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David Lloyd Glover, a former newspaper illustrator who has worked as a full-time artist since 1969, created the auto museum artwork in the showrooms of vehicles and architecture in the Newport Car Museum.

A week after Gunther Buerman, visionary and founder of the museum was our guest on The Weekly Driver Podcast, Lloyd Glover joined the podcast to discuss his collaborations with the auto museum.

A long-time vintage car collector, Lloyd Glover works often with translucent watercolors using the classic British technique. His work has been featured in numerous galleries in the United States and internationally. He works in a studio in Pacific Palisades in Southern California overlooking Malibu Beach.

David Lloyd Glover is known for his oversized creations including many examples on display at the Newport Auto Museum.

With the museum's specialty of mixing automobiles with architecture and art, Lloyd Glover was the ideal artist to add his creativity as a complement to the 85 vehicles on display.

Auto museum in Rhode Island features cars and art

Co-host Bruce Aldrich is on vacation this week, so I interview the artist about his long career, his interest in vintage cars and his work with the Newport Car Museum.

"People who love automotive art generally are people who can't afford the real thing," says Lloyd Glover. "The car I have created as a piece of art, say it's a Cobra or a Ferrari, or whatever, it's certainly out of everyone's grasp, especially these days."

Often described as a “vivid impressionist painter,” Lloyd Glover's work at the auto museum helps better tell the story of eight decades of automotive design and history.

David Lloyd Glover has many examples of auto museum artwork at the Newport Car Museum in Rhode Island.

"I started being a car nut back in the 1960s," he says. "In those days, a decent sports car was actually very affordable. I started collecting when I was very young. I got in with another collector friend of mine who happened to have a full auto shop, so that helped.

Auto Museum: What was once cheap, now isn't

"We would buy sports cars inexpensively, which would include Mustangs and Chevelles, cars that were performance cars and muscle cars. They were inexpensive in those days; they are not anymore."

Lloyd Glover, who was contacted by Buerman, is known for his oversized works, some as large as 10’ X 20’. Additional examples at the Newport Car Museum, include the Fin Car Gallery’s “Marilyn (Monroe) and Joe (DiMaggio)” placed behind a bright-red 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible located in the Corvette Gallery’s powerful C6-R in race mode."

Please join me for an entertaining podcast episode as the renowned artist details his art career, including one of his combined passions of automobiles and automotive art offered in the famous auto museum located just outside of Newport, R.I.

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Mark Glover, the long-time Sacramento-based journalist, will continue his passion for motorsports this week. He will attend the Indy 500 for the 58th time.

It will be a family affair. Glover's son will accompany his father for the 30th time.

The 106th Indy 500 is scheduled May 29 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Glover is our guest on this episode of The Weekly Driver podcast. Co-host Bruce Aldrich and I talk with the Indy 500 historian about his legacy at the race, the event he first attended with his father when he was a young boy.

Glover was also our guest on Episode #39 in 2018.

We also talk with Glover in Episode #227 about iconic drivers. From four-time winner A.J. Foyt to Hélio Castroneves and his chances of breaking the career-win record shared by Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears.

Indy 500: Veterans, Rookies Intriguing

We also discuss changes in the race and its evolving cars, Mark's favorite drivers and memories from the race

"I'm kind of chomping at the bit because I missed the two," says Glover, of the Covid-19 altered event. "Of course, no one could go in 2020; And last year, they didn't want you to go through airports and it was still shaky and I didn't go.

"I am literally starving for my Indy 500 fix. What really intrigues me this year is the mix of veterans and young folks. You have some very capable older drivers, multiple winners of the race, names that are instantly recognizable throughout the field and then you have a lot of kids.

Indy 500: Unknown Winner?

"It is possible this time around that on Sunday race day you could have a winner, a young man who 98 percent of the sporting public has no idea who he is."

Glover is also a long-time automotive columnist. Read his new car reviews and automotive features on his website AutoGlo.

The 106th Indianapolis 500 is scheduled Sunday, May 29.

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Approaching its fifth anniversary, the Newport Car Museum is the largest automotive museum in New England. It celebrates seven decades of modern industrial car design represented in more than 85 vehicles.

It's all the vision of owners Gunther and Maggie Buerman. The couple, who live in Highland Beach, Florida, and Newport, R.I., opened the museum in 2017. It's located about 20 miles north of Newport in Portsmouth.

The Newport Car Museum has a varied collection of vehicles and a corresponding history museum.

Gunther Buerman, originally from Mannheim, Germany, moved as a young boy with his family to New York. His interest in automobiles began when he practiced wax paper transfer etchings of car advertisements from National Geographic Magazine. He was willed a 1966 Ford Mustang convertible in the mid-1980s from an uncle and his passion for cars hasn't waned.

A former chairman of Harris Beach, LLC, a major New York law firm and current chairman of American Rock Salt Co. in Retsof, N.Y., Buerman is my guest on Episode #226 of The Weekly Driver Podcast.

The vehicles is the Newport Car Museum are owned by Gunther Buerman.

Co-host Bruce Aldrich and I interview the car collector and avid sailor about his nearly lifelong interest in cars and his decision to start a museum.

"It was a wonderful, wonderful car that I admire for a long time," recalls Buerman. "But my love of cars started before then. I especially remember drawing over some of those cars from Studebaker and Packard dealerships of that time and important Mercedes.

The Newport Car Museum has more than 85 vehicles on display.

"I was so enamored by the Gullwing that was pictured in the middle of National Geographic and doing my own rendition of it. In fourth grade when they had vocation day and asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' Everyone wanted to be doctors, lawyers and Indian Chiefs; I wanted to be president of General Motors."

The Newport Car Museum is far more than its iconic cars from Ford and Shelby to Fin Cars and Muscle Cars. The varied collection is a also museum for complemented mid-20th Center Modern furnishings by renowned international designers and automotive artworks by Los Angeles-based artist David Lloyd Glover.

Please join us for an entertaining episode with Gunther Buerman. His passion for automobiles is readily apparent.

For more information, visit: The Newport Car Museum

Chris Bright remains as enthusiastic and energized as the vintage car enthusiast and businessman was last July when his new company Collector Part Exchange debuted.

Bruce Aldrich and I interviewed Bright last summer, just before Monterey Auto Week, for Episode #190 of The Weekly Driver Podcast.

Nearing One-Year Anniversary

Chris Bright is the co-founder of Collector Part Exchange.

A few weeks later, we met him and his business partner and co-founder Aaron Laliberte at the annual show to talk all things vintage cars and online businesses.

Bruce is on vacation this week traveling on another sojourn with his wife Alene in their new Recreational Vehicles So I interviewed Bright from his home in Portland, Oregon in Episode #225.

Much has happened for Collector Part Exchange in its short tenure. It's promoted as a modern-day global automotive swap meet for vintage parts. The niche wasn't being addressed online, but it is now.

"It's all been moving in the right direction, which is what you hope for when you start a business," said Bright, a tech entrepreneur who switched careers when his previous company was acquired to start Collector Part Exchange. "One of the things I've always been frustrated with as a car person was trying to find parts for my cars."

Niche Market

"Trying to find parts online was very frustrating. It's typically more of an old school space with telephone calls and lots of back and forth trying to get what you need."

Bright, who has a master degree in international affairs from George Washington University, worked in high tech startups for more than 25 years. Most recently he co-founded a legal software company called Zapproved. It was acquired by Vista Equity Partners.

Collector Part Exchange also recently featured its first auction, and Bright also publishes a free weekly e-newsletter. Each edition features an interview or opinion from the author, and it highlights available vintage parts area on the site.

Visit: www.collectorpartexchange.com

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Please send comments and suggestions for new episodes to James Raia via email: [email protected].

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Joe Wiesenfelder, the executive editor of cars.com, recently returned from the New York Auto Show. Electric vehicles continue to be emphasized in the automotive market space, and Wiesenfelder is our guest on this episode of The Weekly Driver Podcast to discuss it.

Co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia talk with the veteran journalist about the influx of new manufacturers in the EV segment as wells as the health of the segment.

The Mustang Mach-E is among the influx of new EVs cars.com is monitoring as the segment expands. Image © James Raia

Can any new EV carmaker, Rivian to Lucid to Polestar to VinFast, challenge Tesla? Can any mainstream manufacturer launch a sustainable EV?

Cars.com: Will auto shows remain?

Some high-end manufacturers have discontinued the tradition of debuting new models at auto shows, particularly the major events in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Detroit. We talk about that.

Wiesenfelder discusses with us the health of auto shows and his recent experiences attending the Chicago and New York events.

The industry continues to suffer because of the microchip shortage and also we discuss inventory shortages and the effects of rising fuel costs. That topic is also in our interview.

Cars.com also has a new EV Buying Guide and the site's staff picks in top EVs in different categories.

Cars.com: Curious about EVs?

The website will host its second Cars.com's Guide for the EV Curious on April 28. Cars.com's editors will share their Top EV Picks and answer your questions about electric vehicles and EV ownership during a Live Q&A. Visit cars.com to register.

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Cars.com: Editors on three podcast episodes

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All of the cars.com podcasts:

#266, Cars.com releases 18th ANNUAL American-made index

#224, Cars.com editor reports on EVs, NY Auto Show

#202, Joe Wiesenfelder of Cars.com talks future of EVs

#200, Few Carmakers Get Top Grades in Car Seat Installation

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Like many automotive enthusiasts, Alessandro Borroni has a passion for automobiles that extends past his appreciation for fast cars and iconic carmakers. He's giving back to the community while the inviting like-minded to mingle among peers, drive iconic machines and raise money.

The result is the Hypercar Invitational. The fourth-year event will be held June 9-12 headquartered at WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway.

Borroni, the founder of the event, is our guest on this episode of The Weekly Driver Podcast.

Alessandro Borroni, founder of the Hypercar Invitational, and some of the event's hypercars.

Co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia discuss with Borroni, the genesis of the event, how it's expanded and what's planned for this summer's event.

But just what is the Hyper Invitational?

The exclusive offers an opportunity to not only preview a selection of hypercars but drive them on a closed track.

"It's really hard to start something news," says Borroni during our 30-minute interview. "There's a lot of explaining and convincing, especially with the car companies and that they should come and spend their money is a totally new concept. But little by little, we're doing it. It's been an incredibly fun process."

Three years ago, the Hypercar Invitational partnered with Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area and made the foundation the chief beneficiary of proceeds raised before the event.

Alessandro Borroni, founder of the Hypercar Invitational.

Money is raised by allowing the public to bid on charitable passenger laps in featured vehicles that will be at this year's show in June.

Whoever wins the bid is also invited to Hypercar Invitational, which is closed to the general public. Last year, the event raised $70,000 and it hopes to substantially increase the amount this year.

Advocates of the Hypercar Invitational compare it to The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering. It's a well-heeled event held during the annual Monterey Auto Week in August.

According to an event spokesperson, "The best way to visualize Hypercar Invitational is to imagine The Quail but move it to Laguna Seca and allow people to drive those cars on track (and a runway)."

"Unlike Quail, the Hypercar Invitational is closed to the public. Invited guests include executives from featured manufacturers, designers, engineers, drivers, and other industry VIPs."

The organization’s mission is to become the premier dynamic launch platform for new sports cars, with a strong focus on charitable giving to Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area.

Details of the event's itinerary, donation options and additional event details are posted on https://www.hypercarinvitational.com.

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The VW Golf is the third best-selling car in history, behind the top-selling Toyota Corolla and Ford F-Series of pickup trucks. More than 35 million of the versatile vehicles have sold since the car's debut as a 1974 edition.

With the motoring icon approaching its 50th anniversary, author Russell Hayes has expanded and upgraded his book The Volkswagen Golf Story to include the full Golf 7 range and the latest incarnation, the Golf 8. The new edition is available from Behemoth Publishing 

Co-host Bruce Aldrich is on assignment, so I interview Hayes this week on The Weekly Driver Podcast.

Russell Hayes has authored his eighth book and second on the VW Golf.

"Europe has always been the Golf's natural habitat; it's been one of the top sellers for a long time and I believe it still might be right now, " said Hayes while describing details of his eighth book. "But in the U.S., it's had a very interesting up and down career.

The long winding road

"Although largely it's been replaced by the Jetta, I found the story of the Golf in the U.S. very interesting because they built them here between 1978 and 1987. It was trying to be a homegrown Golf and it was quite different than the European one."

As Hayes details in Episode #222, VW Golf buyers in the U.S. eventually decided they'd rather have a European edition and U.S. production shutdown.

The marketing for the second edition of The Volkswagen Golf Story elaborates:

"The Volkswagen Golf is a motoring paradox, seemingly never really changing its look but always pushing technical development forward as a ‘classless’ car which still carries a ‘premium’ feel about it. While the VW Golf wasn’t the first front-wheel-drive hatchback, its interpretation established the template for others to follow and the benchmark by which they are still judged today."

Lots of key industry players

Author Russell Hayes discusses the history of VW in his book Volkswagen Beetles and Buses.

From the development of the first VW Golf to interviews with key figures, Volkswagen's first designer to its former chairman, the book is the definitive history of the iconic vehicle.

A London-based motoring author, Hayes has written eight books, including the first edition of The Volkswagen Golf Story in 2014. He has also written about the VW Beetle and Type 2 van. Other subjects have been as mixed as Lotus, the Ford Cortina, Aston Martin V8s and the Earls Court Motor Show.

Hayes, also a guest on The Weekly Driver Post on Episodes #209 and #153, was formerly a motoring journalist for British magazines and national newspapers. He has also worked for TV programs such as Top Gear, The Car’s the Star and Driven.

The little car phenomenon

Please join me for an intriguing 30 minute-episode as Hayes and I discuss the phenomenon of the Volkswagen Golf.

Hayes was also a guest on:

Episode #209: The Big Book of Tiny Cars

Episode #153: Volkswagen: Beetle to Buses, Smaller and Smarter.

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The podcast is in its fourth year, and we've had a diverse collection of guests: famous athletes, vintage car collectors, manufacturer CEOs, automotive book authors, industry analysts, a movie stuntman and episodes from auto shows and car auctions. Please send comments and suggestions for new episodes to James Raia via email: [email protected].

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German engineer Carl Benz was the first to design a car around the internal combustion engine rather than adding an engine to an existing wagon or carriage, a critical insight in auto evolution.

Benz, who died in 1929, is often called the inventor of the modern automobile. With six additional luminaries, all patent holders whose inventions range from cataract surgery to the Super Soaker will be honored as part of the latest class of National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) inductees.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame will inductee Carl Benz this year.

Rini Paiva, the NIHF executive vice president for selection and recognition, is our guest this week on The Weekly Driver Podcast.

Co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia discuss with Paiva the selection of Benz to this year's inductees. We also discuss the organization, its mission and the selection process of the honored individuals.

 

"We really wanted the give the people who have changed our worlds the proper recognition they deserve," said Paiva of the multi-pronged organization, including its museum located in Alexandria, Va. "It's where we can celebrate the inventors who we are talking about."

According to his bio posted on the NIHF website, Benz partnered with co-investors in 1882 to establish Benz & Cie. to market a stationary two-stroke engine he had developed. Its success allowed Benz to focus on developing a lighter engine for vehicles. The two-stroke engine was impractical for this purpose, so Benz set to work on increasing the speed of the four-stroke engine by developing the ignition and valve control.

By 1886, Benz had built a gasoline-powered three-wheeled vehicle, the first to combine an internal combustion engine with an integrated chassis. The two rear wheels supported the 0.75 hp strong, single-cylinder engine, and the front wheel was connected to the steering tiller inside the passenger compartment.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame, located in Alexandria, Virginia, will induct modern car inventor Carl Benz this year.

Debuting on the streets of Mannheim in July 1886, it had all the main components of today's internal combustion engines: a crankshaft, electric ignition and water cooling. It traveled about 10 km on a liter of gasoline (about 23 mpg), reached a top speed of 16 kph (about 10 mph) and is considered by experts as the first practical, gasoline-powered automobile to be commercially available.

"It's very difficult, it's interesting and sometimes it can even be fun," said Paiva, light-heartedly. "We don't limit the inventors were are looking at to any particular area. The main requirement is that they have a U.S. patent. "The other thing that we look for and that our selection committee is where the inventors have done has impacted our lives."

The inductees will be honored at “The Greatest Celebration of American Innovation,” on May 4-5.

Danica McKellar, star of the TV show “The Wonder Years,” Hallmark Channel regular and author of New York Times bestselling “McKellar Math” books — will serve as master of ceremonies.

Please join Bruce and me for an informative discussion with Paiva about the pending celebration and the legacy of Carl Benz.

To learn more about the event, visit: www.invent.org/induction.

For general NIHF information, visit: www.invent.org.

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Matt Moore, Senior Vice President of Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), oversees the organization's research program, the collection of vehicle information and the production of loss data.

A complementary company to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, HLDI processes insurance data from companies that represent approximately 85 percent of the U.S. private passenger auto insurance market.

IIHS, HLDI, Progressive work together for improved auto safety.

Moore is our guest this week on The Weekly Driver Podcast. Co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia interview the automobile safety expert with an emphasis on his involvement in a new study released in conjunction with Progressive Insurance titled Does Tech Make Driving Safer?

The HLDI reported in 2020 that forward collision warning combined with automatic braking reduced front-to-rear crashes by 50 percent and crashes with injuries by 56 percent.

Moore reiterated the importance of the report's findings.

"The big one and the I feel the most personal satisfaction about is front auto-braking systems," says Moore. "These are systems that eliminate a lot of problems related to human error, inattention or rapidly emerging circumstances.

"The vehicle is just watching the road and the environment ahead and if it senses a crash-imminent situation it's going to hit the brakes for you."

"The great news is that in September of this year, as a consequence of the work that IIHS and HLDI did and with the voluntary commitment of the National Highway Traffic Administration that the vast majority of vehicles sold are going to have that front auto brake system."

Join Bruce and me as we discuss with Moore the collaborative work of the IIHS and HLDI to further increase driving safety.

To read the full Progressive study, visit: Does Tech Make Driving Safer?

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Spencer, Kristi and Kade Stevens, otherwise known as the Adventurtunity Family, live full-time in their RV. The family is traveling throughout the United States, embracing a lifestyle they've determined is best — at least for now.

Spencer is our guest this week on The Weekly Driver Podcast. Co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia talk with the husband and father about the trio's RV adventures. He discusses the beauty of seeing the country to the challenges of the road.

The Stevens' lifestyle is also the family's business, both achieved from the confines of a Class A, 2017 Holiday Rambler Vacationer 36H.

The Adventurtunity Family on the road and celebrating in front of their RV.

With their website and other social media outlets and with the RV and lifestyle sponsors' support, the husband-wife and their 5-year-old young are about as far removed from their previous corporate employment world as feasible.

It's an RV lifestyle many families may dream about, but not many accomplish.

"In April 2019 we returned from a six-week trip to New Zealand and Australia where we quickly realized our current day-to-day life wasn’t aligning with the direction we wanted for our family," Spencer details on the family's website and as he reiterated to us in episode #219.

"We had goals and dreams, like everyone else, but weren’t taking steps to make them a reality. It wasn’t until we asked ourselves one simple question, “If you had everything you needed to make a change, would you?” that we finally took action."

"We sold it all to live in our home on wheels, traveling the countryside together. Little did we know that selling most of our things and living small would actually give us more than we ever had before!"

Last September marked the family's one-year anniversary on the road. They sold their home and most of their possessions and began living full-time in their RV.

Reaching the family in Texas, Bruce and I cover discuss with Spencer many areas of life on the road, from meals to educating a child, meeting people to driving.

Please join Bruce and me for a lively episode.

The travels of the Adventurtunity Family can be followed on the family's social media presence:

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/adventurtunityfamily/

FACEBOOK: https://youtu.be/DnF7pzJsVEo

HOLIDAY RAMBLER: https://www.holidayrambler.com/travel-blog/

WEBSITE: https://www.adventurtunityfamily.com

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The podcast is in its fourth year, and we've had a diverse collection of guests — famous athletes, vintage car collectors, manufacturer CEOs, automotive book authors, industry analysts, a movie stuntman and episodes from auto shows and car auctions.

Please send comments and suggestions for new episodes to James Raia via email: [email protected].

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