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Flint-built vehicles needed for EyesOn Design, June 15, 2014. Grosse Pointe Shores, MI


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You might have seen several threads recently regarding the 2014 EyesOn Design show.

As part of the Vehicle Selection Committee, I am responsible for populating our "Pure Michigan" category.

This year, the "Pure Michigan" category will showcase vehicles manufactured in Flint, Michigan.

I am looking for 10 to 15 vehicles to showcase the breadth of Flint's automotive assembly history.

In particular, we would like to feature your vehicle if it meets these requirements:

1. Original (or restored to original) appearance. Exhibited vehicles must have OEM style wheels, tires and interiors.

2. Vehicle manufactured/assembled in Flint, Michigan

Specifically, we would like to feature representative vehicles for the following marques/years:

- Any 1901-1903 product of the Flint Automobile Co., A.B.C. Hardy or Flint Roadster

- Any pre-WWI Buick (1 or 2 vehicles)

- Any pre-WWI Chevrolet (1 or 2 vehicles)

- Any Monroe vehicle

- 1932-41 Buick (any body style or year - up to 3 vehicles required)

- 1953 or 54 Buick Skylark

- 1957 or 58 Buick Caballero hardtop wagon

- 1959-64 Chevrolet Impala or Bel Air

- 1966-71 Buick Electra, Riviera or Centurion (2 vehicles)

- Any Samson truck

- Any "Flint" or "Best" truck (Durant-Dort Carriage Works)

- Any "Dort" truck

- Any pre-WWII GMC truck

- 1946-53 GMC panel truck or Chevrolet Suburban

- 1957 Chevrolet Cameo

- 1964-65 Corvair Loadside, Rampside or Greenbrier

If you have a vehicle that fits these guidelines and would like to have it considered for inclusion, please send me a message including two photos of the vehicle and your contact information as soon as possible. I will respond with additional details about the show.

I would also appreciate any contact information you can provide regarding potential exhibit vehicles that meet that above criteria.

Thank you for your interest!

Joe Tonietto

2014 Vehicle Selection Committee

j.tonietto@gmail.com

About EyesOn Design and the DIO:

The Theme for EyesOn Design 2014 is: Automotive Design’s Influence on Popular Culture

Show date: Sunday, June 15, 2014

Location: Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, 1100 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI

About the Show:

Vehicles are chosen based on the year’s theme by invitation only, and between 200 and 300 vehicles are at the show on Father’s Day. In addition, EyesOn Design features special exhibitions and concept and production vehicles which debuted during the previous year’s auto show circuit, including ones which were awarded at EyesOn Design at the North American International Auto Show.

EyesOn Design receives its support from both domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, as well as automotive suppliers and other loyal companies. Judging is facilitated by active and retired exterior and interior designers from leading automotive and supplier companies.

EyesOn Design was founded in 1987 with the support of design heads of GM, Ford, and Chrysler as an automotive exhibition judged exclusively by automotive designers. Today, we celebrate design with an ever-increasing group of designers, collectors, manufacturers, suppliers, and the general public.

About the cause:

EyesOn Design has raised over $4 million for the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology (DIO), the research arm of the Henry Ford Health System Department of Ophthalmology. The DIO supports the visually impaired and blind of southeastern Michigan and organizes two leading world research congresses. The DIO congresses bring together competing researchers to share their findings, critique each other’s work, and go home with new approaches.

The Eye and The Chip, organized with Harvard Medical School, encourages collaboration between efforts to provide artificial vision to many people who are now blind.

The Eye, The Brain, and The Auto improves our understanding of the relationship between vision and the safe operation of vehicles, in an attempt to reduce fatalities.

The DIO also operates support groups for adults and seniors who are visually impaired.

More information is available at the DIO and EyesOn Design websites:

http://www.henryford.com/dio

http://www.eyesondesign.org/#about

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Updated "wish list" as of March 11, 2014:

I am still looking for representative vehicles for the following marques/years:

- Any 1901-1903 product of the Flint Automobile Co., A.B.C. Hardy or Flint Roadster

- Any Monroe vehicle

- 1932-38 Buick, any body style

- 1959-64 Chevrolet Impala or Bel Air

- Any Samson truck

- Any "Flint" or "Best" truck (Durant-Dort Carriage Works)

- Any pre-WWII GMC truck

- 1946-53 GMC panel truck or Chevrolet Suburban

- 1955-57 Chevrolet or GMC pick-up

- 1961-65 Corvair Loadside, Rampside or Greenbrier

- 1969-72 Chevrolet Blazer or GMC Jimmy

If you have a vehicle that fits these guidelines and would like to have it considered for inclusion, please send me a message including two photos of the vehicle and your contact information as soon as possible. I will respond with additional details about the show.

I would also appreciate any contact information you can provide regarding potential exhibit vehicles that meet that above criteria.

Thank you for your interest!

Joe Tonietto

2014 Vehicle Selection Committee

j.tonietto@gmail.com

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Lots of activity over the past several days.

Most spots have been filled, but I still would like to find these:

- 1961-65 Corvair Loadside, Rampside or Greenbrier

- 1969-72 Chevrolet Blazer or GMC Jimmy

Thanks for the assistance!

Joe

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