Detroit, MI
A rare look inside the city of Detroit’s classic car collection
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DETROIT (WXYZ) — Automotive innovation and town of Detroit are synonymous. 7 Motion Information had the distinctive alternative to get a sneak peek of Detroit’s personal automobile assortment that includes uncommon autos from the previous 125 years.
The gathering, bubble wrapped and discreetly housed in a warehouse in Southwest Detroit, options 70 autos cared for by the Detroit Historic Society. Rigorously protected by bubble wrap, every automobile holds a novel story about Detroit’s automotive historical past.
“It is Lee Lacocca’s private Lincoln, a 1973 Lincoln Continental. And it is an infinite, huge automobile,” Jeremy Dimick, Director of Collections & Curatorial, Detroit Historic Society stated in regards to the distinctive 18 1/2-foot-long automobile coated in bubble wrap.
“It’s actually need to have this instance that is not solely tied to an instrumental determine in sort of the Detroit auto panorama, but additionally it’s a fantastic snapshot automobile once more, of simply what was on the highway on the time,” stated Dimick.
The gathering options many distinctive autos, together with ideas.
“It is a 1963 Mustang two idea automobile,” Dimick stated about one of the crucial distinctive autos within the metropolis’s assortment. “Ford rolled out the unique Mustang experimental sports activities automobile, which is on show on the Henry Ford Museum. They borrowed some parts from the idea automobile, borrowed some from the manufacturing automobile and roll this out and confirmed it round to sort of handle individuals’s expectations of what they’d truly be capable to purchase when it got here time to purchase a mustang.
Sitting subsequent to the Mustang idea is an orphan model automobile.
“That is a 1935 Stout Scarab. And Invoice Stout was an plane engineer by commerce, and he truly developed the Ford Tri Motor Airplane. Later in his life he began growing these experimental automobiles and actually took plane designers’ eye to the car. And, so this automobile is designed actually from the passenger perspective,” Dimick stated about Invoice Stout’s use of aviation design parts in automotive design.
“He stated in his autobiography that once they had been touring this automobile round, they drove from Detroit to L.A. with a glass of water on their dashboard and by no means nonetheless ever spilled the drop as a result of the suspension was so good. There was solely 35 made in 1935 and there is solely a handful of them left.
Subsequent to the Scarab sits one other uncommon automobile from the 1930’s.
“It is a 38 Packard. This 1938 hit is de facto the height of Packard styling and will get all that nice artwork deco affect that was so huge within the Thirties, particularly on the entrance finish with the massive headlights and all of the chrome on the grille,” stated Dimick.
One other space of the warehouse homes autos which were mass produced in what Dimick says is the Detroit type.
“Then on the exact opposite finish of that’s sort of extra on a regular basis stuff. Like we’ve got a 1984 Dodge Caravan, for instance, we’ve got a 89 Ford Taurus. They’re all in-built what we name the Detroit type of producing. So, they’re mass produced and mass marketed automobiles that had been out there to a big selection of individuals.
Vehicles within the assortment vary from the flip of the twentieth century to 1992 and rotate by way of the Detroit Historic Museum.
“It’s actually broad and vast ranging, however I feel that is the power of it,” Dimick stated in regards to the metropolis’s expansive automobile assortment.
To protect the autos, the Detroit Historic Museum depends on some fairly attention-grabbing know-how – bubble wrap.
“There’s a little bit tiny pc fan on the again of them. Principally, that pull in air from the surface and flow into air round contained in the bubble to maintain it inflated. However that additionally does is it retains airflow shifting across the automobile. So, in the summertime you are concerned about excessive humidity and sort of stagnant air that may trigger mildew development. But additionally, , simply retains the mud off if, , mud occurs regardless of the place they’re saved, sort of. So, it simply, once more, provides that additional layer of safety,” Dimick stated about the usage of bubble wrap and followers to guard the gathering.
The gathering, Dimick stated, is essential for the preservation of Detroit’s automotive historical past.
“It is the signature trade for the twentieth century. It is actually instrumental to the Detroit story. And we’re fortunate to have such a fantastic assortment, to have the ability to show that historical past,” stated Dimick.
Whereas town of Detroit’s automobile assortment is just not open to the general public, the Detroit Historic Society is working to digitize the gathering to present everybody entry to those iconic and uncommon autos.
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Detroit, MI
Metro Detroit families shop for deals as back-to-school shopping is hit with inflation woes
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(CBS DETROIT) – It’s prime back-to-school shopping season. As inflation woes continue, families do everything they can to stock up on items to kick off the school year.
“I don’t necessarily go to dollar stores or thrift stores because I know if I pay attention to Facebook and look at those pages that offer the community free things for children to go back to school. I’m on it,” said parent Ecora Foshee.
Foshee is just one of many parents in the area searching for back-to-school deals.
According to the National Retail Federation, back-to-school shopping will top $39 billion this year, up from $26 billion in 2019.
“Families with children in elementary to high school are expected to spend around $875 on average on clothing, shoes, and school supplies,” said Katherine Cullen, VP of Industry and Consumer Insights at the National Retail Federation.
This year marks the second-highest figure on record, according to the NRF.
Experts say as families opt for ways to save money reselling clothing stores, they see more shoppers, looking for deals at a fraction of the cost.
“For example, our kids’ clothing, we start at 50 cents; I say the most expensive thing is $10, maybe $12. We’re a third of what things cost retail,” said Melanie Williams, co-owner of Regeneration.
New inflation data shows consumer prices rose 2.9% in July over the last year, dropping below 3% for the first time since 2021.
Thousands of Metro Detroit families fill stores looking to fulfill the school supply list. The NRF says school essentials like pens, pencils, and paper will cost the average American parent around $141.
“The most popular destinations for both back-to-school and back-to-college shoppers are online, followed by department stores and discount retailers,” Cullen said.
As the race to the White House rolls on, the American economy is a major topic.
As some retailers raise prices, the shopping season becomes even more stressful for families on fixed incomes.
“It kills the poor person who is barely making it, and even when you go to dollar stores, it’s 1.25 when it used to be 99 cents,” Foshee said.
In a recent Credit Karma survey, parents who identify as Gen Z and millennials were more likely to take on debt to afford school supplies.
Detroit, MI
Jay Leno to visit Woodward Dream Cruise Saturday to pick up antique jet-powered car
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Jay Leno’s upcoming visit to the Woodward Dream Cruise has been three years in the making.
Well, really, it has been 61 years in the making.
Leno, an avid car collector and returning attendee of the Dream Cruise, will be coming to metro Detroit to see the thousands of cool cars lining Woodward, but he will also be here to pick up — and tell some stories about — his 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car, an experimental coupe built by Chrysler. The car is powered by a turbine engine and coated in a glowing orange coat of paint over its swoopy, sleek body. There were 55 of them made, and Chrysler rolled them out as a sort of publicity stunt.
Eventually, Chrysler decided it didn’t want to take the car to market and rolled them back, destroying most of them. Only nine of them still survive. Six of them are in museums. Chrysler owns two. The other belongs to Jay Leno.
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According to Leno’s friend, Steve Lehto, the cars ran on any liquid that burned: “You can drive these things on kerosene, diesel, palm heating oil, Chanel No. 5, vodka, tequila.”
Lehto, an attorney with a law office in Southfield and also a successful car-law-related YouTube channel with over 500,000 subscribers, has written a whole book about the Turbine Car, featuring a forward from Leno himself. The two have been friends for years, but it began with Leno poking fun at him on his late-night show, “The Tonight Show,” for a different book he had written, called “Death’s Door,” which had been advertised as a good Christmas present. Leno joked that the title was too morose for a Christmas gift, and moved on.
Lehto found it funny, and sent a copy of “Death’s Door” to Leno, along with a manuscript for his book about the Turbine Car, knowing he was a car enthusiast, on a whim. Leno called him, interested in the manuscript, and they sparked a friendship over a fascination with the experimental vehicle.
Eventually, Leno convinced Chrysler to sell him one of the nine remaining Turbine Cars.
Lehto and Leno kept in touch over the years, with Lehto even flying to California to take the car for a spin, but contact was sporadic and intermittent, Lehto said.
That is, until Leno called three years ago with a problem: The engine in his Turbine Car had completely failed. Kaput.
“He said he had tried everybody he could think of to fix the car,” Lehto said. Not even Leno’s own team of automotive experts could fix it. Leno wanted to know if Lehto knew anyone who might be able to make it run again.
“There’s only one thing I can think of that we haven’t talked about yet,” Lehto remembers saying. “The guy who is like the godfather of (the Turbine Car) was named Sam Williams.”
Williams, a celebrated engineer known for his work on turbine engines, left Chrysler in the ’60s. He opened his own business, Williams International, in Walled Lake soon after, bringing a number of the original Turbine Car engineers with him. Nowadays, Williams International specializes in jet engines on military contracts, and they are certainly not in the business of repairing antique cars.
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But Lehto said whatever brainpower went into building the Turbine Car in the 1960s went to Williams International, and if anyone could help Leno, it was them, he said.
Leno asked him whether he knew anyone who worked there.
“Yeah, my brother works there,” Lehto remembers saying.
After a little hemming and hawing, Lehto said, Williams International agreed to take Leno’s car and fix it as long as it didn’t disrupt their normal workflow.
For three years, Lehto’s brother and other engineers at Williams International worked to put the car back together after Leno had it shipped to them in crates. They 3D-printed parts in steel. They remade parts that haven’t been manufactured in decades. They rallied together long-retired engineers from the ’60s who worked on the initial Turbine Cars.
And three years later, as the product of hours of late-night and weekend maintenance, Leno’s Turbine Car started running and driving last week, Lehto said. On Saturday, he’s coming to pick it up.
Lehto said it’s the nature of the car community to come together for a project like this.
“Everybody was helping on this,” he said. “It’s true of a lot of car communities where people who rally around a particular car are happy to share their knowledge, share their expertise and even happy to share their parts.”
You might think car collectors get greedy, Lehto said, but the saga to rebuild Leno’s ride has been an exercise in sharing.
“If you’ve got one of these cars, you would think you’d hang on to your parts, like ‘Don’t touch my stuff I might need it!’ ” Lehto said. “But no, they’re happy to help because they want to see another car stay on the road.”
News reporter Liam Rappleye can be reached at LRappleye@freepress.com
Detroit, MI
Detroit judge taken off bench for putting tired teen in handcuffs during school field trip
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By ED WHITE, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager into jail clothes and handcuffs on a field trip to his courtroom will be off the bench while undergoing “necessary training,” the court’s chief judge said Thursday.
Meanwhile, the girl’s mother said Judge Kenneth King was a “big bully.”
“My daughter is hurt. She is feeling scared,” Latoreya Till told the Detroit Free Press.
She identified her daughter as Eva Goodman. The 15-year-old fell asleep in King’s court Tuesday while on a visit organized by a Detroit nonprofit.
King didn’t like it. But he said it was her attitude that led to the jail clothes, handcuffs and stern words.
“I wanted this to look and feel very real to her, even though there’s probably no real chance of me putting her in jail,” he explained to WXYZ-TV.
King has been temporarily removed from his criminal case docket and will undergo “necessary training to address the underlying issues that contributed to this incident,” said William McConico, the chief judge at 36th District Court.
The court “remains deeply committed to providing access to justice in an environment free from intimidation or disrespect. The actions of Judge King on August 13th do not reflect this commitment,” McConico said.
He said the State Court Administrative Office approved the step. King will continue to be paid. Details about the training, and how long it would last, were not disclosed.
King, who has been a judge since 2006, didn’t immediately return a phone message seeking comment. At the close of his Thursday hearings, accessible on YouTube, he made a heart shape with his hands. The judge’s work includes determining whether there’s enough evidence to send felony cases to trial at Wayne County Circuit Court.
Till said her daughter was sleepy during the Tuesday court visit because the family doesn’t have a permanent residence.
“And so, that particular night, we got in kind of late,” she told the Free Press, referring to Monday night. “And usually, when she goes to work, she’s up and planting trees or being active.”
The teen was seeing King’s court as part of a visit organized by The Greening of Detroit, an environmental group.
“Although the judge was trying to teach a lesson of respect, his methods were unacceptable,” said Marissa Ebersole Wood, the group’s chairperson. “The group of students should have been simply asked to leave the courtroom if he thought they were disrespectful.”
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