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Keith’s Blog: SCM Executive Editor Chester Allen Remembers Christmas in 1967
SCM Executive Editor is taking over my blog for the Christmas holiday. He’s sharing a memory of his mother — and a sensational Matchbox garbage truck — from Christmas 1967: I carry 57 years of Christmas memories around in my head — including the first time I ever kissed a girl — but the one…
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Keith’s Blog: What’s Going on in the SCM Garage?
As the year comes to a close, this is a good time to survey the SCM fleet. Compared to years past, there is very little heavy lifting going on. The only car sidelined with engine issues is our 1996 Autozam AZ-1. We blew the head gasket on the Autozam on the way to Monterey. It…
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Jim’s Blog: Great Gifts for a Car Person
The holiday season is here, and that means it’s time to hunt down a good gift for the car person on your list. That’s sometimes pretty tough, especially when the person you’re shopping for seems to already have everything. I’ve got several people just like that on my list this year, and it got me…
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Keith’s Blog: Taking the Wrong Fork in the Trail
Fun with an element of danger — that’s a forest run in a vintage Land Rover. On Saturday afternoon, I got separated from the other 20 Rovers in my Caravan. I came to a fork in the road and had to make a decision. I made the wrong one. Every year, the Pacific Coast Rover…
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Keith’s Blog: I Didn’t Mean to Dent the Ferrari
It was a hectic day. I had just picked up the Bertone 308 GT4 from Matt Crandall at Avant-Garde Collection. Its throttle had been sticking, which made driving in rush-hour traffic more exciting that I wanted it to be. Matt’s ace mechanic Chris Smith attended to it quickly. It turned out to be a combination…
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Jim’s Blog: Three Cars to Watch
It’s November, which means the new year is going to be here before we know it. With it come the annual Arizona auctions, which kick off the collector car market each year in a big way. What cars are going to see increases this year? We’ll have to wait and see, but in the meantime, here…
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Keith’s Blog: Slip-sliding along in the Defender 90
I barely saw the brake lights ahead of me go bright red before I started sliding sideways at 40 mph down the ice-covered highway. For the past couple of years, I’ve had my own secret escape from the complexity — and sometimes drudgery — of the Thanksgiving holiday. I simply pack up the SCM Defender…
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Keith’s Blog: SCM’s Bradley GT Finds a New Home
The next chapter in the life of the Bradley GT has started. It sold last week on Bring A Trailer for $4,000. There were over 12,000 views of the auction. If we had charged just $1 for each view, think how far ahead we would be. Our good friends at the Avant-Garde Collection, Matt Crandall…
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Jim’s Blog: Sights of SEMA 2018
With over a million square feet of automotive parts and accessories to see, SEMA is not something you can really do in a day and a half. But I did. Or at least I tried to. And when I wasn’t meeting with people in the industry, I was shooting images of some of the interesting…
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Keith’s Blog: The SCM Bradley is on BaT!
The SCM Bradley GT is one of a kind. When was the last time you saw one actually running and driving? And now you can be part of the adventure. It’s being auctioned on Bring a Trailer at no reserve, with the auction closing this Thursday at 2:40 pm, Pacific time. Our good friends…