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What’s Going On With Late Landies?
Quite a few Land Rovers crossed the block at Bonhams’ July 13 Goodwood Festival of Speed auction, but three Landies in particular give us an interesting glimpse at the current market. All three of the recent Land Rovers sold way over their estimates, while the 1963 80-inch Series I was bang on the money. What…
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1906 Ford Model K Open Tourer
By 1906 there were a number of struggles between entrepreneur Henry Ford and his board — the sort that are so frequent with “start-ups” and particularly in the early days of the motorcar industry. The battle raged between directors Malcomson and Gray, who were for building a car to satisfy their perception of a growing…
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Old Look, Modern Grip
If you drive your classic car often, chances are you’ve had a few close calls in modern traffic. A lot of today’s commuters don’t realize that classic cars from the 1950s and 1960s don’t handle and stop as well as today’s cars. The drum brakes that were industry standard for most of the 1960s work…
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Raising Hell
In our last episode of “Horsepower,” I warbled along to this essential point: New cars just don’t really do it for me. Editor Pickering, my Instigator in Chief, responded with, “That was great! And now I have a new car coming for ya!” I think he likes to watch me squirm. Having already piloted a…
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A New World
Last summer, I spent a week of quality time under the hood of my ’66 Caprice. I was installing Holley’s Terminator EFI system while most of ACC’s staff was in Monterey, CA, for the Pebble Beach auctions. Normally I’m there, too, but this time was different. I was staring down the ultimate of all deadlines:…
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One Hauler of a Jeep
With talk today of a soon-to-be-released pickup version of the Jeep JL-series Wrangler, it seems quite distant to think that Jeep had the first domestically built “compact” pickup. Initially, it was the CJ-8 Scrambler from 1981 to ’85, but the idea also continued from 1986 until 1992 with the Comanche. AMC billed that one as…
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1945 Dodge WC-58 Command Car
While the Army’s light-vehicle needs in World War II were met by Willys and Ford Jeeps, heavier trucks were largely the purview of Dodge. Over the course of the war, some 700,000 vehicles in the VC and WC series, from ½-ton to 1½-tons, were delivered to U.S. forces. Most numerous are the WCs, a nomenclature…
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1965 Plymouth Belvedere Coupe
Custom California car built by Mopar restorer Bob Munoa From the Denny Guest Collection Custom Hemi altered-wheelbase car 426 Hemi engine built to 528 ci Hilborn fuel injection MSD ignition system Push-button 3-speed automatic transmission A990 lightweight custom bucket seats Full roll cage Trunk-mounted battery Custom graphic design Tinted windows Solid body
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1970 Plymouth Road Runner 2-door hard top
440-ci “Six Pack” V8 engine Manual transmission featuring Pistol Grip shifter Interior features bucket seats, console, radio and Road Runner horn Highly desirable Mopar; excellent presentation throughout From the Duffy Grove Collection
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1922 Ford Model T Roadster Pickup
Credited with starting the T-bucket craze Hot Rod magazine cover in October 1955 Featured on TV in “Mr. Kagle and the Baby Sitter” in 1956 Paint, crab-claw flames and pinstripes by Dean Jeffries Car Craft cover: April, 1957 Starred on the TV show “77 Sunset Strip,” in 1958, and was called “Kookie’s Kar” after show…