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382: From Ferraris to Wienermobiles - Stories from the Hillsborough Concours
382: From Ferraris to Wienermobiles - Stories from the Hillsborough Concours
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About this episode
Greg Stanley shares highlights from the Hillsborough Concours, featuring interviews with passionate car owners showcasing unique vehicles like a 2009 Spyker C8 Spyder and a 1954 Cadillac convertible with modern upgrades. The episode dives into personal stories behind these cars, including a 1931 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C Touring Spider and a 1941 Cadillac convertible. Listeners will enjoy the blend of automotive history, personal anecdotes, and insights into the collector car community, along with a sneak peek into upcoming auctions and Greg's own car journey.
Topics:
hillsborough concours
car owner stories
unique vehicles
collector cars
automotive history
auction insights
modern upgrades
personal anecdotes
Cars:
Alfa Romeo Spider
Audi V8
BMW 3.0 CSL
BMW 328
Chevrolet Corvette
Chrysler Concorde
Chrysler Saratoga
Ford Mustang
Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow
Spyker C8 Preliator
Spyker C8 Spyder
Volkswagen Bus
Join me on The Collector Car Podcast as I sit down with some of the passionate participants from the Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance. We dive deep into the stories behind some truly incredible cars, including a well loved Ferrari 330 GTC, a stunning 1973 BMW 3.0 CS, an ultra-rare Spyker, a tastefully restomodded 1954 Cadillac convertible, and so much more.
From concours-level originality to creative modern builds, these owner stories capture the heart of why we collect, preserve, and celebrate these automotive icons.
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"So tell us about it. It's a 2009 Spyker C8 Spyder. It's an Almond Burnt Orange."
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Bmw 30
"Beautiful car. Okay, I've got Ori here with his 1973 BMW 3.0 CS. Tell us a little bit about this car."
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Volkswagen Bus
"...first year of the bus. It's the first year of the Volkswagen bus. There was a couple of prototypes in 49,"
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Chrysler Concorde
"...r, RV. So it's good to see it at the Hillsborough Concorde. All right, Jeff, yesterday during the country si..."
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Rolls-Royce Rollsroyce Silver
"So tell us about your incredible car here. 1953 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn. And hence the license plate dish soap."
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Alfa Romeo Spider
"... it. Well, it's a 1931 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C Touring Spider, body by Touring."
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A lot of you like to hear from car owners.
So I was at the Hillsboro Concorde a couple of weeks ago
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about a lot of cool cars.
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All right, Peter, you have a car
that not a lot of people know about.
And I've never seen one in this color.
So tell us about it.
It's a 2009 Spyker C8 Spyder.
It's an Almond Burnt Orange.
One of the higher mileage ones, I think,
about 30,000 miles.
Why'd you buy it?
I'm originally Dutch, which is kind of a draw to me.
Plus I like weird cars as it is.
And yeah, it's always kind of kept an eye out
for various sales listings that came up.
To me, these are extremely undervalued cars
because they're such hand-built,
just beautiful masterpieces.
I mean, look at this interior.
It has one of the prettiest interiors ever.
Now, what I know about Spykers
is they're out of the powered, correct?
Yep, I can open the rear.
Sure.
And they have just the most incredible interior
with the exposed linkage for the transmission.
And then a lot of aeronautical themed bits on it.
So explain the aeronautical aspect of it.
Spyker, back in the day,
used to build airplanes for World War I,
like propeller airplanes.
So we got, that's their logo, the propeller.
But the Latin slogan underneath.
What does that say?
It says, new Latinasi in via est via.
So for the tenacious, no road is impassable.
Oh, very cool.
And you came all the way from Montana, how much?
Yeah, right.
Here's the key.
What is this?
That's the key.
That is the key.
A little silver disc.
That's amazing.
Let me try it.
I gotta see how this line.
Oh my gosh.
Very cool.
All right, so we got a...
This is the Audi V8.
Audi V8, what's the horsepower?
4.2, it's about 400.
Yeah, it looks fantastic.
And then again, you see all the aluminum bits
and everything.
I mean, look at the brakes and the pedals, Emily.
Yeah, even the air vents and everything.
The steering wheels are propeller.
So what are the drawbacks to a car like this?
Like parts, obviously, if you...
You can look like the mirrors,
this like sculpted single piece of aluminum.
Like if you...
Oh, right.
If that gets knocked off, you were kind of screwed.
Am I right that this is the door handle?
The...
Or where is it?
The door popper is the button here.
Oh, up top.
I knew it was on there somewhere.
Yes.
Wow, this is beautiful.
No, it came out of Illinois.
So what's the color again?
Burnt almond orange.
Wow.
So other than parts, any drawbacks to owning a car
such as this?
The soft top is kind of a chore to put on.
It's not like, it doesn't look super awesome.
So it's really a fair weather car only, obviously.
So you kind of A to A, 0.8 to A, they say.
Well, sunny car.
Thanks for bringing it.
Yes, yes, absolutely.
All right, Leonard, we just had a short conversation.
You know one of my cohorts at R and Sotheby's, Evan.
And you said Evan's the reason you own this car.
Tell us why you own this incredible car.
Well, I was looking for, in 1967,
my father came home with a 275 GTS
and I've wanted a 330 GTS all my life.
And so when I got to the point where I could afford a car,
I was looking at a Daytona
because that's what I could afford at the time.
And I was on a drive with Evan
and Evan said, oh well, things have softened a lot.
For that amount of money, you can buy a 330 GTC
and I know somebody that's got one.
Ah, nice.
And so that's how I ended up with this beautiful car.
So tell us about the car.
Do you enjoy it as much as you thought you would?
I enjoy it more.
Good.
This is a driver.
It drives about 6,000 miles a year.
Oh wow, nice.
I bought it seven years ago
with about 34,000 miles on it
and it just turned 64.
Well, good for you.
So Front Engine V12?
Yes, sir.
And now these have gotten a lot of press lately,
at least in the judging circles
about what a great driving car they are.
I mean, you got thin A-pillars,
you got room for your luggage.
Right.
Like all the stuff you want, right?
Yeah, no, I took this fishing in Oregon.
Oh, really?
You took the car?
I drove up to the Ferrari meet in Bend.
Oh yeah, we were there.
Yeah.
And on the way I stopped at the Mackenzie
and did some fishing.
That is awesome.
So it was, we've done four Copper States.
I do the Virginia City Hill Climb.
And I do it in five minutes,
which is about 60 miles an hour.
I love it.
And I love your license plates around too.
Hollywood sports cars.
Yeah, well that's where it was originally bought.
Yeah.
And lived here for a while and went back east,
then came back out to Woodside and then I bought it.
Well, thank you for bringing it
to the Hillsborough Concord.
I'm happy to do it.
I like to have people see it
because it's a beautiful car.
Beautiful car.
Okay, I've got Ori here with his 1973 BMW 3.0 CS.
Tell us a little bit about this car.
This thing is absolutely stunning.
Great color combination.
So this car was sold new in Beverly Hills.
The owner was from Beverly Hills.
We lived there for about four years
and the couple moved up to Napa, bought a winery.
And lived there, sold it to the second owner.
And that's when I got it.
Now tell us, what are the colors?
Cause it's like a dark blue with white interior.
The color is Atlantic blue with lotus interior.
And this is the factory color combo?
That is a factory color combination, yes.
Wow, just stunning.
Yes.
The wood was redone, the leather was retrimmed,
but the paint is largely original.
The only modifications I did were,
I include the Alpina wheels,
which were an option back then.
Yeah, I see the Alpina wheels, very nice.
Yeah.
I just did basically a mechanical restoration.
I got the car mechanically sound,
but other than the interior and the mechanical work
is largely original.
It has the original spare tire, never used.
58,000 original miles.
Beautiful car.
I mean, it's got the sunroof.
Tell me about the, how does it drive?
It drives great.
Everything works.
It has limited slip, which was an option back in those days.
Oh, wow, okay.
Sunroof, limited slip, power windows, AC.
All the options that were available back then,
this car has.
Now, I see you're being judged today.
Any word on how you've done so far?
I don't know.
I've never entered a car,
so it's a whole new experience for me,
but I'm hoping for the best,
but I'm happy the way the car came up.
Folks seem to really like it, so.
Well, it's absolutely stunning.
Thanks for bringing it.
Thank you very much.
All right, Glenn, I fell in love with this car three years ago
and I was disappointed when I had not seen it yet this weekend,
and yet here it is.
So tell us a little bit about this incredible Cadillac
behind you, because I know it looks like it might be stock,
but it is far from stock.
That is true.
So when the whole, the game plan on this car,
when the hood is down,
it looks exactly like it did
when it was sitting in a showroom in 1954.
This particular car was blue with blue interior,
but if you ordered a white with red interior,
this is what it looked like.
What you don't know until the hood pops up
is it now has LS3 engine,
4L65E automatic transmission,
rack and pinion steering, four-wheel disc brakes,
heated seats.
Let's see, about an 800-watt Bluetooth stereo system.
So the idea is that it was never the engine and brakes
that made this car cool.
It was the way it looks, right?
So there were no improvements to be made there,
but now it is reliable.
It stays cool.
It's easy to drive.
Yeah, for my audio-only listeners,
we're looking at a 1954 Cadillac convertible.
Now it has the fins in the back.
It's white with two-term red and white interior,
big thick whitewall tires, which looks amazing.
And an LS3 500 horsepower engine, is that right?
That's correct, yep.
Yeah, so that's just a factory crate engine.
I bought the engine and transmission,
came with the controllers from Chevy.
Had to make a few minor changes
to make it all work, pan, manifolds, water pump.
But for the most part,
it's just a factory-built motor and transmission.
So this is the type of rest of mod I love.
It has the complete factory look,
but you have all of the upgrades
that you could possibly want for driving enjoyment, right?
Right, right.
So we've got six zone heated seats when the switches.
Heated seats?
Yeah, seat heaters in here.
The switches are hidden in little places like this.
There's a seat heater switch in the bottom of the-
The seat heater switch in the bottom of the ashtray.
The radio buttons are all original preset buttons,
but now they do things like turn on the amplifiers
for the stereo.
One of them pops the trunk,
one of them turns on the air conditioning,
which is in the trunk.
Oh my goodness, so you got a trick radio.
Yeah, so again, trying to keep everything
as original looking as possible,
but still operating all the upgrades that I've made.
Now do you still have the hidden gas cap?
Yep, yep.
Let's show it.
The refill is still here.
This is all original and-
The original hidden gas cap, very, very cool.
Yeah, there are stories about these cars being stolen
and found abandoned at gas stations
because the thief couldn't find a way to put gas in it.
So how long did it take to do this build?
So this was a seven year project for me.
Got it in 2013, finished it in 2020,
just in time for the whole world to close.
So all dressed up and no place to go.
So it didn't start kind of showing it
and having fun with it until 2021.
And how many miles have you put on it?
About 3,000.
3,000.
Yeah, so it certainly goes to a few shows a year,
but we also take it out and have fun with it.
We put the kids in the back seat,
we were up in Tahoe cruising around the lake
with eight people in it a couple of years ago.
That's awesome.
We have a good time with it.
Awesome, thanks man, appreciate it Glenn.
My pleasure.
Here's the class of cars that I judged today.
208 GT4s to 208s and 328s.
Very good class of cars.
This particular one right here.
Original owner, unrestored, 9,800 miles.
And then this one's a really special car here.
Incredible colors.
It's got kind of a white cream interior,
85 through 808 GTS QV.
Secretly known, this one won the class.
Very, very cool car, look at the interior.
So it's a big class to judge.
We had seven cars to judge
and we were able to knock it out.
Here comes Dell.
All right, so what is with this old newspaper from 2008?
Well, back when I finished restoring the car,
I was going through all the documentation,
the previous owners, and I came up with this name
and I Googled it and there was an address
and a phone number, so I called the number one
and a month later, I got no answer,
I called the number back a month later,
this lady answers it, I thought you'd call me back.
Yes, and she goes, yeah, that was our car.
I was 19 years old when I joined my husband.
He was 22, flying B-26s right after the war
and we bought the car in a lottery.
I said, how did you have the money to buy it
when your friend who won the lottery didn't?
He says, they gave us a box every day
that had a pack of cigarettes and gum and chocolate
and we didn't do any of the,
so we traded those in the black market
and we had the cash.
Anyway, so we took this car back to Kansas.
There's an article in the same magazine back in 1947
when this car was featured as kind of Hitler's war bounty
or whatever when they brought it back
and she has since passed, she was a dear lady,
and she gave me a lot of information
about what it was like to be sent to Germany
to join her husband after the war.
They were giving instructions on how to behave
and why we're doing this differently again,
like not after World War I
when things all fell apart again.
It was really interesting.
I went to Germany, I went to the house,
they were in, they would commandeer for the US Army
and the lady was there who was five years old
when we took over
and she told me the story about the house
and the town and everything else.
So it's, I hated history in high school, I hated it.
But now you're living it.
It's totally cool.
So yeah, that's the story about this.
Well, right behind us.
Oh wait, sorry, what else?
No, that's fine.
Right behind us, we have another one of your VWs.
She said it's the first year of the bus.
It's the first year of the Volkswagen bus.
There was a couple of prototypes in 49,
but this is the first year,
Ben Pawn is the guy that sketched up
that he was in Porter in Netherlands
and he's the first guy to bring two Volkswagen bugs
to New York in 49
and he sold them to pay for his hotel bill
to get out of town.
But anyway, he sketched one of these things
and Volkswagen decided to make them.
So this is the 1950,
it's the first year they sold them to customers.
It's number 5988, it was sold in Germany.
Someone in Germany years ago,
as a panel ban originally,
had no windows and no sunroof
and it was just a bench seat
and no seats in the back at all.
But somebody in Germany cut holes in the windows
and formed them nicely
and put wood frames and put windows in it and the sunroof.
And I said, well, when we were restoring it,
I said, well, there's no reason to do another panel
and I can have one of the windows in it.
This is the way it looked when it was recovered years ago.
My buddy's traded a Porsche engine for it when he was 15,
brought this home and his dad said,
what the heck is this?
I mean, it was a rough shape.
It was missing complete sections of metal.
But it's number 5988, it's the real deal.
And so it was a labor of love.
We had to replace floors and wheel wells
and external pieces.
All sorts of stuff, yeah.
So the Beatles type one and the buses type two?
That's correct.
All right.
Well, we got one of each.
Thanks for bringing them out.
This is the,
from what I understand on the registry,
this is number 24 in terms of any bus
that's known on the registries anyway.
So worldwide.
So it's an old bus, it's a pretty remarkable bus.
There's about four or five older buses in the US
that people have captured and brought here.
So thanks for bringing them both out.
You're welcome.
Thanks for having me.
All right, another cool car here at the concourse
is this Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
And this is one of six in the US
and it's been basically traveling the West Coast.
So very cool.
They have a lot of really funny puns
when it comes to this ride.
It is powered, if you're curious,
it is powered by a 350 LS engine.
And while we're here,
looks like we can take a peek inside.
College students have a one year agreement
in which to drive this.
So very cool, iconic, historic.
I used to work for Kraft Foods.
So very familiar with this car.
All right, a truck, whatever, RV.
So it's good to see it at the Hillsborough Concorde.
All right, Jeff, yesterday during the country side tour,
the Tour d'Allegance, we were behind you
and I was so impressed at how this car kept up.
And not only that, it kept on going.
So tell us about your incredible car here.
1953 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn.
And hence the license plate dish soap.
Because it's a dawn.
That's why.
We were wondering why is it called this soap?
It's a dawn.
It's a dawn and you've got the queen mother here.
The queen there, yep.
Oh, that's nice.
She's waving constantly.
So now it's-
She's a green queen.
A green queen.
She has a solar panel right there.
Oh, she has the solar, that's nice.
She's the electric hybrid queen.
Okay, awesome.
Now what colors are we looking at here?
This is pewter and shell, very subtle two-tone.
You can always tell, typically a Rolls-Royce,
if it's a two-tone, by where the colors are.
On a Rolls-Royce, the darker colors on top,
the lighter colors in the bottom.
Like next to me here, darker on top,
lighter on the bottom.
If you saw a Bentley, similar Bentley,
which would be an R-type or a Mark VI,
it would be reverse,
where you'd have dark bottom light top.
So as you're going down the road,
and you see one, you don't quite know what it is,
you can probably pretty much identify it by the colors,
either light or dark or dark or light.
Who's right?
Who's right?
You're right to check, you pay the guy, you're right.
So tell me, what is it powered by?
Straight six, overhead, F-head, overhead valves.
Two-barrel carburetor.
Automatic transmission, Hydra-Flyde,
which is the GM transmission.
Now, the funny story about the transmission is that
Rolls-Royce, early post-war, didn't want a stick ship.
They wanted to have an automatic one.
Well, they didn't have one.
So they went to GM, got their automatic from Cadlac Buick,
took it back to England,
thought this is so crudely built, we don't want it.
They refined it, put it in, didn't work.
Went back to GM, they said,
we tried the very same thing.
Just build it, Lloyd, we build it, it'll be fine,
and it works great.
Wow, okay.
Now, this is a two-tone darker silver,
lighter silver with a red pinstripe, red interior.
Oxblood.
And is that...
Burled walnut?
Burled walnut wood.
You've got the tray in back, obviously.
Now, one thing, was this a US spec car?
Notice it's left-hand drive.
This was sold new in San Francisco.
Oh, new in San Francisco.
So, new in San Francisco, on Venice,
a gent from Petaluma bought it.
He sold it to a couple who took it
to the Canary Islands in Spain.
They had it there for 30-some years.
Wow.
They returned to Britain to retire,
sold it to a car dealer there in Kent.
I bought it from him, brought it back to Port Juanimi,
and it came back to about 300 miles from where it started,
and we live in Grover Beach,
which is near San Luis Obispo.
Okay, awesome.
When I said, you said you wanted to tell me
a little bit about the hood ornaments here,
so educate us on two different types of hood ornaments
with the two Rolls Royces next to each other, so...
So, we've got the kneeling lady here,
then over here,
you've got the traditional standing flying lady.
So, are they both called the spirit of ecstasy?
Spirit of ecstasy, the flying lady,
or Nellie and her knighty?
Is Nellie and the knighty the kneeling one?
Nope, that's the kneeling lady.
Now, the reason for this
is that early post-war Britain were on their knees.
They were broke.
They had absolutely no money.
So, they were selling these to the export market,
the rich export markets,
the United States and the Middle East.
Well, if you look at the flying lady,
the original one, she's standing here
with her backside pointing towards the driver.
The Arabs didn't like that,
so they made her more demure,
and so, she wasn't showing her posterior to them
to soften the market.
Also, if I had a regular flying lady like that,
if I opened the bonnet, the wings would hit on...
Yeah.
So, sometimes you see people turn their mascot
so that the wings will clear.
But this, you know, it's forward,
so the bonnet will clear.
That's awesome.
Excellent trivia.
Well, thanks for sharing your car today
at the Hillsborough Concourse.
My pleasure.
Gary, you are standing in front of one
of the most iconic Alfa Romeo's of all time.
Tell me about it.
Well, it's a 1931 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C Touring Spider,
body by Touring.
Alfa Romeo had five iterations of the car, the 2300s,
and Touring is one of the bodybuilders.
No two cars are alike.
Each one was individually commissioned
by various builders.
It could be Zagato, it could be Pina Farina,
and in this case, it's Touring.
So, powered by a supercharged eight-cylinder engine,
155 horsepower, capable of about 120 miles an hour
in its day.
Okay.
It probably can still go 120,
but I don't drive it at 120.
Now, I do have to point out
the iconic Alfa Romeo logo here
where you can actually see the dragon eating
a little human, a moor, a baby.
There's all sorts of stories
about what that really is.
Do you have your own thoughts on the logo?
No, actually not.
I've never really studied the logo
beyond trying to keep it clean of bugs and such.
Now, you said that this car is totally unresturbed,
all original, except for one repaint, right?
We had one repaint over the course of its life,
other than that, matching numbers in all respects,
original interior, original leather,
obviously matching numbers engine, supercharged.
Wow.
The finest example of a touring spider on this planet
without being overly enthusiastic about the car.
There's a wonderful representation.
Now, I saw you driving in today.
It seemed like you were having a good time.
Yeah. Well, with the gas pedal located in the middle
with clutch left and brake right,
you really have to be on your toes, so to speak,
to drive it capably.
There's no synchronizer, so it's all double clutch.
Up, double clutch, down.
Oh, wow. Okay.
And although challenging at first, remarkably rewarding
when you get it out on the road up on Highway 9
or the local byways, it just loves it.
Especially on a day like today.
Now, let's look at the interior here,
the original and restored interior.
This is incredible leather patina you have.
You can see the wear.
It's just, it's lightly worn,
but maintained to the level that you see this.
It's only presented for display today, not in competition.
So there are things that if I was in competition,
I didn't wanna burden the show with a car of this caliber.
So we're here to support the show, to support the charities
and to meet the young people that have interest in cars
because as we get older, we need to hand this baton
over to the next generation.
Absolutely.
And this is a wonderful example
that that generation will inherit.
Now this has the prettiest aerodynamic shield here
going over the rear spare tires.
Is that just for aesthetic slash aerodynamic reasons?
I think slash aerodynamics.
In the era, this is what I guess the wind tunnel taught them
that they need to flow the air.
But if we even look at the body itself,
the fender is flowing.
It's very, very aerodynamic for this day.
And then are these just storage units here?
No, actually battery on one side
and accessory on the other.
Okay.
And then the,
probably nobody knows how to do a Ferrari
alarm appropriately behind us.
Yeah, they're having a little bit of problem there.
Having a hard time.
So this is, was this also as a bumper,
you know, having those tires back there?
The whole spares because the roads
were just crap back in the 30s.
So it wasn't unusual to get a flat tire or two
through the day's endeavor.
Well, awesome.
Well, thank you for bringing it out and sharing this.
Scott and Joanie Krins are to be thanked.
They're the owners from the Krins Collection in Saratoga.
And I'm thrilled to represent the car for them.
Thank you so much.
All right, Joe, I began drooling over your car
in the hotel parking lot when you had a trailer,
parked on a trailer.
Tell us what we're looking at here.
The 1941 Cadillac convertible, Series 62.
It is, I've had it about five years.
It was restored, I think, two times before.
Now, why did you go after a car like this?
I think you said it's the oldest car you currently own.
It is, yes.
Well, we do CCCA tours and 41 Cadillacs are known
as the most reliable cars we could buy for them.
Okay, now you mentioned yesterday,
like the Tour d'Elegance, lots of turns and curves.
Maybe this wasn't the best car for that, right?
Yeah, I think they set it up
for the majority of the cars,
and that's Ferraris and sports cars and so on.
And this car was just not designed for that.
Well, it was great to see you on the tour.
What is it powered by?
It's got a Flathead VA.
Flathead VA?
Yes.
Is it pretty much all factory stock,
everything interior?
Yeah.
Now, one thing I noticed is this,
is it factory hand-painted back in the day?
It is not.
But that is hand-painted.
Yeah.
I know the pinstripes were,
but that's very nicely done.
And then if you look at the dashboard,
oh wow.
That is a painted dashboard.
It's not wood.
And they did it painted from the factory?
Painted from the factory.
To look like wood.
To look like wood.
Body color or that faux wood grain.
Wow.
Those were talented artisans.
Yes, I agree.
You got your fresh air, no AC back then, right?
No, I don't think so.
No AC was a vent.
No power steering, no power brakes.
No power windows.
Wow, very, very nice.
So have you had the top down?
Sure.
We don't put it down that much
because we're getting old
and we are afraid of skin cancer.
This is where the gas.
Yes, infamous hidden gas cap.
And it's real nice.
You got the California plates,
black with yellow lettering.
Yes.
Well, very cool.
And so you also do the CCA tours, you said?
We do the CCA tours.
CCA tours, yeah.
Classic Park Club America.
Right, so more straight roads?
Yeah, more straight roads.
Longer trips typically, weaker, 10 days.
Well, thanks for bringing the car.
Great, well thank you.
Good to m-
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