There seems to be a trend sweeping the country (perhaps I should say "countries" as it includes the US and Canada) towards weekly classic car meets adjacent to coffee houses and restaurants....
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Gordon Buehrig was one of the great automobile designers of the 20th Century. His work began in the 1920's and continued into the 1980's. He designed the Model J Duesenberg, the Auburn...
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I'm often curious about obscure cars with attractive names. The Diana is an example, me having once had a splendid affair with a Diana (woman, not car) who'd been married to a famous NHL...
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The other day I was chatting with a friend about the current trend to massive grilles. You can see them on the Chrysler 300, Audi, Cadillac, Volvo and Mitsubishi, and others on the way. All have split...
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The inaugural Palm Springs Desert Classic Concours got under way Friday and our intrepid photographer Mel Satok was on hand to photograph the cars. I was delighted when I saw this shot of a 1930's...
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What would an auction be without a Cord? Although if I were an owner I might gain a bigger buck selling it at RM or Gooding, rather than Barrett-Jackson where this Westchester sedan was offered. Not...
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You are, shall we say, moderately wealthy. You have an elegant trophy wife who looks absolutely stunning, even in a room full of sexy competitors. Turning aside an offer of delightful French wine in...
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Here's a car I was prepared to dislike, based on its origins plus photos I'd seen in various magazines. And yet, when I came upon the 1958 Packard Hawk in RM Auction's tent at the Arizona...
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With all due respect to Barrett-Jackson, it was a relief to move on to the RM Auction site at the Arizona Biltmore. The first is a circus, with 1000 cars sold at no reserve, many of them, in the...
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One of the pleasures for the auction visitor is the opportunity to view, in the metal or in this case plastic, cars normally only seen in magazines or other media. This happened to me while strolling...
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Aside from muscle cars, the next most popular segment at the 2008 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction appeared to be the ubiquitous American pickup. Almost as much fun and considerably cheaper to buy,...
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I still find it hard to believe that a luxury marque I grew up with and once was the standard of America could so quickly fade away. How could the factories, the designers, the dealers, and the...
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With the action already heating up in preparation for Scottsdale auction week, Barrett-Jackson has released a "Sneak Peek" download in the form of a PDF file that reveals a number cars to be...
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On the 50th anniversary of the Ford Edsel, TIME and Dan Neil, Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive critic and syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, looked at the 50 greatest lemons of the...
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Every so often I spot a car that I'd sell my mother-in-law to own if I still had one. The car, in this instance, is a 1940 Studebaker Commander with "big six" engine. It came to my...
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The folks at Autoblog have been having a good time at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, loading the site every day with plenty of photographs and background information. Most of the cars (and trucks) are...
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It wasn't the first car sold by Sears, Roebuck but it was definitely the last. Essentially a Henry J built by the Kaiser-Frazer company, the Allstate was conceived by Henry Kaiser as a means of...
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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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