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John Zachary DeLorean, who died March 19 at age 80, was described by the Washington Post as “credited with creating the overhead-cam engine, concealed windshield wipers, the lane-change turn signal, vertically stacked headlights, racing stripes and an emphasis on cockpitlike driver consoles.” Well, if DeLorean truly created the overhead cam it was news to Peugeot,….
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The response to last week’s snow feature has been remarkable – the topic clearly resonates with our visitors, and not a few of you are as tired of snow as I am. Jim Benjaminson reports that there’s still plenty of snow in North Dakota, where this Orient Buckboard was photographed about a hundred years ago….
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The CarPort emanates from southern Connecticut, where winters are typically mild and snow melts between storms. This year, however, we’ve been plagued with weeks of every-day snow, and many of us are suffering from cabin fever. Steve McManus reports that even Kentucky has been snowbound. His family and his ’31 Hudson, seen here, long for….
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If we were car breeders, we might describe this vehicle as out of Austin Seven by 1938 Ford. It’s neither British nor American, though, and it has nothing to do with Ford. It’s a 1940 Rosengart Supercinq, seen at Rétromobile last month in Paris. Lucien Rosengart was a French industrialist whose first car was a….
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In 1957, Ford introduced the Ranchero, in one stroke of genius inventing the car-based pickup and forcing Chevrolet into a crash program that resulted in the El Camino. So goes a version of conventional wisdom that is, unfortunately, completely wrong. Car-based pickups have a much longer history than that. Hudson had them in the 1940s,….
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This man looks like he’s staring down his automobile. Which one do you think will blink first? Actually, he’s working on the Airfoil headlights on his 1942 DeSoto. Before World War II, DeSoto was very much Chrysler Corporation’s “idea car.” Innovative features were tried out on DeSoto, things like the handsome Miller-inspired grilles of the….
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Packard station wagon? Did Packard build station wagons? Well, of course Packard built station wagons. Prior to World War II there were wood-bodied wagons in both the One-Ten and One-Twenty lines, and who could forget the stylish 1948 Station Sedan, though it was more of a half-timbered affair. In the twilight years, 1957 and 1958,….
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Wayne Graefen is a car journalist’s best friend. He travels widely, is always on the lookout for remarkable vehicles, and takes lots of pictures. This time he’s come up with the Continental drift. These days Continental is synonymous with Lincoln, but when this Continental was built no one at Ford Motor Company had contemplated such….
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You’ve heard the stories – the Duesenberg that sold for $300 in 1952, the Rolls-Royce limo that once changed hands for $150. Yes, there was a time when even the automobiles now considered Full Classics™ by the Classic Car Club of America were just old cars – cheap old cars at that. Those days will….
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Passengers entering this vehicle usually don’t see it from this angle, as their eyes are closed. The coachwork, which may look unusual, is British, and the chassis underneath it is Buick, not terribly common for a hearse. In the United States, most hearses now look something like this Superior Crown Sovereign, or the S&S Cadillac….
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