{"id":8544,"date":"2013-07-19T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:36:22","slug":"fast-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/fast-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/colin08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/colin08.jpg\" alt=\"colin08\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>Even with all the traffic zooming along the coast this summer, it isn\u2019t every day the image of a 1968 Mustang Fastback with BULLITT on its Maine license plate rises into view in your rear-view mirror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bought this car the same year the Steve McQueen movie came out,\u201d says Rich Whittlesey, 72. \u201cI\u2019m the original owner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though he has \u201ca small business repairing and selling vintage guitars,\u201d his career was \u201cworking on the Hubble Space Telescope as well as spy satellites,\u201d in Danbury, Connecticut, for firms like Hughes and Raytheon. \u201cThey\u2019ve just declassified what I did. I\u2019m not a spook anymore!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mystery car aside. \u201cPeople pull in my driveway in Blue Hill and ask to look at it.\u201d As for what his second-favorite McQueen movie is, he says, \u201c<em>Baby the Rain Must Fall<\/em>.\u201d McQueen, guitars, we get it.<\/p>\n<p>Is muscle-car lover Whittlesey\u2019s other car a bland econobox like a Nissan Leaf? Naw&#8230; \u201cIt\u2019s a 2008 Mustang GT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To view a PowerPoint graphic of his 2005 keynote address at the The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics\u2019s Third Responsive Space Conference (something right out of <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em>), see \u201cReconnaissance Payloads for Responsive Space,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsivespace.com\/Papers\/RS3\/SESSION%20PAPERS\/SESSION%205\/5004-COX\/5004C.pdf\">http:\/\/www.responsivespace.com\/Papers\/RS3\/SESSION%20PAPERS\/SESSION%205\/5004-COX\/5004C.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On top of everything else, Whittlesey has come up with an algorithm for blending into Maine if you weren\u2019t born here, the book <em>A Flatlander\u2019s Guide to Surviving in the State of Maine: Scientific Methods for Determining If You Are From Away<\/em>, available on Amazon. It\u2019s essential reading\u2013we hear there\u2019s a monstah re-entry burn in Blue Hill.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Colin-Signature-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Signature\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Colin-Signature-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Colin-Signature-768x363.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Colin-Signature-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Colin-Signature-200x94.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Colin-Signature-620x293.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 2013 Even with all the traffic zooming along the coast this summer, it isn\u2019t every day the image of a 1968 Mustang Fastback with BULLITT on its Maine license plate rises into view in your rear-view mirror. \u201cI bought this car the same year the Steve McQueen movie came out,\u201d says Rich Whittlesey, 72. 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