Calgarian Almost Winning Pebble Beach

[flipstah]

http://brendanmcaleer.kinja.com/a-guy-in-a-t-shirt-nearly-won-pebble-beach-with-this-se-1725364815

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--E9O8cugX--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1394046486956672325.jpg


Grant is a regular sort of a dude, compact and wiry and filled with boundless energy. Visit his house in a suburb of Calgary and you’d notice a particular orderliness to its architecture, but nothing out of the ordinary. It’s a pretty small garage - and it is jam-packed with tiny little Italian hellions. Michelotti, Abarth, Siata: if you like small displacement engines tuned within an inch of their scrappy little lives, you’d like it here. As an added bonus, even a simple two-car garage can fit an entire squadron of these little bastards because they’re so small.

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It took him five years to build this car, and I do mean “build.” After several decades of neglect, this Ghia-bodied one-off was a pile of rusty detritus, missing everything from glass to the interior. It was a shell of a thing, the type of restoration that’d require a huge investment of time and energy to be brought back from the dead.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--oBnB1vRB--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1394046487056909125.jpg

[NoPulp]

Wow! Neat car, big respect to him for doing it himself.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Outstanding!

[eglove]

Dubdynasty or someone needs to do a feature on this!

[Masked Bandit]

Not my cup of tea but WOW, props for a world class build! Maybe a Beyond feature?

[flipstah]

Originally posted by Masked Bandit
Not my cup of tea but WOW, props for a world class build! Maybe a Beyond feature?

Exactly what I was thinking. I had to share it when I read it on Jalopnik.

[schocker]

Very cool :thumbsup:

[btimbit]

Delicious

[xnvy]

Petrolicious had a bunch of pictures of the cars at the show and this one was my favourite. I had no clue what it was but it was absolutely gorgeous. Really cool that it's from Calgary.

I just did a bit of googling and saw pictures of the other cars in Grant's garage. :eek:
Grant if you're reading this, can we be friends? I'll buy beer, I just want to see the Fiat 1000GT, it's so pretty :drool:

Link (http://driving.ca/fiat/500/auto-news/news/the-tale-of-the-scorpion-carlo-abarths-tiny-terrors) if anyone else wants to look.

[CanmoreOrLess]

Is the Fred Phillips Collection still open for tours? Looks to be a major collector in Calgary as well.
http://www.gtspirit.com/2012/05/13/fred-phillips-private-car-collection-in-canada/


Tour arrangements here:
http://www.focusauto.com/car-collection-tour-inquiry/

[toastgremlin]

Originally posted by xnvy
Grant if you're reading this, can we be friends? I'll buy beer, I just want to see the Fiat 1000GT, it's so pretty :drool:

Link (http://driving.ca/fiat/500/auto-news/news/the-tale-of-the-scorpion-carlo-abarths-tiny-terrors) if anyone else wants to look. Dude has some excellent taste.

[Alak]

Yes. Fred still does tours. I was there last Saturday. For anyone that hasn't experienced Freds diverse collection is definitely worth checking out.

[CMW403]

just incase anyone was curious, Fred is still doing tours. I was there on saturday for the first one this year.

This is a 2015 thread? Not sure how many hangars you guys saw but I was told by a few people very close to him that his collection has expanded in size significantly in the past couple years.

We were taken through four hangars, I can only guess what his collection is worth but considering he has a 1930 **** ***** ** id say we saw well over 100 million in vehicles. He is very private and I was asked not to share what I saw with the internets but in short - he has everything. And when I say everything I mean every thing.

[Darell_n]

I think we went through 4 hangars when I was there 3 or 4 years ago.

[ExtraSlow]

Thought this was a golf thread based on title.