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Keith Martin
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Luxury and Leisure: Combining Classic Car Rallies with Casino Tours
In the world of luxury and leisure, the fusion of classic car rallies and casino tours represents the epitome of elegance and excitement. This unique combination caters to aficionados of both automotive heritage and high-stakes gaming, offering an unparalleled experience that blends scenic drives, historic automobiles, and the thrill of the casino floor. A Journey…
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Keith’s Corner: Buddy Can You Spare a Berlina?
The past weekend was an orgy of sports car action. Saturday, BMW and Mercedes were the featured marques at Cars in the Park, the “everyman’s section” of The Allure of the Automobile exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. The SCM Isetta was featured next to a BMW 507 (owned by SCMer Brown Maloney) and and…
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Keith’s Corner: Vintage Cars Come in and Vintage Cars Go Out
The SCM garage sale continues. Our Volvo 544 has gone to a new home in Mexico, the Guzzi is going to Seattle, and the white ’74 MGB has gone to Los Angeles. This week we’ve got our daily-driver extremely original Mercedes 219 with a 220S engine on eBay, along with the 1974 MGB-GT, the best…
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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 was the 21st running of the Mille, an event created…
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Keith’s Corner: Saying Goodbye to the Volvo 544
It’s time to say goodbye to the Volvo 544. It all started with a 122 sedan we owned a few years ago. That was an okay car, but visually just didn’t hit anyone’s hot button. We sold it and immediately turned around and bought a 544 from a local Craigslist advertisement. I don’t quite know…
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Keith’s Corner: Bloomington Gold and the Survivor Car Show
This past weekend, the SCM / CM team descended en mass upon the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles Illinois, for the annual Corvette extravaganza called “Bloomington Gold.” I had the chance to emcee the Certification Awards, ate tri-tip steak from the food court area, and generally admired the display of cubic inches. It was…
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Keith’s Corner: The Road to Reno and On to Bloomington
The B Team has made its way to Reno and back. All three MGBs ran flawlessly, and only Legal Files Analyst John Draneas running out of gas slowed us down. There will be a complete writeup in the issue of SCM we are now working on, but here are a few pictures of six boys…
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Keith’s Corner: June 14th
The Portland Art Museum has never looked so good. All 16 cars for the Allure of the Automobile have been moved from their transports into the museum, and even the august New York Times took notice.SCM has been very involved with helping the museum meet and exceed its $700,000 fundraising goal, and SCMers have been…
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Keith’s Corner: From Rocky Roads to Shakespeare’s Lair
‘Tis the season to be rambling and rumbling, and Team SCM in all its various guises is on the road. Two weekends ago, we joined the Pacific Coast Rover Club for their annual Memorial Day outing in Central Oregon. Just getting there proved more exciting that we thought it would be – Wendie, her 17-year-old…
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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’Elegance is its stunning setting, on the 18th Fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Course,…