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On Friday we presented the announcement and photos released by Artcurial Motorcars, who is handling the sale of the Roger Baillon Collection at Retromobile in Paris next February. The discovery of this collection came about when Pierre Novikoff, an old car specialist at the auction house received a phone call about handling the sale of the…
Thanks to reader Bob Melusky, today we have a series of service station photos. The bulk of the images shows Emerson’s Service Station that was located at the corner of Burnside Avenue and Mary Street in East Hartford, Connecticut. The pictures we have posted of the station appear to range from the late 1930s to…
The Collector Car Department at Artcurial, a Paris France based auction house has just announced an upcoming auction of sixty automobiles found following fifty years of storage in untouched condition. The cars have been tucked away at a property in the West of France, under wooden shelters with one open-side, the roofs are covered with corrugated…
Reader Bernard Berkein of Belgium sent in this pair of photos of a streamlined Isotta Fraschini with custom coachwork and a very interesting story. The car is likely to be one of the last of the Tipo 8A models produced that were powered by a 7.4-liter OHC straight-8. It was delivered new with a sedan body in February…
Rob Ijbema’s impressionist style of artwork caught our eye several years ago as it captures the momentary, sensory effect of a racing scene and its action. Ijbema of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a very prolific artist, whose subject is mostly racing art that he exhibits for sale on his website called Car -A-Day. He updates his…
In trying to keep ahead of the competition, automobile manufacturers are always working on new designs, and the Packard Motor Car Company in its heyday was one of the leaders in this endless pursuit. Little is known about this experimental straight-twelve other than it appears to have passed out of the Packard Experimental Department early…
The American Locomotive Company of Providence, Rhode Island, built one of the highest quality trucks between the period of 1909 and 1913. The firms automobiles are well known and won the Vanderbilt Cup Races in 1909 and 1910. The photos of the Francis H. Leggett & Co. truck above, and the unit below owned by Alco are…
If you like kids, this British Pathe video is special and shows a young girl taking a miniature automobile out for a ride. We do not know anything about the car other than the film identifies it as being one-h.p. It is dated 1931, but we would be surprised if that were the case as…
We are excited to announce, the start of a six-part series tracing the origins of an American automobile design legacy. The story covers Harley J. Earl, the son of a 19th century Los Angeles, California coachbuilder Jacob W. Earl. In this endeavor are collaborating with the editor of HarleyJEarl.com, Richard Earl, Harley J. Earl’s grandson, who has…
Planning a Florida trip this winter? If so you need to plan on spending a day at The Revs Institute on the Southwest Coast in sunny and warm Naples. There you can view well over one-hundred of the finest cars in the world in one of the foremost automotive museums to be found anywhere. Today…
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