Now that the Pacific Northwest's autumn rains have arrived our Classical Drives contributor Nigel Matthews must be wishing he was again judging the first annual Barrington, Illinois, concours....
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If Studebaker's marketing chiefs had looked ahead a couple of years, or even beyond America's borders, they might never have called this 1937 coupe the "Dictator." That's roughly...
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Looking at this catalog from McLellans it is difficult to believe the 1947 Frazer and its sister car, the Kaiser, were once considered radical and, yes, even beautiful. But in North America,...
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When RM Auctions closed its 2007 Meadowbrook sale, the highest bid was for a 1932 Marmon prototype that, had it been volume-produced, could have laid claim to being the most advanced car in North...
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Sports Car Market magazine's editors were free to attend the 2007 Meadowbrook Concours and graced us with a photo gallery of the cars on display. And what a concours it was, with, as SCM duly...
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The folks at Autoblog have come up with a nice backgrounder on the Studebaker Avanti, which it describes as "one of the most iconic automobile designs of the 20th century." I wouldn't...
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Yesterday I posted a blog about Nigel Matthew's invitation to judge at Rome's Unique Cars International Concours. Today I'm pleased to add another contribution from Nigel, one that he...
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The flowers are in bloom, the sun warms our spirits, and the first car shows of the season tempt northerners out from their caves to show, shine, or just admire. In Ypsilanti, Michigan, a city near...
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Recently I wrote a blog about "a 1931 Pierce-Arrow", originally purchased by the maharaja of Indore as a state vehicle. It was based on an article in India's "Business Standard...
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It was autumn of 1958. A group of automobile journalists had been invited to a thoroughbred race track near Toronto. The occasion was the introduction of a new Studebaker, the Lark. We were held in...
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Take a well-engineered but not very exciting middle-class Detroit sedan from 1936, give the chassis and running gear to British bodywork builder Coachcraft of London, and here's what you get. An...
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Every Wednesday the folks at McLellan's Automobile History send me an e-mail describing some of the more interesting historic catalogs and promotional material available through their Web site....
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Autoweek has a nice story on the American Underslung, a car that's always fascinated me because of its name and because, in photos, it appears to be noticeably lower than other cars from the same...
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Since Classical Drive is only ten months old it's hardly appropriate to do one of those "that was the year that... " features to celebrate the arrival of a new year. Not that I attended many events:...
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While perusing (or, probably, lusting over) the list of vehicles coming up for auction at Barrett-Jackson's Scottsdale extravaganza in January I came upon this fabulous 1947 Studebaker pickup truck....
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Where was this Men's Style Web site when I was an ad agency creative director wearing the latest fashions and hitting the discos each night? Nowhere, fortunately, as the Internet didn't exist, a good...
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Funny the things you do when you're young. When we were sixteen a buddy and I would clamber into the front seat of an early-30's sedan sitting on a local used car lot. Neither of us could drive though...
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On October 31, 1901, Packard published its new Slogan for the first time. Ask The Man Who Owns One was one of the all-time great ad lines; so good, in fact, that it lasted for decades. In our present...
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Bob Bourke's styling of the 1953 Studebaker Starlight for Raymond Loewy Associates is considered by many, including myself, to be one of the automotive world's finest production automobile designs. It...
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When I was a youngster all sorts of car names existed that had a magic ring to them, yet for some inexplicable reason I was always drawn to the underdogs, those so-called independents whose products...
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