A few weeks ago, I had the advantage of visiting the Hagerty garage, not commonly accessible to the public, and abstraction a bit on a Mustang that the advisers of the aggregation were restoring. While the Mustang was a contempo accession to the collection, in the added bisected of the barn there was a assorted but absurd accumulating of vehicles, including admirable board boats and archetypal cars. Abounding of these were claimed cartage of the Hagerty family, including the patriarch, Frank Hagerty—who admired board boats and archetypal cars.
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Hagerty's 1956 Ford Thunderbird is a abundant archetype of his hands-on approach. Purchased as a bones in 1960, it was rebuilt by Hagerty, who abstruse how toweld while alive on the car. (How abounding archetypal car owners abstruse how to bond while alive on their aboriginal classic? Count this columnist amid them.) Overthe abutting 30 years, the Hagerty ancestors put addition 30,000 afar on the car afore it was absolutely adequate in the 1990s. You can see a arcade of FrankHagerty's clean of the T-Bird here.
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While architecture a classic-car allowance empire, he was additionally architecture a ancestors of car enthusiasts in his own household. Frank's three children, Kim, Tammy,and McKeel, all adequate their aboriginal cars in the ancestors barn with Frank's help. Respectively, the cars were a 1960 Corvair Lakewood wagon, a 1960 Porsche356 B, and a 1967 Porsche 911S.
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And that's absolutely why Hagerty is the aggregation it is today, I think. It encourages anybody to get hands-on in the hobby, in the company, and amid theircustomers. That's Frank Hagerty's legacy, and it's article account appreciating.
By the way, the "Dunesmobile" pictured aloft was the acme of a constant dream for Frank. As a teen, he'd consistently capital to drive one of the touristvehicles that showed visitors about the Sleeping Bear Dunes. In 2012, the aggregation begin and adequate an aboriginal "Dunesmobile," and Frank rode in the carto acquire a "Best of Class" at the 2014 Amelia Island Concours.
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Frank Hagerty was 79. You can apprehend added about him at Hagerty's site.
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