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Stealth motorhome 1946 Diamond T 404HH for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: shortened to about the size of a full sized pickup for maneuverable pulling, factory skirted reinforced frame, what looks like about a 3 or 4 ton Eaton 2 speed vacuum operated differential, huge non-warping non-scoring alloy Read more…
Hindustan Ambassador at the Red Fort in Old Delhi. Photo by sheeprus. With an internationally recognized concours d’elegance, multiple vintage car clubs and museums, and tens of thousands of collectors restoring old cars, India’s collector car scene has grown rapidly over the last several years. However, that growth may come Read more…
Springfield-built 1925 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Piccadilly Roadster, Best of Show at the Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance. Photos by David Droschak. In December of 1924, a young but already wealthy Howard Hughes ordered a 1925 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Piccadilly Roadster from a dealer in New York City, paying a reported $13,450 for Read more…
Ad courtesy of Roger Peroutka. Rarely have auto manufacturers had advertising created to showcase the talent of their engineers, and the concept cars they built. But this ad from 1952 showcases two GM concepts, the XP-300 and the Le Sabre. Clearly, the folks at General Motors were proud of the Read more…
Date: circa 1960s Location: Grant and McKinley avenues, Brooklyn, New York Source: The East New York Project What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: This 1964 Plymouth Belvedere was purchased new in July 1964 by Anna Campbell of Pittsburg, Kansas. She drove it until 1989, then passed away in 1991. It was stored for 20+ years, then I bought it. It came to me with 22K miles and now has Read more…
1929 Lincoln LeBaron Aero Phaeton. Photos courtesy Greystone Mansion Concours d’Elegance. The 1938 Buick Y-Job, styled by Harley Earl, is often credited with being the very first concept car. Several examples pre-date this, including a 1929 Lincoln with phaeton coachwork by LeBaron inspired by airplane design and meant to demonstrate Read more…
August 2016; Melissa Rhoades (right) drops the Corvette off at the National Corvette Museum. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. Burke Rhoads, an officer with the Nicholasville, Kentucky, police department, loved Corvettes. As his budget allowed, Burke spent his free time restoring his own 1984 Corvette, promising his daughter, Jacquelyn, that Read more…
No restoration project is truly complete without a set of the factory-issued tools that originally came with the car. Through the years the tools are usually the first item that gets misplaced and lost, along with the jack and the owner’s handbook. But with a full set of the original Read more…
Date: March 1974 Location: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?