br /></div><div>The 1905 Lake Special was an open launch in which the passengers sat facing each other for a sociable cruising experience. Priced at $825, this was slightly more than the average worker's annual salary at the time in America.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk3ZJhjUkWQm_ffaLbAnt56Q8AHlBNMe3DXNarpkGYsD1U9ngSRw93kVQ3IfTfJJtdonbe2YfszUncrYdAmpQvg57f-j1Wc5vjck7VvVFaepa4tNFubq5WW9vS2z9NdWNm2qiRPVMoMehZ0riEcR0nCSpHs5EVFhlGxZ-2JkJt269jsQxUIkgNvsxznA/s5184/IMG_7856.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk3ZJhjUkWQm_ffaLbAnt56Q8AHlBNMe3DXNarpkGYsD1U9ngSRw93kVQ3IfTfJJtdonbe2YfszUncrYdAmpQvg57f-j1Wc5vjck7VvVFaepa4tNFubq5WW9vS2z9NdWNm2qiRPVMoMehZ0riEcR0nCSpHs5EVFhlGxZ-2JkJt269jsQxUIkgNvsxznA/w640-h426/IMG_7856.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOv79yjRBCR2KogUZDlZzxLb_jqOKaYkNxDe41sYY_mVuo8Idaqod9Jhx5I48Tp8JWE1KZmLz6sDIyfDOoqCKwCNljbPovx_d2_xy2ifL6yiLG1xEe2HOdplfIezuxJimhW0rgzIv0m8JOevvmOcFlVbrkA1h2rfKeh6_Bjp6HGaRSMrwnEcHEO6rHA/s5184/IMG_7857.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOv79yjRBCR2KogUZDlZzxLb_jqOKaYkNxDe41sYY_mVuo8Idaqod9Jhx5I48Tp8JWE1KZmLz6sDIyfDOoqCKwCNljbPovx_d2_xy2ifL6yiLG1xEe2HOdplfIezuxJimhW0rgzIv0m8JOevvmOcFlVbrkA1h2rfKeh6_Bjp6HGaRSMrwnEcHEO6rHA/w640-h426/IMG_7857.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Comfortable Interior of the Lozier Lake Special</span></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div>The back of the main floor of the building housed several beautiful runabouts and two sizeable cabin cruisers from Elco, a company with an interesting history..</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRMWWv0sI9RiddIyZViT68Lw8uxvhQVALI_5LgRKvpKMi2qslnUebgLFeOix2BZ7g8qYbN_4ziJOG-GOxv3kPLgaNjBrkKe0IWN9vBNWGbGHhaz-bk1n9S6gdwRtM7Ym1VXbte55lLNsGt1nbce5pFlHkSZpnvHKD2qp1A7M05Q5i8ByCQeXItJPj2Vg/s5184/IMG_7860.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRMWWv0sI9RiddIyZViT68Lw8uxvhQVALI_5LgRKvpKMi2qslnUebgLFeOix2BZ7g8qYbN_4ziJOG-GOxv3kPLgaNjBrkKe0IWN9vBNWGbGHhaz-bk1n9S6gdwRtM7Ym1VXbte55lLNsGt1nbce5pFlHkSZpnvHKD2qp1A7M05Q5i8ByCQeXItJPj2Vg/w640-h426/IMG_7860.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Beginning as the Electric Launch Company in 1893, and later renamed Elco Motor Yachts, the company supplied fifty five 36 foot electric launches for use at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago that year. It was acquired in 1899 by one of its suppliers, the Electric Storage Battery Company (still in existence as Exide) and began production in Bayonne, New Jersey. Electric boats, which had dominated the pleasure boat market, became outmoded as piston engines improved and by 1912 the company was using diesel engines. During World War I and World War II it built various military craft, including the famous PT torpedo boats used by the US Navy. After merging with its sister company, the Electric Boat Company (maker of American submarines for over a century), it was decided to concentrate on military contracts and the yacht business closed in 1949. However, it was revived in 1987 and along with manufacturing marine electric motors, it hand crafts replicas of its classic launches in Athens, NY.</div><div><br /></div><div>The 40 foot Express Cruiser on display was powered with twin 280 hp Chrysler engines, giving the yacht a top speed of 26 mph. Built in in 1946, it came near the end of Elco's cruiser production years. On the other hand, on the opposite side of the display was another Elco, this one from 1924. Powered by an Elco engine of 125 hp, this 42 foot long yacht was open so that visitors could walk around inside and marvel at luxury from a century ago.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGFpwHb_jSqB1sklQbR6m2AjhM4-ibDyGfgrgu48cuOnbIwkvTOHUV3rODNABX7pePIqn4jF-j7zJou-KMxGBDy8UX-CerGWhkbU7kHydn-KWe6qOkjY-QJLfifndkMDd6T2NFExE5jt9a6w3vo0AvE_zC6vHthQ9iBN64bh4aii6zDOsFsZUFlqzkpw/s4679/IMG_7873.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3119" data-original-width="4679" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGFpwHb_jSqB1sklQbR6m2AjhM4-ibDyGfgrgu48cuOnbIwkvTOHUV3rODNABX7pePIqn4jF-j7zJou-KMxGBDy8UX-CerGWhkbU7kHydn-KWe6qOkjY-QJLfifndkMDd6T2NFExE5jt9a6w3vo0AvE_zC6vHthQ9iBN64bh4aii6zDOsFsZUFlqzkpw/w640-h426/IMG_7873.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0x_m8p2a7YxB78O6RXKHhRh_8pD2pnyh_Snds3fai9N9Bb8wLbogpRgeucpr2--NUReagvIat5ow6UILMVJBX-BFey7x_vYpRcUBstCPPu3XfJbopBxZJSm9kfwWzSEaHL6ZQra4i-kdy7OffWyIhC4S_Ll6i_2mf6IXzk7h4K5hmCAOKiGQZ2sQ3OQ/s4939/IMG_7877.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3293" data-original-width="4939" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0x_m8p2a7YxB78O6RXKHhRh_8pD2pnyh_Snds3fai9N9Bb8wLbogpRgeucpr2--NUReagvIat5ow6UILMVJBX-BFey7x_vYpRcUBstCPPu3XfJbopBxZJSm9kfwWzSEaHL6ZQra4i-kdy7OffWyIhC4S_Ll6i_2mf6IXzk7h4K5hmCAOKiGQZ2sQ3OQ/w640-h426/IMG_7877.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeZ5MmeJDlXWuMnW9gD2dkvR3vXc5I8dFDZX0qtuX97u64rj2LEptJt-kN4dUqFOtuAQ10aSt0TvrKW7yIYkX-Pf1OOTDokJeuKxS9xonBMgTursSTraNEqkwFsZlDVxw_zMAlAoC8DkBO6EJ3R9zc5fIAml1kwXdzOtMpUeBgOZlUlz5JxkJ1ABhvw/s5184/IMG_7876.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeZ5MmeJDlXWuMnW9gD2dkvR3vXc5I8dFDZX0qtuX97u64rj2LEptJt-kN4dUqFOtuAQ10aSt0TvrKW7yIYkX-Pf1OOTDokJeuKxS9xonBMgTursSTraNEqkwFsZlDVxw_zMAlAoC8DkBO6EJ3R9zc5fIAml1kwXdzOtMpUeBgOZlUlz5JxkJ1ABhvw/w640-h426/IMG_7876.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Between the two big Elco boats were four elegant mahogany speedsters: a Truscott, a Hacker, a Gar Wood and a Chris-Craft. These represented a Golden Age of Runabouts, playthings for the well-healed and a delight to look at today (if maybe not to maintain!).</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7T9ys8Oxucj62_61ISSSsh7bw4T-jKCTKbcCccRQ3YVgancVft44sA9QlDj3vl1LrjYnIOeZB1vLYix-ON_iNid3atRvW4OMgXm8bVQ4npitTLSQcf7Ztt3B_QdxASFyNvZiz7oido6srN2VNEtUYo-1r8_gmpKKoBOcbXnXqI8wXm2gUTsFpU92Sew/s5184/IMG_7878.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7T9ys8Oxucj62_61ISSSsh7bw4T-jKCTKbcCccRQ3YVgancVft44sA9QlDj3vl1LrjYnIOeZB1vLYix-ON_iNid3atRvW4OMgXm8bVQ4npitTLSQcf7Ztt3B_QdxASFyNvZiz7oido6srN2VNEtUYo-1r8_gmpKKoBOcbXnXqI8wXm2gUTsFpU92Sew/w640-h426/IMG_7878.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>One is always drawn to the fabulous boats designed by John L. Hacker, who established his firm, the Hacker Boat Company, in Detroit in 1908. One already had the chance to admire two of his designers in the yacht house, <i>Pardon Me</i> and <i>Miss Thousand Islands III</i> noted above, This 30 foot triple cockpit runabout from 1930 was very fast, capable of 42 mph with its 225 hp engine, and with the onset of the Great Depression must have been a rare sight given its $5,500 price tag.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0gpDHdrYVAJJ6PkI8I8TAgYjywKcOg4y5CDuGVSlzzuBpIR7x1bwiHUfcScRQc2alLI43e_vB1LvTEdCaisq1i1Jt1ypE243lGxP4qNR4FywZd9ahfLxYLRq3IqSiZd1FxXrUOobAqu6zstAOH2MriFlsETsaIPhp7ad-fByDwVrXjXUqIsebmFyPg/s5184/IMG_7864.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0gpDHdrYVAJJ6PkI8I8TAgYjywKcOg4y5CDuGVSlzzuBpIR7x1bwiHUfcScRQc2alLI43e_vB1LvTEdCaisq1i1Jt1ypE243lGxP4qNR4FywZd9ahfLxYLRq3IqSiZd1FxXrUOobAqu6zstAOH2MriFlsETsaIPhp7ad-fByDwVrXjXUqIsebmFyPg/w640-h426/IMG_7864.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlYWVlXF_BoZ7klqWNHWP4OOg2JIl1r-8zr7--YqoymoE81Lr-x88ZfxaD1HnVsa-QAOtp8B6wcrUL-DiZ0rK6D3WR5Htc8pCoC2muLV-IzOCzf3Ch6FYbFvOtMB9-kbF1OXWnADpROtD5H-BV2N1aetrU9x-k2qrl4xcx1b6Pu7VhYWsZTqo9CNA5w/s4907/IMG_7862.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3271" data-original-width="4907" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlYWVlXF_BoZ7klqWNHWP4OOg2JIl1r-8zr7--YqoymoE81Lr-x88ZfxaD1HnVsa-QAOtp8B6wcrUL-DiZ0rK6D3WR5Htc8pCoC2muLV-IzOCzf3Ch6FYbFvOtMB9-kbF1OXWnADpROtD5H-BV2N1aetrU9x-k2qrl4xcx1b6Pu7VhYWsZTqo9CNA5w/w640-h426/IMG_7862.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlETUpkNUzIlDIkssghtpR8U_SCFRfvw_u1n37p6XiGGWGSKaa8L22WIbKXiT0tJLkDF5q59ui8VxicCRvzbP7RDntiP5VD9t5WshKNnGPTF1pPf60CFcUEw1hrrhOAU02mRhFwPU6-U_6n4mXgEOHAm6b5EsTYIcoWLUt3RpvLqMkfyBezXQ6e4DWg/s5184/IMG_7863.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlETUpkNUzIlDIkssghtpR8U_SCFRfvw_u1n37p6XiGGWGSKaa8L22WIbKXiT0tJLkDF5q59ui8VxicCRvzbP7RDntiP5VD9t5WshKNnGPTF1pPf60CFcUEw1hrrhOAU02mRhFwPU6-U_6n4mXgEOHAm6b5EsTYIcoWLUt3RpvLqMkfyBezXQ6e4DWg/w640-h426/IMG_7863.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7YPML7KLmEpeBpq4BbvwPatNSCRSxGom9oHKtlGw_u46qaI42mEdZA0zcnw8KQjOOvUn0M83QVumLEa-vgJ6o6KY5ohn70JJVW6XWDn3_iZZ09dweA2P_Z38eN8eaxShtKEVHuqyYJVAFhQMns91KjWpcEveIhairqOZq-UTIOEgUuLlyoLuDvevSQ/s5184/IMG_7880.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7YPML7KLmEpeBpq4BbvwPatNSCRSxGom9oHKtlGw_u46qaI42mEdZA0zcnw8KQjOOvUn0M83QVumLEa-vgJ6o6KY5ohn70JJVW6XWDn3_iZZ09dweA2P_Z38eN8eaxShtKEVHuqyYJVAFhQMns91KjWpcEveIhairqOZq-UTIOEgUuLlyoLuDvevSQ/w640-h426/IMG_7880.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Equaling Hacker's reputation for very fast, very beautiful and very expensive boats was Gar Wood (1880-1971), a brilliant entrepreneur and inventor, as well as a speedboat enthusiast who was the first person to reach a speed of 100 mph on the water. He made his fortune by inventing a hydraulic lift system for dump trucks and was able to indulge his interest in fast boats by buying the <i>Miss Detroit</i> speedboat in 1916, and at the same time buying the yard where it was built, which was operated by Chris Smith, and this became the Gar Wood brand. In 1922 Smith left to start a yard using mass-production techniques and this was to become Chris-Craft. In automobile terms, if Chris-Craft was like Chevrolet and Hacker was Cadillac, then the Gar Wood boats, much-prized today, would be the Buicks. Over 10,000 Gar Wood boats were built by the time production ended in 1947 but only 300 are registered with the Gar Wood Society, which is connected to the Antique Boat Museum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNM6T5g42jyYHlik5OK62gJCMmg7OGA_gBwJIMWFVFc9RxglvDVju_4jR9fiaNr5z-IAp9ddvi8oJ084Rscbp49Absg1TlkafZzh-WwCDLax1fpSfj1SvuqnVF5K1TXNYEWYgPbe56UhMuAaT9T0jw7WEZYRiY627nJVlLv2x7bmzsCIe_yemzRT5EFA/s5184/IMG_7867.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNM6T5g42jyYHlik5OK62gJCMmg7OGA_gBwJIMWFVFc9RxglvDVju_4jR9fiaNr5z-IAp9ddvi8oJ084Rscbp49Absg1TlkafZzh-WwCDLax1fpSfj1SvuqnVF5K1TXNYEWYgPbe56UhMuAaT9T0jw7WEZYRiY627nJVlLv2x7bmzsCIe_yemzRT5EFA/w426-h640/IMG_7867.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTrk7A8lyXSSt9Eg-ohTZZ5A3BE4gWaVmFGZH6qchWQqv2OUYd5piXFSF-1iZxMg3Mt8_FOIj4_ypM1BgHEBXNvBhqV3G5XxF90YFKK3NEyaAzsul8V1fkBZgKgl04RBnVJNYvTzJyZmxB5N3oRZYz0a0PIi9apJ90wGdZ9o7bMZRdNR-jj8wwSf_liQ/s5184/IMG_7871.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTrk7A8lyXSSt9Eg-ohTZZ5A3BE4gWaVmFGZH6qchWQqv2OUYd5piXFSF-1iZxMg3Mt8_FOIj4_ypM1BgHEBXNvBhqV3G5XxF90YFKK3NEyaAzsul8V1fkBZgKgl04RBnVJNYvTzJyZmxB5N3oRZYz0a0PIi9apJ90wGdZ9o7bMZRdNR-jj8wwSf_liQ/w640-h426/IMG_7871.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSYgfRGiKX0cDwpFHXIdVBPJLqgOHmn_GiD6vbB8UFnMbLyYul3Mn6YJkkgmJpHOcQxHmNG3lvahh4soFEKK3SX3e8HmzhyP8b2uU6DdQrIl5AUTCnuepkBpel4ZvFPp_1Xq9u5pC79b5u51c3r3T5oW2cPLyC0ahqO6gxljrvBq7QvLQj_MOCR0wyVw/s5184/IMG_7869.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSYgfRGiKX0cDwpFHXIdVBPJLqgOHmn_GiD6vbB8UFnMbLyYul3Mn6YJkkgmJpHOcQxHmNG3lvahh4soFEKK3SX3e8HmzhyP8b2uU6DdQrIl5AUTCnuepkBpel4ZvFPp_1Xq9u5pC79b5u51c3r3T5oW2cPLyC0ahqO6gxljrvBq7QvLQj_MOCR0wyVw/w640-h426/IMG_7869.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">1935 Gar Wood 16 Foot Speedster "Miss Behave"</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With the outbreak of the Great Depression, Gar Wood began to produce smaller boats that were more affordable and the resulting 16 foot runabout that was introduced in 1934 sold for under $1,000 and was quite successful. Wood's brother, Phil, took the design and converted it into a racing version, the Speedster. It had a single cockpit and a more powerful engine, along with some unusual features for a boat, such as a gas pedal and an automotive-style shift lever. Although receiving great publicity, comparatively few Speedsters were built by the time production ended in 1938.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Miss Behave</i> has always been in the Thousand Islands region since built in 1935 and has been powered with different engines, including a Ford V8 that gave it a top speed of 60 mph. Other speedsters that came to the St. Lawrence the following year included all these wonderfully-named craft: <i>Miss Fortune</i>, <i>Miss Understood</i>, <i>Miss Chief</i> and <i>Miss Conduct</i>. All were raced in the area until the start of World War II.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmex2cs2-005bP_imV-bP1cf9gZ7Wm2BaPD59s-X9_J74J_PbGovolfp8iaQDpW03BIKgdRN9fQF7X3uz2UFB7s9M1ums6OR8QJrSfiZ1YFUJTKQAPYZKOmLU25S1joyrEWtyX4l2Gv2OKUmTjzjpSMh56o7cvddBdLFRGJ0ZVbzwV7TCuEodQePU_cA/s5184/IMG_7874.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmex2cs2-005bP_imV-bP1cf9gZ7Wm2BaPD59s-X9_J74J_PbGovolfp8iaQDpW03BIKgdRN9fQF7X3uz2UFB7s9M1ums6OR8QJrSfiZ1YFUJTKQAPYZKOmLU25S1joyrEWtyX4l2Gv2OKUmTjzjpSMh56o7cvddBdLFRGJ0ZVbzwV7TCuEodQePU_cA/w640-h426/IMG_7874.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcVDWKhBDK2PFsYDM5XY0KxvJq3yqhdq8XkezQ0gpvTIAg8_HMtGl91aE_5kOvJBxhzsh9POZw0vAMRDEbJgFwW4idw3C2hEFw1pK_dH4vJcsYeGUndfFDN2lmed5DlouPh_rf_h7KSRG6GqILptl7q_zvki0pjlY6lQhyxh3l3Oh3i0-yQFolPZcPA/s5184/IMG_7875.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcVDWKhBDK2PFsYDM5XY0KxvJq3yqhdq8XkezQ0gpvTIAg8_HMtGl91aE_5kOvJBxhzsh9POZw0vAMRDEbJgFwW4idw3C2hEFw1pK_dH4vJcsYeGUndfFDN2lmed5DlouPh_rf_h7KSRG6GqILptl7q_zvki0pjlY6lQhyxh3l3Oh3i0-yQFolPZcPA/w640-h426/IMG_7875.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Miss Behave" next to a runabout made by the Truscott Boat Manufacturing Company of St. Joseph, Michigan</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQkI2UItJl0y59UDhDqc2Fph88wLzzRSjOn93gvlZRd7axMUPV_VaX_hCUqG0pnQ8BrD4i8GeeQp0JHed7UN17EohZ6Z_yaEXLkMKIdBya19QPbT7mYMg6fcr_uMMt0q6qQahbLvpL6BaqDiXjJOaPXm9TsLrBL4kjGLKSqHz0jIpNqrogzHozJ5wDfQ/s5184/IMG_7865.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQkI2UItJl0y59UDhDqc2Fph88wLzzRSjOn93gvlZRd7axMUPV_VaX_hCUqG0pnQ8BrD4i8GeeQp0JHed7UN17EohZ6Z_yaEXLkMKIdBya19QPbT7mYMg6fcr_uMMt0q6qQahbLvpL6BaqDiXjJOaPXm9TsLrBL4kjGLKSqHz0jIpNqrogzHozJ5wDfQ/w426-h640/IMG_7865.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chris-Craft runabout</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There is a mezzanine floor in the building and here there were examples of outboard motors and a sharp hydroplane, a 1958 Swift "Big D" model made by Swift Woodcraft in Mt. Dora, Florida. The company founder and chief designer was Mr. J.B. Swift, an excellent name for a speedboat manufacturer! The company built something on the order of 6,000 racing hulls between 1950 and 1958. The example in the museum, <i>Swift Miss</i>, is typical of the lightweight construction of these craft, with the foredeck being similar to light airplane construction, with wooden stringers and doped fabric covering. Given their construction and the aggressive nature of the racing, few hydroplanes from this period survive today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZfHzJyYH5Vqs8f9Xa2bR2e4iyi0Klmr31cv14ILye24OPg3LxHSNeXSogEbqVD9v9WzrK2PFQEWLEqYh0b8M4b-cM-_UB8w09ovjeAVcqMdzKl0EigUl9wHpgQ5ueZ_2WASFxR0r6lN5ipTubAtVoz4_aadvEuehLJzja9g46e_Z4I1B_pw4QObKbg/s5033/IMG_7879.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3355" data-original-width="5033" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZfHzJyYH5Vqs8f9Xa2bR2e4iyi0Klmr31cv14ILye24OPg3LxHSNeXSogEbqVD9v9WzrK2PFQEWLEqYh0b8M4b-cM-_UB8w09ovjeAVcqMdzKl0EigUl9wHpgQ5ueZ_2WASFxR0r6lN5ipTubAtVoz4_aadvEuehLJzja9g46e_Z4I1B_pw4QObKbg/w640-h426/IMG_7879.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFn5IEjnHa0TvfuLeDbzyIvDOqbpIejzPktVYhidFSI74kR7Cw5jS4ugoN7QLswowlHCN2-gTjjMUlfqHcnMV3NusS7ZbFBVVkuGkCn8HH-NmA4HZ_gNS4eKcUFZa4IlMSJ0bvKJT2CdRQhy83sM_te3sNn73nSLKn-_BfR1uhC-LXMAB1ucHozxYQg/s5184/IMG_7882.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFn5IEjnHa0TvfuLeDbzyIvDOqbpIejzPktVYhidFSI74kR7Cw5jS4ugoN7QLswowlHCN2-gTjjMUlfqHcnMV3NusS7ZbFBVVkuGkCn8HH-NmA4HZ_gNS4eKcUFZa4IlMSJ0bvKJT2CdRQhy83sM_te3sNn73nSLKn-_BfR1uhC-LXMAB1ucHozxYQg/w640-h426/IMG_7882.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>After this tour of the Dodge Launch Building, it was time to return to the museum's main building...</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2S-Iak5p27LNN9f4XYmwilSxcNj3_OytqnpOusLjy5wVVEvA5pGtSOXX02a4WvYKbtLDaRmdgtAmwe7FEccDA9Dl_a3np7YIMmzT4fIXbybH682ZzLHbX-Eck2tmIzA7NyZixHGQfSKEeNpIHY3B-WkhYZtyATekN87qBHlL2-nvgYMNoPbuugWjIQ/s5184/IMG_7883.JPG"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2S-Iak5p27LNN9f4XYmwilSxcNj3_OytqnpOusLjy5wVVEvA5pGtSOXX02a4WvYKbtLDaRmdgtAmwe7FEccDA9Dl_a3np7YIMmzT4fIXbybH682ZzLHbX-Eck2tmIzA7NyZixHGQfSKEeNpIHY3B-WkhYZtyATekN87qBHlL2-nvgYMNoPbuugWjIQ/w640-h426/IMG_7883.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-45908977446188452872022-09-06T01:42:00.007-07:002022-10-21T15:28:57.218-07:00Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, New York--September 6, 2022 (Part I)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_u2pq_SnHrfObYOD5MgYca66bYMZdpBgBSIvERKkb-_iqfwHHWG86EgIrYOuTx5VYicDjKQs-cPxA5xOxjAa5cIbU_FYtuqjRMo3iD55EfVYEpz43hqC-eV7t9A61c6SRlm6jRI3y1sMpHkGb5uSt2uGgSthdfy0mmIzZyYZkL0B0R9f10aZAlPmSGQ/s631/Screenshot%20(159).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="631" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_u2pq_SnHrfObYOD5MgYca66bYMZdpBgBSIvERKkb-_iqfwHHWG86EgIrYOuTx5VYicDjKQs-cPxA5xOxjAa5cIbU_FYtuqjRMo3iD55EfVYEpz43hqC-eV7t9A61c6SRlm6jRI3y1sMpHkGb5uSt2uGgSthdfy0mmIzZyYZkL0B0R9f10aZAlPmSGQ/w640-h360/Screenshot%20(159).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">As I had to go to New York State to pick up a parcel at the UPS Store in Ogdensburg (as the supplier of my barbecue parts no longer will ship them to Canada), I thought since I was going to the trouble of crossing the border and paying the bridge tolls, I would see what else I could do. I picked up a brochure about the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, an hour west of Ogdensburg, and thought I would exercise the Corvette in that direction.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhku7EkFGZZ0CMMJ6JJUMbU8LDB5xYaXApUos_LGjzQTv1wBGjKqeNYM5Ngsl-kXWgcAjddzIZ8jOqCqJoT35TnIXllOORDom_OaxeMRjohRYo6ow632TBSWaF3Ez4MOnHQ-LBKyo4U8wSJGo79x50qAEfaNrOVwpsDTVE4QYT9c4tPQmETAuIC2vTk2w/s4278/IMG_7750.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Looking out over the St. Lawrence River" border="0" data-original-height="2852" data-original-width="4278" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhku7EkFGZZ0CMMJ6JJUMbU8LDB5xYaXApUos_LGjzQTv1wBGjKqeNYM5Ngsl-kXWgcAjddzIZ8jOqCqJoT35TnIXllOORDom_OaxeMRjohRYo6ow632TBSWaF3Ez4MOnHQ-LBKyo4U8wSJGo79x50qAEfaNrOVwpsDTVE4QYT9c4tPQmETAuIC2vTk2w/w640-h426/IMG_7750.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Looking out over the St. Lawrence River in New York State<br /><br /></span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8lKl34pCuVHsL8UVIEbSxZCFcmz1ZzEq6aMpA1_y8EPxMOsJ0nQoX9kemN1D8EN1azpP_2Wm3zQK8BaJaGpTHzr0DMG5ZyEgcZTGm57PUuApRjqsSHBPYKZQJa_sZoNFPPfJO4uTgz7LfqQU8aAFgUfTP38kSLxhRN7CxB5F9hk-GcowMTTE50-jpWw/s5184/IMG_7746.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8lKl34pCuVHsL8UVIEbSxZCFcmz1ZzEq6aMpA1_y8EPxMOsJ0nQoX9kemN1D8EN1azpP_2Wm3zQK8BaJaGpTHzr0DMG5ZyEgcZTGm57PUuApRjqsSHBPYKZQJa_sZoNFPPfJO4uTgz7LfqQU8aAFgUfTP38kSLxhRN7CxB5F9hk-GcowMTTE50-jpWw/w640-h426/IMG_7746.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">It was the day after Labour Day and traffic was very light on a Tuesday morning as I left Ogdensburg, southbound on Hwy 12. I eventually came to a parking area near Chippewa Bay that had some plaques, so I pulled off to take a look. In addition to one about the Scottish settlers who cleared the area in the early 1800s, there is a sign noting that it was from this area that the invasion of Canada, with the intent to capture Montreal, took place with an army under General James Wilkinson in 1813. The American force was defeated by a smaller British force in the Battle of Crysler's Farm, near present-day Morrisburg, Ontario. Wilkinson tried again the following year but was unsuccessful again and was relieved of command. Having twice served earlier as Senior Officer of the United States Army and as Governor of the Louisiana Territory, his resume was impressive for someone considered to be a scoundrel. He eventually died in Mexico City in 1825, where he was US Envoy, and it was later discovered that he had been in the pay of the Spanish for years. Theodore Roosevelt said of Wilkinson: "In all our history there has been no more despicable character." Nothing on the sign about this, alas.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXdWciqDDFz_pQvre4t0opamboaQXTCJJZb606uVf4Ctqh5rW2EuuNwA6zTbFPLg7VJt0e_Z2FWb0Vdo5Cg9HbxTsDmk46SYmKOnMjusYZxkIik37Qo0-ItFoM1bTb-bQ-MSpDw29ztsioAhnJv5Vswt4XX1eq1TOsFjhFPONQ5cKstLZSKjPEnu_gw/s5184/IMG_7747.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXdWciqDDFz_pQvre4t0opamboaQXTCJJZb606uVf4Ctqh5rW2EuuNwA6zTbFPLg7VJt0e_Z2FWb0Vdo5Cg9HbxTsDmk46SYmKOnMjusYZxkIik37Qo0-ItFoM1bTb-bQ-MSpDw29ztsioAhnJv5Vswt4XX1eq1TOsFjhFPONQ5cKstLZSKjPEnu_gw/w640-h426/IMG_7747.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN3mu8v7Ohnq2F3YlX-rA1UsDktJOtiZMu_T1Zr1dOXRpzCOIuibBmp92TuOKn3sj89ZdIeQY5UfXzf26x456hGuQPOnK-amJD7jGz_10mgWI33ZajQd8wFyH5gZwZ6iwpmW2ucV3pkL6GavzioWyLimDdXt_yL-A3p6qJNCRtiUZXtwRPblY-WUNttw/s2736/IMG_7748.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="2736" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN3mu8v7Ohnq2F3YlX-rA1UsDktJOtiZMu_T1Zr1dOXRpzCOIuibBmp92TuOKn3sj89ZdIeQY5UfXzf26x456hGuQPOnK-amJD7jGz_10mgWI33ZajQd8wFyH5gZwZ6iwpmW2ucV3pkL6GavzioWyLimDdXt_yL-A3p6qJNCRtiUZXtwRPblY-WUNttw/w640-h426/IMG_7748.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Just visible from my parking spot was Dark Island, the location of the Singer Castle. Built in 1905 by Frederick Bourne, CEO of the huge multinational Singer Manufacturing Company, it has 28 bedrooms. Inspired by a castle in Woodstock, England, described in a Sir Walter Scott novel, the house, expanded by Bourne's daughter in 1928, includes secret passages. Smaller than the more famous Boldt Castle further down the river, it was known for many years as "The Towers" or "Dark Island Castle" and has had a checkered past after leaving the hands of the Bourne family in the 1960s. It is open to public tours presently and can be used for weddings and even overnight stays. More info <a href="https://www.singercastle.com/">here</a>. </div><br />Passing the exit for Alexandria Bay, another popular tourist spot, I soon came to Clayton, a thriving village in the township of the same name. The village has a population of around 2,000 and is an active summer resort. It was easy to find the location of the Antique Boat Museum as there was good signage but I was also surprised by the size of the establishment. Time to park the car and get museum-ing! check out this introduction:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="364" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BDzNImdrn1g" width="589" youtube-src-id="BDzNImdrn1g"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW_VzRqLoiT0wSjFgMNcht6KjU6RXqqclVR_qfc-8PBZKQZuiL_zlUvY-O18GPps453dLO6sexZKJ4L4JFGM8g6J_W8nmfuTXFapn4pFn6HnjZvJ2aLBQzNEF9zlHqP4O67_M0p4pKhSxv4Q6iWAk9f8mHV3bw9SC2gGRMOGz67_dBKVVK6s6V-7uIVA/s4862/IMG_7752.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3242" data-original-width="4862" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW_VzRqLoiT0wSjFgMNcht6KjU6RXqqclVR_qfc-8PBZKQZuiL_zlUvY-O18GPps453dLO6sexZKJ4L4JFGM8g6J_W8nmfuTXFapn4pFn6HnjZvJ2aLBQzNEF9zlHqP4O67_M0p4pKhSxv4Q6iWAk9f8mHV3bw9SC2gGRMOGz67_dBKVVK6s6V-7uIVA/w640-h426/IMG_7752.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">For some reason it took a while to get my ticket as the volunteer running the admission area was giving some pretty lengthy explanations to the two couples ahead of me, but this gave me a few moments to look around. There were a pair of interesting motorcycles on display in the lobby area and I could see the first of the antique boats in the background.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3G67YmhRbY9Yx26QAUlfeuW0rk8GKZmB6-t6QdJgPSxwpbQg9wF5ZLgytkDKUqZn8NuQtrGg86CKwN7fIQ7jJRNhCWuHTDBTLqadBHZ-VWOIBiePAGBSw2waY2HnoJ57kAbVd7LNNzvMdTIhR9BCmYbBy9jyUcbe__YIblKjzNwcUu9l43zHdjafSA/s5184/IMG_7754.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3G67YmhRbY9Yx26QAUlfeuW0rk8GKZmB6-t6QdJgPSxwpbQg9wF5ZLgytkDKUqZn8NuQtrGg86CKwN7fIQ7jJRNhCWuHTDBTLqadBHZ-VWOIBiePAGBSw2waY2HnoJ57kAbVd7LNNzvMdTIhR9BCmYbBy9jyUcbe__YIblKjzNwcUu9l43zHdjafSA/w640-h426/IMG_7754.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQsnIx364oTtlbYb1_YrNOtr8gUFrPOva6W8y7ibaw3LhApT-K24ZdG0X03VLpVtPtxD_Brep123UgUQe567RLEW5KPgX43q0J-KNNGOPz4_5t367Jg7MsOCZCpPTr2ye0eRGuKJz7E8ZKQnPbVDhLuS1gbd-F8nOdvCnnr1XtMUDa8mb2PxuG3cEzDQ/s5184/IMG_7757.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="kkkk" border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQsnIx364oTtlbYb1_YrNOtr8gUFrPOva6W8y7ibaw3LhApT-K24ZdG0X03VLpVtPtxD_Brep123UgUQe567RLEW5KPgX43q0J-KNNGOPz4_5t367Jg7MsOCZCpPTr2ye0eRGuKJz7E8ZKQnPbVDhLuS1gbd-F8nOdvCnnr1XtMUDa8mb2PxuG3cEzDQ/w640-h426/IMG_7757.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">1913 Harley-Davidson Model 9-E</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />This rare motorcycle marks the first year that Harley-Davidson introduced the "big twin" engine, and the "E" designation indicates that it has a clutch, a useful thing for a chain-driven motorcycle, albeit one with no transmission, something H-Ds were only to get three years later. Claimed top speed of this 300 lb. motorcycle was 55 mph and it cost $285.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8kxXHrmVbC2iGBfS9HdqaHIAQG_9gy_Wefj9mX_tYobDcHtHZayMXHnHSK1-OSejJAgOcRNaOaTSX_o-G0IlkENTtylyOUzi7BRSxQFx6E9Vk8udQOKRzjPUsQgsymeBg27DTOhz3nadrr4FFr98r1RK5DZ6lrzJaSKLkyCpCsrgWLAVSXK7Swtw6Kw/s5184/IMG_7758.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8kxXHrmVbC2iGBfS9HdqaHIAQG_9gy_Wefj9mX_tYobDcHtHZayMXHnHSK1-OSejJAgOcRNaOaTSX_o-G0IlkENTtylyOUzi7BRSxQFx6E9Vk8udQOKRzjPUsQgsymeBg27DTOhz3nadrr4FFr98r1RK5DZ6lrzJaSKLkyCpCsrgWLAVSXK7Swtw6Kw/w640-h426/IMG_7758.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">1930 Henderson KJ Streamline</span></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I love the wacky Art Deco design of this motorcycle, which was capable of 100 mph with its 40 hp 1200 cc inline four cylinder engine. A metalworker for Oldsmobile, Orley Ray Courtney believed in the advantages of an enclosed body for a motorcycle to enhance comfort and luxury and in 1935 he rebodied a standard Henderson KJ, a one-off project of beautiful workmanship and great style. Fairings were pretty much unknown for motorcycles of that time except for specialized racing machines. Courtney's motorcycle, impractical and hard to ride, remained unique but a wonderful example of the trend of the time to make everything in Streamline Moderne look fast, from locomotives to toasters. </div><div><br /></div><div>After getting my admission ticket, I passed a very interesting display of artwork devote to marine wrecks of Lake Ontario, with paintings showing the ships in their original state and then as being found by marine archaeologists as relics on the lakebed. The most interesting of these was perhaps the <i>HMS Ontario</i>, a British 22-gun brig-sloop that sank in a storm in 1780, five months after she was launched, and whose essentially intact wreckage was found only in 2008, using side-looking sonar at a depth of 150 m. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54qE85yRT_1pakcc8-hHvA-Wstj4wlB820vaYhOIKWnNQOBSDiiXEh8ugvMaMP8pNOWgc-MePyzTiXCn1nsW5Ag5sU3tcphhcrpQCnwUjnlsEp7d8GjKZhsqs0ubBkwwuCiNqc__Xshdp_LsSY1nQjPeTZXQiwQunspjusP7hlDqZT6kqYss1KgSkBA/s5184/IMG_7765.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54qE85yRT_1pakcc8-hHvA-Wstj4wlB820vaYhOIKWnNQOBSDiiXEh8ugvMaMP8pNOWgc-MePyzTiXCn1nsW5Ag5sU3tcphhcrpQCnwUjnlsEp7d8GjKZhsqs0ubBkwwuCiNqc__Xshdp_LsSY1nQjPeTZXQiwQunspjusP7hlDqZT6kqYss1KgSkBA/w640-h426/IMG_7765.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVfgETV7ZbdSbCX-Ybzhc5YMU9kAlOP9In_T0ZJV7qOZferK8xFVZ5aVyWcOGAzZxkQsQmyhNFpORV0JBzS5Bu42F6v1AWSEGBfTp_XvPZLUt_JZmFsJi1jhSQpA8lyVvVTatvN6lfE45UaV_PqkzTSSM3rZlnclliz4dqwWv7l_QCpUkDWPxUALLeFA/s4966/IMG_7766.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3311" data-original-width="4966" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVfgETV7ZbdSbCX-Ybzhc5YMU9kAlOP9In_T0ZJV7qOZferK8xFVZ5aVyWcOGAzZxkQsQmyhNFpORV0JBzS5Bu42F6v1AWSEGBfTp_XvPZLUt_JZmFsJi1jhSQpA8lyVvVTatvN6lfE45UaV_PqkzTSSM3rZlnclliz4dqwWv7l_QCpUkDWPxUALLeFA/w640-h426/IMG_7766.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">After these sad stories it was nice to come into the first exhibition area of the museum, which was all about tourism in the Thousand Islands Region. Millionaires had begun to buy up islands for summer residences and in 1872 railway carriage tycoon George Pullman invited then-President Ulysses S. Grant to visit Pullman Island, along with some notable Civil War figures including General Philip Sheridan and Admiral David Porter, to stay over for a week. Thus the little-known Thousand Islands was a region that reached the national consciousness and a boom in tourism began. This was a Very Big Deal, with train service from New York City taking only eight hours to reach Clayton, and offering many forms of diversion, from fishing to all kinds of boating. Visitors ranged over all social classes, from some of the wealthiest industrialists and socialites to those of more modest means. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course, this meant all kinds of local employment, from dining and guest house establishments to guiding fishermen to boat building. A lovely example of a local watercraft, the St. Lawrence skiff, is on display in this room. The skiff <i>Katherine</i> was built in 1885 by a shop in Clayton. The skiff is narrow and light enough to row easily, although heavy enough to deal with the choppy swells that can occur on the St. Lawrence. It can be used with a simple sail with favourable conditions. Skiffs are multi-purpose vessels but <i>Katherine</i> was equipped primarily for fishing, with clips inside to hold rods. The boat has an appealing shape and beautiful workmanship.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbuqht_m5YS4cfYmMP7npIxtxpjMrxGK77112Q5KeyZtckoQUIOs3FtrPfQnj4nA_TKhhb01IVb80jYtVY0bBe9ImsaZd8dGrrWaeQbwdx3wm6S3bea_ZEJpH4opiwRlHLF0J6RUN8li9-e6Hhrzt1O-J8gjAwpNuy6PyX46Ohx_4ca82Qxu5tkXscA/s5044/IMG_7768.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3363" data-original-width="5044" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbuqht_m5YS4cfYmMP7npIxtxpjMrxGK77112Q5KeyZtckoQUIOs3FtrPfQnj4nA_TKhhb01IVb80jYtVY0bBe9ImsaZd8dGrrWaeQbwdx3wm6S3bea_ZEJpH4opiwRlHLF0J6RUN8li9-e6Hhrzt1O-J8gjAwpNuy6PyX46Ohx_4ca82Qxu5tkXscA/w640-h426/IMG_7768.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6vZ6f3fgzif8A6OpnwwzsFjQY23wr6njvCdPEoZEe5l-sd74JVd78Hg4Q38XcB1LTk0GuJWOr1NL6QXgN9AUFrJiOhzAxL0Z8OOaYRr7J9lVsykC3tNTPn47-1BNkLdZi4F2PsyNU55vG5p9azr_kmkNkkcM5yvdn47itRc1XTZj_kbN-opnAfEztsg/s4538/IMG_7767.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3025" data-original-width="4538" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6vZ6f3fgzif8A6OpnwwzsFjQY23wr6njvCdPEoZEe5l-sd74JVd78Hg4Q38XcB1LTk0GuJWOr1NL6QXgN9AUFrJiOhzAxL0Z8OOaYRr7J9lVsykC3tNTPn47-1BNkLdZi4F2PsyNU55vG5p9azr_kmkNkkcM5yvdn47itRc1XTZj_kbN-opnAfEztsg/w640-h426/IMG_7767.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The Antique Boat Museum is the largest in North America and the campus, with multiple buildings, covers 4.5 acres, and has 29,000 square feet of exhibition space. Leaving the main building, I entered a stone building, dating to 1880 and the oldest on site, to look at the restoration shop where work on an impressive speedboat is being undertaken, along with other projects.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6LqIK4i8dAvQOlG336vjTH0VKIwicJepUPBiBnHRloLWHzxSaUsyKMHVT2X-a_u0uQ5kt7qhSZ4h9ylCBy4WUfrZpJB-xUCwL_ABIJ8KjoRUN7JYQFdSrMECKw6dzgAFLAV9RcOoMry-Ct6EeSaUVK1hYhPPbgMUq14OVmazG9cEQ_70IZZb3wslCJw/s4987/IMG_7777.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3325" data-original-width="4987" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6LqIK4i8dAvQOlG336vjTH0VKIwicJepUPBiBnHRloLWHzxSaUsyKMHVT2X-a_u0uQ5kt7qhSZ4h9ylCBy4WUfrZpJB-xUCwL_ABIJ8KjoRUN7JYQFdSrMECKw6dzgAFLAV9RcOoMry-Ct6EeSaUVK1hYhPPbgMUq14OVmazG9cEQ_70IZZb3wslCJw/w640-h426/IMG_7777.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgONsOO5KLuw4w_UTQkrk3PCNZsmsnLSv_K9jj9yJ5G0fBaNRDw7Ctm2zMz2Um4maZFxfRQSCB8nJ_NLvOSoVf6VfZCeMg2LiV5aNtSVxugWEQnJoTuRl6xZ70NQiQsdyiws2-ZNPckvp65iYE6SNQAFNqjpXq7iCWihJxvlwuST_nYcWWhcaUeRU03eQ/s4939/IMG_7771.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3293" data-original-width="4939" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgONsOO5KLuw4w_UTQkrk3PCNZsmsnLSv_K9jj9yJ5G0fBaNRDw7Ctm2zMz2Um4maZFxfRQSCB8nJ_NLvOSoVf6VfZCeMg2LiV5aNtSVxugWEQnJoTuRl6xZ70NQiQsdyiws2-ZNPckvp65iYE6SNQAFNqjpXq7iCWihJxvlwuST_nYcWWhcaUeRU03eQ/w640-h426/IMG_7771.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnPZDg5H8K-hyxZ0IfMTQlGxW655f8yeOQcU8nT9eA4YS47G-xNJFmsJFsu6e97X6E-09Y_Up4l4JDmioyntkShaU-J3ySoeE9VegAA1lTEFXqi2nWAZ-nFywO99Rvkbp8uoclHedyApdnLq-Bl5ITXHZLLjJ7RsdFv8z7p1m1oxzdIEIBM8mQdNERbQ/s5184/IMG_7778.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnPZDg5H8K-hyxZ0IfMTQlGxW655f8yeOQcU8nT9eA4YS47G-xNJFmsJFsu6e97X6E-09Y_Up4l4JDmioyntkShaU-J3ySoeE9VegAA1lTEFXqi2nWAZ-nFywO99Rvkbp8uoclHedyApdnLq-Bl5ITXHZLLjJ7RsdFv8z7p1m1oxzdIEIBM8mQdNERbQ/w640-h426/IMG_7778.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8fGQE3A8w0-rZYZFaLJjiQDENzkqXCRtcNTASQN66JHrpDYCjH8Hbbujg7J2Gq5bTk_QqH2olwxlUwG-Eucx-_hOI-GXKhamhGMi4Td7PRHJmGHtQuuX2opbeDvdFhxOwoavzMryNM6q3jvA6tyFYDk5QOzw6yEbbsFapWfgVPlGumBhyFf1uX4V0oQ/s4849/IMG_7779.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3233" data-original-width="4849" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8fGQE3A8w0-rZYZFaLJjiQDENzkqXCRtcNTASQN66JHrpDYCjH8Hbbujg7J2Gq5bTk_QqH2olwxlUwG-Eucx-_hOI-GXKhamhGMi4Td7PRHJmGHtQuuX2opbeDvdFhxOwoavzMryNM6q3jvA6tyFYDk5QOzw6yEbbsFapWfgVPlGumBhyFf1uX4V0oQ/w640-h426/IMG_7779.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="462" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPB7mh-HWjA" width="607" youtube-src-id="JPB7mh-HWjA"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Footloose and Fancy Free </i>is a spectacular three-cockpit runabout that was commissioned by the Bourne family (yes, the Singer-connected people from Dark Island). Built in 1937 by the Fitzgerald & Lee yard in Alexandria Bay, it was powered by a 300 hp Scripps V-12 engine, which was capable of pushing the 28 foot long speedster to 50 mph. Designed by the famous John Hacker, <i>Footloose and Fancy Free</i> is a unique custom boat that shows what a specialist builder can produce. As noted in the video, the boat went through numerous engine changes in its lifetime but will now be equipped with the correct Scripps 302 V-12 engine. Rated at 316 hp, these rare motors weigh around 1,800 lbs.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0JH4tlzUsQkPvylO4e9p0eYoEnx0Ecu_6yfi68Ap1UyOrw0ZZBW78rVXFuw_qgaWriom9XGpeFdC4wih5i-VSk2CnJ5nKsMxRHoHEq-5KAPfKHwFCs3q7_9sf4bzjmrI5owKuB40K0CDwsOyhc8w8FBazOTyv2-yvvAPI3w2cGkw8voLLh8zEm12Bw/s5184/IMG_7783.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0JH4tlzUsQkPvylO4e9p0eYoEnx0Ecu_6yfi68Ap1UyOrw0ZZBW78rVXFuw_qgaWriom9XGpeFdC4wih5i-VSk2CnJ5nKsMxRHoHEq-5KAPfKHwFCs3q7_9sf4bzjmrI5owKuB40K0CDwsOyhc8w8FBazOTyv2-yvvAPI3w2cGkw8voLLh8zEm12Bw/w640-h426/IMG_7783.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUOfBxdnscrvD5y11xzDgCKc-c21TivIo7nBi-3z34FX26bnuE303YPuA3ebQbPzt3639h0gZ9oVgX49OLAwjzONiXocDY33hr-W_BN7kjvknjX93UbnkzUQAJoJrhaJEsmRwsFKyUJixWVBmrslhKRgGx1ymlnnMaSAtk8aUfQe0cCSN5tjwUxNXIA/s5184/IMG_7784.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUOfBxdnscrvD5y11xzDgCKc-c21TivIo7nBi-3z34FX26bnuE303YPuA3ebQbPzt3639h0gZ9oVgX49OLAwjzONiXocDY33hr-W_BN7kjvknjX93UbnkzUQAJoJrhaJEsmRwsFKyUJixWVBmrslhKRgGx1ymlnnMaSAtk8aUfQe0cCSN5tjwUxNXIA/w640-h426/IMG_7784.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ca7C4oKKC401Stdp6gUp6qWUTXYemS7Qn-g_cy4BIwOa7Aia4rZWHgXtfp1YfCAauzDx4pOrjiXWSz2SVg9YcRTXI4t8XKw4Sa6j40ewlA1_HypxMyITzrLGJIsEJRw3o-btwGgd7I1cog0usgYUbrCmW2Gn8kBR0ylRxVkTwva4S0ox3vbeMNizNg/s5184/IMG_7775.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ca7C4oKKC401Stdp6gUp6qWUTXYemS7Qn-g_cy4BIwOa7Aia4rZWHgXtfp1YfCAauzDx4pOrjiXWSz2SVg9YcRTXI4t8XKw4Sa6j40ewlA1_HypxMyITzrLGJIsEJRw3o-btwGgd7I1cog0usgYUbrCmW2Gn8kBR0ylRxVkTwva4S0ox3vbeMNizNg/w640-h426/IMG_7775.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFnHJmeIH1MbbKNVSnjiajnUZKRycT0GlL9rhsuzAINlzQB0f9zbZnPFeDdXpI2dTvcZ9Iz-VejIlH06eehsXAOe8c_dH6iQSQJBv-Ck3Qv9enwmeFG4v9do4Yav227JbVQsAycJPGL7lf9y7-n2tcNEal0Jb9SL4pkdNJd7Hs6I3hQzyeQP9yCLtMkw/s5033/IMG_7780.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3355" data-original-width="5033" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFnHJmeIH1MbbKNVSnjiajnUZKRycT0GlL9rhsuzAINlzQB0f9zbZnPFeDdXpI2dTvcZ9Iz-VejIlH06eehsXAOe8c_dH6iQSQJBv-Ck3Qv9enwmeFG4v9do4Yav227JbVQsAycJPGL7lf9y7-n2tcNEal0Jb9SL4pkdNJd7Hs6I3hQzyeQP9yCLtMkw/w640-h426/IMG_7780.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UPXi2k4V5aGYAhjz0YgofdTa2qFKgWPXo0y6SlT-cifJz25FWrzn15KWlIJ5rm9ZJ20c9a6W6n0Cg6HLAVqnvh-6j0AY9LUgffGLDjiAH4ZP71qHqpqTeuTbXHjY1BWu4YCeJUHHUlxmZy1HrmNg212Ks21W_iDhPAQE8xA-NZxh2hBuGbIBFpUutg/s4985/IMG_7781.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3323" data-original-width="4985" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UPXi2k4V5aGYAhjz0YgofdTa2qFKgWPXo0y6SlT-cifJz25FWrzn15KWlIJ5rm9ZJ20c9a6W6n0Cg6HLAVqnvh-6j0AY9LUgffGLDjiAH4ZP71qHqpqTeuTbXHjY1BWu4YCeJUHHUlxmZy1HrmNg212Ks21W_iDhPAQE8xA-NZxh2hBuGbIBFpUutg/w640-h426/IMG_7781.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Just outside the door to the stone building is a small runabout in which visitors can have their photos taken. What was interesting is that although it appears to be a wooden boat, it is actually fiberglass yet finished to have that timeless appeal of fine varnished wood!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZkBTwarnqDghvaXjNpW8uLZcavP1BA4mH1Y21yBfmPaOu2yd0xmRvouC7vmFcF2ik-IFdl7f5fB7_NoSRvM5fXpT1h0bVsh_iaTqBtqNdeX7j2vdGRNuMFyawWPM7dOsDU0jTucbJ7URnZEYX45mQUwbGsgOBbbpMnvuaxEVegS8LFeKJBteFlmnJA/s4939/IMG_7770.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3293" data-original-width="4939" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZkBTwarnqDghvaXjNpW8uLZcavP1BA4mH1Y21yBfmPaOu2yd0xmRvouC7vmFcF2ik-IFdl7f5fB7_NoSRvM5fXpT1h0bVsh_iaTqBtqNdeX7j2vdGRNuMFyawWPM7dOsDU0jTucbJ7URnZEYX45mQUwbGsgOBbbpMnvuaxEVegS8LFeKJBteFlmnJA/w640-h426/IMG_7770.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Next up: the Small Craft Building.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPodvICb_Ie7ir6TplI6lCFoc7jJ3hJEJSgDPEiObjyBefZp_JqNknxEK7Hm8P7aKUFSYp3ZXcKuY65DZgnDlU4uv7n86OB9fvCs8hYNKZdBB6I8il1Xezx9x0SmJFKAHaPA99sObqmd7Yx8DZ76RqO6vTzrENZnJcbcbO9Upb2hbY5bX_m0BlIfp3A/s4893/IMG_7769.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3261" data-original-width="4893" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPodvICb_Ie7ir6TplI6lCFoc7jJ3hJEJSgDPEiObjyBefZp_JqNknxEK7Hm8P7aKUFSYp3ZXcKuY65DZgnDlU4uv7n86OB9fvCs8hYNKZdBB6I8il1Xezx9x0SmJFKAHaPA99sObqmd7Yx8DZ76RqO6vTzrENZnJcbcbO9Upb2hbY5bX_m0BlIfp3A/w640-h426/IMG_7769.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This attractive structure was dedicated, as the name indicates, to small boats, including canoes, skiffs and launches. These small watercraft were really quite beautiful, with their warm wood tones. There were two big posters as you entered the building featuring canoes made in Peterborough, Ontario (home of the Canadian Canoe Museum!).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISM0YzLPGCvMny5f3pRPoRInnv0fhL3OgeTNkAMOBS9zzvAWoSW7c3eF4NFxgBtkw_ZQFbpvZdiOocaQa6hnY1vFV0er3flsPRPnIbFLINLtjL1j5vqlvbSo6TaBQu-Xd9DF4BUZq2y9gtMTuxgTcEpBpdmmzEmZ68jtyIbK-N6Nz6QupPD4CqqP9IQ/s5184/IMG_7789.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISM0YzLPGCvMny5f3pRPoRInnv0fhL3OgeTNkAMOBS9zzvAWoSW7c3eF4NFxgBtkw_ZQFbpvZdiOocaQa6hnY1vFV0er3flsPRPnIbFLINLtjL1j5vqlvbSo6TaBQu-Xd9DF4BUZq2y9gtMTuxgTcEpBpdmmzEmZ68jtyIbK-N6Nz6QupPD4CqqP9IQ/w640-h426/IMG_7789.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCyjY2RhHq-ORYkhB2uydPsOZ_fEDdaBi_iSql5B0j-NeCM10TEJ1DFwQLH5baXC1Sc9_JNCyfbnOo5t7d2k29CNMmmQVqdOSwftRM-9E2zZYxzeMgeRpmX8H-Xrpv1LMQs8m3W2Dtxx-dcgM-9UmcOHkqTyUcBMqBQaqaCFfd9v_UHqvwAhFdgjm1kQ/s5184/IMG_7790.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCyjY2RhHq-ORYkhB2uydPsOZ_fEDdaBi_iSql5B0j-NeCM10TEJ1DFwQLH5baXC1Sc9_JNCyfbnOo5t7d2k29CNMmmQVqdOSwftRM-9E2zZYxzeMgeRpmX8H-Xrpv1LMQs8m3W2Dtxx-dcgM-9UmcOHkqTyUcBMqBQaqaCFfd9v_UHqvwAhFdgjm1kQ/w640-h426/IMG_7790.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I was particularly taken with the decked canoes. of which I had never heard before, which were marketed as "poor man's yachts" in that that they were elegantly outfitted with sails. The example on display, a 14 foot boat named "Pixie," was built by the Bowdish Manufacturing Company in Skaneateles, New York, c. 1888-1899, when the type was in its heyday. Very few Bowdish boats, clearly high-quality items, have survived.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6Gb1qdHF2GvR8G_ufGt9zVZpQUR821Q6MS2EJNL4rzEY9nFnoRzMwQrAYcQUNmMS2_ACzaguBUADf4GxPFPLYEmRW3RSvwWFV5QivDY-2lxWmjPQFwL4LAEP5LJB39_WWyWfY0HpFGWpPLXKnJ_zfAoVZvE9Qp_9oRz12RUQdiIsbZ8goYW33Zh5tA/s5184/IMG_7791.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6Gb1qdHF2GvR8G_ufGt9zVZpQUR821Q6MS2EJNL4rzEY9nFnoRzMwQrAYcQUNmMS2_ACzaguBUADf4GxPFPLYEmRW3RSvwWFV5QivDY-2lxWmjPQFwL4LAEP5LJB39_WWyWfY0HpFGWpPLXKnJ_zfAoVZvE9Qp_9oRz12RUQdiIsbZ8goYW33Zh5tA/w426-h640/IMG_7791.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLfBNq1A7_FnAUIEbp82UGxA-t6ZPGTMaCiO35JxDju6-HqGmsHo8HrG1WBL0ThtQ7avraLd9XqvX5t2isGP3XSY-SSmUZTPhUDoMGCsgQR0q15HcyDA3CF6TzLt7_7fkyO_JbeC--Nean9XlNGvQvcla3AgTA2Xc7n1zgVWk2yuMIpjyM8xSVA9naw/s5184/IMG_7793.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLfBNq1A7_FnAUIEbp82UGxA-t6ZPGTMaCiO35JxDju6-HqGmsHo8HrG1WBL0ThtQ7avraLd9XqvX5t2isGP3XSY-SSmUZTPhUDoMGCsgQR0q15HcyDA3CF6TzLt7_7fkyO_JbeC--Nean9XlNGvQvcla3AgTA2Xc7n1zgVWk2yuMIpjyM8xSVA9naw/w640-h426/IMG_7793.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The next interesting boat on display was a folding canoe, which allowed for easy dismantling and transportation. There have been folding kayaks on the market for many years (Klepper in Germany beginning commercial production in 1906) and a number of companies also make folding canoes. The example on display was actually invented by flight simulator and underwater technology pioneer Edwin Link (1904-1981) and known as the Linkanoe. Link wanted a canoe to use at his cottage in Quebec, to which he flew in his Grumman Widgeon amphibian airplane, but none on the market would fit in the Widgeon so he came up with this model. It is covered with a waterproof canvas skin held on with shock cords over a wooden frame, holding together ten shaped sections made of resin-impregnated cloth. The Linkanoe was built for only three years at Link's factory in Ganonoque, Ontario, with production totaling around 4000. Two examples were on display, one assembled, the other demonstrating its portability. The Linkanoe could be packed into two canvas bags--with the paddles used as handles!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGCHzVTL7nXj0-pZoc2BPyKlCNzdU2GO3E3ZsQ8YhtinMM1gGjYTGA08s3_Fbz6iO0wIdWQf4UJX_qFeZ5z7vuh5T5vQ8vKtixRaxg40cSuqQHxe5x0JmZzSn37XjZWdJR6NBnsYSm_V1NfciQwj41pbl9ROq9JM1gzOs5mD-hs-g_SnhaP94sMBN-7w/s5184/IMG_7796.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGCHzVTL7nXj0-pZoc2BPyKlCNzdU2GO3E3ZsQ8YhtinMM1gGjYTGA08s3_Fbz6iO0wIdWQf4UJX_qFeZ5z7vuh5T5vQ8vKtixRaxg40cSuqQHxe5x0JmZzSn37XjZWdJR6NBnsYSm_V1NfciQwj41pbl9ROq9JM1gzOs5mD-hs-g_SnhaP94sMBN-7w/w640-h426/IMG_7796.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTuVbUcaV83A4IDxAUcMYWGASxaicSHIFAEPy2e08EDXhjlq1LO-lLx1IxsTwJ5jm7Et7vg15A8zuHpyz-hCeLDWfgUg3zjdXiJGLDqIJlvKZr1QCgir4LHdI9AeVCHsvqRVBadl-CaWZ_hqQdeb7qy0trqU2gAI3KxtHH2yebCz7fzhkPncrDswXCBQ/s5184/IMG_7797.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTuVbUcaV83A4IDxAUcMYWGASxaicSHIFAEPy2e08EDXhjlq1LO-lLx1IxsTwJ5jm7Et7vg15A8zuHpyz-hCeLDWfgUg3zjdXiJGLDqIJlvKZr1QCgir4LHdI9AeVCHsvqRVBadl-CaWZ_hqQdeb7qy0trqU2gAI3KxtHH2yebCz7fzhkPncrDswXCBQ/w426-h640/IMG_7797.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The museum offers the opportunity to go rowing in a St. Lawrence skiff and several of them were stored in the building as it was off-season. The skiff was an adaptable design and with the availability of small engines it was enlarged to take small power units, although the appearance remained pretty much the same. These powered versions were known as "skiff putts." On display was "Elektra," an electric variant, which was based on a 1911 skiff at the museum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1vkGtlhPNoyArfUeTT3P_g2kmzVhA5vIBUig5VKJMCVNbezdOt8Y93WPRYLYg5l0GP-aANeGXX5jfHkbf6DGwc5ZU_MwI1NZrNerUfaRGFZnrp6rRdrMaB0rPYiGvJA4Uqsvx2LvFR_0KPIY3bylJssoC14uWcNKZZ5nY5mPPQhqF2nO1CL8C6kOr3g/s5184/IMG_7810.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1vkGtlhPNoyArfUeTT3P_g2kmzVhA5vIBUig5VKJMCVNbezdOt8Y93WPRYLYg5l0GP-aANeGXX5jfHkbf6DGwc5ZU_MwI1NZrNerUfaRGFZnrp6rRdrMaB0rPYiGvJA4Uqsvx2LvFR_0KPIY3bylJssoC14uWcNKZZ5nY5mPPQhqF2nO1CL8C6kOr3g/w640-h426/IMG_7810.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3MEqjw2BCf-uBKlxL4UN2-A_85waPBA2IoX9Qqz_Uy_fEc5M8doOdt2VsYYjhTkLMMzYiYxbAGM4m3MsPuUCURE0XUawBMd3eQJl6BaXWQJPXn6R9rwR6aree9aDH28XQ2vCbJ-ucETN3yxvtIfTEaAmGvmUWRbJI8AdG5UPQHWpi1YTUL6__NV6ckg/s5184/IMG_7803.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3MEqjw2BCf-uBKlxL4UN2-A_85waPBA2IoX9Qqz_Uy_fEc5M8doOdt2VsYYjhTkLMMzYiYxbAGM4m3MsPuUCURE0XUawBMd3eQJl6BaXWQJPXn6R9rwR6aree9aDH28XQ2vCbJ-ucETN3yxvtIfTEaAmGvmUWRbJI8AdG5UPQHWpi1YTUL6__NV6ckg/w640-h426/IMG_7803.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Nearby was a boat with quite a past. Originally built as a steam launch by the Bowdish shop in 1887, "Fawn" had her engine replaced with a gasoline motor in 1908, a common practice given the complexity of operating steam. She languished in the woods for 25 years until rescued by a couple, who spent five years restoring the derelict boat, even locating its Buffalo gasoline engine. The boat has won numerous awards.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTMHVAAN-72EJxlzCtfQ0IY7R-3eYcBKxsXdZuFoDlLp0EZbgbO9jhZDTDeQRbXnB2Q9mffDsAHjD3Rgk7QpTTf-R1AWqW88VPjxt4h1f-JPgeJuYoEAfNgFPdPqh5D2I3oZwLsUP-Co2ua8SmAET1f2H-tO-VKyAd8xPhaa_tyn19naPT_BVwzw9Jg/s5184/IMG_7804.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTMHVAAN-72EJxlzCtfQ0IY7R-3eYcBKxsXdZuFoDlLp0EZbgbO9jhZDTDeQRbXnB2Q9mffDsAHjD3Rgk7QpTTf-R1AWqW88VPjxt4h1f-JPgeJuYoEAfNgFPdPqh5D2I3oZwLsUP-Co2ua8SmAET1f2H-tO-VKyAd8xPhaa_tyn19naPT_BVwzw9Jg/w640-h426/IMG_7804.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The restored "Fawn"</b></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another striking boat, very elegant yet simple, was the Adirondack Guideboat. Developed in the mountain region for fishing and hunting, it featured ribs made from tamarack knees (the L-shaped pieces formed where the trunk becomes roots), and was generally planked with white pine that had overlapping edges for a smooth hull. The planks are fastened with thousands of tiny screws and tacks. The example in the museum dates between 1907 and 1926 and was built in the shop of George Washington Smith in the small town of Long Lake, NY. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQo8WKh9vQvPTsWCw2sJOI3E4Ds7YrKCelEo8HEJkNKXdGrMGkmLLIswZKobUhVjyruLp3vZBnGMnNr2frKFRGZtPd7XC1AbyC12RjqmSKYJWysi0193sgZUqa2sN9VKWGNqpBmXmu9ZW6D_X4Qzkvqns2unReqZE9rAKSbpQHog1vVpfaIC7mdKMgQ/s5184/IMG_7808.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQo8WKh9vQvPTsWCw2sJOI3E4Ds7YrKCelEo8HEJkNKXdGrMGkmLLIswZKobUhVjyruLp3vZBnGMnNr2frKFRGZtPd7XC1AbyC12RjqmSKYJWysi0193sgZUqa2sN9VKWGNqpBmXmu9ZW6D_X4Qzkvqns2unReqZE9rAKSbpQHog1vVpfaIC7mdKMgQ/w640-h426/IMG_7808.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-61720822716077851622022-07-28T10:31:00.009-07:002022-07-28T17:32:11.725-07:00Racing at Lime Rock Park, Connecticut--July 15-17, 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQAoRcoiW8BYfmaHV7eA8qPNIKrQSbZZuWh4_B-DKTTPUA5h8to5lUKpNKtZPJJ5e8DwIcHPyPAVxq759js1pJi2Zk4imHPj1jK_TgN41K2toodcJeYWGsHPKkv7Rzn9D8G1P4jy4KWDGGjkgo6GT-xyxFiAP4AwQ0raQBw4VIlrnxhXFzadxY7dG9w/s4773/IMG_7717.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3182" data-original-width="4773" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQAoRcoiW8BYfmaHV7eA8qPNIKrQSbZZuWh4_B-DKTTPUA5h8to5lUKpNKtZPJJ5e8DwIcHPyPAVxq759js1pJi2Zk4imHPj1jK_TgN41K2toodcJeYWGsHPKkv7Rzn9D8G1P4jy4KWDGGjkgo6GT-xyxFiAP4AwQ0raQBw4VIlrnxhXFzadxY7dG9w/w640-h426/IMG_7717.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally back on the road again for a Corvette event! The last time we went across the border to the United States was in October 2019 but then the whole world shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our tickets for the IMSA races at Lime Rock Park were put on hold as racing stopped but now things are back to sort-of-normal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Crossing the border at Prescott, Ontario/Ogdensburg, New York was a breeze and authorities on the US side had no interest in my proof-of-vaccination so it was onward to I-81 and points south. Of course, as soon as I turned towards Ogdensburg I ended up joining a caravan of several police cars, service trucks and a transporter carrying one blade of a wind turbine. The circus only slowed down to get around corners but otherwise move along at good clip so I was not delayed much before turning off to get to the Interstate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFY-Y_NN9m_Asc0rUD4EISqTj4GiBNxLBL3ora6QL2hT3nkGA5JKbXr8RWJT6KJmPT_8HPb0se6VwxgCg9MAuzTWFkhu1po_Ilnx0676mWcQGtY09KBbIig-6E87MTvSNggEaOAbtGQLAB_GQCzS2FwUcOlCh8HKuvJ0RxCR9g3sjOjRIGonO4Sng_yw/s5184/IMG_7630.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFY-Y_NN9m_Asc0rUD4EISqTj4GiBNxLBL3ora6QL2hT3nkGA5JKbXr8RWJT6KJmPT_8HPb0se6VwxgCg9MAuzTWFkhu1po_Ilnx0676mWcQGtY09KBbIig-6E87MTvSNggEaOAbtGQLAB_GQCzS2FwUcOlCh8HKuvJ0RxCR9g3sjOjRIGonO4Sng_yw/w640-h426/IMG_7630.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My plan was to meet our friends Mark and Sherry near Syracuse on the NY Thruway but I had gotten through the border so quickly that I needed to slow down or would have been far too early. We often take a break at the Dunkin Donuts shop just off I-18 near Adams, New York, so I stopped there for a coffee and a donut and decided to drive into Adams proper and look around.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2DdO3Si5sAgL6IJUBFRXtdmP0BiDwNFAvAPsqqKk48Tm_0Mgh1pm9EG0j_imBSqDkoDVfI-JxHqk5370OmEmYkyYDfEv_3UTehYJ3u1pRbLOC5Z7TExHzZAmTyuKUNjpJzijZ4iOxxtHEYg5m8cEZMWjGovckSn4pPDFw9exYWOsSNBbR_e3Bz_9nUA/s4843/IMG_7635.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3229" data-original-width="4843" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2DdO3Si5sAgL6IJUBFRXtdmP0BiDwNFAvAPsqqKk48Tm_0Mgh1pm9EG0j_imBSqDkoDVfI-JxHqk5370OmEmYkyYDfEv_3UTehYJ3u1pRbLOC5Z7TExHzZAmTyuKUNjpJzijZ4iOxxtHEYg5m8cEZMWjGovckSn4pPDFw9exYWOsSNBbR_e3Bz_9nUA/w640-h426/IMG_7635.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The township was founded around 1800 as a sawmill was constructed and it was named after President John Adams in 1802, after his term in office had ended. The village of Adams was incorporated in 1857 and by 1950 had 1,700 residents, more or less the same number it has today. The "downtown" area is designated as an historical district but as my visit showed there is not much going on there. Almost every building I walked around was empty, although the cheese shop seems to be doing some business. No cannolis at the bakery though as it was awaiting new owners.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZoopnUUp_LemI1vGy1F8HB17XvUvkE6ox7-QcucDxx2mOLGgPlalrk8fw4905EIoTGBSWmQzkmjmlWZAgWNZZlTtoT0l0GjK5ZnMrg7qkEUIXmGh1Y8a7wNZIkljfnwSgoSSQFVFcRzMwg1W1dt0cfz65XuN5-Kd6uHQY57B7_KlcqAML41b3C5jKQ/s5184/IMG_7634.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZoopnUUp_LemI1vGy1F8HB17XvUvkE6ox7-QcucDxx2mOLGgPlalrk8fw4905EIoTGBSWmQzkmjmlWZAgWNZZlTtoT0l0GjK5ZnMrg7qkEUIXmGh1Y8a7wNZIkljfnwSgoSSQFVFcRzMwg1W1dt0cfz65XuN5-Kd6uHQY57B7_KlcqAML41b3C5jKQ/w640-h426/IMG_7634.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_Cr6UVaf1ZoU8ZT9ziWP5d43CVHYPBapBR95NX21GIish58KMBu5o5lFDlF_AyQw0nAU0exBgGgJYTd07hAjr9jBx5D_ZGaijdumjNNTSIzJS3pLYKU4FqIhBa08Y4VJe1smcZwPoO-mudCDmYhfMkphUaJ77i2HTRJ5yR3Mu-TmzlqJWJx0nRZURQ/s5184/IMG_7633.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_Cr6UVaf1ZoU8ZT9ziWP5d43CVHYPBapBR95NX21GIish58KMBu5o5lFDlF_AyQw0nAU0exBgGgJYTd07hAjr9jBx5D_ZGaijdumjNNTSIzJS3pLYKU4FqIhBa08Y4VJe1smcZwPoO-mudCDmYhfMkphUaJ77i2HTRJ5yR3Mu-TmzlqJWJx0nRZURQ/w640-h426/IMG_7633.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezu-N7VPBMzSQ-EJqmCAn9T6syI-3gL1KDg9ivV4HMQrBazUCcwTI0wme1ZuOZ2X3EKkkDsoAhDXg8BgydILrvyjrpSYd4p0OBqIbGoh3HuNpDOAsYNtdRqfUcfPKe4dn0otxEkS0b4mQ8mo8cpN2OiX7W-HB-IFMOnxBiRsT5_-q6EjQCcDNVLTW2A/s5184/IMG_7631.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezu-N7VPBMzSQ-EJqmCAn9T6syI-3gL1KDg9ivV4HMQrBazUCcwTI0wme1ZuOZ2X3EKkkDsoAhDXg8BgydILrvyjrpSYd4p0OBqIbGoh3HuNpDOAsYNtdRqfUcfPKe4dn0otxEkS0b4mQ8mo8cpN2OiX7W-HB-IFMOnxBiRsT5_-q6EjQCcDNVLTW2A/w426-h640/IMG_7631.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">My dawdling was sufficient and I was soon back on the highway heading south and then east on the New York Thruway to meet my friends at the Dewitt Clinton Travel Plaza. I looked around there for a few minutes after parking the Corvette in an obvious place and was soon joined by Mark and Sherry. Mark had recently taken delivery of his beautiful C8 Hard Top Convertible and it arrived at the Travel Plaza with around 800 miles on the odometer. This was the first C8 HTC I have seen and it is gorgeous! </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQGpfS0VzZEmvxjxxdbvholqC-JkC12Ft5nm4gmSJ8lsy89txU9EFI2Q8PVofPJs9k0aFS7b2w_str2Bj4MCw2hP--QRo3ayxpg9ySeLl48FxEmmKtgyzfCckGlZSApgfYRoquflyigSzcJIoILJGEuvTPBV4oBmij8uvOBb10YPdAfiJTa_fwywCqQ/s4811/IMG_7641.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3207" data-original-width="4811" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQGpfS0VzZEmvxjxxdbvholqC-JkC12Ft5nm4gmSJ8lsy89txU9EFI2Q8PVofPJs9k0aFS7b2w_str2Bj4MCw2hP--QRo3ayxpg9ySeLl48FxEmmKtgyzfCckGlZSApgfYRoquflyigSzcJIoILJGEuvTPBV4oBmij8uvOBb10YPdAfiJTa_fwywCqQ/w640-h426/IMG_7641.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7gDFvcAakzT47ztA-cAxRm0Nssi-adc8H6KIF85QaGnidnoBE9mVJYiOyUmhLmlSoC_h3g7lalqMmLtrxQb0NIjZn5pb7eXEYjzgbrP4QEP54MO5oEb844P-ikpPCI05DNHQ9862Qzk1YVETps1PTHf279sNYLZXHMQz_ZQXwrjS5YFnKYP70xz7elQ/s4499/IMG_7639.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4499" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7gDFvcAakzT47ztA-cAxRm0Nssi-adc8H6KIF85QaGnidnoBE9mVJYiOyUmhLmlSoC_h3g7lalqMmLtrxQb0NIjZn5pb7eXEYjzgbrP4QEP54MO5oEb844P-ikpPCI05DNHQ9862Qzk1YVETps1PTHf279sNYLZXHMQz_ZQXwrjS5YFnKYP70xz7elQ/w640-h426/IMG_7639.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">New C8 and Old C6 Corvettes</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>A drive along the Thruway for 2 1/2 hours brought us to our overnight destination, Albany, the capital of New York State. Our accommodation was a beautiful 1884 renovated mansion, the Washington Park Inn. Although I had confirmed our reservations there were some communication problems and we were fortunate that someone was there to let us in. The rooms was airy and modern and there was a 24 hour serve-yourself breakfast area.<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAoakyNCHyE1_iOcouCp34rtn8TnbBQXkuMw_VRn8PtqCHz_nWbeimKo9D9on_o_LjOguGb0mA2Om3hVVrbI8td_vVU8oMGzENo8MRx8x2NlwVhuwKP4bRIs5xRfPvntoVhs75NgqZaIvkQPjjjmFSZa8EV3peIHmNDcWhgc_INKY-Ndw5ZDIUoBcSw/s4666/IMG_7643.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3110" data-original-width="4666" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAoakyNCHyE1_iOcouCp34rtn8TnbBQXkuMw_VRn8PtqCHz_nWbeimKo9D9on_o_LjOguGb0mA2Om3hVVrbI8td_vVU8oMGzENo8MRx8x2NlwVhuwKP4bRIs5xRfPvntoVhs75NgqZaIvkQPjjjmFSZa8EV3peIHmNDcWhgc_INKY-Ndw5ZDIUoBcSw/w640-h426/IMG_7643.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyxpwMRndJMyS0Qqpwe1niNPjBOAfx38KGcK_KtzU_Ac0EKohimSxlbFVtpqrLtfnoZ-793a4Esf1qoxUGrKvUr33W8ejISQut0MwGovXl0BPHjMvc3YXbqYJDIeQuG999_XbVrCJjhFyPL5RsmczJx_YivfweF-QWAcGKLD5Yro3jaCKc6_SoIajYw/s4939/IMG_7642.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4939" data-original-width="3293" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyxpwMRndJMyS0Qqpwe1niNPjBOAfx38KGcK_KtzU_Ac0EKohimSxlbFVtpqrLtfnoZ-793a4Esf1qoxUGrKvUr33W8ejISQut0MwGovXl0BPHjMvc3YXbqYJDIeQuG999_XbVrCJjhFyPL5RsmczJx_YivfweF-QWAcGKLD5Yro3jaCKc6_SoIajYw/w426-h640/IMG_7642.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br />That evening we drove through central Albany to reach the <a href="https://www.evansale.com/">C.H. Evans Brewing Company</a> at the Albany Pump Station for some local beer. The pump house was started in 1875 and reached its final form in 1895, with some 8,000 square feet of floor space and two massive cranes. It was taken out of service in 1932 and the brewery was opened there in 1999. There was an Evans Brewery in nearby Hudson, New York, which operated until 1920 and a descendant of that family business is owner of the brewery in Albany. There was an impressive range of craft beer on offer and some good pub grub too.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRy6LJdx3D3ikchbE8IZ6aNfWUPzOM74Qhlt9lGDgsVLymyo-T5okW9h_UvGJh7RcHfuX69vf67RXcvsgzWwMbqn7Vi-em5nRUeBRnr7XnnSmLtsBSI_4D-RqjiFMV57Twc99U9Fv1lyst1UvSrPxKDWugaGrIWmGKN-J02K0NSDm_v8KZ2y0auk5q7Q/s400/0El_ZWta_400x400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRy6LJdx3D3ikchbE8IZ6aNfWUPzOM74Qhlt9lGDgsVLymyo-T5okW9h_UvGJh7RcHfuX69vf67RXcvsgzWwMbqn7Vi-em5nRUeBRnr7XnnSmLtsBSI_4D-RqjiFMV57Twc99U9Fv1lyst1UvSrPxKDWugaGrIWmGKN-J02K0NSDm_v8KZ2y0auk5q7Q/w640-h640/0El_ZWta_400x400.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9UaEx1iWaLIsFecbeZFW7m9DmS0Td1msTNrCM6HWxyy6xgkihoWEJ2L_CXbpulsZXcfo0Xmu_5GxHTq6pkA9KL_sIkGF9djxCyO4sp56lLX7ytnXuRPv4jtsIZMAsm1LZeyc72b5SFqO2ZM-GImjxI1AQ0vsu_O2Uy0GtYlwEAip1Bw9kd3UnACmLlQ/s960/C.H.EvansBrewing2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="960" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9UaEx1iWaLIsFecbeZFW7m9DmS0Td1msTNrCM6HWxyy6xgkihoWEJ2L_CXbpulsZXcfo0Xmu_5GxHTq6pkA9KL_sIkGF9djxCyO4sp56lLX7ytnXuRPv4jtsIZMAsm1LZeyc72b5SFqO2ZM-GImjxI1AQ0vsu_O2Uy0GtYlwEAip1Bw9kd3UnACmLlQ/w640-h532/C.H.EvansBrewing2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well fed and watered, we returned to the Inn and sat on the front porch for a while. Across the street was Washington Park, a big urban green space that included a skateboard and BMX park. Each of the evenings we were there a group of motorcyclists rode up and down Madison Avenue, the main street in front of us, doing wheelies, going so vertical that sparks were coming from dragging tailpipes. Oddly, there was no reaction to this dangerous practice and we never saw a police car in the area although this seems to be a regular thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Saturday arrived with great weather so it was time to head to Connecticut and Lime Rock Park. It was just under 90 minutes and was a beautiful drive. After leaving the Thruway we were on the Taconic State Parkway, meandering through the hills before getting onto some narrow country roads, ideal for Corvette driving.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oEEWsW5hIimZ1VaUNIKvwgC5esZHpu_nZDDd0a2b_CsnnQkj-SqDZAtNTuTmGnYHMd7hsrJ68nxXCJHYqN49TMhEhg47h6PqvnTmh7ZhsPTmqWcbQzI9Z3_UrdDENLrEBrd0ApxpXraz_go5DUTXr_ed64ypYNPVIL4af-Tmvw3mjmPQZbLGGKBrrA/s744/Screenshot%20(61).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="744" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oEEWsW5hIimZ1VaUNIKvwgC5esZHpu_nZDDd0a2b_CsnnQkj-SqDZAtNTuTmGnYHMd7hsrJ68nxXCJHYqN49TMhEhg47h6PqvnTmh7ZhsPTmqWcbQzI9Z3_UrdDENLrEBrd0ApxpXraz_go5DUTXr_ed64ypYNPVIL4af-Tmvw3mjmPQZbLGGKBrrA/w640-h360/Screenshot%20(61).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4uUjc1IcTpJ7hgftdzIEEgulqQWehPF46v-jz3PPr-evpxPdkqI6q3f8bVdNjq8FoQS53EstkQPUXP452J_Od_8cuRLD5xRuhIpw4JbYxqteZElVqh_HACJye508OVg-9ktj2pwknyQRsUw2MzsgD1j-3R86XjohreDAfGk7Ck9G4_GNSponrhQwPVg/s5184/IMG_7719.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4uUjc1IcTpJ7hgftdzIEEgulqQWehPF46v-jz3PPr-evpxPdkqI6q3f8bVdNjq8FoQS53EstkQPUXP452J_Od_8cuRLD5xRuhIpw4JbYxqteZElVqh_HACJye508OVg-9ktj2pwknyQRsUw2MzsgD1j-3R86XjohreDAfGk7Ck9G4_GNSponrhQwPVg/w640-h426/IMG_7719.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNmYDgjMiHcVjgJrIKy5CYrRxcJfyCD2rbPd3JoT_d6hVL-RuivPQEAuLf5dQ_133c76ylmzM-w0-7Hj4an9C04NYTPssAoZSHXMdDUsZ4AKChP5HVrnSyO_NCgjk7MGq2ueu_HX7b8OeFc6JFeL_9gnvqKWLPK3qQnzmux65Ox3vxZH1GjoDarwWITw/s5184/IMG_7718.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNmYDgjMiHcVjgJrIKy5CYrRxcJfyCD2rbPd3JoT_d6hVL-RuivPQEAuLf5dQ_133c76ylmzM-w0-7Hj4an9C04NYTPssAoZSHXMdDUsZ4AKChP5HVrnSyO_NCgjk7MGq2ueu_HX7b8OeFc6JFeL_9gnvqKWLPK3qQnzmux65Ox3vxZH1GjoDarwWITw/w640-h426/IMG_7718.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>We passed through some very very small towns and then came to Interlaken, which seems to have the best landscaped prep school on the planet and reeks of money, before coming to Lakeville and Lime Rock Park. There was a huge lineup of cars but as holders of passes to the Corvette Corral we were able to sweep on on a back entrance and park among the others of our species. Unlike some of the other Corrals we have attended this was pretty much all we got for the extra money but we were happy enough not to sit in a traffic jam for an hour. 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Lime Rock Park does not have bleachers but given the naturally hilly environment there are plenty of places to set up a chair and get a good view of the track, which is set up in such a way that you can see several corners from one vantage point.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeAQ2nPf3ZtyWGqzb_v4Vqb7Ta4-KzTzy_RfYomuIyMd0BPDQzLF3Rxsy-f275LFGKxaTbBST5x4ZFZUvSMWba4doMF37I6TLcV7vu0Ez4ALGDgTz8V6o7PQWiJK9-D4elZ7ibHWpvHCILUTMtoVqeGqu-3q-tn8oDJkacq78E8qDbWz0gerSMEcMALg/s4546/IMG_7653.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2522" data-original-width="4546" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeAQ2nPf3ZtyWGqzb_v4Vqb7Ta4-KzTzy_RfYomuIyMd0BPDQzLF3Rxsy-f275LFGKxaTbBST5x4ZFZUvSMWba4doMF37I6TLcV7vu0Ez4ALGDgTz8V6o7PQWiJK9-D4elZ7ibHWpvHCILUTMtoVqeGqu-3q-tn8oDJkacq78E8qDbWz0gerSMEcMALg/w640-h356/IMG_7653.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQz5NdrfIkQWUNn98wvb2KNCGGvhClPy6eRG3unZB556C5OGDUI40S2isFLP_e66fz9zj41Etba0FtEGSfSQ3WkCtI-cbUkg-tSDJ0xwDOqc5JZSyheNO7RgP8W_Adyq_gPWDsjyztsSLk5Owaperc9r6AwMMBDURlanmtpiTu2Csk9xzuO0d6IdKoWQ/s5184/IMG_7649.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQz5NdrfIkQWUNn98wvb2KNCGGvhClPy6eRG3unZB556C5OGDUI40S2isFLP_e66fz9zj41Etba0FtEGSfSQ3WkCtI-cbUkg-tSDJ0xwDOqc5JZSyheNO7RgP8W_Adyq_gPWDsjyztsSLk5Owaperc9r6AwMMBDURlanmtpiTu2Csk9xzuO0d6IdKoWQ/w640-h426/IMG_7649.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zEKGTtA8Tjoo_S8kjv2kbpeEinIVhPRDPT7XId60L5pQyWPT-4KRCO2qNxvjbrArqfcIqq-htjCSCTeZ5WNbrDQE7BdpxFXaI79P3oYbCzrPD04M8gpg8D-aDdGZURw0b8IQRzAWDuqckLBKf-vUrxODyTGmE9CcoPpdEu-73HTV78g1eRfA6dV6Qw/s5184/IMG_7666.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zEKGTtA8Tjoo_S8kjv2kbpeEinIVhPRDPT7XId60L5pQyWPT-4KRCO2qNxvjbrArqfcIqq-htjCSCTeZ5WNbrDQE7BdpxFXaI79P3oYbCzrPD04M8gpg8D-aDdGZURw0b8IQRzAWDuqckLBKf-vUrxODyTGmE9CcoPpdEu-73HTV78g1eRfA6dV6Qw/w640-h426/IMG_7666.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After a short walk, including the covered bridge over the track, we arrived in the paddock area where there is always lots going on during race day, whether it is the Michelin people moving hundreds of tires around or the teams getting their cars prepped. Qualification was on Friday, which we did not see, and, alas, Corvette Racing's sole C8.R did not place very well, being in the back of the seven car GTD Pro class grid. In previous years we had seen Corvette Racing in the GTLM class but as participation in that class dwindled, leaving two C8.Rs and a private Porsche 911 only, IMSA changed the structure and allowed Corvette to enter a car in what is essentially the GT3 category, with cars that are available to privateers and not just factory entries. The GT Daytona Pro (GTD Pro) and GT Daytona (GTD) cars are identical, the only difference being that the GTD cars must have an "amateur" driver in the crew, the other being a professional.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4sj7BwDg7Sa-Agxnu1maaqkDVe6h2akAZ9POPlM8yZTIqC04ahr2qAD83QZM3GK1UBUveGtkCWdtvPf6PN8mdXoPoKGMd6xA8jIjGFEKxo3ZLcGuhsFjDD6qZqqTOUYYo9T1dQXi_zlEAIKSd7G9uQH8DeQWfixoulENsHuMprl9IeO-knn_2BsgoQ/s5184/IMG_7654.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4sj7BwDg7Sa-Agxnu1maaqkDVe6h2akAZ9POPlM8yZTIqC04ahr2qAD83QZM3GK1UBUveGtkCWdtvPf6PN8mdXoPoKGMd6xA8jIjGFEKxo3ZLcGuhsFjDD6qZqqTOUYYo9T1dQXi_zlEAIKSd7G9uQH8DeQWfixoulENsHuMprl9IeO-knn_2BsgoQ/w640-h426/IMG_7654.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Heart of Racing Team fielded two Aston Martin Vantage GT3s, one in each class, and were winners in both classes at the Watkins Glen race the week before</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Of course as proud Corvette owners we were there to see Corvette Racing and our timing was perfect as drivers Jordan Taylor (left) and Antonio Garcia (centre) in the photo below were signing posters of the C8.R. The week before the other Corvette Racing team car won the World Endurance Championship race at Monza in Italy but Corvette was struggling in the North American IMSA GTD Pro series a bit, sitting in second overall but some distance behind the dominant Porsche 911.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbF5dIs82jJk0ptufyJd9ScdJNiLvgw1FjyUbqxKrZQwBU7zCgdbfry6lzEhS040LBb9vWvYvW8MVxjtqWqxDz3C9Wl3bPw-WRGvSmcmj5KXKqkr0-GbAS3z8YOEe9ACWp-N_8qfDCYUo7qUE6qrQq9Vbva8ThmejKk-VapZzJidq7VWl63mdB6q5Sw/s4954/IMG_7658.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3302" data-original-width="4954" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbF5dIs82jJk0ptufyJd9ScdJNiLvgw1FjyUbqxKrZQwBU7zCgdbfry6lzEhS040LBb9vWvYvW8MVxjtqWqxDz3C9Wl3bPw-WRGvSmcmj5KXKqkr0-GbAS3z8YOEe9ACWp-N_8qfDCYUo7qUE6qrQq9Vbva8ThmejKk-VapZzJidq7VWl63mdB6q5Sw/w640-h426/IMG_7658.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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At US$2.4 million for a base car (and all are sold with lots of options) it stood out among the mega-cars. This car participated in the Pagani Raduno rally in Texas in 2021.</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><br /></div><div>But soon it was time for the race to begin and after looking at the concession stands and the usual souvenirs, we went back to our hill and set up our folding chairs, first passing the Lime Rock Park administration building and then seeing a number of cars, from the GTD class but also the other IMSA classes of Grand Sport and Touring Car, being towed through the paddock area.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7y-NYVueEszGnYzFmydx44NC3rvH_S997oVs2DvjkWMcOqRyVtkPujd1TsohtsqdX3DORrSxj03HMrJjNdypJJERko-SPUp8Db-QiFuhbVSLCeu_Db19l9BqbHkFJKDREX-S7hY2lIJIA7AgIwxK29JfPo5yZjAmq77qKZ0X5FZeHGwNkh9kqR8Xlg/s3580/IMG_7690.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2386" data-original-width="3580" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7y-NYVueEszGnYzFmydx44NC3rvH_S997oVs2DvjkWMcOqRyVtkPujd1TsohtsqdX3DORrSxj03HMrJjNdypJJERko-SPUp8Db-QiFuhbVSLCeu_Db19l9BqbHkFJKDREX-S7hY2lIJIA7AgIwxK29JfPo5yZjAmq77qKZ0X5FZeHGwNkh9kqR8Xlg/w640-h426/IMG_7690.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UEtukIRMHk_QGle2KOVnaHeIWE1HbZYT2rfOi_Jj49qryFzzu921EprfPfkHXl8WOvE13KyEv-cloVlqXMZ8RjzQQ-VTtjBdKiBDkRhCPsXZGkE-a0FAH5YBYjWGwKXpnxweUc8M441mTCAaGMKKGq9OnBxtOgeJJCTbVZGUOlnhs0WbWERrXQmt5Q/s3703/IMG_7691.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2469" data-original-width="3703" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UEtukIRMHk_QGle2KOVnaHeIWE1HbZYT2rfOi_Jj49qryFzzu921EprfPfkHXl8WOvE13KyEv-cloVlqXMZ8RjzQQ-VTtjBdKiBDkRhCPsXZGkE-a0FAH5YBYjWGwKXpnxweUc8M441mTCAaGMKKGq9OnBxtOgeJJCTbVZGUOlnhs0WbWERrXQmt5Q/w640-h426/IMG_7691.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Corvette C8.R, GTD Pro</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: left;">Before the race began at 3:10 pm, there were three cars on the track, including a Porsche 911 and a Mercedes-AMG GT giving hot laps to some lucky (or terrified) passengers:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwGT-nHJvPoa3Ch5_VeRIrdjr9RvZsxbqD_wLelVRRj5ZFdDy5snf-ObPmPCfuAtrLWe_oYYO3Qv5br_34vyCOneCrfQ9b_HYb6aUFkjp-o20DQijI4RH7gjZ-Wp_JBZC9w1OHdkgZFDFxHJ2neyrLe7gQEz8Q_BR-Nq3BYJw_8OLPmuZ6gkRJ2d6U3Q/s3459/IMG_7705.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2306" data-original-width="3459" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwGT-nHJvPoa3Ch5_VeRIrdjr9RvZsxbqD_wLelVRRj5ZFdDy5snf-ObPmPCfuAtrLWe_oYYO3Qv5br_34vyCOneCrfQ9b_HYb6aUFkjp-o20DQijI4RH7gjZ-Wp_JBZC9w1OHdkgZFDFxHJ2neyrLe7gQEz8Q_BR-Nq3BYJw_8OLPmuZ6gkRJ2d6U3Q/w640-h426/IMG_7705.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There was some excitement towards the end as the Rick Ware Racing Acura piled into tire wall and there was a safety delay as it was extricated, allowing other competitors to catch up to the Porsche but it was in vain as when racing restarted it easily left the field behind. The Corvette, with its flat plane crank V8 engine, sounded fantastic and was making up some places when there was a collision with one of the Mercedes-AMGs and although the C8.R came back into the race, it took so long to fix the suspension in the pits that it was never in contention. Alas.</div><div><br /></div><div>At least we could drown our sorrows and enjoy a beer while watching the race: a Lime Rock Park Lager, an exclusive craft beer made for the track by Great Falls Brewing Company of Canaan, Connecticut!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2cJFQ1hnR41J_l3WQnPU2YqbUHwe9aaalDmno4Xf9LaAKsHD74V1IFoDbAXYZgoGGjTNk2V20gPA89Y7S28WFj9E4neaiAemNiRE5Cd_OGm_u8TKBpr8ouEk5txNDVDIooNULl2ferC7VOCcnu2VsoNr3BH9wsJJqor48fOEhUw5rw88KiqvyoyJDg/s5184/IMG_7742.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2cJFQ1hnR41J_l3WQnPU2YqbUHwe9aaalDmno4Xf9LaAKsHD74V1IFoDbAXYZgoGGjTNk2V20gPA89Y7S28WFj9E4neaiAemNiRE5Cd_OGm_u8TKBpr8ouEk5txNDVDIooNULl2ferC7VOCcnu2VsoNr3BH9wsJJqor48fOEhUw5rw88KiqvyoyJDg/w266-h400/IMG_7742.JPG" width="266" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTEOx-Q6vrQHNNrOrUR1zVXBlvSJd-N8S7zzPI8_zp-npvRbzTeOWuhKD5xTtWzGmSMkp0drV7I1Q6BkjLJuDVLJt2MyBk8E2BHa0FljNY50mjv36UEQ-NBuUf931Y-xaMqAD7JFbtkeoZwchM-_NqhrevkG05wFmA-s-obYyGQ1a4kvgwzx_m4WWeQ/s5184/IMG_7743.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTEOx-Q6vrQHNNrOrUR1zVXBlvSJd-N8S7zzPI8_zp-npvRbzTeOWuhKD5xTtWzGmSMkp0drV7I1Q6BkjLJuDVLJt2MyBk8E2BHa0FljNY50mjv36UEQ-NBuUf931Y-xaMqAD7JFbtkeoZwchM-_NqhrevkG05wFmA-s-obYyGQ1a4kvgwzx_m4WWeQ/w266-h400/IMG_7743.JPG" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is the brewery's description: "Cold, velvety and easy to drink, Lime Rock Park Lager is a Pilsner Style Lager brewed with these three main ingredients: pilsner malt, flaked brown rice, and Crystal hops. This “cruising beer” was designed to be enjoyed in the infield, outfield, and winners circle."</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLk2clc3_DbFjY0WMi6CrAPGznpDVKzwHr0qduDf4GZIXSrvVH5yigOM4dWk502y3_ZWj4eILaBKh9s-CZ4oYdvYcxSwJfg8h6fQCFdm9pbVKi1TmHkBEGMule0XPovdyD7TMHSbdu78BOF_MyHYO7pydg_LhcjYoU3QIT5IvP357mn4AU0Dgj6RPGpA/s2615/IMG_7708.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1743" data-original-width="2615" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLk2clc3_DbFjY0WMi6CrAPGznpDVKzwHr0qduDf4GZIXSrvVH5yigOM4dWk502y3_ZWj4eILaBKh9s-CZ4oYdvYcxSwJfg8h6fQCFdm9pbVKi1TmHkBEGMule0XPovdyD7TMHSbdu78BOF_MyHYO7pydg_LhcjYoU3QIT5IvP357mn4AU0Dgj6RPGpA/w640-h426/IMG_7708.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmISVz4gEzy_O88UYr-zP0PUjpaqItC57WtO63A4RDu_hAids_OA6WEymYyWEVXs8QLdzEPwB8ppwiNNvcROIChNpuq68kuu1jL_QNaPyxCA7-crssPg3-7RVDktTLoyMO511cuZSF9KKPB9O4Nm6nqXop-fcXzxdjinx47ZvU2-OCBr9fJrdo1WJ-A/s3058/IMG_7710.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2039" data-original-width="3058" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmISVz4gEzy_O88UYr-zP0PUjpaqItC57WtO63A4RDu_hAids_OA6WEymYyWEVXs8QLdzEPwB8ppwiNNvcROIChNpuq68kuu1jL_QNaPyxCA7-crssPg3-7RVDktTLoyMO511cuZSF9KKPB9O4Nm6nqXop-fcXzxdjinx47ZvU2-OCBr9fJrdo1WJ-A/w640-h426/IMG_7710.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTEhsG1qo4uxVLOPr9X3MV-GQD3Q8vdAN2XVHtqQT3XKVRnudMSddBGtKKmc-JE5Eb4HU7NSFt3SL3xnduEocsM4jbS9pDVl0ALcRGSpWnQHLT5iPA09dL7NHxzzHi6i2OAoBMxbV6phRuJPjhkG0CAw-mfWuIUAzeIdkvycFrQRYcOtCeq8g_XK1zg/s1376/IMG_7711.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1376" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTEhsG1qo4uxVLOPr9X3MV-GQD3Q8vdAN2XVHtqQT3XKVRnudMSddBGtKKmc-JE5Eb4HU7NSFt3SL3xnduEocsM4jbS9pDVl0ALcRGSpWnQHLT5iPA09dL7NHxzzHi6i2OAoBMxbV6phRuJPjhkG0CAw-mfWuIUAzeIdkvycFrQRYcOtCeq8g_XK1zg/w640-h426/IMG_7711.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNTfWe2P7GLQ_SypCmjHHtKmua4YT8ySNocYufSScMS8ybKK7KxzLOQiXEHJwtXmaVYckzkps1JVHQbKVrF0aOntsvehIbJlIRJt5clCE2q8yR3W7-lB23dZuG-n0amLKM_KOMrT6pKngV1NV2Pw_fK82mudj5K5ErmfzCVZo6gYQpFEqDiOduuc4bmw/s5184/IMG_7713.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNTfWe2P7GLQ_SypCmjHHtKmua4YT8ySNocYufSScMS8ybKK7KxzLOQiXEHJwtXmaVYckzkps1JVHQbKVrF0aOntsvehIbJlIRJt5clCE2q8yR3W7-lB23dZuG-n0amLKM_KOMrT6pKngV1NV2Pw_fK82mudj5K5ErmfzCVZo6gYQpFEqDiOduuc4bmw/w640-h426/IMG_7713.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zEKGTtA8Tjoo_S8kjv2kbpeEinIVhPRDPT7XId60L5pQyWPT-4KRCO2qNxvjbrArqfcIqq-htjCSCTeZ5WNbrDQE7BdpxFXaI79P3oYbCzrPD04M8gpg8D-aDdGZURw0b8IQRzAWDuqckLBKf-vUrxODyTGmE9CcoPpdEu-73HTV78g1eRfA6dV6Qw/s5184/IMG_7666.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zEKGTtA8Tjoo_S8kjv2kbpeEinIVhPRDPT7XId60L5pQyWPT-4KRCO2qNxvjbrArqfcIqq-htjCSCTeZ5WNbrDQE7BdpxFXaI79P3oYbCzrPD04M8gpg8D-aDdGZURw0b8IQRzAWDuqckLBKf-vUrxODyTGmE9CcoPpdEu-73HTV78g1eRfA6dV6Qw/w640-h426/IMG_7666.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Returning to Albany, we enjoyed a Mexican restaurant for dinner and then turned in for the night. I had an uneventful trip back to Ottawa, stopping along the way in the Mohawk Valley to look at the Erie Canal. I plan to cycle the distance of it in the near future.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIojd3uoxfnSOS8irNk3mFUz-0ekpLK4qbkq1Byi3vWFWU1XgtiinS2W6NlU763jb3M4LpTovoOlwpY6BkZb56kid0Uj8jgoxTfxMdHs050IQJe2rS9yKCa-6J6v5MBV2QvxL7mSrpQoL1suNhBTxLvB0c2H4WvHDLgKcvyT8KQuSAX3mEZ4QtLdUtqw/s5184/IMG_7722.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIojd3uoxfnSOS8irNk3mFUz-0ekpLK4qbkq1Byi3vWFWU1XgtiinS2W6NlU763jb3M4LpTovoOlwpY6BkZb56kid0Uj8jgoxTfxMdHs050IQJe2rS9yKCa-6J6v5MBV2QvxL7mSrpQoL1suNhBTxLvB0c2H4WvHDLgKcvyT8KQuSAX3mEZ4QtLdUtqw/w640-h426/IMG_7722.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtiNKmM7qRL7rZ9sQ1O6iWXifPVfKMzjPzC4EYMNz2utmXRGhpALe6jUyJ5EKddIEz8alEjsAVvVTndobwEYPLdCHLMvWlmIP9lDjUC-y2kdC5LdBmten8GqNVZFxafBGAETvT1gh-_W0m-kEQMRx03eR1tYKGckz9c49GqyN0HmYa1NwX7UjWf8W6Q/s5184/IMG_7724.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtiNKmM7qRL7rZ9sQ1O6iWXifPVfKMzjPzC4EYMNz2utmXRGhpALe6jUyJ5EKddIEz8alEjsAVvVTndobwEYPLdCHLMvWlmIP9lDjUC-y2kdC5LdBmten8GqNVZFxafBGAETvT1gh-_W0m-kEQMRx03eR1tYKGckz9c49GqyN0HmYa1NwX7UjWf8W6Q/w640-h426/IMG_7724.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ZHTW2UYCCf1lrrWo1Lwo_BtZZtXH_4I5yXo2WpKZmPxwFRlqj77lscIAGwQZLtIYEisd6_2qJAfmxZ93Rrop-NcHmF8JYPA7gat12apMaA1u2_G1QtZ9Y91TZ27qq4aGIKPKJ5ZZ1XoLz_u6DTTjoFKWaU7BQKG3PJXR1AgH81tmu0caGeVB4LHhqw/s5184/IMG_7731.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ZHTW2UYCCf1lrrWo1Lwo_BtZZtXH_4I5yXo2WpKZmPxwFRlqj77lscIAGwQZLtIYEisd6_2qJAfmxZ93Rrop-NcHmF8JYPA7gat12apMaA1u2_G1QtZ9Y91TZ27qq4aGIKPKJ5ZZ1XoLz_u6DTTjoFKWaU7BQKG3PJXR1AgH81tmu0caGeVB4LHhqw/w640-h426/IMG_7731.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7rcVphH2k_MkFX_YfUyII8muK0B64Ng_iTiTNdirEVTIaFNUNOYXIDmwTMIgJIg1vpvZ_2EP4gcLtvILdhUrV8_aS_l1oT390wTi-gkmVZVsiTHearvZ-GDZOZpqbHUPQgkgK4hkHdi6_u2xDSXP2N3EqgVguSwnLD1VO24gOBMYG6X4gaS5f8-yEZQ/s5184/IMG_7734.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7rcVphH2k_MkFX_YfUyII8muK0B64Ng_iTiTNdirEVTIaFNUNOYXIDmwTMIgJIg1vpvZ_2EP4gcLtvILdhUrV8_aS_l1oT390wTi-gkmVZVsiTHearvZ-GDZOZpqbHUPQgkgK4hkHdi6_u2xDSXP2N3EqgVguSwnLD1VO24gOBMYG6X4gaS5f8-yEZQ/w640-h426/IMG_7734.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">A playground at the welcome center invoking memories of the canal as it was</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTpzlV544zCUZni3pmtdi7APclru9T8d77ifNYxgmmAoY2bptipHOXrJFnq5yxelB_ZTPo2tgz1xkYc4M31kb406wwubIL28fodb7sENqFGLSKfbtpl4EL-oFjK3tmMBTqcb6Mivvd65nbNFLa2w_KeJxbRIxNc4YHlcjsLRskWc0JN0sO0NkBMMhBSw/s4822/IMG_7735.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3214" data-original-width="4822" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTpzlV544zCUZni3pmtdi7APclru9T8d77ifNYxgmmAoY2bptipHOXrJFnq5yxelB_ZTPo2tgz1xkYc4M31kb406wwubIL28fodb7sENqFGLSKfbtpl4EL-oFjK3tmMBTqcb6Mivvd65nbNFLa2w_KeJxbRIxNc4YHlcjsLRskWc0JN0sO0NkBMMhBSw/w640-h426/IMG_7735.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div>It was a great weekend and the original blistering hot weather forecast was moderated by clouds so it was comfortable at the track. It was fun to watch the experts on the track but it was fun too to enjoy our Corvettes on some beautiful roads.</div>Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-36811231859897536232020-06-25T12:00:00.006-07:002020-06-26T12:18:38.245-07:00On The Road Again: Ottawa Region Craft Breweries Tour Continued--June 25, 2020With the unprecedented lockdown of the province (and the world) thanks to the Covid-19 virus, there have been few opportunities to take out the Corvette as car events have been cancelled and most cafes or restaurants are not yet open for business. However, craft brewers have been able to offer pick-up sales for retail customers and taking advantage of this my friend Karl and I set out to visit a number of breweries in the western end of Ottawa we had not tried before. I believe this would be our fourth such tour--it is hard to keep up as new breweries are constantly opening in the National Capital Region.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FiclRJCKtNI/XvY6fp2BTJI/AAAAAAAAbKY/CtccI8c3x5Udwr-YggOeqpgDj4X34J_hACK4BGAsYHg/s4399/IMG_7382.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2933" data-original-width="4399" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FiclRJCKtNI/XvY6fp2BTJI/AAAAAAAAbKY/CtccI8c3x5Udwr-YggOeqpgDj4X34J_hACK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7382.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9bbh0GliPAc/XvY5aIZi0iI/AAAAAAAAbJ8/SoDC9boGhOg8GBQgfPuW5_mfBKogU9aeQCK4BGAsYHg/s4731/IMG_7383.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3154" data-original-width="4731" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9bbh0GliPAc/XvY5aIZi0iI/AAAAAAAAbJ8/SoDC9boGhOg8GBQgfPuW5_mfBKogU9aeQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7383.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First up was Evergreen Craft Ales on Silver Seven Road in Kanata. Like many craft brewers here, it occupied a unit in an row of commercial buildings, more retail than industrial. There was a selection of four different beers and the Red Rye Ale looked interesting, so I took a pair of those plus two Raspberry wheat. We chatted with the saleslady, who was excited that their big new outdoor patio would soon be open.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxTztVA9NWQ/XvY7P5oUErI/AAAAAAAAbKs/VavfQ3TowMsL4WHmjeofQIy-_D-fXkscgCK4BGAsYHg/s1189/RedRyeAle_2x_83e48d63-ed93-4377-9129-fecfcfd22177.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="1189" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxTztVA9NWQ/XvY7P5oUErI/AAAAAAAAbKs/VavfQ3TowMsL4WHmjeofQIy-_D-fXkscgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h640/RedRyeAle_2x_83e48d63-ed93-4377-9129-fecfcfd22177.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fet6nCVrc9s/XvY8mbTWNpI/AAAAAAAAbLY/kFmHnmADHocXIIUY1cWC3t_j5EwIhOS7QCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/IMG_7384.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fet6nCVrc9s/XvY8mbTWNpI/AAAAAAAAbLY/kFmHnmADHocXIIUY1cWC3t_j5EwIhOS7QCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7384.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gXYocQL5-2o/XvY8n7E4O8I/AAAAAAAAbLc/kuWoOwKgiOUggdiE7AXnpRPlBtbc3i7DgCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/IMG_7385.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gXYocQL5-2o/XvY8n7E4O8I/AAAAAAAAbLc/kuWoOwKgiOUggdiE7AXnpRPlBtbc3i7DgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7385.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrN0fa4wpTo/XvY8qCT-9oI/AAAAAAAAbLg/9T6bQMAVzRwrkVkOVKmyBPP4s2dE0GAxwCK4BGAsYHg/s4971/IMG_7386.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3314" data-original-width="4971" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrN0fa4wpTo/XvY8qCT-9oI/AAAAAAAAbLg/9T6bQMAVzRwrkVkOVKmyBPP4s2dE0GAxwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7386.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our travels next took us to Covered Bridge Brewing in Stittsville, which was established in 2013. We chatted for a while with the cheerful brewer and each had a small glass of beer to sample. In the end we came away with some of the excellent Irish Red beer, a Balgian Quad and a novelty--a pilsner made with Sea Buckthorn fruit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k79migPbWu8/XvZA2Gsk4EI/AAAAAAAAbMg/ZiGQ3LiRKBot8xQP0xvKUy3LMAfd4-48gCK4BGAsYHg/s4846/IMG_7387.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3231" data-original-width="4846" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k79migPbWu8/XvZA2Gsk4EI/AAAAAAAAbMg/ZiGQ3LiRKBot8xQP0xvKUy3LMAfd4-48gCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7387.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0fhrturHbys/XvZA3Q1eO-I/AAAAAAAAbMk/R3OFK-hmA5g2hwJs3u1qRUoCJRe3dkBnwCK4BGAsYHg/s4259/IMG_7389.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2839" data-original-width="4259" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0fhrturHbys/XvZA3Q1eO-I/AAAAAAAAbMk/R3OFK-hmA5g2hwJs3u1qRUoCJRe3dkBnwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7389.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wh_RqGV2noA/XvZA5K_Y_zI/AAAAAAAAbMo/O0q0jZLjq2AI3ISAA2gqx6hDVs50lA-EwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/IMG_7390.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wh_RqGV2noA/XvZA5K_Y_zI/AAAAAAAAbMo/O0q0jZLjq2AI3ISAA2gqx6hDVs50lA-EwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7390.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CkGIbi8BzNI/XvZA6qHbhZI/AAAAAAAAbMs/ppOgKav3C9MlTWdDQpJRJE5D9UAaA05YgCK4BGAsYHg/s4606/IMG_7391.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3071" data-original-width="4606" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CkGIbi8BzNI/XvZA6qHbhZI/AAAAAAAAbMs/ppOgKav3C9MlTWdDQpJRJE5D9UAaA05YgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/IMG_7391.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F_7cxh1AkZ0/XvZBez7Y4zI/AAAAAAAAbNI/fiMsitWHE94ENAwoREI0aMjhCvrEY8lhgCK4BGAsYHg/s378/buckthorn_InPixio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="301" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F_7cxh1AkZ0/XvZBez7Y4zI/AAAAAAAAbNI/fiMsitWHE94ENAwoREI0aMjhCvrEY8lhgCK4BGAsYHg/w510-h640/buckthorn_InPixio.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We turned the car eastwards now towards Bell's Corners and soon came to our third brewery, Whiprsnapr Brewing Company. Another small location in an industrial building, it has a patio as well. The selection of beers available was limited but novel, including an "ISA," which is an "Indian Session Ale," an Indian Pale Ale with reduced hop bitterness and fairly low alcohol. The Whiprsnapr version included lactose to make a light summer "milkshake" beer with 0% IBU. 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Kitchesippi Beer Co. One of the city's older craft breweries, Kitchesippi recently moved into new and expanded quarters in a former car dealership and was the largest of the breweries we visited. Its name comes from that used to denote the Ottawa River until 1855. 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Our tour successfully completed for the day, we headed back to the highway and went to Almonte and <a href="https://joesitaliankitchen.ca/">Joe's Italian Kitchen</a> for some excellent pizza from the wood-fired oven.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-83754333672848196092020-04-28T13:23:00.000-07:002020-04-28T13:23:36.959-07:00Tuque de Broue's C3 LagerWe are currently in the Great Lockdown as the Covid-19 virus stalks the country. Non-essential businesses are closed for the moment but take-out is still available at restaurants. One of our favourite craft brewers, <a href="http://www.tuquedebroue.ca/en/">Tuque de Broue</a>, east of Ottawa in Embrun, Ontario, offers curbside pickup at their store as well as delivery. Today they announced their latest beer, C3 Lager, which marks the 45th Anniversary of the Capital Corvette Club. Luckily our C6 is back on insurance coverage on Saturday so I know where I will be going on the first drive of 2020!<br />
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Considered amongst the greatest racing drivers of his generation (and the finest Formula 1 World Champion who never was), Stirling Moss passed away quietly at home today. Famed as a Grand Prix competitor as well as a sports car racer, Moss did have a fleeting connection to Corvette as the photo above shows. He is standing with Zora Arkus-Duntov at the 1957 12 Hours of Sebring road race, where Duntov let him drive the Corvette SS practice car but not the actual magnesium-bodied racer as Moss had a reputation for being hard on cars and the Corvette SS. Moss came second in the race with Harry Schell in a Maserati 300S behind the winning Maserati 450S of Fangio/Behra, while the Corvette SS failed to finish.</div>
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From the book "Star-Spangled Sportscar," a history of the first three generations of Corvette, it seems that the practice car, an engineering "mule," may have become the basis for the famous Bill Mitchell-designed Stingray Racer of 1959, that in turn heavily influenced the design of the iconic 1963 production Corvette. The chassis was sold to Mitchell for a mere $500 but he eventually was required to return it to GM.<br />
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1959 was the year that Stirling Moss was photographed at Riverside International Raceway with "Miss Corvette," British model June Wilkinson, who was a discovery of <i>Playboy</i>'s Hugh Hefner and one of the world's most photographed women in the late 1950s and early 1960s.</div>
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In 1966 racing enthusiast Laurie Craig became the first Canadian to win an overall event title and trophy in an unmodified street car when he drove his 1964 Corvette to a remarkable victory at the Player's Pacific Race on May 15 against an international field that included McLarens, Ford GTs, Porsches, Brabhams, and other purpose-built racers. After the race, Stirling Moss drove a lap of the Westwood Race Track in the Corvette and signed a photo for Mr. Craig.</div>
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Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-84953996987317937612020-02-19T07:04:00.000-08:002020-02-19T07:07:02.368-08:00Detailed Review of the Revolutionary C8 CorvetteAlthough we saw the new C8 on static display at Corvettes at Carlisle and at the National Corvette Museum's 25th Anniversary event in Bowling Green in August, the first cars for customers are only being produced now in February 2020 and first deliveries will take place soon. This video came out today and is a very good overview of the car. Still pictures do not do the car justice.<br />
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The title of the video suggests the C8 will be strong competition for Ferrari, Porsche, and McLaren. I do not think this is the case for the first two cars although it could be for McLaren. People who want Ferraris and Porsches (especially 911s) want those cars for reasons beyond performance only. However, there are number of other sports cars (Cayman, Supra, Z4, even NSX) that will feel the pressure. The Corvette offers impressive performance, a beautiful interior and a degree of practicality at a very competitive price.Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-28228420095983905432020-01-17T17:39:00.001-08:002020-01-17T17:39:19.945-08:00January 17, 1953: The Corvette Revealed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was 67 years ago today that the Corvette was first revealed to an enthusiastic world when a prototype was shown at General Motors' Motorama show at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The first production car came out of the plant in Flint, Michigan on June 30, 1953 and America's Sports Car became a reality.</div>
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Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-47117462891285455382019-12-27T06:21:00.001-08:002019-12-27T06:21:14.517-08:00Genovation GXE CorvetteI have seen the Genovation GXE at two different car events. Although it has a very fancy interior and some extra lights, it looks like a customized C7 Corvette but watching it whistle to a new electric car speed record is much more impressive!
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After enjoying several days of nice weather for our extended Corvette Racing Weekend events, Sunday, October 27 did not start off well. Leaving Hershey for Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a drive of about 45 minutes, we ran into some massive downpours. This was unfortunate as our destination was Corvettes for Chip, an annual car show with indoor and outdoor displays. Hosted by the York County Corvette Club, it raises money for the Chip Miller Foundation. Miller, one of the co-founders of Carlisle Events (and the huge Corvettes at Carlisle held each August), died in March 2004 after being diagnosed three months earlier with a very rare illness, amyloidosis, which causes an abnormal protein buildup in tissue and organs. Only a few thousand people in the United States are diagnosed with it each year. </div>
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Enormous effort and considerable expense went into this yellow C6 show car and its owner was proud to tell us about all the parts that were added. The hood features a "ghost" paint job with the Corvette Racing "Jake" logo, although you have to stand at the right angle to catch the light in order to see it. The flying buttresses on the rear window were something we had never seen before.</div>
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This C4, in the rather rare Polo Green exterior colour, was a ZR-1 model, featuring the spectacular Lotus-designed LT5 with four overhead cams and 32 valves. Introduced in 1990, the car was produced until 1995 and cost nearly twice as much as a non-ZR-1 Corvette at the time. The LT5's output was raised from the 375 hp at introduction to 405 hp by 1993. Nearly 7,000 ZR-1s were built over the six years of production but the cost of the car, coupled with the development of the LS-series of pushrod V8s with equivalent power at a much lower price, spelled the end. The C4 ZR-1 was used for some record-setting endurance drives at a track in 1990, demonstrating the robustness of the LT5 engine.</div>
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The 350 cu. in. LT1 engine was introduced in 1992 and produced 300 hp in the Corvette. The engine was used until the end of C4 production in 1996.</div>
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Of course the highlight of the show for us was the presence of Corvette Racing's C5-R, Chassis No. 004. Altogether there were ten C5-Rs built for the team (with an additional one going to a privateer) and the car, developed by Pratt & Miller, was raced from 1999 until 2004, when it was followed by the C6-R. This particular C5-R was raced to a GTS class win at the Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta in 2000, then second in class at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2001. The car has been restored to its Daytona appearance, when it was raced by a team of four drivers, including the father-and-son combo of Dale Earnhardt and Dale Jr.</div>
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The car is part of the collection owned by Lance Miller, son of Chip Miller, who gave a talk at the Corvette Racing Weekend about the 1960 Corvette raced at Le Mans to a class win that year, and he was present at this show as well. We chatted with him about the C5-R and unprompted he asked if we wanted to sit in it. Having been to watch Corvette Racing in action three times, and attended the Corvette Racing Weekend twice, there was no need to be asked twice! Definitely worth driving in the rain for the chance to open the door, climb over the massive roll cage and settle in behind that massive 7 litre 610 hp engine. A wonderful experience just to sit in it!</div>
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Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-74713601279537936812019-10-26T17:30:00.000-07:002020-02-14T12:26:16.790-08:00Return to the AACA Museum, Hershey, Pennsylvania--October 26, 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The 2019 Corvette Racing Weekend was held at the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and during the event we were not only regaled with Corvette stories but had the opportunity to wander around the museum itself and look at the cars on display. </div>
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This was our third time visiting the museum so we took the occasion to look at the cars on display that were part of a changing exhibition rather than go back to see cars we had done before, such as the impressive Tucker wing. From May 18 to October 20 the museum had featured "Studebaker Cool" and we were fortunate that many of the cars were still present from that South Bend manufacturer. While we had seen some of the cars during our visit to the National Studebaker Museum in August 2018, there were some additional fine examples loaned by collectors, along with other unrelated makes of cars exhibited.</div>
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In 1927 Studebaker its "President" line of cars, aimed at the higher end of the market and 1931 marked the introduction of a new nine bearing eight cylinder inline engine with numerous advanced features, producing 122 hp. Studebaker had enjoyed some success on the track and a racer special with this engine actually unexpectedly took the pole position at that year's Indianapolis 500. This car features the newly-introduced four seasons convertible body, conceived in consultation with noted designer Ray Dietrich, and is considered the high-water mark for Studebaker in the Classic Era. 6,340 President 80 cars were built in 1931 but he President line existed only from 1928 to 1933, when financial setbacks resulting from the Great Depression, led to Studebaker going into receivership. These cars are the only examples from this company to be categorized as Full Classics by the Classic Car Club of America. Only 54 Four Seasons Roadsters are currently known.</div>
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Although it had not offered a convertible since 1934 and the type was not profitable in any event, to keep up with its competitors and promote showroom traffic Studebaker introduced the handsomely-styled Convertible Cruising Sedan in for the Commander and President lines in 1938. Given the situation in the 1930s with respect to authoritarian governments, Studebaker changed the name of its Dictator model to Commander, and the previous Commander line became the State Commander. The body shape was developed in consultation with Raymond Loewy, who had done (and would continue to do) considerable design work for Studebaker. The body, which ended up on 233 Commanders and 93 Presidents in 1938, actually used components originally meant for the Cord 810/812. A car like the one on display would have cost $1,365 when new.</div>
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Similar to the grey car in the museum's entrance area, this red car was another example of the most desired of all Studebaker classics. It was a "four seasons" car as it was a convertible offering roll-up side windows. This example was the end product of a 27 year restoration project and was completed to the highest accuracy possible.</div>
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Studebaker sales continued to plunge in 1932 with only 4,100 Commanders sold, and this coupe is the only known remaining example with this body. Selling for $1,455, this model featured an eight cylinder engine putting out 101 hp. All Commanders had safety glass, synchronized gear shifting, chrome (as in this car) or painted artillery wheels, and a vacuum advance for the distributor.</div>
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E-M-F was a pioneering American car company that produced vehicles from 1909 until 1912, founded by three men who had come from elsewhere in the industry: Everitt was a custom coachbuilder from Detroit, while Metzger came from Cadillac and Flanders had been Henry Ford's production manager. The company had an arrangement to sell its cars through Studebaker wagon dealerships and even opened a branch plant in Walkerville, Ontario in late 1909. Due to serious quality issues, Studebaker ended up sending mechanics to unsatisfied owners to repair their cars at a cost of over $1 million. In spite of the problems, the cars actually sold well, putting E-M-F as the fourth biggest car company in the United States. Studebaker subsequently bought out E-M-F and by 1913 its name had disappeared from the cars, henceforth known only as Studebakers. Which was a good idea, as the E-M-F cars received many derogatory nicknames based on the initials: Every Mechanic's Friend; Eternally Missing Fire; and Every Morning Fix-it, among others.</div>
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In 1995 this car became the first vehicle donated to the AACA Museum. Begun in 1888 and completed in 1896, it was the first automobile in the United States to be built from scratch rather than based on an existed carriage. The engine was built by William O. Worth and the remainder by the Bauschke Brothers of Benton Harbor, Michigan, the latter claiming to have been experimenting with horseless carriages since 1884, but in any event it appears that the builders never advanced beyond the prototype stage. However, William O. Worth went on to become involved with building commercial vehicle with the Chicago Motor Vehicle Company, which went bankrupt in 1904, Worth then moved on to Evansville, Indiana as a consultant to the Single Center Buggy Company, whose original motorcar plans failed but which then considered a high-wheeler to Worth's design. Worth refused to make some suggested changes and went off in a huff to start his own Worth Motor Car Manufacturing Company in Evansville. The company moved to Kankakee, Illinois, but was evicted for failure to pay its factory rent, finally going bankrupt in 1910. Such were the fortunes of automotive pioneers...</div>
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The 354 cu. in. six cylinder engine in this car was produced from 1918 until 1927. It produced 36 hp and was noted for its reliability. These Studebakers were sturdy cars and used a three speed transmission (plus one gear for reverse) and were able to deal with the poor roads of the time. As roads improved, these early high-torque engines were not really suited to the increased speeds possible on better roads.</div>
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Another example of a six cylinder Studebaker, albeit one with an engine rated at 60 hp, this car was originally maroon in colour but was repainted to look like a taxi when restored in the 1990s. It had been on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn from 1968 until sold in 1984. The current owner acquired the car in 2011 but it has only been driven an additional 1,000 miles in the intervening eight years.</div>
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Introduced in 1920, the Light Six was a popular motoring choice post World War I, featuring a smooth and economical six cylinder 205 cu. in. engine of 40 hp By 1923 more than 150,000 Light Sixes had been built in South Bend, with four body styles available. Mechanical brakes were fitted to the rear wheels only, typical of the time when manufacturers still had doubts about the safety of front brakes.</div>
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This interesting car was Studebaker's foray into aerodynamic styling and was introduced at the 1933 Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair. It echoed some of the styling themes of the Pierce Arrow Silver Arrow, which was also presented at the fair (Pierce Arrow being a subsidiary of Studebaker at the time). The company was facing financial problems and in early 1933 had gone into receivership, although the designs for both the Land Cruiser and Silver Arrow had been approved before then. Pierce Arrow was spun off to new owners in 1933 but only survived five more years.</div>
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The Land Cruiser was less radical than the contemporary Chrysler Airflow and was priced around 15% higher than the conventional Studebaker models at $1510. First sold on the higher-end President chassis, the body style was extended to the Commander and Dictator series soon after in 1935. The Land Cruiser, with the industry's first fender skirts and a unique four piece rear window, also offered a new fully enclosed trunk. The car was introduced mid-year and was not expected to be a big seller but more than 800 Land Cruisers were sold in 1934. 1935 sales were poor and the style was soon discontinued, although the Land Cruiser name was to be revived for other Studebakers in later years. </div>
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Although lacking the fastback styling of the first Land Cruiser, this car brought back the name and was the top of the line model for Studebaker, costing $1,260. It featured a 250 cu. in. flathead straight eight engine of 117 hp and a design by consultants Raymond Loewy and Associates, whose team worked with Studebaker's in-house designer Virgil Exner. Loewy had begun working with Studebaker in 1936 and the relationship would continue for some decades, culminating in the short-lived Studebaker Avanti sports coupe of 1962.</div>
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This car is a recreation of the prototype Starliner Hardtop which a 20 year old Studebaker employee saw in development in 1950. He was disappointed by the production version released in 1952 as he did not like the changes to the front end and some of the trim pieces. Purchasing a pristine 31,000 mile hardtop in 1997, he modified the car to resemble the original prototype.</div>
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Loewy had proposed versions of the hardtop for some time as Ford and General Motors were doing well with the style. When Studebaker finally got the car into production it was quite successful, selling over 26,000 in 1952, making it the sales star of the year for the company. It was also the reintroduction of two-tone paint schemes at Studebaker after a break of two decades.</div>
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The first new Studebaker body style since 1947, the "Loewy Coupe," which was designed primarily by Robert E. Bourke who was running the Loewy studios at South Bend, was a sales smash for Studebaker, unexpectedly outselling the sedan version of the car by a ratio of 4:1. Available in both eight cylinder Commander and underpowered six cylinder Champion versions, the design was to continue in production for many years, with the coupe continuing to serve into 1964 and the sedan until the demise of Studebaker in 1966. The coupe came in hardtop (Starliner) and pillared (Starlight) versions and nearly 40,000 were sold in 1953. Unfortunately, the cars were rushed into production, resulting in quality problems. The 1953 models had a flimsy frame (corrected the next year) and were prone to rust. Nonetheless, the car is considered a landmark of American automobile styling and acclaimed by many as one of the most beautiful cars made.</div>
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Studebaker's M-Series trucks, ranging from 1/2 ton to 2 tons, were introduced in 1941 and produced until 1949 and the arrival of the R-Series. This truck, which has the same cab as the trucks produced by Studebaker for the US Army in World War II, was purchased after the war and used for telephone installation and line repair work until the late 1950s. It was restored over a five year period from 2005 to 2010.</div>
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The Studillac was a high-performance car assembled by Bill Frick Motors in Rockville Centre, New York, from 1953 until 1955, utilizing Studebaker Starliner coupes fitted with a Cadillac V8 engine of 210-250 hp. Complete cars were available for $4,500 to $5,000 or a customer's car could be converted with a new engine and transmission. Performance was good for the period, with a top speed of 130 mph and 0-60 times of 8.6 seconds. A Studillac makes in appearance in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel "Diamonds are Forever," driven by Bond's CIA contact. With the redesign of the front end of the Loewy Coupe by Studebaker in 1955, Frick's customers thought the car was ugly and sales of the Studillac ended.</div>
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Studebaker's financial situation meant that it did not upgrade its line of trucks for more than a decade. The Champ, which arrived in 1960, used a chassis and cargo box essentially dating back to 1949, but the cab was new and derived from the Lark compact car. Engineers took a four door sedan, sawed it in half and attached the front to the truck chassis, all at minimal cost as they merely added horizontal bars in the grille and added a new sheet metal stamping for the back wall of the cab. The Champ was the first pickup truck to offer a sliding rear window in the cab, a common feature today, and given its Lark origins it offered car-like comfort in the cab. Sales in 1960 were good but declined rapidly until production ended in December 1963 as the South Bend plant closed and Studebaker retreated to its Hamilton, Ontario plant where only cars were built.</div>
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In 1962 Studebaker retained industrial designer Brooks Stevens to submit new designs for future Studebakers and Stevens worked on several concepts to replace the aging Hawk and more recent Lark lines. The body of this vehicle, the Sceptre, was made at a cost of $16,500 by the Carrozzeria Sibona-Basano, of Turin, Italy. The result was a handsome and airy notchback coupe that would have replaced the Hawk in 1966/67. By 1963 Studebaker was on the ropes and the interesting concept ended up at Stevens' personal museum in Milwaukee where it remained until his passing in 1995. In its original condition, it is now part of the collection of the National Studebaker Museum in South Bend and was loaned to the AACA Museum for this show.</div>
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In addition to having different trim on the left and right sides, not uncommon for a concept vehicles to show styling proposals, the Sceptre had a full-width experimental Sylvania headlight assembly and translucent C-pillars. The interior was just as striking, with secondary gauges in bubbles ahead of the driver. There was a console between the seats and on the passenger side a "rally table." </div>
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In 1961 Brooks Stevens was called in to Studebaker to work on a replacement for the Hawk model, which had been updated somewhat in 1955 but was still essentially the same design from Loewy and Associates that had come up with for the 1953 cars. Stevens' revamp was remarkably successfully, achieved in only a few months and at surprisingly low cost. The result was a handsome, modern design with clean lines. It echoed something from Mercedes-Benz in its front end, with Mercedes being distributed by Studebaker in the United States at the time. It also bore a roofline similar to Ford's Thunderbird and trim recalling the Lincoln Continental. The comfortable interior had been completely redone. Stevens had been given the project in March 1961 and delivered the elegant black prototype of the new Gran Turismo Hawk to Studebaker headquarters in July. </div>
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Engine choices brought a revamped V8, including a supercharged version producing 290 hp. A number of speed records were set, including some by Andy Granatell, then Vice President of Studebaker's Paxton supercharger division, on the Bonneville Salt Flats, garnering good publicity. However, even with its clean design and positive reception, the GT Hawk's days were numbered. In 1962 there were 9,335 sold; in 1963 production fell to 4,634 and in the shortened 1964 model year a mere 1,767 were built before production of cars ended in South Bend in December 1963.</div>
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Produced from 1963 until 1966, the Wagonaire was another Brooks Stevens idea. The wagon used the standard Lark station wagon body but featured a roof section over the cargo bay that could be manually retracted and locked into position above the rear passenger seat, allowing for the transport of bulky items in an upright position. Equipped with the rearward facing seat, as in the display car, the Wagonaire could carry eight passengers. Issues with leaking roofs injured the reputation of the Wagonaire and a fixed roof version was also offered soon after the model's introduction. Lark and Wagonaire production was moved to Hamilton, Ontario after December 1963 and continued until 1966.</div>
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Given their expensive--an additional 50% above the cost of the regular truck--four wheel drive pickups from Studebaker were a rarity. Built on a separate line in South Bend, only 155 4WD trucks were sold in 1959, and subsequent production came to a final total of only 302. Considered a medium-duty truck, this model could carry 1,500 lbs and was powered by Studebaker's top of the line 289 cu. in. V8 of 225 hp.</div>
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Studebaker was the first American company to introduce new post-war styling with its 1947 series of cars, conceived by Virgil Exner. These featured a "greenhouse" rear window on coupes and these became a separate trim line, the Starlight, in 1950. In 1951 the car received the famous "propeller" grille, which was discontinued a year later but the big news for that year was a new overhead valve V8 engine, which put Studebaker three years ahead of Chevrolet and Ford. 1951 was to be the end of Studebaker's glory years as its decline began. Production was hampered already in 1951 as the Korean War resulted in government-ordered cutbacks but Studebaker still managed to get out 269,000 cars in the abbreviated model year.</div>
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The Cadillac Series 62 was produced from 1940 through 1964 and this car, newly designed for 1959, marked the 6th generation. This was the car that saw maximum tailfin height (along with its bullet taillights) and became a symbol of American excess. Fitted with every available luxury feature and with a curb weight of 5,000 lbs, it needed its 6.4 l V8 engine, which produced 325 hp.</div>
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This cab-over truck was used in New York City. Between 1936 and 1941 some 6,100 of these trucks were made but only six are known to exist today. Its 226 cu. in. six cylinder engine was the same one used in Studebaker passenger cars and produces 90 hp. Top speed is 35 mph and the bed was hand-built using period photographs.</div>
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Studebaker introduced new trucks in 1937 with a more streamlined appearance. The company used cowl, dash, and windshield assemblies from their 1937 passenger cars to produce a low, elegant cab compared to previous models. The Model J series ranged in size from the J15 1 1/2 ton truck to the J30 5 ton version, with this truck, the J25, at 3 tons. Trucks were made to order with a wide range of options. This truck has a 320 cu. in. Hercules six cylinder engine and a Clark five speed overdrive transmission. Restoration was completed in 1996.</div>
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The 3E Transtar was introduced by Studebaker in 1957 in an attempt to freshen up its eight year old truck line, featuring a one-piece fiberglass grille and a bumper from its larger trucks. The Transtar name was dropped in 1959 but returned in 1961 on the 1 ton and larger trucks that still used the 1949 design cab although with the fiberglass grille even though the lighter trucks had the modified cabs from the Lark cars then. This Transtar was powered by a 259 cu. in. 170 hp V8 engine.</div>
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As one of the last Champs built before the South Bend plant ended production in late 1963, this truck is one of only 2,509 built that year, with only 1,857 sold in the USA and a handful sold as carryover models in 1964.</div>
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For Studebaker's 100th Anniversary, the previous bullet-nosed front end was replaced with a "clam digger" grille. 1,715 Commander Convertibles were built in 1952, and one of them was used as the Official Pace Car at the Indianapolis 500 that year.</div>
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The first DuPont cars arrived on the market in 1919 with the Model A and were produced in small numbers. The Model G was the final DuPont of note, with a run of 273 car vehicles from 1929 to 1932. The car was offered in 12 body styles. A DuPont was entered in the 1929 24 Hours of LeMans and the company offered a LeMans model the following year. The Model G used a Continental straight eight engine of 125 hp. There was a Model H but only three were made and it is estimated that the company produced around 537 cars before its bankruptcy. Very few survive today.<br />
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In addition to the excellent display of Studebaker cars throughout the museum, the lower floor also offered an interesting selection of Harley-Davidson motorcycles.</div>
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The sport of dirt track racing (later termed "speedway racing") boomed in the 1920s and Harley-Davidson responded with "the Peashooter," nicknamed for its distinctive popping exhaust sound. It featured an overhead valve single cylinder engine of 350 cc, making 30 hp and had an impressive power to weight ratio. This genuine racer was capable of reaching 100 mph back in the day.</div>
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Introduced in 1911, the Harley-Davidson Model J twin was to be one of the first truly successful mass-produced American motorcycles. Upgraded with a 1000 cc V-twin engine with a three speed sliding transmission in 1915, the Model J's sales soared and by 1917 the company had built 18,000. The US military ordered 20,000 of them for use in World War I and the bike remained in production until 1929. </div>
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The Auto Red Bug design originated in 1916 with the A.O. Smith Company of Milwaukee (which still exists) as the Smith Flyer but Smith sold the rights to this little car (or "buckboard") to the Briggs & Stratton company (which also still exists), which improved it and produced it from 1919 until 1925, when it was sold to yet another firm. Briggs & Stratton's version is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the least expensive car ever sold, with prices ranging from $125 to $150. Almost all of the Flyers were red so this white version is quite unusual. Briggs & Stratton continued to develop the motor after selling the Flyer rights for other applications. Flyers were built in both gasoline and electric versions and blueprints are still available today.</div>
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As our day at the AACA Museum drew to a close, we had the chance to peak into the storage area on the lower floor of the museum as cars were being shifted following the Corvette Racing Weekend presentations. Here is what we saw at the end of our time in the museum:</div>
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After the success of the "Smokey and the Bandit" movie, Pontiac presented actor Burt Reynolds with a Trans-Am for several years afterwards. This example remains unrestored and in original condition.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are a number of "official" Corvette events held around the country each year, including a Corvette Corral at the 24 Hours of Daytona each January supported by Chevrolet and a dinner event on the West Coast after one of the races out there but a more recent event is the Corvette Racing Weekend, which seems to have started at the Simeone Museum in Philadelphia in 2016 (my posting about that one is<a href="https://crosscountrycorvette.blogspot.com/2018/05/corvette-racing-weekend-simeone-museum.html"> here</a>) and has subsequently become an event organized by the National Corvette Museum and has relocated to the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. We were unable to attend the events there until this year as they were held too late in the season to allow us to drive the Corvette as it goes into hibernation on November 1 each year. In 2019 the event was moved forward and we were able to participate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the initial Meet and Greet at the Troegs Brewery on Thursday, October 24 and then the poker run to the coal mine and Yuengling Brewery on Friday morning and afternoon, we walked over from our hotel across the parking lot to the AACA Museum on Friday night for a buffet dinner and were entertained by Corvette Racing Program Manager Doug Fehan and driver Tommy Milner, who always are good for insider insights into racing. The 2019 season was actually not very good for the team and Friday's talk was about the 24 Hours of Le Mans. 82 laps into the race, the No. 64 car, being driven by Marcel Fässler, a Swiss driver who is a three-time class winner at Le Mans, was struck by a Porsche in the LM GTE Am class, and the Corvette slammed into the crash barriers with considerable force, ending the race. The story went that the Le Mans organizers have a system in place that detects hard impacts so that emergency vehicles can be sent out immediately but in spite of the impact, which registered like an earthquake, nothing happened. Marcel, shook up but uninjured, got out of the car and waited around before taking a ride on a marshall's scooter to the medical unit. Marcel was blamed for the incident and was fined by the stewards but it is clear from the video that the Porsche was at fault.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The No. 63 Corvette lasted until late in the race when it was beginning to make the charge to move up in the rankings but instead driver Jan Magnussen lost control on a turn and spun off the road. The car was repaired but the damage meant that it finished far down in the standings after completing 337 laps. This was the last time the Corvette C7-R would be at Le Mans so it was a disappointing day out for the team. The Ford GT was also at its last Le Mans as part of a factory team and also fared poorly, with two cars (one a factory racer, the other the first Ford GT privateer) disqualified.</span><br />
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Getting up early on Saturday, we had breakfast and then enjoyed a pre-event walk-through of the storage building of the AACA Museum, which I wrote about <a href="https://crosscountrycorvette.blogspot.com/2019/11/2019-corvette-racing-weekend-backstage.html">here</a>. Soon afterwards the Corvette Racing Weekend part continued in the downstairs area of the museum. We walked in just in time to hear the last part of Lance Miller's talk about the 1960 Corvette that had raced as part of the Briggs Cunningham team effort at Le Mans that year. It was the first year that Corvettes had participated and in addition to the three Cunningham cars there was an additional Corvette fielded by Camoradi USA. It had been a dream of Lance Miller's father, Chip, to find the original No. 3 Cunningham Corvette that had been the class winner at Le Mans, and after considerable effort and expense the car was found and restored to its original race configuration. Lance brought the car to the museum and it was on display for all to admire, along with two other Corvettes.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the most celebrated of all Corvettes, we first had the opportunity to see this car at the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance in Connecticut in June 2018, which featured the cars of Briggs Cunningham, where I spoke to Kevin McKay, the restorer. Then the car appeared with a exhibition of Corvette racing cars at the 2019 Corvettes at Carlisle event in August--and a week later it was on display at the National Corvette Museum as part of the museum's 25th Anniversary celebrations!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the presentation by Lance Miller, we heard from a number of other speakers, with Wes Wong, who is a Board Member of the National Corvette Museum, acting as Master of Ceremonies. Doug Fehan and Tommy Milner were back to talk about the overall 2019 season for Corvette Racing which, alas, saw the team fail to win a single one of the 13 races entered (the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship series plus the 24 Hours of Le Mans). It was clearly Porsche's year as that team won six of the 12 WeatherTech races, or possibly, the Balance of Performance set-up favoured their cars. BoP is a hot topic in racing but, realistically, there is no way that such divergent cars could be made to race with each other competitively unless there was some way to equalize things. We also heard comments from Tommy Milner about what it is like to drive the new Corvette, the mid-engined C8-R, that will be present at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January for its first race. One of the cars will be silver with yellow details, while the other will be the traditional Corvette Racing yellow with some silver. There seemed to be a difference of opinion as to which colour should have been used!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The program continued with a very interesting presentation by Lee Willard, the Chief Michelin Corvette Tire Engineer, who had a slide presentation about the new C8 and how the tires were developed for it, and a talk was also given by Cam Bower, Strategic Alliance Global Manager from Mobil, who spoke about the latest Mobil 1 synthetic oil technology. Having heard representatives of these two companies at numerous events now, we are always surprised how they come up with something new and memorable to discuss. Corvette owners are very interested in the technical aspects of their cars today but Michelin and Mobil have been with the program for years and talk about their history with Corvette as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Corvette Racing Weekend then featured an auction to raise money for the National Corvette Museum, as well as some items to benefit the AACA Museum, and the Corvette fans opened their wallets with enthusiasm. The event ended with an autograph session. Nigel Dobbie, a super Corvette enthusiast whom we had met at the NCM's "NASCAR in the South" event in North Carolina in 2017, has just published a big book on Corvette Racing's first 20 years and we purchased a copy, which we had signed by Nigel, Doug (who wrote a foreword), Tommy and the others.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With the Corvette Racing Weekend events concluded, we were able to walk around the AACA Museum and look at the cars on display without any rush. That evening we had attempted to go for dinner in downtown Hershey but the restaurants were packed so we ended up at Troegs Brewery yet again!</span></span></div>
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The AACA Museum (which is, oddly, not affiliated with the Antique Automobile Club of America) opened its doors in June 2003 and "is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of motor vehicle history in a manner that provides for the education and entertainment of our guests," according to its website. This was a our third visit over the years and there are constantly changing exhibitions so we have had the opportunity of seeing different cars. While at the museum this time for the Corvette Racing Weekend, there was a very fine collection of Studebaker cars and trucks on display. But on this cool Saturday morning we were encouraged to go down the hill behind the museum and check out the big climate-controlled storage facility where non-display cars were being kept.<br />
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There were quite a few Studebakers in the storage building as they had been moved in order to provide space for special events, like our Corvette Racing Weekend. There were also cars that had been loaned temporarily to the museum and not everything was labelled so in some cases I have had to guess and test my old car knowledge.</div>
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This elegant and sporty little roadster was manufactured by the Willys-Overland Company in Toledo, Ohio, as well as in Toronto, Ontario, as the low-priced brand in the Willys line-up. The cars were surprisingly advanced for the price, with good build quality and nice styling. Willys-Overland's English subsidiary was involved in development of the car and it has very much a European light car feel to it. When first offered late in 1926 the Whippet had a four cylinder engine but within a few months a six cylinder was offered and the company claimed this was the lowest-priced six in America at prices of around $800. Although the smallest car in America at introduction, it was not slow, even setting a 24 hour endurance record at the Indianapolis Speedway for cars costing under $1000. The car sold quite well, with 110,000 units the first year, helping to move Willys-Overland into third place behind Ford and Chevrolet in the US industry. 315,000 were sold in 1929 and then 295,000 in 1930 but the Great Depression was casting its shadow. Willys-Overland decided to concentrate on a single new model, the Willys 77, and the Whippet disappeared in 1931.<br />
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The AACA Museum roadster is a very attractive car but that should not be a surprise as it was designed by a pioneer of streamline auto design. The chief designer of Willys-Overland was <a href="https://www.historicvehicle.org/hva-honors-pioneer-streamline-design-concours-delegance-america/">Amos Northup</a>, who is unjustly forgotten now but who was responsible for a series of attractive cars before his untimely death in 1937 after a fall on an icy sidewalk.<br />
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Willys-Overland, after various financial struggles, eventually reestablished itself and was a bidder on an American contract in 1941 to build the versatile, off-road vehicle invented by American Bantam but for which that company was unable to undertake mass production. The famous Willys Jeep was the result. The company decided after World War II to stay out of the passenger car business and concentrate on utility vehicles but the Jeepster, introduced in 1948, was a civilianized Jeep with some passenger comforts. It was styled by noted industrial designer Brooks Stevens (who signed the door of this example). This Jeepster was returned to the factory in 1962 and re-engined, something available to VIP customers. In all, some 19,000 Jeepsters were built between 1948 and 1950.</div>
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The historic New York carriage builder Brewster & Co. was established in 1856 and became Rolls-Royce of America's subsidiary in 1925, serving in that capacity until Rolls-Royce pulled back from its US operations in 1934. With the Great Depression on, the managers at Brewster thought that there would be a market for cars for the wealthy that were less ostentatious and they produced a series of cars using primarily Ford V8 chassis and engines, although they would build bodies for other makes their customers brought in. Edsel Ford brought the first Brewster and it appears that around 140 were built, in town car, limousine and convertible sedan configurations, before the company went bankrupt in 1935. 39 Brewsters are known to currently exist.</div>
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A very fine example of the first car to be sold with an electric starter, this 1912 Cadillac had only two owners previous to its donation to the museum and is in original condition, with less than 3,000 miles since new. The base price for one of these cars would have been $1,800.</div>
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The DeSoto was introduced by Chrysler in 1929 and immediately set sales records. It was intended to fill the gap between the Chrysler and Plymouth brands at a time when Chrysler was negotiating the purchase of Dodge and wanted to pressure the bankers selling as the Dodge cars would have fit into the same slot but in the end Chrysler ended up with both brands. DeSoto's first year sales record of over 81,000 cars was not to be matched until the introduction of the Ford Falcon in 1960, ironically the same year that the DeSoto line was discontinued. The AACA Museum's example is a Series CF eight cylinder sedan that would have sold for around $1,000.</div>
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This magnificent Packard was donated to the museum without a radiator but in 2013 the museum was able to have a family-owned radiator and repair shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, build a replica using blueprints from the Studebaker Museum and a 1915 Packard as a model. The radiator was donated to the museum by the shop, which allowed the car to actually be operated. The 3-48 featured a 525 cu. in. six cylinder motor producing 82 hp, left hand steering, and mechanical brakes only on the rear wheels. There were fourteen available body styles and a choice of no less than 42 colours. This limousine would have cost $5,900 in 1914, or the equivalent of $152,000 in current US$.</div>
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Produced from 1926 to 1928, the Pierce-Arrow Model 36 was powered by a 100 hp 414 cu. in. T-head 24 valve six cylinder engine. Constructed to the highest standards of the day, around 1,900 Model 36s were built in numerous body styles. This particular car was once owned by Paramount Studios and was used to ferry actress Marlene Dietrich to work.</div>
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A very fine example of another nearly forgotten luxury marque that fell to the Great Depression, this Stearns-Knight would have sold for $5,500, or ten times the cost of a Ford Model A. The first Stearns cars were produced in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901 by the F.B. Stearns Company, and the brand became Stearns-Knight in 1911 when the company licensed the Knight sleeve valve engine, favoured for its quiet running. In 1925 the company became part of the empire of John North Willys as a non-integrated affiliate of Willys-Overland. The J8-90, built on a 145 inch wheelbase, was powered by a 125 hp 8 cylinder engine, and was available as seven passenger touring car, sedan or limousine. Production of Stearns-Knight autos ended in 1929.</div>
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Founded as a carriage maker in 187 in Cortland, New York, Brockway went into the motor vehicle business in 1909 and operated independently as a truck builder until purchased by Mack Trucks in 1956. Production of Brockway trucks ended with closure of the Cortland factory in 1977. Brockway supplied Torpedo chassis to American-LaFrance in Elmira, New York, for production of the chemical and hose trucks primarily for volunteer fire departments.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">This is a "1908 Empire," according to the hand-written sign on the seat, but no further details can be found anywhere. From its primitive look, I believe it is an earlier car, although Sears did introduce its Motor Buggy with high wooden wheels and tiller steering in 1908, producing them until 1912 . A company called Empire State Automotive in Rochester built a somewhat similar car between 1900 and 1901 but with tiller steering and bicycle-type wire wheels.</span></div>
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Famed luxury car manufacturer Packard entered the mid-priced field in 1935 with the Model 120, This car features a body style introduced in 1936, a year in which 55,000 120-Bs were sold, doubling the previous launch year's sales.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The Woods Mobilette cyclecar was built in Harvey, Illinois from 1913-1916 and this No. 5 model, introduced in 1916, featured staggered seating, a four cylinder 12 hp engine and electric lights and starting as an option. The cyclecar fad ended rapidly (although Woods claimed to be producing 1,000 cars a month in 1914). The Mobilette at $380 was not competitive with the Ford Model T, which by 1916 was $20 less than the Woods! The company had one of the weirdest marketing slogans ever: "Built like a watch, and ownership will not cause Tuberculosis of one's wallet!"</span></div>
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Between 1907 and 1911, farm implement maker International Harvester sold 4,500 of these popular, rugged high-wheelers, simply replacing a buggy's horse with a two cylinder 16 hp motor. Suitable for unimproved roads, the Farmer's Auto sold for $600.</div>
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The Club Sedan body style was new for Packard in 1926 and this example was built by the Dietrich body company. Costing $2,275 and powered by a six cylinder 80 hp engine, this car was used in the television series "Boardwalk Empire" as mobster Al Capone's car.</div>
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One of the first cars donated to the AACA Museum, this V12 Lincoln was found in a barn and was the subject of a 13 year restoration. Eight examples were built in this body style by coachbuilder Brunn of Buffalo and two remain extant today.</div>
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Between 1921 and 1926 some 12,000 Wills Sainte Claire cars were built by former Henry Ford associate C. Harold Wills, a painstaking engineer who was not tuned to business realities. The cars were beautiful and expensive but not profitable in the end. 80 are believed to still exist.</div>
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This fabulous car began as one of 295 Lincoln Zephyr limousines built on an extended wheelbase and is thought to be the only one existing that was converted to an ambulance. The builder is unknown. The car saw duty in California in the 1940s and 1950s.</div>
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Believed at one point to have been used to haul bootleg liquor during Prohibition, this hearse was carefully restored to become a "mobile party vehicle." It features a coffin in the interior that opens up to be a wet bar. Yet another AACA Museum car used in "Boardwalk Empire." Very appropriate.</div>
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Another veteran of the "Boardwalk Empire" television series, this Oldsmobile marked the first year of the F Series, with a 55 hp six cylinder engine and a longer chassis. Twelve body styles were available.</div>
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In 1947, marketing celebrity and Kaiser-Frazer dealer Earl "Madman" Muntz suggested to Henry Kaiser that there could be a market for upscale pickup trucks. Three four door Kaiser-Frazer sedans were cut up and turned into pickups but Muntz discovered the interest was not there so he ended up keeping one of the pickups as a service truck, powered with a Pontiac engine. This last surviving concept truck was purchased by a custom car builder in 2000 and <a href="https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1210cct-1947-kaiser-truck/">modified in fine hot rodder style</a>. </div>
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Built on an Essex frame and using a Ford Model A race engine, this midget racer was built in the 1960s.</div>
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After attending the very enjoyable <a href="https://crosscountrycorvette.blogspot.com/2018/05/corvette-racing-weekend-simeone-museum.html">inaugural</a> Corvette Racing Weekend in 2016, we were not able to repeat as the event was moved to the AACA Museum subsequently and held too late in the year for us to participate with our Corvette, which goes into storage each year on November 1. However, this year the Weekend, organized by the National Corvette Museum, was scheduled for late October so all was good again.<br />
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After an easy drive from Ottawa to Hershey and we checked into the hotel, which was directly next to the AACA Museum. We then drove out, following a Corvette with Minnesota plates, and attended a "Meet and Greet" at the nearby and excellent Tröegs Brewery, where we registered and picked up our information package. We joined a nice couple who had driven up from South Carolina and had dinner and some fine beers including my now-favourite US craft beer, a double bock (8.2%) called Troegenator.<br />
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After breakfast on Friday morning, we assembled in front of the Museum for the planned Poker Run, which had about 20 cars participating. We each got our first two cards for a poker hand (both of us had a pretty good start) and then we set out, heading north on I-81 towards Minersville, where we exited the Interstate. Taking some smaller roads, we were soon in Ashland, Pennsylvania and the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine.<br />
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Operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company from 1911 to 1931, the Pioneer Colliery was reopened as a museum in 1962. It is drilled straight into the side of Mahanoy Mountain and you get a rather jolting ride on a mine car that travels about 1800 feet. The guides were all retired miners who had a good line of patter. One of them was quite a bit younger and had only worked underground in 2001, when he had left and become a teacher. He was also a good singer and took out his guitar and performed a song about bootleg miners in Shamokin, something quite unexpected 400 feet underground.</div>
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We learned a great deal about life in the mines, which sounded pretty brutal, and how nobody could go home at the end of the workday unless 400 tons of coal had been taken out that day. The mules used to pull the carts were company property and treated better than the miners. There were plenty of rats underground and the miners even fed them as they provided a kind of early warning system as they are very sensitive to seismic shifts that could indicate a mine collapse. Coal has some specialized uses in steelmaking and even water filters but its time as a power source is gone. This region of 480 square miles contains most of the hard anthracite coal in the world. Anthracite is considered the highest quality coal due to its purity.<br />
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Before descending into the tunnel, we enjoyed an extremely bumpy five minute ride up the mountain in cars pulled along by a little narrow gauge steam engine, the Henry Clay, which gave us a view of the scenic valley to the left and a massive strip mine to the right. The Henry Clay was built in 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania at the Vulcan Iron Works. The engineer of the train told us about "bootleg" mining during the Great Depression as he pointed out a replica. The mines were no longer economical to operate and were closed but local now-unemployed miners came up the mountain to dig for coal to sell. This was company property so it was theft but given the situation at the time eventually a deal was worked out allowing miners to dig for a small royalty.<br />
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After this very interesting visit, and turning in our poker hands (which were not very good now!), the formal part of the morning's program was over. A recommendation was to drive to Pottsville and visit the <a href="https://www.yuengling.com/our-brewery/">Yuengling Brewery</a>, the oldest brewery still operating in the United States. The drive was only half an hour, taking us through Frackville, where we have stopped for gas on I-81 without ever exploring anything off the main highway. US 61 South was a terrific drive through Fall colours as we headed into Pottsville.</div>
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Pottsville was a bustling place but we found the brewery pretty easily. It had been established in 1829 and by virtue of continuing to exist (even managing to survive Prohibition by switching to dairy products) it has now come to be seen in the same fashionable light as modern craft breweries. When David Gottlieb Yuengling came to Pottsville it was because of the thriving coal mines and an ideal place to start a brewery. </div>
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The building, which was built in 1831 to replace the original Eagle Brewery that was opened in 1829 but burned down, is located on a steep street which actually has a spring further up the hill, although it is now too small to meet the demands of the brewery. The 1831 facility is not the only Yuengling brewery as the company purchased a former Stroh's Brewery in Tampa, Florida in 1999, and also opened a modern brewery not far from Pottsville in nearby Port Carbon in 2000 to meet demand. Yuengling is ranked as the 6th largest brewery in the United States, with production of around 3 million barrels per year.</div>
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After an enjoyable tour we had the chance to sample some beers, including the latest, a collaboration between Hershey and Yuengling: a Chocolate Porter that will be sold for a limited time. After our tour, we went to one of the recommended restaurants in the town, <a href="http://www.romapizzapottsville.com/">Roma Pizza</a>, and enjoyed some excellent Neapolitan-style pizza from their wood-burning oven.<br />
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When we parked the car we had not realized that we were directly opposite the boyhood home of noted American novelist John O'Hara (1905-1970), many of whose works (involving sex and alcohol and angry people and social climbing) were turned into films in the 1960s. He is more famous now for short stories but it can be said that his reputation is fading into obscurity. In his stories in t<i>he New Yorker</i> magazine "Gibbsville" stands in for Pottsville.<br />
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Our return to Hershey was delayed on I-81 due to some kind of accident but we came back on some sideroads after getting off the highway. We then returned to the AACA Museum for a buffet dinner and the chance to hear Doug Fehan, Corvette Racing's Program Manager, along with Tommy Milner, driver of the No. 4 C7-R, talk about the Le Mans race, which was a bust for Corvette, as the No. 64 car was hit by a Porsche early on and was out of the race while No. 63 was damaged after it was spun late in the race and was classified 9th at the end. A disappointing end for the C7-R at the end of is Le Mans career.
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Having many times driven on the 401 through Oshawa and seeing the signage for <a href="http://www.canadianautomotivemuseum.com/">the Canadian Automotive Museum (CAM)</a>, I finally had a chance to drop in as I was passing and had a free morning during my long road trip of 2019 to Kentucky and the National Corvette Museum.</div>
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Housed in a 1920s one-time car dealership, the collection, first opened in 1963, is much more extensive than one would imagine from the outside of the building. It is a rather eclectic mix of vehicles as the ground floor offers a selection of classic European cars, while the upper floor, where cars can still be moved via the old dealership's working freight elevator, has an emphasis on domestic cars. The museum claims "the most significant collection of Canadian cars" and there is no reason to doubt this. In all, there are some 70 vehicles on display.</div>
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This Chevrolet was built by GM at its plant in Regina, Saskatchewan and marked the first year of Chevrolet's new six cylinder engine, a successful competitive response to the Ford Model A, which only offered four cylinder motors. Ford's eventual reply was the famous V8 but Chevrolet had taken leadership in the lower priced end of the market. Sixes were built in Oshawa as well as Regina, the latter cars distinguished by wire spoke wheels while the Ontario cars had disc ones.</div>
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This magnificent Silver Ghost was originally delivered to its first owner in England before coming to Canada in 1919 following the First World War. Owned then by tobacco magnate Sir Mortimer Davis, it served as transportation in Montreal for the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) during his three month official visit to Canada in 1919. On subsequent visits to Canada, the prince was provided with his own McLaughlin-Buick to avoid being under an obligation to a private citizen, which he had resented. The car eventually was sold in 1959 to noted industrialist and car collector John "Bud" McDougald, whose family donated it to the museum in 1995.<br />
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Ford of Canada was established in Walkerville (now Windsor), Ontario, in 1905 to build Ford cars under license for sale in the British Empire (except for the United Kingdom). Within a decade, the Canadian operation was exporting cars to India, Australia, South Africa and even Japan, and produced more than 757,000 Model Ts. First built from US-made kits, by the 1920s almost every part in the Windsor Fords was sourced from Canada. Canadian Model Ts can be distinguished by having a working driver's door, conceived for right-hand drive cars, whereas the American car only had a door on the passenger side.</div>
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"Ladybird" was one of three Rolls-Royces delivered to Lady Flora Eaton (1880-1970), the others having open bodies and named "Yellowbird" and "Bluebird." Lady Eaton, noted for her style and extravagance, was the wife of department store president and heir Sir John Craig Eaton. The Eaton's chain controlled some 60% of all department store sales in Canada by 1930 but ceased operations in bankruptcy in 1999. "Ladybird" was owned by Lady Eaton until 1952 when it was sold to American singer James Melton, who established the Autorama museum for his car collection in Florida. The museum's contents were dispersed following Melton's death in 1961 and "Ladybird" eventually made its way back to Toronto in 1972 when it became part of the Craven Foundation collection. That collection was broken up in 1986 when the foundation was dissolved and "Ladybird" was donated to the Canadian Automotive Museum.</div>
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This Rolls-Royce was one of numerous Rolls-Royces owned by Canadian industrialist J.P. Bickell, who made his fortune in gold mining and the Famous Players movie theatre chain. He was co-founder and Chairman of the A.V. Roe Canada aircraft company. He was actively involved in management of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, of which he became Chairman, and was instrumental in financing the construction of Maple Leaf Gardens during the Depression. Following Bickell's death in 1951, collector Bud McDougald acquired the Rolls-Royce and it was used for ferrying royalty and other celebrities around Toronto.</div>
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The oldest vehicle in the collection is the 1902 Orient Buckboard, manufactured in Waltham, Massachusetts by the Waltham Manufacturing Company, which had been established in 1891 by Charles Metz to build bicycles. The Buckboard was a simple vehicle powered by a 4 hp air-cooled single cylinder engine and was surprisingly successful in racing due to its light weight. Priced originally at $500, the Buckboard actually outsold almost all other models of car and was produced, in improved versions, from 1902 to 1907, at which time Metz returned to the company. It became the Metz Company, noted for its Metz Plan which sold cars in 14 component packages at $27 each! </div>
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This handsome, and rather hidden away, British sports car had impressive performance for the day, with a 110 doing the Brooklands track at an average speed of 129 mph in 1938. The company, which had originally been formed in 1902 to produce French Clement cars under license but soon was entirely British. It was part of a trans-Channel company whose brands included Sunbeam, Talbot and Darracq but was unable to weather the Depression. British operations were acquired by the Rootes Group in 1936 and the company renamed Sunbeam-Talbot and then just Sunbeam, while the French operation was taken over by its managing director, Tony Lago, and produced a series of famous luxury and racing cars under the Talbot-Lago name.</div>
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Another car from the McDougald collection, this Phantom III, with its Sedanca de Ville body by Barker, is identical to the model and body of the car used by the villain in the 1964 James Bond film "Goldfinger." It is powered by a V12 and was the last Rolls-Royce model to be overseen by Henry Royce, who died in 1933, a year into the car's development. 727 Phantom IIIs were built between 1936 and 1939. This particular car was owned by Syma Cohen, one of the founders of the successful Lady Esther company, which flourished in the 1920s and 1930s as the nation's biggest seller of cosmetics, and was headquartered in Chicago. The company, which faded in the 1940s, still exists as a trademark in the United States and Germany. Syma Cohen, an immigrant success story, died in Chicago in 1990 aged 99 after what must have been a very eventful life.</div>
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Considered perhaps the finest Alfa Romeo ever made, the 1750 Gran Sport was introduced in 1929 and came first and third that year in the celebrated Mille Miglia race. Around 2,600 examples of the 1750 were made between 1929 and 1935 but the Gran Sport model, produced only to 1933, is very rare and a Zagato-bodied car in the spider configuration even rarer. A similar car sold at auction in 2015 for US$ 2.5 million. This car was owned by Bud McDougald, who died in 1978, and the story is that his cars remained in their garages until donated by his family following the death of his wife in 1996.</div>
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One of the main drawbacks to the CAM is that the building is simply too small given the number of cars crammed into it. It was disappointing to not get a good look at the Talbot and even more so with this interesting 1928 Hispano Suiza H6B 7 passenger limousine. Sadly, at some point the car was "improved" for better driveability and neither engine nor chassis are original but owner Bud McDougald was happy enough to smoke his pipe in it as the car had a vent in the roof in addition to numerous ashtrays and he referred to is as "his car with the chimney."<br />
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This very rare Isotta, purchased in 1926 by an Irish woolen mill owner who saw it at the Olympia Motor Show in London that year, is one of only two examples known to have been built with a Cesare Sala torpedo body. The car was purchased from the original owner in 1951 by D. Cameron Peck, a Chicago collector who is believed to have had over 1,000 cars in his personal collection, most of which was sold in 1952. At that time Bud McDougald and a partner purchased the Isotta-Fraschini.</div>
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This Bugatti has had some modifications made to it, such as removal of the cycle fenders as well as changes to the exhaust. It was apparently painted black during Bud McDougald's ownership instead of the usual blue, the national colour for French racers. The Type 37 is considered one of the most iconic cars to have been produced by Bugatti, but there was no indication of its race history at the museum. It has been suggested that with a proper restoration, this Type 37 would be the star of the collection.</div>
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Introduced in 1922, the 3 Litre was Bentley's first commercial product and by 1926 had undergone modifications that had improved it considerably. The signage accompanying this car indicated that the 1924 24 Hours of LeMans race was won by a 3 Litre Bentley but, curiously, fails to mention that one of the two drivers was John Duff (1895-1958), a Canadian, and the only Canadian to ever win the overall LeMans competition! Duff, who was born in China but whose parents came from Hamilton, Ontario, had an<a href="https://www.goodwood.com/grr/columnists/doug-nye/2019/3/the-incredible-life-of-john-duff-stunt-man-record-breaker-and-le-mans-winner/"> </a><a href="https://www.goodwood.com/grr/columnists/doug-nye/2019/3/the-incredible-life-of-john-duff-stunt-man-record-breaker-and-le-mans-winner/">amazing life.</a></div>
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Another car from the McDougald collection is this charming Kissel Speedster. Built from 1919 to 1927, the Kissel, nicknamed "the Gold Bug," was popular with celebrities including silent film stars such as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Greta Garbo, William S. Hart, Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle, along with other notables such as Jack Dempsey and Amelia Earhart. The car's official model designation of 6-45 indicated that it had a six cylinder engine, producing 45 hp. The Gold Bug's sporty appearance belied its actual performance capability, although someone sitting in that mother-in-law seat on the right side would have thought the car plenty fast. Some 35,000 Kissels of various types were built between 1907 and 1931 and an estimated 200 survive. The company, based in Hartford, Wisconsin, was crippled by the Great Depression and did not survive a hostile takeover attempt connected to New Era Motors and the Ruxton front-wheel drive car.</div>
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The Roadmaster name was introduced into the Buick line in 1936 and in 1937 three body styles were available, including a formal sedan, a trunk back sedan and a phaeton. Of the last, 1,040 were produced but only 27, including this car, are known to exist today. The car originally cost $1,856.</div>
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Leaving the museum's ground floor, the upper floor is devoted to cars either made in Canada or made for the Canadian market by major manufacturers, really obscure Canadian manufacturers and some interesting cars that there was no room for on the ground floor. Given the location of the museum, it is not surprise that an emphasis was on the preeminent brand in the area, namely McLaughlin in Oshawa. It was originally a carriage company, the largest in Canada, but began to build cars using Buick drivetrains in 1907. A close friendship between General Motors founder William C. Durant and Col. Sam McLaughlin saw business ties that continued when McLaughlin built Chevrolet cars in Canada and then strengthened when GM bought control of General Motors Canada and the McLaughlin Motor Car Company in 1918, soon after Durant had returned to control of the parent General Motors after a brief exile when he built up Chevrolet. Sam McLaughlin remained Chairman of General Motors Canada, as well as serving on the parent company's board until his death in 1972, aged 100 years.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The most popular of Buick's 60 Series, the 67 offered a 90 hp straight eight cylinder engine and a three speed syncromesh transmission. Although capable of a sustained 80 mph cruise and offering mechanical improvements, the 67 was not capable of halting a downward slide in Buick sales as the Great Depression continued to worsen. List price of the 67 was $1,400.</span></span><br />
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1922 was the last year that cars were sold only using the McLaughlin name and henceforth would only be known as McLaughlin Buicks. This six cylinder 7 Passenger Touring Car offered considerable load carrying capacity and in addition to carrying big families the Special could be used for other purposes, such as ferrying alcohol from Canada to the United States during Prohibition. The Special was favoured for this and earned the nickname "Whiskey Six" in some circles.<br />
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1936 marked the 25th year of Canadian production at McLaughlin, and the cars that year were marketed as Silver Anniversary models. This handsome car shows strong Art Deco design influence and, surprisingly for this late stage of auto development, features a rumble seat. It was powered by a straight eight engine of 100 hp and cost $1,375 new. The first owner was an RCMP officer who used it for his daily 150 km round trip commute to Ottawa, and the car remained in the area subsequently. It was eventually left to rot in a quarry until rescued by a gentleman from Smith Falls, Ontario, who restored it, donating it to the museum in 1993.</div>
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One of three Ford brands built exclusively for the Canadian market along with Frontenac and Monarch, this Meteor two door sedan came with a V8 engine and a three speed transmission. Meteor sales accounted for 51% of Ford's Canadian production, centred on the Walkerville assembly plant, by 1951. That year the Meteor was available with an automatic transmission, called the "Merc-o-Matic." The Meteor was meant to compete with GM's Pontiac line in Canada and was sold through Mercury-Meteor dealerships; the separate brand was discontinued in 1962.<br />
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A recent acquisition of the museum is this Frontenac, a separate Canadian Ford marque, which was built in 1960 in my hometown of Oakville, Ontario. The Oakville Assembly Complex opened in 1953 and currently builds SUVs. The Frontenac, a version of the Ford Falcon with a revised grille, taillights and external trim that included red maple leaves, was meant to provide Mercury dealers with a compact car to sell. It was produced for just one model year and while 9,536 Frontenacs were built in 1960 in various body styles, only are believe to remain today.</div>
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In 1925 Ford sold one quarter of a million commercial vehicles, providing chassis that were used for a variety of purposes. The museum vehicle was a tanker used by the British American Oil Company for the delivery of petroleum products. Although somewhat improved over the first Model Ts, this large truck nonetheless still used that vehicle's 20 hp four cylinder engine. Price for the chassis alone from Ford was $365.</div>
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Another car available exclusively in the Canadian market was the Dodge Regent, which was basically an American Plymouth with a Dodge front end, and first launched in 1951. In 1956 the Regent, assembled in Windsor, Ontario, was the most popular model built in Canada, with sales of 17,000, and that year Dodge production in Canada reached a highwater mark of 50,000. This car is equipped with a Powerflite pushbutton automatic transmission, which was introduced in 1956.</div>
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This interesting little French car came from a company that was, in 1900, the world's largest auto manufacturer. Unfortunately, there was no sign providing information about the car, which apparently was another vehicle in the McDougald collection, and it is not even clear if it was a 1908 or 1911 model. De Dion-Bouton, which was formed in 1883, commenced by building steam cars but began to switch to internal combustion in 1894, although continuing to build steam vehicles until 1904. The company's products were noted for their quality and durability but the firm entered a decline after World War I and ceased building passenger cars in 1932.<br />
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Hudsons were built in Detroit from 1909 to 1954, were aimed at the mid-price market, and generally powered by straight six engines. The example at the museum seems noteworthy only in that the owner of the car was unwilling to part with it when buying a new car and instead knocked a hole in a wall and stored the car in a ground floor bedroom of his house. This accounts for the car's excellent original condition.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Established as a motor car manufacturer in Birmingham, England, in 1901, Wolseley was the largest British carmaker prior to the First World War, building 3,000 cars by 1914. A sales and service office was opened in Toronto in 1912 and Wolseleys were imported to Canada until 1920 but never sold in the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This oddity was produced by the British GM subsidiary Vauxhall to the order of Col. Sam McLaughlin, who used it at his vacation home in Bermuda. Its custom body, by the Grosvenor Carriage Co., compressed the overall length of the car to bring it into conformity with Bermuda's regulations on the maximal allowable length for motor vehicles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also jammed into the back row of the museum was this handsome Gardner Phaeton, car more interesting than the terse description on the sign suggests. Russell Gardner, originally a poor boy from Tennessee, had gone into the buggy business in St. Louis, Missouri, but recognized the coming thing in the automobile. He began building Chevrolet bodies and by 1915 was manufacturing complete cars in his St. Louis factory, controlling all Chevrolet trade west of the Mississippi. Gardner sold his Chevrolet interests to GM in 1917 but was to re-enter the car business in 1919 with the establishment of the Gardner Motor Company with his two sons. The first Gardners were produced in 1920 and were a superior example of the "assembled car." All Gardners used Lycoming engines until production ended in 1931, another company felled by the Depression but which lasted longer than most assembled car builders. There had been an attempt to develop a prototype of a six cylinder front wheel drive car and discussions about possibly producing the Ruxton car for New Era Motors but these measures came to nothing. Gardners are qualified as "Full Classics" by the Classic Car Club of America. They used the best components available (such as four wheel hydraulic brakes when these were a rarity) and were handsomely styled for mid-priced cars, this one selling for around $2,500. The museum's example was apparently purchased by the son of the Gardner dealer in Oshawa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another car I would have liked to get a closer look at was this Cartercar, another oddity from the early days of motoring. Byron J. Carter established his company in Jackson, Michigan, but soon moved to Pontiac due to favourable financing for his project. In 1906 production began of the Cartercar, with its novel friction drive transmission, which used paper (!) discs to allow an infinite selection of gear ratios, a forerunner to the modern CVT transmission. By 1907 sales had reached a heady height of 264 cars when Billy Durant swept in and bought the company to add to his rapidly expanding General Motors portfolio. Sales never reached the expected levels and following Durant's ouster from GM in 1909 and before his temporarily triumphant return to the company in 1915, the GM board had decided to end Cartercar production and switch the factory in Pontiac to the manufacture of Oakland cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is a footnote to this: there is an established but apparently apocryphal story that the invention of the electric starter was due to the death of Byron J. Carter in 1908 following injuries resulting from a gallant attempt to hand crank a stalled car for a lady, Carter was a friend of Henry Leland, the founder of Cadillac, who was apparently distraught that his friend had died while attempting to start (even worse) a Cadillac and asked Charles Kettering of DELCO to come up with a solution. This is supposed to have resulted in the electric starter, which appeared on Cadillacs in 1912. Although the story is constantly repeated, there appears to be no basis in fact as Kettering had already been working on the electric starter prior to Carter's accident.</span></div>
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This unusual Canadian sports car was produced in Granby, Quebec. It is named after the Manicouagan River in Quebec and not the psychiatric condition--company founder Jacques About was unaware of the English meaning of the word, although in French it is pronounced "Man-EEK." About, who had been Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's martial arts instructor, was a public relations manager for Renault in Canada. There had been consideration given to importing the Renault Alpine 110 sports car to Canada and when this did not happen, About set about on his own to build a car using Renault running gear and a fiberglass body. Funding was obtained from sources in Quebec in government and industry and a factory established. The car offered light weight and very good handling, with advanced steering, suspension and brakes for the day. Unfortunately, Renault parts delivery was slow and unreliable and the car was priced so that it was not competitive with the popular Ford Mustang. It is estimated that 135-160 cars were built between 1969 and 1971.<br />
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In production in West Germany from 1960 until 1965, but marketed until 1968, the Amphicar was an amphibious vehicle of modest performance. It was powered by a 1100 cc. Triumph engine producing 43 hp, although some later cars had slightly more powerful motors installed, and the engine found continued application in the Triumph Spitfire sports car. 3,878 Amphicars were produced and remain an appealing novelty.</div>
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This Redpath, with a runabout style body popular in the pre-WW I era, was built in Kitchener, Ontario, where it was thought that the region's growing prosperity would boost sales. The lack of skilled machinists increased costs and doomed the project, which was taken over by a Mr. Robinson who had supplied bodies for the cars. He continued to work on the cars in his shop in Toronto and may have even assembled a few (no more than three) before going to work for the McLaughlin Motor Car Company. He retained ownership of this car, the sole surviving Redpath, until his death in 1962.</div>
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The successful Tudhope Carriage Company of Orillia, Ontario, went into the car business in 1908, striking a partnership with W.H. McIntyre of Auburn, Indiana, in which the Canadians would import the mechanical parts and build the wooden bodies in their factory. This "high-wheeler" style vehicle was popular for driving on unimproved rural roads and the Tudhope (essentially a McIntyre with some extra styling flourishes) was popular due its quality construction. However, in 1909 the Tudhope factory burned down and while it was back in operation the following year an attempt to build the 30 hp four cylinder Everitt car under license did not succeed due to mechanical problems and a shortage of capital. Tudhope stopped building cars in 1913, but, surprisingly, the carriage operation continued to thrive into the 1920s.</div>
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In 1911 the McLaughlin company gained distribution rights for the expensive Rauch & Lang electric car of Cleveland, Ohio, but following the invention of the electric starter, which appeared a year later on Cadillacs, the company quickly lost interest in the Rauch & Lang. The example here was produced in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, where the company built its cars from 1920 until the end of manufacture in 1932.</div>
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Displayed here as a "barn find" car, this Marquette was built in Oshawa. The brand was meant to be a lower-priced "companion car" to Buick, analogous to Pontiac and Oakland, or LaSalle and Cadillac, but the Great Depression put a rapid end to this plan and the Marquette was phased out after only one model year.</div>
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Although powered by Buick engines, the Canadian-made McLaughlins (interchangeably referred to as McLaughlin-Buicks) featured more elaborate finishes and stylistic touches than their American counterparts. This four cylinder 4 cylinder 30 hp open car would have retailed for $1,530.</div>
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Designed as a direct competitor of the Ford Model T, this Chevrolet was christened after its base price of US$490. Recognizing its importance, Col. McLauglin persuaded William Durant of GM that the car should be built by his company in Canada, which meant ending the McLaughlin connection to carriage building to make space for the new technology. Production was underway in late 1915 and the museum car is one of 347 built that year in Oshawa. By 1916, production was up to 7,500 cars. Interestingly, the McLaughlin carriage interests, including the use of the name for some time, went to Tudhope in Orillia.</div>
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This 490 was converted to a snowmobile by the North East Hope Telephone Company in the early 1930s to service their lines during the winter months. A second axle was added to the rear and old tires and chain used to make tracks, while skis were made by simply cutting the front wheels in half and adding runners.</div>
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The REO Motor Car Company was founded in Lansing, Michigan, after Ransom E. Olds left Oldsmobile in 1905. The company established a factory to manufacture trucks in St. Catherines, Ontario, in 1910, using a vacant Oldsmobile plant. REO ended production of passenger cars in 1936 to concentrate on trucks, eventually becoming part of the White truck manufacturing enterprise. In 1937 REO built only seven half ton pickup trucks in Canada and the museum's example is believe to be the only one extant.</div>
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The McKay Brothers began producing cars in Kentville, Nova Scotia, using imported American engines by Buda, in 1910. The cars were high quality and priced to compete with other luxury brands of the day, such as Packard. The McKay car was based on the American Penn car produced in Pittsburgh from 1910 until 1912. Invited by local boosters to relocate to Amherst, Nova Scotia, a booming railroad town, with the offer of cheap land and low taxes, the McKays built a factory there and production was underway by 1914. However, the building cost more than expected and by 1914 the company was in serious financial straits and closed after producing around 200 cars. It appears that at least two McKays survive, contrary to the sign in the museum which suggests theirs is the sole remaining one.</div>
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Another carriage maker looking to get into the car business was William Gray and Sons of Chatham, Ontario. They made arrangements with the Dort Motor Company of Flint, Michigan, for a transfer of technology and became one of Canada's more successful car manufacturers. Gray Dort became the largest employer in Chatham with 800 workers at its height but when the American company was liquidated in 1924 when J. Dallas Dort, a former partner of William C. Durant and head of the firm, retired, Gray Dort found itself unable to sell cars due to the loss of confidence and access to technology. It ended its own production that year amid rising losses, after having built 26,000 cars.</div>
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Any new industry throws up all kinds of get-rich-quick operators but one of the odder ones has to be the saga of the Brooks Steam Motors Ltd., formed by Oland J. Brooks, a US financier resident in Toronto after 1920. The company showed a steam car, modeled after the already-obsolete Stanley pattern in 1923 and the Canadian National Exhibition and an agreement was reached to manufacture the car in a former threshing machine factory in Stratford, Ontario. The era of steam cars was essentially over at this point (unless one includes the hyper-expensive and commercially unsuccessful albeit technically advanced Doble cars) and it appears that Brooks, who sold shares in his company door-to-door, was less interested in producing cars than getting cash. The Brooks accelerated slowly and even then could only reach a top speed of 35 mph.<br />
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There were grandiose plans, including building steam buses at a plant in Buffalo, NY, as well as export sales to the UK. Production claims were fraudulent and it is believed that Brooks siphoned off $2 million of the $4 million raised, although it is estimated that around 180 cars were actually built before operations ended in receivership in 1929.</div>
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The Whippet, introduced in 1926, was the budget marque of the Willys auto empire, which from 1912 to 1918 was the second-largest manufacturer of automobiles in the United States after the Ford Motor Company. Stylish and surprisingly advanced little cars which were successful in their four cylinder rather than six cylinder variants, the Whippet was produced until 1931. Production in Canada took place in the former Russell Motor Car Co. plant in Toronto, which Willys-Overland had acquired in 1915, and the Toronto plant built both right- and left-hand drive cars for the British Empire market.</div>
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The Whippet in the museum is a recreation of the first Speedy Auto Glass service vehicle. Speedy Glass is a major chain operating in Canada and the United States. Its founder Bernard Kliger established the company in Toronto in 1928 and modified his Whippet to serve as a workshop on wheels, converting the rumble seat into a utility box, with glass stored behind the seats.</div>
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John and Horace Dodge began their careers manufacturing bicycles in Windsor, Ontario, before relocating to Detroit and become the most important suppliers to Henry Ford. They eventually moved into manufacturing their own cars in 1914 and quickly became the fourth largest automaker in the United States. In March 1924 Dodge Brothers (Canada) began assembling cars in a plant on Dufferin Street in Toronto but relocated to Windsor following purchase of the company by Walter Chrysler in 1928.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From Autos.ca: <i>Durant Motors of Canada was established in 1921 to manufacture American-based Durant and Star cars under licence from Durant Motors Inc. This American company had been formed by General Motors founder William “Billy” Durant in 1921 after he was deposed as the head of GM for the second and last time in 1920.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Durant Motors prospered for several years in Canada, assisted by being the exporter of all Durant products to British Empire countries where Canada got more favourable tariff treatment than the United States. Although by the late 1920s the fortunes of the American company began to flag, Durant Motors of Canada continued to prosper under the leadership of its very capable president Roy Kerby.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Durant managed to hold on in the U.S. until 1932 when the Depression and the competition forced it out of the car business. Enough Canadian capital was found to take over the Canadian operation in 1931. It was renamed Dominion Motors Ltd. and obtained the rights to continue building Durant-based cars and Rugby trucks.</i></span></div>
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While
the Canadian Automotive Museum has no Corvettes or association with
them, the museum does exhibit Lightning McQueen, the anthropomorphic
stock car from the Pixar movie "Cars" and its several
sequels. The creators have described the car as being a
combination of a stock car with a more curvaceous LeMans racer, with
some Lola and Ford GT40 thrown in. There is no question in my
mind that there is considerable C6 Corvette influence, particularly
when viewed from the front. The C6 came onto the market in
2005, the year before “Cars” was released.</div>
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The Canadian Automotive Museum has an excellent collection of interesting cars but suffers from facilities that are cramped and poorly-lit. Signage is a mixed bag but the museum is soliciting help in making the signage more attractive, professional and informative. A new curator was hired a few years ago and it is to be hoped that his energy will help the museum. It is sad to consider that General Motors, which purchased the McLaughlin operations in Oshawa in 1918, announced 100 years later the closure of the Oshawa Assembly Plant, once one of the largest car assembly plants in the world, at the end of 2019. The story of cars in Canada is an interesting one and more can be found <a href="http://www-archives.ingeniumcanada.org/canadiancar/eng/index.html">here</a>.</div>
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Sometimes you can find surprising things a short distance from home. One day in July 2018, we were driving along in the Corvette. Waiting for a stoplight, we looked up through the open top as we heard the roar of a big airplane and, to our amazement, a B-29 Superfortress bomber flew overhead. There are only two airworthy B-29s flying and this turned out to be "Fifi," which has been flown at airshows and events since 1971. Checking the all-knowing Internet, we learned that "Fifi" had been present at the Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport for a show hosted by Vintage Wings of Canada.</div>
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On an overcast day in August, the Corvette and I went north across the Ottawa River and eastwards to the Gatineau airport, one of three in the Ottawa area, and soon found myself at the very fancy 23,000 square foot hangar of Vintage Wings of Canada. The organization is a non-profit foundation that acts as a flying museum. It was begun by wealthy tech entrepreneur Michael Potter, who began collecting vintage aircraft in 2000 before making arrangements more formal with the foundation, which acquires, manages, maintains and flies the aircraft with professional personnel. Vintage Wings is open to visitors on Saturdays from 0900-1500 for a $10 donation.<br />
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Considered one of the most beautiful biplanes ever designed, the Hawker Fury interceptor was introduced in 1931 and was the first fighter in Royal Air Force service to exceed 200 mph in flight. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine, around 275 were built and operated not only with the United Kingdom but with several other air forces. The last Furies were mustered out of service by Iran in 1949.</div>
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Originally designed as an army cooperation aircraft in 1936 but soon obsolete in that role, the Lysander's exceptional short field performance saw it used for covert operations primarily contacting the French Resistance. 225 Lysanders were built in Canada and were supplemented by 104 British-built examples and were used for a variety of roles, including training (at RCAF Station Rockcliffe here in Ottawa), anti-submarine reconnaissance and, for a brief period when all Hurricanes in Canada had been sent to Britain momentarily leaving no fighters in this country, were redesignated as fighters although never equipped in any way for that. Lysander service in the RCAF was already ended by 1944. The IIIa variant at Vintage Wings would have been used as a target tug.<br />
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In addition to the combat aircraft, Vintage Wings has examples of the aircraft used for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, all in their distinctive yellow finish.<br />
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There are a number of civilian aircraft in the Vintage Wings hangar as well, including one of my favourite aerobatic planes, the little Pitts S-1T.<br />
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I had the opportunity to speak to the owner/pilot of the Pitts, Peter Ashwood Smith, and mentioned that many years ago I had an hour of dual instruction in a two-seat Pitts S-2A not far from Boston and he knew the pilot, Dr. Gunther Eichhorn. Peter noted that the Pitts community of competition pilots was pretty small.<br />
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Extra Flugzeugbau of Dinslaken, Germany, manufactures the Extra EA-330LT, a development of the Extra 300 two seat aerobatic airplane that first flew in 1988. It was designed by Walter Extra (yes, that really is his name) and is capable of competing in the Unlimited Competition category. It is quite fast and, at around US$450,000 not inexpensive.<br />
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With more than 21,000 examples built between 1947 and 2001 (!), the An-2 was developed as a utility/agricultural aircraft and is capable of carrying twelve passenger. The example I saw in Gatineau has been used for emergency relief operations in Northern Ontario, a story told <a href="http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/341/Attawapiskat-Annie.aspx">here</a>.</div>
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Since its introduction in 1984, the Sukhoi Su-26 and its successor aircraft have been considered the dominant machines in world aerobatic competition. The Su-26M is unusual in being powered by a radial engine, the Vedeneyev M14P nine cylinder engine of 360 hp.<br />
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A true classic, this de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver was recondition by Viking Air Ltd. in British Columbia, which holds the type certificates for all post-war de Havilland Canada aircraft. Viking acquired the jigs and drawing for the Beaver in 1983. Over 1,600 examples were built between 1947 and 1967 using the Pratt & Whitney R-985 radial engine. My guide told me that Michael Potter sold his Beaver but regretted it and got this one soon afterwards. This is, without doubt, the finest example flying.<br />
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On June 30, 1953, the first Corvette came off the rather
cobbled-together assembly line in Flint, Michigan. In 2008, the US House of Representatives
passed a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-resolution/970">resolution</a> that June 30 be declared "National Corvette Day." I
had no idea but will always celebrate accordingly. <br />
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In celebration of National Corvette Day (an Official American Holiday!) I
took out the C6 for a short drive to Cumberland, figuring that going
more rural would save the car from the horrific roads I banged over in
central Ottawa yesterday. There is a bakery, the Black Walnut, in Cumberland where my
order of two date squares and a coffee became three date squares and a
coffee as it was nearing the end of business.<br />
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still puzzled by people who spend all that $$$ for a Corvette and then
don't drive it. No matter--I had a nice drive and then stopped by the
Cumberland Heritage Village Museum for a photo op. Three
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With the lousy weather and other activities, our first car event for 2019 was the 2nd Cruise for Parkinson's.
It was held in the parking lot of Overflow Brewing and although I
arrived pretty late I still got a dash plaque, so only around 40 cars
were in attendance from 9:00 until about 2:30. It was pretty hot so it
was nice to pop into the brewery and have a cool one (or two). This helped to make up for the savage beating the poor Corvette took on Ottawa's now unbelievably bad potholed streets.<br />
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Parkinson's Disease last year. I was happy to make a donation but the
turnout must have been a disappointment in spite of the good weather.
It is a long weekend so that could have been part of it but I personally
think the idea of "cars & coffee" or "cruise-in" events where you
come and go is preferable to car shows where you are there for the major
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bought his C7 in September 2016 and has put 64,000 kms on it--bravo! He
was about to depart on his "trip of a lifetime," heading down Route 66
to Arizona, but stopping at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky as
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There were some peculiar cars that drew attention. There was a 1970 Vanagon, a VW Beetle conversion to become a minivan which looked quite nice. But the weirdest was a first generation Mazda RX-7, which was produced from 1978 to 1985, but this example had its Wankel rotary removed and replaced with a Small Block Chevy 350 V8, a truly time-consuming project but apparently one that is done fairly often. Later versions of the RX-7 have even received LS-series motors (like the one in our Corvette).</div>
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Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-13423606486517624372019-04-26T16:52:00.000-07:002019-04-26T16:52:06.381-07:00Drifting in a C6 Z06Nothing to do with us but I just liked this video. Apparently with a 1050 hp Corvette and an excellent drone pilot, there is nothing you can't do! The driver is Matt Field, whose Z06 features the usual supercharged LS7 engine (albeit with a bigger supercharger) but also nitrous for that extra bit of power. I can't drive like this at all.<br />
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An alternative is to get behind the wheel of a simulator. Although I have flown aircraft simulators, I had never tried an automobile version after the people at <a href="https://www.simwerks.ca/">Simwerks</a>, a four month old simulator centre in Ottawa, told me that I could race a C7.R at the Daytona International Speedway road track, I thought this would help beat the winter blues.<br />
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Meeting my Corvette Club friend Graham, we had a short introductory session with Marc, one of the partners in Simwerks. We were given virtual reality headsets and shown where the various controls were. We would take a few minutes in BMWs with paddle shifters, although the simulators are also capable of reproducing the motions of an H-pattern manual shifter. The first few minutes are a bit disorienting as we drove around a short oval, spinning out from time to time as well as hitting the barrier walls. But with some adjustments and helpful instructions, we were set for our 30 minute session with the Corvettes.<br />
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There are a vast number of cars and tracks to choose from. We had selected the Daytona track as it is one of the more interesting tracks, featuring some nice banking, and Corvettes, well, obviously. Seated in the comfortable racing seat and strapped in with shoulder belts, looking through the VR headset was amazingly real. Rolling out onto the track, it first became a question of familiarization with Daytona, as I missed two turns market by orange pylons as they came up so unexpectedly. But soon enough you get the hang of it and I was comfortably doing laps, hitting 272 km/h on the banking.</div>
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From what I had seen on YouTube as Tommy Milner did a nighttime drive-through on the course, the simulator is very realistic in terms of the cockpit of the C7.R and the track itself. It was a terrific experience (and as close to driving a C7.R as I will get) and a lot of fun just to do laps. It is possible to race against others in the simulator centre, people hooking in online, or against virtual opponents but we were satisfied to just go around without crashing. That said, 30 minutes is probably sufficient as it actually is tiring to concentrate. </div>
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Every Thursday in summer the small town of Port Colborne, Ontario, on the Welland Canal and near Lake Erie, closes a main street and has an informal car show. We were fortunate to be in the area at the time and surprised by the number of cars that appears. I said to my wife "Lots of American Muscle, not many exotics like a Lamborghini to be expected." Of course, I was wrong!<br />
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Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-1682520980755349242018-07-15T07:43:00.001-07:002020-06-28T07:46:50.595-07:00Wicked Garage Open House and RTB Collection, Greely, Ontario--July 15, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ChcAyjw7y5E/XvZNOY66MkI/AAAAAAAAbQU/k482Jwmb78MakGZ86VxXj9SEnihJe-2mwCK4BGAsYHg/s3900/img_1585_42905087824_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2600" data-original-width="3900" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ChcAyjw7y5E/XvZNOY66MkI/AAAAAAAAbQU/k482Jwmb78MakGZ86VxXj9SEnihJe-2mwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1585_42905087824_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>An event we look forward to each year as the Open House at the Wicked Garage where interesting cars always turn up, It was one of the first events we attended with our Corvette (in 2015) and although the dates change it is always worth the pleasant drive to Greely. There were a lot fewer cars this year but it was compensation that a gentleman who had his own car collection around the corner put out the cars for us to look at there as well.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c16eNj6yyog/XvisEzStzBI/AAAAAAAAblM/ruFdLk05wUQo2F9ua12JP3MDmDQbh3k8QCK4BGAsYHg/s245/o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="231" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c16eNj6yyog/XvisEzStzBI/AAAAAAAAblM/ruFdLk05wUQo2F9ua12JP3MDmDQbh3k8QCK4BGAsYHg/d/o.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0iH4Crx6fu8/XvZOxJQPGDI/AAAAAAAAbbA/nUWlEJTH0a0yeEp7WuRdM02PLnm3AJxUwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1574_28734903237_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0iH4Crx6fu8/XvZOxJQPGDI/AAAAAAAAbbA/nUWlEJTH0a0yeEp7WuRdM02PLnm3AJxUwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1574_28734903237_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cg88c5YK1qo/XvZOyqoV6PI/AAAAAAAAbbE/ahbQ1NYjuCg-Y2SiDxMdIMTQaoT2yq9kgCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1575_43574916662_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cg88c5YK1qo/XvZOyqoV6PI/AAAAAAAAbbE/ahbQ1NYjuCg-Y2SiDxMdIMTQaoT2yq9kgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1575_43574916662_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6jL3oBXslc/XvZO0OfnnbI/AAAAAAAAbbI/YHNPUiqRqls7ZzzFpUY7EXqpOUt8zFzyQCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1576_28734905667_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B4o7uOoIJLc/XvZO8dqxzxI/AAAAAAAAbbg/MEZiqqeZ0H4RzIwCBAX1JncrnMEB56XdQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1582_28734911417_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1991 Chevrolet Corvette Roadster, heavily modified</b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1FNGrUeWZBU/XvZO-GYL2aI/AAAAAAAAbbs/N6l2tNY9QuEP3xQngUNZgy2f5PfDG5wrgCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1583_42718774895_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1FNGrUeWZBU/XvZO-GYL2aI/AAAAAAAAbbs/N6l2tNY9QuEP3xQngUNZgy2f5PfDG5wrgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1583_42718774895_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-szbaF6_FlwA/XvZPANvMlAI/AAAAAAAAbb8/8E4fux66_VkyO4jCcvuVhR4pVpr9tzxwgCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1584_28734913397_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-szbaF6_FlwA/XvZPANvMlAI/AAAAAAAAbb8/8E4fux66_VkyO4jCcvuVhR4pVpr9tzxwgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1584_28734913397_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1954 Chevrolet Delivery Sedan</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EmsYy5CYPHo/XvZPDTpDhyI/AAAAAAAAbcM/CHD5TJ_NHmQ5zUAKyV8ZF6dNUwJk22MFwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1586_42905088964_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EmsYy5CYPHo/XvZPDTpDhyI/AAAAAAAAbcM/CHD5TJ_NHmQ5zUAKyV8ZF6dNUwJk22MFwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1586_42905088964_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1987 Chevrolet C4 Corvette Roadster </b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qSYq5d92JOk/XvZPErzeXrI/AAAAAAAAbcQ/HiP4puPFQXQNKPQXrGs6gd-6s3WGVt5PQCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1588_28734915397_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qSYq5d92JOk/XvZPErzeXrI/AAAAAAAAbcQ/HiP4puPFQXQNKPQXrGs6gd-6s3WGVt5PQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1588_28734915397_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>2017 Chevrolet Camaro RS 50th Anniversary Edition</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wavh37vZNmQ/XvZPGN6ia7I/AAAAAAAAbcU/jYeJaEAckxI60E7oZ_ogxHPIl0wbVP_hQCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1589_42905090584_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wavh37vZNmQ/XvZPGN6ia7I/AAAAAAAAbcU/jYeJaEAckxI60E7oZ_ogxHPIl0wbVP_hQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1589_42905090584_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Old Truck Paradise</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VM0IUWtPsC8/XvZPJ7wco6I/AAAAAAAAbcs/NxRvkRvXQtAOScO3mmUsHms2rK6oD1CwQCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1591_28734890917_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VM0IUWtPsC8/XvZPJ7wco6I/AAAAAAAAbcs/NxRvkRvXQtAOScO3mmUsHms2rK6oD1CwQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1591_28734890917_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1955 Ford Thunderbird</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iXU_YrkzZJM/XvZPK3KN_OI/AAAAAAAAbcw/B51CD2DZv_sQBkWNXmVkFHTHpH7_mzQBwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1592_28734917417_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iXU_YrkzZJM/XvZPK3KN_OI/AAAAAAAAbcw/B51CD2DZv_sQBkWNXmVkFHTHpH7_mzQBwCK4BGAsYHg/w426-h640/img_1592_28734917417_o.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q9Ts4tqxUqE/XvZPMOfNuNI/AAAAAAAAbdA/dFYvAwCrCcAc-I6vvaqEMYD1-9C7wkAywCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1593_42905092434_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q9Ts4tqxUqE/XvZPMOfNuNI/AAAAAAAAbdA/dFYvAwCrCcAc-I6vvaqEMYD1-9C7wkAywCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1593_42905092434_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1968 Cadillac Calais Coupe</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zfWHV8-VNl4/XvZPH1vE5uI/AAAAAAAAbcg/zlA601zt-RYPgmvzcCYv1gTU81j_DCKjQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1590_28734916537_o.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gO3wFK5yx7E/XvZPNqynsnI/AAAAAAAAbdI/bsXOYGVbJa4TILIQK2J1gdXBHnlTtuW4gCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1594_28734918477_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gO3wFK5yx7E/XvZPNqynsnI/AAAAAAAAbdI/bsXOYGVbJa4TILIQK2J1gdXBHnlTtuW4gCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1594_28734918477_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9zk1sA6Z-m8/XvZPPB0AkQI/AAAAAAAAbdM/0VKLPO6IJkQPptA24QszyKRwkz2JHoXNwCK4BGAsYHg/s4519/img_1595_42905093454_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3012" data-original-width="4519" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9zk1sA6Z-m8/XvZPPB0AkQI/AAAAAAAAbdM/0VKLPO6IJkQPptA24QszyKRwkz2JHoXNwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1595_42905093454_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DMZMBUIDPPE/XvZPQgs9IZI/AAAAAAAAbdU/NRXEUDQH7hEIKqQiGpeWm3dl4V-XKYdbwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1596_28734919687_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DMZMBUIDPPE/XvZPQgs9IZI/AAAAAAAAbdU/NRXEUDQH7hEIKqQiGpeWm3dl4V-XKYdbwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1596_28734919687_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1966 Chevrolet Corvette Roadster</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2BoFgT2lt4/XvZPR61fT_I/AAAAAAAAbdc/G8S-RVoB9MAV0latCfg8qeDw1PJ3pYKiACK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1597_28734920497_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2BoFgT2lt4/XvZPR61fT_I/AAAAAAAAbdc/G8S-RVoB9MAV0latCfg8qeDw1PJ3pYKiACK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1597_28734920497_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_IfSnDJZGZA/XvZPTApphKI/AAAAAAAAbdo/r3i1k5y_GkM_fO4FhvW7zB2URPfANmBVQCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1598_28734921267_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_IfSnDJZGZA/XvZPTApphKI/AAAAAAAAbdo/r3i1k5y_GkM_fO4FhvW7zB2URPfANmBVQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1598_28734921267_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3h_p2MXpbs/XvZPU2_htmI/AAAAAAAAbdw/PdAz6NcYKYoTYDy8sP5nxVk94o78eUqKACK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1599_42718784605_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3h_p2MXpbs/XvZPU2_htmI/AAAAAAAAbdw/PdAz6NcYKYoTYDy8sP5nxVk94o78eUqKACK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1599_42718784605_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ch9OkwdEioQ/XvZPWeRubGI/AAAAAAAAbd4/72tY6lWixuwsu2C2n825MyD_9EyDX-I8gCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1600_28734922677_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ch9OkwdEioQ/XvZPWeRubGI/AAAAAAAAbd4/72tY6lWixuwsu2C2n825MyD_9EyDX-I8gCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1600_28734922677_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9rMOu5m1Q2s/XvZPYL6Ka6I/AAAAAAAAbeE/fX5CYaQmE_wkBGAzo3BZmjwc-XNcgd0MwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1601_42718786005_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9rMOu5m1Q2s/XvZPYL6Ka6I/AAAAAAAAbeE/fX5CYaQmE_wkBGAzo3BZmjwc-XNcgd0MwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1601_42718786005_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1963 Chevrolet Corvette Roadster Custom</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bcGTrH-vAyc/XvZPZ6fYNbI/AAAAAAAAbeQ/JOsWcqKOLt8dQiEHokstJ14vSPrUFtjRACK4BGAsYHg/s4534/img_1602_28734924417_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3023" data-original-width="4534" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bcGTrH-vAyc/XvZPZ6fYNbI/AAAAAAAAbeQ/JOsWcqKOLt8dQiEHokstJ14vSPrUFtjRACK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1602_28734924417_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VG4OEm1l5iE/XvZPbfjAFLI/AAAAAAAAbek/5dnUDN6ltqUDFZj7g7V_BbDD_fd0SISrQCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1603_42905099714_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VG4OEm1l5iE/XvZPbfjAFLI/AAAAAAAAbek/5dnUDN6ltqUDFZj7g7V_BbDD_fd0SISrQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1603_42905099714_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">1965 Ford Mustang Coupe</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Noticing a lot of activity around the corner from the Wicked Garage, I discovered a massive private collection, the RTB Collection, of American cars which the owner had taken out for display for us. I know that there is an RTB auto body/restoration shop on Bank Street in Ottawa but am not certain of the connection. </span>Not only was the collection of pristine cars (plus some interesting projects) massive but every one of the roadworthy cars had personalized license plates. These cost $310 each to acquire so multiplying this over the number of cars on display would have added considerably to the Ontario treasury!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e2TaX6P5Lxk/XvZQgFo6nII/AAAAAAAAbko/p79Mp6OlDmcn9-9iPizzhMoLlNBtN0sSQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1648_28734884717_o.jpg" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0vJknb-9i6Q/XvZPc8cr9vI/AAAAAAAAbe4/5E0oKG2JJ1EJuPnaqk51D7F6LYA_hVzNgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1604_28734925997_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1966 Chevrolet Nova SS<br /></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sxbNBZ98aFc/XvZQeu5w7aI/AAAAAAAAbkk/PWjRzhk3M3QhAXLjYHrhIWPmShoUC5AegCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1647_43574908262_o.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Xx_UgW7Fpw/XvZPeklhAWI/AAAAAAAAbfE/oswMF01PtJwP3V5tjn93BHZHjvc9ty3mwCK4BGAsYHg/s5053/img_1605_41814390890_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3369" data-original-width="5053" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Xx_UgW7Fpw/XvZPeklhAWI/AAAAAAAAbfE/oswMF01PtJwP3V5tjn93BHZHjvc9ty3mwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1605_41814390890_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Mustangs to the left, Corvettes to the right<br /></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zg4jcFNBVLQ/XvZPhWh2tRI/AAAAAAAAbfc/qCo83iYvD3oJmDRyzUkPq1q6NNxeKMrGwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1607_41814392190_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zg4jcFNBVLQ/XvZPhWh2tRI/AAAAAAAAbfc/qCo83iYvD3oJmDRyzUkPq1q6NNxeKMrGwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1607_41814392190_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1966 Dodge Cornet<br /></b></i><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vG3EkAqG06E/XvZPnR_S5cI/AAAAAAAAbf4/bRN8nUv6_1QPxQQVUJF2YdboxVRQHhjTQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1611_28734929877_o.jpg" /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xRMc-wn7viY/XvZP_hxdabI/AAAAAAAAbjE/Bu7_M6YPEZojIcNaD3-OM1F4g_3U-M8PgCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1626_28734938967_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xRMc-wn7viY/XvZP_hxdabI/AAAAAAAAbjE/Bu7_M6YPEZojIcNaD3-OM1F4g_3U-M8PgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1626_28734938967_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j5AoA8Xwe_U/XvZPi2DGmtI/AAAAAAAAbfg/nqpZteOF8WAn_YqZYJRamc8pPnSg-n7-ACK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1608_28734928587_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j5AoA8Xwe_U/XvZPi2DGmtI/AAAAAAAAbfg/nqpZteOF8WAn_YqZYJRamc8pPnSg-n7-ACK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1608_28734928587_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Left to right: 1977 and 1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupes; 1995 Corvette Roadster; C5 Corvette Coupe<br /></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0HR1mDKZB0U/XvZPkCpO1tI/AAAAAAAAbfo/zNZKd1sKMb0NTzgjKUhvn5y1m2UP8FjCgCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1609_41814393610_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0HR1mDKZB0U/XvZPkCpO1tI/AAAAAAAAbfo/zNZKd1sKMb0NTzgjKUhvn5y1m2UP8FjCgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1609_41814393610_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NZ45TltjX4M/XvZPlrrNhlI/AAAAAAAAbfw/O_KSw5e4dr0eMYC8aPzUqL_jo8nejCniwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1610_28734889687_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NZ45TltjX4M/XvZPlrrNhlI/AAAAAAAAbfw/O_KSw5e4dr0eMYC8aPzUqL_jo8nejCniwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1610_28734889687_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1965 Ford Mustang Fastback Coupes (two GTs on the left, white 2+2 on the right)<br /></b></i><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t4AJARQtRWg/XvZP8QsqG5I/AAAAAAAAbik/-lRyo4eZ4UM6AhiNLQnW1ubMqKtAn3aSgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1624_28734937327_o.jpg" /><i><b><br /><br /></b></i><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EM-djMy-fRI/XvZP94X2nhI/AAAAAAAAbi4/cMgYKB-fTsMDTQUgG5g27kyAZOMBs6EwwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1625_41814404020_o.jpg" /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3189" data-original-width="4783" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rGL3bEYJQmw/XvZPot9rnII/AAAAAAAAbgM/_al2laiMidclGf1Bn-AggmJm8ErnNnlpgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1612_41814395530_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (left); 1974 Trans Am 455 Super Duty</b></i><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Of the more than 10,000 Firebirds built in 1974, fewer than 1,000 Trans Am versions featured the optional Super Duty LS1 engine.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In addition to the cars parked outside and the main garage building, there were several structures housing parts and project cars.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-umKolx3Pix0/XvZPqb5UK4I/AAAAAAAAbgU/eZhf-LnyvXgMVZ6K_5bt1KjeuNtAjNqiQCK4BGAsYHg/s4995/img_1613_28734931117_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fdXhrUnz868/XvZPty5WPNI/AAAAAAAAbgk/NEJrxWIvIx0hzM_d0K3AxCb1jO2BsywDgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1615_28734931957_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eQsrOW_1cSM/XvZPvnBCzmI/AAAAAAAAbg8/t0m5CqKJkA40eQJrWhTnxjhTyxjpYSZ7ACK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1616_41814397590_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eQsrOW_1cSM/XvZPvnBCzmI/AAAAAAAAbg8/t0m5CqKJkA40eQJrWhTnxjhTyxjpYSZ7ACK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1616_41814397590_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1959 Chevrolet El Camino<br /></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table>1959 marked the introduction of the El Camino, Chevrolet's response to Ford's Ranchero which debuted two years earlier. More than 22,000 of the rather flamboyant El Camino were sold in its first year, but sales plunged in 1960 and the car was discontinued. The El Camino was reintroduced in 1964, based on the Chevrolet Chevelle, and production in various styles continued until 1987.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UeIZMoOd97A/XvZPxJ6Pd5I/AAAAAAAAbhI/4nzD077VDk048f43xyAQiFBCUvVyI53-ACK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1617_28734932727_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UeIZMoOd97A/XvZPxJ6Pd5I/AAAAAAAAbhI/4nzD077VDk048f43xyAQiFBCUvVyI53-ACK4BGAsYHg/w426-h640/img_1617_28734932727_o.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1963 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe rear section</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VrbJJRVx-HA/XvZPzCPp8DI/AAAAAAAAbhY/a8U3PjMPyLciBhkjW4z1g64KgHnLNLsSwCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1618_41814398910_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OCiurnCLMWM/XvZP5laCz-I/AAAAAAAAbiQ/MoBqEHchCqAxd7BQz_RaMbsdcuyIJRjCQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1622_28734935837_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>1963 Buick Riviera</b></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0U8sBroAZk/XvZP7I16IgI/AAAAAAAAbiY/1kZpt94mOmYapohmLhAAfLfTQuo9hc-kgCK4BGAsYHg/s5184/img_1623_41814402040_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0U8sBroAZk/XvZP7I16IgI/AAAAAAAAbiY/1kZpt94mOmYapohmLhAAfLfTQuo9hc-kgCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1623_41814402040_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Ford Econoline Van</i></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>I next walked into the main building/workshop where there were a lot of other great cars parked, including an impressive Corvette collection.<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-84tcr8jVJ58/XvZPf7MomeI/AAAAAAAAbfU/n85jBYCfxPowm-zYi6CmPfqYtBoJIlKWwCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h426/img_1606_28734927237_o.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Given the ease with which the cars can be identified by their license plates, I do not think I have ever seen one at other car events in the Ottawa area so it was nice to be able to look in on one person's Giant Man Cave.</div>Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-35758469713062931192018-06-26T16:24:00.000-07:002018-06-26T16:26:55.207-07:00Corvette Washing Technique: Maybe Not So RecommendedIt is a standing joke in Corvette circles that owners are either "racers" or "waxers," the latter being the obsessives who spend all their time cleaning their cars rather than actually driving them. We are more like "tourers" as I like a clean car but also do a lot of driving with it, as this blog attests. Still, when I look in my garage at all the cleaning products I have always found it disquieting. I believe I have $250 in detailing supplies, to say nothing of microfibre towels and wheel brushes and stainless steel polish. I have even spent 20 minutes watching a video on the best way to clean and dry those towels. I see Corvette owners drying the de-ionized water from their freshly-washed cars with leaf blowers. Here is someone who really doesn't give a damn as he takes care of his C7 Grand Sport. "Takes care of" in a "Goodfellas" sense, I think!<br />
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<iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="415" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WsEZhM49AbA" width="650"></iframe>Sprocketboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002657522696618715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369211517541404467.post-63178158148476340152018-06-23T18:00:00.000-07:002020-02-14T13:17:26.405-08:00Vanity Plates Seen at the Kingston Corvette Invasion, June 2018Although I have not done this before, I took the opportunity to take some photos of the Corvette vanity plates while in Kingston. I have tried to find interesting ones (not "TimsCar" or something) and here is my haul from two days of plate-spotting:<br />
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Kingston, Ontario was the latest scene of
Canadian Corvette action as Eastern Ontario Corvette hosted their
first big event in the Limestone City. With participants
representing no fewer than 23 clubs in Ontario, Quebec and the United
States, attendance was impressive. Around 20 Capital Corvette Club members, including us, drove the
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Not being all that familiar with Kingston, this was our opportunity to see the city and its attractions. After a pleasant drive down Highway 15 from Smith's Falls, we drove directly to our first stop: the Kingston Penitentiary.<br />
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Originally constructed between 1833 and 1834, and receiving its first six prisoners in June 1835, the Kingston Penitentiary (then called the Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada) was the largest building in Upper Canada. It was constructed under the supervision of an American, William Powers, who modelled the institution on one in Auburn, New York. As first conceived, it consisted of a single limestone cell block containing 154 cells in 5 tiers, along with outbuildings to house workshops, administration offices and other essential services. The original cells were 28 inches wide (!), 8 feet deep and 6.7 feet high. During major renovations from 1895 to 1906, every other wall was removed between the cells, doubling their width, and these remained in use until the prison closed in 2013.</div>
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The site was chosen as it was centrally-located in the province and its position directly on Lake Ontario allowed the transfer of prisoners by water, as opposed to the high-risk method of bringing them in by horseback. The penitentiary was expanded in the 1840s and 1850s to include three more cell blocks. It also housed a small women's prison for a number of years. At the time of its closure, the Kingston Penitentiary could accommodate 564 maximum security inmates. Charles Dickens visited it in 1842 and made a favourable report on it. However, two large-scale riots took place during its operation, one that lasted two hours in 1954, and a major uprising in 1971, that went for four days, saw the death of two inmates and the destruction of much of the prison.</div>
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Our tour was very enlightening as in addition to the amusing young tour guide we heard from a number of retired Corrections Canada personnel who had worked in the penitentiary. One of the most entertaining was a male nurse who had worked in the psychiatric hospital, a unit separate from but located on the grounds of the institution. We had been warned at the beginning that our tour might be extended a bit but the stories were great.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>This curious vehicle is a 1935 pumper truck serving the penitentiary fire department. Cobbled together from a 1934 Ford pickup truck and a 1935 American LaFrance pump, it eventually received a 1948 Ford flathead V8 engine. The modernization of fire protection through sprinkler systems and other devices eventually made these low-budget solutions obsolete.</b></i></td></tr>
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On Friday evening official events of the Corvette Invasion began
with occupation of rhe downtown Ontario Street and Market Square by
more than 235 Corvettes, with parking impressively directed by the
volunteers. Corvettes from all seven generations were present,
bearing a remarkable collection of personalized license plates (these will be the subject of a separate post!).
There were track cars, stock cars, restomods, four Callaways, and
even a rare 2009 Corvette limited edition car celebrating the
marque's LeMans class win that year. There were throngs of local
citizens admiring the shiny cars under the clear skies of the first
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While Friday's weather had been superb, Saturday began grey and overcast. I walked around the parking lot looking at all the Corvettes and taking some more photos.<br />
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In spite of the threatening weather spirits were high as four driving tours were launched after 9:30 am. ACS Composites was present and doing installation work for those wanting side skirts and splitters. The road tours were around 120 kms and ranged from 90 minutes to 2 hours and before the rain began everyone was back in Kingston. Our tour, which took us northwards and then east along the wonderful twisting Opinicon Road to Chaffey's Lock on the Rideau Canal, ended at Old Fort Henry, which we had the chance to visit before returning the hotel and preparing for the evening's festivities.</div>
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Once known as "the Citadel of Upper Canada," Fort Henry was constructed from 1832 to 1836, replacing a smaller structure that had served in the War of 1812. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the fort was built to protect the shipyards in Kingston as well as the entry to the Rideau Canal but as relations between Britain and the United States improved, the fort, which was never under attack, gradually fell into disrepair after its last garrison of Canadians departed in 1891. In the 1930s it was restored and is now under the management of Parks Canada.<br />
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In addition to period rooms showing the life of British military personnel, there are rooms devoted to the history of the fort, its restoration and Canadian military history as well. Fort Henry has many events in addition to artillery and rifle demonstrations, such as a massed band tattoo, an obstacle race, a haunted walk, and other family-friendly activities. Unfortunately, the weather was poor during our visit, with ice cold rain falling, so our stay was shortened somewhat and we left for the hotel and our evening banquet.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Thin defence tower at Fort Henry. the city has four of the wider, more powerful Martello Towers to defend the harbour area. Two of these are now museums.</b></i></td></tr>
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The ballroom of the Ambassador was packed by 6 pm and the room offered unique décor: an orange ZR1 convertible provided by General Motors and trucked in that afternoon. “Lucy” has the serial number 00012EX, indicating she is a prototype car and, sadly, will meet the fate of all GM prototypes but it was an indication of the Corvette Invasion's organizational efforts to get her there. </div>
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There was a 50/50 draw that gave the lucky winner $1300, and door prizes galore. Post-dinner attendees enjoyed the live band, the ToneKats, a four-man local group playing energetic cover versions of popular songs.</div>
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The parking lot emptied out on Sunday morning as everyone headed for home. In addition to the excellent organization of this first-time and ambitious event, primarily by only three couples, it was clear that the Kingston Corvette Invasion had received excellent community support and great local enthusiasm.</div>
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