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A Stop on a Michigan ‘Garage Crawl’ Reveals a Trove of Corvettes, Exotics and Other Classics
By PAUL STENQUIST
The New York Times
McCulloch built the supercharged 6-cylinder engine in this 1953 Corvette to make the Corvette
more competitive with the V-8-powered Ford Thunderbird.
BRIGHTON, Mich. – “As a kid I’d hop the fence at local dealerships to see the new cars before they were revealed to the public,” said Ken Lingenfelter during a Saturday a tour of his private collection. Mr. Lingenfelter, the son of a General Motors executive, grew up immersed in all things automotive, so when he gained the means, he started buying cars, lots of cars. Many of them were built by the company for which his father had worked.
Mr. Lingenfelter opened his garage to the public as a preamble to the Eyes on Design car show, held last weekend at the former estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. Both the show, which is in its 26th year, and a “garage crawl” to different collections around the area, were held to benefit the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, a nonprofit organization supporting the development of technology to aid the visually impaired.
Mr. Lingenfelter’s collection can rarely be seen by the public. He owns 250 automobiles, and 175 are stored in the garage I visited. They all fit nicely inside the building, with sufficient room between rows for visitors to view and photograph them. The collection is arranged in a museumlike format, but it is not meant to be a representative sample of the automotive specimens one might find in a museum. Mr. Lingenfelter displays the collection primarily to benefit charitable causes. The collection emphasizes postwar cars with a tilt toward one automaker.
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By PAUL STENQUIST
The New York Times
McCulloch built the supercharged 6-cylinder engine in this 1953 Corvette to make the Corvette
more competitive with the V-8-powered Ford Thunderbird.
BRIGHTON, Mich. – “As a kid I’d hop the fence at local dealerships to see the new cars before they were revealed to the public,” said Ken Lingenfelter during a Saturday a tour of his private collection. Mr. Lingenfelter, the son of a General Motors executive, grew up immersed in all things automotive, so when he gained the means, he started buying cars, lots of cars. Many of them were built by the company for which his father had worked.
Mr. Lingenfelter opened his garage to the public as a preamble to the Eyes on Design car show, held last weekend at the former estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. Both the show, which is in its 26th year, and a “garage crawl” to different collections around the area, were held to benefit the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, a nonprofit organization supporting the development of technology to aid the visually impaired.
Mr. Lingenfelter’s collection can rarely be seen by the public. He owns 250 automobiles, and 175 are stored in the garage I visited. They all fit nicely inside the building, with sufficient room between rows for visitors to view and photograph them. The collection is arranged in a museumlike format, but it is not meant to be a representative sample of the automotive specimens one might find in a museum. Mr. Lingenfelter displays the collection primarily to benefit charitable causes. The collection emphasizes postwar cars with a tilt toward one automaker.
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