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from Bring A Trailer
BaT Success Story: Bargain TR3 Trailered Away
Sunday, March 07 2010The 1961 Triumph TR3 that we featured on Thursday was sold nearly immediately and picked up today. This car had more interest than any other BaT Exclusive to date. From the seller: “BaT, You have an amazing audience and a fantastic website. Well done! ...
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from Bring A Trailer
Non-Quattro: Minty 58k-Mile 1988 BMW 325ix
Monday, March 08 2010This 1988 BMW 325ix is the rare 2-door all-wheel-drive model, and this one has lived a sheltered 2-owner life in Seattle and Denver. Aging AWD systems tend to make is a little nervous, but this car is offered for the customer by his BMW repair shop who gi...
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from Bring A Trailer
Event Ready: Sorted 1968 Simca 1000
Monday, March 08 2010This 1968 Simca 1000 was is well prepared and supposedly all new from the ground up. The seller claims to have started with a rust free shell and the car now wears rally colors with rear stripes and a contrasting black hood. The car is like a blend of a G...
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from Bring A Trailer
SoCal Swap Meet Find: 1958 Porsche 356A
Sunday, March 07 2010This 1958 Porsche 356A coupe was spotted today at the Anaheim swap meet, one of the events of the big Porsche weekend that concluded today in SoCal. All the info is second hand, but the car is said to be all matching numbers, original floor pans with no r...
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from Auto Restoration 101Auto Restoration and Hot Rod Build Tips……Part 3
Monday, March 08 2010These auto restoration and hot rod build tips are courtesy of Hot Rods During final polishing mask the entire car with plastic and tape all the gaps to avoid polishing compounds from entering in and under trim gaps etc. When painting small parts we reco...
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from Auto Restoration 1011949 Mercury Convertible Restoration Part 60
Sunday, March 07 2010The restoration continues….we have some more parts painted. We also started the repairs to the rear fender skirts. Here are the door hinges, trunk hinges, trunk lid and the grille surround painted the body color. The convertible top bows and irons...
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from Hemmings Auto Blogs
SIA Flashback – Gas-Saving Gadgets and Gimmicks, part 1
Sunday, March 07 2010As long as our automobiles run on gasoline, and as long as gasoline remains something that doesn’t rain freely from the skies, there will be “entrepreneurs” looking to make a buck by selling gas-saving gadgets. In SIA #64, August 1981, Roy Ames give...
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from Bring A Trailer
Stored 25 Years: SCCA A/S 1968 Chevy Camaro
Sunday, March 07 2010It is always difficult to know for sure whether barn found race cars are really the ones they claim to be. The seller of this 1968 Camaro does put together a compelling story which includes the SCCA log book, matching 19-565 roll bar stamping, and continu...
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from Classic RalliesBonhams motor cars and automobilia sale in Monaco
Click on the picture to enlarge See all Ferrari 166/195S PhotosBonhams is delighted to unveil a superb selection of collectors’ cars as part of its annual sale of motor cars and automobilia in Monaco on 30th April 2010. This year, the annual Les Grandes...
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from Classical Drives
Austin Healey Sebring Sprite for Sale. No Extra Charge for the Memories
Sunday, March 07 2010Way back when the Austin Healey Sprite was launched, BMC Canada loaned me one for what became the very first North American media test drive. Being young and foolish and a novice racer I persuaded the engineer of the radio station where we worked to join ...
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from Hemmings Auto BlogsFour-Links – in Italy, moped pulls, abandoned dragway, vintage VW photos
Saturday, March 06 2010* While Shorpy has no shortage of photos of World War II servicemen posing in uniform, there’s relatively few photos of them posing near their military vehicles, such as this recent submission to the site, taken in Foggia, Italy, in 1943 or 1944. *In t...
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from Bring A Trailer
Well Presented: 1953 Citroen Traction Avant
Saturday, March 06 2010This Citroen Traction Avant was an impressive piece of technology when introduced in 1934, and then stayed mostly the same all the way until the end of production in 1957. This 1953 IIB model is a clean driver, and it is offered by one of our favorite sel...
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from Hemmings Auto Blogs
Skyline, a history in 12 generations: Gen 10, “Decatur”
Friday, March 05 20101998 Nissan Skyline 2dr sports coupe 2.5GT Turbo ER34. If you were picky, the Level Nivelo R33 Skyline might have seemed a little bulky. It wasn’t unique to Nissan, but high-end Japanese cars of the era did tend to be slathered with technology, and Sup...
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from Hemmings Auto BlogsHemmings Find of the Day – your one-stop AMC super car shop
Friday, March 05 2010For AMC collectors, there’s a holy trifecta of AMC super cars – the 1969 SC/Rambler, the 1970 Rebel Machine and the 1971 Hornet SC/360. I’ve only ever met one person who’s put together that trifecta and know of just one other. But if you have an S...
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from Hemmings Auto Blogs
Calling All Flathoods
Friday, March 05 2010We recently received a request from our pal Dan Johnston at Volvo Cars, who has asked us to pass along a query to the Hemmings Nation about locating a special type of 1983 Volvo 242 Turbo for an unusual purpose. Car enthusiast website Jalopnik has put ...









