We Value Cars Summer-Fall 2012 - Appraisal Specialties of Colorado

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PUBLISHED BY APPRAISAL SPECIALTIES OF COLORADO FOR AUTO ENTHUSIASTS, DEALERS, INSURANCE, LAW & AUTO RESTORATION PROFESSIONALS
Summer—Fall 2012
Volume 9, Issue 3
Coming in the
next issue of
WE VALUE CARS
GREAT RESOURCES:
Custom Auto
Loveland, Colorado
INSURING YOUR OLDER
OR SPECIALTY VEHICLE
Things You Should Know
Before You Buy Insurance!
Custom HandHand-Built Aluminum Body by Andy Glause
1933 Ford Replica Coupe - Indian Motorcycle Tribute Street Rod
2011 GoodGood-Guys Car Show, Loveland, Colorado
GREAT RESOURCES: ANDY’S RESTORATION
One of the really fun things I get to do
in my appraisal business in addition to
seeing a lot of great cars is getting to
meet many of the talented people who
spend their time serving the collector car
hobby in one fashion or another. As
stated in this publication previously, it is
my goal through this newsletter to not
only stay in touch with my client base
Custom HandHand-Built Aluminum Body by Andy Glause
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but to also help keep interested parties
informed about many of the people and
their businesses that serve the collector
car hobby, not only here in Colorado but
also in the surrounding region.
This issue features an outstanding
resource who is just a few hundred miles
away and may not be very well known to
most car people in Colorado. The person
I’m referring to is
Andy Glause owner
of Andy’s Restoration located just
outside the small
community of Saint
Libory, Nebraska.
Andy likes being
close to his family
and the rural atmosphere where he
grew up just a short
distance north of
Grand Island, Nebraska. Andy grew
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up on a farm but by the age of fifteen
he knew he didn’t want to be a farmer.
While in high school, he took some shop
classes and practiced welding on the
farm while his father complained he was
“using up all the gas”. His father probably didn’t realize he was witnessing the
beginning of his sons’ life-long career.
After high school Andy was drafted
into the Army during the Vietnam war.
As luck would have it, he was stationed
in Germany where he did repairs to military vehicles and officers’ personal cars.
Parts for these cars from home were difficult to get in Germany, so Andy started
fabricating most of the body parts he
needed to repair fender benders and the
like and thus continued his journey of
developing his metal fabrication craft
through his time in the military.
After returning home from the service
Andy worked for several years at area
body shops near his home town learning
and perfecting his bodywork skills.
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Custom Hand Stitched Leather Indian Head Door Panels
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Through his efforts, Andy established a
reputation for doing high quality work.
In the early days of Gibbon Fiberglass
located in nearby Gibbon, Nebraska, the
owner contacted Andy asking him to
come to work for his emerging company.
Andy decided to go to work for Gibbon
Fiberglass and he did a lot of the metal
work needed on the bodies and parts
they would ultimately use in producing
the molds for the manufacture of their
new fiberglass parts. With Andy's help,
Gibbon Fiberglass established a business
that has been very well-known in the
street rod industry for manufacturing
some of the highest quality fiberglass
bodies and parts available.
While Andy was working for body
shops and other businesses, he was also
doing some projects on the side in his
shop at home. After several years work-
HandHand-Built Aluminum Dash Panel w/Defrosters
Indian Motorcycle Speedometer
ing for others, he decided it was time to
start his own full-time business. Andy
has been involved in a lot of projects behind the scenes since opening his own
shop. Andy built the original prototype
steel body used to form the dies that
would stamp out the metal parts that
would become the new steel Dearborn
Deuce reproduction 3/window coupe
body. He has also built several reproduction aluminum Cobra bodies and has
done numerous fabrication projects on
rare and low production cars.
Andy may not be quite as well-known
as you might expect, while he has done
complete restorations, many times he
only does the metal fabrication and part
of the bodywork on a project and someone else does the final bodywork and
paint. When one admires a finished
project, you typically only hear about the
painter, details about the drivetrain and
suspension or the upholstery shop that
did the interior work, seldom is the metal
fabricator adequately recognized.
I had the privilege of meeting Andy
Glause in 2010 at the Good-Guys car
show in Loveland, Colorado. His longtime friend whom he met in the Army
when they were both stationed in
Germany is an appraisal client of mine.
That friend I’m referring to is Phil Erby
of Greeley, Colorado, who is a talented
builder in his own right. He is the proud
owner of the 1933 Ford Aluminum Replica Coupe Indian Motorcycle Tribute
Street Rod featured in this article. This
car is a combination of Phil’s two favorite
things, street rods and Indian motorcycles. Phil helped a lot in the design of
this car, did some of the fender and grille
shell fabrication and also custom built
CustomCustom-Built Aluminum Frame by Phil Erby
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Jaguar Independent Rear Suspension
w/Inboard Disc Brakes
Custom HandHand-Built Aluminum Body
by Andy Glause
the all-aluminum frame for the car. This
replica 5/Window Coupe body is not an
exact copy of a ‘33 Ford. Phil wanted
more room inside, so Andy built the body
six inches longer in the cowl and door
areas and three inches wider than stock
while maintaining the overall look of the
original body. The roof height was
decreased from stock by approximately
three inches to give the car that classic
chopped hot rod look. All the details are
there right down to a set of aluminum
window garnish mouldings inside.
After seeing the finished body, Phil
decided he didn’t want to paint the car so
that everyone who saw the car could admire the high quality workmanship used
in building this body. There is absolutely
no body filler of any kind anywhere on
this car. After Andy built the body from
scratch Phil spent the better part of a year
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working in his spare time to carefully
grind and finish all the weld seams on the
body, he also polished the exterior body
mouldings and then scuffed the rest of
the body with Scotchbrite pads. Then the
entire surface was cleaned and prepped
for a special clearcoat that was professionally applied and buffed.
While Andy Glause was building the
body for the ‘33, Phil Erby custom built
the aluminum frame himself, installed
the Heidt’s independent front suspension
and the Jaguar rearend and suspension.
As for the heart of this project, Phil chose
to rebuild a 1950’s Mercury flathead V8
engine block bored to 276cid with aluminum heads and Holley four-barrel carburetor that dynoed in at 152.3 horsepower
@ 4500RPM! He connected that to a GM
5-speed manual transmission with aluminum case. Everything on this car that
could be aluminum is aluminum including the flywheel, polished driveshaft,
heads, intake, etc. The finished curb
weight of the car is only 2250 pounds!
This build is the essence of the street
rod sport. Individual expression, design,
engineering and friends working together
to produce a rolling work of art. The
street rod hobby is about self-expression
and there may be something about any
collector car you see that you may not
like personally, but even if there’s something about this featured car you don’t
particularly care for, you’ve still got to
appreciate the high quality workmanship
obvious throughout this build.
I haven’t known Andy Glause long but
it doesn’t take anyone much time to realize he is a very humble guy who is truly
talented and skilled at what he does.
He’s a rare breed of metal fabricator who
Andy’s Restoration - Shop Photos
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is primarily self-taught and continues to
work every day to perfect his craft. Andy
does some of the highest quality metal
fabrication you’ll find anywhere. He
doesn’t do this work for fame or fortune,
he does it because he enjoys his work
and he gets satisfaction from constantly
learning and developing new techniques
and helping people fulfill their dreams.
Andy has been working in metal
fabrication and bodywork for well over
forty years and has a very impressive
body of work behind him. He’s also
respected by some of the most wellknown builders in the country such as
Chip Foose and many others.
Andy doesn't need a big fancy shop in
a commercial space, he works out of his
shop at home which helps to reduce his
overall cost of operation and therefore
keeps his rates much lower than most
metal fabricators of his caliber.
Andy’s son Jason is also a talented
and skilled craftsmen with over fifteen
years experience as a metal fabricator
and painter. Jason works as a separate
business entity from Andy but they both
work out of the same shop space.
If your project needs a skilled metal
fabricator, I urge you to consider Andy or
Jason Glause in Saint Libory, Nebraska.
Call them today at 308-687-6221 to talk
about your project, large or small. HC
Andy’s Restoration - Shop Photos
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SUMMER 2012 CAR SHOW SUMMARY
As this issue of our newsletter goes to
print our business activities are changing as
the car show season winds down into the
Fall season of the year. The summer
months are always our busiest time of year
performing lots of appraisals, attending as
many car shows as possible, monitoring
collector car auctions, etc. I like to attend
the larger shows because of the opportunity
to see more cars in one place and the larger
shows also draw more vendors showcasing
new products, etc. This article is a summary
of some of the larger car shows we attended
this summer.
The first large car show of the summer
was the Good-Guys show in Loveland, Colorado. This show takes place at the Larimer
County Fairgrounds, commonly known in
the area as The Ranch. This venue is only
about fifteen minutes drive from my house,
so I usually attend this show every year.
Always a good show, although attendance
has been down for the past couple of years
compared to past Good-Guys events of five
or six years ago. This show usually draws
around 2,000 cars, recent attendance however has been around 1,500 cars.
The second larger car show we attended
was the Exotic Sports Car Show in Littleton,
Colorado. This year’s show had the largest
number of cars and the largest spectator
attendance in its twenty-nine year history.
There were several hundred cars at this
show including Porsches, Ferrari’s, Jaguar’s,
Austin-Healey’s and many other brands.
Some domestic sports cars were also represented including, Corvette’s, Mustang’s, etc.
This is a great show, many different cars
that you don’t normally see at most of the
Good-Guys Car Show - Loveland, Colorado
Good-Guys Car Show - Loveland, Colorado
Exotic Sports Car Show - Littleton, Colorado
Exotic Sports Car Show - Littleton, Colorado
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SUMMER 2012 CAR SHOW SUMMARY
NSRA Rocky Mountain Nationals, Pueblo, Colorado
other car shows in Colorado. The weather
was perfect the day of this show, clear skies
and not too hot! Mark your calendar for this
show next year, this is one you don’t want to
miss, June 9, 2013!
The next larger show was the NSRA
Rocky Mountain Nationals in Pueblo, Colorado, always held the last weekend of June.
We try to make it down for at least one day
of this show each year. This is always a
good show, you see a lot of new cars there
every year. The weather in Pueblo is usually
very hot and this year was no exception with
temperatures well over 100 degrees. Attendance this year was very strong with over
2,000 cars and a very good spectator
turn-out as well. The National Street Rod
Association always does an outstanding job
with each event. They’ve been doing car
shows now for over forty years and I think
they’ve got a pretty good idea of how
it’s done. No other organization has more
giveaways at each of their events than
NSRA and the atmosphere is always great.
The last large show of the season that I
attended this year was the NSRA Street Rod
Nationals held in Louisville, Kentucky,
August 2nd through the 5th. I hadn't been
to this event for several years and it was
great to be able to connect with some old
friends. It’s always a lot of fun to attend
a show of this size. NSRA has consistently
had around 10,000 cars registered every year
at this event for many years now and always
a lot of vendors too. We’re looking forward
to attending this event again next year.
Get out there and enjoy a car show or
cruise night near you! HC
NSRA Street Rod Nationals, Louisville, Kentucky
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NEW MOTOR OIL AVAILABLE FROM HEMMINGS!
the risk of damaging the
engine in your collector
car continues to increase.
Using newer formulated
oils in your collector car
could result in damage to
your camshaft and other
parts and exposes you to
the risk of damage or
maybe even destroying
irreplaceable pieces of
history. I’ve heard horror
stories about guys who were
so desperate they were
Photo Courtesy Hemmings Motor News
actually crushing zinc
Just announced to the public in late tablets from their pharmacy and adding the
September 2012, Hemmings Motor News zinc powder to their crankcase. You don’t
has introduced a new zinc-rich motor oil need to do crazy things like that anymore,
formulated specifically for classic cars.
now its simple to get the right oil for your
One of the biggest worries I hear from classic car. This new motor oil from
car collectors is what oil they should use in Hemmings is “SJ” rated, meaning it offers
their antique, classic or high performance more than 1,600 parts per million of zinc and
muscle car. As the zinc and phosphorus more than 1,500 ppm of phosphorus. It’s
content continues to drop in modern motor designed to give superior lubrication in high
oils available from your local parts store, performance, competition supercharged,
turbocharged, injected and naturally aspirated four cycle engines using standard or
high octane gasoline and even exotic fuels
including methanol or nitro-methane.
This new motor oil is available in three
different weights to meet your needs, a
10W-30 synthetic blend, a 15W-50 full synthetic and a 20W-50 synthetic blend. The oil
is sold only in cases of six quarts and is
available from Hemmings Motor News
exclusively. If you are interested in ordering or learning more about this new motor
oil, please contact Hemmings Motor News
at 1-800-227-4373 or visit their website at
www.hemmings.com/ClassicOil. HC
Photos Courtesy Hemmings Motor News
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Great Resources
Andy’s Restoration
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2012 Car Show Summary
including NSRA Street Rod
Nationals, Louisville, KY.
Harold Camp
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Fort Collins, CO. 80527-3062
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