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Father s Day 2021: Celebrate the family holiday with these Bay Area events
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The famed Isky hot rod built by a young California hot rodding pioneer Ed Iskenderian on display at a museum in Lincoln, Nebraska | Museum photos
An iconic segment of the California hot rod culture is on display in a museum, but it’s a museum halfway across the country. The
Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, but is showcasing the famed little black Model T hot rod built by a youngster named Ed Iskenderian, who soon would become famous for creating high-performance camshafts. “Isky” anticipates celebrating his 100th birthday on July 10.
If the Nebraska location for the famous hot rod seems strange, consider that the car is displayed with Ed Winfield’s cam grinder that Isky used as well as with the only other pair of Maxi cylinder heads known to exist. The car is owned by Isky and is in Nebraska on a long-term loan.
“It was a party”: The oral history of the most monumental classic car sale of all time (Part II) Hagerty 1 hr ago © Provided by Hagerty Courtesy National Automobile Museum
Note: This is the second installment in our series about the Harrah’s collector car auctions thought by many to be the “big bang” that created the collector car market as we know it today. You can read part I, on William Harrah’s life and death, here.
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Part II: The auctions
At the end of our last installment, Holiday Inns had purchased the Harrah’s casino empire and, along with it, had come into possession of the late William Harrah’s 1000+ vintage cars. Despite attempts on the part of the state of Nevada and others to save the entire collection, the Holiday Inn board decided to sell the cars at no-reserve auctions (excepting 175 cars and two antique planes that it donated to create the National Automobile Museum, in
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