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Subject: Doane Spencer
From: SloMoIV@aol.com
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:37:53 EST
Doane gave a lengthy tour of the Hollywood Sports Tiger at SUNI I in 
Snowmass, CO in 1989.  It was all videotaped (along with other owner 
interviews and event highlights) and sold afterwards in a 2-tape set.  Great 
stuff!   He talked more about the Sports Car Graphic Alpine in 1994 at SUNI 
II in Wisconsin, but the room was very dark, and apparently the videotape 
taken didn't turn out, as no ever came forward to sell or distribute copies.

Dick Sanders
Seattle

P.S.  If anyone out there on the list took that SUNI II video, and it still 
exists, please save it!  The audio alone makes it a keeper!


In a message dated 3/6/01 7:08:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
sosnaenergyconsulting@home.com writes:

<< Lou:
 Interesting that you brought up Doane Spencer.  I was reading the March
 2001 issue of Classic and Sportscar magazine and there was an article
 about Mr. Spencers's hot rod.  The interesting thing to me was a sidebar
 written by Julian Balme who talked about building a replica of the
 Hollywood Motors tiger.  He mentioned that in the early '90's he met Mr.
 Spencer and got together with him about 4 times before Spencer's death.
 
 I had always thought that Doane Spencer was pretty closemouthed about
 the modifications he made to his cars (he probably was, at the time!:-))
 but according to the author, he found Mr. Spencer very willing to
 discuss the modifications to the cars he had built.
 
 It may be that those modifications are well known today (if so, to
 everyone but me:-). I don't know if there would be crossover information
 from the tiger that would be useful to us alpiners or whether they spoke
 of the Hollywood alpine during their tiger discussions, but perhaps the
 author of the article would be willing to share what information he
 collected. Haven't tried contacting him yet and I don't recall anyone on
 the list ever mentioning talking to Doane Spencer about his wizardry
 with Sunbeams, but it's a thought.
 
 Regards
 
 David Sosna   >>

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