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There are car guys and again there is Doug Conran.
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Doug, a longtime Southwest Michigan resident, is a committed auto beneficiary and enthusiast. Happily for Doug, his wife Arlene supports his efforts.
He has endemic a cardinal of admirable new automobiles, including best of the Mopar beef cars aback in the day, and he has a alternative of best cartage in his collection.
His called vocation reflected his absorption in transportation. Three months afterwards Admiral Eisenhower active the 1956 Federal Artery System bill, Doug active on with the Michigan Department of Busline as an engineering technician. It was his job for 33 years to ride assemblage on artery architecture contractors as they congenital Michigan's allocation of the artery highways.
Doug retired from MDOT in 1988. Even afore he retired, Doug became absorbed in bottle ability and had amorphous bearing windows and added works. He started Conran Bottle Works and took orders from churches, businesses and individuals.
He accomplished bottle art and operated out of the Artisan's WELL in Brick Alley in the old Fairplain Shopping Plaza. In the mid '80s he confused from the Fairplain armpit to a abundance forth Niles Avenue in St. Joseph until 2000.
Doug's pieces were created application the foil- and lead-came methods, and he still makes admirable Tiffany-styled lampshades, which will be anesthetized on to his accouchement and grandchildren.
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Doug started accession cars in 1982 back he begin a 1956 Imperial in Berrien Springs, which charcoal in his accumulating and is his pride and joy. Over the years he has replaced the autogenous with aboriginal bolt and leather, refurbished the agent compartment, added wire auto and re-chromed the die-cast chrome trim.
Amazingly, the backwoods blooming car's white roof acrylic is original. Doug has been arrive to appearance his Imperial throughout the country and has won the AACA's 1st Junior, Senior and Grand Civic 1st awards
His admirable atramentous 1936 DeSoto Airflow is a admired of Doug's. He bought the attenuate aerodynamic, trend-setting auto in 2000 in Scottsdale, Ariz. It was in adequately appropriate shape, accepting been adequate by an buyer in Duluth.
The autogenous did not charge attention, but Doug re-chromed the bumpers and fabricated aliment on the car's paint. He apparent problems created by old gas in the tank.
He has apparent the awful admired DeSoto at abounding shows, including at civic Airflow Club and DeSoto meets and the Keeneland Concours in Lexington, Ky. Doug's collectibles accept becoming him abounding trophies.
Keeping Doug active is a 1933 Chrysler Royal Auto with bifold ancillary mounts. A New Jersey discovery, he bought the car in the mid-90s and has performed a complete ground-up restoration. He bought a additional 1933 Chrysler to accumulation parts.
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He chose to acrylic his Chrysler application a Ford barter acrylic aggregate of beach and red.
The car's autogenous is new. He begin Bedford bond fabric, which absolutely akin the actual acclimated on the car back assembled. Bedford Bond is a absolute and provided a actual flush attending to the interior.
Doug is a animated auto memorabilia collector. He has several barn apartment abounding of such things as best ceramics metal gas base signs, car banker signs, displays and oil cans. With an accessible move to Florida in his future, abundant of his accumulating will be up for sale.
Doug is able-bodied accepted to bounded car enthusiasts because of his account with the Southwestern Michigan Car Collectors club, which started in 1980. He was adopted admiral in 1991 and served in the role until 1996.
During his tenure, associates grew to about 280 families. The club started the Mall Show, which ran at the Orchards Mall for abounding years. He continued the club's lath of admiral from four to eight. Later it broadcast to 12 as club associates increased.
I accept counted on Doug for admonition and admonition over the years as the Concours grew in ability and success. He generally drops me an email with a tip about a appropriate agent and the car's owner's name. He continues to serve a Concours judge.
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Without a doubt, a car or two in the accessible Concours is there because of Doug's ascribe and support. I acknowledge him for that and acknowledge him for all of his efforts in the accomplished to advance and bless all things automotive in our area.
Auto talk
Each year the Concours invites an automotive artist to be our featured guest. This year our featured artist is Bill Porter, a retired GM "lifer" who headed the Pontiac and Buick studios as architecture chief. He is able-bodied accepted for his absorbing talks about automotive architecture and trends.
Among the cars created beneath Porter's administration accommodate the accepted 1968 Pontiac GTO and LeMans, 1970-73 Pontiac Firebird and Trans Am, 1973 Pontiac Grand Am, 1985-86 Buick Electra and LeSabre, 1992 Buick LeSabre and the final Riviera alien in 1995.
Porter will present a PowerPoint affairs blue-blooded "Bombs and Fins: American Car Architecture of the '50s" in a affairs from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, in the Tuscana Room at Tosi's Restaurant.
In the accomplished we did not action this chargeless accident to the public. This year, however, we accept confused the accident to a beyond amplitude at Tosi's and bound basement is accessible on a first-come-first-serve basis.
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Readers adulatory to appear Porter's allocution charge assets a bench by either sending me an email or calling me. My email abode is drd43@sbc global.net (please put in Subject band - Porter Concours Talk.) My buzz cardinal is 983-0742. Basement is bound to aboriginal 50 callers.
Dar Davis is architect and aspirant communication of the anniversary Concours d'Elegance of Southwest Michigan - St. Joseph car appearance captivated anniversary August. He can be accomplished at drd43@sbcglobal.net. His blog armpit is darscars.blogspot.com.
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