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Al Temple Tribute - Part Two. (I'll post Part One paradoxically tomorrow.)
Learning that Tangel' collected large, over-powered sportscars that dwarfed her, Al Temple/Gene Catlow drew this picture of her behind the wheel of her first acquisition -- a classic 1957 red Corvette. Over the years Tangel' has added a number of other cars to her collection, including a Ferrari F50 that I've illustrated (painted in custom tangerine metal flake). I'm still trying to work out just how many cars she has and in what order she bought or was given them. It does no good to simply list a large number of impressive cars. They have to seem "right" to appeal to her pesonality.
Learning that Tangel' collected large, over-powered sportscars that dwarfed her, Al Temple/Gene Catlow drew this picture of her behind the wheel of her first acquisition -- a classic 1957 red Corvette. Over the years Tangel' has added a number of other cars to her collection, including a Ferrari F50 that I've illustrated (painted in custom tangerine metal flake). I'm still trying to work out just how many cars she has and in what order she bought or was given them. It does no good to simply list a large number of impressive cars. They have to seem "right" to appeal to her pesonality.
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Man, I remember back through the decades to one of my first really big assignments in tech school, rewire a 59' Vette that had been stripped for racing at one time and was now being 'unstripped' you might say. I spent a week under the dash, legs sticking up in the air resting in the seat back. Ghod the headaches I had at the end of each day from being inverted for several hours made me so nauseous I couldn't eat. Forever burned into my brain, this was a headache car. The only real fun I had with it was getting the magnetic auto-winding on the clock working which required I take the clock apart, otherwise I hated the whole week with that thing.
I can't say why, but I think you're right. The F1 is too "pretty", perhaps? As is the Lamborghini Murcielago. I think Tangel' means more business than that. Not that the F1 and the Merci aren't business... They're among the fasted cars on the road. But a lot of the value goes into hand stitched Italian leather seats, and hand polished chrome-molebdenum engine ports, and hand finished walnut dashboards, etc. Stamped aluminum and molded plastic goes just as fast, at a fraction of the cost. So after her Corvette's, Tangel's cars ought to grow ever more serious -- Shelby Cobras, say. The Viper GTS maybe.
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