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Key Events for Mercury Monarch, Ford Granada, and Lincoln Versailles

• USA - The Carlisle All-FORD Nationals show in June at the Carlisle Pennsylvania Fairgrounds. Usually, at least five 1970s Granada, Monarch, or Versailles cars attend. The Hampton Inn Carlisle, 1164 Harrisburg Pike, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013, tel 717.240.0200 is nearby.

• Canada - All Ford Reunion, in August in Oakville, Ontario about one hour from Buffalo. - Open to any stock (subject to inspection before entry) Ford manufactured vehicles from 1903 to 1980. Held annually in August. In previous years, modified vehicles have not been allowed. You can have breakfast and lunch in the Ford cafeteria and view many classic Ford and Mercury automobiles. Note that you now have to register your car in advance but there is no charge. In 2004, many classic Fords were on display, including two 1970s Monarchs.

• Europe - Fullsize Ford Meeting and All American Ford Festival - Meets annually.

Events and Car Places to Visit in Canada

• Canadian Street Rod Association - has an annual show, July 27-29 2007, Markham Fair Grounds - One member, Frank Malfara rescued a 1935 Chev Master 4-door sedan and has restored a 1972 Pontiac LeMans.
• Speedarama - an annual hot rod show at the CNE Automotive building in Toronto
• Route 66 Roadside Bar and Grill - in the summer a weekly car cruise gathers in the parking lot, at 147 Eglinton Square (east of DVP on Eglinton), tel 416.755.7869
• Classics Against Cancer - an annual classic car show held on Father's Day at Cedarvale Park in Geogetown, Ontario. Georgetown is about 30 miles from Toronto, take Hwy 401 West to Trafalgar Road, north on Trafalgar Road and follow the Classics signs along the route.
• RM Auctions in Toronto - Spring and Fall - also at various US cities. RM also has a display of fantastic antique vehicles, including a Tucker, on display at their restoration factory near Chatham, Ontario, about an hour east of Detroit (401 exit 90).
• Barrie Automotive Flea Market - held twice a year in the Spring and Fall, agreat place to find parts and classic cars, about 60 minutes north of Toronto
• Clarington Classics Car Club - Cruises are every Saturday night from 6:00 PM to Dusk (June - Mid Sept), meet at TSC store in Bowmanville, Ontario about 40 minutes east of Toronto. The TSC Country Hardware store is at 95 Baseline Road West, Bowmanville, ON Tel. (905) 623-2044. Take 401 Exit 432 at Duke Street North, turn west at Baseline.
• Classic Cars at the California's Eatery Bar & Patio near Toronto, Tel 905.897.7742, 1077 North Service Road, Mississauga, ON L4Y 1A6 (on the North Service Road off the QEW between Dixie and Cawthra Roads) Wed and Sat. They meet at 7 PM and eat later. Three Monarchs and a Granada sometimes attend.
• Flying Saucer Restaurant, 6768 Lundy's Lane, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Breakfast special 99 cents, fully liscenced, delivery til 3 AM, just 5 minutes from the QEW highway.
• Group 25 Model Car Builders Club - based in Scarboro, Toronto, Douglas tel 416.781.0757.
• Back Alley Cruise - runs Thursdays, 6 to 9 PM, to mid October, classics 1978 and older, Home Depot, 3065 Mavis Rd., north of Dundas St in Mississauga.
• Winston Churchill Cruise - runs Saturdays, 6 to 9 PM, to mid October, bring non-pershable food item to Canadian Tire, on Dundas Street, Hwy 5 east of Hwy 403 in Toronto.
• Waterdown Swap Meet and Car Show - between Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. Fall and Spring shows.
• Street Classic Cruise - at Canadian Tire, 1608 The Queensway at The East Mall, Toronto, Ontario every Saturday, starting at 5 PM. Also a Swap Meet. For info, telephone George at 416.259.8122.
• There is a very cool Ford Mustang Billboard ad near John street in the Toronto Entertainment area (close to the SkyDome). The billboard encourages people to tune their car radios into the 88.3 FM radio frequency and hear revs of the 2006 Mustang engine! On June 14, 2005 I drove by and couldn't find the exact location of the billboard but I could hear the Mustang engine on my FM radio. Unfortunately, the FM signal is only using a 3-kilometers range transponder and there is some interference with other stations unless you are close to the billboard. But it is a very different and cool way of marketing the Mustang.
• Stapleton Auctions - has maintained an original B/A Servce Station in Newtonville on Hyw 2 just east of Toronto, that they use for auctions and car shows.
• Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Museum - Opened in 1994 in Brantford, Ontario and currently displays about 33 motorcycles and various motorcycling artifacts and memorabilia. The Museum was established to recognize, protect and preserve Canada's rich and varied motorcycling heritage. It also aims to convey the importance of this heritage to non-motorcyclists and future generations. Currently the displayed collection is housed within the Canadian Military Heritage Museum at 347 Greenwich St., building #19, Brantford, Ontario. To reach the Museum, take Highway # 403 east from London or west from Hamilton to the Wayne Gretsky Parkway exit at Brantford. Take the parkway south to Colborne St. (Hwy. # 2), turning left (east) on Colborne to Locks St. Turn right (south) on Locks St., over the canal and then turn right on Greenwich St. Follow Greenwich St. west along the canal for 1.4 km and the Museum is on your left. Admission to both the Motorcycle and Military Museums is $3.00. Summer hours (April - September) Tuesday - Sunday, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm. Winter hours (October - March) Tuesday - Friday, 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm.

Events and Car Places to Visit in USA

• Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum in the original art deco Cord dealers' showroom, 1600 South Wayne St., Auburn, Indiana. Includes the Tudhope, produced by McIntyre in Orillia, Ontario from 1908 to 1913.
• Buried Car in Tulsa, OK - digging it up June 14-15, 2007 after 50 years in a concrete box about 5 feet under the ground. The buried car video is on the "Tulsarama" page.
• Woodward Dream Cruise in Detroit, Michigan. The Annual WDC is usually held on the third Saturday in August. The cruise attracts about 30,000 cars and 1.5 million people to nine communities located along Woodward Avenue from Ferndale to Pontiac, Michigan and celebrates the cars, music and memories of cruisin' in the fifties and sixties.
  This auto parade, which stretches 16 miles on Woodward Avenue, running west from Detroit to Pontiac, Michigan, features classic cars, hot rods, antique and unique cars, and celebrates Woodward Avenue's contribution to American car history. Woodward Avenue is one of America's best-known cruising roads. During the 1950s, on summer nights along the Woodward "strip," the area swelled with teens and young adults cruising in their Fords, Chevys and Valiants.
  Sometimes called the Boulevard of Dreams, Woodward Avenue has a history that goes back to 1896, when a car was first driven down the avenue. A few months later, Henry Ford followed in his new automobile. On August 4, 1924, Woodward made history again when it became the first concrete paved highway in the world, creating a primary link between Detroit and Michigan.
  There are many other automotive enthusiast attractions in Southeastern Michigan and the Detroit metropolitan area. They include the Henry Ford Museum, Motorsports Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Homes of the Auto Barons Tour featuring the Edsel And Eleanor Ford estate, Henry Ford's Fairlane and Matilda Dodge Wilson's Meadow Brook Hall.
  For restaurants in Dearborn, consider La Shish and Buddy's for pizza, since 1946. For accommodation, there is a Hampton Inn near The Henry Ford on Michigan Avenue.

• Eyes on Design international automotive exhibition held annually usually on a Sunday at the end of June at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, MI. Eyes on Design Auto Exhibit is the world’s only car show to focus on the emotion and character of design. The exhibit attracts automotive designers, automotive decision-makers and consumers from around the world. For more info on car design, refer to Car Enthusiast and 1953 Chrysler Thomas Special.

• Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village - in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest indoor-outdoor history museum in the USA.
• Henry Ford Estate - the former home of Henry Ford and his wife Clara, who lived there from 1915 until their respective deaths in 1947 and 1950.
• Edsel and Eleanor Ford House - the former residence of Henry and Clara Ford's son, Edsel, and his wife, Eleanor.
• Ford's 100th Anniversary was held on June 13-15, 2003 in Dearborn MI.
• Rosies Diner in Rockford, Michigan north of Grand Rapids. Ordered and installed in 1946, Rosies Diner is still operating and is similar to the one on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.
• Old Car Festival - held every year in Greenfield Village, Dearborn.
• Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance - annually, usually in August - a high-end week of activities in Detroit, MI, USA, including an Automotive Art Exhibition, Press Previews, Fashion Show, Automotive Art Auction, Gala Banquet, and, of course, the outdoor exhibition which includes approximately 280 of the world's most prized automobiles. In its 27th year, the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance is one of the largest and most prestigious classic car shows in the world. It commands the presence of some of the world's foremost car collectors, auto executives, auto enthusiasts and automotive media. It takes place at scenic Meadow Brook Hall, an automotive mansion on the campus of Oakland University. Many of the events are black tie, invitation only.

• Carlisle Classic Car Shows in Pennsylvania, USA

• The surreal Cadillac Ranch just west of Amarillo, Texas.
• The Shady Tree in Bisbee, Arizona. An art-deco trailer park that includes classic trailers where you can stay overnight and eat at Dot's Diner.
• Peterson Museum
• Museum of Automotive History at 321 North Clinton Street in Syracuse, New York. Open Wed to Sunday, 10 AM to 5 PM. Walter Miller claims to have the largest private collection of automobile memorabilia in the world. There are no cars but you will find posters, toys, and models, even a speeding ticket given to James Dean. Also, a Car-B-Que, a 1958 auto accessory that allowed motorists to cook hot dogs in moving vehicles. For years Walter Miller has operated a successful Automobile Literature business, telephone 315.432.8282, postal address 6710 Brooklawn Pkwy, Syracuse, NY 13211. In December 2004, this museum moved to NC.
• Holton Auto Appraisals - list hundreds of Ford car shows in USA
• Barrett-Jackson Auction Company - 3020 N Scottsdale Rd • Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Tel 480.421.6694. Arranges classic car auctions in Palm Beach Florida, Los Angeles CA, Petersen Museum, and Scottsdale AZ.
• Hot August Nights in Reno.
• National Automobile Dealers Association - NADA, founded in 1917, represents more than 19,700 new car and truck dealers, both domestic and international, with more than 43,000 separate franchises.
• Knott's Berry Farm - in California, the 20th Annual “Fabulous Fords Forever!"

Events and Car Places to Visit in Europe and the UK

• El coche de mi boda.com - Ofertas de coches para bodas en Madrid y provincias colindantes. Precios sin competencias.....Compruebalo
• Atwell Wilson Motor Museum in UK - has a 1978 Mercury Monarch Lincoln.
• The route of the C'était un Rendezvous, a 8-minute car-chase film by Claude Lelouch. Filmed in Paris in 1976 it is regarded as the ultimate in cinema verité. The car, probably a Ferrari 275 GTB, charges through the main streets of Paris in the early morning:
  • Starts at the Porte near Boulevard Lannes
  • Speeds west down Avenue Foch
  • Passes the Arc de Triomphe
  • Charges down the Champes Elysées
  • Passes the Place de la Concorde and veers to the right on to the Quai des Tuileries
  • Passes the Jardin des Tuileries and turns left at a small statue (anyone know the statue name?) at Pont du Carrousel
  • Passes through the Place du Carrousel near the Musée du Louvre
  • Heads north up Avenue de l'Opéra and past Place de l'Opéra
  • Heads up Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin? and past the Trinité
  • Ends at the Basilique du Sacre Couér in Montmatre.

  Lelouch had made enough money from his classic "Un Homme et une Femme" to buy himself a Ferrari, which he proceeded to drive with "enthusiasm" in his native Paris. While shooting another film, he was using a new gyro-stabilised camera mount. Lelouch then came up with the idea for C'était un Rendezvous. The camera only had a ten minute film magazine -- explaining the mad dash to the steps of the Basilique du Sacre Couér in Montmatre. There were no special effects or speeding up of the film, Lelouch simply mounted the camera on the front of the car and shot it. No car chase on film has, or ever will, come close. The reality of no special effects, edits, or blocking off streets is terrifying.

  Was it a Formula 1 driver in the iconic Ferrari 275 GTB? Was Claude Lelouch really arrested when the film was first shown?

  Over the years, "C'était un Rendezvous" has come to represent something more than an adrenalin rush. It uniquely captures a time and a spirit that seems a long way away from today. Politically incorrect, anti-establishment and overflowing with a primitive passion - it is everything the bureaucrats hate. Which perhaps explains the cheers and whoops of delight at recent screenings. Lelouchs' brilliant ending only adds to this - making a beautiful sense out of the eight-minute drive. You can buy the film from Spirit Level Film or on eBay for about $30 USD.

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