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Date: circa 1950s Location: unknown (source suggests a U.S.-Canada border crossing) Source: Alden Jewell on Flickr What do you see here?
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 beloved ancestor. And if your ancestor happened to be an Read more
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. Read more
Date: circa 1950s Location: unknown (source suggests a U.S.-Canada border crossing) Source: Alden Jewell on Flickr What do you see here?
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
[Editor’s note: This “Reminiscing” story, edited by Richard Lentinello, comes to us from Hemmings Classic Car reader Al Hirth of Pueblo West, Colorado.] I just turned 13 years of age in October of 1959 when a couple weeks later my Dad said, “let’s go look at some new cars.” The Read more