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- Classic cars roll through Greenfield Village - Macomb Daily
- Students prepare for Sunday car show, careers - News Tribune
- From all walks of life, hundreds honor Johnny Sotelo's legacy - Riverside Press Enterprise
- Nicole Brodeur | Memories ride in these cars - Seattle Times
- Digital Version of IMS Goes Online - Inside Indiana Business
| Classic cars roll through Greenfield Village - Macomb Daily Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:08 AM PDT Classic cars from the 1890s to 1932 roll into Greenfield Village today and Sunday for the 59th annual Old Car Festival. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Dearborn location on Village Road off Oakwood Boulevard. Entry to the Old Car Festival is free with Greenfield Village admission or membership to The Henry Ford; admission is $22 adults, $21 seniors (62 and up) and $16 youth (5-12), and free for younger than 5 and members.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Students prepare for Sunday car show, careers - News Tribune Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:01 AM PDT |
| From all walks of life, hundreds honor Johnny Sotelo's legacy - Riverside Press Enterprise Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:33 PM PDT The funeral procession honoring John "Johnny" Sotelo began in downtown Riverside as an assortment of everyday vehicles along with a classic red convertible and a flatbed tow truck flying the flags of America and the U.S. Navy. They proceeded east on 14th Street late Friday morning, over the freeway underpass Sotelo helped to get built during his decade of service as the city's first Latino councilman. Soon the cars were joined by about a dozen more tow trucks, whose drivers remember Sotelo's many years operating a towing business in the city's Eastside neighborhood. Finally, near the community center at Bordwell Park, which Sotelo is credited with bringing to the neighborhood, about 30 more classic cars fell into line, a testament to the automotive passion many remember him for. A lifelong Riverside resident of Mexican heritage, Sotelo was 84 when he died Aug. 26. As a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, he was buried Friday at Riverside National Cemetery. Before the burial, several hundred of Sotelo's friends and relatives gathered at St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church to hear a Mass and remember him. A diverse collection of residents filled almost every pew, a small girl napping on her mother's shoulder here, a fully tattooed arm resting on the seatback there. "John would always be open to speaking to any person that ever wanted to speak to him," friend Nick Tavaglione remembered during the service. "John was a straight guy. John Sotelo will never be forgotten in this town for what he did for his ward and for the people of his nationality." Sotelo was respected for breaking down barriers for Latinos in Riverside and encouraging all minorities to get involved in civic affairs. But what family and friends recalled as they said goodbye to him Friday was more personal. "He cared for people," longtime friend Zeke Hernandez, 85, of Grand Terrace, said outside the church. Jonathan Sotelo, 23, said his father told him about how his uncle Johnny, being of Mexican descent, "was the first in a lot of things," but what Jonathan himself recalled was a caring and generous uncle. "You never saw a bad side of Johnny," he said. Christina Duran, 54, said Sotelo will be remembered for "his love of people, his passion." That passion was evident in the photos that covered a display board in the church lobby -- a black and white shot of a young Johnny in a tuxedo, his shiny dark hair combed back from his forehead in a wave; an older Johnny perched on a large motorcycle; the family man, giving two of his 14 grandchildren a ride on his back; the gray-haired man of recent years, stooped from his battle with polio 40 years ago, standing by an orange tree above the handwritten caption reading, "Me, pick oranges? No way Jose!" Mary Jo Carlos, 58, who went to school with Sotelo's children and knew him most of her life, said if someone called him for help, even in the middle of the night, he would always respond. "He was always available to everyone," Carlos said, adding that Sotelo was "a very just and upright man." Reach Alicia Robinson at 951-368-9461 or arobinson@PE.com  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Nicole Brodeur | Memories ride in these cars - Seattle Times Posted: 11 Sep 2009 04:45 PM PDT A moment, please, to remember the Pontiac Firebird. It was the wing-hooded vessel that contained so many stoner moments, the sounds of Billy Squier and the sweet stench of piña colada air freshener. There will never be another. Its parent company, General Motors, is shutting down the Pontiac brand this year. Same with the El Camino, the flat-bedded weekend warrior owned by the likes of Bill Clinton and Frank Sinatra (really?). It was about to come back as a G8 sport truck before General Motors ran out of money and turned its back. They join the ranks of America's orphan cars: automobiles we loved, but then lost to their own failings, the economy, or our own fickle American tastes. There are so many now that Sunday's Kirkland Concours D'Elegance, which celebrates vintage automobile, motorcycle and wooden-boat design, has created an entire category around orphan cars. LaSalle. Graham. Nash. DeSoto. They are names that, in automotive circles, are often followed with a sigh. Packard. Hudson. Tucker. Studebaker. There will even be something called a Hupmobile. "In 1900, there were more than 1,000 automotive manufacturers in the United States," said Peter Hageman, one of the founders of the Kirkland Concours, now in its seventh year. "Now, there's the Big Three, and a couple of boutique manufacturers," he said. "Big difference."
Sue Plummer Loveridge's 1951 Studebaker Commander V-8 Convertible will be at Kirkland. She brought it up from her other home in Arizona. But her car really isn't an orphan at all. Loveridge literally grew up with the car back home in Illinois. It was the Commander that brought her home from the hospital. The earliest picture Loveridge has of herself is at 6 months old — being held in front of the Commander. The car was bought for $2,857.28 from a dealership owned by her aunt. Loveridge worked at the dealership and, later, at her father's gas station, where the Commander stood by. When she was homecoming queen, Loveridge rode in the back of the Commander. When she was out with friends, she used the spotlights on either side of the hood to find beer hidden in the bushes. When Marilyn Monroe came to Bement, Ill., she almost rode in the Commander, until Loveridge's uncle reasoned that fans could get to the bombshell too easily in a convertible, and put her in a sedan instead. And when Loveridge towed the car to Arizona for the restoration, she found her father's and brother's dog tags in the glove box. Both men are long gone. "It's a lifetime of memories," she said. Memories are all we're going to have of a lot of cars, as automotive companies eliminate brands in an effort to right themselves from a 26-year sales low, and as consumers trade in their "clunkers" for those with better mileage and performance. But a simple stroll through the Kirkland Concours can show us what came before the bankruptcies and the bailouts. It could help you see cars for the beauty — and the memories — they inspire. Said Hageman: "These cars tell us what we've lost." Nicole Brodeur's column appears Tuesday and Friday. Reach her at 206-464-2334 or nbrodeur@seattletimes.com. She's made it through the year.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Digital Version of IMS Goes Online - Inside Indiana Business Posted: 11 Sep 2009 01:03 PM PDT Press Release NDIANAPOLIS, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 An exact digital version of the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway is available now to members of iRacing.coms virtual racing service on the personal computer. iRacings millimeter-accurate reproduction of The Brickyard is priced for iRacing members at $25. The track package includes the 2.5-mile, four-cornered oval that first opened for racing 100 years ago and is the venue every Memorial Day weekend for the Indianapolis 500 and since 1994 is host to the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race in July. Also included is the 2.534-mile road circuit originally built to accommodate the United States Grand Prix Formula One race and the 2.621-mile layout that each August welcomes the Red Bull Indianapolis GP round of the MotoGP motorcycle world championship. Were excited about the release of Indianapolis Motor Speedway to iRacing members, said Chris Schwartz, Indianapolis Motor Speedway vice president of marketing. This will allow IMS fans to get even closer to their favorite track, competing on a precise, virtual version of the Racing Capital of the World. This weekend iRacing has organized for its members through Sunday, Sept. 13 a 24 Heures du Fun unofficial series of races on the Speedways oval, featuring a different sort of open-wheel racer Mario Andrettis World Championship-winning 1978 Lotus 79 Formula One car. iRacers also can immediately practice their stock-car driving techniques at the challenging low-banked oval with the Chevrolet Impala SS NASCAR Sprint Cup car, and later this fall in the Dallara I 09 IndyCar. Now fans will have an opportunity to really feel what its like to drive an Indy car at over 200 mph at the Speedway, said IndyCar Series regular Justin Wilson, who recently tried out an early version of the Dallara on a late pre-release version of the track. Wilson, winner this summer of the Watkins Glen round of the 2009 IndyCar Series, practices and races regularly on the iRacing service. The experience of lapping in the Dallara at better than 220 mph at IMS really got Wilsons attention. The perspective is exactly the same, the sense of driving down that long tunnel into Turn 1, he said. When you make a small mistake get down too close to the apron in Turns 3 and 4 and feel the bumps, turn-in too late or too early you feel yourself tensing up just as you do in the real car; that edgy sense of: Am I gonna make it? I think I am, no Im not, yes I am The next of iRacings four annual 12-week seasons, which begins in November, will include a full virtual IndyCar Series, including an event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In May 2010, iRacing will organize a virtual Indy 500 race on the Memorial Day weekend, with qualifying taking place on the same weekends as Indy 500 qualifying occurs in the real-world. Dave Kaemmer, CEO and co-owner of iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations, noted that the release of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the upcoming completion of the Dallara IndyCar and Firestone Indy Lights car represented the fulfillment of a dream he first had 20 years ago when his first motorsports video game, Indy 500, went on sale. Looking at Indy 500 now is kind of a shock, Kaemmer said. Everything about it seems primitive by todays standards the graphics, the sound, the physics model for the car, the lack of automotive-type controls for players. But in its day, people really loved it. And we did make it possible for players to adjust the handling of the car so that a drivers skill level came into play. How smoothly you could drive the car made a difference in how fast you could go. It was the first step of many that have brought us to the point today that drivers like Justin Wilson, who actually compete at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, recognize the authenticity of our virtual version. Real-world drivers know how much fun and how satisfying a good series of laps is at Indy. Im pleased because now were going to be able to literally put racing fans all over the world into the seat of an IndyCar, NASCAR Sprint Cup or Nationwide car or even a Grand-Am Daytona Prototype and extend that same excitement to each of them. The iRacing service is open to racers and fans of all skill levels from top-level pros to complete beginners. For more information, visit www.iracing.com. IMS tickets: Established in 1909, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has long prevailed as an icon of motorsports excellence. Beginning in 2009, the Speedway celebrates its Centennial Era, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the facility in 2009 and the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race in 2011.
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