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VIDEO CAR NEEDED Mid December
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Sat or Sun Mid Dec
Car is needed 4 -5 hours for a video shoot in Orlando.
CASH paid


Cars requested:
65-69 Impala, Cadillac, Lincoln



Contact Wyatt Becker
(937) 307-6654
dizzlephunk@gmail.com

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Thornton Park Car Show

Saturday November 4, 12pm - 3pm






Orlando's most stylish district is just east of Lake Eola. The district has a European feel with over 50 locally owned restaurants and boutiques. Open to all years, makes and models welcome.
$5 registration includes discounts at participating restaurants.


700 East Washington, Orlando

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Hooters and Hot Rods
Sunday November 5, 11am - 2pm






Always a free event, open to all show vehicles.

550 Towne Center Blvd, Sanford

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Longwood annual cruise and chili cookoff

Saturday November 11, 5pm - 8pm

Anniversary dash plaques to the first 200 vehicles compliments of Pinch a Penny, Longwood. Come early for the Chili Cook Off. Buy a tasters kit for $7 day of show or $5 in advance (click HERE)


Always a FREE event, open to all show vehicles.
October show photos HERE


174 W. Church Avenue, Longwood


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Rock and Brews Airport Cruise
Sunday November 12, 11am - 2pm


Gift certificates of $50, $25, & $10 to the Rock & Brews staff picks.
Always a free event, open to all show vehicles.


6897 S. Semoran Blvd, Orlando

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ACE Cafe events NOV 13-19
Monday Nov 13, 7-9pm - GM & Corvette night


Saturday Nov 18, 10am-3pm - Menards Chevy Show w/DJ Don from Cruisin Orlando, televised for Velocity


Sunday Nov 19, 4-7pm - Give Thanks car show w/DJ Laurie "Queen of the Hop"

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Rock and Brews Cruise Oviedo

Sunday November 19, 11am - 2pm




Free event for all show vehicles.


7131 Red Bug Lake Road, Oviedo

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From MOTORING CLASSICS | SPRING 2014 Cocooned in their air-bagged cars, it
must be difficult for today’s teenagers to relate to the ton-up kids of the ‘50s.
They’d gratefully missed out on WWII, but were born into austerity
and desperately craved some actin.

Then along came credit – probably not enough to fund four wheels but maybe
sufficient for two. Films such as ‘The Wild One’, though largely banned in
the UK, fuelled the desire for rebellious riding on roads still gloriously devoid
of an overall speed limit. Add the new-fangled rock ‘n’ roll music and teenage
hormones to the mix, and you’d got the basis for a major explosion!

The infamous Ace Cafe has hosted
just about every type of road user in its time. Now, with related operations
in China, Finland, Germany, Japan and the USA, this iconic
brand apparently knows no bounds.

Where did the Ace come in? Simple – it was on a fast section of road tailor-made for
racing, was open when other cafes were closed, and had rock ‘n’ roll
permanently on tap. Yes, it’s not surprising that clean-living, middle-
aged motorcyclists gave the place a wide berth in the ‘50s or that Mods
avoided it like the plague in the ‘60s, but a lot of us secretly wish we’d been
involved.

First came the trucks .....The first cafe to adorn the site was
opened by entrepreneur Vic Edenborough in March 1938 as a
truck stop for the newly-created North Circular road. Open 24 hours a day
with the capacity to feed 100 drivers at a time, and such mod cons as ‘central
heating and toilets for both ladies and gentlemen, complete with hot and cold
running water’, it was an instant success.

So much so that Edenborough
promptly added a garage and filling station alongside. Unfortunately, just
two years later the nearby railway yards drew the attention of the Luftwaffe, who missed their target but hit the cafe instead. Undeterred, Edenborough ultimately replaced the building with a
bigger, better one that at one stage was a mix of cafe and restaurant, employed
25 staff and served as many as 2,000 meals a day.

The workshop made parts for Handley Page during the war and Ace folklore
recalls that John Wyer of Le Mans Aston Martin, GT40 and Porsche 917
fame briefly operated there after hostilities had ceased. Another rumour
suggests Colin Chapman may have carried out machining on the premises
around the time he was constructing the Lotus MKI in nearby Muswell
Hill.

Whatever, the early ‘50s were undoubtedly the heyday for the Ace
first time around and by the late-‘60s, when motorways had drawn much of
the lorry traffic away from the North Circular and speed limits and the law
in general had put the brakes on the rockers, the venue went into a steady
decline, and served its last plate of egg and chips on November 4, 1969.

Then came Wilsmore.
Born in 1957, Mark Wilsmore was a shade too young to experience the
rocker era firsthand, but has clearly always been one at heart. He couldn’t
wait to get his first bike, though soon found owning them was one thing and
staying on them apparently quite another – ‘my brother reckons I’ve
spent five years of my life in hospital through motorcycle crashes’! In 1979
he joined the mounted police and admits his younger colleagues took the
mickey out of him riding a classic British bike to work clad in traditional
leathers. However, he had no problem linking up with like-minded souls
away from work and fell into the role of ‘Mr Organiser’ of trips
to The Dutch TT, Bol d’Or etc.

Though familiar with the Ace as the tyre depot it had become, he had no
recollection of its cafe days but, as soon as a fellow member of the West Middlesex
Triumph Owners Club pointed out that Autumn 1994 marked the 25th Anniversary
of the venue’s closure - ‘I knew there should be a reunion, and I should be the one
to organise it’. There was and he did, and a staggering 12,000
motorcyclists attended.

Clearly the Ace meant much to a lot of enthusiasts and so began a protracted
project to purchase the site and resurrect the iconic cafe, which finally
came to fruition in September 2001.

These days there are some 10 bike and 20 car events each month – ie
something every day except December 25. The Ace is now arguably the mecca
for every car and bike enthusiast – in fact you simply don’t qualify as one
until you’ve been there at least once! See www.ace-cafe-london.com re the
events and http://www.acecafeshop.com/products/376 for more about the
history.

Photos:
Ace man – Mark Wilsmore

Always busy – the Ace in modern times

The monthly classic car night is hosted by Classic Cars magazine

The first Ace Cafe, with filling station and garage

The post-war building in its motorcycle heyday

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Tuesday Nov 21, 7pm - Euro bike night



ACE CAFE
100 West Livingston Street, Orlando
Click here for map



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