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APRIL 2017 Vol. XVI No. 2 ™ IN THIS ISSUE: 25TH ANNIV. SPRING KICK-OFF UPDATES • ARIZONA AUCTION RECAP ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER • 2017 CALENDAR UPDATES VINTAGE FOREIGN MARQUE CLUBS OF THE UPPER MIDWEST Arrowhead Sports Car Club Metropolitans from Minnesota North Star British Iron (cycles) www.arrowheadscc.org www.metropolitansfromminnesota.com [email protected] Auto Italia Minnesota Miata Club of Minnesota www. Pagoda Club of Minnesota www.meetup.com/auto-italia- miataclubmn.com 651-452-2807 Minnesota/ Midwest Sunbeam The Regulars Twin Cities Vintage Austin-Healey Club www.sunbeamalpine.org Scooter Club of Manitoba www.minnescoota.com Minnes02 (BMW 2002) www.ahcm.ca [email protected] Thunder Bay Vintage British Iron Society Sports Car Club tbvscc.ca Minnesota Austin-Healey Club of Greater Fargo www.mnhealey.com Triumph Drivers of Manitoba www.BritishIronSociety.com www.triumphdriversclub.com NEW! Minnesota Autosports Club Citroën Car Club of MN www.mnautox.com Stella del Nord Alfa Romeo www.citroenmn.com Owners Club Minnesota Land Rover Club Delorean Owners of MN groups. [email protected] mnlandrovers.org yahoo.com/neo/groups/mndmc/info Twin Cities VW Club Minnesota MG Group Fahr North: www.twincitiesvwclub.com Porsche 356 Group http://www.MN-MGGroup.org Vintage Sports Car Racing Eric Erickson 952-426-5024 Minnesota MG T Register www.vscr.org www.mnmgtr.org Ferrari Club of America, Volvo Sports America Central States Region Minnesota United Minis (MUM) MINNESOTA CHAPTER http://www.fcacentralstates.org/ www.minnesotaunitedminis.com David Olson, ols on199-at-umn.edu Foreign Fords Minnesota Morgans BADGERLAND (WI) CHAPTER Jim Perry, james.perry -at- uwc.edu hocapri [at] yahoo [dot] com [email protected] Wheels of Italy Audi Club Glacier Lakes Minnesota Rolls Royce and wheelsofitaly.com audiclubglacierlakes.org Bentley Enthusiasts [email protected] ZOOM (Z Owners Of Minnesota) InterMarque Council facebook.com/groups/ZoomZcar [email protected] Minnesota SAAB Club www.mnsaabclub.org Jaguar Club of Minnesota Updates for web sites, email addresses, www.jaguarminnesota.org phone numbers, and meeting times and Minnesota Triumphs places (see calendar) are most appreciated. www.mntriumphs.org Lotus Eaters Clubs listed in red are members of the [email protected] Nord Stern Porsche Club www.nordstern.org LOON (Lotus Owners Oftha North) [email protected] North Coast Borgward Club [email protected] Mercedes Benz Club This is an ever-evolving list. Any vintage-foreign club in the region is welcome to join the Twin Cities Section North Star BMW Car Club council. All we ask is that you show up for a www.mbca-tc.org www.northstarbmw.org few meetings and help out. Email us at [email protected] for details. I nterMarque Monthly, April 2017 PAGE 2 BREAKFAST REMINDER Breakfasts on Saturday mornings APRIL 2017 are held at Elsie’s. 729 VOLUME XVI, ISSUE 2 Marshall Street N.E., Copyright 2017 Minneapolis, 55413. MANAGING EDITOR 8am start. Andy Lindberg PRODUCTION EDITOR Brian Cornell ARTICLE CONTRIBUTORS Dave Tobin, Dave Lindemann, PHOTO CONTRIBUTORS Dave Tobin, Dave Lindemann SUBSCRIPTION IS FREE! Please submit your request to [email protected] ADVERTISING COSTS A LITTLE Visit our website PDF Business Card ads (3.5x2) www.bmcautos.com are $5/month. Please inquire to [email protected] WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SHARE PHOTOS 12-16 AND EVENT RECAPS! Please submit photos or articles to [email protected] for consideration. ON THE COVER: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix which sold InterMarque! Vintage Foreign Motorcars of the Upper on the first day Midwest is on Facebook. Join the group and feel free to add of Gooding and to the site with pictures, stories, and announcements about Co.’s two day local Vintage Foreign motorcars and events. sale. Photo by https://www.facebook.com/groups/intermarque/ Dave Tobin. I nterMarque Monthly, April 2017 PAGE 3 IN THE MIRROR & AROUND THE BEND INTERMARQUE EVENT CHAIR JOHN ENGSTROM We had a good meeting last Saturday and a lot of Kick-Off progress has been made so far. We have received some very nice dash plaques for the goody bags. We have Dave Tobin helping us with marketing because he knows of such things, he will be putting out press releases for major TV and newspapers as well as the smaller local papers as well. Todd Bjerknes, has helped us out by coordinating the show with some local auto dealers, repair shops and restoration shops as well as working with the Girl Scouts on voting for the peoples choice award. We plan on ordering T- Shirts for the show since this is the 25th year of the event. The T-Shirts will be moderately priced and can be reserved by letting us know sizes and amounts before the show. Just email [email protected] with a size and we’ll save you only. Only $10! The rally is still in the mix for the show and it’s a good time to just try one out. It’s set up to be an easy rally anyone can participate. Download the pdf at intermarque.org We will also be purchasing some additional banners to help direct vehicles into the event, hoping that this will alleviate some confusion on where to enter. Posters are available at Saturday Breakfasts and we urge you to attend breakfast, pick some up and see if you can put them up at local business or two so that the word gets out about the show. Besides that the breakfast is good and reasonable, we 25th Annual Spring Kick-Off: 2017 spend a lot of time eating and talking smart anyway. The beauty of this show is that it’s not only for the guys that show the cars but is also for other people to stop by and see the show and it gives car owners the ability to talk cars with ORDERArriving A 25TH ANNIV. SPRING KICK-OFF those who just come and stop by. EN MASSE since 1993! SHIRT FOR ONLY $10! Come, join us, have fun in a great setting, stores open, 100% COTTON restaurants open, craft fair in conjunction with the show. DARK BLUE W/ WHITE INK • S–XXL Want to help spread the word? There is a flyer in this SIMPLY EMAIL YOUR SIZE AND QUANTITY TO [email protected] and we’ll add issue. Feel free to print it out and post it around! Or come it to the order. These will be available for to our planning meeting at Elsie’s on April 1 (no foolin’) at pickup/payment at the May 13 event. 9am and pick up some hard copies. PDF is available for Sorry, but no shipping on this offer. download at InterMarque.org Shirt 1 I nterMarque Monthly, April 2017 PAGE 4 Arizona Auction Recap PHOTOS AND ARTICLE PROVIDED BY: Dave Tobin ABOVE: Barrett Jackson in all its ‘Make America Great Again’ glory… you can just see a yellow Ferrari on the far right of the photo. I always look forward to auction week in Scottsdale, That’s the ‘stage’ where the cars roll over the block. There are some years when I’ve gone to where each January the Arizona desert becomes the this auction and never actually set foot in this center of the collector car world, where a couple of room where they actually sell the cars. There is enough outside to keep you busy. It’s wall- thousand cars sell for a few hundred million dollars. It to-wall people inside; it’s big and loud… not unlike a lot of the cars they sell. has always seemed like a much better place to sell a car than to buy a car, but you better have something really, really special if you expect to get big money. With the addition of ‘Worldwide Auctions’ event there were seven different auction companies this year, competing for everyone’s consignments and buying dollars: Barrett-Jackson, Russo and Steele, Silver Auctions, Gooding and Co., RM / Sotheby’s, Worldwide, and Bonhams. I’ve never attended the Silver auction and I didn’t make it to Worldwide, but I did make it to the others for both auction previews and on auction days. General overview of the Gooding and Co. auction preview. I make the trip each January with a friend I met in the local Mercedes- Benz club about eight years ago, David Steingas. David and his brothers bought their elderly mother a house in Phoenix a few years ago, where she can go to get away from the Minnesota winters. So when we go out for auction week we stay at her place. We are both huge car guys, but looking at cars, day after day, non-stop car stuff, for a whole week, even we get our fill by the time it’s time to come back home. What’s so fun about the whole thing is the sheer variety. You can find almost anything you can imagine, foreign or domestic, so it makes for a good ‘learning laboratory’ of vintage cars. There’s a huge variety of people, from the gazillionaires actually buying cars at RM and Gooding CONT. ON PAGE 6 >> I nterMarque Monthly, April 2017 PAGE 5 ARIZONA AUCTION RECAP CONT. FROM PAGE 5 that cost millions of dollars to the working class guy sometimes, bordering on ridiculous. It isn’t unusual to buying his only hot rod at Barrett Jackson to the old see a no reserve offering at one of those sales sell for timer bidding on the Packard… just like the one he half the low estimate. In those cases… think about the remembers driving to prom, all those years ago (there consignor. aren’t many of those guys left!).