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Lingenfelter Collection: Ferrari 812 Competizione, Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n

Brighton<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Flowers are opening up for spring and so is the epic\u00a0Lingenfelter Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Million-dollar Ferraris, thousand-horsepower dragsters, hundreds of some of the rarest muscle cars you’ll find anywhere. From 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, the public is welcome in to ogle Ken Lingenfelter\u2019s 170-car collection at the annual Charity Spring Open House \u2014 and even get an autographed poster from the man himself.<\/p>\n

All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. There is no entry fee, and visitors are free to make a contribution at the door or choose from the hundreds of Lingenfelter Shop items that celebrate the need for speed and the cars that deliver it. In 2023, over 3,000 people mobbed the Spring Open House and filled the charity’s coffers.<\/p>\n

Just south of I-96 in Brighton (more details at website: https:\/\/www.thelingenfeltercollection.com), the Collection\u2019s 40,000 square feet is split into three massive galleries filled with eye candy.<\/p>\n

“These are the cars that have caught my eye over the years,” said Lingenfelter, whose Lingenfelter Performance Engineering has become one of the country’s premier after-market mod shops. “I fell in love with the 1963 Corvette Split Window when I was a kid, and I was hooked.”<\/p>\n

The first gallery hits you with a row of five red-blooded Ferraris. Though Ken\u2019s business has made its name modifying General Motors Co. muscle, Lingenfelter has a weakness for Ferraris just like everybody else. He rotates his Prancing Horse collection, and this year it’s book-ended by front-engine Ferraris: Roma and 812-horsepower 812 Competizione. The latter, its hood as long as a football field, bears the last normally aspirated V12 before the brand moves to hybrid powertrains.<\/p>\n

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Lingenfelter Collection: Ken Lingenfelter. Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n

Drag yourself away from the Italians and you’re greeted by good ol’ American muscle: A row of menacing Camaros and Pontiac Trans Ams, including a Lingenfelter-produced 2010 Trans Am. One of 30 made, the white and blue-striped beast has a shaker hood to feed the V-8 within making more power than the Space Shuttle.<\/p>\n