Fiberglass Farms Tour with Ken Gross, Petersen Museum Former Executive Director
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Come take an updated tour of our project cars, barn finds, and even junkyard finds at Fiberglass Farms with Ken Gross, former executive director of the Petersen Museum.
Ken has been the Guest Curator for fourteen highly-acclaimed exhibitions of extraordinary automobiles and motorcycles in fine art museums, including: “The Allure of the Automobile,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2010) and the Portland Art Museum, Portland (2011); “Speed: The Art of the Performance Automobile,” Utah Museum of Fine Arts, in Salt Lake City (2012) “Sensuous Steel: Art-Deco Automobiles” at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville (2013); “Porsche By Design: Seducing Speed,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art (2013); “Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas,” (2014) at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2015), and “Sculpted in Steel,” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (2016).
Ken curated “Bellisima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1946-to-1975,” for the Frist Museum in Nashville in mid-2016, and presented “Rolling Sculpture” at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, in 2017. He curated a 2018 exhibition of Streamlined Moderne automobiles for the Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR, which was followed by “Drive! Iconic American Cars and Motorcycles,” held at the Taubman Museum of Art, in Roanoke, VA (2018). Ken’s exhibitions of fine cars in fine art museums have attracted over 1 million visitors.
Along with exhibition catalogs, Ken’s 25 automotive books include “Ferrari 275 GTB,” “Vintage Cars,” “Hot Rods and Custom Cars: Los Angeles and The Dry Lakes;” “So-Cal Coupe,” “Art of the Hot Rod,” “Milestone Hot Rods,” “The Illustrated BMW Buyer’s Guide,” and “Ferrari 250GT SWB.” Ken co-wrote “Rockin’ Garages” in 2013, with Tom Cotter. He’s also the author of “Behind the Headlights,” an acclaimed SPEED/TV educational series. Recent books include “Iconic: Art Design, Advertising and the Automobile,” published in December 2016, and “RVM Classics,” a privately released volume in 2018 on the historic hot rod collection of Richard Munz. His newest books include “Concours d’Elegance,” and “The Lane Motor Museum, a Hobby Gone Wild.” “Deuce!,” a new book on the 1932 Ford hot rod collection of Bruce Meyer, was released in 2021.
A member of ICJAG, the International Chief Judge Advisory Group, Ken has been a Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Chief Class Judge for 31 years. He serves on the Pebble Beach Selection Committee. He is the Chief Judge for the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance. Ken has judged at Amelia Island, Cavallino, St. Michaels, Boca Raton, Radnor Hunt, Keels and Wheels, The Elegance at Hershey, Pinehurst, Forest Grove, Kiawah Island, The Greenbrier, the Concours of America at St. Johns, Hilton Head Island, and the Concours on Rodeo Drive. He has judged overseas at Zoute Grand Prix Concours, Knokke-Heist, Belgium; the Ferrari 70 Concours in Modena, Italy; the Concours Suisse in Coppet, Switzerland, and the 21-Gun Salute Concours d’Elegance in Delhi, India.
Ken has received the Automotive Hall of Fame Distinguished Service Citation, the Lorin Tryon Trophy at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the Ken Purdy award from the International Motor Press Association, the Dean Bachelor Lifetime Achievement Award, from the Motor Press Guild in Los Angeles, the Lee Iacocca Award, the Pinnacle Award at the Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance, the Nicolas Cugnot Award from the Antique Automobile Club of America, and the IAMA Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the Concours Director for the Chattanooga MotorCar Festival and he serves on the Advisory Boards of the American Hot Rod Foundation and T.R.O.G.
His publications include: Collier AutoMedia, Road & Track, AutoWeek, thedrive.com, Playboy, The Robb Report, edmunds.com, American Car Collector, Porsche 356 Registry, Automobile Magazine, Hagerty’s Magazine, Sports Car Market, Forbes, Modern Rodding, Motor Trend Classic, The Rodder’s Journal, Street Rodder Magazine, Hot Rod Magazine, Hot Rod DeLuxe, Bimmer, msnautos.com, Magneto, WM Brown, and Old Cars Weekly. Ken has been a North American Car of the Year juror since the award’s inception, and he’s judged the International Engine of the Year.
An admitted “Italophile,” Ken has owned four Ducati’s, two Ferraris and a Lamborghini. He presently owns an award-winning ’32 Ford highboy roadster, a ’39 Ford convertible coupe (with a Chrysler Hemi V-8) a ’40 Ford DeLuxe coupe, a ‘61 Porsche 356B T5 Super 90 coupe and a ’73 Ducati 750GT motorcycle.
Ken lives in Hamilton, VA with his wife, Trish Serratore, Vice-President of ASE, (The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence). He has four children: Jake, 27, a 2017 graduate of James Madison University, and Kayla, 26, a 2018 graduate of Liberty University. Ken’s son Christopher, 55, is the lead singer for the acclaimed rock group “Spin Doctors;” he lives in New York City. His son Jeremy, 53, is a computer scientist, in Wenham, MA. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
GREAT VIDEO --Wow so much history---lifetime of restorations---ooh if I was younger
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Fascinating to know that all these cars at some time were on the road driving, giving joy to the drivers. What happened between then and now.......... The cars deserves to be restored and enjoyed again. But that can take years. I know for myself, putting up the task of restoring a Kellison J6 in The Netherlands.
Ohhhh love the Kellisons!
My second cousin built a car around a FG body he bought, in the 1950's. The story was that he used a small Ford V-8 (flathead, I'd assume) and 'big Ford' running gear. He was in the Modesto area, and knew some friends in the Porsche Club and they made mistake of inviting him and his wife on their annual rally into Mexico. The legend is that the Ford liked Mexican gas better than the Porsches, and they won the rally. The last car shown on the FG Farm was probably real close to what he built. I think it was a Devon body he used. 🌠
Very cool, love stories like that
At the 5 minute mark there was a car that had tear drop headlights and a grill that looked like a 55 Chevy. I could be wrong, but was that a car called the "Venus". When I was a kid growing up, there was a barn that had collapsed that us kids would play in and there was a fiberglass car in the barn, it was a Venus. I've seen photos of one on an old 50's vintage car magazine.......I had read that only one survived and it was abandoned in the Boston Area after a Boston Car show due to the company going bankrupt and not having the ability to move that car. I think the car in the barn was that car and if there was only one, it makes sense that this is the same car I knew as a kid and played in. I remember it had a ford v8 engine in it. Is that the only Venus on the planet? If there are fiberglass car collectors that are interested in collecting stuff, I've got the Molds for the Avanit Four Door Sedan from the 1990's. Only 90 cars were build. I bought almost all the molds for 234 dollars
Good eye and yes, that would be the Venus, but it’s not the only one. We helped facilitate the sale of another to a friend of ours who will be restoring his soon. Great story about the one in the barn, here’s the stories we have on the Venus from our website: www.undiscoveredclassics.com/?s=Venus&x=0&y=0
Beautiful setting…Spanish moss..
The old oaks and moss do make for a lovely background!
GREAT WORK GUYS!!💥🙌💪AUSTRALIA!!🤍💙❤️💥👊
Thanks!
Wish I could build him a warehouse to store them in.
We wouldn’t say no to someone dropping a dump truck of cash to do that 😉
Just found you today, I'm looking forward to your content! Is there a channel for the guy who has the stiletto?
Thanks for following along! Steve doesn’t have a channel of his own BUT we’re trying to get him and some of our other friends restoring cars like these to get some video to us so we can post updates here and there
Kellison Panther J 6 in Sacramento Ca
Kellison made some great looking cars
I saw the D’Oloqui
Geoff, when will we see it finished?
There’s only one finished example right now, the one our friend Paul Sable owns and debuted at Pebble Beach last year. It’s currently on display at the AACA Museum. If you check out the videos we have for our time at Pebble Beach the past year, the car is featured extensively. -Mike
Wow, it looks great! Is the D’Olloqui the same as the Debonaire?
Yep! They’re only know as the Debonnaire or the Venture. The Debonnaire was a fully built car and the Venture was just a body to be built by the buyer
When the older gentleman from the exquisite Peterson knew about NWA's " Straight Out Of Compton" LMAO😆😆😆
Ken has a wide ranging knowledge
Apparently this incudes 90's gansta rap music 😄@@UndiscoveredClassicsUSA
Well, fun fact about Ken, his son is one of the members of Spin Doctors so that could explain it, at least partially :)
Love your channel by the way, new subscriber. That's pretty cool that he is a Spin Doctor dad! I remember that band pretty well. Some good 90's memories right there @@UndiscoveredClassicsUSA 😁
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
German Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing petrol stations to only one state operated central gas
station per city. From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be
banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine
and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027
on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any
more...
A reason why organizations need to offer specialty events and exceptions.
Lets pray but China does not want that, they control the USA and EU @@mishasamorodin9150