Visit to the Lingenfelter Collection
"On October 4th, Ken and Kristy Lingenfelter, members of Corvette Indy, had an open house at their car collection in Brighton, Michigan, for their charity - "Pure Pink for Brest Cancer". Pat H., Barry R., Bill B., Michigan Jeff B., and friend Gary S., made the drive up leaving at 3am on Saturday morning. The early morning stop, Cars and Coffee at the Lingenfelter Engineering Facility in Wixam, MI, was closed for the day due to the open house.
We arrived at the collection site for the 10am opening and were immediately WOW'd by the first of three areas in the building -- the "exotics" room. In this area were several Ferarri's, a Bugati ( about $1 million dollars worth), Aston Martins, Alfa Romeos and Bill's favorite, a Bentley SupersportS. He was just drooling over that one. The next room was pretty much devoted to the Corvettes. All versions for a 1953, the original Duntov "Mule" of the 1953, to various C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, and C7 - he has them all. Some were original and some had the "Lingenfelter Touch". The third area had the rest of his collection of various cars - GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC, and others were represented.
We got to spend a few minutes with Ken and thanked him for putting on the event. They were expecting close to 3000 visitors between 10am and 5pm. Greg, he said to keep those e-mails coming and he is looking forward to having the club come up next summer for a private visit. Hopefully we can get that arranged.
Thanks to Pat for the write up and Barry and Gary for the pictures.
We arrived at the collection site for the 10am opening and were immediately WOW'd by the first of three areas in the building -- the "exotics" room. In this area were several Ferarri's, a Bugati ( about $1 million dollars worth), Aston Martins, Alfa Romeos and Bill's favorite, a Bentley SupersportS. He was just drooling over that one. The next room was pretty much devoted to the Corvettes. All versions for a 1953, the original Duntov "Mule" of the 1953, to various C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, and C7 - he has them all. Some were original and some had the "Lingenfelter Touch". The third area had the rest of his collection of various cars - GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC, and others were represented.
We got to spend a few minutes with Ken and thanked him for putting on the event. They were expecting close to 3000 visitors between 10am and 5pm. Greg, he said to keep those e-mails coming and he is looking forward to having the club come up next summer for a private visit. Hopefully we can get that arranged.
Thanks to Pat for the write up and Barry and Gary for the pictures.
