Car show, car art, car restorations and more in this week’s column
HEARD INSTINCT: Vancouver International Auto Show executive director Jason Heard’s blood contains more than father Phil’s Y chromosome. There’s gasoline, too. Heard Sr. has been involved with automobiles since 1990, when he launched Vancouver’s Molson Indy races as general manager. He’d already staged boat, floating-boat and RV shows. Inheriting that know-how, Jason began staging successive design exhibitions in 2004. Having formed Heard Productions Inc.
BRANCHING OUT: As for used cars, artists Marcus Bowcott and wife Helene Aspinall addressed a Ferry Building audience regarding their Trans Am Totem sculpture. Made for the 2015 Vancouver Biennale, that Quebec-at-Milross installation has Pontiac, BMW, Honda, VW and Mercedes-Benz bodies stacked atop a cedar trunk. Given the City of Vancouver Public Art Committee’s reported antipathy to it, Marcus Bowcott said: “I figure I must be doing something right.
ROCKET MAN: At Lisbon’s Monstra International Animation Festival on Thursday, Marv Newland began screening all 14 films his International Rocketship studio has produced here. RUMBLE READYING: Jonathan T. Parker’s British-car streak has fizzled. He and wife Dewey first adopted a Lincolnshire vicar’s Rolls-Royce. North Vancouver-based RX Autoworks then restored Jonty’s 1960 AC Ace to win its class at the top-drawer Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Two Jaguar E-types earned such prizes as Dom Perignon Champagne. Jonty then trolled the southern U.S. for a rare Austin Vanden Plas Princess with Rolls-Royce engine.
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