Palos Verdes Concours d'Elegance 2018 at Zamperini Field

[Music] welcome to Peninsula seniors out and about we're back at Zamperini field for the 2018 Palos Verdes Concordia leggins which features classic automobiles and vintage aircraft let's go enjoy the event I'm here with Ray Johnson the chairman of the Palos Verdes Concord yoga kant's can you talk about the event today it's just really amazing yeah we're very excited today this is a great event this is our 25th anniversary for the Palos Verdes con Corps which makes it particularly special for a second year we're located here at Zamperini Field which means we've been able to add vintage airplanes to the show in addition to vintage cars and we have 21 classes of cars and our theme this year's California style and what that means is we're celebrating all the cars that you associate with California car culture things like the woodies things like 1950s convertibles we have t birds we have a wide variety of sports cars a British sports car class because British sports cars are very popular in the 50s and 60s and we even have station wagons nothing says California suburbia more than the station wagon and it's great to see people restoring station wagons so we also station wagons here so it's all a broad broad range of cars and I think that it's been very successful I'm pleased with the crowd I think that the crowd is more than we saw last year which is what we need we need to be able to support our beneficiaries the Boys and Girls Club of La Harbor and the Western Museum of Flight which is located right here at Zamperini Field our beneficiaries and so we're optimistic that we're gonna be able to support them pretty well this year so so far it's really been an excellent show thank you it is a great show just going around for the interviews Wow great thank you very much I'm here with Cindy maca the director of the Western Museum of Flight wow it's so awesome to see the planes here with the cars can you talk a little about your team that helped bring well we really have a devoted workforce here but you know what's great today we have engineering excellence in both aircraft and automobiles and it's a wonderful marriage and it's made the show really unique can you talk about the planes that the Western museum of flight provider yes and proudly like to talk about our f5 a freedom fighter right behind us which we brought this year and the people can actually board and get a cockpit tour by an engineer that worked on the program and that's really a unique gift from the country of Norway it's a beautiful fighter the northrop f-5 a freedom fighter and that's one and then it's followed by the rare yf-23 prototype air vehicle 2 and then their YF 17 which is a forerunner of the f-18 and then the Harrier which is on loan to us from the California Science Center don't want to forget our a4 Skyhawk by Douglas also on display can you talk a little bit about the Western Museum of Flight what else going on there well what's going on is educational tours called kids love aviation science our monthly celebrity lecture series which are filmed and edited by the peninsula seniors and made available on youtube and across the world now wonderful many aerospace industry luminaries test pilots from Society of experimental test pilots so very unique very well received our educational programs ongoing and our docent led tours can you talk about when is the museum open the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 4:00 with a $5 requested donation and the lectures are there quite a few people that attend the lectures and it's it's the third Saturday of the month great Saturday of every month except for May for Armed Forces Day in December and we have anywhere from 150 to 300 attendees yeah great camaraderie and great eats - okay well thank you Cindy good to see you Thank You Betty I'm here with crispy and he just flew this plane in can you tell us a little about what you brought to the concorde sure this is a Lockheed p-38 lightning this airplane is a p38 J model was built in 1944 this particular aircraft flew in several state side training units out of Santa Maria California and then was surplused after the war and eventually ended up with planes of fame Air Museum in Chino California which is where I'm from can you talk a little bit about the museum there the Chino museum sure we're the oldest aircraft museum civilian aircraft museum in the country and I have over 150 airplanes about a hundred on display at Chino was founded by a gentleman named Ed Maloney in 1957 and he just started collecting airplanes because he saw that these things were disappearing after the war and being scrapped and melted down and nobody was preserving the history of the airplanes so he basically in his backyard started collecting World War two airplanes can we have a walk-around sure we can this is the Lockheed p-38 J lightning when they designed this airplane in 1937 a fellow named Kelly Johnson at Lockheed was going for a high-altitude fighter part of the design of this airplane with two engines in the two boom layout is because they needed to get power up high to do that they needed what's called a turbo supercharger which is in the back of the airplane but it's much like a supercharger on a car it adds power to the engine as you get higher and higher and the air pressure gets less but to accommodate all that in 1937-38 when this airplane was designed they needed to use two engines and so that's why the layout of this airplane with two engines one on either side what this allowed was a fuselage section in the center and the armament with the guns in the middle which was actually rather ideal for shooting because as you fired the weapons all the bullets remain parallel in the same straight line whereas airplanes that you see like the Mustang over here with guns on the wings had to be canted inward a quarter degree or so so all the bullets would converge about 300 yards out in front of the airplane this airplane armed with four 50 caliber machine guns and 120 millimeter machine gun excuse me cannon was able to maintain a parallel stream of fire out to the range of the guns so that was an advantage of having this layout it also had a tricycle gear with a nose gear which was a little easier handling from the tailwheel airplane but that's why the layout of the aircraft the markings you see on the side of the airplane are that a for 75th Fighter Group captain Perry doll who is one of their pilots of the for 75th Fighter Group in New Guinea and in the South Pacific this is not his airplane but it's painted up as his airplane and this is Anna Marquis he had on his World War 2 aircraft mr. doll I believe is still alive living down in Florida and that was his airplane 23 skidoo which was a popular saying back then which meant go fast and you see his kill markings the Japanese victory markings rather those are the airplanes he shot down in combat so the engines of the p38 are made by Allison Engine Company they're called the V 1710 it's a single-stage supercharged engine and on this aircraft had an extra turbo supercharger on it to give it power at altitude when this airplane first came out early versions of this engine were approximately 1,100 horsepower by the end of the war the horsepower was up rated and they were getting as much as 1,700 horsepower out of each engine by 1945 this was a very advanced engine for its day it was leading-edge technology engine technology and as this whole airplane in 1937 was very advanced for a day it had spot-welding all flush rivets all-metal airplane that was pretty rare for the day the landing gear on the p38 is a tricycle gear that's hydraulically powered all the landing gear goes back and up into the wheel wells and the advantage of a tricycle-gear airplane is it's easier ground handling easier control easier to handle in a crosswind and it could carry a little bit more load perhaps the only issue they had on some of the p-38s was sometimes you'd have nose gear issues but that was solve pretty early on sir the side view of the p38 with the engines the wings you'll see the scoop right here that is for the air intake for the carburetors the air would be going through that scoop up into the turbochargers then it would go into the inner coolers and then into the engine once you turbocharged something the air gets hot and you have to cool that air just like on a car so early p-38s had a different scoop and a different profile early p-38s had an inter cooling system in this leading edge of the wing that was not very efficient it was an air exchange system and as you got higher it wasn't as efficient so in this p38 J model they took that out of the leading edge and put a conventional intercooler like you'd find in a car in the nacelle made it fatter and bigger so in the nacelle under the engine you have to oil coolers and an intercooler in the back you see a scoop that's a radiator for the engine these engines were liquid cooled with Prestone or glycol just like a car and back there you have a radiator on each side of the boom that cools the coolant just like in your car so what they did is they needed more range out of these airplanes in 1943 so they also put an extra fuel tank where that old intercooler was in the leading edge of this airplane one of the things they did in later p38 J's this is an earlier one is when the p38 was first built it was one of the faster airplanes and they encountered a phenomenon called compressibility in that as it went into a dive as it approached the speed of sound they never went supersonic but in the high speeds at that time what would happen is the airflow over the wing would blank out the tail so to fix that they put in later p38 J's and the last Model 2 L in here a dive flap which isn't present on this airplane but gentlemen like Colonel Robin olds in World War two explained about that you'd get into a high-speed dive and this is one of the first airplanes they found out about that phenomenon and how to get out of it in this was to put dive recovery flaps that were electrically controlled you could deploy those that would help pitch the nose up and get out of a dive because the controls got heavy and you couldn't pull out of a dive on your own so that's some of the features about p-38s in general this is a little bit earlier airplane that didn't have that feature so here we have the tail of the airplane you have twin rudders there are hook together control Y just like on any other airplane very large elevator with the trim tab the elevator is very effective on this airplane it loops quite well it turns quite well in the middle there you see a big weight that's called a mass balance weight in early testing of the airplane the army found out there are certain issues with the tail fluttering a bit and their answer to that was that weight which helped dampen out certain forces that was it added very early in the airplane probably 1938-39 but you can see here the coolant radiators open under the wing there and then entrance up into the cockpit was with a little ladder by the back of the aircraft so we have the back of the airplane here over here you seal a boarding ladder that can be deployed so you can get up in the airplane you don't need a ladder to get up it's got its own you have the cool these doors are automatic they'll close and open to cool the radiators these are the coolant radiators that cool the engine coolant yeah the tires and then they call this the fuselage pod up into the cockpit so a single pilot airplane they did have some at the very right after the war that they put an extra seat in the back for a radar for as a night fighter that didn't see combat and you could see up into the airplane there up into the cockpit it's a wonderful airplane to fly it flies very night it's like a Cadillac it's a big very smooth very stable airplane because of its sheer size it doesn't turn as good as some of the other smaller fighters but it's very fast and it could fly very high so the advantages of the p38 would be to get above the enemy and dive down on it and then it has tremendous firepower so hitting run attacks finding the enemy and then and then going through them and then letting other elements of p-38s follow up and then coming back so this airplane the tactic would be to keep going fast and not get stuck in a turning fight would be if you turn with most of our enemy aircraft would out turn this airplane so you had to use this airplanes advantages to the other airplanes weaknesses so thanks everyone for taking the tour of the p38 I'm Chris Fahey with planes of fame air museum in chino california come and visit us we're open every day except for Christmas and Thanksgiving and the hours are from 10:00 to 5:00 every day rain or shine you can see this and many other World War two airplanes that are still flyable in our collection and thank you for listening to our YouTube presentation I'm here with Bill Lyons and what did you bring to the Concord today we brought a 1929 Duesenberg Murphy disappearing top torpedo convertible you brought a plane to it can you talk a little bit about that we also brought a t6 trainer and that's kind of behind the car here which is great to have them together with all the polished aluminum and it's from the lion air museum in Orange County can we have a walk-around of the car of course so this is the front end of our 29 Murphy Duesenberg with the distinctive Duesenberg radiator hood ornament and also has the thermostatic controlled radiator louvers that open up when the car is warm and close up when the car cools down the Duesenberg has pretty large drum brakes which were needed to slow this thing down because it was capable of going over 100 miles an hour and one of the interesting things about Duesenberg and when we get to the dashboard you'll be able to see it but there's a brake modulation dial that sort of allows you to fine tune the braking for either dry or wet or ice to hopefully prevent you from locking up the wheels so kind of a head of it's time for 1929 from here you can start to see this band of polished aluminum that starts right at the radiator cap and actually will go all the way to the tip of the rear of the car the tip of the tail in the back but this Murphy torpedo design was really unique there was only five cars belt on a short wheelbase like this and there's one long wheelbase car but they have this very distinctive polished aluminum detail that runs all the way to the rear of the car also distinctive Murphy windshield which is repeated in most of the Murphy designs somewhat typical for the time and with Duesenbergs but having the side mount spares pretty unusual by today's standards and also these big huge disk wheel covers which are pretty attractive especially with the the tie-in to the paint color now this Murphy design as I said earlier it's called a torpedo convertible and this is really the the torpedo end of that design with this boat tail that tapers down just a little bit but comes to a real hard point and a crease here there's a rumble seat for one in the back here and you know amazingly enough the whole top mechanism hides underneath that beautiful polished aluminum panel as well so really unique for Duesenbergs and for any cars even back in 1929 also somewhat typical of Duesenberg the taillights here have when they when they're depressed it actually spells out stop in red letters that light up which is kind of cool but this is really one of the unique features of this car having this really dramatic boat tail and and polished aluminum all the way from the tip to the tail of the car typical Duesenberg fashion a lot going on with the dash you can probably just see the brake modulation dial kind of under the Left windshield wiper motor there which indicates maximum with dry and small letters underneath and then rain is the next setting then snow then ice and minimum and large letters over on the right they all had a pretty interesting clock in them - as well as the first idiot lights that I was aware of where there's sort of four lights that come on to indicate various things to the driver like oK you've covered this many thousand miles and you know it's time to get your oil changed or Lube the chassis things like that so really sleek - dual wiper motors with little tiny wipers that don't do a whole lot but that was the best you could get back then this is the powerplant for the J model Duesenbergs is this straight eight lycoming built engine it's about 420 cubic inches four valves per cylinder dual overhead cam and produced a 265 horsepower which could get the car well over a hundred miles an hour's they were all green porcelain finish and a lot of jewelry going on under here so this car was ordered new from the Murphy coach build corporation they served as the dealer for Duesenberg on the transaction by a woman named Ann Burnett of Texas who was from a very prominent banking oil and Cattle family I believe and in 1929 just the Duesenberg rolling chassis with the engine cost about $8,500 and a completed car like this I believe was about $15,000 but depending on the car they could go even over $20,000 which was an enormous amount of money at the time but from the original ownership it passed through a number of different owners I think through a dealer in New York and that went to Philadelphia wound up in the Pacific Northwest for a while and ultimately in the Imperial Palace collection in Nevada and then my father acquired at 1999 and we had it for a while just in the condition it was in and then started a pretty lengthy restoration which completed in about 2007 I'm here with Mark Foster and he flew in this plane behind us can you tell us a little bit about it yep what you see behind us here is a world war two advanced trainer called a t6 Texan tell you all sorts of stuff about it but that but the basic of the airplane is this is the airplane that was used to train in advance way the pilots who would ultimately fly like p-51 Mustangs and Corsairs and b-25s and b-17 so this is the airplane that they really honed their skills on before they went on and got checked out into the airplane that was going to go flight you know I fly and fight overseas can we have a walk-around well certainly let's do it okay so we're standing in front of the north american t-6 texan here it's powered by a pratt & whitney it's a it's a radial engine it's a nine cylinder radial engine produces about 600 horsepower and drives this rather large propeller here which is a hamilton standard propeller one of the the main manufacturers of propellers during world war ii and this this engine will propel the airplane to like about a cruise speed of maybe about 140 knots or so but very dependable in fact pratt & whitney there their slogan was dependable engine so it's a it's a great engine to have on the front of an airplane so now we're under the the t6 Texan here you can kind of see it's got a rather narrow landing gear by some airplanes but but kind of wider than others the airplane was a little tricky for takeoff and landing and that's what made the airplane such a great trainer because if you could land this airplane proficiently then you could fly a p-51 mustang or an f4u corsair or any of those type airplanes so that was kind of the idea behind behind the north american t-6 texan so now we're back here in front of the the t6 and a little bit of background on what what a t6 really is you know mentioned before it's an advanced trainer world war ii but you know they used them from world war ii through korea and they actually used them in some counterinsurgency missions so they they were armed at times and and flew against on the front lines and behind enemy lines so it's a pretty interesting airplane when you think of it from that aspect and what you're looking at here at the back of the t6 is the fabric-covered control surfaces which was pretty common during World War two so you see that you got aluminum for the structure and then the control surfaces are an aluminum frame with a fabric covering and you also note that there's a tail wheel on this airplane some airplanes are have nose nose gear wheels and some have tail wheels so we call this conventional gear this is how airplanes were originally designed and these are a little more tricky to fly and the reason for that is the center of gravity is behind the main gear so if you take a dart picture taking a dart and thrown it a dart board but throwing it backwards so the the heavy and always wants to come around get in the front so when you fly a tail wheel airplane you're constantly coaxing the tail to stay behind you just looking at the side of the airplane here as you can see we have it in US Navy markings so this was used to train naval aviators during World War 2 and towards the end of the war the national insignia you see on the side the star and bar that's mid war to late war as the the configuration they had there early on they had kind of a red stripe around it so you know that this is the later period of World War two and and again you'll see it says S&J six which SNJ was what the Navy referred to the t6 Texan as so that's why it says SNJ there being a navy markings you can see here with the the cockpit configuration on the t6 Texan front cockpit is typically where the student would fly or the pilot in command of mission that like forward air control mission or any of the other missions that were flown the instructor would be sitting in the back or as a passenger observer during let's say the Korean air war when they were using them as forward air controllers the t6 Texan that's kind of a generic term for all these some were s and J's which is what the Navy designated them and then the Harvard's which the Royal Air Force used so they've got different names but t6 is somewhat of a generic name about a 42 foot wingspan from tip to tip so it's a kind of give you a good proportion there and and then manufactured this particular plane was manufactured in April 15th 1945 and went to the Pensacola area and was trained training naval aviators right at the end of the war and then then beyond World War two of course it is now operated by a lion air museum at John Wayne Airport in Southern California and the museum has on display some some great World War two Korea and Vietnam artifacts and aircraft and automobiles and probably the highlight of the museum is we have a lot of volunteer docents we have about 80 of them on our total staff in any given time maybe half a dozen in the museum providing tours so you get to learn a lot about this particular airplane the t6 and then all the other airplanes we have like the b-17 Flying Fortress the c-47 the cargo plane b-25 mitchell a26 invader they've got a forward air control oh one birddog vietnam vintage so we got some pretty cars and airplanes to come check out at Lyon air museum I'm here with Glenn Streeter and what did you bring to the Concorde today I brought this 36 Packard v12 roadster is there a story as to how you happened on this car oh I've just added it to my small collection of roadsters what else do you have I've got a 35 Cadillac convertible they're all convertibles with side mounts and I have a 42 Packard straight-eight pretty rare car because of the war and there's 97 of those known but Packard's are pretty popular can we have a walk-around of the car oh absolutely so this is a 36 Packard roadsters side mounts rumble seat it's a beat it's a v12 inside here it's 175 horsepower and of course you can see the vents in the front of the hood they're closed right now and they open when the car gets warm the ventilated and I've had this car for about five years and it's fabulous the 36 was the last year of the suicide doors and after that the doors opened regular so anyway one of the nice features about this car is the suicide doors and this is the last year that they had suicide doors and a little bit of custom worked it was done on this by Banamine Swartz until the wood the woods different the tops been raised up probably for a very tall person and it's in magnificent condition those gorgeous that's a standard Packard dashboard for 36 with glove boxes on both sides got a courtesy light this one's equipped for the radio AM radio of course and then the light controls are actually on the steering wheel turn them on and off and also we added turn signals to the car when it was restored you can tell this is a six wheel vehicle and these are a spoke wheels they were they were an added feature versus the squeals so that helps and there's twin spares on both sides and instead of a trunk it has rumble seat in the back so anyway this is the rumble seat instead of a trunk this closes up but it opens up it's got a seat and this is to protect you from your arms getting burnt on the metal so these are all padded and you can I do have a pack of trunk but I don't have it on this particular car but this folds down and then the trunk would sit on here so I'm here with Kareem it's my girlfriend and 36 Packard suicide tours and yeah it's it's an interesting car to drive it's very heavy weighs about 5,400 pounds almost three tons I've got a 42 that it's a lot easier to drive to drive than this this car doesn't have independent suspension or hydraulic brakes they're mechanical they work really well but it's it's not the easiest car to drive around like a refrigerator I was going to say like a tank but yeah small tank so this is my 36 Packard and I keep it in the factory where we make cheap boxes I own Rock Ola we're the last jukebox Factory in America you can get one of our catalogs I'm just on the internet whatever come by and take a take a nickel tour of the factory and you can see a couple of my cars and it's in Torrance um 208 Street right across the street from Edelbrock I'm here with Stan Lucas and what did you bring to the Concord this year this Tony one Stutz Bearcat and also the Auburn speedster that's behind it okay how'd you happen to find this studs oh I've always been a candidate for another stunts I've got five this one came up for sale at an auction the family that owned it have had it for 99 years or 98 years and couldn't decide which part of the family should get it so it went to auction and then I at the auction this year what a find can we have a closer up look it's a 21 Stutz and you can see the badge on the front Stutz Bearcat from Indianapolis it's a very typical front of a Stutz it's the last Stutz they made with right-hand-drive in 1922 Stutz and Pierce Arrow both changed to left drive like all the rest of the cars were except for rolls-royce and it's last year with the outdoor gear shift and outdoor brake handle you can see the Stutz badge identifying Indianapolis on the car it's a standard type of headlight that was on a lot of cars in that era but they're all slightly customed and these have the Stutz beds on top of each headlight shell and these are the original lights and frequently you don't find the original light still on cars of this age and that's a crank hole cover at the bottom you unscrew the cap to put the hand-crank in if you need to hand crank the car although it has an electric starter it wasn't uncommon to crank them by hand you'll notice there's no brakes on the front wheels in this era cars were to wheel brakes on the rear only and that's one of the handicaps of driving an older car in the traffic is that the brakes are not as tough as the brakes on a modern car so you always have to give yourself more room to stop you can see the brake drums here they're a little bit larger than many cars of that era partly because it was a sporty sort of car capable of fairly high speed and so you needed adequate brakes and there's only two brakes on the car on the rear there's no brakes on the front which was absolutely standard in 1921 there were no four-wheel brake cars at that time so both the road service brake and the hand brake operate on the same drum and usually in a sort of emergency stop you use both at the same time for better stopping I don't know if you notice the wooden disc friction type shock absorbers they exist motion on the front axle you can see under the hood it's a standard Stutz layout dual valves to exhaust valves and two inlet valves on each cylinder so therefore two cams one in each side of the block the valves come out these valve cages if you disconnect these springs and out the top there's a spark plug on each side for each cylinder so there's four plugs here and there's four plugs on that side and a dual ignition system so we have two two plugs and to complete ignition systems and a great big carburetor big heavy manifolds these plugs contain a so-called primer cup on each cylinder which can be opened and then you pour raw gas in each one on a cold day so that you can enrich the chamber to make it easier to start primer cups were quite standard on most cars until about nineteen twenty three or twenty four and then they had learned to use a choke more effectively and the primer cups weren't so necessary but they're a nice touch and very few old engines today still have the original lavish little brass primer cups with the handles on them this one is fortunate it's still got all of it a standard big long stroke four-cylinder Stutz engine this is the last year of the Stutz with the outdoor gear shift and the outdoor brake handle the next year they've had them inside and that was kind of a distinctive landmark on the early Stutz open cars and you'll notice there's no door on this side in 21 they offered this Bearcat with a solid body on that side and no door or you had the choice of having a door this particular car has the door on that side but they didn't all have it was optional there's not very much on the dash temperature gauge are not a temperature gauge but an oil pressure gauge and an ammeter and the ignition switch which works single ignition or double ignition ignition was always an issue in these days the engine has two spark plugs and two ignition systems on each cylinder and you can run it on one or on both normally you run both but you want to make sure both of them are working separately there's a fuel pump here to start up you pump it a little bit to put a little pressure in the fuel tank and once you're underway it'll maintain the pressure in the tank but to start you pump up a little bit of pressure the two controls on the steering wheel our throttle and spark control the throttle works as a duplicate to the foot throttle so you can use either one the spark lever is to advance or the spark which on later cars was done automatically with a revolving speed device on an early car you the spark to start it and once it's underway running nicely you advance the spark to get better power and better economy and you did that by hand and it doesn't seem to be very critical as to exactly where it's said but a lot of people mishandled that and their cars didn't run as well as they could have and so the advent of the automatic spark control was a big step forward and that came mostly in the late 20s several years after this car and there's an exhaust cutout valve on the floor to open the exhaust pipe so that the exhaust doesn't go through the muffler and that of course makes a lot more noise and the theory was that that was to give the engine a little better breathing but the truth was I think it was mainly attractive because it let you make a lot more noise and got a little more attention these are the sight lights one on each side and they are a bit adjustable but they really didn't continue very much to any visibility or light forward in either case but they had a flavor of sportiness and decoration about them that attracted them especially to roadsters and open cars you can see the spare tire is mounted with a wheel and it's locked down I'm pretty sure that's more of a modern adaptation you didn't change tires along the road very often but you certainly didn't want to have to change an inner tube so you changed the whole wheel and tire much as you do today although there clumsier and more work to change you can see the springs and the spring shackles have to be lubricated and they've got little Oilers that need heavy oil put in them occasionally another little fine touch that demonstrates a car that's properly and completely restored many of the cars today don't have all of that on them anymore but this one's a very complete car because it's really never been abandoned and and modified or anything one of the items that's of course important is the fuel gauge on the back that is attached to a float in the tank there's no gauge on the dash for fuel so occasionally you check this it's just got a floating device in the tank that moves the arm so you know your status of fuel I'm here with Stan Lucas and it's Auburn can you tell us the history of this one yes it's a 32 Auburn boattail speedster it's a v12 they made them in both eight cylinder and twelve and there's very few 12s have survived this is an old original car that came to Los Angeles new it's one of two that were delivered to Los Angeles it's body number one and it's been in Southern California almost its whole life and we've had it for about 20 years we took it all apart in our shop every bolt nut rivet and wood screw was taken out and given the full treatment put back together and it got I don't know how many coats of lacquer probably six or eight coats or something rubbed down and we went through a big ceremony with a lot of samples about what color do we use what color was original and we found some little bits of sample paint under a couple of the pieces and we tried to match them and it looked really good and so we went with the colors that we found on the car and it turns out to be a fairly common color on Auburn boattail speedster this pale yellow with a maroon trim and the maroon stripe the pinstriping was a big ceremony to get it right also some of the features on the car that cost us the most time and effort and energy was the paint job and especially the pinstriping which we wanted to make authentic and correct by the original photographs which we got from the factory and we finally got photographs and blew them up and got a good pinstriper to do the job after many coats of lacquer is polished on the car and this particular pattern is not a custom like a hotrod would be to suit a particular owner it's the best replication we could make of the way it was done at the factory and you'll notice on the sides of the hood on the flutes many cars have pinstripe on the flute Albarn didn't do that and there are numbers of photographs to demonstrate that and we've seen some of these cars at car shows with the flutes all pinstriped which isn't correct we made quite an effort to get it authentic and the grille was a big problem because part of it is a diecast piece and it tends to corrode and become unplayable and unpalatable after a lot of effort we finally found a good one and with a lot of hand sanding and treatment we we ended up finally with a really good grille surround and Grill bars but there's uncounted hundreds of hours in just restoring that grill and its frame it was a major project with 1932 by then American cars had four-wheel brakes and so you can see brakes on all four wheels so it was a much better braking system than the earlier cars from about 1924 back which only had two wheel brakes much better here you can see this the louvers on the hood which are bigger than most classic car louvers they did not have a pinstriped job on them and so that's the way we finished it the way the factory photographs showed that the factory did it in 1932 this molding treatment on the hood was absolutely standard the dashboard is a very typical Auburn - and it was admired by all the hotrod guys in the 40s and 50s and most all burns in the junkyard were stripped of their windshields and their dashboard so today it's a major project to reconstruct or build a new dash panel and get all of the instruments to go back as original this car still had the original but in very poor condition I can't tell you how many hours went into restoring that but we wanted to get it right because windshields grills and dashboards are the most prominent parts of a car from a visual point of view so it had to be right and we think we got it right from the back you can see it's obviously a boat tail boat tail speedster it's all one continuous piece of metal although there's a welded or soldered joint at the rib but it doesn't open and in a glance you can tell it's an Auburn boattail no other car had this exact contour so it makes it very distinctive and this this paint treatment was exactly the way Auburn did it in the early factory photographs so we wanted to make it as close as we possibly could to the way the factory did it and we're pretty sure we got as close as anybody ever did it's a nice driving car but it actually is designed for somebody who's a little bit shorter than I am I'm a little bit crowded in that car but it is a nice running car and it has the two-speed rear end which gives you a Morton variety of speed and in the higher ratio with the v12 engine it was a very fast car for its day got a lot of engine and a relatively small car you can see the v12 engine it's a unique layout the valves actually are operating in a horizontal position there's a single cam down the middle and it works a y-shaped for that operates valves a little bit complicated but it solved the problem of operating a v12 with one camshaft big iron block two carburetors one on each bank for the 12 cylinders many v12 engines were made in the classic arrow by Packard Franklin Cadillac Lincoln Auburn maybe one or two others and most people will tell you that the Packard was the best and most powerful and they all burn was one of the more powerful ones with the lightest weight and it's an engine that was copied and used for some fire engines in later years thank you for joining us for the 2018 palos verdes Concours d'Elegance I'm Betty wheaton we'll see you next time [Music] you you

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Keywords: Concours d'Elegance, Pebble Beach, Betty Wheaton, Automobile, antique, car show, planes, airplanes, Western Museum of Flight, classic, Planes of Fame Museum, Lyon Air Museum, P-38 Lightning, fighter, WWII, P-51 Mustang, Duesenberg, Auburn, Packard, AT6 Texan, pilot, flying, Commemorative Air Force, CAF, Stutz Bearcat, Petersen Automotive Museum

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Length: 45min 0sec (2700 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 14 2018