Magé - RJ
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domingo, 30 de dezembro de 2018
Fazenda da Mandioca, Magé, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Mandiocca) - Johann Moritz Rugendas
Magé - RJ
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Floresta Virgem Próxima à Mangaratiba na Província do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Foret Vierge Pres Manqueritipa Dans la Province de Rio de Janeiro) - Johann Moritz Rugendas
Mangaratiba - RJ
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Rio Inhomirim na Baía do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Rio Jnhomerim Dans la Baie de Rio de Janeiro) - Johann Moritz Rugendas
Rio de Janeiro - RJ
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Ford Mcmullen Roadster 1932, Estados Unidos
Ford Mcmullen Roadster 1932, Estados Unidos
Hot Rod Magazine Cover Car
Exterior : Preto com Flames
Interior : Preto e Branco
Fotografia
Histórico do carro (em inglês) :
HIGHLIGHTS
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The World's Most Iconic Hot Rod
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Built by the Legendary Tom McMullen
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Original Iconic flame design by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth
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Purchased by McMullen in 1958 and continuously
modified it until it was sold in 1970
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Complete known ownership history back to Tom
McMullen
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Appeared on the covers of Hot Rod Magazine, Street
Rodder, and Popular Hot Rodding
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Starred on several record album covers,
advertisements, on TV and movies
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Ran in official NHRA National events at Pomona and
Indy
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Set a top speed record for street roadsters at El
Mirage Dry Lake and Bonneville
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Restored by Roy Brizio exactly as it appeared on
the April '63 cover of Hot Rod Magazine
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Flamed, chopped and dropped, Blown Chevy small
block
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1939 Ford gearbox, Moon Racing aluminum fuel tank
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Invited to Pebble Beach in 2007 for the inaugural
Hot Rod class
Arguably the country’s most
visible Hot Rod in the 1960s, Tom McMullen’s ’32 roadster was everywhere; it
appeared on magazine covers, starred on record albums and was prominent in advertisements
on TV and in the movies. The roadster was enthusiastically drag-raced on
sanctioned strips, illegally raced on the streets, ran in official NHRA
National events at Pomona and Indy and set top-speed records for street
roadsters at El Mirage Dry Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats.
This ’32 roadster was built by
the late Tom McMullen, a talented, colorful rebel who once wrote articles for
“Hot Rod” magazine, started his auto electrical firm, built up a successful
motorcycle chopper catalog business, founded a publishing empire that included
“Street Rodder” magazine and rose to a position of universal industry
admiration and respect. Tragically, McMullen died in an ice storm on February
12, 1995, along with his wife Deanna, while piloting his Turbo Commander
aircraft cross-country.
McMullen’s story is the
quintessential “Live Fast, Die Young,” saga. This roadster was his signature,
and it served a dual role as McMullen’s everyday driver and his race car. Never
shrinking from a challenge, McMullen raced illegally on the streets at the
drop of a hat, as well as at sanctioned events from El Mirage Dry Lake and
Bonneville to the Riverside drags. He didn’t like to lose, so he was always
improving this car.
McMullen was a Hot Rodder’s
Hot Rodder. In fact, many friends and peers over the years have stated,
“There’s never been anyone in the Hot Rod world quite like Tom McMullen.” Bold,
occasionally profane, unpredictable and always innovative, he was never, ever
satisfied with the commonplace. Like every great Hot Rodder, McMullen always
wanted to go faster. And he lived that way right to the end.
McMullen wasn’t the first
owner of this definitive, often-imitated Deuce, but with his personal
modifications, he made it an icon. He bought the Hudson in Downey, California,
for upholstery work, he learned Hudson had begun the very same roadster four
years earlier. Although the Deuce started its Rodding career with a Ford
flathead, by 1956, after several prior owners, it was powered by a 283 CI Chevy
small-block OHV V-8.
Of course, McMullen yanked
that mill right away, replacing it with a bored and stroked 352 CI Chevy V-8,
at first with six carburetors. Later, he added a potent GMC 4:71 supercharger
and two 4-barrel carbs. He then set an A/Street Roadster record at El Mirage of
167 MPH and ran a best speed of 118 MPH in the quarter-mile, and later, he
topped 138 MPH in the half mile at Riverside. And if you caught up to
him heading home from work in this unmistakably noticeable Hot Rod, and
you wanted to race right there, well, he’d risk a ticket to blow your
doors off. And no doubt, in this car, he would.
You could argue that
McMullen’s roadster took every Hot Rod styling and performance cliché,
including many tricks that had been done perhaps in twos and threes to other
cars, and simply lathered them on. Not according to “Hot Rod” writer, Pat
Ganahl, who wrote: “when he reconfigured it to the form that blazed our
eyeballs on the April, ’63, cover of Hot Rod, once again, we’d never seen
anything like this!”
Brian Brennan, editor in chief
of “Street Rodder” magazine, called McMullen’s ’32 “the most identifiable hot
rod of all time.” This roadster has appeared on the covers of “Hot Rod”
magazine, “Street Rodder” and “Popular Hot Rodding,” on several record album
covers and in countless magazines. McMullen drove the wheels off it, and he
only sold it because he knew he’d have to start from scratch to make an even
faster, more contemporary roadster. By 1969, the idea of a Hot Rod that could
hold its own on street or strip was obsolete. Besides, McMullen’s business was
growing and he needed cash.
To raise money, he offered his
iconic ‘32 for just $5,000 in the January 1970 issue of “Hot Rod,” a sum that
seems astoundingly low today. It’s likely McMullen didn’t think twice about the
sale’s significance (although later he called it “one of my biggest
mistakes”). The car passed through several hands, including Richard Lovesee,
Albert Baca, then to vintage racer Don Orosco and finally to Jorge Zaragoza, an
El Paso collector who also owned the 2005 Pebble Beach Hot Rod Class-winning
ex-Jack Calori ‘36 Ford Coupe. Zaragoza asked Roy Brizio, whose shop in San
Francisco, California, has produced numerous award-winning Hot Rods, to
completely redo the McMullen classic ’32 from the ground up.
Appropriately, Brizio and
Zaragoza decided to restore the car to match the way it appeared on the cover
of “Hot Rod” in April 1963. “The sheet metal was virtually complete,” Brizio
said, “and we still had the original front suspension, along with the dash and
the instruments, even the California black plates, but the chassis had been
updated, so we had to find an original ‘32 Ford frame and some running gear. We
located a correct small-block Chevy and a ’39 Ford gearbox. Everything else was
copied from period photographs. The flames originally applied by Ed ‘Big Daddy’
Roth are, in fact, different from side to side, so we digitized the patterns,
then copied them.
“We painstakingly researched
everything about the car. It was done exactly as it appeared on the cover of
Hot Rod. Darrell Hollenbeck did the black paint perfectly; Darrell and Art
Himsl laid out the flames, and ‘Rory’ did the striping. We had some of Ed
Roth’s work on the original dash to go by, so we digitized it as well, to
ensure the restoration would be exactly as it was.”
As the car neared completion,
Ford Motor Company sponsored a search for the best ’32 Fords of all time to
celebrate the 75th anniversary of the birth of the 1932 Ford in 2007. More than
450 significant nominees were whittled down to 75 finalists by a panel of
experts. The winners starred in a huge display at the Grand National Roadster
Show in Pomona, California, in January 2007; at the Petersen Automotive
Museum’s “Deuce Week” in February; at the Los Angeles Roadster Show in June;
and at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance that summer. Fittingly, the Tom
McMullen Roadster was named one of the acclaimed “75 Most Influential ’32 Fords
of All Time,” and it won third in class at the 2007 Pebble Beach Concours
d’Elegance. At Pebble Beach, the tabulations came down to a virtual 100-point
three-way tie between the Tom McMullen, Walker Morrison and Lloyd Bakan cars,
though the Bakan Coupe “narrowly edged” the other two for the best in class
award.
Flamed, chopped and dropped,
this car helped pioneer and evangelize the 1960s Hot Rod culture's mission, and
according to Hot Rod historian Ken Gross, "This car was, and is, a killer
ride. In Hot Rod parlance, we’d call it bitchin’. If you’re looking for an
iconic, award-winning, absolutely timeless ’32 Ford roadster, look no further:
there’s only one original Tom McMullen roadster that rocked the country in
1963, and this is it."
Fonte : https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0119-359622/1932-ford-mcmullen-roadster/
Fonte : https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0119-359622/1932-ford-mcmullen-roadster/
Chevrolet Corvette L88 1969, Estados Unidos
Chevrolet Corvette L88 1969, Estados Unidos
Motor : L88 427/430HP V-8
Exterior : Preto (Tuxedo Black)
Interior : Preto
Fotografia
Histórico do carro (em inglês) :
L88 Corvettes have always been at the top of the pecking order both in terms of rarity and desirability. In a mere three years from 1967-69, only 216 L88 Corvettes in total were produced with the incredible engine.
The unusual
beginnings of this highly decorated 1969 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Coupe are
detailed in a letter from Tony Franchi, who enjoyed a long career at Wigder
Chevrolet in Livingston, New Jersey, the car’s selling dealer. Written in 1995
to the car’s then-owner Bob Rush of Clewiston, Florida, the letter describes
how the original purchaser left the car stored at the dealership “for the
longest time.” When the customer finally arrived to collect his new car, he
showed up with a flatbed trailer and winched the L88 onto the trailer deck
without it even having been put through a pre-delivery inspection. When asked
by a dealer employee what he would do with the car, the customer’s reply was
straightforward: “Put it away.” Indeed, that is exactly what happened, because
it never appeared at Wigder Chevrolet again.
Flash forward
to today, as the car shows just more than 2,000 original miles. One of just 116
L88s produced in 1969, the final year of production, it presents in rare Tuxedo
Black with a black interior, Rally wheels and Firestone blackwall tires. It
still carries its factory-original drivetrain, comprising the storied L88
427/430 HP engine with late-production open-chamber aluminum heads, a Muncie
M22 “Rock Crusher” 4-speed and 4.56:1 Positraction rear end. In addition to the
L88-specific F41 special suspension, K66 transistorized ignition and J50-J56
special power disc brakes, the car features bright front-fender louver trim and
Soft Ray-tinted glass.
The car was
awarded both Bloomington Gold and NCRS Regional Top Flight honors in 2004, a
result of the careful restoration by the Naber Brothers of Houston, Texas, that
encompassed NOS parts including five Firestone tires. It was then invited to
the 2008 Bloomington Gold L88 Invasion and 2018 L88 Explosion Special
Collections, further adding to its accolades. Documented with the
aforementioned letter from Wigder Chevrolet, this top-tier collector Corvette
L88 comes complete with judging sheets and certificates, restoration receipts
and owner's manual. Furthermore, the original L88 engine has been affirmed by
Al Grenning’s Classic Car Affirmation Services.
- Bloomington
Gold Certified in 2004
- NCRS
Regional Top Flight award in 2004
- Just over
2,000 original miles
- Restored by
the Nabers Brothers in Houston
- Original
drivetrain
- CCAS engine
affirmation
- L88 427/430
HP V-8 engine
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Late-production open chamber heads
- M22 4-speed
transmission
- Letter from
the service manager of Wigder Chevrolet testifying about the unusual delivery
of the car
- The original
owner asked the dealership not to perform the new car service for delivery
- 2008
Bloomington Gold L88 Invasion Special Collection
Fonte : https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0119-366876/the-1969-l88-corvette-offering/
Chevrolet Corvette Coupe 1967, Estados Unidos
Chevrolet Corvette Coupe 1967, Estados Unidos
Motor : 427/390HP
Exterior : Branco/Vermelho
Interior : Vermelho
Fotografia
Histórico do carro (em inglês) :
HIGHLIGHTS
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Preserved unrestored in as-new condition
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2,996 total miles, all driven by the original owner
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No one known to sit in the passenger seat
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Baggage never carried in the rear compartment
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Original VIN stamps on engine, transmission, body,
and frame
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Original window sticker, order copy, warranty book
and dealer docs
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Original tank sticker never removed
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GM documented options: 427/390 HP V-8, 3,36 gear
ratio, tinted glass, telescopic steering column, dual side exhaust, aluminum
alloy wheels, Dayton tires mounted by the dealer on day one
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No damage history
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Minor conservation treatment on engine and
accessories
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Unbroken chain of custody from date of manufacture
to present
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Sets a standard of measurement for historical
accuracy and provenance
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Will be used as the measurement standard for
InSight™, a new inspection service
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Notarized 45-page 'Prove It' Report by David
Burroughs
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6 Volume 'Prove It' History Box contains GM and
ownership documents, correspondence regarding discovery and conservation,
photos and records of 2017 conservation process returning the vehicle to
operational service, video interview conducted by David Burroughs regarding the
original owner; how and why the vehicle was driven so little and preserved so
well
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'Prove It' Report states, 'This vehicle belongs in
the Smithsonian, not in a car show'
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One of the world's finest preserved original and
most documented sports cars
THIS CAR BELONGS IN THE SMITHSONIAN,
NOT
IN A CAR SHOW.
This car is not intended for
anyone wanting to drive or fiddle with a Corvette on weekends. Neither is
it intended for anyone wanting a restored 100-point piece of jewelry. It is
intended for the passionate automotive historian.
It has one primary purpose—to
permanently serve as an industrial document to remind us what America’s Sport
Car really smelled like, sounded like and looked like brand new—inside,
outside, under hood and chassis. Flaws included. That requires a special
kind of owner.
Aesthetically striking, highly
optioned, high performance, historically significant and flawless
provenance are the attributes of long-term collectibles. Volumes of relevant
documents and data present a window into conservation of the few things
repaired, rehabilitated or replaced since new. Its new condition is
obvious to the eye. However, its important hidden historic details may not be.
A history box of GM documents, correspondence, photos, Prove It report and
other interesting details are available for inspection. (Highlights on a flash
drive may be requested.)
There are literally thousands
of perfectly restored vehicles available at any given
time. There are only a handful of perfectly preserved ones
available. Ever. For centuries, the basic form of wealth has been the
possession of scarce and desirable tangible objects. Vehicles like these are
scarce tangible objects that require protection and pro-active conservation.
For more than 50 years, it has
been remarkably protected. It requires a special type of person to be
responsible for its continued safekeeping.
This is an industrial document to be studied. Not a trophy to be claimed.
This is the real "Keeper of Knowledge,” and its secrets are in
plain sight.
There are great cars and there are great-looking cars. This one is both.
Restorations cost hundreds of thousands, yet remain inaccurate. This car
cost nothing to restore and defines accuracy.
This car is not perfect … but it’s close.
There are cars more expensive, but few are more memorable.
The historic form of wealth is possession of scarce tangible objects.
Preserved cars are scarce tangible objects. Restored
cars are not scarce.
Judging manuals determine the accuracy of 1967s. This ’67 determines the
accuracy of judging manuals.
Judging manuals can’t describe original sounds. This car can.
Judging manuals can’t describe original smells. This car can.
Judging manuals can’t describe original textures. This car can.
Judging manuals can’t illustrate original finishes. This car can.
Judges spend hours describing original finishes. This car takes under a
minute and does a better job.
Many cars are advertised ‘Numbers Matching’. This car shows you.
Fonte : https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0119-364442/1967-chevrolet-corvette-coupe/
Aqueduto de Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Acqueducto de Sta. Thereza) - Rafael Castro Y Ordoñez
Rio de Janeiro - RJ
Faz parte do livro "La Comision Científica Destinada al Pacífico", foto 38
Fotografia - 1862
Aqueduto da Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Rio de Janeiro - RJ
Fotografia - Cartão Postal
Os Aquedutos do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Les Aqueducs a Rio de Janeiro) - Charles Ribeyrolles e Jean Victor Frond
Rio de Janeiro - RJ
Faz parte do livro "Brazil pittoresco : álbum de
vistas, panoramas, monumentos, costumes, etc., com retratos de Sua Majestade
Imperador Dom Pedro II et Família Imperial”, gravura 14.
Gravura - 1861
Praia Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Praya Rodriguez Près de Rio de Janeiro) - Johann Moritz Rugendas
Rio de Janeiro - RJ
Faz parte do livro "Viagem Pitoresca Através do Brasil", Gravura 1
Gravura
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