Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Stanley Zimmerman on the occasion of his 70th birthday and the Preview of the Automobile Driving Museum. For over 30 years, Stanley Zimmerman has been collecting, restoring, and showing classic automobiles, amassing nearly 40 cars. This life long passion will culminate with the opening of the Automobile Driving Museum in the fall of 2002.
Stanley's passion for automotive restoration began in the 1970s when he purchased a 1936 Packard Convertible Sedan which he painstakingly restored over the ensuing 28 years to award-winning, 100 point perfection. Since that time, his collection has expanded to include: Packards, Studebakers, Lincolns, Fords, Cadillacs, Chryslers, and a Stutz. Due to its uniqueness of variety and perfection, Stanley's collection has been shown around the country, winning awards and inspiring fellow collectors.
Over the last 30 years, Stanley Zimmerman's passion has contributed to the preservation of the history of automobile production in America as well as the histories of the famous Americans who drove them. His collection contains such historically significant automobiles as a 1955 Packard Caribbean, a car first purchased by Howard Hughes for his wife, Jean Peters, and a 1936 seven-passenger Packard Phantom, purportedly a gift from President Roosevelt to Joseph Stalin.
As a member of the Classic Car Club, The Packard Automobile Classics Club, the Antique Studebaker Club, the Lincoln Owners Club, the Walter P. Chrysler Club and the Earl C. Anthony Packard Club, Stanley has gained priceless knowledge about each of the cars he has restored and has thus been able to pass on this knowledge to countless other classic car owners and members of our national community. With his years of experience as his guide, Stanley will open the Automobile Driving Museum, the only car museum in the United States which allows visitors to ride in the classic cars on display.
I ask all Members to join me in congratulating Stanley Zimmerman for his devotion to the history and restoration of classic automobiles and in wishing him good fortune upon the opening of the Automobile Driving Museum.