Wayne Newton: The Mr. Las Vegas car collection

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• The amazing Mr. Las Vegas car collection
• Frank Sinatra saved Wayne Newton from the Mafia
• The Hollywood Observatory
• Perfectionist and trophy collector
• Wayne becomes calm in Johnny Cash’s Rolls-Royce
• This is how a Tesla is made
• Wayne Newton, American pop singer, actor, and entertainer

The amazing Mr. Las Vegas car collection

The 74-year-old but much much younger-looking entertainer Wayne Newton showed PS WELT author Anne Philippi his Casa de Shenandoah. It is located on a 21 hectare property…tuck, which houses, among other things, his Rolls collection

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Wayne Newton made his breakthrough in 1963 with the hit "Danke schoen". The American is now an authority in show business and an unusual car lover. Visit to Las Vegas.

W.Ayne Newton smells like a Rolls-Royce collector should smell in Las Vegas. Like musk, as we suspect in Omar Sharif. Or Burt Reynolds. Wayne‘s musky scent rests on a chest with thick hair that pushes through the top of Newton‘s aubergine shirt.

His scalp hair, in turn, is jetblack. A rich, dark black, as we know it from Gerhard Schroder. Wayne’s face is in his forties. His body is about fifty again, only Wayne himself is 74 years old. A man couldn’t be more Las Vegas. Wayne has the middle name "Mr. Las Vegas "and" Mr. Entertainment ”and the third name“ The Midnight Idol ”. Noble names in Nevada, and they call for a Rolls-Royce under the bum.

Glamor at its best: Newton is one of those typical, car collecting singer legends of the USA. And of course there is an impressive Rolls-Royce collection

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We have an appointment to see Wayne‘s Rolls collection. In the morning Newton welcomes us in the promotion center of his huge villa, for which sightseeing tours can be booked. Anyone who liked "MTV Cribs", this series about insane stars’ houses with head-high pizza fridges and diamond-studded beds, will also like Wayne’s "Casa de Shenandoah" or "Casa Wow", as it is called in Las Vegas.

Wayne wants to show off his promotional t-shirts first. These wear a rose and the word "Danke Schoen" in rhinestones and go back to the hit that started Wayne’s career – "Danke Schoen" from 1963.

Frank Sinatra saved Wayne Newton from the Mafia

That made him famous, and ever since Ferrari lover Ferris Bueller sang Wayne’s old hit in “Ferris Makes Blue”, Wayne has been anchored in the entertainment memory of most Americans. Even as a schoolboy, the man had his own TV show, moved from Phoenix to Las Vegas with his brother, the Rat Pack took care of the teenagers, and Wayne soon sang with Johnny Cash and Elvis.

Newton is one of those typical American car collecting legends. Patriot, part-time Republican who, as is customary in Vegas, does not judge his entertainment friends by their political program. More about whether they can follow Vegas‘ buddy rules.

John Wayne, for example, had a permanent place in Wayne’s buddy system. “He said what he meant. And vice versa. A rarity. ”Another conservative: Ronald Reagan, who nearly broke Wayne’s heart when Reagan’s public relations adviser suggested they not hold the election party at Wayne‘s.

The Hollywood Observatory

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A treasure chest is hidden behind an inconspicuous brick facade in Glendale, California. The workshop is called Mercedes Motoring because it specializes in it…, …

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…. To revamp Mercedes classics. Owner J.G. Francis came into contact with an old Daimler by chance 13 years ago, and now he’s doing research all over the United States…hub for his screwdrivers. When they’re done with a car, …

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… not only does it look like new, it smells like it too. In this dash eight, all seats have been reupholstered.

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The business has little in common with a traditional workshop. The premises look, …

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… as if a set designer from Hollywood, only a few kilometers away, had prepared them for filming. Real jewelry …

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… are the badges that once adorned the grille of vehicles around the world. That’s why at Mercedes Motoring …

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… not just cars a feast for the eyes. If you will, it’s the garage in Glendale …

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… about the most beautiful observatory in California.

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“But Ronald wanted to celebrate with me. We were buddies, even if things weren’t going so well for me back then. ”Incidentally, Wayne is referring to the time when he was on the mob’s death list and another buddy helped him out of trouble.

“Frank Sinatra called and asked what was going on. I told him, Frank, I was number six on the list, and those in number one through five are dead. I stayed in the hotel for weeks and carried a gun, and I gave one to my preferred waiter, ”says Wayne.

After a few weeks, Frank had apparently done a great deal of buddy work – and Wayne was no longer in sixth place. Newton could have jumped straight out of the movie "Casino". And that goes for his cars too. One Rolls chases the next.

I saw the first Rolls when I was four years old. And fell in love.

Wayne Newton, American pop singer, actor, and entertainer

On the way to Wayne’s collection over this monster property, we pass an army of capricious, hysterical capuchin monkeys that we know from "Hangover 2", plus peacocks, camels, Wayne’s old private plane, Arabian racehorses that can bathe in their own swimming pool when they sweat come from the race. Wayne’s favorite horse was $ 800,000 and every now and then it nibbles on Wayne’s ear.

Then the magic garage opens, in which Wayne’s collected Rolls are lined up like Gucci sunglasses on a red carpet. The cars speak for themselves. They are full of stories of entertainment dramas in Vegas, of the glamorous crashers, the show business dead, full of biographies of people with many diamonds, furs and without a stop sign in life.

Why so many Rolls-Royce and only one miserable lobster at the very end of the carpet? “I saw the first Rolls when I was four years old. And fell in love, ”Wayne says with glassy eyes.

Perfectionist and trophy collector

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Aaron Weiss caught his passion for collecting with a Rolls-Royce, then switched to a Cadillac with 16-cylinder engines, and today he loves Mercedes. "At that time, Mercedes …

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… built the best cars in the world. In addition, there aren’t many other brands whose classics achieve solid six-figure prices over the long term, ”he says. So too his cars …he does not go out of his way, he puts a lot of love into every detail. On a 190 SL, he even had the yellow checkpoints placed on the underbody, which were then painted on the various screw connections at the time of acceptance at the end of production in Sindelfingen.

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Just so that his cars don’t suffer damage, Weiss employs two mechanics who drive them through town for half an hour at least once a month…en.

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Weiss leaves nothing to chance, and actually he makes his purchasing decisions very well rested. He bought this Chrysler Town & Country in a night-and-no…bel action.

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Once a year Weiss gets his cars out of the garage and organizes the San Marino Motor Classic Concours with friends – a kind of pebble beach in miniature. But also with the beru…hmst concours in the world in Pebble Beach, he is a regular guest – and a serial winner. A trophy wall also adorns his garage. Actually only remains …

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… One question unanswered: Would you sell your car to this man?

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We’ll start with the most unspectacular. Wayne bought it on a tour of England in the 1960s. "Those were the days when a Rolls-Royce was nicknamed the ‘lame snail’ because sports cars were fashionable." So Wayne imported the first matt black snail with a built-in make-up station on the back seat and an umbrella holder with space for ten umbrellas.

Looks like Emma Peel is about to get out. We walk straight on to the bourgeois model on the carpet. A 1979 Rolls rests in the back corner. Matt silver, inconspicuous, light-colored leather seats. The car has the aura of a locker room in a luxury outdoor pool, but it actually belonged to Liberace, the sun king among Vegas entertainers.

Its old Rolls, however, speaks a different language. "When I bought the car after Liberace died, I wasn’t surprised," says Wayne. “I knew Liberace like that. He’d rather have something ordinary and diamonds only on his finger and watch, not on his car. He was very conservative. And when he performed at two-thirty at night, he always pretended not to know a single song by other singers. Just his own songs. "

Wayne becomes calm in Johnny Cash’s Rolls-Royce

We stand a little reverently in front of the pitch-black 1987 model. Coffin-like, elegant. The limousine for the man who doesn’t want to be seen from the outside. Inside: morbid interior, sahara sand-colored carpet. You are almost in the driver’s seat when you get in. It smells like chewing tobacco.

Next to the steering wheel is a hard cell phone bone, just like the phones looked like in the 1980s. “That car belonged to Johnny. Johnny Cash, ”Wayne says and coughs at the word Cash. Newton bought the car from the Sotheby’s catalog, and Cash’s son gave his okay after hearing Wayne’s name.

“The car connects me to Johnny. He was also a Native American, like me, and our bodies work well in rolls. We have long legs and a short torso. We’re both seated gnomes, ”says Wayne, but if you think this is your blackest Rolls, you’re wrong. There is even more, and Wayne’s fingertips are now touching the 1978 Rolls, in which the black sheet metal meets the darkest wood, carpathian elm, English elm.

This is how a Tesla is made

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Last September, Tesla opened a new assembly hall in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Around 180 employees …

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… are currently screwing the Model S together there. The electrically powered sedans are prefabricated in the main factory in California …

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… and then shipped in overseas containers. That takes six to eight weeks. The so-called semi-knocked-down vehicles …

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… are assembled in Tilburg and made ready to drive. The final assembly in the low-energy hall …

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… takes one to two hours and includes the installation of the battery, the drive train and the rear axle. All in all …

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… 36 components are assembled, all of which are easily accessible. The Model S floats through the hall on a glider. Anything goes in this car factory …

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… surprisingly quiet too. You don’t experience any excitement or hectic activity here. On the contrary: the employees …

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… look relaxed and work like in a trance. Long term …

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… Motors, axles and other components are also to be manufactured in Holland. After assembly …

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… The cars go through a quality control that tests lights, brakes and acceleration, among other things. The Tesla factory even has it …

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… via an indoor test track. When the car has no flaws …

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… it rolls slowly into the next hall and is refueled there with electricity. Currently …

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… Around 90 limousines leave the factory every day. So there is still plenty of space to assemble the Model 3.

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"A combination that nearly drove the car designers crazy at the time and sparked the worst cracks within the Rolls company," explains Wayne, so we have to assume that a blacker, a darker soul than Johnny Cash’s got these Rolls thought up and bought. “You might be right. The previous owner was called Steve McQueen. "

Steve and Ali MacGraw walked down Rodeo Drive one afternoon in the 1970s and stopped at the Rolls Royce store. Steve went in and ordered this car in an incredibly elaborate campaign.

Months later, Rolls-Royce had the car delivered. “Then Steve opens the front door and says he never ordered a Rolls-Royce. He drank the McQueen-usual number of margaritas at the time. He forgot the order, ”Wayne recalls. But later, McQueen took the car after all.

Wayne is now getting into his new Lexus because his Rolls-Royce children are only allowed to drive every two weeks. Maximum. His favorite? Clearly, Johnny’s. Johnny Cash. In it, Wayne becomes "very quiet" and the worlds of iPhones and Vegas noise disappear. “During this time I have my Rolls talks with Johnny. By the way, he’s fine, if you’re interested. "

Wayne Newton, American pop singer, actor, and entertainer

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