Well, this could get me back to using snail-mail! The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a second set of automobile stamps as part of its "America on the Move" series. The first set included...
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If ever there was an automotive book I'd like to have on my coffee table, this is it. Driving Style: GM Design's First Century is being produced to help honour GM's centennial and promises...
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Once again Florida's Amelia Island Concours and RM Auctions combo has come and gone, with the highlight being this 1934 Ford Model 40 Special Speedster, custom-built for Edsel Bryant Ford, former...
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Okay, I'm a hopeless sentimentalist, so when I began researching this Zagato-bodied 1956 Maserati A6G Berlinetta, which appeared at the inaugural Palm Springs Desert Classic Concours, I may have...
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by Philip Powell on February 10, 2008
Back in an era when I actually earned a reasonable income I purchased a Porsche Design wristwatch. It was, except for the numerals and hands, all black. That at a time when black as a...
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Henry Ford was the inspiration behind the company. Henry II rebuilt it into a powerful industrial force following WW2. But the most creative of the family was Edsel Ford, a talented artist and...
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by Philip Powell on November 22, 2007
An editorial in Auto Extremist during which publisher Peter De Lorenzo bemoans the current state of Lincoln, reminded me of a feature article in Collectible Automobile four years ago. It featured the...
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Much as I crave the sun in January and enjoy viewing great old cars I was not prepared to attend the Scottsdale auction week in January, 2008. It was a matter of budget priorities, you see. I've...
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I'm guessing that my friends at Hemmings are fascinated by LaSalles as much as I am. The above photo was taken by Hemmings' Richard Lentinello as he walked through the 2007 Hilton Head...
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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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Much credit has (deservedly) been given Harley Earl, the stylist who created GM's Art & Color Section and enjoyed considerable influence over American car design for several decades. And yet...
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Bless her heart but Maggie, my -ex, didn't care much for convertibles. We're still friends and if I showed up with a soft-top she'd probably raise the roof (metaphorically) until I raised...
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by Philip Powell on April 22, 2007
At last year's "Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance" I took the opportunity to shoot dozens of photos intending, from time-to-time, to share them with you. Now that this year's...
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by Philip Powell on April 17, 2007
There's an intriguing tale behind this car, often referred to as "the last Deusenberg." Too long for the brevity of a blog, you can read the entire story in the May issue of "Sports...
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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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by Philip Powell on April 21, 2006
While strolling through a Phoenix shopping mall during January's auction week I stumbled upon a showing of contemporary design organised by the Italian home furnishings industry. Though I prefer...
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