Talk:Tom Meade

Sources for article expansion

The following sources can be used to expand this article

• https://journal.classiccars.com/2017/12/16/meade-modena-cars-sculptures-personal-expression/

• https://www.topgear.com/car-news/concept/close-one-worlds-rarest-coach-built-ferraris
• https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a6441/ferrari-thomassima/
• http://www.thomassima.com/
• https://mycarquest.com/2016/05/tom-meade-americano-italia.html
• https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/1960-ferrari-250-gt-nembo-spyder-4554166-details.aspx
• Sonnery, Marc (1998-04-25). "The Nembo Ferraris - Part I". Ferrari Market Letter. 23 (9): 1–5. (I have a copy of this and can contribute info from it)
• 60 Minutes segment on Tom Meade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazEBNIV7K8 (info about date of original airing for citation purposes here: https://emcpb.blogspot.com/2016/04/tom-meade-and-thomassima-on-60-minutes.html)
• http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All.Maserati/Detail/3501.350S.htm
• http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All.Maserati/Detail/3503.350S.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140831103306/https://magazine.ferrari.com/blog/2014/08/italian-heart-american-blood/

Please contribute to this draft if you are interested. Prova MO (talk) 03:30, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Pictures

I tried hard to find a free image of either him or one of his Thomassimas with no avail.

• Regarding the cars, pictures from publications from the 1960s onward are still copyrighted, and while recent pictures of Thomassima II and III can be found everywhere, not a single one seem to have a free license. I see two possibilities:
  • Convincing someone on Flickr to release a picture with a suitable license;
  • Hoping for someone to take some pictures at the next exhibition in an unknown future, and release them with a suitable license.
• Regarding Meade himself, all of his depictions on American magazines of the 1960s are still copyrighted. I see again two possibilities:
  • according to Italian copyright laws, it seems that if he appeared on Italian magazines or newspapers of the 1960s, then pictures of him should be in the public domain (the same, however, does not apply to pictures of his cars: being "the work of human ingenuity", their copyright lasts longer). As for now, I failed to find anything useful, and it is possible that the Italian press have entirely ignored what at the time could be seen as foolish experiments of an eccentric American;
  • I also believe that, again according to Italian copyright laws, a screenshot from The Best of Enemies depicting him, may be in the public domain. This, however, requires careful viewing of the entire film, looking for him among the background British officers, without having the certainty of being able to get a decent portrait. Khruner (talk) 10:45, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

I posted a call for Meade/Thomassima images on FerrariChat, maybe someone there will have some photographs they can contribute to Commons.Prova MO (talk) 19:08, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

My neighbor Tom

He was a great friend. I remember when his mother in California became ill, he left Milan around 1990 to be by her side. Our last conversation was around 2003. He told me he had a stroke. I had moved back to the states and hoped to see him but by the time I tried to contact him again his phone was disconnected. I read the sad news through the internet. 72.79.0.141 (talk) 17:30, 29 July 2023 (UTC)