Ken Juran The 2001 Meguiar's Award Popular Mechanics, March 1, 2001, 1956, 1930s,
J.B. Nethercutt, founder of California's The Nethercutt Collection car museums in San Sylmar, is the Meguiar's Collector Car Hobby's Person of the Year.
"J.B. Nethercutt, 85-year-old dean of the car-collector hobby, has been named the 2001 Meguiar's Collector Car Hobby's Person of the Year. The award was presented at a gala ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel on May 10, 2001. . .
"Years later when I became successful in a business I had started, and we were affluent enough to afford one of those gleaming monsters we remembered so well, we found that most of them were in dreadful condition," said Nethercutt. That was the beginning of a lifelong passion for Nethercutt and his wife to preserve the cars from their youth. In 1956, the Nethercutts decided that the only way they could get one of the cars they had so admired in the 1930s was to buy the best example they could find and have it restored. Out of this ambition has grown one of the finest automotive restoration shops in the world.
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