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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1966 Ghia 450SS
It’s almost a given that a Ghia 450SS was originally owned by somebody famous – Johnny Carson reportedly bought this 1966 Ghia 450SS for sale on Hemmings.com new – so we’re more intrigued by the...
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Four-Links – preservation exhibit, Graffiti 40th, soggy Sebring, Johnny...
* The Larz Anderson Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts, already has a nice collection of original and preserved vehicles, so the curators are well qualified to put together an exhibition focusing on...
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Small cars, short money – selection of Austin 7s and American Austins sell...
1933 American Austin pickup. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Last weekend’s Bonhams auction in Greenwich, Connecticut, produced the usual sales of cars in the six-figure range, but it also demonstrated that...
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Steve McQueen’s 1969 Chevrolet C10, the first GM factory-backed Baja 1000...
The Chevrolet-backed Vic Hickey race truck, formerly owned by Steve McQueen. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. For those passionate about off-road racing, the name Vic Hickey is the stuff of legend....
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How far to Abbey Road?
Thankfully, the British number plate system allows relatively simple vehicular tracking over time, otherwise how would we have known that this photo we recently came across online depicts both John...
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Four-Links – Z06 saga, Falcon as symbol of repression, Fitch’s Consulier, RIP...
* When C.J. Titterington bought his 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, it was just a beat-up race car, but he stuck with it over the years, restoring and refining it into the black beauty it is today. Rick...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 BMW Isetta
One would expect a member of a royal family to have a stable of collector cars, of course, but full of high-end luxury and sports cars, not something like this 1962 BMW Isetta for sale on...
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Steve McQueen-owned Baja race truck sells for $60,000; other McQueen vehicles...
1969 Chevrolet Baja race truck, once owned by Steve McQueen. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. A Vic Hickey-prepared 1969 Chevrolet pickup Baja racer, once owned by Steve McQueen and said to be the...
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Open Diff – What’s the value of celebrity ownership?
This is what $924,000 worth of Nomex driver’s suit looks like. Last weekend, a 1960 1969 Chevrolet pickup Baja racer once owned by Steve McQueen sold for $60,000 at an auction in Santa Monica,...
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Four-Links – Wagon Queen hits the road, Reverse Torque Special, Custom Car...
* If your last name is Griswold and you have a family and you want to take them on a summer vacation, what do you do? Commission a replica of the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, of course. * Smokey...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Cadillac Eldorado
How many cars did Elvis shoot? We know about his Pantera, but he plugged others as well, including this 1968 Cadillac Eldorado for sale on Hemmings.com. Apparently well documented as Elvis’s Eldorado,...
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“Wait’ll them kids in their Chevys see these pipes!”
Okay, because Bill Cosby’s Shelby Cobra Super Snake got a mention in the excerpt from Wallace Wyss’s Incredible Barn Finds that we ran earlier this week, it goes without saying that we need to unwind...
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Juan Manuel Fangio’s 1970 IKA Torino 380S heads to auction
Fangio’s 1970 IKA Torino 380S. Photos courtesy of Silverstone Auctions. First his work car, now his drive-to-work car. With Juan Manuel Fangio’s 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 racer selling for a record...
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Mr. Norm’s-delivered Super Stock Hemi Dart sells for $125,000
1968 Dodge Hemi Dart Lighweight. Photos by Justin Shaffer, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In the closing years of the 1960s, the Chrysler corporation offered a limited number of Hurst-built Plymouth...
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Racing and street cars to highlight Ray Evernham-hosted show
There’s a lovely town north of Charlotte, North Carolina, by the name of Davidson, right off the southern tip of Lake Norman. Great place to hold a car show. Lots of really unique stuff down there,...
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Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s custom Cadillac limousine headed to auction
The Duchess 1941 Cadillac Limousine. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy RM Auctions. As the pre-war era came to a close, coachbuilding shops in the United States had all but become a memory, and...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Nash Statesman
Even if this 1952 Nash Statesman for sale on Hemmings.com weren’t at one point Lucky Lee Lott’s personal car, and even if it weren’t stolen from Lott and hid away in a barn for decades as recounted...
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Lee Marvin’s Shelby G.T. 500 KR to cross the block in Scottsdale
Lee Marvin’s former 1968 Shelby G.T. 500 KR. Image courtesy of Russo and Steele. The gravel-voiced, six-foot-plus Lee Marvin cut an imposing presence on both movie and television screens, so it stands...
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Fangio’s IKA Torino sells for $45,000
Photo courtesy Silverstone Auctions. So, did the immortal Juan Manuel Fangio crawl from the cockpits of the Maserati 250F and Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR to tool relaxingly along in a Rambler? Well, sort...
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Steve McQueen’s XKSS to anchor new Petersen Museum Jaguar exhibit
McQueen’s 1956 Jaguar XKSS. Photo by Scott Williamson, courtesy Petersen Museum. If Steve McQueen is the “King of Cool,” then the Jaguar XKSS may very well qualify as the “King of Automotive Cool.”...
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Four-Links – Chevrolets you never knew, Antarctic dragster, Dick Dale’s...
* Mac’s Motor City Garage dug up some of GM’s lesser-known uses of the Chevrolet bowtie, largely out of the United States, including the Brazilian Veraneio above. Heck, the whole article could have...
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Tom Mix’s restored Cord 812 to appear at Arizona Concours d’Elegance
Tom Mix’s 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton. Photo courtesy Arizona Concours d’Elegance. Tom Mix’s background as a cowboy, ranch hand, law enforcement officer and circus performer ultimately led him to the silver...
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John Duval Dodge’s Duesenberg Model J heads to auction in Scottsdale
1929 Duesenberg Model J Dual-Cowl Phaeton Sweep Panel. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. When John Duval Dodge died in a Detroit police station in August of 1942 under somewhat...
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Four-Links – Checker pickup, Carl Sagan’s Porsche, Iacocca Q&A, Cadillac’s...
* While recently catching up on some back issues of the Checker Car Club’s newsletter, we ran across mention of a Checker pickup what-if model commissioned by Dieter Losskar and executed by Dirk...
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John Wayne’s “War Wagon” IH Travelall heads to auction
1966 International Harvester Travelall, built for John Wayne. Photos via Joe Pickett. John Wayne’s private life mirrored that of many characters he portrayed on screen. As an avid hunter and the owner...
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Four-Links – Elvis’s pink Cadillac, six-wheeled Cadillac, Mauser Monotrace,...
* While we mentioned Elvis’s pink Cadillac(s) in passing earlier this week, we didn’t provide any details. Fortunately, Clasp Garage this week posted a quick rundown and a few photos of said car. *...
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Jackie Gleason’s 1974 Excalibur SS heads to auction
Like Jackie Gleason, there’s absolutely nothing subtle or understated about the 1974 Excalibur SS that he once drove. Custom-ordered in Lemon Twist Yellow with black fenders, the car is as...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1955 De Soto Firedome Wagon
Now that station wagons have been marginalized by the SUV, these once-undesirable family haulers have again become cool, and this 1955 De Soto Firedome Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com appears to be...
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A car for midnight dentist appointments: Elvis’s last Stutz Blackhawk...
Elvis Presley gets the keys to his first Stutz from Jules Meyers. Photo courtesy Elvis Presley Enterprises. Elvis Presley had a passion for luxury automobiles, but no bullet-holed Pantera or pink...
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Rita Hayworth’s Ghia-bodied Cadillac wins postwar Best of Show at La Jolla...
1953 Cadillac Ghia. Photo courtesy The Petersen Museum. Most men try flowers to make things right with their wife and get out of the doghouse, but when you’re married to Rita Hayworth, you gotta try a...
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From the HMN archives: Evel Knievel’s Cadillac
Those who have attended a lot of custom car shows over the past few decades, or were avid watchers of the Wide World of Sports, may have very well at one time seen or crossed paths with Evel Knievel’s...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
Okay, so this 1964 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz for sale on Hemmings.com is in pretty good shape, with just a few cosmetic blemishes on the bumpers. It’s been repainted, but the interior is original,...
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Cosmic provenance: the resurrection of Carl Sagan’s Corvair Spyder
[Editor's Note: Reader Gary Swiatowy recently wrote up the below article on the restoration of a 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Spyder that Carl Sagan once owned for the July/August issue of the Corvair...
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Franz Ferdinand’s fateful phaeton
Photo by Volodymyr Osypov. We’ve all heard the story: One hundred years ago, on June 28, 1914, looking magisterial in his plumed regalia, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke and heir-apparent to the throne of...
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John Wayne’s Barris-modified 1975 Pontiac Grand Safari heads to auction
John Wayne’s 1975 Pontiac Grand Safari. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. John Wayne preferred Pontiac station wagons for his family-friendly daily driver, but when it came to cars, The Duke wasn’t an...
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s restored A.C. Roadster to debut at Arizona Concours...
Frank and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright in the 1937 A.C. 16/80 at Taliesin West. Photos courtesy Arizona Concours d’Elegance. In 1948, architect Frank Lloyd Wright fell in love with a 1937 A.C. 16/80...
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After four decades of storage, Elvis’s BMW 507 to undergo restoration
Photos courtesy BMW Classic. Typically, a collector car gets its debut after its restoration, with a fresh polish on its new paint, plenty of shine on its chrome, and its provenance recorded in minute...
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Another Amelia Earhart mystery: Could this 1932 Essex-Terraplane have been hers?
Jim Sommers’s 1932 Essex-Terraplane Special Sedan. Photos courtesy The Paragon Agency. On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, en route to an uninhabited patch of...
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Ex-Steve McQueen 1912 Harley-Davidson headlines Monterey motorcycle offerings
1912 Harley-Davidson, once owned by Steve McQueen. Photos courtesy Mecum auctions. Things will be hopping in Monterey this weekend, with auctions and concours events and historic rides planned. Mecum...
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For first time ever, a Ferrari wins Best of Show at Pebble Beach
Photo by Jeff Koch. Everything’s coming up Maranello thoroughbreds at Monterey this year. First, a Ferrari takes the world auction record Thursday night, setting the vanguard for at least a couple of...
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Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings-owned 1958 Ariel Cyclone heads to auction
The Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings-owned 1958 Ariel Cyclone. Photo courtesy Guernsey Auctions. Anyone who has followed music in the last 60 years knows the story of Buddy Holly’s demise in February...
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Frank Sinatra gave a 1986 Chrysler K-limo to his housekeeper, who’s now...
Photos courtesy McCormick’s Palm Springs Collector Car Auctions. It’s no Dual Ghia, but it’ll do. In 1995, at 80 years old, Frank Sinatra had finally retired. He played his last public concert the...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – across Europe in a 911, Quasar Unipower, Rita...
* Chris Rusby often questions his reasons for traveling to Greece to buy a 1969 Porsche 911 sight unseen and then driving it back to his home in England throughout this half-hour video he made of the...
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Briggs Cunningham’s gullwing Mercedes-Benz 300 SL added to National Historic...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Of the extensive list of Briggs Cunningham-owned cars, a number rise to the top as rather significant: There’s the first Ferrari exported to the United...
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Commie cruiser: What could be Brezhnev’s ZiL 114 limousine comes up for auction
Photos courtesy Coys. The only scrap of evidence that ties the 1977 ZiL 114 limousine coming up for auction in Germany later this month to former Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev is literally a scrap...
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Playmate of the Year AMX returns to its original pink
Photos courtesy Mark Melvin. For decades, the pink AMX that AMC gave away in 1968 wore one coat of different colored paint after another to hide its factory-original hue. The coverup, however, came...
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Could Steve McQueen’s former 1950 Hudson Commodore be the bargain of the year?
1950 Hudson Commodore Six convertible. Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 2011, the Nomex suit worn by Steve McQueen (as racer Michael Delaney) during the filming of 1971’s Le Mans sold for $984,000 at...
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Steve McQueen’s 1976 Porsche 930 sells for $1.95 million in Monterey
1976 Porsche 930, originally ordered by Steve McQueen. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Steve McQueen had a passion for fast cars and a love of Porsche...
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Janis Joplin Porsche sells for record-breaking $1.76 million
Janis Joplin’s 1965 Porsche 356 SC Cabriolet, sold for $1,760,000/All photos by Terry Shea The initial results are in and RM Sotheby’s second New York City auction, dubbed “Driven by Disruption,”...
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Four-Links – Bowie’s mirror Mini, Gee Bee racer, Scalextric museum,...
Two things about the late David Bowie. Yes, he designed a chrome Mini for BMW for the 40th anniversary of the marque in 1998-1999. Torch had a pretty good writeup on that over at Jalopnik this week....
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