Get Your Kicks on Route 66 - Every third Friday and Saturday in September... Text and photos by Richard Bartholomew - Sit back and listen as we tell a tale of yesteryear. A time when cars were not all clones of each other, when spanking … [Read more...]
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The Ill Fated Shelby Series I: When Will It Become Collectible?
September 23, 2019 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Carroll Shelby, as tall and proud as he was in public, was painfully shy. He liked to either be in control of the situation or not be there. So he had a few recurring doubts, one of which is; How can he be thought of as a modern … [Read more...]
How Do You Value A Collector Car?
September 20, 2019 By 5 Comments
by Mike Gulett - As we get closer to the end of the year and past the holidays we will soon be in the midst of the Scottsdale, Arizona auctions in January 2020. These are the first collector car auctions of the year and they set the trends for … [Read more...]
Los Angeles Shelby Club Celebrates Ford v. Ferrari Movie With Gathering At Former Shelby Headquarters
September 18, 2019 By 2 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Carroll Shelby once had a Goodyear racing tire shop in Gardena tucked into a corner where the Interstate 110 and 405 freeways meet. Each year for the last several years, there’s been a gathering of Shelby fans sponsored … [Read more...]
The Stylish Holden Sandman Was Made For Fun
September 12, 2019 By 7 Comments
by Mike Gulett - If the Australian designed and made Holden Sandman panel van were sold in the USA it would be sold as a utility work truck suitable for transporting materials and supplies for various workers like plumbers and carpenters and … [Read more...]
Luxury Car Marketing: The Bentley Life, as Shown in two Recent Publications
September 10, 2019 By 2 Comments
Margaret Mead would have loved it… by Wallace Wyss - Long ago, when I was in grade school, I remember the fuss made about Margaret Mead, who would go to these far-off islands in the Pacific and write about the practices of natives (in books … [Read more...]
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