Operation Ignite!

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Jay Leno is a fan of Operation Ignite

April 01, 2011

Jay Leno with McKeel Hagerty

In a recent video on Jay Leno’s classic car website, Jay’s Garage, Jay had a chat with Hagerty CEO McKeel Hagerty about our youth program, Operation Ignite!, and our Youth Reporter Contest. Turns out, he thinks it’s pretty cool. In fact, he even offered to hang out with the winner. So not only will one lucky kid go to classic car events around the country all expenses paid, the winner (and his parent or guardian) will also get to meet Jay Leno and check out his amazing garage.

Do you know a kid who likes cars and would be great in front of a camera? Make sure they know about the Operation Ignite! Youth Reporter Contest.

In a recent video on Jay Leno’s classic car website, Jay’s Garage, Jay had a chat with Hagerty CEO McKeel Hagerty about our youth program, Operation Ignite!, and our Youth Reporter Contest. Turns out, he thinks it’s pretty cool. In fact, he even offered to hang out with the winner. So not only will one lucky kid go to classic car events around the country all expenses paid, the winner (and his parent or guardian) will also get to meet Jay Leno and check out his amazing garage.


Do you know a kid who likes cars and would be great in front of a camera? Make sure they know about the Operation Ignite! Youth Reporter Contest. Our submission period closes on May 1 – so enter today!


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Did you get an opportunity to read our last news/blog "Classic Car Seller's Remorse" ?

Is the Gas Going Out of Classic Cars?

With the increase in prices and the introduction of ethanol into the fuel, the combustion engine is under assault and is about to run out of gas. 

As a lover of the Classic Car I have a deep interest in what is happening with the price of fuel. Why? 

To understand just how much of attack our classics are under just pick up one of the highly published car magazines, such as Motor Trend or Automotive Magazine and notice the acclimates You have to know when they start touting the 0-60's or the 1/4miles, or the bizarre combined HP and ft. lbs. of these whining electric magnets it may be time to get concerned about the future of Classic Cars as we have known them. 

In the very near future the gas combustion engine, the engines that have been the work horses, the engines that carried lovers to lover’s lane and to A & W’s for most of a century now will give way to the electric transporter. As for me I find a Segway, the two wheel green mailman transporters to be more interesting. 

How is demise of the combustion engine coming about? Why is government not stepping in with the price gouging? Why is Exxon not worried? The answers to those questions are complicated and multilayered yet simple, money.

We will never know exactly why just like we will never know why the stock market climbs and at the same time the price of gas climbs and unemployment climbs. We can be sure though that of the banks, the investment companies, the government and the gas companies are not done stripping the rest of our hard earn savings from us.

My best advice is while you can afford to and while you can still purchase fuel that a Classic Car can run on, get that car that you have always wanted, take her to lover’s lane, enjoy a stop at an A & W and run the wheels off of it.

The time for combustion engine is running out of gas and you and I have an obligation to enjoy ever last minute of it.

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Make to read our last article: Who Invented the Automobile .

Where can you get that piece of sheet metal that you are missing for your rare vintage car? Who you going to call?

For many reasons I have not been a Facebook fan. I’m happy with my social life and do not need to meet people on the internet. At least that is what I thought.

I kept reading how you can promote your business by networking on facebook. So I tried it and it is true. Almost immediately I formed a group of Classic Car Lovers. And what a group they are. I will introduce them and new ones as they join.  

Victor Yody owns The Metal Works. If you review his site and you will shortly recognize that Victor is more than an owner of a business. He is a metalman, a real craftsman and artist. He doesn’t pound out metal for the run of the mill cars. He works on the very best. Take a look at some of his work:



1953 Maserati A6GCS Barchettad



In 1953, when Maserati upgraded the earlier A6GCS with a new aerodynamic body designed by Medardo Fantuzzi, they produced one of the most beautiful classic sports cars of the era.

As Adrian Monk says; "Here’s the thing", if you want to promote your business facebook will help you network.

If you need a piece of sheet metal to to fit that rare vintage car you now know who to call.


Please join us on facebook and network your business with us.

Not a Fan of Electric Cars? Me either. What are we going to do?

Did you ever notice what happened to Zippo Lighters? Have you seen one flipped out of pair jeans pocket, top flipped open, the striker flicked, and flame engaged, lately. Probably not and it will be the same way with the gas combustion car.

The Zippo Lighter gave way to cheap plastic throw away lighters called Bics. Who would try to repair one of those or better yet have a collection of them?

Electric cars are probably here to stay and they will likely replace the gas combustion engine someday. Who’s going to love a rusted out crinkled mess of an electric car? Who will restore it to a work of art? They will probably go the way of Bic lighters; they will become a throw away.

So what are we, Classic Car Lovers, lovers of the rumble of a 427 Big Block, the embodiment of wisdom, to do? We have to find the works of art where ever they may be. Look high, look low, and look in garages and scour the barns do not leave any behind. Take them apart, rotisserie them, rebuild the engines, re-chrome, re-paint them, and preserve them into the future.

Then maybe someday in the future our grandchild will take his son out for a ride in this:



1954 Cadillac El Dorado



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