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Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 17:36:19 -0400
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May 25th, 2010



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Porsche Marque Display at Kirkland Concours d'Elegance


This year the Pacific NW Region of the Porsche Club of America hopes to have a
100+ car display of all car models in the Porsche Marque. In addition, there
will be a display of 'track' cars. Dennis Rood, Concours Committee Chair, will
be selecting and organizing the entries to ensure we have the full range of
the marque to present for final approval by the Kirkland Concours Committee.

For more information regarding the PNWR, please visit www.pnwr.org.



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The Most Expensive Car Money Can Buy
 It is 1921 and you are looking to buy the most expensive car around.  You'll
pass right by the Lozier Big Six limousine for around $6500 (about ten times
that in today's dollars); nix on the Rolls Royce in the $7000 to $10,000
range; and you'll arrive at the Heine-Velox V-12 Victoria Touring. The price
tag?  A whopping $25,000.

Only one Victoria was made. That one Victoria Touring - currently owned by
Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska, and being restored by
Allan Schmidt of Horseless Carriage Restoration in Escondido, California -
will be shown this summer, in August at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
and in September at the Kirkland Concours d'Elegance.

The man who created these cars and whose name they carry is Gustav Otto Ludolf
Heine. Gustav Heine was born in 1868, and emigrated from Germany to northern
California when he was five years old. Only formally educated through the
fifth grade, Heine went to work at a young age. At 16 he left home for San
Francisco, where he got a job sweeping floors at the Bruenn Piano Company.
Within two years Heine had become a partner in the firm, and before long was
the owner of the company, which he renamed the Heine Piano Company.

Heine's main focus was on his piano business, which he grew into a very
successful concern. Creating automobiles with innovative features was his
avocation.

1904 was the first year that a car appeared with the name Heine-Velox, and
there was likely a total of three cars created between 1904 and April 1906.
The first car was a tourer with 35-40 horsepower and a specially designed
carburetor that heated fuel before combustion in order to enhance fuel
efficiency.  Another was a two-seat runabout that Heine designed to enter the
Vanderbilt Cup Race of 1906. With its large, four- cylinder engine generating
40-50 horsepower, the car would cruise at 60 miles per hour and hit a top
speed of 70. It was the ultimate sports car of its day, sporting flared
mudguards, a low-slung body and rakish styling.

1921 Heine-Velox V-12 Victoria Touring




On April 18, 1906, the San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed both the
Heine-Velox factory and the piano store. Soon after, Heine sold what was left
of the company and moved to Milwaukee where he developed a new model
Heine-Velox to be sold in San Francisco.

Over the next few years, he participated in races and displayed his cars at
various prestigious car shows, including the newly built Coliseum in Golden
Gate Park.  Then, inexplicably, in 1908, production of the Heine-Velox ceased.
Over the next decade or so, Heine grew his piano business and on the side
worked on various automobile projects.

The 1921 Heine-Velox V-12 Victoria in Profile





As it turned out, at this time he was planning the car for which he would best
be remembered. The 1921 Heine-Velox had a V-12 engine commissioned from
Weidely; four-wheel hydraulic brakes manufactured by Lockheed; a removable top
for the sedans; pivoting windows; a reserve oil tank; and a dashboard mounted
at a 45 degree angle to increase visibility of gauges and to hide the gear
shifter, handbrake and steering column.

Illustration Rendered When Car was Part of Harrah Collection




The Heine-Velox V12 had a low-slung appearance because the body was mounted to
the frame from the sides instead of the top. This design provided more
structural rigidity and a low center of gravity. The two headlights, mounted
high on the fenders, contained both high and low beams, operated by a switch.

Between 1921 and 1923 Heine produced only four cars: three sedans - priced at
a "mere" $17,000 - and the Victoria which, newly restored, will be on view at
the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Kirkland Concours d'Elegance. A
limousine was started but never completed.

In 1923, Heine folded the company and returned to California, never to build
another car.

Heine-Velox Victoria Touring Before Latest Restoration



 Dr. William O'Brien purchased this sporting Victoria in the 1950's from a
mining engineer who had brought the car to Reno. It had been modified by
covering the windows with wood panels, replacing the hydraulic brakes with
mechanical brakes, and altering the spare tire and trunk carriers. In 1961
Harrah's Automobile Collection in Nevada acquired the car, and in 1985 it
became part of J. Parker Wickham's Collection in New York.

Restoration is almost finished and the car is scheduled to be shown this year
at the Pebble Beach Concours and our own Kirkland Concours.























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