Monthly Archives: May 2009

Plenty of ways to spend Memorial Day weekend in Monterey County | thecalifornian. NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL 100TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION WEEKEND, Naval Postgraduate School, 1 University Circle, Monterey. PASO ROBLES CLASSIC COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION, River Oaks Hot Springs Spa, 800 Clubhouse Drive, Paso Robles. GREAT WESTERN BICYCLE RALLY, Paso Robles Event Center, 2198 Riverside Ave. For one day only, guest artist Adalberto Perez Meillon presents Anatazi pottery and painting from the village of Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, Mexico. Airmen fold the flag during Thursday’s Memorial Day ceremony at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey’s Soldier Field. read more  Read more... (110 words, estimated 26 secs reading time)

Posavetz John Snowberger, 57, of Sterling Heights, stands with the restored racing car his race-car driver father, Russell Snowberger, built and drove in the 1932 Indy 500, shortly before it was loaded into a trailer and towed to Indianapolis for today's vintage car laps on the track. John Snowberger will achieve a years-long dream Friday when he drives the same race car his famous race-car driver father drove in the 1932 Indianapolis 500. Snowberger, 57, of Sterling Heights, two weeks ago put the finishing touches on restoring the one-of-a-kind vehicle that placed fifth in the 1932 Indy 500 driven by the late Russell Snowberger. John Snowberger only completed the restoration of the Comet two weeks ago after trading a car his father built for another driver, a 1955 Federal Engineering Special, to a collector in Indiana three years ago. The show carries extra significance, Snowberger said, because his father, while driving in the second pole position (fourth) in the 1932 race, traveled behind Edsel Ford in the pace car, a Lincoln Roadster. read more  Read more... (184 words, estimated 44 secs reading time)

A former used-car dealer was charged Tuesday with selling cars to Alamance County residents and not paying the corporations that owned the titles to the vehicles. Division of Motor Vehicles charged Robby Lee Birdsong, 36, of Bellenden Drive, Durham with four counts of obtaining property by false pretense and four counts of embezzlement, according to warrants. The four people included in the DMV’s case against Birdsong bought cars from him between January and March. However, he allegedly never paid Automotive Financial Corporation and Manheim Car Auction, the two companies, or “floor planners,” that held the liens on the vehicles, Howell said. According to warrants, Birdsong allegedly sold a 2006 BMW for $18,516, a 2006 Honda for $15,738, a 2008 Pontiac for $9,444 and 2006 Mercedes for $30,250 to four different customers and never paid the floor planners. DMV because he allegedly didn’t pay tax, title and tag fees on any of the vehicles. read more  Read more... (165 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)