My Car Quest

May 4, 2024

Archives for March 2018

How I Acquired AC Cobra 427 CSX 3129

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My Car Adventure – A Mercedes-Benz 280SL Roadster

More reader stories; this adventure began the day I bought a clean 1968 Mercedes-Benz 280SL roadster in dark metallic green... by Bob Wachtel - Sometime in mid 1973 I drove from Brooklyn, N.Y. with my first wife to the town of … [Read more...]

My Car Adventure (Another Entry…) – Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing

1954 Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing: Not one, but two… by Wallace Wyss - The first one I ever saw was maybe at the Greenfield Village sports car show, in the museum on the grounds of Ford’s own nostalgia tour of early 1900s America. … [Read more...]

Trancas Cars & Coffee Is No More

Popular Event Barred by the Malibu City Council. by Wallace Wyss - Photos by Richard Bartholomew - Oh, the Trancas Ranch Market, with all its satellite stores, is still there, at the far Northern reaches of Malibu but the organizer, … [Read more...]

Cars & Coffee In Palos Verdes

Photos by Bruce Caron - The photos below are from a recent Cars & Coffee in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. It was a crisp morning in Southern California and there were plenty of really cool cars to look at. Notice the wide variety … [Read more...]

The Hidden Ferrari

Turns out this purebred Ferrari race car was hiding in Plain Sight under a Porsche race car body... by Wallace Wyss - Now back when I first noticed Ferraris in the Sixties, I barely knew the different models, like 250 LM but they were … [Read more...]