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Holiday Gift Idea: New ‘Miss Lotta Miles’ Porcelain Sign

By: Angelo Van Bogart | November 22, 2017 | Comments 0

Vintage Concepts “Signs,” LLC offers many hand-made, limited-edition reproduction signs built just like the originals using a fired-on porcelain process. The latest from among the company’s bright and durable signs is this circa-1930s Kelly tire sign featuring Miss “Lotta Miles” in blue, red, white and black. An original would be priced...

2017 Holiday Gift Idea: Shrock Bros. 1:72-scale 1946 Tucker Torpedo

By: Angelo Van Bogart | November 22, 2017 | Comments 0

The Shrock Brothers of Coalport, Pa., are back building scale models, and their latest is a hand-built metal 1946 Tucker Torpedo in 1:72 scale. This heavy little 1946 Torpedo incorporates the styling features that were penned for the prototype Tucker Torpedo coupe that never made it to production. Instead, Tucker built...

41 projects in W. Yoder Auction sale of Jack Slattery collection

By: Angelo Van Bogart | October 25, 2017 | Comments 0

1953 Buick Skylark, 1940 Packard and 1941 Cadillac convertible sedans, and other luxury convertibles headline Nov. 4 sale There aren’t many good, complete project cars out there if you’re looking to build a fairly rare car, such as a 1940 Lincoln Continental convertible, 1941 Cadillac convertible sedan, 1953 Buick Skylark convertible...

10 ‘hot lots’ at Auctions America’s Auburn Auction

By: Angelo Van Bogart | August 28, 2017 | Comments 0

One of our favorite weekends of the year is in Auburn, Indiana, over Labor Day weekend. There’s the huge number of museums in the area, the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club Reunion and ACD Festival and the giant Auctions America Auburn Fall Auction that is held annually at the auction park there. This sale...

Dragone Auctions to offer rare 1931 Cadillac V-16 convertible victoria at Lime Rock

By: Angelo Van Bogart | August 25, 2017 | Comments 0

V-16 Cadillacs were relatively numerous, especially considering the economic climate in which they were introduced. Somehow, a dawning depression didn’t keep down sales of the new ultra luxury car from Cadillac, which was dubbed the Series 452 for the engine’s displacement. An astonishing 3,251 were sold in 1930 and 1931 –...

Bonhams to auction priceless Bothwell early car collection

By: Angelo Van Bogart | August 25, 2017 | Comments 0

About 10 years ago, I ventured to the last orange grove in Los Angeles, an area that once had so many orange groves a nearby county was named for the fruit. Our route to the orange grove took us past house after house in a nondescript residential area until we came to a...

Is Brooklin’s new 1954 Cadillac Fleetwood its most detailed to date?

By: Angelo Van Bogart | June 14, 2017 | Comments 0

Brooklin 1954 Cadillac Fleetwood Special goes above and beyond Anyone who has been on this blog before knows I’m a big mid-1950s Cadillac fan. I have several from a driver to a project to parts cars. Like many other collectors, I also enjoy collecting toys and models replicating Cadillacs. In fact, I love...

Newport Car Museum to Open in Rhode Island on June 1

By: Angelo Van Bogart | May 23, 2017 | Comments 0

New museum to include interactive features An article in the June 1 issue of Old Cars Weekly discusses the uphill battle automotive museums generally face, but also showed how some museums were getting innovative to keep the doors open. Given the obstacles car museums face today, we were thrilled to learn there is a...

30+ Cars in Buick Gallery ‘Last Splash’ before building closes for repairs

By: Angelo Van Bogart | May 19, 2017 | Comments 0

New rotation of 30 vehicles on display at Buick Gallery Exhibit space to close for repairs after June 25 FLINT, MI – From now until June 25, 2017, the Buick Gallery of the Sloan*Longway will display more 30 historic vehicle — including five one-of-a-kind General Motors concept cars, two Flint-built carriages,...

Automodello plans limited ’71 Lincoln model run

By: Angelo Van Bogart | May 14, 2017 | Comments 0

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of Lincoln Motor Car Co. With approval by the Ford Motor Co. Automodello will release a 1:24-scale 1971 Continental Mark III Platinum Edition in Triple White — a very popular color combination for Lincoln models in this scale. Automodello will build just 100 Triple White resin models at $395.95....

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