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Larz Anderson Auto Museum
Gazette
Vol. 2, No. 1 — May 2016
White Lightning strikes twice!
The White Lightning Ball on Saturday, March 12th, was a sellout, as
expected. The Museum’s main exhibit
hall was filled with flappers, gangsters,
and even a cop or two “looking the other
way” as the merriment proceeded.
The Wolverine Jazz Band provided
the music and the Privateer Rum Company the hooch. The aptly-named Jason
McCool was the emcee, and the Boston Lindy Hop Studio led the dancing
couples in Swing and Charleston. There
were even some flashes of vaudeville as
Save the dates!
2016 Lawn Events
Sun., May 15 — Cadillac Day, 10am-3pm
Sun., June 5 — AACA Day, 10am-2pm
Sun., June 12 — Corvette Day, 10am-2pm
Sun., June 19 — German Car Day, 10am-2pm
Sun., June 26 — British Car Day, 10am-2pm
Sun., July 10 — Microcar Classic, 10am-2pm
Sun., July 17 — Miata Day, 10am-2pm
Sun., July 24 — American Car & Truck Day,
10am-2pm
Sun., July 31 — Day of Triumph, 10am-2pm
Sun., Aug. 7 — Tutto Italiano, 10am-2pm
Sun., Aug. 14 — BMW Day, 9am-2pm
Sat., Aug. 20 — MG Day, 10am-2pm
Sun., Aug. 21 — Ford Lincoln Mercury Day,
10am-2pm
Sun., Aug. 28 — Swedish Car Day, 10am-2pm
Sat., Sept. 10 — Porsche Day, 9am-3pm
Sun., Sept. 11 — European Motorcycle Day,
10am-2pm
Sun., Sept. 25 — Mercedes Day, 10am-3pm
Sun., Oct. 9 — Transporterfest, 9:30am3:30pm
Sat., Oct. 15 — Tutto Lite, 10am-2pm
Sun., Oct. 16 — Japanese Car Day, 10am-2pm
Sat., Oct. 22 — Extinct Car Day, 10am-2pm
Sun., Oct. 23 — Studebaker Day, 10am-3pm
The crowded dance floor at the White Lightning Ball. Below: Two of the many lovelies at
the Ball. More on page 11!
Photos courtesy of Vintage Girl Studios & LAAM
a juggler plied his craft to everyone’s
delight. Kudos to the Greater Boston
Vintage Society, Salmagundi Hats
and Emily’s Vintage Visions for joining forces with the Museum to make
this a night to remember.
White Lightning, of course, is
the adult beverage, also called moonshine, still being distilled, distributed and enjoyed (illegally) in “the
country.” One might say a night of
country music, then, would perfectly
complement the Prohibition-themed
White Lightning Ball — a case of
White Lightning striking twice!
Well, on Friday, April 8th, the
Museum’s “Dancing with the Cars”
series closed with the Country Mile
Band. With Ed Freeman on lead guitar and harmonica, Glenn Petrucci on
bass, Carl Bergman on drums, Tom
“Ducky” Belliveau on pedal steel
guitar and Steve Lombari on bass,
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Support your Museum
Please support the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. As a
member of an organization and institution that is important
to all of us — the Larz Anderson Auto Museum — please
consider making a special gift to fuel the Museum’s expanding programs and offerings.
Your gift will provide the Museum and the communities
we serve with vitally needed support to preserve “America’s
Oldest Car Collection,’’ and to sustain the educational and
cultural programming that drives our mission. The Museum
has worked to enhance existing programs, create new ones,
and strengthen community partnerships, all while continuing the grand tradition of Lawn Events and car shows for
which the Museum is famous.
The Museum’s future depends on the commitment and
generosity of its members and friends. Like other not-forprofit museums, the LAAM’s admission revenue, membership dues, and event ticket sales fund only a portion of the
Museum’s operations. Your charitable gift is important and
makes a real difference in sustaining the LAAM as a unique
cultural and educational institution.
Please make your gift today. Your charitable donation is
an investment in the Larz Anderson Auto Museum and the
communities we serve and educate.
The Larz Anderson Auto Museum is a nonprofit, 501(c)3
tax-exempt educational and cultural institution. Donations
are tax-deductible to the full limits of the tax laws.
Ways to give
Gifts of cash
Gifts of cash are the easiest and most direct way to give
to the LAAM. If you itemize on your federal income tax
Larz Anderson Auto Museum
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Contributors to this issue:
Richard A. DeVito, Sr.
Margie Cahn
Dr. John Christoforo
Jennifer Corriveau
John Darack
Karen Hasenfus • Sheldon Steele
Dr. Dean Saluti
Bruce Vild
All photos courtesy of our contributors
unless otherwise credited
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return, cash gifts are fully deductible. You can make a cash
gift in several ways:
Online — You can make a secure online credit card
transaction or set up a recurring donation through the
“Donate” page of the Museum’s website.
By mail — Send your check or money order payable to
Larz Anderson Auto Museum to 15 Newton St., Brookline,
MA 02445.
By phone — Make a gift by credit card by calling the
Museum at (617) 522-6547.
Matching gifts
Double the impact of your contribution! Many companies offer charitable matching gift programs to encourage
employees to contribute to charitable organizations. Many
will match contributions dollar for dollar. Please check with
your company to see if it offers a matching gift program that
will match your gift to the LAAM.
Gifts of securities
Securities (i.e., stocks and bonds) are popular alternatives to gifts of cash and generate a double tax benefit. In
addition to receiving a charitable income tax deduction, the
donor can avoid any potential tax on the capital gain on the
property if owned more than one year.
Planned giving
Through a bequest or other estate gift, you can help provide for the future of the LAAM. Your contribution makes a
difference and reflects your commitment to the Museum and
its mission. Planned giving can be as simple as including a
gift in your will or naming the Museum as beneficiary of an
IRA.
To discuss a gift of securities or a planned gift, please
call (617) 522-6547.
The Larz Anderson Auto Museum:
Get to know us
President: John Carberry
Executive Committee Members: Joseph Freeman, Richard A. DeVito,
Sr., John Darack, Michael Gaetano, Robert Lawrence, Susana Weber,
Denis Bustin, William Keeney
Museum Staff: Museum phone number - (617) 522-6547
Executive Director - Sheldon Steele, [email protected], Ext. 19
Member Services Manager/Operations Manager - Karen Hasenfus, events
@larzanderson.org, Ext. 18
Marketing & Lawn Event Manager - Jennifer Corriveau, lawnevents@
larzanderson.org, Ext. 13
Education Manager - Joseph Price, [email protected], Ext. 21 
Our new exhibit
Icons from BMW, Porsche meet
‘Golden Age’ photographer
Some of the greatest German performance machines are about to take
up residence at the Larz Anderson Auto
Museum. “Marque of Excellence” is
a new exhibit coming to the Museum,
welcoming vehicles such as the Porsche
959, BMW M1, and Porsche 962.
These vehicles represent milestones in motorsports innovation, and
are joined by another must-see exhibit,
“Jesse Alexander: Photographs from
the Golden Age of Motorsports.” Alexander witnessed some of the greatest
years in auto racing, and his incredible
photos would become immortalized
as part of our visual history of motorsports.
Both of these exhibits open on May
6th in the main gallery of the Museum
and run through spring 2017.
The assortment of BMW and
Porsche sports cars, racecars and motorcycles on hand is a veritable “who’s
who” of German performance and motorsports lore, and each car that will be
present can lay claim to some unique
milestone or accolade in performance
motoring.
BMW vehicles run an extreme
gamut from microcars to supercars,
like the lovable Isetta ultra-compact
cars and the BMW I8 hybrid supercar.
The BMW 2002 and Porsche 356
each defined their respective marques
in the years that followed their reign.
The 356 will be shown in both Coupe
and Speedster variants, showcasing the
two core identities of the brand. The
Coupe embodies the timeless Porsche
profile, while the Speedster represents
that distilled, minimalist approach that
would appear in various special-edition
Porsches for years to come.
BMW’s “M” motorsport brand is
growing in ways never before imagined, but it would be nowhere without vehicles like the M5 and M1. It is
amazing that two vehicles so different
share a common engine — the venerable M88 3.5-liter that would go on to
power so many M cars in various incarnations.
The M Division wasn’t the only entity known for transforming daily drivers into performance beasts. Alpina
has long been a favorite BMW tuner,
and the 3.0 CS blends handcrafted performance with one of the most attractive exteriors ever to wear the roundel.
The combination of speed and beauty
has few rivals.
The Porsche 911, however, is one
of those rivals. No matter the decade,
there is a 911 there to define that generation’s performance car short list.
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Cars and Coffee
Cars and Coffee was created for car enthusiasts to meet up early
on a Saturday morning. They’d grab coffee, talk cars and by 11am
they’d be gone.
We have our own tradition here at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum.
The Museum opens early at 8am on designated Saturdays for your
viewing. Grab a coffee and a snack and check out some of the Boston
area’s best cars.
Cars and Coffee is sponsored by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management – The Keeney Group and Yuppieracing.net. This event is free,
but we encourage attendees to become Museum members!
The first Cars and Coffee of the year is Saturday, May 7, 8-11am.
Pictured above is one of the cars that came to LAAM’s Cars and
Coffee last year. Was it yours? Photos by John Scullin & AC Photography
Our New Exhibit (Continued from page 3)
And yet the silhouette soldiers on, with
circle headlights out front and a Boxer
engine hanging out back. But the 911
has not been without its specialty tuners
— witness the TechArt 993 CT3, which
takes Porsche’s timeless air-cooled flatsix engine and tacks on a supercharger.
For Porsche, the 911 is the roadgoing manifestation of all the lessons
learned on the racetrack. Porsche’s
decades of international road racing
are the stuff of legend, and the Porsche
962 is one of the most iconic examples
of this dominance. The 962 was built
to campaign in the European Group C,
and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in
1986 and 1987.
The Marque of Excellence and
Jesse Alexander exhibits join two ad-
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ditional galleries still running. This includes the incredible gallery featuring
a complete set of five Yamaha TZ twostroke factory race bikes and, of course,
the world famous Anderson Collection
of cars on permanent exhibit in their
own gallery.
We invite you to join us for the
Exhibit Opening Reception at the Museum to celebrate these wonderful machines and iconic photography. It takes
place on Thursday, May 5th, from 6
p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is $25
for members, $35 for non-members.
German-inspired fare will be provided
by Tastings Caterers. Please visit our
website to learn more and to register:
larzanderson.org. —Sheldon Steele
& Jennifer Corriveau
Upcoming Lawn Events
Sunday, May 15: CADILLAC DAY
Cadillac Day has historically been the “kick-off show”
of the Lawn Event Season and is sponsored by the New
England Cadillac and LaSalle Club.
The show starts at 10am and runs until 3pm. Car
registration is $10 per car and includes the driver and one
passenger. Please register at the tent the day of the show.
Spectator admission is adults, $10; military, seniors,
students and children 6-12, $5; and children under 6 are
free. Museum Members are always free!
The Museum is open for your viewing until 4pm. Lunch
will be available on site for purchase.
Sunday, June 5: AACA DAY
AACA Day was a new addition to the Lawn Event
Schedule in 2013. The Bean Pot Region of the Antique
Automobile Club of America sponsors the show. This show
is not just for cars but also for trucks, racecars, hot rods and
motorcycles. All vehicles must be 25 years or older.
The show starts at 10am and runs until 2pm. Car
registration is $10 per car and includes the driver and one
passenger. Please register at the tent the day of the show.
Spectator admission is adults, $10; military, seniors,
students and children 6-12, $5; and children under 6 are
free. Museum Members are always free!
The Museum is open for your viewing until 4pm. Lunch
will be available on site for purchase.
Sunday, June 12: CORVETTE DAY
The National Corvette Restorers Society (NCRS), New
England Chapter, sponsors Corvette Day. All Corvette owners are invited to attend.
The show starts at 9am and runs until 2pm. Car
registration is $20 per car and includes the driver and one
passenger. Please register at the tent the day of the show.
Spectator admission is adults, $10; military, seniors,
students and children 6-12, $5; and children under 6 are
free. Museum Members are always free!
The Museum is open for your viewing until 4pm. Lunch
will be available on site for purchase.
Photos courtesy of SFD (AACA Day and Corvette Day) & B. Davis Photography (Cadillac Day)
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Upcoming Lawn Events (Continued from page 5)
Sunday, June 19: GERMAN CAR DAY
German Car Day is the first Museum-sponsored show
of the season. It’s on Father’s Day, so bring your dads,
because what dad doesn’t like a little German engineering?
All proceeds benefit the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. Any
automobile is accepted regardless of make, model or year,
as long as it’s German.
The show starts at 10am and runs until 2pm. Car
registration is $25 per car and includes the driver and one
passenger. If you pre-register, the fee is only $20 per car.
Spectator admission is adults, $10; military, seniors,
students and children 6-12, $5; and children under 6 are
free. Museum Members are always free!
The Museum is open for your viewing until 4pm. Lunch
will be available on site for purchase.
Sunday, June 26: BRITISH CAR DAY
British Car Day is a Museum Show and all proceeds
benefit the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. Any British automobile is invited and encouraged to attend regardless of
make, model, age or condition.
The show starts at 10am and runs until 2pm. Car
registration is $25 per car and includes the driver and one
passenger. If you pre-register, the fee is only $20 per car.
Spectator admission is adults, $10; military, seniors,
students and children 6-12, $5; and children under 6 are
free. Museum members are always free!
The Museum is open for your viewing until 4pm. Lunch
will be available on site for purchase.
Photos courtesy of LAAM
If you are planning to trailer a vehicle to a Lawn Event this season...
Please be advised there is absolutely NO trailer parking within the grounds
of Larz Anderson Park.
There is also no overnight parking available.
You MUST park your trailer outside of the park grounds.
Parking spots within the park are limited to Park Visitors and Museum Guests.
Unauthorized trailers will be asked via PA or DJ to move or be towed.
For more information or questions about lawn events, please call
the Lawn Event Manager at 617-522-6547 x13
or e-mail [email protected].
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The Anderson Cars
Isabel Anderson’s favorite car
by Dr. John Christoforo
The Andersons owned two electric cars, a 1905
Electromobile and a 1908 Bailey Electric Phaeton Victoria. The Bailey Company, one of several that manufactured electric automobiles, marketed their product
specifically for women — a fact that fascinated Isabel
Anderson, who was the first female in Massachusetts to
obtain a driver’s license.
Bailey Electric cars were manufactured in Amesbury, Mass., starting in the late 1800s, after having
manufactured carriages since 1853. Colonel Edward
Bailey had inherited the carriage company from his father and began manufacturing electric cars for $2,000
to $2,600 in the 1880s.
Most cars back in the day had a footman’s seat for
chauffeurs to drive ladies to their destinations, but Isabel Anderson was determined to drive “her new toy”
without any help. When asked why the Bailey was her
favorite automobile, Mrs. Anderson replied that the car
was silent, it didn’t smell, and, most importantly, it was
easy to drive.
Exide batteries had become synonymous with quality and beginning in 1906 and were included as the
power source in every Bailey manufactured.
However, electric cars were losing ground Mrs. Anderson and the 1908 Bailey Electric.
to less expensive gasoline models as the first
decade of the new century progressed. Larz
and Isabel visited the New York Automobile
Show in 1907, and Isabel fell in love with
the latest Bailey. She didn’t waste much
time making up her mind to buy one.
There was a downturn in the American
economy in 1907, followed by a bank panic. Bailey survived the economic storm and
Isabel Anderson was one of the first people
to buy the 1908 model, which today sits in
the permanent Anderson Collection located
on the lower floor of the Museum.
At your convenience, drop by, view the
cars, and let me know what you think of Isabel Anderson’s favorite.
Photos courtesy of LAAM
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Anderson Contemporaries
A dreamer
by Dr. John Christoforo
Charles Brady King (right) demonstrates his car in Detroit on March 7, 1896.
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
I was browsing through the Sun
Sentinel recently, enjoying my second
cup of morning coffee, and happened to
come across a story written by Steven
Reive (a feature writer for Wheelbase
Media) in the paper’s auto section that
raised my curiosity to its highest level.
It was about an automotive pioneer
I had never heard of, Charles Brady
King. Of course, I needed a research
fix, and found a few things concerning
this man that I thought might be of interest to readers of the Gazette.
Charles Brady King was an auto
pioneer, an artist, an etcher, a musician,
a poet, an architect, a mystic, an industrialist, and an inventor. He was born
in California in the 1860s to a Union
Army general who had fought in the
Civil War. Initially, as a young adult,
Charles was educated in mechanical
engineering at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y.,
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but, long before he would have graduated, he quit. His head was buzzing
with ideas going in so many directions
that he didn’t know what to do. For
whatever reason, he headed for Detroit
in 1889, when he was 21.
Reflecting back on an 1893 visit to
the Chicago Exposition, King figured
that Gottlieb Daimler’s self-propelled
carriage would be the wave of the future. After hundreds of years of horsedrawn carriages, there was suddenly
no horse! He knew about the Duryea
Brothers, who had already built an automobile in this part of the country, and
that Carl Benz had patented the first
gasoline engine in Germany. He began
to design something that would rival
their best ideas.
Three months before Henry Ford
drove his first carriage with an internal
combustion engine instead of a horse,
King drove through the streets of Detroit in his own horseless carriage. On
the way home, he was ticketed by the
Detroit police for disturbing the peace.
His journey was accomplished at the
rate of 5-6mph, and when asked, he
assured one and all that the future belonged to the horseless carriage — a
fact that would take him 20 years to
prove!
Because of his interests and talents
in so many things, boredom set in and
he began to invest his time and talents
in other areas. In 1903, King became
the chief engineer for the Northern
Motor Car Co., and designed a twocylinder automobile that featured many
innovations, including the first running
boards. By 1907, he would design air
brakes and an air-controlled clutch, but
boredom set in again, and he headed off
in other directions.
Before leaving for Europe to study
automotive design, he served as a
mentor to people such as Henry Ford,
Ransom Olds and Jonathan Maxwell.
When he returned to Detroit, he opened
the King Motor Car Company and produced the King Eight, a V8-powered
car advertised as “The Car With No Regrets.” His major innovation, which is
still with us today, was the position of
the steering wheel on American-made
cars. Prior to King’s redesign, steering wheels on cars made in the U.S.
were on the right, resembling what you
might see in the U.K.
King’s company was eventually
absorbed into the Studebaker Company
but, in his senior years, he became a
founding member of the Automotive
Old Timers Club, the name of today’s
Automobile Hall of Fame. He passed
away in 1957, well into his 80s.
Our members’ cars
The $5,000 dash hole
(Or, While you’re at it...)
by John Darack
John’s 1972 Alfa Romeo Montreal.
I loved my Alfa Romeo Montreal.
I had wanted one since the early 1970s when one graced
the cover of Road & Track and I thought it was just the sexiest thing since Sophia Loren.
And now it was 2004. I sold my business the year before, and retired with some extra jingle in my jeans and
time on my hands. Succumbing to a neighbor’s lust for our
MGA Coupe left a space next to our Giulietta, and Newton’s
Eighty-first Law started to kick in.
You know that irrefutable law of Car Guy Physics, don’t
you? It states quite simply, “Nature abhors an empty garage.”
eBay was not new, but it was new to me. I tried it out,
and found that I could find anything my heart might desire.
All I needed was a little patience, a PayPal account and my
7th-grade typing skill.
I also discovered the Montreal website and discussion
forum, one of the best constructed and administered car
sites I have ever seen. So I started educating myself. After
a while, I felt I had learned enough about the Montreal’s
strengths — and more importantly, its weaknesses — to start
my search.
It struck me that eBay could be pretty risky, since virtually all the cars I saw were far away, most of them very far
away indeed. In addition to Newton’s laws, I was driven by
John’s First Law of Car Buying, “Never lay your cash on the
table until you have laid your own eyeballs on the goods.”
It’s one thing to click an eBay button to snag a tail light or
a Giulietta Spider brochure, but something else entirely to
send a $20,000 cashier’s check to a stranger in another time
zone for what might turn out to be a rust bucket with a bad
transmission or warped brake rotors made of unobtanium.
So, prudent Yankee that I am, I placed “Wanted” ads in
Alfa club publications — first locally, in Velocissima, then
nationally, in Alfa Owner. Never one to miss an opportunity
to generate a chuckle, I cute-sified the ads by making them
resemble personals: “Lonely cultured gent seeks voluptuous
Italian mistress...”
Sonofagun if I didn’t get some calls. One local car ran
well but was a little too rusty for my timid side. A call from
a fellow in Tennessee sure sounded hopeful, though. Long
story made short, we talked, I flew down, crawled under, test
drove, negotiated a little, wrote a check. Eureka!
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Our Members’ Cars (Continued from page 9)
Dash hole, before.
Although sorely tempted to drive it home (a friend and
fellow Alfa club member even offered to come along), better
judgment made me hire a trucker to do the dirty work. Remember, I have a timid side. “Monty” arrived ten anxious
days later and our romance began.
A cautionary fluid change and a once-over by the Sports
Car Wizard of Saxonville, and off we went for a fun-filled
summer. The radio was a cheap Kmart special, so I took
it out and chucked it. Back to eBay, I bought a really nice
1970s-era Becker Mexico radio, sent it to the factory shop
for refurbishment, and put it aside until I got around to doing
something with it.
Winter passed, summer came and went, and then it was
winter again. As usual, life got in the way of life and that
Becker never moved off the garage bench.
Springtime came early the next year, and so did my old
car juices. You might say that the sap began to flow, or you
might say that Mother Nature felt that it was time for the
cash to flow from the sap’s wallet.
The Becker caught my eye. Since time was at a premium due to house projects, grandkids, and, well, you know,
I tossed the radio on the passenger’s seat and headed for Saxonville, knowing he’d do a better job than I would.
“Please do a nice installation,” I said, “and while you’re
at it, give the car an annual physical and tidy things up before the driving season.”
He immediately noticed an oil leak under a cam cover,
and suggested that I find new gaskets. The website led me to
suppliers, and they were here in a week.
The phone rang. It was the Wizard. “Hey, is there oil on
your garage floor? There’s almost none in the sump!”
The dry floor signaled something ominous.
“What oil remains in the tank smells like fuel, and I think
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there may be a problem with the injection pump leaking gas
into the oil. Should I pull it?”
Okay, here we go.
With the pump removed, some coolant was evident in
the “V” of the engine.
“There’s a leaky head gasket, so you’d better get new
ones if you can locate them, and while you’re at it, see if you
can find a whole engine set, just in case we find anything else
to tighten up.”
I found a set in Florida, and by then had spent $250 on
gaskets and overnight UPS charges.
“You know, it will be a heck of a lot easier pulling the
heads with the engine out of the car, and while it’s out and
since we have a complete set of gaskets, we ought to re-seal
everything we can on the top side.” Okay.
“I can make these cam covers come alive if we strip off
the old flaking paint and re-shoot them.” Okay.
The pump was sent to the one and only Spica specialist,
of course on the West Coast. Fourteen hundred bucks, plus
round trip expedited freight.
You see where this is going?
Anyway, five grand later it finally got done, and Monty
now ran like a champ. Made all those manly V8 sounds and
cruised down the highway like a low-buck Ferrari.
Should I mention that the Becker didn’t fit the hole in the
dash?
Of course I resisted looking up Newton’s Eighty-second.
I’m sure it has something to do with keeping ’em rolling,
damn the cost!
And for the record, after not using this wonderful car
enough to justify keeping it, a few years ago I sold it to a
fellow in — where else? — Montreal, where it has lived happily ever after!
Dash hole, after.
White Lightning Strikes Twice (Continued from page 1)
how could anyone resist dancing the two-step
or the boot scoot boogie?
We don’t know for sure whether any
moonshine was sipped, but everyone had a
ball — and, most importantly, many items
were collected for the charity Operation
Troop Support, which sends care packages to
men and women stationed overseas. It was
a wonderful way to end the DWTC season.
—Karen Hasenfus & Bruce Vild
Above: The Country Mile Band at LAAM. Left and below: More scenes, in a vintage
style, from the White Lightning Ball. Photos courtesy Vintage Girl Studios & LAAM
Win a Willys!
Willys-Overland produced over 350,000 Willys MBs, better known as “Jeeps,” for the U.S. war
effort during World War II. As the war drew to a close, the company started thinking about a way to
develop a civilian version to market to the public. In 1945, with some modifications, Willys began to
mass-produce the CJ-2A, one of the first civilian vehicles to be equipped with four-wheel drive.
Classic car collector and Museum trustee Tom Larsen owns one of these rugged vehicles, a
1948 CJ-2A. He had originally purchased it because he thought it would be perfect to use at his
Cape house. Over the course of ownership, he put a lot of work into it, including regular maintenance as well as repairs to the clutch, steering rack and exhaust. He then sold it to a gentleman in
Nantucket, and the Jeep eventually came to reside in Atlanta, Ga. Tom then repurchased the Jeep
and has now decided to donate it to the LAAM with the intention of having it raffled off to support the
Museum. He knew that it would be an exciting vehicle for people to see at the Museum and to have
a chance to own as our 2016 raffle car.
Tickets are $25 each or 5 for $100, and are on sale now until the date of the drawing, July 23,
2017, at next year’s American Car & Truck Day. All proceeds will benefit the LAAM. Please visit
larzanderson.org/events/winawillys/ to buy your tickets now!
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