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1953 Chevrolet Corvette Roadster
Early production no. 62 Highly decorated first-year example of “America’s sports car” NCRS Duntov Mark of Excellence Award winner NCRS Top Flight Award winner Bloomington Gold Certified 235-ci, 150-hp Blue Flame Special 6-cylinder engine Triple Carter side-draft carburetors Powerglide 2-speed automatic transmission
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1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille
390-ci V8 engine Automatic transmission Complete body-off restoration Power antenna, seats, windows, steering and brakes Two-tone black-and-white interior Clock and radio Factory air conditioning Fender skirts Wide whitewall tires with factory wheel covers
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An Alfa is Reborn
We were crossing the Oregon High Desert at 80 mph in a 52-year-old Alfa Romeo when Bradley’s jacket blew out the window. A second earlier he had been struggling to get one arm out of a sleeve. We were about 20 miles from Madras, OR, in a caravan of vintage Alfas. This was the Alfa…
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A Truckload of Trouble
Mark Oberholtzer is the owner of a successful Texas plumbing company: Mark-1 Plumbing. One of the company’s plumbing trucks, a 2005 Ford F-250 pickup, had reached the end of its useful life. So Oberholtzer took it to the nearby AutoNation Ford Gulf Freeway dealership and traded it in on a new 2012 Ford F-250 pickup.…
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Shedding Its Former Life
Necessity being the mother of invention, and Brits being a nation of inveterate tinkerers, gave us “Men in Sheds” — a breed whose inventor/engineer mentality has won fame for fashioning functional devices out of parts that have no business near each other. Thus, it was natural that redundant cars would become recycled or repurposed during…
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1961 Aston Martin DP214 Replica Competition Coupe
The four Aston Martin Development Project cars were the final racing iteration of the DB4 and Aston Martin’s last pure racers of the David Brown era. In 1962, DP212 appeared at Le Mans and led easily with Graham Hill at the wheel before engine trouble put the car out. In 1963, the final three DP…
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2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster
6.3-liter, naturally aspirated V8 engine 7-speed automatic transmission Less than 7,000 actual miles Power top, windows, steering and brakes Air conditioning RENNtech tuned to over 600 horsepower RENNtech long-tube headers Ti Evo cat-back exhaust with carbon-fiber Akrapovic tailpipes H&R lowering springs ADV.1 bronze wheels RENNtech carbon-fiber front and rear diffuser package
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1987 Porsche 911 Turbo Slantnose Coupe
3.3-liter turbocharged SOHC flat 6-cylinder engine 4-speed manual transmission Reported to be number 11 of 25 Blackburn-Daly “Slantnose” conversions built in the 1980s Believed to be a three-owner car and repainted once Porsche CoA, owner’s manuals, service records and maintenance booklet (with service stamps) Original tools, air compressor and two replacement belts Blaupunkt radio Air…
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1990 Ferrari 348 ts
Brought to life in Bianco (white) with a very sexy and sinister Rosso (red) leather interior. Never in an accident, always garage kept and well maintained. Part of a 50-car collection of Ferrari classic cars. All of the electrical items work, including windows, stereo, lights and turn signals. Everything on the car is factory-original, with…
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1953 Fiat 8V Supersonic by Ghia
Fiat’s most legendary, significant, and storied production model, the 8V, was aptly described in Road & Track in 1952 as “the biggest surprise of the year.” It came as a shock to the automotive world when Fiat suddenly introduced a powerful sports car with an advanced overhead-valve, light-alloy V8 engine, Siata-fabricated chassis and four-wheel independent…