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Edward Herrmann - RIP

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aeronca65t

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Edward Herrmann has died at age 71

One of my favourite car/movie/TV guys.

Although he had some nice American classics, he was also well know for his Alvis Speed 20.

His surname is the same spelling as my in-laws and, like both of them, he is a Bucknell grad. We have always thought of him as "family" and I had hoped to meet him some day to discuss. He was a nice actor and had a great voice.
 
Sad news, apparently he had been battling brain cancer.
 
"When actor (and History Chanel narrator) Edward Herrmann becomes grand marshal at the Glenmoor Gathering of Significant Automobiles today, he won't just be a big name doing a job. The award-winning Herrmann is very serious about automobiles. While this will be his first visit to the Canton event, he is a regular at other auto concours. The interest began while he was growing up in Detroit. His father, he recalled, was one of the few engineers not working in the auto industry. But the fathers of all his friends did, and he became steeped in the car culture. Now 64, Herrmann started car-collecting in his 20s, with an Austin Healey that he said got so hot, it was ''not a wise car to have in California.'' https://www.ohio.com/the330entertainm...enmoor-1.69774"

Herrmann currently has three classic cars, a 1929 Auburn Boattail Speedster, a 1932 Rolls-Royce 20/25, and a 1932 Packard 900 series Coupe Roadster. "We drive the Packard all the time," he says. He didn’t always have fame and fortune, however, and his first car was a 1961 Plymouth Valiant Slant Six station wagon which, he says, "just ran and ran and ran forever." It was Herrmann, in fact, who got The History Channel interested in doing a show about automotive restoration, using a classic Packard and the Canadian firm, RM Restorations, as a base, and that one show led to an entire series of programs about classic and vintage cars in which Herrmann was heavily involved.

Herrmann isn’t finished collecting, by any means. He says he lusts after an Austin-Healey 100M racer, and would like to collect more "shovel-nose" Packards in the future. He says "Everybody should have at least three old cars: one to drive, one in the garage, and one at the shop, being restored." https://www.angelfire.com/me3/lewiscat/greenwich.html

I had just read this very sad story about his accountants allegedly mishandling his funds. Sounds like it will be a rough ride for his widow: https://www.nydailynews.com/enterta...4-5-million-accounting-firm-article-1.2041997
 
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