Post by Rallymaster on Aug 26, 2010 3:33:31 GMT -6
Tom Daniel popped me a message when he found out the original Chuck Miller Red Baron was at the "Museum of American Speed."
www.museumofamericanspeed.com/Collections/Vehicles/IMG9878.shtml
Here's what Tom had to say:
The museum owner left an e mail a year or so ago, but we never really got to talk about the 'original' - which he bought from Bob Larivee - who had it in his living room at his mansion in Colorado for many years. At least, that is what I was told.
For its time, the builder (Chuck Miller) did a fairly decent job, but it does not have any of the neat design details of my original design; and of course, there was no way at THAT time that my 'shrunken' version of the 1:1 Mercedes Benz Aero motor could have been built (now it can!)
Actually, I didn't even know the Baron was being built and only saw if after the fact - for the first time - at the Oakland Roadster Show in Frisco in 1971 (I think it was.)
TD
www.museumofamericanspeed.com/Collections/Vehicles/IMG9878.shtml
Here's what Tom had to say:
The museum owner left an e mail a year or so ago, but we never really got to talk about the 'original' - which he bought from Bob Larivee - who had it in his living room at his mansion in Colorado for many years. At least, that is what I was told.
For its time, the builder (Chuck Miller) did a fairly decent job, but it does not have any of the neat design details of my original design; and of course, there was no way at THAT time that my 'shrunken' version of the 1:1 Mercedes Benz Aero motor could have been built (now it can!)
Actually, I didn't even know the Baron was being built and only saw if after the fact - for the first time - at the Oakland Roadster Show in Frisco in 1971 (I think it was.)
TD
