{"id":191,"date":"2015-11-29T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T22:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2016-12-19T08:37:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T13:37:33","slug":"automotive-magnetism-and-more12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/automotive-magnetism-and-more12\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive Magnetism &#8220;Excalibur&#8221;#12&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abmadcouncil.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brooks-stevens-car-design-250x159.jpg\" alt=\"brooks-stevens-car-design\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abmadcouncil.com\/\">http:\/\/abmadcouncil.com\/<\/a> brooks-stevens-car-design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a young boy I loved building models of cars. In the early 1950\u2019S\u00a0I built a plastic model of a1928 Mercedes SSK that car always stood<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/images-250x187.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"224\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/images-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/images.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;the inspiration&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/774999_1416656_3624_2390_87F445.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/774999_1416656_3624_2390_87F445-250x165.jpg\" alt=\"774999_1416656_3624_2390_87F445\" width=\"245\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/774999_1416656_3624_2390_87F445-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/774999_1416656_3624_2390_87F445-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/774999_1416656_3624_2390_87F445.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;the inspiration&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">out in my mind.\u00a030 years later a friend of mine and I looked into a plan to buy new Ford Pintos and\u00a0Use the components to assemble and sell SSK replicas, at that time there were\u00a0kits available to do this from Pinto front engine design or VW rear engine; the kit\u00a0manufacturer was based out of Florida. Spring ahead to The First Sunday in June\u00a0at the Hollywood Car Show \u201cFrom down the street you could see a Beautiful\u00a0Gleaming White and Chrome Front of at a quick glance Looked like that SSK. \u00a0Closer inspection <!--more-->revealed a fabulous Series IV Excalibur\u2026Here are are some links\u00a0about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.excaliburclassics.com\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brooks Stevens<\/a> its designer and original manufacturer\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercedes-Benz_SSK\" target=\"_blank\">the Mercedes SSK<\/a>His inspiration for the car\u2026and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excaliburclassics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">company<\/a> who is involved in preservation\u00a0of this Born and Built in America Classic\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hollywood-car-show-sunday-5-2-15-014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hollywood-car-show-sunday-5-2-15-007-250x200.jpg\" alt=\"hollywood car show sunday 5-2-15 007\" width=\"439\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hollywood-car-show-sunday-5-2-15-007-250x200.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hollywood-car-show-sunday-5-2-15-007-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hollywood-car-show-sunday-5-2-15-013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/hollywood-car-show-sunday-5-2-15-013-250x200.jpg\" alt=\"hollywood car show sunday 5-2-15 013\" width=\"229\" height=\"183\" 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In the early 1950\u2019S\u00a0I built a plastic model of a1928 Mercedes SSK that car always stood out in my mind.\u00a030 years later a friend of mine and I looked into a plan to buy new Ford Pintos and\u00a0Use the components to assemble and sell SSK &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/automotive-magnetism-and-more12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Automotive Magnetism &#8220;Excalibur&#8221;#12&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-live-engage-and-create"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abmadcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}