Blogs
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This Week’s Classic Mystery Photo
“Fortunately the snow tires were easily mounted given the forecast threat of 4 inches of snow.” — capecodder The monthly Mystery Photo has been an SCM tradition for 25 years. Each week, we’ll share one of our “greatest hits” photos from the past and give you a chance to provide a new witty…
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Keith’s Blog: Monterey 2014 in Over 250 Photos
Monterey Classic Car Week 2014 is over. You’ll be able to read the complete auction results in an upcoming issue of SCM, along with reports on the concours and gatherings. For collectors, the most awaited moment was when the 250 GTO crossed the block at Bonhams on Thursday night. Some media fantasizers had predicted a…
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Jim’s Blog: Planning Ahead in Reno, and on to Monterey!
Hot August Nights is a busy event — every day, from dawn until well after dark, there are car events happening all over the Reno-Sparks area. You have to plan out your day carefully to be sure you get to everything you want to see. But even the most well-thought-out plans have a tendency of…
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Alfas Swimming in a Sea of Porsches: The 2014 NW Passage
It does say something about the nature of a tour when the primary topic of conversation each night revolves around whether or not your car has air conditioning. And when you offer someone the chance to drive your vintage Alfa in exchange for a turn behind the wheel of their late-model Porsche, you get turned…
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This Week’s Classic Mystery Photo
“Bumper sticker on trailer: All parts falling off these cars are genuine Lucas.” — Spider Mike The monthly Mystery Photo has been an SCM tradition for 25 years. Each week, we’ll share one of our “greatest hits” photos from the past and give you a chance to provide a new witty and provocative caption. Each week’s…
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Alex’s Blog: Robert Brooks Discusses the 250 GTO — Exclusive!
I went to London in early July with my father, SCM Publisher Keith Martin, to attend a special anniversary dinner at Bonhams’ headquarters — and to witness the unveiling of the Ferrari 250 GTO consigned for Bonhams’ August 14-15 auction in Carmel, CA. Last week I spoke with Bonhams Chairman Robert Brooks. Brooks discussed the…
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This Week’s Classic Mystery Photo
“Klaus was successful with the sunlight to energy conversion phase but struggled with the energy to forward motion phase.” — Capecodders The monthly Mystery Photo has been an SCM tradition for 25 years. Each week, we’ll share one of our “greatest hits” photos from the past and give you a chance to provide a new…
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Chad’s Blog: Snakebit on the Road to Reno
Driving to Reno in a Viper. That idea separates people into two camps: “How much is this going to suck,” and “Who needs to pack? When are we leaving?” Add to that our car’s stiffer ACR package and the divide deepens a little more. It’s not hard to guess which camp ACC Editor Jim Pickering…
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Jim’s Blog: Firing it Up in Reno
Virginia Street in downtown Reno is one of the main cruising strips for Hot August Nights. But each day of the event, traffic is redirected elsewhere and the road becomes a huge car show, with hundreds of vintage hot rods, muscle cars, street rods, and trucks, posed in the sun for what seems like a…
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Jim’s Blog: 500 Miles to Hot August Nights
August is just a couple of days away, and for ACC, that means it’s road trip time again. Associate Editor Chad Tyson and I are hitting the highway for Hot August Nights on Thursday, and this time we’re going in style — in our low-mile 2000 Dodge Viper ACR. A lot of people think I’m…