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Traveling can be fun and even more exciting with proper preparation for your social or official trip. There are therefore some very important tips you must keep in mind to manage and realize a comfortable trip. These tips are so important that some can never be overlooked in the preparation of any form of travel.
Your health is the utmost important factor to consider whenever you are traveling away from your home or place of work. You need to inform your doctor and insurance provider of your planned trip in order to receive necessary vaccinations and renew prescriptions as you find out if your insurance policy applies in your destination's hospitals in case of emergencies.
Upon getting that clean bill of health, the next most important tip for your travel arrangements is your safety. You need to sign your passport and fill in the emergency information. Be sure to make copies of your passport and leave one with a trusted person as you store another copy electronically. This is an important tip to keep in mind to save you from being stranded in case you lose your passport. Once you have your passport and Visa ready, you should register with your embassy to make it easier for your country to contact and rescue you if the country of your visit is faced with a security problem.
Get as much information as you can about the locations you intend to visit on your travel. You can easily get online guidebooks that include maps and names of major locations including the available modes of transport from between your locations of visit. You can also buy tickets in advance from the internet and even access discounts and more offers normally available from different marketing companies advertising the locations. Top up your research on the location with information on the local cuisine just to understand what you can expect and know if you are catered for in case you require special diets.
If you are planning to travel to a destination that uses different currency from your nation's legal tender, you need to look up the conversion rates. This will prepare you upfront for any surprises and give you a clearer picture of your expenditure plan. You also need to confirm that your credit card will work in the country you plan to visit and be sure to inform your bank of your intended travel. Banks normally turn off your card for security reasons whenever they notice transactions made out of your resident location hence the importance of informing them. Keep in mind that you will be better off converting your money from a bank or ATM in the country of your travel to avoid being ripped off by the airport or local conversion centers.
Pack your adapters and inform yourself of the different voltage to ensure you are able to use your electronic gadgets without power issues to worry about. Be sure to activate your phone's global capabilities and utilize Voice over Internet Protocols (VoIP) to keep your communication as affordable and reliable as possible. There are dozens of applications available with the different phone operating systems and they will save you a lot of money compared to communicating on roaming charges. For you to utilize these apps effectively you will need to find out the different data service providers in your area of travel.
The luggage you pack for your travel will be determined by the outcomes of your research about the destination regarding the weather. You will also factor in the purpose of your visit and choose the right clothes to carry for the whole period you will be away. Your travel could also involve a long term stay in the destination of travel and carrying too much luggage may be unnecessary in that case.
Find the best luggage sets for your luggage and pack all the fragile items in a secure carrier. It is also very important to find out the maximum weight allowed by the specific airline you intend to use for your travel. If you have any extra luggage, confirm the exact weight to budget early for the extra expenses.
With these very important tips kept in mind, you will find your trip exciting and less frustrating even when you meet some obstacles on the way.
So go ahead and have a safe and very memorable travel!


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Franky is an absolute sweetheart! She loves to give kisses and meet new people, though she is a bit shy at first! She is gentle with kids, and loves to make new puppy friends, though she plays rough, boxer style so some little dogs don't like her. She loves hikes, playing fetch, rolling in the grass, going for runs, and peanut butter. She is also a great cuddler! She's in need of someone to give her love and attention while I am at work during the day.


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New Tennessee law caps personal injury pain and suffering damages
By Kinnard, Clayton & Beveridge
When a party is injured and files a personal injury claim, he or she doesn't think that there will be a cap on how much he or she can recover for pain and suffering. Governor Bill Haslam, however, has recently signed into law a bill that caps noneconomic damages. He believes this will improve Tennessee's business environment, reports the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
The bill, which has been an "initiative" of Haslam's, capped pain and suffering damages to $750,000. In more serious personal injury cases, including those that result in amputation of a limb, a parent or child's death, extreme burns, or paralysis from spinal cord injuries, plaintiffs can collect up to $1 million in noneconomic damages.
Haslam is convinced that this law will be beneficial for Tennessee's economy by giving businesses a better idea of how much their actions might cost in a personal injury suit. Haslam has also said that this law respects and protects victims, although a representative of the Tennessee Citizen Action consumer advocacy group is skeptical. The representative believes there hasn't been a proper accounting of how this will negatively affect private citizens.
The personal injury cap arouse as part of Haslam's new budget. The legislature and Haslam approved a budget of $30.8 billion. The spending plan for the 2011-2012 fiscal year is 3.9 percent under the previous year's plan at $1.23 billion. Other budget updates include eliminating 1,320 government jobs, a fund from which cities and counties can draw after natural disasters, and $34.6 million for the expansion of a chemical plant in Bradley County.
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So, some of my longtime fans already know this, but Gena Showalter (fabulous YA and paranormal romance author) and I are longtime friends. We've gotten into major trouble together - put our bizarre imaginations together and created a couple anthologies - and just generally had lots of fun. *Inside note to Gena's fans: she's a TERRIBLE dancer. Seriously.* Anyway, Gena has a new YA book releasing and I'm part of the scavenger hunt/blog tour she's having in celebration of TWISTED. Yes, there are prizes involved! Oh boy! You'll find everything you need below (and the puzzle piece is the dagger posted above). Have fun and yea for Gena!
How do you define the "Best Night Ever?" Does going on a mini shopping spree for a chic new outfit, dinner out with your bestie and seeing your favorite music act live in concert sound like it would do the trick? If so, read on!
A Second Prize winner will receive an autographed set of Gena's Intertwined series, including INTERTWINED, UNRAVELED and TWISTED.
HOW TO PLAY: Visit www.knightagency.net/twistedtour.php and check the tour schedule. Visit the sites of each author on their assigned tour date and locate the concert ticket image.
At the end of the tour, fill out the form on the aforementioned TWISTED Tour contest webpage by matching the images you found to the authors' websites that they were located on before Sunday, September 4th at 11:59pm ET. The winners will be randomly drawn and notified on or around September 9th, 2011.
Good Luck & ROCK ON!
The 411 on TWISTED: His vampire girlfriend might have brought him back to life, but he's never felt more out of control. There's a darkness within him, something taking over…changing him. Worse, because he was meant to die, death now stalks him at every turn. Any day could be his last.


Chicago, IL -February 12, 2019 - Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN , Microsoft Corp. MSFT , Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY , Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA and Baidu, Inc. BIDU .
By 2030-end, AI is estimated to add $15.7 trillion to global GDP. A number of U.S. companies are riding the AI wave, including the likes of Amazon.com, Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has over and over again pointed out the use of machine learning in Amazon-like product search rankings; demand forecasting, fraud protection and warehouse fulfilment. Microsoft, in the meantime, is looking to make AI more accessible through its Azure cloud services. After all, AI in the cloud is anticipated to increase at an annualized rate of 50% through 2025.
If we shift our focus from American behemoths, China is aiming to be the premier country for AI research and services, at least by 2030. A number of companies in China are already on par with their AI rivals in the United States, if not above them.
Here's why investors should pay attention to China's AI boom and watch out for new AI players like Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
One of the primary elements of AI is, undoubtedly, data. Needless to say, without data, the best of software and algorithms are of no use. While in the United States, Google dominates this space by collecting a wide array of user information through free services, in China, Tencent has a leading position in this area.
Lest we forget, Tencent's biggest service is WeChat app, which currently boasts 1 billion active users, mostly from China. The social media app helps users pay bills, provide ride-sharing services, play video games and share social media updates, to name a few.
Tencent, by the way, has launched an AI-based platform, Miying back, which helps healthcare institutions diagnose cancer. At the same time, the platform helps hospitals and nursing homes analyze and manage health records. With more than 38,000 medical institutes, especially in China, using WeChat, Tencent is using data to transform and uplift the medical industry in the country.
Tencent's sales climbed almost 24% to RMB 80.6 billion ($11.95 billion) in the most recent quarter, while earnings per share jumped 29% to 2.44 yuan. The company's shares have popped 12.1% so far this year, higher than the Internet - Services industry's gain of 10.5%.
The Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) company's expected earnings growth rate for the current year is 11.4%, higher than the industry's projected gain of 2.4%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current fiscal-year earnings also rose 1.7% in the past 60 days.
Investors should keep in mind that Alibaba is a dominant tech player in the Chinese market. But the e-commerce company is increasingly becoming a major player in the AI space as well. And with Chinese government's continuous initiative to make AI a key part of its future, expect Alibaba's AI desires to grow along with it.
Recently, Alibaba announced that it's developing AI chips which will be available soon. The chip will be used by autonomous vehicles. To top it, Alibaba's AI-powered robots boost the hospitality industry. The company has also established an AI customer service agent for its logistics company, Cainiao. Thus, Alibaba has a slew of AI pursuits, which should gain traction from China's growing AI market.
In the most recent quarter, Alibaba's revenues rose 41% from the year-ago quarter to RMB 117.8 billion ($17.4 billion), while sales from the company's e-commerce business went up 40% to RMB 102.84 billion ($15.25 billion). Nonetheless, these encouraging quarterly numbers, released at the end of January, have helped push the company's stock price up 22.1% on a year-to-date basis, higher than the Internet - Commerce industry's gain of 11.8%.
The Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company's expected earnings growth rate for the current and next quarters are a solid 17.6% and 18.9%, respectively. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current-year earnings, by the way, increased 3.4% in the past 60 days.
Like any kind of investment, China stocks do come with their own risks. There is a lot of trade-related issues between the United States and China, which may spook investors. And maybe that's one of the reasons why Baidu, Inc., arguably, the biggest company driving the China AI boom, currently has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell).
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Read more about China's claims of "massive evidence" of anti-trust violation from international DRAM manufacturers.
Placing just fines is really bad news. We will pick up the cost of these fines so it will not affect any of these companies. Punishments for this sort of market manipulation should be far harsher and affect the business a lot more. Fines don't work for companies of this size and governments need to think of different ways to deter this sort of behaviour.
Force a stock price penalty on them. That hurts them! could wipe billions in value over a multi million fine which they always have stored in a pool for moments like this.
Just three companies should not have control of 90% of the market. And here's exactly why. They need to be broken apart into several companies. And someone should go to jail.
I don't question that there was price fixing, but China also has conflict of interest here - they want Yangtze Memory Technologies to succeed which is backed by the state.
The Chinese are up in arms about dodgy business practices? Hahahaha, how about start off with an enforceable copyright mechanism first guys and then we might listen.
That said they're probably right.


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The Dibblee Brothers
In the 1860s and 1870s, W. W. Hollister in cooperation with a number of partners built one of the largest and most successful sheep ranching operations in California. Albert and Thomas Bloodgood Dibblee ultimately took over the day-to-day operations of this ranching empire, until the partnership was dissolved in the early 1880s.
Thomas Bloodgood Dibblee
Flyer Dibblee was descended from a family which had arrived in Massachusetts from England in 1636. He became a judge in upper New York state and eventually settled in New York City. Here he raised his family of nine including sons Albert, Thomas, and Henry, all of whom would ultimately settle in California. Albert left school at 16 and, through his position at the State Bank of New York, developed a sharp business sense. After an accidental injury in 1848 he was advised to take a sea voyage. He decided to head for California to engage in the lucrative mercantile trade in a booming San Francisco. A frugal man, for years Albert lived in a small room above his office, as he slowly made his fortune. He also got involved in the city's volatile politics, serving on the executive committee of the Vigilance Committee in 1856.
In 1858, Dibblee and a partner purchased the 15,600-acre Santa Anita Ranch in Los Angeles County and convinced his brother Thomas to come out to look after the ranch.
Born in 1823, Thomas grew up in New York City. He earned two degrees from Columbia and went to work in the law office of Hamilton Fish, later governor of and senator from New York and then Secretary of State under Ulysses S. Grant. Dibblee obtained a law degree and practiced law until coming to California.
Thomas directed the successful sheep operation at Santa Anita, while Albert marketed the wool. Albert also became president of the Giant Powder Company, which manufactured dynamite. As a wool merchant, Albert eventually came in contact with Hollister, who by now was running a successful operation on his San Benito County ranch. In 1860, the partnership was cemented when Thomas and Hollister met at a sheep auction in Santa Barbara County.
The partnership now entered a period of both struggle and opportunity. The drought of the mid-1860s, virtually destroyed the cattle industry and put tremendous pressure on sheep ranchers. With prices depressed, the partners were able to buy up enormous tracts of land, concentrating their efforts in Santa Barbara County. By the late 1860s, they owned almost 140,000 acres in the county. As Hollister began to pay more attention to other interests, Albert oversaw the partnership's finances from San Francisco while Thomas was operations manager and attorney.
By the late 1870s, Hollister was having debt problems and his brush with death when he accidentally ingested poison caused the Dibblees to re-think their position. The final 1881 settlement had the Dibblees taking Rancho San Julian with Hollister taking five smaller ranches. Hollister's wife, Annie, reportedly said that the Dibblees had gotten the pie while they had been left with the crust. Henry, the youngest Dibblee brother, managed San Julian from 1875 until his death in 1910.
Albert remained in northern California until his death in 1895. Thomas married into the de la Guerra family and moved into a palatial home on the Mesa in the mid- 1880s. He too died in 1895. Rancho San Julián remains a working ranch, still in the hands of descendants of the Dibblee family.
This article originally appeared in the Santa Barbara Independent.
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George Edward Hollingworth
Information & photos provided by George and his Family. Edited by Leona Thomas.
George Edward Hollingworth was born on 11 May 1925, the seventh child of a Rochdale farming family. George was the first of 4 brothers to go to war, the rest were exempted from service having agricultural worker status.
At 18 George joined the Royal Navy on 10 November 1943. After 10 weeks training at HMS Raleigh, Torpoint, Cornwall he was transferred to duties on defensively equipped Merchant ships.
After being involved in the repatriation of 2300 women and children from Britain back to Gibraltar, in May 1944 George was posted to the merchant ship Luculus. It had just returned from the Russian convoys JW59 and RA59A.
George recalls: "It was an oil tanker so had a role refueling Naval ships (some of the escort vessels could only do 72 hours before they needed to be refueled). It had 4 Royal Navy guns crews put on and 3 Maritime gunners (Army). It took a load of oil to Gosforth on the south coast, dragging a barrage balloon behind it in order to deal with doodle bugs. In Salford docks it was refitted for Arctic conditions. Cork linings were put in cabins and asbestos rope lagging was placed round pipe lines for insulation purposes."
"From Salford, Luculus went up Clyde loaded up with oil and we spent time training Russian seamen on how to refuel at sea. They were based on small ships the British had handed over to Russia. We left for Loch Ewe on convoy JW62 on 29 Nov 1944 to Murmansk. We were approx 5 columns of ships and about 40 or 50 ships in total. Returning from Murmansk with another convoy, (RA62), the weather was really rough. We were excused watches for 2 days and were flooded out of our accommodation which was under the bridge on deck level.'
When returning from Murmansk with a faulty engine and in extremely rough weather Luculus was lagging behind the convoy with another ship. It was rounded on by a destroyer which, using a loudhailer system, shouted out, "Try and keep up with your column you are causing anxiety!"
From there, George served on a selection of merchant ships going to warmer places such as Calcutta and Vishakhapatnam in India, Rangoon in Burma, Malaya, Colombo and Trincomalee in Sri Lanka then Bombay.
The end of the war came when George was between Ceylon and Malaya on their way to reoccupy Singapore. He was eventually released to resume his farming duties and demobbed on 12 May 1946.
Postscript from George's daughter: "Just a few months ago George was watching a documentary about the Arctic Convoys and it showed the ships company of HMS Bluebell sunk with 80 crew dead and only one survivor. At 87 Dad was sitting at home and recognized 3 or 4 of the lads that had died. They had been with Dad on joining up at HMS Raleigh and are present on the group photograph. A reminder that after having a full and happy life many of the men involved in these wartime adventures weren't so lucky."


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Category Archives: True Story of the 3LP
General Thoughts, Mariette in Ecstasy, Posts by Dorothy, Ron Hansen, True Story of the 3LP
Cheers for Mariette
March 5, 2009 Lifeline
Let me just give a shout out right now to the Lifeline house and box office team because ALL the bosses were out of town this past weekend and we did not get a single text. As per usual, Susan, Tonia and Deirdre had it all under control. I even got Deirdre roped into the starching and ironing of the gazillion wimples, veils and other items/words I don't know that comprise nun habits. LOTS of starching and ironing for this show. Brani says they must look "crisp." No such thing as a rumpled nun.
Mariette in Ecstasy opened last week to rave reviews and we are all doing happy dances over here. Chris Jones called Christina one of America's best adapters of novels into drama. Does that rock? I am repeating that tidbit here because it embarrassed Christina so much the first time. Everyone's talking about Elise's brilliant staging and the stunning technical elements (go Alan, Brani, Sarah, Tim and R&D!). And seriously, let's face it, the acting is sublime. Hedy says Brenda is "transfixing" and "charismatic" and that everyone else is played with "exquisite individuality." So totally true.
We are super-excited because author Ron Hansen will be coming to Lifeline March 14th and doing a book-signing between the 4pm and 8pm shows and a talkback after the latter. The evening show is already sold out because his fans are banging down the door. If you want to meet Ron, the 4pm still has tickets left and you'll still get to intersect with him.
Speaking of meeting Ron: Elise, Christina and the cast got to meet him much earlier. Ron was in Chicago for a conference during our first preview weekend and he terrified the Lifeline team by turning up here with friends to see the show. As non-theater-folk, I don't know that they understood the wide eyed horror that met their arrival at the box office, nor why the audience was being asked to fill out comment cards. But happily the show was already in great shape, he and his friends seemed to totally enjoy it and he'll get to see the final product soon!
In other Lifeline news, Rob and Elise are in Charlotte, NC this weekend seeing The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! at the Children's Theatre of Charlotte. Rob's adaptation of the book by Jon Scieszka was a mongo hit at Lifeline and is now being produced all around the country. We're very excited for him!


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Cher Thursday
Posted on November 11, 2010 by Sinclair Sexsmith
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So, sometimes I get random things offered to me by promotional companies. Most of the time I just hit delete and whatever. But this time … well … I thought that a certain buddy of mine would be oh so appreciative of something like this in their DVD collection, so I made a little request, started some rumors, and waited.
And then …
The pleasure is mine, certainly.
Cher: The Film Collection: Timed to the release of Burlesque, this 6-film collection includes: Good Times, Chastity, Silkwood, Moonstruck, Mermaids, and Tea with Mussolini. Arrives on DVD November 2, 2010.
CHER: THE FILM COLLECTION FAST FACTS:
Street Date: November 2, 2010
Pricing: $49.98 (Canada: $59.98)
Rating: Good Times / NR
Chastity / R
Silkwood / R
Moonstruck / PG
Mermaids / PG-13
Tea With Mussolini / PG
Language: Dubbed: English & French / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen / Widescreen
Total Run Time: 634 minutes
CHER: THE FILM COLLECTION SYNOPSES …
Good Times (1967) Run Time: 91 minutes
In their one and only movie together, singing duo Sonny and Cher star in this "happy" (The Hollywood Reporter), "affectionate" (Los Angeles Times) and "loveably surreal" (American Cinematheque) film about – who else? –Sonny and Cher! An "impressive directorial debut" (The Hollywood Reporter) from Oscar® winner* William Friedkin, with a hilarious script by Tony Barrett, Good Times is good, great and downright groovy! Husband-and-wife singers Sonny and Cher couldn't be hotter – they even have an offer to star in a movie! Trouble is, Cher doesn't want to do it, and the script stinks. Now Sonny has ten days to write a new script. He has great ideas but he still has to convince his dynamite babe to sing the same tune!
*1971: Director, The French Connection
Chastity (1969) Run Time: 83 minutes
Cher "makes an impressive debut" (Motion Picture Herald) as a reckless rebel who's taking the fast lane on the road to nowhere! Written and produced by Sonny Bono, Chastity is a gritty, gutsy ride through a powerful, emotional landscape filled with love, adventure, tragedy and truth. Desperate to escape her dark past, wild child Chastity (Cher) hits the streets on a quest for freedom only to find herself launched on an electrifying odyssey of self-discovery. But as she thumbs her way cross-country and ends up at a seedy brothel in Mexico with fewer and fewer option she finally begins to see that the only safe place to run is into the arms of the one man who truly loves her.
Silkwood (1983) Run Time: 131 minutes
Meryl Streep is "stunning" (The New York Times) in this shocking true story about one woman's struggle against a huge corporation. Nominated for five Academy Awards®, including Best Actress (Streep) and Best Supporting Actress (Cher), this daring, provocative and critically acclaimed drama just "shouldn't be missed" (Newsweek)! Karen Silkwood (Streep) lives a free-spirited existence with two friends (Kurt Russell and Cher) who work with her at an Oklahoma nuclear facility. It's only when she discovers she's been exposed to radiation that Karen's conscience awakens, and soon she is digging for evidence of wrongdoing at her company. But her sudden zeal for safer working conditions may come at a high price as she alienates friends and possibly even puts her own life in peril.
Moonstruck (1987) Run Time: 102 minutes
Fall under the delightful spell of Moonstruck, the mesmerizing romantic comedy from director Norman Jewison (Fiddler on the Roof) and Oscar® winner* John Patrick Shanley. Cher, in her Oscar®-winning** performance, along with Nicolas Cage and Olympia Dukakis excel in this explosively funny tale, which also features flawless performances by Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia and Frasier's John Mahoney. Cher is "devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful" (Pauline Kael) as Loretta, an unlucky in love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a just weeks away, she meets and falls hopelessly in love with the groom's younger brother (Cage). Her dilemma and her equally passionate and hilariously eccentric family make for an unforgettable film you'll find "beguiling" (Time), "enchanting" (Newsweek) and "irresistible" ("Today Show").
*1987: Best Original Screenplay, Moonstruck
**1987: Best Actress, Moonstruck
Mermaids (1990) Run Time: 110 minutes
Cher is "magical [and] electric" (The Hollywood Reporter), Winona Ryder "enchanting and funny" (The New York Times) and Christina Ricci "adorable and engaging" (Variety) in this hilarious and heartwarming portrait of a 1960s single-parent family trying to adjust to each other's growing independence. Charlotte (Ryder) is an adolescent girl torn between her blossoming passions for a handsome caretaker (Michael Schoeffling)… and her desire to be a nun (a tough calling for a girl who's Jewish). Complicating her already precarious teen angst is a little sister (Ricci), a determined would-be swimmer she affectionately calls fishhead, and their mother (Cher), a non-traditional, sexy, flamboyant woman who relocates them to a new town every time she causes a hint of scandal, which is often. But even as their personal styles clash, these three incredibly different individuals begin to see that nothing not even a life-threatening tragedy can tear apart the bonds of family.
Tea With Mussolini (1999) Run Time: 117 minutes
Florence, Italy, on the brink of WWII: it was a time of social unrest and, of course… afternoon tea. Join Cher and an incredible cast of leading ladies as they host this "radiant, beautiful film" (Gene Shalit, "Today Show") that is "worth savoring" (Mademoiselle). Pre-war Florence is the place to be for any proper British woman who relishes culture and the arts. These ladies have everything they could ever want or need including a promise from dictator Mussolini himself that not even the imminent world war will impose upon their lifestyle. But when it appears that his word is not kept, and these expatriates who chose to stay in Italy instead of seeking refuge in their own country are in trouble, it takes a young outcast boy and a brazen American woman (Cher) to keep them in the high life and out of harm's way.
cherDVDsin the fine tradition of cher thursday ...it's probably going to be really dumb but I'm kind of excited to see burlesquejust for jesse jamesreviewsshut the cher upwhat are friends for?
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Serena Dante says:
Those sound like some very interesting movies!
lady brett says:
oh! happy cherday, jesse james!


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ARLnow.com September 23, 2021 at 8:00am
Police Make Numerous DUI Arrests — From the Arlington County Police Department: "ACPD Officers are committed to making our roadways safer by identifying, stopping, and apprehending impaired drivers. Last week (September 12 – 18), officers made 16 arrests for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). Motorists are reminded that it is never okay to drink and drive." [Twitter]
ACPD Warning of Tainted Cocaine — "Please take steps to protect yourself and others who may be in possession of cocaine purchased in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The nasal spray Narcan (also known as Naloxone) can save the life of someone who is overdosing from substances containing opioids, if given in time, and test strips can detect dangerous fentanyl-laced drugs before they are used." [Arlington County]
Man Stabbed Near Columbia Pike — " The investigation revealed that at approximately 1:15 a.m., the victim was walking in the area when he was pushed from behind by the unknown suspect and fell to the ground. The suspect then brandished a knife and demanded money from the victim before stabbing him and stealing his wallet. The suspect fled the scene on foot and the victim returned to his residence before determining he was in need of medical services." [ACPD]
Gusty Storm Yesterday Afternoon — "A 39 mph wind gust was recorded at National Airport with the storm that passed through Arlington earlier this afternoon, per the National Weather Service." [Twitter]
Power Outages After Wednesday's Storm — "More than 1,000 homes and businesses are currently without power in Arlington. The largest outage is affecting the area around Kenmore Middle School." [Twitter]
School Bond Funds New 'Heights' Entrance — "A new entrance to the Shriver Program, which is collocated with H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program in Rosslyn, is needed to make it easier for those with disabilities to access the building and the parking lot… More funds are need to permit 'the completion of a design that we had intended in the first place – complete it the right way,' Kanninen said. The $11.39 million project accounts for nearly half the proposed $23 million school bond that goes to voters on Nov. 2." [Sun Gazette]
Klobuchar to Canvass in Arlington Sunday — "Join us for a Weekend of Action canvass in Arlington with Senator Amy Klobuchar & Governor Terry McAuliffe! We'll be talking with our neighbors about the issues that are important to them — and why Terry McAuliffe, Hala Ayala, Mark Herring, and Alfonso Lopez are the right people to move Virginia forward in 2021." [Mobilize]
Update to Metro Story — A report from the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission suggests that the person who fell from a train while walking between railcars near the Clarendon station was the son of a WMATA employee. He was able to continue on to Tysons but suffered significant injuries, was bleeding heavily and was later hospitalized. [ARLnow]
ARLnow.com August 18, 2021 at 7:30am
Arlington's Biggest House Numbers? — "In the early days of the pandemic, I went on a quixotic quest to walk every one of the 1,114 blocks in my Arlington, Virginia, ZIP code, cataloging the styles of the address numbers on every house along the way… I have kept an eye on the house numbers in Arlington ever since, and imagine my joy this spring when suddenly, on a street I biked down every week, a new set of enormous house numbers appeared." [Slate, Twitter]
Stepped Up DUI Patrols Begin Today — "This Labor Day, the Arlington County Police Department (ACPD) is participating in the national Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over impaired driving awareness campaign, which runs from August 18th through September 6th, 2021. This campaign aims to drastically reduce drunk driving on our nation's roadways through a two-pronged approach of education and enforcement." [ACPD]
Fallen Pentagon Police Officer Laid to Rest — "A Brooklyn-born Pentagon cop who was stabbed to death while on duty in DC was hailed as a "warrior" and a hero at his funeral Monday… 'He fought 'til the end,' his NYPD sibling, Rodney Rubert, said during funeral services at St. Barbara Roman Catholic Church in Bushwick." [New York Post]
Beyer Proposes Healthcare Provider Vax Mandate — "Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today announced the introduction of the Protecting Vulnerable Patients Act, which would require healthcare providers who see Medicare or Medicaid patients to be vaccinated following final FDA approval of a COVID vaccine." [Press Release]
Arlington Hotels Still Hurting — "Hotel-occupancy rates improved in June but, overall, the first half of the year remained a bust for the Arlington hospitality industry. The occupancy rate of 44.7 percent in June was better than the cumulative 34.4-percent rate recorded over the first six months of the year, according to new data from Smith Travel research and Arlington Economic Development. But that 34.4-percent rate was anemic even compared to the weak first six months of 2020, when it stood at 37.3 percent." [Sun Gazette]
Arlington Office Vacancy Rate Rising — "The Arlington office-vacancy rate continues to go in the wrong direction, according to new second-quarter data. The overall office-vacancy rate countywide was 19.4 percent for the quarter, according to figures reported by CoStar and Arlington Economic Development. That's up from 18.5 percent in the first quarter and 16.6 percent a year ago." [Sun Gazette]
Local Nonprofit Eyes Tysons Development — "The Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing is adding another project to its new Fairfax County pipeline, pitching a development in Tysons that could become the neighborhood's first apartment building made up entirely of committed affordable units. The nonprofit hopes to build up to 175 new apartments on about 2 acres on Spring Hill Road near the Silver Line station of the same name, converting car dealership parking lots that are part of the massive Dominion Square development site." [Washington Business Journal]
Woman Arrested After Alleged False 911 Report of Shots Fired
A Maryland woman is facing charges after police say she lied to 911 following a hit-and-run crash.
The incident happened around 2 a.m. Monday. The woman allegedly told 911 dispatchers in Arlington that she was "being chased and shot at by another vehicle." Police located the two vehicles involved along Route 50 near N. Fillmore Street, and started chasing the reported suspect vehicle.
The brief pursuit ended at Route 50 and N. George Mason Drive, with both vehicles pulled over. At that time, officers determined that the 911 caller had actually struck the other vehicle in D.C. and drove off, then was followed by the victims. No shots were fired, police said, and the woman is now facing a number of charges including DUI and misuse of 911.
More from an Arlington County Police Department crime report:
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE (Significant), 2021-07050031, Arlington Boulevard at N. George Mason Drive. At approximately 2:07 a.m. on July 5, police were dispatched to the area of Arlington Boulevard at N. Fillmore Street for the report of a person with a gun. The reporting party advised dispatch that she was being chased and shot at by another vehicle. Responding officers observed the two vehicles and initiated a pursuit. The pursuit concluded at Arlington Boulevard and N. George Mason Dr. with officers making contact with the occupants of both vehicles. The investigation determined that the reporting party allegedly committed a Hit and Run in Washington D.C. and the driver of the other vehicle followed her into Arlington attempting to contact her and exchange information. No weapons were involved and no shots were fired. As a result of the investigation, the reporting party, [The suspect], 25, of Fort Washington, MD, was arrested and charged with Driving Under the Influence, Refusal of Breath/Blood Test, Obstruction of Justice and Misuse of 911. She was held on an unsecured bond.
ARLnow.com February 4, 2021 at 7:30am
Possible Rabies Exposure in EFC — "On Saturday, January 30, a raccoon was reported in the area of the 6900 block Williamsburg Boulevard… in the East Falls Church neighborhood. This animal was showing signs of neurological symptoms and was caught and removed by Animal Control after potentially having contact with a pet. The raccoon tested clinically positive for rabies." [Arlington County]
Rouse Property Showdown Heads to County Board — "With a unanimous vote, Arlington's Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board kicked the controversy over preservation of the Rouse estate on Wilson Boulevard up to the County Board. The action, taken Jan. 27 after the matter was fast-tracked through what ordinarily would have been a much more drawn-out process, puts the advisory body at odds with the owners of the 9-acre property, who want to raze the buildings and sell off the tract." [InsideNova]
Pike McDonald's Robbed by Irate Customer — "The suspect was in the drive thru line of a business and became irate over an issue with their order. The suspect then parked their vehicle and entered the business yelling and threatening the victim. She slapped items out of the victim's hand, then pushed her out of the way and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the register, threw food items on the floor, and damaged property, then fled in a vehicle prior to police arrival." [ACPD]
Local Businessman Pleads Guilty to Fraud — "An Arlington businessman pleaded guilty today to making false statements to multiple federal agencies in order to fraudulently obtain multimillion-dollar government contracts, COVID-19 emergency relief loans, and undeserved military service benefits… Robert S. Stewart, Jr., 35, was the owner and president of Federal Government Experts LLC, an Arlington-based company that purported to provide various services to the U.S. government." [U.S. Dept. of Justice]
Volunteers Working to Widen Mt. Vernon Trail — "Volunteers removed overgrown grass and mud from the trail between Memorial Bridge and TR Island in January widening the trail by more than a foot in some spots. Volunteers also fixed drainage of three areas where winter ice sheets were forming. We have multiple upcoming volunteer events through March to continue widening the trail." [Friends of the Mt. Vernon Trail]
Super Bowl Safety Reminder — "Super Bowl LV is on Sunday, February 7, 2021, and it's one of America's favorite annual celebrations… The Arlington County Police Department is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to remind football fans everywhere that Fans Don't Let Fans Drive Drunk." [ACPD]
ARLnow.com December 14, 2020 at 8:30am
Green Building Update — "The County Board today adopted an update to the Green Building Incentive Policy for site plan projects that strengthens Arlington's commitment to sustainability and carbon neutrality… 'By raising the bar on green building incentives for site plan developments, Arlington is reaffirming our commitment to our goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050,' Arlington County Board Chair Libby Garvey said." [Arlington County]
Big Storm Expected Mid-Week — "A major winter storm is set to wallop the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast on Wednesday and Thursday, with many areas from western Virginia to southern New England expected to see heavy snowfall. But for the immediate Washington area, a messy mix of precipitation is more likely than a major snowstorm." [Capital Weather Gang, Twitter]
Arlington Officer Honored — "Arlington County Police Officer Anthony Gatto was among 18 law-enforcement personnel from across the region who were cited Dec. 11 with the area's 23rd annual 'Law Enforcement Awards of Excellence for Impaired Driving Prevention.'" [InsideNova]
ACPD to Hold St. Patrick's Day Anti-DUI Event Next Weekend
ARLnow.com March 3, 2020 at 3:00pm
Getting a DUI "could cost you a pot of gold."
That's one of the messages Arlington County Police are looking to send at an upcoming St. Patrick's Day-themed anti-drunk driving event. Another: "don't press your luck" by driving buzzed.
The event is scheduled to take place from 8-10 p.m. on Saturday, March 14 in Clarendon's bar district. A portion of N. Hudson Street near Wilson Blvd will be closed for the free event, which will include activities "designed to highlight the impact alcohol has on motor skills."
Police have held similar anti-DUI events in the recent past around St. Patrick's Day and Halloween. Before that, earlier anti-drunk driving efforts have included appearances by a superhero named Soberman.
More from an ACPD press release:
Green beer, leprechauns, and elusive pots of gold are all hallmarks of St. Patrick's Day. Make sure you and your friends celebrate responsibly by remembering one important piece of advice: Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving. This means that if you plan to drink any alcoholic beverage, even a watered-down green beer, it's essential that you plan for a designated driver.
In 2018 alone, the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Safety Administration reports 73 people were killed in drunk-driving crashes over the St. Patrick's Day holiday period (6 p.m. March 16 to 5:59 a.m. March 18). For this reason, the Arlington County Police Department is hosting an interactive event highlighting the dangers of impaired driving. Because even one drink can be one too many.
Don't Press Your Luck Event Information
On Saturday, March 14 from 8-10 p.m., join officers on N. Hudson Street at Wilson Boulevard in Clarendon for the Don't Press Your Luck anti-drunk driving event. This free event is open to the public and designed to highlight the impact alcohol has on motor skills.
Motorists should be on the lookout for temporary "No Parking" signs in the event area. Illegally parked vehicles may be ticketed or towed. If your vehicle is towed from a public street, call the Emergency Communications Center at 703-558-2222.
A Safe Way Home
As you continue your celebrations, the Washington Regional Alcohol Program's 2020 St. Patrick's Day SoberRide® program, in partnership with Lyft, will be offered from 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17 until 4:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2020. For additional information on WRAP's program to ensure area residents have a safe way home on high-risk holidays, visit their website.
State Police: Six Highway Workers Injured in I-66 DUI Crash
ARLnow.com December 5, 2019 at 9:25am
(Updated at 3:40 p.m.) Six highway workers along I-66 in Arlington were injured, four seriously, after an alleged DUI driver plowed into their work zone overnight.
The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. on I-66 near the N. Quincy Street overpass. Virginia State Police say the driver of a GMC Yukon veered into an active work zone, striking the half dozen workers before slamming into a light pole.
The driver was arrested for DUI and two passengers who allegedly tried to flee the scene were apprehended by Arlington County Police nearby, according to VSP. The six workers and two of the GMC occupants were brought to local hospitals, but all are expected to survive.
Initially, some of the injuries were reported to be critical and potentially life-threatening. A task force of Arlington and Fairfax County medics treated and transported the eight injured people.
More from VSP:
At 12:29 a.m. Thursday (Dec. 5), Virginia State Police responded to a crash within a Highway Work Zone in the westbound lanes of I-66 at Quincy Street near Exit 72 in Arlington County.
A GMC Yukon traveling west on I-66 swerved into the active Work Zone and struck six highway construction workers. The vehicle continued off the right side of the I-66 and crashed into a light pole.
There were three occupants in the GMC. The driver and a passenger in the GMC fled the scene on foot. State police and Arlington Police apprehended the two near the scene.
Arlington County Fire transported a total of eight individuals. Four of the highway workers are still being treated at Fairfax Inova for serious, but non-life threatening, injuries. Two other highway workers and the two male GMC passengers were transported to George Washington University Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
The driver of the Yukon, Kevin L. Blyther, 44, of Centreville, Va., has been charged with driving while intoxicated, one felony count for failure to stop at the scene of a crash involving an injury and one count of driving on a suspended/revoked license. Blyther is being held at the Arlington County Adult Detention Center.
There was a Virginia State Police vehicle positioned in the work zone with its blue lights flashing and the work zone was equipped with additional safety equipment and amber flashing lights to alert motorists of the active Highway Work Zone.
The crash remains under investigation.
This is not Blyther's first serious run-in with the law. In 2017, he was arrested in Centreville following what police described as a six-hour barricade situation and domestic assault.
VDOT, meanwhile, is thanking social media users for an "outpouring of support" for the contractors who were struck.
We are really touched and overwhelmed by the outpouring of support for our injured friends. Rest assured that we are compiling every single tweet to send to them as virtual get well cards. Thank you for being so kind, friends. We have the best Twitter followers.❤ https://t.co/2Nnu9QPST2
— VDOT Northern VA (@VaDOTNOVA) December 5, 2019
Home Prices Around HQ2 Soar — "The median sale prices for all home types in the 22202 ZIP code, where Amazon is building and staffing up HQ2, was $995,000 in July — the highest for any month in a decade — according to data provided by MarketStats by ShowingTime based on listing activity from Bright MLS. It's a 72% jump from June, when median sales were at $615,000, and a 25% year-over-year increase." [Washington Business Journal, InsideNova]
ACPD Launches Anti-DUI Campaign — "The high-visibility national enforcement campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, runs from August 14 through September 2, 2019. During this period, police will conduct nightly saturation patrols with the goal of drastically reducing incidents of drunk driving on our roadways." [Arlington County]
Courthouse Market Back On Next Weekend — After initially being set to skip next weekend due to scheduled parking lot paving, the Courthouse farmers market is back on for Saturday, Aug. 24. [Arlington County]
Amazon Truck Blocks GW Parkway — The southbound GW Parkway was temporarily blocked at the Memorial Bridge yesterday afternoon due to a too-tall Amazon tractor trailer. [Twitter]
Betting at Local Bars — "Locally, prosecutors haven't paid much attention to the games. Arlington County Commonwealth's Attorney Theo Stamos said she wasn't even aware that any machines were in the county until informed by the WBJ that bars in both Clarendon and Ballston operate them. An Arlington police spokeswoman said the department hasn't noticed "any issues or concerns related to" the machines." [Washington Business Journal]
Crime Report: Drunk Driver Resisted Arrest, Spit on Officer
ARLnow.com May 9, 2019 at 9:00am
A 20-year-old Alexandria man is facing a litany of charges after police say he resisted arrest while driving drunk.
The wild incident happened in Ballston this past Sunday night.
More from this week's Arlington County Police Department crime report:
ASSAULT ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, 2019-05050200, 1100 block of N. Vernon Street. At approximately 10:26 p.m. on May 5, police were dispatched to the report of a dispute inside a vehicle. Upon arrival, officers located the vehicle and made contact with the allegedly intoxicated driver. The driver was uncooperative and refused to comply with the officer's commands to stop the vehicle. Once the vehicle was eventually turned off, the driver exited and actively resisted officers' attempts to place him in handcuffs. A brief struggle ensued, and, with the assistance of additional arriving officer, the suspect was successfully taken into custody. During a search of the suspect's person, he was found to be in possession of a knife and an open container of alcohol was located in the vehicle. While at an area hospital being treated for minor injuries and the execution of a search warrant, he allegedly spit on an officer. The passenger of the vehicle sustained minor injuries that did not require medical treatment and the officer sustained minor injuries, which were treated at an area hospital. William Salgado, 20, of Alexandria, Va., was arrested and charged with Assault & Battery on Law Enforcement, Obstruction of Justice, Carrying a Concealed Weapon, Attempted Person Under 21 Driving After Illegally Consuming Alcohol and Attempted Drinking While Driving/Open Container. He was held on no bond.
The rest of the crime report is below, after the jump.
ARLnow.com February 14, 2019 at 7:30am
Arlington Diocese Releases List of Accused Priests — "Virginia's two Catholic dioceses on Wednesday released lists of clergy who officials say were deemed 'credibly accused' of sexually abusing youth… The Diocese of Arlington, which covers the northeastern corner of Virginia, released a list of 16 names." [Washington Post, Diocese of Arlington]
ACPD Restaurant Initiative Deemed a Success — "Arlington County, Virginia, is trying to fight drunken driving, and its method may prove to be a model for the nation." [WTOP]
Cristol Quoted in the New Yorker — "'We have an agenda that is about equity and anti-racist goals, and I don't think he can effectively lead on it,' [Arlington County Board member Katie Cristol] said, referring to the governor. As for Fairfax, she said, she had thought, after the first allegation, that 'there might be a way forward for him to recognize harm done' and stay in office. After the second, it seemed clear to her that there was an indefensible pattern of behavior." [The New Yorker]
Arlington Man Arrested for 2016 Rape — "Alexandria Police have arrested a man who they say abducted and raped a lifeguard in broad daylight from a pool on South Pickett Street in 2016." [Fox 5]
Hope's Assisted-Living Bill Passes — "The derecho that came through Arlington several years ago inspired me to bring this bill and work to make sure, at a minimum, prospective residents knew whether their assisted living facility had a generator in case of loss of power." [InsideNova, Twitter]
Sheriff's Office Helping With Scholarships — "The Arlington County Sheriff's Office is helping the Virginia Sheriffs' Institute raise college scholarship funds for Virginia residents majoring in criminal justice." [Arlington County]
APS on Two Hour Delay — Arlington Public Schools is a two hour delays this morning amid a light coating of snow. Fairfax County Public Schools, meanwhile, is closed after initially announcing a two hour delay last night. [Twitter]
County Still Seeking Aquatics Center Sponsor — "Arlington County Manager Mark Schwartz has not given up on his goal of finding sponsors to help offset the cost of the Long Bridge Park aquatics center. 'I remain optimistic that we will be successful" in finding partners,' Schwartz told County Board members Jan. 29, though he offered no specifics." [InsideNova]
ACPD: Get a Designated Driver for the Big Game — "Super Bowl LIII is slated for kick-off this Sunday, February 3, and, for many, this celebratory evening includes alcohol. Enjoy the game and festivities, but don't drop the ball on safety. Make it your game plan to take a sober ride home – whether it's by using a ride sharing service, taxi, public transportation, or designated sober driver." [Arlington County]
Ballston BID to Launch 'Club' — "The Ballston Business Improvement District is launching a club for area residents… which appears to be a first-of-its-kind program in the region. When the club kicks off by the end of summer, members will enjoy exclusive benefits like discounts for restaurants and retail, in addition to events like yoga in the park and outdoor movies." [Washington Business Journal]
Wardian Does It Again — "Michael Wardian, 44, of Arlington, Va. has won the first of seven marathons in the World Marathon Challenge in Antarctica." [Canadian Running, Twitter]
Arlington Firm Makes Big Acquisition — "CACI International Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire LGS Innovations LLC for $750 million in a deal that extends Arlington-based CACI's reach into the signals intelligence and cybersecurity markets." [Washington Business Journal]
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Jules Wengel, né Julius Wilhelm Ludwig Wengel à Heilbronn le  et mort le  à Attin, est un peintre et illustrateur allemand naturalisé français en 1905.

Biographie
Julius Wilhelm Ludwig Wengel naît le  à Heilbronn dans le Bade-Wurtemberg en Allemagne. Il épouse Isabelle Bowes, née en 1864 à Geelong en Australie et morte en 1937 à Attin, et ont trois enfants, Franck Ludwig Jean Maurice, né à 1893 à Étaples et mort jeune en 1897 à Attin, Ludwig John Franck, né en 1897 et mort en 1978 à Attin et Frédéric Alexandre, né en 1901 à Attin et mort en 1933 à Étaples.

Il a suivi les cours de l'Académie royale des arts de Leipzig puis de l'Académie de Dresde. Il est ensuite arrivé en France et s'est installé à partir de 1891 à Étaples (Pas-de-Calais), petit port de pêche où séjourne une colonie de peintres pour partie étrangers.

C'est un peintre de compositions religieuses, scènes de genre, portraits, paysages et également un aquarelliste et illustrateur. Il montre un certain goût pour le symbolisme et le mysticisme, notamment dans ses illustrations du Taj Mahal, poème de la Suédoise Andrea Butenschön (1895), ou pour Goulab Soubi, conte de René de Pont-Jest (1896).

Il est aussi l'auteur de compositions religieuses dans l'église Saint-Michel d'Étaples, détruite pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Mais il est surtout connu pour ses portraits, pour lesquels il met en valeur tout ce qui est chair : visages, mains, laissant esquissés au trait les vêtements et le décor.

Il expose à la Société nationale des beaux-arts de 1892 à 1905 (sauf en 1900) ainsi qu'en Allemagne (Dresde, Munich, Berlin, Hambourg, Leipzig), en Angleterre et en Autriche. Il est nommé membre associé de la Société nationale des beaux-arts en 1896, sous la présidence de Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, en même temps qu'Henri Le Sidaner et John Lavery.

Vers 1900, il demeure rue du Marais à Attin, également propriétaire à Paris-Plage et membre du comité de Paris-Plage, il y réalise une œuvre publiée en couverture du journal local, paru en 1901, Le Moniteur de Paris-Plage.

Il meurt, en France, le  à Attin dans le département du Pas-de-Calais, où il est inhumé avec son épouse.

Galerie

Œuvres dans les collections publiques

 Montreuil, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Roger-Rodière : Les Anges de la première communion, avant 1892, huile sur toile,

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Notes et références

Peintre wurtembergeois
Peintre allemand du XXe siècle
Peintre français du XIXe siècle
Peintre français du XXe siècle
Peintre de l'école d'Étaples
Illustrateur wurtembergeois
Illustrateur français du XIXe siècle
Illustrateur français du XXe siècle
Artiste lié au Touquet-Paris-Plage
Personnalité liée à Étaples
Naissance à Heilbronn
Naissance dans le royaume de Wurtemberg
Naissance en mai 1865
Décès dans le Pas-de-Calais
Décès en mars 1934
Décès à 68 ans

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The Truth About Cars | News Blog
VW's Karmann Ghia Was a 5/8ths Scale Chrysler
By Ronnie Schreiber on August 30, 2014
1968 VW Karmann Ghia. Full gallery here.
With a German-Italian name like Karmann Ghia it may surprise you that the little coupe/roadster built on the Volkwagen Type I (aka Beetle) chassis had its origins not on the continent but rather a few thousand miles west of Europe, in Detroit, of all places. By the early 1950s, the postwar Volkswagen company was getting on its feet and had expanded their lineup to include the Ben Pons inspired Type II aka Transporter aka Bus and a cabriolet version of the Beetle, built by the German coachbuilder Karmann. That company's director, Dr. Wilhelm Karmann, had tried to increase his business with VW but management in Wolfsburg was less than receptive to his suggestions for variants of the Beetle. Karmann turned to Ghia to see if a collaboration would be more successful. Corrozzeria Ghia's Mario Boano and Luigi Segre had already done some consulting for VW, though the company was about as accepting of their ideas as it was with Karmann's.
1970 VW Karman Ghia cabriolet. Full gallery here.
Not much earlier, Boano's son, Gian Paolo, had bought a VW Type I in Paris and drove it back to Italy. In Turin, Ghia's workers removed the Beetle's sedan body and over the next five months they handcrafted a handsome coupe that looked much more sporting than the Beetle (in reality, the Karmann Ghia was slower than the Beetle, all that fine coachbuilding meant that the coupe weighed about 200 lbs more than the Type I sedan). In November of 1953, the prototype of what would become the Karmann Ghia was examined at the Karmann works in Osnabruck by top VW managers including managing director Heinz Nordhoff, the man generally credited with building the modern VW company out of the ruins of war. Nordhoff and his team liked what they saw.
Full gallery here.
By 1953, Ghia had a well established relationship with Chrysler and their head of advanced styling, Virgil Exner Sr. That relationship was started when C.B. Thomas, the head of Chrysler's export unit, set up a competition in 1950 between Pinin Farina's styling house and Ghia to build their respective takes on a future Plymouth sedan. Pinin Farina pretty much built the car as designed, but Ghia added their own sense of style. Chrysler executives were impressed with the quality of the workmanship and Ghia's added styling touches. Even more impressive was the fact that Ghia's price of $10,000/car was a fraction of what it would have cost to have the car fabricated in Detroit, either by UAW labor in-house or by independent fabricators. Italy was still rebuilding after World War II and labor was cheap there. Ghia would go on to build a series of well known and well received show and concept cars for Chrysler in the 1950s and into the 1960s.
1970 Karmann Ghia coupe. Full gallery here.
The Chrysler-Ghia concepts can be roughly divided into two groups, the first five cars that were mainly designed in Highland Park at Chrysler headquarters and the later cars that had more Ghia influence. The early "Exner Ghia" cars were the K-310, the C-200 convertible, and the fastback SS (for Styling Special), which Thomas liked so much that he ordered another one for himself in notchback form that is known as the Thomas Special. Chrysler's French distributor may have liked it even more than Thomas and commissioned Ghia to build up to 400 similar cars called the the GS-1 (some sources say fewer than a dozen were actually built). Ghia also liked Exner's Special because they licensed the design and built 36 Chrysler Specials, one of which is in the collection of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum.
Chrysler Special. Full gallery here.
Exner's vision was getting clarified. The DeSoto Adventurer continued Exner's themes though Ghia is said to have reshaped the fender lines. He borrowed the long hood, short rear deck, close-coupled coupe layout from the classic European grand tourers, and, contrary to the trends in Detroit in the '50s, he used chrome trim sparingly. The European influence on Exner would become recursive through the next car Ghia built for him.
Chrysler D'Elegance. Photos courtesy of RM Auctions.
The Chrysler D'Elegance of 1953 summed up the design philosophy of Exner in those days. A sleek car, it has a beautifully shaped greenhouse with delicate A pillars and graceful C pillars. A character line sweeps back across the D'Elegance's lower flank from just behind the front wheel arch, eventually rising into the fender bulge over the rear tire. It may have been influenced by European touring cars but the D'Elegance was still unmistakably American, with bright red metallic paint, gun-sight taillights and trick show car features. The rear deck had one of Exner's signature styling touches, the profile of the spare tire embossed in the metal, Ex's distinctive and graceful interpretation of the "continental kit".
1957 Mercury
If your familiarity with the continental kit is mainly due to the 1956 Ford Thunderbird, that was a particularly nice application of the concept. Many of the other cars with that modification, whether factory or aftermarket, ended up extending the rear bumper out to make room for the spare and its case. The results were awkward and inelegant, albeit popular. Exner's idea to move the spare tire cover up onto the trunk lid allowed him to keep both the look of a spare tire carrier and the lines of the car. In the case of the D'Elegance it was a functional spare cover, which lifted up to allow the spare tire to be lowered to the ground with a hydraulic mechanism.
The D'Elegance had a Hemi in it, the original 331 cubic inch FirePower Hemi V8 with 180 hp. It also featured power windows and power steering, two luxury features in those days. The D'Elegance also featured power brakes, the Ausco-Lambert self-energizing disc brake system that had been offered on the top of the line Town & Country Chrysler and the Crown Imperial.
By the time the D'Elegance was fabricated, Exner and the Ghia stylists had an established working relationship that eventually had ideas going back and forth across the Atlantic. Clay models in 3/8ths scale would be shipped to Turin, where Ghia stylists like Giovanni Savonuzzi would scale up the rendering, often adding their own touches. The response to the D'Elegance when it hit the auto show circuit, debuting at the 1952 Paris auto salon, was so positive that Chrysler executives told Ghia to tool up for a short production run of 40 cars. However, the Korean War was going on and before it was completed the order was cut to 25 D'Elegances. That left Ghia with some unused capacity and its stylists with time on their hands. That's when Boano and Segre made the little VW coupe to Savonuzzi's designs.
1972 VW Karmann Ghia coupe. Full gallery here.
Not only did cutting short the D'Elegance project give Ghia the opportunity to develop what became the Karmann Ghia, the D'Elegance donated its styling to the little VW sports car.
Virgil Exner Jr., an accomplished car designer in his own right, visited Ghia's shop in Turin at his father's behest in 1955, the year the Karmann Ghia went on sale. Though some automotive historians on the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean think that Ghia's stylists were just applying the same theme to different cars, not directly copying Exner's work, both Exners, per et fil, thought otherwise. Exner Jr. is quoted in Chrysler Concept Cars 1940-1970 (Fetherston & Thacker, Car Tech Books) as saying that the Karmann Ghia "was a direct, intentional swipe off the Chrysler D'Elegance. Givanni Savonuzzi was the engineer and designer who downsized the D'Elegance and made the Karmann Ghia out of it. Nobody minded it. It was wonderful." Exner Jr. would later work as a design consultant for Ghia, where he had a role in Karmann Ghia history.
1972 VW Karmann Ghia cabriolet. Full gallery here.
In 1961, Volkswagen introduced the Type 34 Karmann Ghia, based on the Type 3 with the "pancake" engine. With a design headed by Ghia engineer Sergio Sartorelli, the shape of the Type 34 has nothing to do with the Chrysler D'Elegance or Virgil Exner (well, maybe a little bit as you'll see later). If you ask me, it may have been influenced by the Chevrolet Corvair and an obscure AMC concept drawing by designer George Lawson called the CUDA. The Type 34 was known as "Der Große Karmann" [the Big Karmann] in Germany, the "Razor Edge Ghia" in the United Kingdom, and the "European Ghia" in the United States. It was expensive, twice the cost of the Beetle, it sold less than 10% of the numbers of the original Karmann Ghia, and it went out of production in 1969, outlasted by the original as well. Type 34s are very rare in the U.S. Interestingly, one of the cars that Virgil Exner Jr. worked on while at Ghia was the Type 34.
The Type 34 may have had nothing to do with the D'Elegance, but similarities between the Chrysler show car and the original Karmann Ghia, particularly in profile, are hard to ignore. The shape of the greenhouse and C pillars and the character line along the lower body sweeping up into the rear fender bulge are just about identical, though the front end treatments are different. The air-cooled, rear-engine Karmann Ghia didn't need the D'Elegance's large radiator grille. Also, Savonuzzi got rid of Exner's inset headlights (whose own influence can be seen on the modern Chrysler 300 cars – the "Bentley" grille on current Chryslers can also be traced back to the early Exner-Ghia cars), moving them to the front of the fenders. I personally prefer Savonuzzi's front end to Exner's. It's a cleaner look, even if it reminds me a little of some Studebakers.
Type 34 Karmann Ghia. Full gallery here.
Producing Ghia's coupe meant just adding a new "top hat" to the Beetle's platform chassis (platform as in a flat surface, not platform in the modern sense of a car's hard points), giving the company a new, sporty model with few engineering resources needed to develop it. Nordhoff embraced the idea and as Dr. Karmann had hoped VW gave his company the production contract. The Karmann Ghia would be in production from 1955 to 1974. Perhaps one reason why it stayed in production so long was because of one of those family squabbles that periodically flare up between Volkswagen and Porsche.
In the 1960s, though they were separate companies, per Wikipedia, VW and Porsche had an agreement where the sports car maker was responsible for much of the technical development of Volkswagen cars. Under the direction of Ferdinand Piech, Porsche started developing a mid-engine car with a Targa roof. The original plan was to sell 4 cylinder models as VWs and 6 cylinder models as Porsches, replacing the Karmann Ghia at VW and the entry level 4 cylinder 911 marketed as the 912. Porsche decided that it would hurt its brand in America if a car with the same body was sold as a VW so the car was called the Porsche 914 here and the Volkwagen-Porsche 914 in Europe. Soon after the prototype was presented Heinz Nordhoff died and his successor, Kurt Lotz didn't have the ties to the Porsche family that Nordhoff had. Upset that Porsche wouldn't share in tooling costs Lotz ended the development agreement with Porsche. VW was still obligated to build the 914, but by then costs made it an impractical replacement for the Karmann Ghia. The Type 34 had never sold more than 5,000 units in a year so when that was discontinued the original Karmann Ghia stayed in production, produced the same way it had been since 1955.
Porsche 914. Full gallery here.
Assembled and mechanically complete Type I chassis were shipped from the main VW factory at Wolfsburn to Osnabruck. Workers at the Karmann works made and painted the bodies, mounted them to the chassis, and completed assembly, installing the interior and trimming out the cars. Finished Karmann Ghias were then shipped back to Wolfsburg for distribution and export.
VW do Brasil's Type 1600 TC, by Giugiaro
Quite a few of those exports made it to the United States. Virgil Exner Sr. is reported to have been "delighted" every time he saw a Karmann Ghia on the road. That's understandable if you think about the fact that car designers rather like it when a design of theirs makes it to production. While there were short production runs of some of the Exner-Ghia cars, their numbers were nothing like the 445,238 Karmann Ghias that were built by Karmann, plus about 42,000 Type 34 cars. Another 23,402 Karmann Ghias were assembled by VW do Brasil, along with the Type 1600 TC (or Touring Coupe), attributed to Giorgetto Giugiaro.
The Karmann Ghias (and Porsche 914) pictured here were photographed at the 2014 Vintage Volkswagen Show in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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53 Comments on "VW's Karmann Ghia Was a 5/8ths Scale Chrysler..."
petezeiss
The Ghia and the contemporary Alfa Giulietta are two of the best uses to which bending sheet metal has ever been put.
I've always liked the Karmann Ghia. Would like to get one someday with a hot-rodded flat four.
MadHungarian
August 31st, 2014 at 6:53 pm
They used to be popular for Corvair engine swaps, because the Corvair six fits nicely in the engine compartment with no body modification (unlike in a Beetle).
Good luck finding a Corvair engine in 2014 though, must be why Subaru 2.0 and 2.2 engines have become popular swaps for some VWs. Seem to work well in a T3/Vanagon, but who knows how well they fit in a Beetle, original Type 2, or Karmann Ghia.
Roader
September 1st, 2014 at 10:46 am
I had a '71 pop-top Westfalia that I swapped a Corvair engine and Powerglide trans into. Great DD. This was back in the early-80s and it was amusing to see the faces of Vanagon Westy drivers as I cruised past them @ 75mph. The 'Vair/PG combo actually got a bit better mileage on the highway than the original engine/trans, probably because it didn't have to work as hard.
September 1st, 2014 at 1:53 pm
Type IIs could still take "upright" Beetle engines through the 1972 model year, providing you made some custom tins to surround the engine, and keep the cold upper side from the hot lower side to keep the air-cooling working. You can build a Beetle engine with sufficient reliable power to drive a Bus safely on the freeway. I built a 1648cc dual port Beetle motor with a Holley Weber two barrel, a street cam, and some mild porting and polishing for my 1972 Bus. I had had a '67 split window with a 1500 cc single port engine and it was terrifying to see semi trucks bearing down in the rear view mirror as the vehicle slowed down on southeastern Michigan's relatively minor uphill grades. With the hi-po Beetle engine, I could cruise all day long at 80 mph.
joeaverage
You just need to get plugged into the right old car community. I have four Corvair engines b/c I put one into my '78 VW Westfalia. I know people locally that collectively have over a hundred engines and transmissions. Most of them are for sale. You could always get to know some of the Corvair club guys on the web through Corsa.
spreadsheet monkey
September 1st, 2014 at 3:36 am
Subaru flat four engine transplants are popular.
http://subaghia.com/
The challenege with the Subbie engine is where to hide the radiator. Not a big deal if you aren't concerned with hiding the radiator of course. Flat under the car has drawbacks too.
Jack Denver
There is also the fact that you have to reverse the direction that the transaxle side output shafts turn and get rid of the rear shaft.
All in all, much easier to use a Corvair engine which was designed for a similar vehicle. Subaru transplant is not impossible but it's not easy either.
Kyree S. Williams
Thanks for the fascinating write-up, Mister Schreiber. I've wanted a Karmann Ghia since I first laid eyes one (which, given my age, wasn't that long ago), so it's nice to know the history surrounding it and its connection to Chrysler (who knew?!). And actually, that basic rear-fender character line is present in a current VW Group product…the Bentley Continental GT.
Flybrian
I can really see that lineage when you mention it. Amazing.
Felis Concolor
Another great start to a long day; thank you very much!
I recall the intense debate in the 80s regarding which VW Ghia was the one to have; opposing camps had separated into small vs large tail light assemblies.
These days it's finally become a moot point; perhaps someone can tweak their noses by filling in the rear housings and adding a set of NOS D'Elegance gunsight assemblies.
cargogh
As soon as I read the top line I knew which Chrysler it was, but had never made a visual connection before, let alone knew of any relationship between the cars. Another interesting story. Thanks.
Marcelo de Vasconcellos
Great article Ronnie. The connections are clear and it is always inspiring when the best talent from different companies come together and do something unique.
The TC at the end was a Porsche knock off and according to what I've read it was also a Karmaan and Ghia creation. I'm not aware that Giugiaro worked on it. Though I can't say for sure, it does look pretty good.
You can be sure Chrysler regarded Karman Ghia under threat level. That thumbing of the nose at Wolfsburg & product was still out there.
1998redwagon
amazing, uncanny resemblance. not sure i would have expected a styling relationship if the two cars were sitting side by side. however, having the write up puts it all in perspective. thanks.
second thought. absolutely thunderstruck to see the chrysler special (blue car above). that looks so much like the current 300 my jaw dropped. someone went back to history for a styling lesson prior to its design.
clivesl
Made me look at the 300 in a whole new way. Great article
FreedMike
I dunno, aside from the "chopped" roofline I don't see the resemblance. I think the current 300 is clearly channeling styling cues from the old "letter" cars. Look at these two pics and you'll see a clear lineage:
2014 300c:
http://www.briggschrysler.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2014-chrysler-300-exterior.jpg
1956 Chrysler 300B:
http://www.mad4wheels.com/webpics/hires/00007526%20-%201956%20Chrysler%20300%20B/1956_Chrysler_300_B_004_8472.jpg
And here's the inspiration for the grille treatment on the last-gen 300:
http://www.cars-on-line.com/photo/60800/57chry60861-1.jpg
The Karmann actually had a higher top speed than the beetle. In 1955, the 30hp Beetle was able to reach 110km/h, while the Karmann ran up to a breathtaking 118km/h (74mph) using the same eninge!
Main reason for the difference was better aerodynamics (better coefficient and smaller frontal area).
Higher top speed, but definitely slower to get up to it. I wonder why the engine was never beefed up. By the early 1970s, even the ads were joking about the lack of power.
60 horsepower from 1600 cc even before awful US emmissions controls is pretty lacking, yeah.
In comparison, the BMW 1600 managed 83 horsepower from its identical displacement 4 cylinder…
My dad's '68 912 was 1600cc and rated at 102HP. That was not too bad in such a light car. Were the bugs ever actually 30HP, though? I thought they were 39 or something.
MRF 95 T-Bird
Early post-war Beetles were 25 hp. Compare to early Fiat 500's which were 18 hp. Just enough to get you around town during the Suez crisis.
Everything I've read puts all the VW versions of the 1600 flat four somewhere around 60 horsepower, but of course the versions of the flat 4 used in the 356 and 912 had quite a few modifications from the Volkswagen originals.
That's the difference between German DIN hp and the (very generous) SAE-hp of the 50s and 60s. My 1966 1300 for example is rated at 40hp in Europe, 50hp in the US.
There was a 36 HP version in the 1950s Beetles sent to the USA.
Higher top speed due to aerodynamics, but slower acceleration due to increased weight over a Beetle. There's a lot of lead in the partially-handbuilt KG body.
DC Bruce
September 2nd, 2014 at 12:36 pm
Like Ronnie, I ran a modified Ghia in the early 70's with the dual-port heads, Holley "bug spray" 2-barrel, mechanical advance distributor and an auxiliary oil cooler. The real problem with acceleration in these cars was the jump from 3rd to 4th (top) gear. Fourth was an overdrive; and the engine simply didn't have enough torque to do much of anything in that gear. A 5-speed would have been ideal, with an extra gear between third and that overdrive gear.
The 1600 flat-four indeed had around 60 horsepower, but those didn't show up until the mid-sixties! The flat-four at the time of Karmann-Ghia introduction was 1200cc, with power output ranging from 30 to 40 hp.
I always loved the Karmann-Ghia styling and I think it still looks great today.
Great article! I've always liked the looks of KGs but they were heavy and rusted much faster than standard Type 1s. I've only seen a few Type 3 Ghias. An interesting thread of a T3 Ghia brought back to life:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=458238&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
05lgt
Thanks for another educational and entertaining morning read. It seems to be bringing out the sickness in me as I can't stop imagining a 911 turbo based flared karman and an equally flared hellcat powered D'Elegance. UConnect and those looks. Yup. It's a sickness.
Nonsensical verbiage but great T1 Ghia engine swap pics:
http://cvdesign.com.br/clubmed/2010maison/karmann-ghia-engine-swap
One is of any early Corvair engine swap, the rest are Subaru engines?
PaulyG
Or perhaps a Karmann Ghia Boxster!
http://pca.imirus.com/Mpowered/imirus.jsp?volume=pca13&issue=5&page=80
@roader; the nonsense looks like auto translate to me. Those all look fun but not what I had in mind.
@ PaulyG; YES! a Boxster Ghia is the ticket. It even has the stagger I wanted. That must have been so much fun for someone to do, and so compromise free sweet to drive.
Back when I was in my teens my buddy's Lakewood got rear ended/totaled so we took the engine out and put it in an IRS T1 frame with an adapter. Real torquey dune buggy. A T1 Ghia was "made" for a 95hp, regular gas Corvair engine. That combo could even be called a sports car. A nice DD and plenty of room to fit a swash plate air conditioner compressor, unlike a standard (Beetle) body T1.
Back in my teens (1983) an "associate" was letting me drive his bright orange beetle with a motor that sounded and went much more Porsche than VW. After repeatedly showing one of that eras anemic 5.0's our tail lights we were putting along short shifting at 2500 or so to make VW sounds and a more authentic beetle took up the challenge. After 2 stop lights of us staying mysteriously door up on him no matter how he slipped the clutch and banged the shifts I looked over to the owner (who wouldn't stop howling with laughter) if I could launch it really hard at the third light. He said "please do, or I'll pi myself". So I finally side slipped the clutch at 4G as the red faded and green started to heat and got a little front wheel lift and a lot of tire smoke before running up to 6750 in first and second. The guys in the authentic beetle looked more offended than impressed at the next light.
Back in my teens (1983) an "associate" was letting me drive his bright orange beetle with a motor that sounded and went much more Porsche than VW. After repeatedly showing one of that eras anemic 5.0′s our tail lights we were putting along short shifting at 2500 or so to make VW sounds and a more authentic beetle took up the challenge. After 2 stop lights of us staying mysteriously door up on him no matter how he slipped the clutch and banged the shifts I looked over to the owner (who wouldn't stop howling with laughter)and asked if I could launch it really hard at the third light. He said "please do, or I'll pi$$ myself". So I finally side slipped the clutch at 4G as the red faded and green started to heat and got a little front wheel lift and a lot of tire smoke before running up to 6750 in first and second. The guys in the authentic beetle looked more offended than impressed at the next light.
I had the reverse happen to me. Was driving my very stock 67HP '78 Westfalia van when a Camaro drove up and wanted to race. ???!!!???
He revved the V-8 engine, and glarred at me…
Light changed and he lit up the tires, all sorts of smoke and noises and off he went. I puttered away from the light as a 0-60 in 40 seconds vehicle does – quite confused by what the Camaro guy expected a VW van to do. Maybe he assumed there was a big Porsche engine back there?
CJinSD
I wish someone would have built an affordable coupe modeled after Exner's 1954 Desoto Adventurer I Coupe Ghia.
http://www.carstyling.ru/de/car/1954_desoto_adventurer_i/images/813/
Mr Imperial
Excellent, Ronnie.
I picked up on the styling cues that did make it to Chrysler's styling once the "Forward Look" Exner era began-
-The gunsight taillights that were a distinctive feature of the 1955-1962 Imperials.
-The Continental Kit, which was once for the higher-end of the Chrysler product lines, but once the "toilet lid" on the trunk started appearing on the lowliest Plymouth, it made Imperial owners cringe (one of many Chrysler Corp SNAFU moments)
-The "freestanding" appearing headlamps of the D'Elegance-Exner always loved the classical era of styling of the 1920's-1930's. Freestanding headlamps made their biggest appearance in the 1961-1963 Imperials, albeit much more "open" and not as recessed.
-The rear window is very similar in design to the special rear-window treatment that the top level Imperial Le Barons (a higher trim level than the Imperial Custom and Imperial Crown) received. Le Barons had a smaller rear window for additional privacy (see http://www.imperialclub.com/Articles/60Review/Page01-reg.jpg).
-The D'Elegance's grill is very similar in design to the grill of the 1957 Chrysler 300. The 1957's top grill edge is slanted out, whereas the bottom is on the D'Elegance.
LOVED the early '60s Imperials, but the '64 Crown convertible was my favorite.
http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1964/Brochure/Page08.jpg
Unfortunately, my diecast '61 Crown convertible is as close as I'll ever get to owning one.
And I'm glad I'm not the only one here who discovered the Imperial website!
Here's a '64 Crown convertible that seems very reasonably priced at $24K:
http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/chrysler/imperial_crown/1673947.html
Wow. So much car for Kia Sportage price. Mr. Drysdale didn't have one this nice.
Gardiner Westbound
I wanted a Karmann Ghia so bad my teeth hurt. Cash was short so I wound up with a Beetle. Turned out Karmann Ghias were very rust prone, I suppose due to inadvertently designed-in moisture pockets. They were effectively biodegradable.
All VW (and some other brands at the time) had for rust protection was paint and seam sealer. No galvanized panels. I don't think they dipped the bodies in paint, only sprayed them based on what I've seen in my 20+ years of aircooled VW ownership.
My guess is there were places in the Karmann Ghia body that just entered the driving world bare metal. My '65 Beetle has bare metal behind and below the rear side windows. Also the inside of the body where the heater channels pass through was bare steel. Will be addressing that during restoration with some sort of anti-rust preservation fluid after the paint job to avoid fisheyes.
I'd like to sandblast my Beetle's body and then have it dipped in some sort of primer. I know there is a company that acid dips bodies in the next city. Wonder if they paint dip the bodies? Maybe I'll just plug up the holes and fill the body cavities with paint and then allow them to drain. Dunno.
This has been bothering me all day. A niggling thought about having seen something similar to the Chrysler. It finally came to me:
http://images.conceptcarz.com/imgxra/Talbot-Lago/48_Talbot-T-26-GrandSport-DV_12-PBC_01.jpg
It's a photo of a 1948 Talbot-Lago T-26 Saoutchik Grand Sport Coupé. Predates both Chryslers by five years or more. The character line, and the slim A and B pillars; I knew I had seen that before.
Weren't Chrysler and Talbot (or was it Simca) that were kissing cousins?
I see a lot of 1st generation Olds Toronado in the B/C pillar of the Ghia designed Chrysler D'Elegance.
When the 300 was introduced 10 years ago I immediately noticed the resemblance to the Exner designed Ghia models. The Charger has a lot a the 300 letter series in it's nose.
Even though American large coupes have fallen out of favor the import upper luxury Bentley, S-Class and 6 series still have a following. Maybe Chrysler can bring one back.
Great article, Ronnie.
Big Al from Oz
@Ronnie Schreiber,
Boy, you really come up with some of the most interesting sh!t out there. Great article.
I really do like looking at the history of the motor vehicle industry and how the companies and people related to each other.
SIMCA also used Exner and Ghia, the French Connection.
Interestingly Chrysler was never able to be successful globally as it's main Detroit competition of Ford and GM. Detroit manufacturers are slowly coming back after decades because of a piss poor global view. The Germans and Japanese were far better with global vehicles since the energy crisis in the 70s.
But poor old Chrysler went from on disaster to the next.
Here's and interesting link.
http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1958_simca_special/
I had a 1956 Karmann Ghia when I was a senior in high school in 1965.
Paid $900 (huge sum at that time) but I didn't care – it was red and looked like nothing else in the high school parking lot.
One beautiful spring day I left school with the windows down and the radio blaring. Stopped for a stop sign and saw Cindy Turner, who was in my class, walking and asked her if she wanted a ride.
I had only had the car for a few weeks and had given few rides to female classmates.
She got in, looked all around, and with real big eyes asked:
"Is this a Porsche?"
That was better than sex.
Dave M.
Fascinating article Ronnie, thanks!
I've become a vintage VW fan only relatively recently, enjoying the timeless simplicity of their designs. The squareback would have been the VW for me I'm guessing.
Still think VW needs to do a modern interpretation of the bus as a midi-van…


What fraction of the circle is colored red?
What fraction of the square is colored green?
Which shape is colored ?
What part of the triangle is colored red?
What part of the rectangle is colored purple?
Which shape is NOT shaded ?