"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
11/29/2018 at 17:48 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
11/29/2018 at 17:48 • Filed to: None | 7
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After a wildly successful morning presentation, I celebrated with a walk to downtown Reno, and the car museum, a little less than 2 miles from my hotel. It is right next to the famous Reno sign. It was really nice to get out of this casino/hotel and walk. Let’s be honest, Oppo, even the nicest of these places is fucked. When inside, you are a rat an animal behavior experiment, being observed almost always.
Apparently, Bill Harrah was quite the car collector and his stuff ended up here. Have a photodump!
The collection goes from turn of the century to about 1978. I really liked it. The grille designs and hood ornaments make me so happy. Harrah apparently wanted a Jeep, but not just any Jeep, for the mountains. So he had a Ferrari engine swapped in. Imagine David Tracy with a bucket of cash. Bill Harrah sounds like a dead rich guy who was a lot of fun when he was around. I mean, a Ferrari-swapped Cherokee (Jerrari!) is way more fun than Bezos’ dumb clock.
They had the most adorable little Fiat.
My God... it’s full of stars.
Phantom Corsair was too cool for words.
Some of you auto technician Oppos should check these out.
So many amazing cars. The artistry in the design is so cool
24K gold plated DeLorean! $1000 1 984 dollars per month to ensure, and fixing a door ding cost $24000. I am glad I went to this museum.
I have to go through security at the Reno airport now. See you on the other side!
daender
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 18:15 |
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I was waiting to see if you’d gotten pictures of that rare DeLorean! All those cars are pretty damn awesome! The Bonneville-prepared Superbird pushes so many buttons for me, those winged Mopars must be nice and stable at 240+ mph!
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 18:19 |
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Neat. I went to that museum in 1996, when I was 11. We took a trip to Lake Tahoe (and then a side trip to San Francisco ) in July of that year. I only happen to remember the month because TWA flight 800 crashed while we were there, and I remember watching the TV news coverage on the wood paneled room of the timeshare condo we were staying in.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 18:31 |
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Th
at FIAT is very cool, never heard of it before! Apparently it’s the
1961 Fiat 600D Aero Concept Y, one of one!
lone_liberal
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 19:01 |
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I’ve been through there but it was so long ago that I only remembered the Thomas Flyer. Thanks for the pretty pictures!
Chariotoflove
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 19:56 |
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Oh my, that was a good day.
Your boy, BJR
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 21:16 |
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Even though the 2nd jerrari is way classier, there’s something about the batshit first one that just gets me
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 21:24 |
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I love that the 1937 Aeromobile went with the full on shrimp theme for the styling. I didn’t pick up on it until I saw the picture of the tail.
shop-teacher
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 21:30 |
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I wasn't expecting race cars! RACE CARS!!
someassemblyrequired
> ImmoralMinority
11/29/2018 at 21:48 |
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The gold DeLorean was only available through
the 1980 American Express Christmas catalog:
http://support.delorean.com/kb/a93/gold-plated-deloreans.aspx
$85K got you one
- only two were sold but a few more
standard cars ended up gold plated.
LastFirstMI is my name
> ImmoralMinority
11/30/2018 at 00:37 |
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I’m imagining Harrah’s garage being like Jay Leno’s garage- if Jay Leno strolled in high on coke with a stripper on each arm and said “I want a Ferrari engine swapped into a Jeep”, then was surprised to sober up one day and find a freakin Jeerari in his driveway
pip bip - choose Corrour
> ImmoralMinority
11/30/2018 at 04:46 |
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awesome!