Is there a car more elegant than an old woodie? There is something about woodie convertibles and station wagons that car enthusiasts covet.
Partly, I suppose, it's because real woodie cars are not available anymore, or maybe it is the special craftsmanship that went into building them and the beauty of the wood used. Today's woodies don't use real wood.
That may be part of the reason why Danville resident Jim Ashworth is into woodies. He offered another possible reason, "When my brother and I were growing up, we wanted a woodie station wagon, but our parents would never buy one."
Ashworth has become an expert on classic cars, including woodies, even teaching classes on investing in and restoring classic cars at UCLA and UC Berkeley. A collector since the 1970s, he has owned some great woodies, including a 1940 Buick wagon that was once owned by Bette Davis, a 1947 Chevrolet wagon, a 1953 Buick wagon and a 1947 Ford Sportsman, in addition to this beautiful baby blue 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Country Club convertible.
Here's the surprise. Chevrolet didn't make a woodie convertible in 1947-48. Not good for Chevy. Ford and Chevrolet have always been like the Hatfields and McCoys, fighting for sales leadership and trying to outdo each other. Ford had the Sportsman, a popular model, but Chevrolet only had the ordinary metal convertible.
As Henry J. Kaiser said, "Find a need and fill it." So it was that Engineering Enterprises Inc. in Detroit noted the need to produce wood panels to make the Chevrolet Fleetmaster convertible into the woodie they called the Country Club convertible. The kit was an aftermarket product to be installed by local Chevy dealers and sold for $149.50 plus an installation fee.
Ashworth bought his 1947 Chevrolet in 1989 from a homebuilder in Stockton who was having financial challenges. It was already restored and parked in a warehouse, but it did not have the wood paneling. Ashworth had some paneling from other restoration projects plus two original pieces that came from Engineering Enterprises. Using those two pieces and a Chevrolet advertising picture postcard, Ashworth's father, a retired engineer, was able to calculate the exact specifications and build the Country Club woodie kit. The completed kit was then installed by Ashland Wood Products in San Leandro.
Ashworth believes his Chevy is the only stock 1947 Chevy convertible with the Country Club woodie package in the United States. Two years ago, he was invited to bring his rare Chevy to The Woodie Show in Pebble Beach, a significant honor.
Back in 1947, the country was just recovering from World War II, and the population was starving for new cars. Chevrolets (and others) were basically carry-over models from 1942. Chevy offered two trim levels. The standard series was Stylemaster, and the deluxe series was called Fleetline.
There was no need for an engine option, as they sold everything they could build and couldn't keep up with demand. Chevy used the tried-and-true overhead valve, 216.5 cubic inch, straight six-cylinder engine rated at 90 horsepower.
A unique feature of the car was the manual three-speed vacuum booster transmission. According to Ashworth, "One could shift the transmission with (his) fingertips, and the vacuum shift would suck up the transmission from one gear to the next."
According to a Hemming Motor News publication, the 1947 Chevy convertible had a top speed of 90 mph and could go from 0 to 60 mph in 20 seconds. Gas mileage for the 3,340-pound car would probably average about 14 miles per gallon.
This 1947 Chevy is one of Ashworth's all-time favorites. He's down to two collector cars, the other being a 1988 Ford Mustang used as a trainer car for the California Highway Patrol. But, alas, Ashworth and his wife, Mary, are empty nesters and are thinking of downsizing. That could mean selling off his last two prizes, but at what price?
"I never reveal what I pay for a car or what I sell it for," he told me.
But I suspect the beautifully restored 1947 Chevrolet Country Club convertible's value is more than the original selling price of $1,628.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Me and My Car: It's a woodie like no other
From Mercury.news: Me and My Car: It's a woodie like no other
Monday, December 12, 2011
Motor-Sport - Mdina Classic Grand Prix 2012 between 11 and 14 October
The Malta Independent Online: Motor-Sport - Mdina Classic Grand Prix 2012 between 11 and 14 October
The 2012 Mdina Grand Prix is to be held between 11 and 14 October.
This was announced last week by the organisers after the success achieved this year.
Throngs of people lined up the streets to watch the 60 participants including stunning classic cars and their international celebrity drivers, glamorous stars and global brand owners.
The Valletta Grand Prix Foundation announced that the two days of racing will now be extended to four days of activities given the quality of the Mdina venue and racetrack, culminating on Sunday October 14, 2012.
The 2012 Mdina Grand Prix and Classic Car Event organised by the Valletta Grand Prix Foundation will feature races and exhibitions of historic and classic cars and incorporates a racetrack stretching from Mdina through Mtarfa and into Rabat, over a distance of 2.2 kilometres. This race circuit gives the public many good spots in Mdina, Mtarfa and Rabat from which to follow the race. This street race is the only one of its kind in this part of the Mediterranean and attracted huge crowds of local and international visitors in 2011 to the racing heart of Malta. The 2011 Mdina Grand Prix, was a classic car event like no other with action, drama and full speed to thrill the large crowds.
The main event is a street race, with Malta increasingly seen as the Monaco of the Southern Mediterranean. Past entries have included sports cars, two-seater racers and other classic cars built between 1910 and 1975 as well as single-seater racing cars dating between 1930 and 1960. Several celebrities are expected to attend after the success of the 2011 event. Some of the 2011 celebrities were Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons’ grandson, Michael Quinn, along with fellow racers John Burton in a beautiful E-Type and Guy Broad in his world-beating “bubble” XK, the fastest XK in history. They were joined by Gemma Hunt from the BBC who hosted the race and performed the duties of master of ceremonies for the official prize-giving, actress Nathalie Pownall who breezed in for race weekend to add an extra touch of glamour and objectivity as a judge for the Concours D’Elegance. There was also swashbuckling global luxury brand owner of Bremont, Giles English, as well as Mark Dixon, from cult UK motoring magazine Octane, and Kari Hautala and Mikkonen Ilpo from Moottori, the oldest automobile magazine in Finland, indeed a heady mix.
The 2012 Mdina Grand Prix is to be held between 11 and 14 October.
This was announced last week by the organisers after the success achieved this year.
Throngs of people lined up the streets to watch the 60 participants including stunning classic cars and their international celebrity drivers, glamorous stars and global brand owners.
The Valletta Grand Prix Foundation announced that the two days of racing will now be extended to four days of activities given the quality of the Mdina venue and racetrack, culminating on Sunday October 14, 2012.
The 2012 Mdina Grand Prix and Classic Car Event organised by the Valletta Grand Prix Foundation will feature races and exhibitions of historic and classic cars and incorporates a racetrack stretching from Mdina through Mtarfa and into Rabat, over a distance of 2.2 kilometres. This race circuit gives the public many good spots in Mdina, Mtarfa and Rabat from which to follow the race. This street race is the only one of its kind in this part of the Mediterranean and attracted huge crowds of local and international visitors in 2011 to the racing heart of Malta. The 2011 Mdina Grand Prix, was a classic car event like no other with action, drama and full speed to thrill the large crowds.
The main event is a street race, with Malta increasingly seen as the Monaco of the Southern Mediterranean. Past entries have included sports cars, two-seater racers and other classic cars built between 1910 and 1975 as well as single-seater racing cars dating between 1930 and 1960. Several celebrities are expected to attend after the success of the 2011 event. Some of the 2011 celebrities were Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons’ grandson, Michael Quinn, along with fellow racers John Burton in a beautiful E-Type and Guy Broad in his world-beating “bubble” XK, the fastest XK in history. They were joined by Gemma Hunt from the BBC who hosted the race and performed the duties of master of ceremonies for the official prize-giving, actress Nathalie Pownall who breezed in for race weekend to add an extra touch of glamour and objectivity as a judge for the Concours D’Elegance. There was also swashbuckling global luxury brand owner of Bremont, Giles English, as well as Mark Dixon, from cult UK motoring magazine Octane, and Kari Hautala and Mikkonen Ilpo from Moottori, the oldest automobile magazine in Finland, indeed a heady mix.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Time Keeps On Slipping Into the Future
Sorry for the dearth of posts recently...I've been working on a project, wanted to devote all my time to it, and kept telling myself...it'll be done today so I can get back to blogging here tomorrow.
The next day it was... okay, it's definitely going to get done today....
Well, today it is done... so back to posting here on a daily basis tomorrow. (With the first post appearing tomorrow afternoon while I'm watching football!)
Thanks for your patience.
The next day it was... okay, it's definitely going to get done today....
Well, today it is done... so back to posting here on a daily basis tomorrow. (With the first post appearing tomorrow afternoon while I'm watching football!)
Thanks for your patience.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Dec 7, UK: Classic cars going under the hammer
From Carloan 4U.UK: Classic cars going under the hammer
A total of 36 classic cars are to be put up auction at an event in London next week, with the motors said to be valued at a combined sum in excess of £6 million.
Coys has announced that its True Greats auction has attracted a high-quality list of lots.
Among the vehicles set to go under the hammer on Wednesday (December 7th) are an Aston Martin DB5 owned by former Beatle George Harrison and a Mercedes Benz 300 SL Roadster.
Other lots will include a Cord 810 Phaeton owned by Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne and Jimmy Page.
Managing director of Coys Chris Routledge said: "We are delighted to offer for sale George Harrison's first "important" car, bought new and delivered to him personally in 1965 at his Kinfauns estate in Esher, Surrey, England."
When it comes to selling a car at auction, its value could be affected by whether a previous owner has smoked in it, Autorola recently warned.
A total of 36 classic cars are to be put up auction at an event in London next week, with the motors said to be valued at a combined sum in excess of £6 million.
Coys has announced that its True Greats auction has attracted a high-quality list of lots.
Among the vehicles set to go under the hammer on Wednesday (December 7th) are an Aston Martin DB5 owned by former Beatle George Harrison and a Mercedes Benz 300 SL Roadster.
Other lots will include a Cord 810 Phaeton owned by Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne and Jimmy Page.
Managing director of Coys Chris Routledge said: "We are delighted to offer for sale George Harrison's first "important" car, bought new and delivered to him personally in 1965 at his Kinfauns estate in Esher, Surrey, England."
When it comes to selling a car at auction, its value could be affected by whether a previous owner has smoked in it, Autorola recently warned.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Sergio Scaglietti, Sculptor of Sleekly Tailored Ferraris, Dies at 91
From the New York Times, Nov 26: Sergio Scaglietti, Sculptor of Sleekly Tailored Ferraris, Dies at 91
Sergio Scaglietti, who used intuitive genius and a hammer — seldom blueprints or sketches — to sculpture elegant Ferraris that won Grand Prix races in the 1950s and ’60s and now sell for millions of dollars, died on Nov. 20 at his home in Modena, Italy. He was 91.
Luca di Montezemolo, Ferrari’s chairman, announced the death.
Ferraris, with their hair-raising acceleration and sleek lines, bespoke postwar modernity in the manner of the Color Field paintings of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko or the architecture of Eero Saarinen. Mr. Scaglietti in the 1950s designed the blood-red skin of the 375MM sports car that the film director Roberto Rossellini, the master of neo-realist cinema, gave to his wife, Ingrid Bergman.
In August, Mr. Scaglietti’s 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa sold for $16.4 million, said to be the most ever paid for an automobile at auction. His 250 GT California Spyder was the vehicle in which the teenage heroes of the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” cavorted. (The Ferrari in the movie was actually a fake: the producers couldn’t afford a real one.)
Mr. Scaglietti (pronounced skahl-YET-tee — the “g” is silent) lacked the kind of formal education acquired by his patron and best friend, Enzo Ferrari, the race driver-turned-automotive-impresario. Both believed in speed, power, utility, superb craftsmanship and sleek, sensuous beauty, and they abhorred mass production. By craft Mr. Scaglietti was a “coachbuilder,” but others use loftier descriptions.
Leslie Kendall, curator of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, compared his cars to couture clothing. “They were individually tailored, and achingly beautiful,” he said in an interview after Mr. Scaglietti’s death.
Mr. Scaglietti’s method was to receive a prototype from the legendary designer Battista Farina or one of his associates and “interpret” it in aluminum, rarely using a drawing. He made a wire frame, then hammered the metal into the shape he envisioned. He did this on bags of sand, because wood proved too hard. He did everything, he said, “by the eye.”
He followed the designers’ concepts to varying degrees. Many sources give him considerable personal credit for the overall look of the 250 GTO in 1962-63. Just three dozen were made, and Mr. Ferrari, who died in 1988, approved every sale personally. The car was one of the last front-engine cars to remain competitive at the top levels of sports car racing. (Most racing cars today have the engine behind the driver.)
Motor Trend Classic in 2010 called the car the greatest Ferrari of all time, and some people consider it the most beautiful automobile ever made. There have been reports that one sold for $50 million during the classic car boom of the 1980s, and the Web site Supercars.net called that figure not “entirely unrealistic.”
In their 2007 book, Ferrari: Stories From Those Who Lived the Legend, John Lamm and Chuck Queener said Mr. Scaglietti got his inspiration for the GTO by “looking at cars.” Mr. Scaglietti said, “If you use your head, knowing the car has to go fast, you make it smaller and lighter.”
Sergio Scaglietti was born into the family of a poor carpenter on Jan. 9, 1920, in Modena. Four of his five brothers became carpenters, but Sergio aspired to work with metal. When he was 13, his father died, and he dropped out of school to work in a local garage specializing in damaged cars. His brother had gotten him the job, and four years later, the brother and a partner bought the business. At 17, Sergio became one of their first employees. He met Mr. Ferrari when Mr. Ferrari asked him to fix a mud flap on a racing car.
After World War II, Mr. Scaglietti opened his own shop. Mr. Ferrari, who had also started his own business, noticed Mr. Scaglietti’s work repairing a bashed-up racing car and told him he had done a good job. By the mid-1950s, he was doing much of Ferrari’s bodywork at a business he named Carrozzeria Scaglietti. He is credited with coming up with the design for headrests on Ferrari racing cars.
He drew broad praise for the pontoon fenders on the 250 Testa Rossa, of which 34 were built from 1956 to 1961. The fenders’ design allowed cool air to flow into the brake area to prevent overheating. On a visit to Allentown, Pa., in 2000, Mr. Scaglietti told the newspaper The Morning Call that the Testa Rossa got its name almost by accident.
“The chief of production came to Mr. Ferrari and said, ‘We have to stop production because we have no black paint to paint the engines,’ ” he said.
Mr. Ferrari asked what color paint they did have. The answer was red. Mr. Ferrari said, “Paint the engines red and we’ll call it the Testa Rossa,” which means redhead in Italian.
Mr. Scaglietti greatly expanded his business in the 1950s after Mr. Ferrari co-signed a loan. He sold the business to Fiat in the late 1960s, then continued to manage it until his retirement in the mid-1980s. In 2004, Ferrari named a four-seat sports car the 612 Scaglietti.
Information on survivors was unavailable.
Mr. Scaglietti owned only one of his own cars, a California Spyder, which he bought after a friend told him he could make money on it. He lost $1,000 when he sold it.
Sergio Scaglietti, who used intuitive genius and a hammer — seldom blueprints or sketches — to sculpture elegant Ferraris that won Grand Prix races in the 1950s and ’60s and now sell for millions of dollars, died on Nov. 20 at his home in Modena, Italy. He was 91.
Luca di Montezemolo, Ferrari’s chairman, announced the death.
Ferraris, with their hair-raising acceleration and sleek lines, bespoke postwar modernity in the manner of the Color Field paintings of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko or the architecture of Eero Saarinen. Mr. Scaglietti in the 1950s designed the blood-red skin of the 375MM sports car that the film director Roberto Rossellini, the master of neo-realist cinema, gave to his wife, Ingrid Bergman.
In August, Mr. Scaglietti’s 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa sold for $16.4 million, said to be the most ever paid for an automobile at auction. His 250 GT California Spyder was the vehicle in which the teenage heroes of the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” cavorted. (The Ferrari in the movie was actually a fake: the producers couldn’t afford a real one.)
Mr. Scaglietti (pronounced skahl-YET-tee — the “g” is silent) lacked the kind of formal education acquired by his patron and best friend, Enzo Ferrari, the race driver-turned-automotive-impresario. Both believed in speed, power, utility, superb craftsmanship and sleek, sensuous beauty, and they abhorred mass production. By craft Mr. Scaglietti was a “coachbuilder,” but others use loftier descriptions.
Leslie Kendall, curator of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, compared his cars to couture clothing. “They were individually tailored, and achingly beautiful,” he said in an interview after Mr. Scaglietti’s death.
Mr. Scaglietti’s method was to receive a prototype from the legendary designer Battista Farina or one of his associates and “interpret” it in aluminum, rarely using a drawing. He made a wire frame, then hammered the metal into the shape he envisioned. He did this on bags of sand, because wood proved too hard. He did everything, he said, “by the eye.”
He followed the designers’ concepts to varying degrees. Many sources give him considerable personal credit for the overall look of the 250 GTO in 1962-63. Just three dozen were made, and Mr. Ferrari, who died in 1988, approved every sale personally. The car was one of the last front-engine cars to remain competitive at the top levels of sports car racing. (Most racing cars today have the engine behind the driver.)
Motor Trend Classic in 2010 called the car the greatest Ferrari of all time, and some people consider it the most beautiful automobile ever made. There have been reports that one sold for $50 million during the classic car boom of the 1980s, and the Web site Supercars.net called that figure not “entirely unrealistic.”
In their 2007 book, Ferrari: Stories From Those Who Lived the Legend, John Lamm and Chuck Queener said Mr. Scaglietti got his inspiration for the GTO by “looking at cars.” Mr. Scaglietti said, “If you use your head, knowing the car has to go fast, you make it smaller and lighter.”
Sergio Scaglietti was born into the family of a poor carpenter on Jan. 9, 1920, in Modena. Four of his five brothers became carpenters, but Sergio aspired to work with metal. When he was 13, his father died, and he dropped out of school to work in a local garage specializing in damaged cars. His brother had gotten him the job, and four years later, the brother and a partner bought the business. At 17, Sergio became one of their first employees. He met Mr. Ferrari when Mr. Ferrari asked him to fix a mud flap on a racing car.
After World War II, Mr. Scaglietti opened his own shop. Mr. Ferrari, who had also started his own business, noticed Mr. Scaglietti’s work repairing a bashed-up racing car and told him he had done a good job. By the mid-1950s, he was doing much of Ferrari’s bodywork at a business he named Carrozzeria Scaglietti. He is credited with coming up with the design for headrests on Ferrari racing cars.
He drew broad praise for the pontoon fenders on the 250 Testa Rossa, of which 34 were built from 1956 to 1961. The fenders’ design allowed cool air to flow into the brake area to prevent overheating. On a visit to Allentown, Pa., in 2000, Mr. Scaglietti told the newspaper The Morning Call that the Testa Rossa got its name almost by accident.
“The chief of production came to Mr. Ferrari and said, ‘We have to stop production because we have no black paint to paint the engines,’ ” he said.
Mr. Ferrari asked what color paint they did have. The answer was red. Mr. Ferrari said, “Paint the engines red and we’ll call it the Testa Rossa,” which means redhead in Italian.
Mr. Scaglietti greatly expanded his business in the 1950s after Mr. Ferrari co-signed a loan. He sold the business to Fiat in the late 1960s, then continued to manage it until his retirement in the mid-1980s. In 2004, Ferrari named a four-seat sports car the 612 Scaglietti.
Information on survivors was unavailable.
Mr. Scaglietti owned only one of his own cars, a California Spyder, which he bought after a friend told him he could make money on it. He lost $1,000 when he sold it.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Cruise-in aims to raise awareness of DUI dangers
This event took place last weekend, but it will doubtless be an annual thing. Mark it on your calendars.
From : Cruise-in aims to raise awareness of DUI dangers
GULFPORT -- Sponsors of the Tie One On Cruise-In and Candlelight Memorial on Saturday expect to draw hundreds of classic cars, street rods, muscle cars and vintage vehicles for an event aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving.
The free cruise-in will be at Gulfport Premium Outlets from 4 to 8 p.m. The mall is at 10000 Factory Shops Boulevard, off Creosote Road just south of Interstate 10.
The cruise-in will feature an array of antique and collectible cars, live entertainment by the Doin’ Time Band, and drawings for prizes. The cruise-in will pause for a candlelight service to remember those who have lost their lives or been injured by drunken drivers.
The sponsors are Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Gulfport Police Department, Waffle House and Gulf Coast Motorsports magazine.
Prizes include $50 and $100 gift certificates from Coast stores and restaurants -- but there’s a catch. You must be present to win, and you must sign a pledge card vowing to drive sober through 2012. Entry slips must be turned in by 7 p.m.
There’s also a 50/50 cash drawing. The winner of that prize splits the cash with the local MADD chapter.
MADD will hold its ceremony at 6 p.m. and will set up a “remembrance circle” to display pictures and memorabilia of victims of drunken drivers.
Bill Downs, who leads the MADD chapter of Harrison, Hancock and Stone counties, said several people have contacted him who want to honor their dead or injured loved ones at the ceremony.
“I’ve also heard from people who have been injured and want to light a candle for themselves,” Downs said.
Downs lost his son, daughter-in-law and a family friend in a 2007 collision with a drunken driver, who also died.
Gulfport Police Chief Alan Weatherford said his department is a co-sponsor because of its long working relationship with MADD.
Weatherford’s daughter was killed by a suspected drunken driver in March, but Weatherford said his department’s participation has nothing to do with his personal tragedy.
“We are proud to support this effort to raise public awareness on the dangers of drinking and driving and to encourage drivers to plan ahead to designate a sober driver or arrange for another safe ride home before they drink alcohol,” he said.
Gulf Coast Motorsports is calling on car buffs from near and far to turn out. The magazine is promoting the cruise-in on its calendar of events.
From : Cruise-in aims to raise awareness of DUI dangers
GULFPORT -- Sponsors of the Tie One On Cruise-In and Candlelight Memorial on Saturday expect to draw hundreds of classic cars, street rods, muscle cars and vintage vehicles for an event aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving.
The free cruise-in will be at Gulfport Premium Outlets from 4 to 8 p.m. The mall is at 10000 Factory Shops Boulevard, off Creosote Road just south of Interstate 10.
The cruise-in will feature an array of antique and collectible cars, live entertainment by the Doin’ Time Band, and drawings for prizes. The cruise-in will pause for a candlelight service to remember those who have lost their lives or been injured by drunken drivers.
The sponsors are Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Gulfport Police Department, Waffle House and Gulf Coast Motorsports magazine.
Prizes include $50 and $100 gift certificates from Coast stores and restaurants -- but there’s a catch. You must be present to win, and you must sign a pledge card vowing to drive sober through 2012. Entry slips must be turned in by 7 p.m.
There’s also a 50/50 cash drawing. The winner of that prize splits the cash with the local MADD chapter.
MADD will hold its ceremony at 6 p.m. and will set up a “remembrance circle” to display pictures and memorabilia of victims of drunken drivers.
Bill Downs, who leads the MADD chapter of Harrison, Hancock and Stone counties, said several people have contacted him who want to honor their dead or injured loved ones at the ceremony.
“I’ve also heard from people who have been injured and want to light a candle for themselves,” Downs said.
Downs lost his son, daughter-in-law and a family friend in a 2007 collision with a drunken driver, who also died.
Gulfport Police Chief Alan Weatherford said his department is a co-sponsor because of its long working relationship with MADD.
Weatherford’s daughter was killed by a suspected drunken driver in March, but Weatherford said his department’s participation has nothing to do with his personal tragedy.
“We are proud to support this effort to raise public awareness on the dangers of drinking and driving and to encourage drivers to plan ahead to designate a sober driver or arrange for another safe ride home before they drink alcohol,” he said.
Gulf Coast Motorsports is calling on car buffs from near and far to turn out. The magazine is promoting the cruise-in on its calendar of events.
A Proud Owner Of Classic Car Doesn't Mind To Spent RM50K For Modification
From Bernana.com: A Proud Owner Of Classic Car Doesn't Mind To Spent RM50K For Modification
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (Bernama) -- Syed Ibrahim Al-Sagoff, a proud owner of a 1966 Dodge Dart 270 convertible 2.8 litre car, does not mind to forking out nearly RM50,000 just to modify the car including its interior design.
The former aviation engineer designer said the car had high sentimental value to him and his family as he inherited it from his late grandfather who died in 1984.
"Although many people have come to me and offered to buy this car at a high price, I keep on rejecting them because my passion for vintage cars is very strong," he told Bernama when met at the Royal Selangor Club's (RSC) annual motorsports carnival and charity drive at Dataran Merdeka, here Sunday.
The event was launched Automobile Association of Malaysia (AAM) president Tunku Mudzaffar Tunku Mustafa.
More than 80 vintage, classic and exotic cars as well as superbikes were displayed at the annual event organised by the RSC.
Prior to the launching, 15 ultra-modern or fast cars, including Lamborghinis and Ferraris and 15 superbikes were also paraded up to the Sungai Besi Camp where the organiser also brought along 100 children from four selected shelter homes.
The event, which entered its fifth year, was also supported by several non profit organisations from around the Klang Valley.
At the event, Tunku Mudzaffar also handed over contribution of RM2,500 each to four shelter homes.
Trophies and certificates will be awarded to the winners of the vintage, classic and modern categories segment at a dinner at RSC tonight.
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (Bernama) -- Syed Ibrahim Al-Sagoff, a proud owner of a 1966 Dodge Dart 270 convertible 2.8 litre car, does not mind to forking out nearly RM50,000 just to modify the car including its interior design.
The former aviation engineer designer said the car had high sentimental value to him and his family as he inherited it from his late grandfather who died in 1984.
"Although many people have come to me and offered to buy this car at a high price, I keep on rejecting them because my passion for vintage cars is very strong," he told Bernama when met at the Royal Selangor Club's (RSC) annual motorsports carnival and charity drive at Dataran Merdeka, here Sunday.
The event was launched Automobile Association of Malaysia (AAM) president Tunku Mudzaffar Tunku Mustafa.
More than 80 vintage, classic and exotic cars as well as superbikes were displayed at the annual event organised by the RSC.
Prior to the launching, 15 ultra-modern or fast cars, including Lamborghinis and Ferraris and 15 superbikes were also paraded up to the Sungai Besi Camp where the organiser also brought along 100 children from four selected shelter homes.
The event, which entered its fifth year, was also supported by several non profit organisations from around the Klang Valley.
At the event, Tunku Mudzaffar also handed over contribution of RM2,500 each to four shelter homes.
Trophies and certificates will be awarded to the winners of the vintage, classic and modern categories segment at a dinner at RSC tonight.
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