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Darrell H. Winfield (July 30, 1929 – January 12, 2015) was an American rancher and model [1] best known as "The Marlboro Man" in television commercials and magazine advertisements for Marlboro cigarettes.
In 1962, building on his experience, Winfield joined Aluminum Model Toys (AMT) as a consultant style designer for their model kits. [6] [5] Winfield also worked with Detroit automakers who turned to craftsmen to add their custom touches to factory cars. As part of the "Ford Custom Car Caravan", Winfield developed the Pacifica Ford Econoline van ...
Kizis gave Winfield a $20,000 commission to build an aluminum-bodied show car named the Autorama Special. [3] [4] Designed by Ben Delphia of The Art Center College of Design, [5] [3] this vehicle later became known as The Reactor. Winfield entered The Reactor in the 1966 Grand National Roadster Show where it won the Tournament of Fame Award. [6]
1975 Western Auto Garden Tiller. Western Auto was known for its private labelled Western Flyer Bicycle and Performance Radial GT tire brand. Other Western Auto private-labeled brands included Davis tires, Tough One batteries, TrueTone electronics, Citation appliances, Wizard tools, and Wizard typewriters — the latter as re-branded typewriters manufactured by Brother Industries of Nagoya, Japan.
Authorities have arrested the grandfather of a 1-year-old boy who was unaccounted for after a Dec. 8 crash that killed two of his family members and critically injured his mother.
The company licensed its designs to model car manufacturers such as Aurora, Revell, MPC, and AMT, which spread the Barris name into the model builder community. [ citation needed ] In the early 1960s, Barris, along with other well-known customizers ( Gene Winfield , Dean Jeffries and the Alexander Brothers ) reworked production cars for Ford's ...
The sale, to a private buyer, was for 135 million euros ($142,769,250). It handily outstripped the previous record-setting $48.4-million sale of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a 2018 auction to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Both of these high-dollar sales were brokered by RM Sotheby's. [1]
Ford Model A Marine engine at the Gilmore Car Museum. Some Model A engines powered boats. [89] [90] In 1931, and again in 1935, Popular Mechanics Press published The Boat Book: Everything of Interest to the Amateur Boatman, with plans for building a modified recreational boat – a Gentleman's Racer / Gentleman's Runabout, common in the 1920s ...