#everything that says callum on it is mine. everything with a different (blocked out) name is someone else’s

[transgender-anakin-skywalker]

so i was going through my google drive from secondary school and trying to recover everything before they nuke the fuck out of it and i managed to dig up an old slideshow that my friends and i made when we were 13ish and it truly has some of The Content Ever (derogatory)

[momo-crome]

Pinned post ! !₊˚⊹♡

Hello! My name is Momo, but you can call me just about anything that you’d like! I also use she/ he/ they pronouns. I'm a very much beginner artist / writer but hopefully with this site I'll be able to get better. You may not remember following me but that's just because I had previously gone under a different alias b4 so that's proballlly the reason ehehe ( •̯́ ₃ •̯̀)

Oh and before I forget! I feel like it's important for me to state that I am in fact a minor !

Accounts !!

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Side blogs !!

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┈❥ Alr so im gonna start off with my art! My art style does change every five seconds but I'm working on it. While I hope to get at least 1-2 pieces posted per week, I am open to any art requests that people give me! Granted, i cannot promise that i will do them since i'm not getting paid BUT i do plan on doing royale high art coms! This post will be updated once I figure out commission prices !!

┈❥along with art, i do in fact dapple into writing every now and again! Not to say that i do it as consistently as my art but i've been trying to do it more. If you're interested in more then check out my ao3 page ! its pretty blank right now but I have ideas for a whole lot of stuff i cant wait to share!

┈❥so something i feel like would be somewha important to say would be interests of mine! As for now i am very into dialtown (especially the au i have started to make for it) so expect a lot of that! Also, I'm a real big fan of breaking bad / better call saul so expect the occasional fanart or two of that! Also can't promise no deltarune content rn whoops-

┈❥ lastly! My inbox / dm’s are always open to everybody! I love making new friends, even though im a bit weird and socially awkward at times eheh

Other info : 

┈❥ i am in fact panromantic and still figuring out my gender at the moment, my pronouns may change so im just putting it out there! May even start to experiment with neos one day ehe

┈❥ i’m currently in between relationships as of writing this -!! but i’m open ;3

┈❥ you can expect me to post about my pets too! I have the worlds stupidest cat nad i love him so yall have to do <3

┈❥ i want to just say rn that i am a Marla Crown fickin ! i also do selfship heavily with callum crown as cringe as that is,, just sayin since i know that there are others on here who are just like this and i wanna be friends w em !! :D 

This is my main oc i use to draw myself with! I do plan on doing a better reference at one point or another but to me its fine rn sooo were sticking with it!

Feel free to ask any questions about em!! If you care anyway- im just itching at the chance to say more hehe

I dont really have any sort of dni !! as long as youre not being an arse to me or any of my mooties then go wild lol! but sadly due to recent events i have had to block certain people who actively support and interact with individuals who dislike me. it isn’t personal but rather i don’t feel safe knowing that fact so please forgive me

important : i don’t care who interacts with my content but if you’re gonna interact with me personally i would prefer you’d be around my age (13-17) ! if you don’t fit into then i won’t really stop you but please keep that in mind!

Although i feel like i should just warn real quickly that i have auDHD and dyslexia so i'm not quite the sharpest tool in the shed! Plus um a few other disorders i suffer with tend to aren't so sigma, mainly BPD n PTSD (i want to add udd)

Thats all for now! Tysm for reading though everything!! Have a good day / night ૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡

[jonathanbelloblog]

Cruisin’ with Jaguar Design Chief Ian Callum in a ’32 Ford on Woodward

If anyone else wore a grin anywhere near the size of the one on the face of Jaguar design chief Ian Callum at this year’s Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise, we didn’t see them.

“Fun!” he exclaims. “It’s fantastic to drive a ’32 Ford, which is a car after my own heart,” he says of the 1932 Highboy borrowed from Carl and Jeanne Booth. Callum has pulled off of Woodward Avenue to wait for his younger brother, Moray, Ford’s design vice president, to meet up with Ian’s makeshift entourage.

“First thing he did was try to catch up to the Jaguar I-Pace by laying down a good patch of rubber,” Carl Booth says of Callum and his Ford’s V-8 engine and its sensitive throttle. “He said, ‘Wow! That pedal is quick to respond.’”

Ian Callum drives his perfect Dream Cruise car: Carl and Jeanne Booth’s LS3-powered ’32 Ford, built by Brothers Custom Automotive.

Callum has attended the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, an event usually held the same weekend as the Dream Cruise, for decades. But Pebble moved back a week for 2018 to accommodate a golf tournament, so we conjured up this fish-out-of-water meeting by arranging Booth’s hot rod for Callum, who has a 351 Windsor-powered ’32 Ford coupe of his own back home in England. Woodward, however, turns out to be Callum’s natural habitat.

The makeshift entourage includes Bill Jagenow, driving his Flathead Ford Model T roadster; Autumn Riggle, driving Jeanne Booth in a lowered, custom 1956 Lincoln Premier—Jagenow and Riggle are partners in Brothers Custom Automotive, which built the Booths’ and Moray’s hot rods—and Bill’s 12-year-old son, Louis “Liam” Jagenow VII, riding shotgun in our Jaguar I-Pace photo car. I briefly imagine Liam participating in the Dream Cruise silently in such an EV in a quarter century or so.

Ian catches up with his brother, Moray.

Moray Callum arrives in a Lincoln Navigator, and we take a couple more laps of Woodward before gathering in front of Pasteiner’s Auto Zone Hobbies (car models and books).

“He’s got a goatee beard,” Ian says of Moray. “It’s most peculiar.”

The two brothers don’t see each other often enough. That may change.

I’ve retired from being a judge at Pebble Beach,” Ian says. “I’ve done it for 18 years. So I’ll probably be here next year,” when the events are again on the same weekend. “I’ll probably go to Pebble on Thursday and come back here Friday and Saturday.”

As Ian and I go to leave Pasteiner’s classics-jammed parking lot, a woman steps forward.

“Excuse me? Hi, my name is Catherine Johnston. I was told that you designed my car, the Jag F-Type.”

“Yeah, I did!” Ian allows, adding that he did it with a team.

“I have it here.”

“And you’re in tears!”

“I love that car. It is my most favorite car in the world, and I wanted to thank you.”

So far, the Dream Cruise isn’t that different for Callum than meeting prominent Jaguar owners at Pebble. And there are other designers to catch up with: Peter Davis, who worked for Fiat in Italy in the ’90s when Ian Callum was there for Ford; Wayne Cherry, General Motors’ sixth design chief; and Howard “Buck” Mook, a colleague during Ian’s 12 years at Ford. When the designers split up, Ian finds a 1941 Willys Gasser a block away.

“A friend of mine in England has got a Willys like that,” he says. “He actually drives it on the road. He’s got a cage in it; it’s a complete drag racer. It’s quite interesting because it makes a lot of noise. … Wow. Look at that! That’s a blower and a half.”

“I used to work on Corvettes,” says Bob Kinzer, owner of the Willys. “That’s an ‘outlaw’ fiberglass body.”

“The engine’s remarkable,” Callum tells Kinzer. “Do you know how much horsepower?”

Although he’s not one for green cars, Ian Callum is drawn to Keith Collins’ personally restored ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2.

“At least 750,” Kinzer replies. Like the cars on the Pebble grass, Kinzer trailered his car from Utica, Michigan, to 14 Mile Road, a couple of blocks away, then drove it the rest of the distance to his parking slot just off the curb.

Next, Callum studies a dark green ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2 fastback with a 289 V-8 and “Special Edition” painted on the rear quarter-panels. It’s not the sort of paint job that would earn it a space on the 18th fairway, but it’s the kind of homespun work that speaks to the spirit of the Dream Cruise.

“When it came out, I was struck by this very strong, powerful face,” Callum says. “That lovely shaped grille. It was very purposeful. And I really fell for that, it is really in some sort of way a kind of European car, which is a nice balance.”

Owner Keith Collins reveals it was white with blue stripes—the classic “A Man and a Woman” paint combo—when he bought it in Florida. “I’m still working on it,” Collins says. “Actually, it took a year to do all the major stuff on it.”

Callum is impressed with all these do-it-yourselfers and shade-tree mechanics on Woodward.

“I do appreciate a lot of the owners of the cars at Pebble Beach who do it because they love the cars, but it’s as much about the investment as it is about building them, which is fine,” he says. “I’ve got a few such investments myself. But everybody here is here because they love the car. They’re not interested in what it costs, what it’s worth. It’s worth more to the soul than to the wallet.”

Callum spots a ’56 Chevy with a crate motor, not unlike a car he sold recently. He did much of the work on his ’56 Chevy, including modern mechanical upgrades. Aesthetically, he’s fine with retro rods, not so much rat rods.

“I like honest cars,” he says. “But cars that have been patinaed and scratched intentionally, I don’t have a lot of time for that.”

As we continue walking, Callum says he’d like to have a 1963-65 Buick Riviera and considers the Bill Mitchell design era, at least up to the early ’70s, the pinnacle of American design. He likes post-Virgil Exner Mopars as well, pointing to a ’69 Dodge Dart GT convertible.

Let’s make a deal: Ian Callum tries to buy Carolyn Peters’ Super Bee at the Halls’ Dream Cruise Party.

“See, I like that. The simplicity of them. After the failings of the ’50s, they discovered this thing called ‘elegance.’”

Callum also points out a passing Meyers Manx and a 1969 Pontiac Firebird.

“The ’68, ’69 Firebird is one of Mr. Tata’s favorite cars,” he says, referring to Ratan Tata, who as then-chairman of Tata Group bought Jaguar Land Rover for Tata Motors from Ford in 2010.

Speaking of Ford, we encounter Mook again, who leads us to a wild yellow Mustang II, a V-8 with chrome SVT valve covers under the hood, owned by Greg Sauve. Mook is also responsible for the ’66 Pontiac GTO-based “Monkeemobile.” As for the Mustang II, Callum isn’t enamored with his friend’s most notorious design.

Ian with Jaguar PR’s Stuart Schorr and the author.

“[Lee] Iacocca said nobody over 30 was allowed to work on the new Mustang,” Mook explains. “We had a contest for two weeks. We had to do sketches, full-sized tape and everything, and Iacocca chose my design.”

“I remember your sketches,” Callum says.

“They were very exaggerated,” Mook admits. “We always used to do that here in America.”

Soon, Callum is off to a local Jaguar dealer’s party at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, 8 miles to the north. That’s too much like a Pebble Beach event, so instead we meet up with him later at the party of GM executive Jim Hall and his wife, Pam. Jaguar’s design director eyes the Halls’ ’63 Corvette and designer Dave Rand’s ’66 Jaguar E-type Series 1. Woodward has a reputation as an all-American muscle car and hot rod festival, but Callum understands Jaguar’s place among the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges.

“Jaguar’s the affordable exotic,” he says. “That was the mission. For a lot of people, these classics and these hot rods are affordable classics. They’re affordable exotics to them. It touches their heart the way that a normal car will not touch.”

He fawns over a 1969 Dodge Super Bee parked behind Rand’s E-type and tells me, “I want you to say in your story that this is the car I’d go home with.”

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[eddiejpoplar]

Cruisin’ with Jaguar Design Chief Ian Callum in a ’32 Ford on Woodward

If anyone else wore a grin anywhere near the size of the one on the face of Jaguar design chief Ian Callum at this year’s Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise, we didn’t see them.

“Fun!” he exclaims. “It’s fantastic to drive a ’32 Ford, which is a car after my own heart,” he says of the 1932 Highboy borrowed from Carl and Jeanne Booth. Callum has pulled off of Woodward Avenue to wait for his younger brother, Moray, Ford’s design vice president, to meet up with Ian’s makeshift entourage.

“First thing he did was try to catch up to the Jaguar I-Pace by laying down a good patch of rubber,” Carl Booth says of Callum and his Ford’s V-8 engine and its sensitive throttle. “He said, ‘Wow! That pedal is quick to respond.’”

Ian Callum drives his perfect Dream Cruise car: Carl and Jeanne Booth’s LS3-powered ’32 Ford, built by Brothers Custom Automotive.

Callum has attended the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, an event usually held the same weekend as the Dream Cruise, for decades. But Pebble moved back a week for 2018 to accommodate a golf tournament, so we conjured up this fish-out-of-water meeting by arranging Booth’s hot rod for Callum, who has a 351 Windsor-powered ’32 Ford coupe of his own back home in England. Woodward, however, turns out to be Callum’s natural habitat.

The makeshift entourage includes Bill Jagenow, driving his Flathead Ford Model T roadster; Autumn Riggle, driving Jeanne Booth in a lowered, custom 1956 Lincoln Premier—Jagenow and Riggle are partners in Brothers Custom Automotive, which built the Booths’ and Moray’s hot rods—and Bill’s 12-year-old son, Louis “Liam” Jagenow VII, riding shotgun in our Jaguar I-Pace photo car. I briefly imagine Liam participating in the Dream Cruise silently in such an EV in a quarter century or so.

Ian catches up with his brother, Moray.

Moray Callum arrives in a Lincoln Navigator, and we take a couple more laps of Woodward before gathering in front of Pasteiner’s Auto Zone Hobbies (car models and books).

“He’s got a goatee beard,” Ian says of Moray. “It’s most peculiar.”

The two brothers don’t see each other often enough. That may change.

I’ve retired from being a judge at Pebble Beach,” Ian says. “I’ve done it for 18 years. So I’ll probably be here next year,” when the events are again on the same weekend. “I’ll probably go to Pebble on Thursday and come back here Friday and Saturday.”

As Ian and I go to leave Pasteiner’s classics-jammed parking lot, a woman steps forward.

“Excuse me? Hi, my name is Catherine Johnston. I was told that you designed my car, the Jag F-Type.”

“Yeah, I did!” Ian allows, adding that he did it with a team.

“I have it here.”

“And you’re in tears!”

“I love that car. It is my most favorite car in the world, and I wanted to thank you.”

So far, the Dream Cruise isn’t that different for Callum than meeting prominent Jaguar owners at Pebble. And there are other designers to catch up with: Peter Davis, who worked for Fiat in Italy in the ’90s when Ian Callum was there for Ford; Wayne Cherry, General Motors’ sixth design chief; and Howard “Buck” Mook, a colleague during Ian’s 12 years at Ford. When the designers split up, Ian finds a 1941 Willys Gasser a block away.

“A friend of mine in England has got a Willys like that,” he says. “He actually drives it on the road. He’s got a cage in it; it’s a complete drag racer. It’s quite interesting because it makes a lot of noise. … Wow. Look at that! That’s a blower and a half.”

“I used to work on Corvettes,” says Bob Kinzer, owner of the Willys. “That’s an ‘outlaw’ fiberglass body.”

“The engine’s remarkable,” Callum tells Kinzer. “Do you know how much horsepower?”

Although he’s not one for green cars, Ian Callum is drawn to Keith Collins’ personally restored ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2.

“At least 750,” Kinzer replies. Like the cars on the Pebble grass, Kinzer trailered his car from Utica, Michigan, to 14 Mile Road, a couple of blocks away, then drove it the rest of the distance to his parking slot just off the curb.

Next, Callum studies a dark green ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2 fastback with a 289 V-8 and “Special Edition” painted on the rear quarter-panels. It’s not the sort of paint job that would earn it a space on the 18th fairway, but it’s the kind of homespun work that speaks to the spirit of the Dream Cruise.

“When it came out, I was struck by this very strong, powerful face,” Callum says. “That lovely shaped grille. It was very purposeful. And I really fell for that, it is really in some sort of way a kind of European car, which is a nice balance.”

Owner Keith Collins reveals it was white with blue stripes—the classic “A Man and a Woman” paint combo—when he bought it in Florida. “I’m still working on it,” Collins says. “Actually, it took a year to do all the major stuff on it.”

Callum is impressed with all these do-it-yourselfers and shade-tree mechanics on Woodward.

“I do appreciate a lot of the owners of the cars at Pebble Beach who do it because they love the cars, but it’s as much about the investment as it is about building them, which is fine,” he says. “I’ve got a few such investments myself. But everybody here is here because they love the car. They’re not interested in what it costs, what it’s worth. It’s worth more to the soul than to the wallet.”

Callum spots a ’56 Chevy with a crate motor, not unlike a car he sold recently. He did much of the work on his ’56 Chevy, including modern mechanical upgrades. Aesthetically, he’s fine with retro rods, not so much rat rods.

“I like honest cars,” he says. “But cars that have been patinaed and scratched intentionally, I don’t have a lot of time for that.”

As we continue walking, Callum says he’d like to have a 1963-65 Buick Riviera and considers the Bill Mitchell design era, at least up to the early ’70s, the pinnacle of American design. He likes post-Virgil Exner Mopars as well, pointing to a ’69 Dodge Dart GT convertible.

Let’s make a deal: Ian Callum tries to buy Carolyn Peters’ Super Bee at the Halls’ Dream Cruise Party.

“See, I like that. The simplicity of them. After the failings of the ’50s, they discovered this thing called ‘elegance.’”

Callum also points out a passing Meyers Manx and a 1969 Pontiac Firebird.

“The ’68, ’69 Firebird is one of Mr. Tata’s favorite cars,” he says, referring to Ratan Tata, who as then-chairman of Tata Group bought Jaguar Land Rover for Tata Motors from Ford in 2010.

Speaking of Ford, we encounter Mook again, who leads us to a wild yellow Mustang II, a V-8 with chrome SVT valve covers under the hood, owned by Greg Sauve. Mook is also responsible for the ’66 Pontiac GTO-based “Monkeemobile.” As for the Mustang II, Callum isn’t enamored with his friend’s most notorious design.

Ian with Jaguar PR’s Stuart Schorr and the author.

“[Lee] Iacocca said nobody over 30 was allowed to work on the new Mustang,” Mook explains. “We had a contest for two weeks. We had to do sketches, full-sized tape and everything, and Iacocca chose my design.”

“I remember your sketches,” Callum says.

“They were very exaggerated,” Mook admits. “We always used to do that here in America.”

Soon, Callum is off to a local Jaguar dealer’s party at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, 8 miles to the north. That’s too much like a Pebble Beach event, so instead we meet up with him later at the party of GM executive Jim Hall and his wife, Pam. Jaguar’s design director eyes the Halls’ ’63 Corvette and designer Dave Rand’s ’66 Jaguar E-type Series 1. Woodward has a reputation as an all-American muscle car and hot rod festival, but Callum understands Jaguar’s place among the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges.

“Jaguar’s the affordable exotic,” he says. “That was the mission. For a lot of people, these classics and these hot rods are affordable classics. They’re affordable exotics to them. It touches their heart the way that a normal car will not touch.”

He fawns over a 1969 Dodge Super Bee parked behind Rand’s E-type and tells me, “I want you to say in your story that this is the car I’d go home with.”

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[jesusvasser]

Cruisin’ with Jaguar Design Chief Ian Callum in a ’32 Ford on Woodward

If anyone else wore a grin anywhere near the size of the one on the face of Jaguar design chief Ian Callum at this year’s Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise, we didn’t see them.

“Fun!” he exclaims. “It’s fantastic to drive a ’32 Ford, which is a car after my own heart,” he says of the 1932 Highboy borrowed from Carl and Jeanne Booth. Callum has pulled off of Woodward Avenue to wait for his younger brother, Moray, Ford’s design vice president, to meet up with Ian’s makeshift entourage.

“First thing he did was try to catch up to the Jaguar I-Pace by laying down a good patch of rubber,” Carl Booth says of Callum and his Ford’s V-8 engine and its sensitive throttle. “He said, ‘Wow! That pedal is quick to respond.’”

Ian Callum drives his perfect Dream Cruise car: Carl and Jeanne Booth’s LS3-powered ’32 Ford, built by Brothers Custom Automotive.

Callum has attended the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, an event usually held the same weekend as the Dream Cruise, for decades. But Pebble moved back a week for 2018 to accommodate a golf tournament, so we conjured up this fish-out-of-water meeting by arranging Booth’s hot rod for Callum, who has a 351 Windsor-powered ’32 Ford coupe of his own back home in England. Woodward, however, turns out to be Callum’s natural habitat.

The makeshift entourage includes Bill Jagenow, driving his Flathead Ford Model T roadster; Autumn Riggle, driving Jeanne Booth in a lowered, custom 1956 Lincoln Premier—Jagenow and Riggle are partners in Brothers Custom Automotive, which built the Booths’ and Moray’s hot rods—and Bill’s 12-year-old son, Louis “Liam” Jagenow VII, riding shotgun in our Jaguar I-Pace photo car. I briefly imagine Liam participating in the Dream Cruise silently in such an EV in a quarter century or so.

Ian catches up with his brother, Moray.

Moray Callum arrives in a Lincoln Navigator, and we take a couple more laps of Woodward before gathering in front of Pasteiner’s Auto Zone Hobbies (car models and books).

“He’s got a goatee beard,” Ian says of Moray. “It’s most peculiar.”

The two brothers don’t see each other often enough. That may change.

I’ve retired from being a judge at Pebble Beach,” Ian says. “I’ve done it for 18 years. So I’ll probably be here next year,” when the events are again on the same weekend. “I’ll probably go to Pebble on Thursday and come back here Friday and Saturday.”

As Ian and I go to leave Pasteiner’s classics-jammed parking lot, a woman steps forward.

“Excuse me? Hi, my name is Catherine Johnston. I was told that you designed my car, the Jag F-Type.”

“Yeah, I did!” Ian allows, adding that he did it with a team.

“I have it here.”

“And you’re in tears!”

“I love that car. It is my most favorite car in the world, and I wanted to thank you.”

So far, the Dream Cruise isn’t that different for Callum than meeting prominent Jaguar owners at Pebble. And there are other designers to catch up with: Peter Davis, who worked for Fiat in Italy in the ’90s when Ian Callum was there for Ford; Wayne Cherry, General Motors’ sixth design chief; and Howard “Buck” Mook, a colleague during Ian’s 12 years at Ford. When the designers split up, Ian finds a 1941 Willys Gasser a block away.

“A friend of mine in England has got a Willys like that,” he says. “He actually drives it on the road. He’s got a cage in it; it’s a complete drag racer. It’s quite interesting because it makes a lot of noise. … Wow. Look at that! That’s a blower and a half.”

“I used to work on Corvettes,” says Bob Kinzer, owner of the Willys. “That’s an ‘outlaw’ fiberglass body.”

“The engine’s remarkable,” Callum tells Kinzer. “Do you know how much horsepower?”

Although he’s not one for green cars, Ian Callum is drawn to Keith Collins’ personally restored ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2.

“At least 750,” Kinzer replies. Like the cars on the Pebble grass, Kinzer trailered his car from Utica, Michigan, to 14 Mile Road, a couple of blocks away, then drove it the rest of the distance to his parking slot just off the curb.

Next, Callum studies a dark green ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2 fastback with a 289 V-8 and “Special Edition” painted on the rear quarter-panels. It’s not the sort of paint job that would earn it a space on the 18th fairway, but it’s the kind of homespun work that speaks to the spirit of the Dream Cruise.

“When it came out, I was struck by this very strong, powerful face,” Callum says. “That lovely shaped grille. It was very purposeful. And I really fell for that, it is really in some sort of way a kind of European car, which is a nice balance.”

Owner Keith Collins reveals it was white with blue stripes—the classic “A Man and a Woman” paint combo—when he bought it in Florida. “I’m still working on it,” Collins says. “Actually, it took a year to do all the major stuff on it.”

Callum is impressed with all these do-it-yourselfers and shade-tree mechanics on Woodward.

“I do appreciate a lot of the owners of the cars at Pebble Beach who do it because they love the cars, but it’s as much about the investment as it is about building them, which is fine,” he says. “I’ve got a few such investments myself. But everybody here is here because they love the car. They’re not interested in what it costs, what it’s worth. It’s worth more to the soul than to the wallet.”

Callum spots a ’56 Chevy with a crate motor, not unlike a car he sold recently. He did much of the work on his ’56 Chevy, including modern mechanical upgrades. Aesthetically, he’s fine with retro rods, not so much rat rods.

“I like honest cars,” he says. “But cars that have been patinaed and scratched intentionally, I don’t have a lot of time for that.”

As we continue walking, Callum says he’d like to have a 1963-65 Buick Riviera and considers the Bill Mitchell design era, at least up to the early ’70s, the pinnacle of American design. He likes post-Virgil Exner Mopars as well, pointing to a ’69 Dodge Dart GT convertible.

Let’s make a deal: Ian Callum tries to buy Carolyn Peters’ Super Bee at the Halls’ Dream Cruise Party.

“See, I like that. The simplicity of them. After the failings of the ’50s, they discovered this thing called ‘elegance.’”

Callum also points out a passing Meyers Manx and a 1969 Pontiac Firebird.

“The ’68, ’69 Firebird is one of Mr. Tata’s favorite cars,” he says, referring to Ratan Tata, who as then-chairman of Tata Group bought Jaguar Land Rover for Tata Motors from Ford in 2010.

Speaking of Ford, we encounter Mook again, who leads us to a wild yellow Mustang II, a V-8 with chrome SVT valve covers under the hood, owned by Greg Sauve. Mook is also responsible for the ’66 Pontiac GTO-based “Monkeemobile.” As for the Mustang II, Callum isn’t enamored with his friend’s most notorious design.

Ian with Jaguar PR’s Stuart Schorr and the author.

“[Lee] Iacocca said nobody over 30 was allowed to work on the new Mustang,” Mook explains. “We had a contest for two weeks. We had to do sketches, full-sized tape and everything, and Iacocca chose my design.”

“I remember your sketches,” Callum says.

“They were very exaggerated,” Mook admits. “We always used to do that here in America.”

Soon, Callum is off to a local Jaguar dealer’s party at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, 8 miles to the north. That’s too much like a Pebble Beach event, so instead we meet up with him later at the party of GM executive Jim Hall and his wife, Pam. Jaguar’s design director eyes the Halls’ ’63 Corvette and designer Dave Rand’s ’66 Jaguar E-type Series 1. Woodward has a reputation as an all-American muscle car and hot rod festival, but Callum understands Jaguar’s place among the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges.

“Jaguar’s the affordable exotic,” he says. “That was the mission. For a lot of people, these classics and these hot rods are affordable classics. They’re affordable exotics to them. It touches their heart the way that a normal car will not touch.”

He fawns over a 1969 Dodge Super Bee parked behind Rand’s E-type and tells me, “I want you to say in your story that this is the car I’d go home with.”

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Cruisin’ with Jaguar Design Chief Ian Callum in a ’32 Ford on Woodward

If anyone else wore a grin anywhere near the size of the one on the face of Jaguar design chief Ian Callum at this year’s Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise, we didn’t see them.

“Fun!” he exclaims. “It’s fantastic to drive a ’32 Ford, which is a car after my own heart,” he says of the 1932 Highboy borrowed from Carl and Jeanne Booth. Callum has pulled off of Woodward Avenue to wait for his younger brother, Moray, Ford’s design vice president, to meet up with Ian’s makeshift entourage.

“First thing he did was try to catch up to the Jaguar I-Pace by laying down a good patch of rubber,” Carl Booth says of Callum and his Ford’s V-8 engine and its sensitive throttle. “He said, ‘Wow! That pedal is quick to respond.’”

Ian Callum drives his perfect Dream Cruise car: Carl and Jeanne Booth’s LS3-powered ’32 Ford, built by Brothers Custom Automotive.

Callum has attended the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, an event usually held the same weekend as the Dream Cruise, for decades. But Pebble moved back a week for 2018 to accommodate a golf tournament, so we conjured up this fish-out-of-water meeting by arranging Booth’s hot rod for Callum, who has a 351 Windsor-powered ’32 Ford coupe of his own back home in England. Woodward, however, turns out to be Callum’s natural habitat.

The makeshift entourage includes Bill Jagenow, driving his Flathead Ford Model T roadster; Autumn Riggle, driving Jeanne Booth in a lowered, custom 1956 Lincoln Premier—Jagenow and Riggle are partners in Brothers Custom Automotive, which built the Booths’ and Moray’s hot rods—and Bill’s 12-year-old son, Louis “Liam” Jagenow VII, riding shotgun in our Jaguar I-Pace photo car. I briefly imagine Liam participating in the Dream Cruise silently in such an EV in a quarter century or so.

Ian catches up with his brother, Moray.

Moray Callum arrives in a Lincoln Navigator, and we take a couple more laps of Woodward before gathering in front of Pasteiner’s Auto Zone Hobbies (car models and books).

“He’s got a goatee beard,” Ian says of Moray. “It’s most peculiar.”

The two brothers don’t see each other often enough. That may change.

I’ve retired from being a judge at Pebble Beach,” Ian says. “I’ve done it for 18 years. So I’ll probably be here next year,” when the events are again on the same weekend. “I’ll probably go to Pebble on Thursday and come back here Friday and Saturday.”

As Ian and I go to leave Pasteiner’s classics-jammed parking lot, a woman steps forward.

“Excuse me? Hi, my name is Catherine Johnston. I was told that you designed my car, the Jag F-Type.”

“Yeah, I did!” Ian allows, adding that he did it with a team.

“I have it here.”

“And you’re in tears!”

“I love that car. It is my most favorite car in the world, and I wanted to thank you.”

So far, the Dream Cruise isn’t that different for Callum than meeting prominent Jaguar owners at Pebble. And there are other designers to catch up with: Peter Davis, who worked for Fiat in Italy in the ’90s when Ian Callum was there for Ford; Wayne Cherry, General Motors’ sixth design chief; and Howard “Buck” Mook, a colleague during Ian’s 12 years at Ford. When the designers split up, Ian finds a 1941 Willys Gasser a block away.

“A friend of mine in England has got a Willys like that,” he says. “He actually drives it on the road. He’s got a cage in it; it’s a complete drag racer. It’s quite interesting because it makes a lot of noise. … Wow. Look at that! That’s a blower and a half.”

“I used to work on Corvettes,” says Bob Kinzer, owner of the Willys. “That’s an ‘outlaw’ fiberglass body.”

“The engine’s remarkable,” Callum tells Kinzer. “Do you know how much horsepower?”

Although he’s not one for green cars, Ian Callum is drawn to Keith Collins’ personally restored ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2.

“At least 750,” Kinzer replies. Like the cars on the Pebble grass, Kinzer trailered his car from Utica, Michigan, to 14 Mile Road, a couple of blocks away, then drove it the rest of the distance to his parking slot just off the curb.

Next, Callum studies a dark green ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2 fastback with a 289 V-8 and “Special Edition” painted on the rear quarter-panels. It’s not the sort of paint job that would earn it a space on the 18th fairway, but it’s the kind of homespun work that speaks to the spirit of the Dream Cruise.

“When it came out, I was struck by this very strong, powerful face,” Callum says. “That lovely shaped grille. It was very purposeful. And I really fell for that, it is really in some sort of way a kind of European car, which is a nice balance.”

Owner Keith Collins reveals it was white with blue stripes—the classic “A Man and a Woman” paint combo—when he bought it in Florida. “I’m still working on it,” Collins says. “Actually, it took a year to do all the major stuff on it.”

Callum is impressed with all these do-it-yourselfers and shade-tree mechanics on Woodward.

“I do appreciate a lot of the owners of the cars at Pebble Beach who do it because they love the cars, but it’s as much about the investment as it is about building them, which is fine,” he says. “I’ve got a few such investments myself. But everybody here is here because they love the car. They’re not interested in what it costs, what it’s worth. It’s worth more to the soul than to the wallet.”

Callum spots a ’56 Chevy with a crate motor, not unlike a car he sold recently. He did much of the work on his ’56 Chevy, including modern mechanical upgrades. Aesthetically, he’s fine with retro rods, not so much rat rods.

“I like honest cars,” he says. “But cars that have been patinaed and scratched intentionally, I don’t have a lot of time for that.”

As we continue walking, Callum says he’d like to have a 1963-65 Buick Riviera and considers the Bill Mitchell design era, at least up to the early ’70s, the pinnacle of American design. He likes post-Virgil Exner Mopars as well, pointing to a ’69 Dodge Dart GT convertible.

Let’s make a deal: Ian Callum tries to buy Carolyn Peters’ Super Bee at the Halls’ Dream Cruise Party.

“See, I like that. The simplicity of them. After the failings of the ’50s, they discovered this thing called ‘elegance.’”

Callum also points out a passing Meyers Manx and a 1969 Pontiac Firebird.

“The ’68, ’69 Firebird is one of Mr. Tata’s favorite cars,” he says, referring to Ratan Tata, who as then-chairman of Tata Group bought Jaguar Land Rover for Tata Motors from Ford in 2010.

Speaking of Ford, we encounter Mook again, who leads us to a wild yellow Mustang II, a V-8 with chrome SVT valve covers under the hood, owned by Greg Sauve. Mook is also responsible for the ’66 Pontiac GTO-based “Monkeemobile.” As for the Mustang II, Callum isn’t enamored with his friend’s most notorious design.

Ian with Jaguar PR’s Stuart Schorr and the author.

“[Lee] Iacocca said nobody over 30 was allowed to work on the new Mustang,” Mook explains. “We had a contest for two weeks. We had to do sketches, full-sized tape and everything, and Iacocca chose my design.”

“I remember your sketches,” Callum says.

“They were very exaggerated,” Mook admits. “We always used to do that here in America.”

Soon, Callum is off to a local Jaguar dealer’s party at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, 8 miles to the north. That’s too much like a Pebble Beach event, so instead we meet up with him later at the party of GM executive Jim Hall and his wife, Pam. Jaguar’s design director eyes the Halls’ ’63 Corvette and designer Dave Rand’s ’66 Jaguar E-type Series 1. Woodward has a reputation as an all-American muscle car and hot rod festival, but Callum understands Jaguar’s place among the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges.

“Jaguar’s the affordable exotic,” he says. “That was the mission. For a lot of people, these classics and these hot rods are affordable classics. They’re affordable exotics to them. It touches their heart the way that a normal car will not touch.”

He fawns over a 1969 Dodge Super Bee parked behind Rand’s E-type and tells me, “I want you to say in your story that this is the car I’d go home with.”

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Cruisin’ with Jaguar Design Chief Ian Callum in a ’32 Ford on Woodward

If anyone else wore a grin anywhere near the size of the one on the face of Jaguar design chief Ian Callum at this year’s Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise, we didn’t see them.

“Fun!” he exclaims. “It’s fantastic to drive a ’32 Ford, which is a car after my own heart,” he says of the 1932 Highboy borrowed from Carl and Jeanne Booth. Callum has pulled off of Woodward Avenue to wait for his younger brother, Moray, Ford’s design vice president, to meet up with Ian’s makeshift entourage.

“First thing he did was try to catch up to the Jaguar I-Pace by laying down a good patch of rubber,” Carl Booth says of Callum and his Ford’s V-8 engine and its sensitive throttle. “He said, ‘Wow! That pedal is quick to respond.’”

Ian Callum drives his perfect Dream Cruise car: Carl and Jeanne Booth’s LS3-powered ’32 Ford, built by Brothers Custom Automotive.

Callum has attended the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, an event usually held the same weekend as the Dream Cruise, for decades. But Pebble moved back a week for 2018 to accommodate a golf tournament, so we conjured up this fish-out-of-water meeting by arranging Booth’s hot rod for Callum, who has a 351 Windsor-powered ’32 Ford coupe of his own back home in England. Woodward, however, turns out to be Callum’s natural habitat.

The makeshift entourage includes Bill Jagenow, driving his Flathead Ford Model T roadster; Autumn Riggle, driving Jeanne Booth in a lowered, custom 1956 Lincoln Premier—Jagenow and Riggle are partners in Brothers Custom Automotive, which built the Booths’ and Moray’s hot rods—and Bill’s 12-year-old son, Louis “Liam” Jagenow VII, riding shotgun in our Jaguar I-Pace photo car. I briefly imagine Liam participating in the Dream Cruise silently in such an EV in a quarter century or so.

Ian catches up with his brother, Moray.

Moray Callum arrives in a Lincoln Navigator, and we take a couple more laps of Woodward before gathering in front of Pasteiner’s Auto Zone Hobbies (car models and books).

“He’s got a goatee beard,” Ian says of Moray. “It’s most peculiar.”

The two brothers don’t see each other often enough. That may change.

I’ve retired from being a judge at Pebble Beach,” Ian says. “I’ve done it for 18 years. So I’ll probably be here next year,” when the events are again on the same weekend. “I’ll probably go to Pebble on Thursday and come back here Friday and Saturday.”

As Ian and I go to leave Pasteiner’s classics-jammed parking lot, a woman steps forward.

“Excuse me? Hi, my name is Catherine Johnston. I was told that you designed my car, the Jag F-Type.”

“Yeah, I did!” Ian allows, adding that he did it with a team.

“I have it here.”

“And you’re in tears!”

“I love that car. It is my most favorite car in the world, and I wanted to thank you.”

So far, the Dream Cruise isn’t that different for Callum than meeting prominent Jaguar owners at Pebble. And there are other designers to catch up with: Peter Davis, who worked for Fiat in Italy in the ’90s when Ian Callum was there for Ford; Wayne Cherry, General Motors’ sixth design chief; and Howard “Buck” Mook, a colleague during Ian’s 12 years at Ford. When the designers split up, Ian finds a 1941 Willys Gasser a block away.

“A friend of mine in England has got a Willys like that,” he says. “He actually drives it on the road. He’s got a cage in it; it’s a complete drag racer. It’s quite interesting because it makes a lot of noise. … Wow. Look at that! That’s a blower and a half.”

“I used to work on Corvettes,” says Bob Kinzer, owner of the Willys. “That’s an ‘outlaw’ fiberglass body.”

“The engine’s remarkable,” Callum tells Kinzer. “Do you know how much horsepower?”

Although he’s not one for green cars, Ian Callum is drawn to Keith Collins’ personally restored ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2.

“At least 750,” Kinzer replies. Like the cars on the Pebble grass, Kinzer trailered his car from Utica, Michigan, to 14 Mile Road, a couple of blocks away, then drove it the rest of the distance to his parking slot just off the curb.

Next, Callum studies a dark green ’65 Ford Mustang 2+2 fastback with a 289 V-8 and “Special Edition” painted on the rear quarter-panels. It’s not the sort of paint job that would earn it a space on the 18th fairway, but it’s the kind of homespun work that speaks to the spirit of the Dream Cruise.

“When it came out, I was struck by this very strong, powerful face,” Callum says. “That lovely shaped grille. It was very purposeful. And I really fell for that, it is really in some sort of way a kind of European car, which is a nice balance.”

Owner Keith Collins reveals it was white with blue stripes—the classic “A Man and a Woman” paint combo—when he bought it in Florida. “I’m still working on it,” Collins says. “Actually, it took a year to do all the major stuff on it.”

Callum is impressed with all these do-it-yourselfers and shade-tree mechanics on Woodward.

“I do appreciate a lot of the owners of the cars at Pebble Beach who do it because they love the cars, but it’s as much about the investment as it is about building them, which is fine,” he says. “I’ve got a few such investments myself. But everybody here is here because they love the car. They’re not interested in what it costs, what it’s worth. It’s worth more to the soul than to the wallet.”

Callum spots a ’56 Chevy with a crate motor, not unlike a car he sold recently. He did much of the work on his ’56 Chevy, including modern mechanical upgrades. Aesthetically, he’s fine with retro rods, not so much rat rods.

“I like honest cars,” he says. “But cars that have been patinaed and scratched intentionally, I don’t have a lot of time for that.”

As we continue walking, Callum says he’d like to have a 1963-65 Buick Riviera and considers the Bill Mitchell design era, at least up to the early ’70s, the pinnacle of American design. He likes post-Virgil Exner Mopars as well, pointing to a ’69 Dodge Dart GT convertible.

Let’s make a deal: Ian Callum tries to buy Carolyn Peters’ Super Bee at the Halls’ Dream Cruise Party.

“See, I like that. The simplicity of them. After the failings of the ’50s, they discovered this thing called ‘elegance.’”

Callum also points out a passing Meyers Manx and a 1969 Pontiac Firebird.

“The ’68, ’69 Firebird is one of Mr. Tata’s favorite cars,” he says, referring to Ratan Tata, who as then-chairman of Tata Group bought Jaguar Land Rover for Tata Motors from Ford in 2010.

Speaking of Ford, we encounter Mook again, who leads us to a wild yellow Mustang II, a V-8 with chrome SVT valve covers under the hood, owned by Greg Sauve. Mook is also responsible for the ’66 Pontiac GTO-based “Monkeemobile.” As for the Mustang II, Callum isn’t enamored with his friend’s most notorious design.

Ian with Jaguar PR’s Stuart Schorr and the author.

“[Lee] Iacocca said nobody over 30 was allowed to work on the new Mustang,” Mook explains. “We had a contest for two weeks. We had to do sketches, full-sized tape and everything, and Iacocca chose my design.”

“I remember your sketches,” Callum says.

“They were very exaggerated,” Mook admits. “We always used to do that here in America.”

Soon, Callum is off to a local Jaguar dealer’s party at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, 8 miles to the north. That’s too much like a Pebble Beach event, so instead we meet up with him later at the party of GM executive Jim Hall and his wife, Pam. Jaguar’s design director eyes the Halls’ ’63 Corvette and designer Dave Rand’s ’66 Jaguar E-type Series 1. Woodward has a reputation as an all-American muscle car and hot rod festival, but Callum understands Jaguar’s place among the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges.

“Jaguar’s the affordable exotic,” he says. “That was the mission. For a lot of people, these classics and these hot rods are affordable classics. They’re affordable exotics to them. It touches their heart the way that a normal car will not touch.”

He fawns over a 1969 Dodge Super Bee parked behind Rand’s E-type and tells me, “I want you to say in your story that this is the car I’d go home with.”

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