Brass is Best
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This is a wonderful show and is worth attending. These are the types of cars you can expect to see.
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Remember new "Old Guys" are made everyday. Antique cars will never go out of style.
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Make and model of car would help.
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It is that time of year again... better think about starting your Christmas shopping only a few days left.
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I have some nice sedans at this time.
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The Bumper looks like DeSoto.
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Tis that time of year again...
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Remember life is short. If you want the car check it out and buy it. cars are a lot more fun than a bank statement.
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8 hours ago, nzcarnerd said:
1914? - has front doors but no eyebrows on the front fenders.
1914 was the last year for wood firewall as well. 1915 was a metal cowl.
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Car designers are artists. We are called Industrial Designers. Our degrees are considered a BFA or a Bachelor of Fine Arts. When you go to a college to be a car designer there are 2 schools that count. I am sure somebody will want to argue this but the other schools do not have the requirements, curriculum or prestige. So if you want to learn to design cars and become an Industrial Designer you attend CCS in Detroit Michigan (College for Creative Studies) or you go to Art Center in Pasadena California. Freshman year your class will be several hundred students who all think they know everything about cars. When you make it to graduation 4 or 5 years later your class will be 40 or 50 well trained individuals who know a little bit about design. The first years you will draw everything from toasters to convertibles. You will draw thousands of sketches, drawings and renderings. Instructors will review everything you do and tell you what is wrong with it. Students will either get better or go home. Most go home. At the same time you study fine art, art history, metalsmithing, pottery, painting, writing, English, world history, CAD, Model Making, wood working, etc... all the fine art mediums. So on top of being an artist you are also a designer. Designers create art with a purpose. They create art that can be used. Pretty much anything can become fine art. Anybody can create fine art. But when you ask an artist to make something beautiful on a 127 inch wheelbase that can carry 4 95th percentile US males and fit within a selected package they get a little flustered. A designer will produce results. A designer has a harder job than an artist. A designer has a package to work with, government regulations, cost limitations, brand DNA to use, and still a designer can create something that evokes emotion. If you think a car is art it is. If you think a car is not art then you are wrong. The designer intended it as art. With art true art it is the intention of the designer or artist that defines what it is. If you see art and you do not like it that doesn't make it not art. It has made you evoke an emotion of dislike. Therefore it is art. As for design renderings or sketches not being art? What if a designer draws a car they know can never be built and makes a wonderful rendering? Would this not be art? Fine Artists tend to turn their noses up at Industrial Designers because most ID folks can create fine art. But most fine art folks can't create industrial design. Think it is easy to draw a car? Try drawing 10 different ideas in an hour.
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A well spent Saturday afternoon?
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20 hours ago, Laughing Coyote said:
Where is the one located that dispenses Pakards, RR, Auburns, Shelby GTs, and cars we really like? I guess it's still in the works.
Imagine the stampede to get in that line.
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14 hours ago, Tinindian said:
You get a larger caterpillar bulldozer.
Think they are going to need a bigger vending machine.
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What happens when you hit D-8 instead of D-9?
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This Limited was at St. Johns this year.
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1946, 1947, 1948 Chevrolet used it as well.
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Better call these guys!
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10 hours ago, GregLaR said:
"Firemen and National Guard had to fight back the crowd with fire hoses."
Ahhhh, the good ol' days. 😄
They must have forgot to bring the clubs and dogs.
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Great work! Do you have any car shows planned at your complex?
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Sometimes it pays to have friend or two who own machine shops. Over the years I have had to fabricate some rare parts.
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Its always good to ask a buyer when they are going to pick up the car. I Had a customer from France buy a car once and leave it for over a year. He was trying to resell it before he moved it. I Had to notify him that I was going to start charging storage and put the car outside before he finally had it moved. I later saw the car parked outside at an auction. It was filthy and damaged. I took photos of it in the neglected condition. After another year the buyer contacted me that the car was dirty, damaged and had a dead battery. He wanted compensation. I sent him photos of the car sitting dirty and damaged outside at the auction. I also sent the shipping order from when the car left my shop showing no damage. Moral of the story always ask a buyer when they are going to pick up the car. If they say as soon as I can better ask what that means.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
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On 11/12/2018 at 9:22 AM, Elpad said:
The cop is going to write them up for double parking!
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Old gas station in downtown Detroit.
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Here is an old gas station in Detroit. If only it could speak.