Undiscovered Classics Cars Collection: 2023
Cars: Sorted by Category
Cars at the Sarasota Classic Car Museum
Fiberglass Cars: 1
Cars at John’s Road Storage
Cars: 7
Cars at Metro Storage
Cars: 5
Fiberglass Cars: 1
Quarter Midgets: 2
Production Car: 1
Show Car Metal: 1
Fiberglass Cars: 1 (Renault/Halliday race car)
1956 Nash: 1
1969 Asteroid: 1
1952 McDaniel’s Half Midget: 1
1958 Ferrari Quarter Midget: 1
Cars at Fiberglass Farms
Cars: 28
Kaisers: 8
Bodies: 15
Molds: 1 – CRV Piranha
Chassis: 9
Cars at Geoff’s House
Cars: 6
Kaisers: 7 (including Craig Johnson’s car)
1959 Cadillac: 1
Cars at Nancy Mannings House
Cars: 1
Cars at Ralph Smith’s House
Cars: 1
Avantis: 1
Cars at Dennis Kazmerowski’s House
Bodies: 1
Cars at Mike Puma’s House
Cars: 1
Molds: 2
Buck: 1
Cars at Tom Chandler’s House
Cars: 1
Molds (Allied) and parts at Mike Irvin’s
Molds: 1
Assorted Molds for Parts: Several
Cars Needing Transport (some cars need final payment) to Tampa
Cars: 4
Kaisers: 2
Chassis: 1
Molds: 3
Buck: 1
Car Molds That I Own (new cars I can potentially build)
Molds: 8
Geoff Hacker: Cars I Will Keep For Now / Sell Later
I can ultimately keep 3-5 cars for myself
I can attempt to sell the best of what I have
Keep:
- Fiberglass: 1954 Chicagoan – restore
- Fiberglass: Grantham Stardust – unsure
- Fiberglass: Bucci Porsche Trieste
- Fiberglass: Allied Singer Swallow
- Fiberglass: Renault Race Car
- Fiberglass: Restored: 1962 Shark Roadster – keep
- Fiberglass: Quarter Midget (small): 1952 McDaniel Half midget
- Fiberglass: Quarter Midget (small): Restored: Ferrari quarter midget
- Fiberglass: Bucci Executive RV
- Aluminum: Ferber RV – keep
- Aluminum: Moon Transporter – sell/restore
- Steel: 1937 Cord Phaeton – love this car
- Steel: 1949 Packard Monte Carlo – may sell or restore
- Steel and aluminum: WOW Cadillac – restore, sell or keep – unsure
- LaSaetta body – because someone may want one and I will have the restored white one
Sell as is or restore and sell:
- 1959 Devin Special – fix brakes and sell
- LeMans Coupe body
- 1949 Sunflower Speedster – will be sold after restoration
- 1949 Panache – will be sold – not sure about restoration
- Asteroid – restore and then sell
- Avanti – fix and sell
- Almquist Sabre – Almquist family wants to buy
Unsure:
- LaDawri race car – need to finish paying off and ship from Ohio to Tampa, Florida
- Wildfire Alembic II – not paid for yet. Still in Indianapolis. Perhaps I should let someone else buy this.
- Steel: 1950 DM Nacional
- Venus
- Porsche Python
- Warrior I
- 1962 Shark roadster from California (unrestored) – Sell to Luis?
- 1962 Shark body – needs repair
Kaisers:
- Kaiser: 1954 Black Kaiser Dragon
- Kaiser: 1953 Show Kaiser Dragon
- Kaiser/Frazer: 1955 Frazer Show Car
- Kaiser: 1954 donor car for Tahitian Dragon
- Kaiser: Donor car for Show Dragon
New Builds:
- Build new: Tiburon Coupe
- Build new: Maverick Sportster – 1957 Cadillac engine and chassis
- Build new: Maverick Sportster – 1955 Packard engine and chassis
Cars Being Placed With Others
Erich Schultz: 8 cars and bodies
Erich will travel to Tampa early to mid May and ship cars/bodies June
- Confirmed: Allard K2 Style – car
- Confirmed: Byers SR-100 – car
- Confirmed: Glasspar G2 – car
- Confirmed: LeGene / Californian – body
- Confirmed: Aluminum Teardrop – body
- Confirmed: Hurricane by Sports Car Engineering – body
- Confirmed: LaDawri Firestar – body
- Confirmed: Woodill Wildfire – body
- Buying and shipping LaDawri Firestar for me near Buffalo, New York
Mike Puma: 7+ cars and bodies
Mike will travel to Tampa early July to prepare LaDawri and Wildfire for shipping. The Elwood Caufman Bangert body will be prepped with these cars too. He will work with Rob to remove Corvette body and place Victress C3 coupe body on Corvette C3 chassis. The plan is to ship all 3 cars and one body to Buffalo, New York in August/September, 2023.
- Confirmed: Blue and Gold LaDawri Conquest – car
- Confirmed: 1955 black Woodill Wildfire – car
- Confirmed: Elwood Caufmann Bangert (front end, doors, trunk) – also gets free rear end (new) of Manta Ray – body
- Confirmed: Victress S4 – blue car and hardtop
- Confirmed: LaSaetta – car with engine and hardtop
- Confirmed: Victress C2-VW – car is with Mike Puma in Buffalo, New York
- Confirmed: Debonnaire
- Possible: 1955 Luckenback special and 1950 Ford replacement chassis – car and chassis – Geoff may keep this car
- Note: Needs to Move green Victress C3 coupe to Buffalo, New York – this is Mike Puma’s car
Joel Driskill:
- Confirmed: Singer Race Car (the last racing Singer)
- Confirmed: Singer race engine/transmission and extra engine transmission on wooden cart
- Confirmed: Three Singer 4AD chassis and axels
- Confirmed: All red body parts of Singer 4AD
- Confirmed: Victress C2 on TR2 chassis –
- Confirmed: Victress S1A body
- Done and picked up on May 13, 2023: 1955 Bangert Manta Ray: Picked up May 13, 2023
Steve Cowdin:
- Confirmed: Meteor CR-90
- Confirmed: Studebaker Stilletto
- Confirmed: Piranha / Blowfish
- Confirmed: Sacramento Special (Crosley based)
- Confirmed: LaSaetta – Napa Valley LaSaetta
- Confirmed: Debonnaire/
- Confirmed: Victress S4 that needs rear end replacement and S4 body
- Trading 4 wheels/tires for blowfish for shipping Kaiser Dragon from McDonald, Kansas
- Trading Wildfire aluminum manifold for shipping Kaiser Pickup from Rhode Island
Joe Clanton:
- Confirmed: 1956 Nash 2 door
Don Keefe:
- Confirmed: 1966 / 1982 Wellman Special
Craig Johnson:
- Confirmed – Repair 1953 Kaiser with Tirso Leon
Tirso Leon
- Confirmed: 1954 Kaiser Special – green early Special
Nate Bowne:
- Possible: 1954 2 door Paradise Kaiser
Tim Masters: None so far
- Confirmed – 1953 Jade Tint Dragon
- Possible – 1955 Kaiser 2 door
Jack Farr: None so far
Richard Brown: None so far
Cars For Sale (This List Will Expand As I Complete This Page)