a little bit longer story
...the Goldenrod was more or less forgotten for a while....after the hype with the jet car speed....
...so the streamliner stand for a longer time in Richard Dixon Museum (today Mike got his car part shop in there) in Wendover...also the paint work was red white blue for a while, when a group of people had interest to rent the racer for another attempt...
...when Richard shut down the museum the car went back to Bill Summers in Ontario
...at first he had the racer in his front yard in Ontario, outside as he had no indoor place...but it became to dangerous for the car to be damaged
...in the 90's he moved the car to Don Green...Don lived close to Cherry outside in the fields in a small cottage (the car twice as long as his place), he was the builder/owner of the Rat Trap quarter miler...Joy, Bill's wife was married at first with Don...
...again, the car was outside in the fields but safe, as Don also had no indoor place....well...normally in the US the garage is twice as big as the house....but not on Don's place
...the racer was there when I done a picture series of the car at Don's place in 1996....
...and (in the 90's) the public starts again interest into the Goldenrod....maybe a reaction of Al Teague's FIA record run....and Bill/Joy told me that Bill will go on exhibition tours with the car around the states to show the racer on car shows
...with the money Bill got from the car shows he found also a place to get the racer protected indoors
...in the later years, Bill and I meet us very often on car shows....and always we done the same fun....I climbed into the racer and Bill closed the canopy...so the visitors of the car show could see how it looks when the driver is inside...mostly Bill forgot that the lock release inside the canopy was broken and I had to remind him to get me out....meant, knocking on the windshield that he knew there is still someone inside....
So the main reason for the racer to be outside, was missing space as the racer is a little bit longer and the missing interest for a long time from the public....
But as Bill said me one day....it was maybe good that the car was outside....after the racer run in 1965 at Bonneville he never was cleaned up properly...so the rain washed most of the salt off and the rust was not that bad....
The racer was once in Essen/Germany on the big Essen Car Show (Nina Rindt organized - the Essen Car Show starts originally as the Jochen Rindt Show)....
Another international appearance was in Goodwood/England on the car show of the Earl of March.....several other racers from the US were there...Jack Costella NT 3, Challenger 1, Betsy....it was on me to make all the contacts for the Earl...and it needs nearly 9 years to get it managed that the racers was finally seen at the show......
This for a little bit background what happens to the Goldenrod after the Bonneville runs....
Not to nag, but does anyone know, or is anyone willing to share, why and where the Goldenrod was stored outdoors?
Thanks
Tim
