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Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Such indignity. Dispatched to remote Canada, passed over, and left to sit on a dealership showroom for a year before it sold, the first hardtop Mustang by serial number has rarely received the accolades its immediate predecessor, the very first pre-production Mustang, racked up over the years. That'll change this May when Mustang serial number 100002 heads to auction. The stories of Mustangs 100001 and 100002 (specifically 5F07U100002) couldn't have played out... Read More | | | Hemmings Find of the Day - 2017 Bugatti Siero Seco Posted by Daniel Strohl - Handmade 2017 Bugatti Siero Seco for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: one of a kind, custom car hand made by Sean Santarsiero. The design took much inspiration from the deco era Bugattis, such as the Type 57 and Corsica. Car is planted on a 1937 Jaguar SS100 chassis that has a automatic transmission powered by a 2.3 Murcury Capru V6. Every square inch of this car was custom made and is simply the one of a kind. The body was hand crafted from a wood buck and the form captured in a fib...Read More | Back where it belongs: a veteran Jaguar executive's 1948 3 1/2 Litre returns to the family garage Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Images are courtesy of Historics at Brooklands;Left to right- Lucy, Sally and Charlotte, with their grandfather's Jaguar 3 1/2 Litre Every car enthusiast with gasoline in his or her veins has likely dreamed of owning a classic car that once belonged to belovedancestor. And if your ancestor happened to bean executive for an automaker like Jaguar Cars, you know there were some truly special cars in your family's past. It was only two weeks before the March 4 Historics at Brooklands classic car auction in S...Read More | | | Recommended Reading: Dragging and Driving Posted by Daniel Beaudry - In 1950, the novel Hot Rod, by Henry Gregor Felsen, showed young people that hopping up cars was cool, but racing them on public roads could be deadly. In the intervening years, beginning with Santa Ana in California, sanctioned tracks and formalized racing took hold and spread across the country. Then, in 1960, Tom MacPherson's Dragging and Driving taught hope-to-be hot rodders everything they needed to know to make their first runs down the track. Like Felsen's series of action-packed novels, MacPherson's book ...Read More | Border crossing, 1950s, part 1 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1950s Location: unknown (source suggests a U.S.-Canada border crossing) Source: Alden Jewell on Flickr What do you see here?...Read More | | |
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WEEK IN REVIEW | | Thursday, March 16, 2017 | Futurist Syd Mead to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Eyes On Design Posted by Daniel Strohl - Image by Syd Mead. The 1964 Ford Falcon Futura's taillamp might go down in history as an attractive but otherwise unremarkable automotive styling feature save for the fact that futurist Syd Mead points to it as the only design of his that actually made it to production. Despite that track record in auto design, the annual Eyes On Design auto show intends to present Mead with its Lifetime Achievement Award later this year. "I'm very honored," Mead said, noting that the various automotive designers who selected ...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1967 Mercury Cougar GT Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: Outstanding two-year restoration of an original 1967 Cougar GT 4 speed A/C car. Originally painted in Inverness Green Metallic with Light Ivy Gold Crinkle interior. Car is now painted in mirror-like Black basecoat/top coat with matching Black Cougar interior. Car was stripped to bare metal, all repairs were completed with proper Cougar sheetmetal, including floor pans, trunk floor, lower quarters and rear fascia area under bumper (pictures available of completed bodywork). There is ab...Read More | 2017 Amelia Island auction recap - hits, misses and a few surprises Posted by Kurt Ernst - Top seller at Amelia Island was this 1937 Bugatti Type 57S cabriolet, sold by RM Sotheby's for $7.7 million. Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby's. Just a few years back, auctions were a secondary reason to attend the annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. Today, however, the number of companies offering collector cars for sale has grown to five, covering the range from weekend drivers to concours-dominating classics. While there were some disappointments in high-end offerings not selling, there were ...Read More | Reminiscing - My daddy's Thunderbird Posted by Richard Lentinello - I had just turned 13 years of age in October of 1959, when, a couple of weeks later, my Dad said, "let's go look at some new cars." The local Ford dealer in a Chicago suburb had two 1960 Thunderbirds on the lot. One was white with a yellow roof and a red-and-white interior. It also had the 430-cu.in. Lincoln engine, probably one of a kind. The other T-Bird, and the one he bought, was light blue with a two-tone blue interior and the standard 352-cu.in. V-8. I remember the ride home with just my dad and me. ...Read More | Ontario, California, 1974 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: 1974 Location: Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario, California Source: MPHewitt on Tumblr What do you see here?...Read More | | Wednesday, March 15, 2017 | The Swiss Army Knife of farm implements: 1938 Minneapolis Moline UDLX Comfortractor Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The challenge has haunted designers and engineers since the dawn of time: Take an existing product, and expand its functionality to broaden the market. In 1938, farm tractor manufacturer Minneapolis-Moline applied this Swiss Army Knife approach to its Model U series, resulting in the U Deluxe (or UDLX), an enclosed tractor capable of plowing fields during the day and driving to town in its off-hours. Just 100 examples were sold, and today, roughly 25 remain in restored condition. O...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1972 Volkswagen Beetle Baja Champion Special Edition Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1972 Volkswagen Beetle Baja Champion Special Edition for sale. From the seller's description: For sale is a very low mileage (33K original miles) Special Edition Beetle. Just Google "VW 1972 BAHA Champion SE," for much more detail. This particular VW has had a very nice paint job in the exact "Marathon Blue" original color. All the windows were removed and new rubber kit was installed for the entire car, doors, windows, lights, etc. New fender welting was added as well. I added the new fog lamps, but have not wired...Read More | Armstrong Siddeley collection comes up for sale in U.K. Posted by Dave LaChance - 1928 Armstrong Siddeley Long Ascot Tourer. Photos courtesy H&H Classics. Here in the United States, ownership of one Armstrong Siddeley is probably enough to qualify you as a major collector of the marque. Even in its native Great Britain, the name of this once esteemed company has fallen into obscurity, having built its last car in 1960. Sir Colin Hope was a leading figure in the European automotive industry, an executive at Dunlop and component makers Associated Engineering and Turner & Newall. He wa...Read More | Midweek Matinee: The American Road, Part III Posted by Ed Heys - All photos are frame grabs from video below. Brought to you by the folks at Ford Motor Company: A brief history of the automobile's impact on American life. Part III leads with an overview of Henry Ford, family man, at home on Fair Lane, hanging with Clara, Edsel and grandsons. Was he nostalgic, perhaps, for those simpler Quadracycle days? Camping buddies included naturalist John Burroughs, Harvey Firestone and a guy named Edison. The boys' outing is described in terms of "rustic simplicity and rugg...Read More | Miami, Florida, circa 1967 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1967 Location: Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida Source: Jim and Chester's Garage What do you see here?...Read More | | Tuesday, March 14, 2017 | Formula One and FIM motorcycle world champion John Surtees dies at the age of 83 Posted by Kurt Ernst - John Surtees aboard a Vincent at Dunsfold, England, in 2012. Photo by Supermac1961. To win a Formula One World Championship is an impressive feat, one that generally takes decades of practice behind the wheel of successively faster race cars. Similarly, winning an FIM motorcycle world championship takes an equal amount of talent, albeit in a radically different discipline; winning seven FIM championships, in multiple classes, across a span of just five seasons, takes a competitor of nearly superhuman talents. I...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am for sale. From the seller's description: This Trans Am is extremely rare, a real #s matching 455 H.O. LS5 car. It has PHS documentation and the 72 TA was the lowest production year for all the second generation cars built. Prior to its restoration, the car was in excellent condition, untampered with and in very original condition. It was rock-solid and wears all of its original sheetmetal. The car was purchased in California and now lives in Scottsdale, AZ. This car looks absolutely ...Read More | Lamborghini LM002 Rambo Lambo to cross the block at Fort Lauderdale Posted by Mike McNessor - Photos by Erik Fuller courtesy of Auctions America. Looking for the perfect vehicle to turn heads at your community's Earth Day Festival next month? We found it: a bright red, 6,800-pound, V-12-powered, four-wheel-drive that will get you to the tree plantings and litter cleanup sites on less than a gallon of gas provided, of course, that your destination isn't more than eight miles away. (Yes, it gets eight MPG.) Off-road enthusiasts of the 1980s and 1990s know it as the Lamborghini LM002 or the Ram...Read More | Gallery: Scenes from Amelia Island Posted by Kurt Ernst - Awaiting awards. Photos by author. Consider the numbers: not including Cars & Coffee, roughly 300 cars took to the greens at Amelia Island on Saturday, March 11. Counting the shots taken during setup on March 10 (but excluding auction coverage), your humble author shot around 1,900 images of vehicles at the concours. My colleague Terry Shea shot even more, and, between the two of us, likely walked the distance from Bennington, Vermont, to Fernandina Beach, Florida. At least it felt that way the morning after....Read More | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1960 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1960 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: Benjamin Ames, via The Old Motor What do you see here?...Read More | | Monday, March 13, 2017 | Duesenberg phaeton and Alfa Romeo 8C take Best of Show at Amelia Island Posted by Kurt Ernst - Best in Show Elegance (foreground) and Sport. Photos by author. The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance has earned its place as one of the world's finest motoring events. This year, looming bad weather forced a last minute date change, but despite the move from Sunday to Saturday, the field was packed with both attendees and over 300 of the finest automobiles in the world. When judging was complete, two stood above the rest: a 1935 Duesenberg SJ with a LaGrande torpedo phaeton body by Walker, which claimed Best of ...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1973 AMC Gremlin X Posted by Daniel Strohl - TV show-restored 360-powered 1973 AMC Gremlin X for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This example has been specially restored to show you that not all Gremlins live the sedate suburban life. It starts with a professional respray of the correct Pewter Silver paint. Plus, we all love the body-colored front, aggressive black side trim, and blacked-out rear panel that comes from the Gremlin X package. And this one even has great chrome and correct 14-inch wheels with American Motors tagging in the c...Read More | Emerson Fittipaldi honored at upcoming Long Beach RRDC dinner Posted by Kurt Ernst - Emerson Fittipaldi at the 1993 Indianapolis 500. Photo courtesy of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. If made into a Hollywood movie, the story of Emerson Fittipaldi's rise to the top of Formula 1's ranks would likely be deemed too far-fetched to be believable. After retiring from F1, he'd go on to win a pair of Indy 500s, as well as the 1989 CART Championship for Patrick Racing. On Thursday, April 6, Fittipaldi will be honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) as it presents its annual "Evening with" dinner...Read More | The Difference in a Decade: Chevrolet's 1972 Vega and 1982 Cavalier brochures Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Chevrolet's innovative Corvair never caught on as a best-selling, economy-minded import fighter, and the last ones rolled off the assembly line in 1969. This automaker would re-enter the small car segment in 1971 with the fresh Vega. This rear-wheel-drive GM H-body two-door, whose sister twin was Pontiac's Astre, would get off to a strong start (277,700 sold that year), and would be available in hatchback Coupe, notchback Seda...Read More | West Warwick, Rhode Island, 1949 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1949 Location: 324 Washington Street, West Warwick, Rhode Island Source: Merrill Moone, who writes: The building was new in 1947 and was a Studebaker dealership until he switched to Dodge - Plymouth for 1950. Another change to Buick in 1956, which was not a good move, given the 1958 recession. Fortunately, in 1957, he started selling some funny-looking cars that nobody had ever heard of. They were called Volvos. In 1958, the dealership moved to an annex in East Greenwich without Buick, and things ...Read More | | Sunday, March 12, 2017 | The Italian Influence on American cars, part 4: dual headlamps, sportwagons, and minivans Posted by Hemmings contributor - Fiat Lux If you think that dual headlights were a typical American product, think twice! The first car that apparently wore them (and almost surely the first Italian car to do so) was an Alfa Romeo, to be more precise a Pinin Farina-bodied 6C 2500 built for the prince Ali Khan and consequently offered in both convertible and coup format. The basic lines of the car were practically the same used on the famous convertible seen in the 1946 Paris car, one of the two cars (the other one was an Aprilia) taken the...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1941 Ford Super Deluxe Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: 1941 Ford Super Deluxe - Beautiful solid 2 door sedan. My Grandfather's car, has been in my family and garaged since 1941. Original 221 cu.in.flat head V-8. 25,490 original miles. 114 inch wheelbase. All Fords were redesigned in 1941. 3 speed column shift. New Firestone Script 600x16 wide whites, 4 wheel hydraulic drum brakes. In the past the car was repainted. The Cayuga blue original and the bumpers were chromed. Within the last six months I have installed a new front floor pan, car...Read More | Four-Links - "killer" Studebaker, steamer Model A, electro-Benz bus, Ford's quiet first ride Posted by Daniel Strohl - Pretty much every event in the 20th century can be linked to an automobile of some sort. Take, for instance, the 1930 Studebaker recently displayed at a car show in India: It carries its "killer" reputation due to the fact that Gandhi assassin Nathuram Godse was driving it at the time of the assassination. * H.A.M.B. member wafflemaster's thread on scratch-building a boiler system for a steam engine to power his Model A is worth reading if not for the DIY aspect than for the debates on the safety of steam pow...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1967 Volvo 122S Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1967 Volvo 122S for sale. From the seller's description: True Arizona car, first registered in this state in May of 1967. Recently finished its restoration with fresh paint in the original color code 46. Interior had been redone by a local upholstery shop in 2013 and still looks like new. Engine is the trusted Volvo B18, a reliable 4 cylinder engine. It is fitted with rebuilt SU carburetors and runs perfectly. The car has been fitted with an electrical fuel pump. Transmission is a 4 speed Volvo M40 transmissi...Read More | LAST WEEK'S MOST READ "Lost" Bullitt Mustang surfaces in Mexico Posted by Kurt Ernst - Ralph Garcia (in the car-themed shirt) and Kevin Marti pose with the Bullitt Mustang stunt car. Photos courtesy Kevin Marti. Steve McQueen may have received top billing for the 1968 crime thriller Bullitt, but the movie really starred a pair of Mustang GT fastbacks, one built as a hero car for close-ups and the other constructed as a stunt car. While the history of the surviving Bullitt Mustang hero car is well known, the stunt car was long believed to have been scrapped, at least until it surfaced south of the b...Read More | LAST WEEK'S BEST DISCUSSION This or That: 1968 Ford LTD Brougham versus 1968 Plymouth Fury III Posted by Matt Litwin - Editor's note: This or Thatis not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an idyllic world, to add a collectible vehicle into our dream garage on a weekly basis, but with a catch: We can only pick one vehicle fromthis pairing, and it has to be for enjoyment purposes rather than as an investment. This episode of This or That explores the mid-priced, full-size luxury market equipped with a hint of factory performance via the choice betweena 1968 Ford LTD Brougham ve...Read More |
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