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Mark Pieloch started learning body and paint work while he was still in high school in the little town of Groveland, Massachusetts, and that led to restoration projects, 10 of them over his first 30...
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‘Missing’ 1938 SS-100 Jaguar recovered after 60 years in shedTerry Larson enters his underground garage in Mesa, Arizona, with the distracted air of someone accustomed to the remarkable. And once again, he is showing off an amazing discovery. In his sprawling restoration shop, which has seen so many Jaguar and SS sports and racing cars brought back to life...
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Subaru’s STI celebrates its 30th anniversarySubaru dates its motorsports history to 1972, when a Leone (GL) competed in the Southern Cross Rally in Australia. Eight years later, the Japanese automaker became the first to enter a car with four-wheel drive in the World Rally Championship series. By 1988, the company’s motorsports program...
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Auction action heats up in ArizonaBonhams, RM Sotheby’s, Silver Auctions Arizona and Russo and Steele opened their 2018 Scottsdale and Phoenix sales Thursday, joining Barrett-Jackson’s on-going auction action. Gooding & Company expands the offerings as it starts its two-day sale today. Hagerty, the insurance and...
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In London, Design Museum goes beneath the skin of FerrariSome might say, oh, here’s another Ferrari exhibition, haven’t there been enough already in 2017 celebrating the company’s the 70th anniversary? Well, no, there have not. Since mid-November and running until April 15, 2018, the Design Museum in London is hosting a spectacular...
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Assembly required: Barons has ’63 Jag E-type restoration project on its docketRemember how much fun you had as a kid building model cars? Well, British auction house Barons has a grown-up do-it-yourself car kit on the docket for its annual Christmas Classic sale taking place December 12 at Sandown Park. One of the consignments for the auction is a 1963 Jaguar E-type S1...
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Ron Pratte donating 2017 Ford GT for charity sale at Barrett-Jackson’s 2018 Scottsdale auction ClassicCars.comAt the recent Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Las Vegas, a lot of emotion and more than $1 million was generated for first-responder and medical charities in the aftermath of the mass...
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Flame-throwing 1910 Fiat, the ‘Beast of Turin,’ will be driven at London showThe notorious, fire-spewing 1910 Fiat S76 speed-record car known as the “Beast of Turin” will thunder and quake on The Grand Avenue automotive catwalk at the 2018 London Classic Car Show, to be held February 15-18. The appearance of one of the world’s most-famous early racers will...
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Royal Enfield revives 650cc twin motorcycles from its storied pastRoyal Enfield, the world’s longest-continuously operating motorcycle company, reached back into its history by re-introducing the Interceptor model at the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, Italy, on November 7. The new Interceptor, powered by a new 650cc parallel-twin engine, represents a...
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Porsche Classic wants to alarm your carIf you love your classic Porsche and would hate to lose it, the Stuttgart automaker’s classics division is developing a GPS-assisted anti-theft system specially tailored for all models, from early 356s and 911s to such exotics as the Carrera GT. At first, the Porsche Classic Vehicle Tracking...
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Technology puts paralyzed racer back in the driver’s seatSam Schmidt has changed my mind. I’ve been opposed to most of these so-called driver-assistance features that automakers and government bureaucrats have been adding to our vehicles. While I really like having a rear-view camera on my vehicle, I dislike such things as lane-change technology...
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Historic Porsche 550A Spyder race car slated for Bonhams’ Scottsdale auctionA legendary 1958 Porsche 550A Spyder works racer that placed on the podium at Le Mans, won its class at the Nurburgring 1000, and is a winning veteran of races across Europe, has been consigned to Bonhams for its January auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, where it is expected to attract rapt attention...
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Photographer X-rays classic vehicles to reveal ‘integral beauty’ beneath the sheetmetal ClassicCars.comBritish photographer Nick Veasey has taken the concept of the cutaway illustration to a new level. He’s produced a series of X-ray images of classic cars.
“We live in a world obsessed...
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1925 Bugatti Type 35 racer heads Artcurial’s Paris auction docketA 1925 Bugatti Type 35 formerly owned by international racing star Jo Siffert will headline Artcurial Motorcars’ 11th Automobiles sur les Champs auction scheduled for November 5. “From the track to the Champs-Elsees” is the theme of the auction that will include 77 automobiles and...
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Last of the coach-built American cars have special appeal for this collectorIt’s not just that his childhood pedal car had a fire-chief theme. Dean Newman traces his real interest in ambulances and hearses to watching the Ghostbusters movie. with its big, paranormal-fighting Ecto-1 1959 Cadillac ambulance. But once he started collecting such vehicles, Newman realized...
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50 years later, Bruce Meyers recounts inaugural Baja 1000 victoryVolkswagen will celebrate not only its inaugural victory, but 50 years of participation in the Baja 1000 desert off-road race, which runs again November 14-18. “The first race, known then as the Mexican 1000, was held on October 31, 1967, running between Tijuana and La Paz,” Volkswagen...
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World’s only Rolls-Royce pickup truck going to auctionWhat is believed to be the world’s only Rolls-Royce pickup truck will be offered for sale November 11 as one of the lots when Bonhams stages the auction of the Bothwell Collection in Southern California. According to Bonhams, the truck was produced in Rolls-Royce’s Springfield...
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NYPD shows off its vintage patrol carsIt’s been years since the New York City Police Department painted its cars with the classic black and green livery, but the memory is still alive among a few. The NYPD museum, housed for now on Governor’s Island in New York Harbor, hosted a car show last week featuring many of the old...
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A man who has once gotten automobiles into his blood can never give them up. . .” — Preston Tucker
The Tucker has been a collector car almost since it was new. With a limited production...
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When Chevrolet made Ford a better car for racingHenry Ford may have put the world on wheels, but, as strange as it may seem, it was Louis Chevrolet who made Ford’s Model T’s into winning racing cars. One such car, a 1926 Ford Model T Frontenac, is on the docket for the Branson Auction, scheduled for October 20-21 at the popular...
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Mecum to auction rights to Excelsior-Henderson motorcycle brandOnce part of the American motorcycle ‘Big 3,’ the former Schwinn-produced motorcycles now cherished by collectors awaits someone to launch its revival One of the biggest dreams in the collector car world is resurrection of an iconic brand, and from time to time, the rights to a marque...
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Former Peron Packard parade car up for biddingIn 1983, Raymond Plaster went to a collector car auction in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hoping to bring home a V12 Packard that was supposed to be on the docket. When that car didn’t show up for the sale, Plaster bought another Packard, a 1939 Super Eight Derham Phaeton in sorry shape. Plaster and his...
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Why do Montana Highway Patrol officers wear 3-7-77 on their uniforms?Prison and car museum display shares theories for why those numbers are on MHP insignia. Although I’ve driven across Montana a few times, I’ve not (yet) been paid a visit by a Montana Highway Patrol officer. But during my recent visit to the Old Montana Prison & Auto Museum in Deer...
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Barrett-Jackson to auction Shelby Super Snake Mustang to benefit Vegas first respondersCar is being donated from personal collection by auction company president Steve Davis. A 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake 40th anniversary Mustang from the personal collection of Barrett-Jackson president Steve Davis will be auctioned to support a special fund that supports first responders to...
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