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1955 Chevrolet 3100 NAPCO 4×4 pickup

This is a second-series truck with the new-for-1955 styling — and a very rare NAPCO 4×4 conversion. 1955 was the first year General Motors offered the new half-ton pickup with 4×4. NAPCO 2-speed 4×4 conversions were composed of 85% GM parts. The NAPCO slogan proudly stated: “Now you can have […]

1968 Chevrolet Sunoco Camaro Trans-AM

The first of two examples built for the 1968 season Raced in 1968 by Mark Donohue and Sam Posey Numerous podium finishes, with many years of successful club racing in Europe Comprehensive restoration to 1968 specifications and livery Raced and shown at many events, including eight appearances at the Monterey […]

Courtesy of Barrett-Jackson

1970 Dodge Challenger T/A

Featured only in 1970, the Dodge Challenger T/A (Trans Am) was a racing homologation car. In order to race in the Sports Car Club of America’s Trans-Am American Sedan Championship, Dodge built a street version of its race car, which it called the Dodge Challenger T/A. This is one of […]

Bryan Regan ©2016, courtesy of RM Sotheby’s

1967 Cadillac DeVille Convertible

Perhaps the finest restored example Cadillac-LaSalle Club Senior Award winner Loaded with options Cadillac redesigned its models in 1965 and continued a slow evolution of the new styling in 1967 with reworked contours, which gave the cars an appearance of greater length and muscularity. Underneath, the valve train and engine […]

Anna Taylor, courtesy of Gooding & Company

1967 Chevrolet Corvette 427/390 coupe

Highly original example of the final C2 Sting Ray coupe Handsome original color combination with black stinger hood 427-ci V8 engine Single Holley 4-bbl carburetor 390 hp at 5,400 rpm 4-speed manual Displays less than 50,000 original miles 2007 Bloomington Gold Survivor Award 2015 NCRS Second Flight Award Accompanied by […]

Corey Silvia ©2013, courtesy of RM Sotheby’s

1909 Stanley Model E2 Runabout

This Stanley Model E2, one of six models of the Stanley steam car available in the 1909 catalog, is powered by a 10-horsepower twin-piston engine — a marvel of simplicity that employed only 13 moving parts. Once the big front-mounted boiler had been filled with water, fired, and tended by […]

1950 Buick Custom “Truly Rare”

1950 Buick “hard-top” coupe 350-hp, 364-ci Chrysler Hemi V8 Six Stromberg carburetors 3-speed manual transmission, drum brakes Popular Customs cover car 1965 Built by Gene Howard Chopped, channeled and hard-topped “Truly Rare” was built around a 1950 Buick. The body was channeled six inches and rides on a frame fabricated […]

1974 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 RSR IROC

In 1973, Roger Penske created a racing series called the International Race of Champions, or IROC. Equally ambitious and unique in concept, the IROC series aimed to place the world’s best racing drivers in identical cars to compete against each other over several rounds at leading U.S. venues. In so […]

1959 Fiat 1200 TV Roadster

In 1953, Fiat introduced their new 1100-103. The 1955 Trasformabile (Italian for “convertible”) is generally considered the work of Fiat’s design director Fabio Luigi Rapi. Teasingly voluptuous, it had a forward-leaning stance. Divided mesh grilles at the front were complemented by a wrap-around windshield. The haunches were understated but set […]