Showing posts with label Michael Furman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Furman. Show all posts
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Two years ago, a book The Face of Change: Portraits of Automotive Evolution, displayed the photography of Michael Furman, focused on the front of various vehicles, with words about why the cars we see coming toward us look the way they do, now, there's a book about the tail end of cars, also, photographed by Furman (awesome photographer).
Several others contributed stories to the book as well, including Bruce Meyer and such designers as Tom Matano, Louis de Fabribeckers, Ralph Gilles, Franz von Holzhausen and Ed Wellburn; collector and museum owner Fred Simeone; concours founder Bill Warner; and historian Leslie Kendall.
take a look at an online flip book view of this at https://www.coachbuiltpress.com/badass.html
Here's an example of what one page looks like
Monday, March 30, 2020
Diosley Pino grew up in Cuba, moved to the USA, and headed to Santa Paula Ca... and found a 1926 Model T he loved, then made it his daily driver. Original paint and original interior. They seriously built these to last forever... it's a 94 yr old daily driver
that brief title is pretty amazing.... but what it doesn't answer is how he got one of the most prestigious car photographers in the USA, Michael Furman, to photograph it.
You can watch a video past the link, but it doesn't tell you much at all, just that Pino loves his Model T
https://drivetribe.com/p/cuban-style-model-t-OVnU0LVwRaus1sUcNBux6w?iid=RI8fy6YQRlOVv6QCD_aEoA
the only thing I can find out on the internet about this car, or the owner, is that you can rent this Model T for $450 a day on Hagerty Drive Share https://www.driveshare.com/car/4528/search/?l=Los%20Angeles,%20CA,%20USA&mk=&md=&p1=0&p2=4000&ta=1&tm=1&s=recommended&i=97&v=list
and he has a body shop
Friday, December 22, 2017
Sunday, May 17, 2015
once upon a long ago, when they called a car a limited, it actually was a very limited run. The 1911 Olds Limited had 159 made, the 1912 only had 140.
Bought new by a rich widow, it cost $5000, but her chauffeur couldn't keep it running very well. It was sold for about 600 in 1916ish. The new owner couldn't get it to operate very well either. With the 707 cubic inches, and very few mechanics being familiar with every make and model and how to tune them, it's not surprising.
http://carzhunt.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-06-20T19:48:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=23&by-date=false
The car sat in the garage a lot, and then the owner died, so it sat unused in the garage. When the nearby creek flooded, it was 1936, and the grandkids were given permission to clean it up, tear it down, and they puttered with it until 1943. Then the widow died and the car passed onto the William Swigart museum. They left the car untouched and unrestored in a spot high traffic demonstrating the rare unrestored car.
In 2007 it was auctioned off, at the peak of the car auction prices, and went for 1.6 million, by the JW Rich museum
these tires were bought NOS in 1963, and put on the car for it's first time under it's own power in 90 some years, and it was brought to the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours
images from http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z13521/Oldsmobile-Limited.aspx and http://www.jwrautomuseum.com/vehicles/1911ol.html taken by Michael Furman
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