warren percell video on youtube

I'd just like to add that I'm shamelessly in love with the Teague car and it's exactly what I'm looking to buy. If anyone knows of one for sale, please let me know.
Thanks,
Rich

Yesterday, I inquired about a car for sale and the seller dropped the Doc Hudson bomb on me: "If I don't get what I want for it, I'll just keep it and turn it into the Cars car to make my nephew happy."

bent metal, i love the optimism shown by the bottle of glass cleaner on the roof. i love this one too.

@ aaron. i drive a porsche 356 speedster, one of the most replicated cars of all time. if i had a dollar for every time someone asked me "is it real?" (followed by, "really? what's it worth?") i could buy another one. my favorite comment came from a guy who looked it over and said ironically, "that's one hell of a replica." he got he joke and knew what he was looking at.

When i think of a replica i think of a car like a fiberglass Beck Speedster that looks somewhat like what it's pretending to be, but in fact, isn't one at all. A tribute car, on the other hand, is the real car (like a 51 Hornet), but painted to resemble a particular car, such as Teague's or Thomas's cars. What I have in mind is a 51-52 club coupe (or why not a sedan?) that i can love and DRIVE in the spirit Marshall Teague or Herb Thomas would have appreciated. i'm not necessarily planning to paint it in Hudson livery, but my heart beats fast when i see those sweet lines, and know what it did as the very first real muscle car...

Rich

aaron, where i live, in the French part of Switzerland, it is not a car friendly place in general, and worse for classic car guys. the local governments are doing everything they can to eliminate cars from town centers; they tax them heavily, pass prohibitive laws for importing and for qualifying for "classic car" status for insurance and registration, etc. the general mindset is: vintage cars are great for driving to and from vintage car shows, but that's it. i've been insulted several times because my cars smoke a bit, make exhaust smells, or make too much noise. with all that said, being a classic car lover in switzerland is one heck of a challenge and i am one of the very few in my region who rises to the challenge by using classic cars as daily drivers.

if you're going to drive classics regularly here, you have to be thick skinned and are seen as something of a nut. i am a nut, and i've thought hard about this: i want a Hudson! to respond to what you wrote above, i think a finished car would be better than a project, but a project would give me the freedom to build what i want, though it would take longer to get here and on the road. Most of all, i look forward to bombing around here, making noise and blowing smoke and ruffling feathers, just like the guys in the early 50s would have done with a grin, a cold beer and a pack of luckies.

excellent question. i'm afraid i don't know. i do know there is a dealer in holland that has freelancers here in switzerland scouting for cars. it seems he can't get enough to meet demand. I sold him my 69 280 SE a few years ago, and it's funny because if you're a car guy here, you often run into other car guys who've also sold to him. as far as Scandinavia is concerned i've heard taxes on cars are expensive. i came across a thread earlier today from a swiss guy 6bbla12 who was looking for a club coupe on this site in october 11, found one and shipped it over here to restore it. i see he lives in the swiss german part of the country. those guys have much more fun with cars than we do over here. i envy them. the irony of it all is, despite the general anti-car atmosphere here, it's also here in switzerland where some of the world's top private car collections can be found. go figure.