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A “B-Ticket” Ride
  Old cars are admission tickets to old car events. You can’t go on the Mille Miglia unless you have a pre-1958 car similar to one that was raced in the event. Pre-1968 Alfa convertibles are the preferred ride for the local Alfa Club’s...
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from the September 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
Compelled to Collect
  With Monterey just around the corner, collectors’ thoughts have shifted from the restore-and-refurbish activities of winter to the buying and selling of summer. While car transactions happen year round, there’s no doubt they attract ...
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from the August 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
The Season of the Road
Buzzing like a multi-colored swarm of bees, the cars of the California Mille cruised through Bodega Bay on California Highway One. It was the morning of day four, and Wendie and I had pulled over for a quick espresso and to stretch our legs.This...
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from the July 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
Flying in the Star
The Martins and Flying Star owner Paul Emple Location, location, location. The mantra of real estate agents, it applies equally to concours and vintage tours.Who can deny that a significant part of the appeal of the Pebble Beach Concours d...
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from the June 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
The Allure of the Automobile
Portland, Oregon is a quaint town. Bicyclists swarm in their own lanes, groups of runners go clomping by like gazelles or hippos—depending on their body mass—and there always seem to be a few happy people in line at the medicinal marijuana...
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from the May 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
Sea Change in Scottsdale
By now the Scottsdale numbers are familiar: $160m in total sales, very close to the record $167m set in 2007. 2,221 cars sold. Attendance up at every event, and strong individual prices across the board.But the biggest news to come from Scotts...
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from the April 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
Collector Agonistes
Saved searches and RSS feeds are now the Pandora’s Box of my collecting life. Years ago, I would get giddy and feel the onset of the red mist once a month when Hemmings arrived (by first-class mail, of course). And when I went to an auction or...
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from the March 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
The Rattling Road to Reno
My first car was a 1959 Bug Eye Sprite that I bought in 1966, on the day I turned 16 and got my license. The Bug Eye was just seven years old at the time. Today, we think nothing of buying a seven-year-old car—doesn’t 2004 sound like new?But...
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from the February 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
I felt like I had entered a tinkerer’s medieval blacksmith shop. Vintage Gran Prix Bugattis from the 1920s and ’30s were strewn haphazardly about the courtyard of the tony Chaminade Resort and Spa in Santa Cruz, CA, and seemingly half of the...
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from the January 2011 Issue written by Keith Martin
Yelberton and the Duesenberg
When I was growing up in San Francisco, my grandparents and I watched the ’49ers play in Kezar Stadium. Or, more correctly, we drove to our weekend farm in nearby Novato, which was just outside the 30-mile blackout range of the broadcasts, to ...
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from the December 2010 Issue written by Keith Martin
 
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