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humanoidhistory · 3 months

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Car designer Strother MacMinn with students.

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science70 · 2 years

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Syd Mead, expressway concept art pictured in Sentinel: Steel Couture by Syd Mead and Strother MacMinn (Dragon's Dream, 1979).

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automotiveamerican · 2 years

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From the Cover of Road & Track to Decades of Languishing, One of the Few Remaining Strother MacMinn LeMans Coupes To Be Resurrected - @Hemmings

From the Cover of Road & Track to Decades of Languishing, One of the Few Remaining Strother MacMinn LeMans Coupes To Be Resurrected – @Hemmings

Editor’s Note: We recently heard from Dennis Kazmerowski, who has decided to resurrect a never-finished fiberglass body based on Strother MacMinn’s concept for an American coupe to compete at Le Mans. He’s making headway and wanted to share with us exactly how he got started with the project in the first place.] It started in August 2021, still in COVID-19 lockdown with much time to think about…

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#1950&039;s #Car Restoration #Fiberglass #Hemmings #Sports Car #Strother MacMinn LeMans Coupe #Strother McMinn

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goodspeedalways · 6 months

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#クラッシックカー #MAC-LMC

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undiscoveredclassics · 1 year

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The restoration of the 1958 LeMans Coupe, originally designed by Strother MacMinn, is making great progress. Owner and friend Dennis Kazmerowski sent along these photos of the car in a beautiful black cherry metallic paint. It looks incredible and hasn’t even been buffed out yet! The paint work has been done at Billy Bob’s Corvettes in Jackson, NJ. Dennis took this project on with the car as a basic shell and has done an outstanding job reviving it from the brink. The completed LeMans Coupe will likely debut at a major Concours in the near future. Stay tuned! . . . . #undiscoveredclassics #forgottenfiberglass #fiberglasscar #fiberglass #handbuilt #sportscar #sportscars #americansportscar #restoration #restorationproject #restorationcars #carrestoration #classiccar #classiccars #cars #carsofinstagram #carswithoutlimits #vintagecars #customcars #carchaeology #lemans #lemanscoupe #strothermacminn #victress #johnbond #roadandtrack #macminn (at Jackson, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0HZ3frGnD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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derautofan · 5 years

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1960 LeMans Coupe by Strother MacMinn via http://autofan.xyz

#car #cars #supercars #luxury car #sportscar #muscle car

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oldmotors · 3 years

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It took Renault more than a decade to come up with an answer to Citroën’s 2CV, and today’s sketches, drawn by design legend Strother MacMinn, show part of that process. These previews, drawn in the late summer of 1958, show a lower, squatter, and more ornate version of what ultimately became the #Renault4. The 4 was as simple and tough as the 2CV, but more practical, and it went on to become one of the best selling cars of all time. More than eight million of them were made from the summer of 1961 to the autumn of 1994, when the last one rolled off a distant assembly line in Slovenia. First, let’s introduce MacMinn. “Mac” may not have designed many cars himself, but he was instrumental in teaching dozens, perhaps hundreds, of influential designers. He was born in California in 1919 and met designer Frank Hershey quite by chance when Hershey worked for Murphy, the famous LA Coachbuilder. After graduating from High School, Hershey introduced him to Harley Earl, who hired him on the spot and sent the pair to Germany to redesign the Opel line. His first complete design was the 1938 Opel Kapitän. He returned only briefly to GM after the war, instead working briefly at Hudson and then teaching at the @artcenteredu from 1948 and working as a general industrial designer. MacMinn was in a position to drop in on design centers and talk with lots of designers, which is how he got access to Renault’s team about two years after CEO Pierre Dreyfus commissioned his staff to design a 2CV fighter. The Renault borrowed many ideas from the Citroën, like its front-drive setup (a first for Renault) but used a beefier water cooled engine (derived from the 4CV) for more useful power and a more utilitarian hatchback body, though both would be produced as truckettes. When MacMinn saw the project, it was still called the Renault 3CV, slotting below the existing 4CV. When the R4 arrived in 1961, it was simpler than these sketches, but not fundamentally different, and accompanied by the original vision, the humbler 603-cc R3 with blanked out quarter windows and a simpler interior. Most buyers preferred the slightly nicer 747-cc R4, and the 3 lasted just two seasons. https://www.instagram.com/p/CLuf2GGFSr7/?igshid=1wc1qgc4qg61t

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brownanddickson · 6 years

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Sentinel Mead

Mead, Syd; MacMinn, Strother (text). Sentinel Mead. Dragons Dream, 1979. First Edition. ISBN: 9063325916. 157 pp. Folio. 156 illustrations. Collection of visionary artwork by Mead whose many projects include Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Very good. Paperback.

#Art #Science Fiction #Genre #Illustration

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adriansmithcarslove · 6 years

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1937 Alfa Romeo 4C Wins Best of Show at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

An exquisite 1937 Alfa Romeo 4C 2900B Touring Berlinetta took home the Best of Show prize at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

The deep blue Alfa Romeo won its class before competing for Best of Show and also picked up this year’s Charles A. Chayne Trophy—plus, it was named the J. B. & Dorothy Nethercutt Most Elegant Closed Car.

“As a Zagato collector, I broke the rules and bought a Touring-bodied car because this Alfa Romeo is very special,” said owner David Sydorick of Beverly Hills, California, in a statement. “It is a piece of automotive architecture mounted on a Grand Prix chassis that has technology that was top of the line for prewar cars. It’s a wonderful combination. It’s beautiful from top to bottom.”

The polished prizewinner competed against over 200 cars from 17 countries and 31 states on the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The concours is not a contest of speed, but instead one of elegance, just as it has been since its inception in 1950.

“This Alfa Romeo 8C 2.9 has all that one would wish for in a car—speed, style, and, frankly, sex appeal,” said Sandra Button, Concours chairman, in a release. “The Touring styling is simply magical, and to top it off it makes all the right noises!”

Honorable mentions include a 1929 Duesenberg J Murphy Town Limousine owned by the Lehrman Collection of Palm Beach, Florida, and a 1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Figoni Fastback Coupé owned by Robert Kudela of Chropyně, Czech Republic.

This year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance also raised $1.8 million for charity that will benefit over 80 local Monterey county charities.

The 69th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance returns to the third Sunday of August next year—so be sure to mark your calendars for August 18, 2019.

Here’s the full list of this year’s winners:

Best of Show 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta David & Ginny Sydorick, Beverly Hills, California

Best of Show Nominees 1929 Duesenberg J Murphy Town Limousine Lehrman Collection, Palm Beach, Florida

1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Figoni Fastback Coupé Robert Kudela, Chropyně, Czech Republic

Elegance Awards

Gwenn Graham Most Elegant Convertible 1937 Cadillac Series 90 Hartmann Cabriolet Jim Patterson/The Patterson Collection, Louisville, Kentucky

J. B. & Dorothy Nethercutt Most Elegant Closed Car 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta David & Ginny Sydorick, Beverly Hills, California

Jules Heumann Most Elegant Open Car 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Brewster York Roadster John & Heather Mozart, Palo Alto, California

Strother MacMinn Most Elegant Sports Car 1970 Ferrari 512 S Modulo Pininfarina Coupe MJJV Cars, Rye, New York

Special Awards

Alec Ulmann Trophy 1926 Hispano-Suiza H6B Rollston Convertible Victoria Jorge Fernandez, Marbella, Spain

Ansel Adams Award 1910 Pope-Hartford Model T 5 Passenger Touring Gary & Sheryl Hunter, Arcadia, California

ArtCenter College of Design Award 1947 Cisitalia 202 SC Vignale Cabriolet Janice Feldman, Singapore

Briggs Cunningham Trophy 1955 Maserati A6GCS Frua Spyder Jonathan Feiber & Heather Buhr, Atherton, California

Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) Award 1959 Citroën DS 19 Berline d’Usine Jeffrey & Frances Fisher, Palm Beach, Florida

Chairman’s Trophy 1965 Hong Qi CA72 Zongmin Huang & Xiaoling Sun, Chengdu, China

Charles A. Chayne Trophy 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta David & Ginny Sydorick, Beverly Hills, California

Classic Car Club of America Trophy 1931 Minerva Type AL Rollston Convertible Sedan The Stephens Family, San Francisco, California

Elegance in Motion Trophy 1939 Lagonda V12 Le Mans Rapide Drophead Coupé The Hon. Sir Michael Kadoorie, Hong Kong

Enzo Ferrari Trophy 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Scaglietti Spyder Chris & Ann Cox, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

FIVA Postwar Trophy 1955 OSCA MT4 2AD Vignale Berlinetta Roger Hoffmann, Point Reyes Station, California

FIVA Prewar Trophy 1921 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost James & Co. Open Tourer Kesri Dev Singh, Wankaner, India

The French Cup 1935 Delage D8-85 Henri Chapron/Clabot Cabriolet Linda & Paul Gould, Pawling, New York

Gran Turismo Trophy 1966 All American Racers Eagle Special Bruce Canepa, Scotts Valley, California

Lincoln Trophy 1926 Lincoln Brunn Cabriolet Dana & Paula Morgan, Scotts Valley, California

Lorin Tryon Trophy His Highness Rana Manvendra Singh Barwani

Lucius Beebe Trophy 1935 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Gurney Nutting Streamline Coupé Amir & Wendy Jetha, Mumbai, India

MercedesBenz Star of Excellence Award 1929 Mercedes-Benz 710 SS Barker Tourer Race Car The Keller Collection at The Pyramids, Petaluma, California

Montagu of Beaulieu Trophy 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Windovers Limousine His Highness Maharaja Gaj Singhji of Marwar-Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India

The Phil Hill Cup 1954 OSCA 2000 S Frua Spider Michael Trösser, Germany

Tony Hulman Trophy 1961 Bryant Heating & Cooling Epperly Special Bill Akin, Hermitage, Tennesse

The Vitesse ~ Elegance Trophy 1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Figoni Fastback Coupé Robert Kudela, Chropyně, Czech Republic

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robertkstone · 6 years

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1937 Alfa Romeo 8C Wins Best of Show at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

An exquisite 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta took home the Best of Show prize at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.