It's a very big honor to have this particular vehicle in a show like this.

And we've had lots of attention, lots of questions, and it's been a fun, fun day so far to make sure it didn't call for make sense or one point.

Oh, that's really cool, enjoyed you're talk the other day you know, when you do a project like this and this is a family story that's been talked about in our family since I was a young child.

Every car has a story Like the best thing ever for some.

they end up here.

These are just some of the stories about those who collect and restore vehicles giving them a renewed lease on life so that their stories to be told right here on Radical Restorations (music) Closed captioning provided by Cre-Oil.

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Go to the prestigious car show at Korbel Beach before it makes its way to the Canadian Automotive Museum.

(music) Hi, I'm Ron Foss and I'm at Cobble Beach Concours D'elegance.

And we're very happy to be here.

It's a very big honor to have this particular vehicle in a show like this.

And we've had lots of attention, lots of questions, and it's been a fun, fun day so far.

Yeah.

So the last time with this car was out in public was in Sherbrooke about a month ago when we were there for the hundred and 25th anniversary and then went back to the shop right after Sherbrooke.

And we virtually completed all of the fuel delivery system and the linkages from the bottom of the tiller to the various things that the tiller controls.

So all those were finished as of Friday before we had to bring it up to the shop just in time for the steering the ship to order from Canada, just like the built around the car.

So the whole thing happened.

What would've my grandfather used in the times, the time period Yeah.

And he would have bought the records he kept, he bought gas and five gallon drums and shipped out from Boston.

So we said, well, let's just take a car from a five gallon tank and we'll reach you know, we will build the tank.

the gas tank to match the cap.

And so we got that off of the cap off eBay to perfect not for a 1890s version five gallon gas cylinder The back up was because we had running around the park like in the run all we were pushing it and thinking and I trying to follow your lead Right there?

Yeah, right about there and my way just a little tiny bit.

And up in at the top.

See the top bracket?

Yeah, yeah, I got it.

That's about right there Yours isn't on that much, so there it is.

Yeah.

Well, one point.

Oh, that's really cool.

Come on.

You're right.

Enjoyed your talk the other day Thank you Ron It's great Yeah.

Oh the big thing.

We had a back in Sherbrooke for the 125th anniversary.

And it got tremendous.

I mean just because it belongs there from an original perspective.

So the community just bought right into it being brought back, so much so that they really wanted me to keep it or bring it back permanently (music) I'm Sean Burke I came from the Sherbrooke area You came all the way here No no.

I live up here now.

Yeah, I yeah, I wanted to do it.

Yeah, yeah.

(music) Don't forget to mark your peopl'es choice ballot Judging is under way.

Our Judges are on the field They have on blue jackets with straw hats My name is Charlotte and we are visiting the 1928.

Isotta Fraschini It was built upon Italian chassis and body by LeBaron in New York.

Typically they are built to the specifications of the new owner, but in the case of this car, it was designed to be on display at the 1928 New York Auto Show.

It was at that auto show that the original owner, Harry Williams, and his movie star wife, Marjorie Clark.

Of course, it was a silent film star.

Saw the car were mesmerized and purchased it and they drove it home to Patterson Louisiana.

This is one of two ever produced with this particular body style.

And as you can see, they didn't spare much in the line of luxury.

It has just about every feature you can imagine.

And interestingly enough, there is no chrome on this car.

It is all nickel English or German silver because combing process was utilized in automobiles into the early thirties.

So she's quite a chore to take care of.

But with the little tender loving care we've been able to preserve it to share with the public here today.

It runs on a straight eight.

It has a Ford Air Tool chest that we're looking here on the other side, the matching box is the battery box.

And also on the other side is the place for the golf bags.

And yes, it does have the vintage 1928 clubs enclosed Interestingly enough, the original owner, Marguerite Clark, was noticed on stage in New York by Walt Disney, and he approached her and asked permission to use her likeness.

And the image of her is now commonly recognized as a modern day Snow White.

So this is the real Snow White's automobile.

(engine starts) Well, we had a small blue ribbon and now we have a larger one to compliment it So you have a little one in the middle now.

There you go, sir.

Thank you so much for bringing Announcer: A lot of classics and muscle cars Okay.

My name is Peter Fossett.

I'm from Oshawa, Ontario.

And this is on 1911, Pierce Arrow.

It's a model 36 Roadster and my father owned the car and he was working on the car when he passed.

And I just decided to finish it.

And that's why.

And after you drive this car or get a ride in it, you'll understand that.

Yeah, it really works.

Dad started probably 20 years ago and slowly, you know, getting things rounded up and and he's been gone 14 years and I've been picking at it in the winter only.

Yeah.

And it's just taking that long, you know, just slowly getting things fixed up.

Of course.

Anyway, we had this show to come to, so we got it finished.

A deadline.

(music) Yeah.

Hi, I'm Wally Hronek, and this is my brand new 1957 Corvette.

My wife bought me for my 65th birthday, and it's made a month after I was born.

So it's a fuel injected 283 car.

It's got it's optioned out with standard brakes and power windows 370 rear end four speed transmission because it's a late car, it's a four it's in the 4000 series and I'm just getting to know it.

So we're having it judged here and basically he's telling me what's wrong with it.

Now I'm going to fix whatever's wrong (music) I'm Clancy Goodfellow.

We're from Uxbridge and I was a director with the Antique Classic Boat Society.

And the second year of this show, we thought that maybe we had a nice crossover because I also put together classic cars for our antique and classic boat show in Gravenhurst So we decided to trade off names and what have you and we do four boats a year Of course, the last two years there hasn't been a show and the boats are not judged.

They're just here to be seen because the people who enjoy the vintage classic vehicles don't really get to see the old boats, you know, unless you're in Muskoka or part of it (music) this one here, the Greavette is a 1964 Greavette Sunflash They were made in in Gravenhurst.

And this particular model was a boat that was made for people having cottages out on the islands.

So this boat was made by Greavette so it could be used by the kids or going back and forth to get groceries or if you had guests because it was a nice easy boat to drive and stable and and simple.

(music) This here is a Port Carling Seabird now it's a very unique boat or it was a custom designed and made boat.

There was only two of them.

It's in, I believe it's 1930s.

And what's unique about it, if you want to see with your camera is the tumblehome it's one of the most extreme tumblehomes ever made.

Very, very difficult, as you can appreciate, to get to get it perfect.

So there were just two made (music) The shepherd As you can see, it's quite a large lots of free board in it.

And they were made in Niagara-on-the-Lake because it was in Lake Ontario.

Even the small ones had a huge amount of free board.

Shepherd would have been the Canadian equivalent of Chris Kraft, except we think they were better built boats, of course, but they would need to be considering how they were built.

So there were lots of sizes from 16 feet right up to 27' As you can see, they're pretty substantial boats.

This, um, this boat here is another Port Carling boat and it goes back to I think 33.

It'll stay on the front.

Very unique.

There was only, uh, I think six of them made originally with this design where you had the engine and you had a cockpit on either side for people to sit in.

And then at the back end of the front and the gentleman who owns it also restores boats in Port Carling So that's quite a, quite a different group.

Um, and we like to try and do that.

(music) Announcer: Up here under the awards tent if you'd like to take a look at them, they're outstanding.

And thank you again to Porsche our presenting sponsor for this year's Concours d'Elegance here at Cobble Beach you know why I'm so interested in this car?

Nope I had one.

Oh, yeah.

The only difference between this one and mine, that mine had side mounts and a luggage rack at the back and a trunk and we did it.

Option based body chocolate, brown fenders, orange wire wheels with an orange pinstripe through it.

It was it was pretty And I talked to a guy a few years ago who said a couple of weeks ago, he said, I drove you to show the Roadster.

And I said, Oh, you're in California.

Is that car I saw that you said, No, I was over in Holland.

Oh, it's over there now.

Okay.

(music) Fabulous.

All right.

I get to find (music continues) (crowd noises) So I decided to go with a one inch block chain attached because I didn't want to be picking up chain parts.

Everything came off the rack.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, it's awesome that you're here.

That's that's pretty cool You have to reach in there with a syringe, but a few drops of gas into the brass cup and then you can pull on the pull start to start and then you close this up.

So I think that some of the pictures, we got to close it up and then we wondered, well, maybe kept it open because getting a little bit of heat.

Oh, maybe, yeah, yeah.

Because often the pictures, it's up like this.

For the longest time, we've never been able to figure out what this is really all about.

But that's our best guess is it was in the main circuit.

Everything can be controlled from the cockpit.

You can get access to the time it all started from the cockpit.

You can set all the parameters from the from the tiller.

So you never have to get out to do anything.

(music) (unintelligible) (music) My name is Alex Gates.

I'm the executive director and curator of the Canadian Automotive Museum in Oshawa, Ontario.

And during the 1897 Fossmobile tribute replica vehicle, which Ron Foss has wonderfully created in honor of his grandfather, George Foote Foss developed first successful, successfully operating gasoline powered automobile in Canada.

And so I've been working with Ron and we're going to put it on display at the Canadian Automotive Museum to really represent the origins of the car in our country.

You know, in Oshawa itself, well, we built over 20 million vehicles, for example, and we built cars across Canada.

And this is really, really where it started from.

And we look forward to, you know, having, you know, the horse and carriage era transition into the automobile era with the display of the Fossmobile (music) (crowd noises) my version of what is in front of you.

Well, this is the Canadian Automotive Museum, and we're here for the induction ceremony of the Fossmobile into the museum.

This is a donation that the family has presented to the museum and they've graciously put on this event.

I think we'll have about 80 or 85 guests who are going to be joining us this evening.

and we'll introduce the Fossmobile to them and have a bit of a ceremony that goes along with it, (music) We've been trying really hard to build up our earlier history.

And I mean, you know, not just as part of this this new exhibit about early cars in Canada working together, but also just in general to to dig deeper and deeper into our archives and the Fossmobile, really, it helps ground that history.

We have a lot of early American cars and a few early Canadian cars, but this is really sort of where it starts.

This is the foundation point that you can build off of and admittedly, there are earlier cars than the Fossmobile there are earlier steam cars, but for better or for worse, gasoline cars are what are most on our roads today.

And so this sort of gives us a really point of lineage, an ancestor to start with, and then say, look at all these other Canadian cars.

This is where they came from and plus it's a neat sort of funky, almost sort of steampunk piece of engineering.

It is a it is an odd duck of a car.

And we love having those here.

They're really fun.

It's been a four year project from virtually start to finish I think I took this on very late in 2018 and here we are very late in 2022, various trials and tribulations along the way, finding the right parts, getting the right parts synchronized together, finding the right people who can help me re-engineer it, you know, using old photographs that we had to get it to this stage all took a lot more time than we originally anticipated, but we're very proud to be having it here.

It's great and presenting it to the museum.

it's some mixed emotions, you know, when you do a project like this and this is a family story that's been talked about in our family since I was a young child.

I, you know, I had the ability to be with my grandfather, as was the case of my father.

And I talked on more than one occasion about either finding the old original car or doing something like this, like, you know, building a replica or a tribute car of it.

So to have accomplished that as a sort of a family dream is certainly very rewarding.

And as the generosity along the way has been spectacular, we have corporate sponsors, individual donors, you know, various people who contributed along the way, that it's been an outstanding part of the project.

(music) The things we found in researching these is that snowmobile conversions in Canada are incredibly common pre sort of 1945 and there were dozens and dozens and dozens of them because they were really easy to do in-house.

Like you take whatever junker of a car, you go back around and wrap some stuff from the rear tires and throw some skis on there and you've got a functional snow vehicle.

So this one belonged to Northeast telephone company.

It was their service vehicle that's sort of in roughly the Stratford area and they yeah, they just apparently built it.

in house out of somebody's second hand car and used it to go fix telephone lines.

(music) (crowd noises) Hi, my name's Rob McLeese I'm the chair of the Cobble Beach Concours d'Elegance, just north of Owen Sound.

And we have today the Fossmobile which is being unveiled in it's new home.

And we're very grateful to Ron Foss for recreating this car and bring it back to life.

I think it's really significant that it's here at the Canadian Automotive Museum and some of the vehicles that are in this museum are so worthwhile to show to our our kids and our our grandkids.

And it helps people to better understand Canada's automotive history (music) I'm Jason Humphries I work at Legendary Motor Car We basically built the Fossmobile from the ground up.

We brought a chassis in that had been in a fire and it was everything was bent, warped.

So we took everything apart, replaced any of the tubes that we needed Complete project start to finish about 3 years I believe And most of the stuff we work on is,sixties, like 50s,60s cars, you know, being able to work on something like this and once in a lifetime option, like you don't get to get a chance to work on something this old and with so much heritage in it, there's a lot of research done by Ron and ourselves.

We have a few pictures of the car from when it was originally built so we can tell what style chassis it was and the motor and the drives and everything.

And then we're able to research.

So the cars like the Crestmobile and stuff that were used in the same era and then we can copy the parts that they used for this one.

Yeah.

So you ues photographs and we got to figure out how we tried to build it a lot of the way that they would have built it back then.

we didn't use C & C's or anything like that to build it everything was hand-built and everything's one off.

So most of the parts had to be built from scratch, one off.

(music) (crowd noise) (music continues) So good evening everyone and welcome.

(speaks French) to our friends in Quebec.

My name is Alex Gates.

I'm the executive director and curator here at the Canadian Automotive Museum.

And tonight we are gathered to welcome the 1897 Fossmobile Mobile tribute replica automobile into our collection, as you can see right next to me.

which has been Ron Foss's how do I even describe it?

Passion Project.

For the last few years, him and many supporters, many family members and many historians across Canada working on this project, it's absolutely wonderful to see it here in the museum gallery on view for all Canadians to come through and check it out (applause) (music) Funding for Radical Restoration is provided by (Music) Rakabot sources sustainable materials to create boot racks that organize footwear that allows drippings to go in the bowl.

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My name's Gary Nichols.

Until next time, may all your rides be radical.

(car roars by) (tires squealing) (sanding) (music)