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New Jeep museum planned for Toledo – Daniel Strohl @HemmingsClassicCar

New Jeep museum planned for Toledo – Daniel Strohl @HemmingsClassicCar

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New Jeep museum planned for Toledo

Over the last 20-plus years, one effort after another has been made to definitively secure Toledo’s spot as the spiritual home of the Jeep with a permanent museum dedicated to the four-wheel-drive-focused brand. That campaign appears now to have come to fruition with the announcement of a museum set to open in the next few years.

According to the announcement, made Tuesday by the members of a yet-to-be-named non-profit working group dedicated to building the museum, the 56,000-square-foot Jeep Experience is slated to open sometime in 2022, will take inspiration from the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green and the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, and has the blessing of FCA.

“We look forward to working with Toledo community leaders to bring this interactive Jeep experience to life,” FCA officials said in a press release. “There are no more passionate fans of an automotive brand than Jeep, so we are thrilled by this initiative to honor the heritage of such an iconic brand, and celebrate the women and men who have dedicated their lives to building these vehicles for nearly 80 years.”

A location for the Jeep Experience has yet to be announced. The working group is expected to release more details after the new year.

The Jeep Experience appears to be the first in a long line of proposed Toledo-area Jeep museums to get any sort of support from an owner of the Jeep brand. As early as 1997, Buddy Carr, a former radio station owner in the Toledo area, envisioned a Jeep museum that would’ve spotlighted the company’s labor force as well as its products. “It wouldn’t be just a bunch of Jeeps on a floor,” he said.

New Jeep museum planned for Toledo

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TEN Publishing Kills 19 Automotive Print Publications – Bad news!

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TEN Publishing Kills 19 Automotive Print Publications

Ten Publishing have decided to retire 19 mostly iconic Automotive print titles in what is really bad news for the hobby. Whilst online is the way of the future there is still room for niche titles within the hobby, so for 19 to be discontinued at once is a real blow.

Just leaving MotorTrend, Hot Rod and Four Wheeler as the only three titles that will continue to be published in print in 2020.

Here’s the full list of titles that are at the end of the road in print

  • 4-Wheel & Off-Road
  • Automobile
  • Car Craft
  • Chevy High Performance
  • Classic Trucks
  • Diesel Power
  • Hot Rod Deluxe
  • Jp
  • Lowrider
  • Mopar Muscle
  • Muscle Car Review
  • Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords
  • Mustang Monthly
  • Street Rodder
  • Super Chevy
  • Super Street
  • Truck Trend
  • Truckin’
  • Vette

There has been a couple of statements from the company:

One to Jalopnik

TEN Publishing Co. announced today that it will discontinue publishing 19 of its 22 automotive print titles by end of year. MotorTrend Group provides all of the editorial and sales support for those publications. At MotorTrend Group, we remain committed to providing our fans and advertisers quality automotive storytelling and journalism across all of our content platforms and we are doubling-down on our best-in-class digital product experiences, while maintaining our support of the three most popular, profitable and strategic brands across digital and print – MotorTrend, Hot Rod, and Four Wheeler.

Update,  Jalopnik has learned that digital coverage for the shuttered print titles will continue

Plus more info from Folio

“It was announced today that TEN Publishing will discontinue publishing 19 of its 22 automotive print titles by the end of the year,” wrote MotorTrend Group president and GM Alex Wellen in the memo. “I know this is difficult news, but I want to assure you that we remain committed to you and your pursuit to deliver quality automotive storytelling and journalism across all of our content platforms.”

MotorTrend Group, a joint venture formed in 2017 and majority owned by Discovery, Inc., comprises the digital and video businesses of the company formerly known as The Enthusiast Network, whereas TEN Publishing controls those brands’ print magazines. Under a licensing agreement, MotorTrend Group provides editorial and ad sales support to TEN, producing content for both MotorTrend Group’s digital platforms and TEN’s magazines

TEN Publishing Kills 19 Automotive Print Publications

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ArtCenter Car Classic stands alone – Howard Coby @ClassicCars.com

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It’s the car show of, by and for automotive designers

“We prepare artists and designers to share their creativity with the world” 

– ArtCenter College of Design

 

The Craig Elwood-designed ArtCenter College of Design North Campus located on the western slopes of Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco Mountains that overlook the historic Rose Bowl is a testament to design excellence with black glass-and-steel edifices that connect across a gully. 

The school was founded in 1930 and originally offered programs in advertising, publishing and industrial design. But in 1948, a automotive design program was launched, initially at the school’s downtown Los Angeles campus, and quickly became birthplace for the training of what would become the top automotive designers in the world. 

It’s the car show of, by and for automotive designers

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A motherlode of classic cars is headed to a U.S. government seizure auction – Mike Austin @Hemmings

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You ever watch one of the big auctions on TV and just think of all the stuff you’d buy if you had the money? Well, that’s apparently what Jeff and Paulette Carpoff did. Only it turns out that maybe it wasn’t their money to spend. The Carpoffs are accused of running a Ponzi scheme with their company DC Solar, to the tune of over 800 million dollars. Their home and office were raided by the FBI last December, which lead to DC Solar filing for bankruptcy in February. The closure of Chip Ganassi Racing’s Xfinity Series effort was only one of the pieces of collateral damage.

According to the VIN, this #19 of 33 surviving Hemi GTX hardtops, sold for $126,500 at Barrett-Jackson’s 2015 Scottsdale auction.

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Ford Dearborn Campus Redesign Should Consider Culture – Shane McGlaun @FordAuthority

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Ford Dearborn Campus Redesign Should Consider Culture

An architect and scientist called Felix Kabo learned last month along with the rest of us that Ford was planning a massive redesign of its Ford Dearborn campus. Ford has a major overhaul on the table that will create an “inviting, walkable community entrance” to the new campus. Kabo is an architect and a scientist for the University of Michigan, and he says there is more than design that needs to be considered.

Ford Dearborn Campus Redesign Should Consider Culture

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The Coker Tire Challenge 2019 is like a mini version of The Great Race – Jim O’Clair @Hemmings

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The Coker Tire Challenge 2019

For anyone interested in speed, time, distance rally racing but aren’t quite ready for the  annual 10-day, 2,000-plus-mile Great Race, we suggest starting in one of the smaller regional rallies offered throughout the year. One such event is the Coker Tire Challenge, taking place a few days from now from September 19th-22nd. It’s a 3-day mini version of the Great Race, with similar rules and team directions, however, race teams start and finish each day back at Coker Tire world headquarters in Chattanooga on each of the three nights of the event. The Coker Tire Challenge runs through the beautiful Southeast Tennessee countryside with a few visits into northern Georgia and Alabama along the way. Scoring is identical to Great Race rules, with older cars receiving an adjustment factor to their scores based on the age of the vehicle (the older it is, the bigger the adjustment). For those unfamiliar with the format, two-person teams attempt to complete a route as close to a target time as possible, with no electronic aids to calculate speed and acceleration times. As always in this type of racing, the team with the closest score to perfect time wins.

The Coker Tire Challenge 2019

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Classic Chevrolets burn to the ground on an HBO film set – Jonathon Ramsey @Autoblog

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Classic Chevrolets burn to the ground on an HBO film set

As car enthusiasts, we feel a special kind of horror watching other enthusiasts’ cars burn to the ground. That’s what happened last week to about a dozen 1990-model Chevrolets assembled for an HBO miniseries. The cable channel has adapted Wally Lamb’s book This Much I Know is True, part of which takes place in 1990. The production built a period-correct Chevrolet/Pontiac/Oldsmobile/Isuzu dealership in Elmersville, New York with the cars, trucks, and paperwork you’d have found at the time. After a three-alarm fire caught around 12:45 a.m. Thursday morning, nothing was left of the dealership and cars but burnt metal and wood, ashes, and smoke

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Nevada Train Derailment Claims Dozens of Jeep Gladiators, GM Trucks – Ed Tahaney @MotorTrend

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Here’s a literal trainwreck for truck and off-roader fans: A train carrying a load of brand-new Jeeps, Chevys, and GMCs derailed near Caliente, Nevada, on July 10. The rural town is about 30 miles west of the Utah border. Fortunately, no one was hurt on the Union Pacific train, but dozens of factory-fresh vehicles were destroyed. Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee told local reporters it was the most spectacular mess he’s ever seen. The majority of the damaged vehicles were new Jeep Wranglers and Gladiators; a number of Chevrolet Silverados and GMC Sierras were also involved.

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Barn Find Bonanza: This Auction Includes Some 200 Collector Cars – Alex Leanse @MotorTrend

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Think about your ideal car collection—how many vehicles could you reasonably live with? It’s probably fewer than this automotive armada of some 200 collector cars in rural Minnesota. Blessed with plentiful acreage and productive crops, a farmer by the name of James Graham amassed a huge number of cars and trucks over his lifetime. Graham has passed on to the great highway in the sky, and now VanDerBrink Auctions is taking on the task of liquidating his estate. Could your dream car be one of the classics in this epic barn find?

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