7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The best adventures in life are the ones you never anticipate—and this one has continued to surprise me year after year: • 2009: First, being contacted by and becoming great friends with Margaret Woolsey—part of the original Hordern-Richmond 8person team who built the Allard Clipper body. • 2016: Then, being contacted in 2016 by Alan Masson who owned an Allard Clipper in 1959. A story he shared with me in incredible detail with photos. • 2021: Next, being contacted by an owner of an unknown Allard Clipper—here in the USA—who wanted to find the right home for it and its hopeful restoration. • 2022: And again...my good friend Tom Chandler stepping in and becoming a partner on the car and embracing the restoration of our Clipper with a team of his best friends • 2022: Then in 2022, Mike Knapman of the Allard Owner’s Club contacting me that a former owner of our car (Jeremy Bennett) had the original Registration / Log Book and wanted us to have it (all previous owner information is typically in the Registration book) • 2025: Finally, in 2025, with the Registration / Log Book in hand from Jeremy Bennett and in scrutinizing all the detail in bringing together and writing this book, I noticed that Tom Chandler and I actually owned Alan Masson’s Allard Clipper that he shared his memories about with me back in 2016. Wow! I’m afraid what may come next! Maybe we find a few more Allard Clippers out there??? I can only hope :-) As you can see, with any good adventure—and good book—it’s about the stories. And the story of this car, its research and the restoration is about people. And this adventure—started for me by my late friend Margaret Woosley—is something, I hope, she would be proud of. After all—she is the one that sent me down this path. You can read more about Margaret and her story about building the first Allard Clipper body—photos and all—later in this book. But what all of this doesn’t capture is the fun and enjoyment I’ve had in recounting her life stories which included a 2 year stint in the Middle East in the early 1950s. What a magnificent woman she was. There are many people to thank who made this book possible which include (but not limited to): Margaret Woolsey, Alan Masson, Colin Warnes, Gavin Allard, Mike Knapman, Joe Curl, Tom Chandler, Craig Johnson, Mike Puma, Alden Jewell, Dan Palatnik, Bob Cunningham, Jonathan “Jonee” Eisen, Daniel Strohl, Michael Ware, Randal Baron and so many others. Great thanks to each of you for your insight, friendship and support. Geoffrey R. Hacker, Ph.D. / Undiscovered Classics i
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