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* Earl Trammell died in 2022 and was known as a passionate car collector * However, the extent of his obsession was not fully realized until two men - John Pierce and John Clay Wolfe - stumbled upon the collection * Many of the cars, which had been sitting in a barn, were barely driven, including several Corvettes ******************************************************** An Alabama man's vintage car collection was uncovered after his death - and the new buyers were surprised to find that many cars in the $1million portfolio were in near-pristine condition. Earl Trammell, 88, hailed from the tiny town of Warrior,...

Ok all.... If you could name 5 Classic Cars(real one NOT "Exotics") What would in order of 1 being the most desired and 5 being the "Least" "Most" Desired" What would they be?

samspace81Back to the 50s, car show footage filmed at MSRA Back to the 50s classic car show in Saint Paul, Minnesota, June, 2019.This is episode 1 of a 4 part series, Samspace81 exclusive classic car series.Thanks everyone for watching Samspace81, your classic car channel in 2021. I’m a traveling Texas classic car YouTuber & classic car inspection specialist.Filmed in 4K.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJ3dFuGK60

Old Age TeddyboyCruising culture was an evolution of old traditions of strolling down Main Street or around the town square.Although cruising was predominantly boys showing off their cars (ostensibly to meet girls), groups of girls joined in cruising as well. One appeal of cruising was that youths could evade the supervision of parents and family.Driving slowly down long, straight streets, preferably with many traffic lights to increase opportunities to talk to other cruisers or pedestrians, was only one part of cruising. Cruisers would also gather in parking lots, particularly those of drive-ins, and listening to Rock`n`Roll from their radios.Sit back...

A local CBS reporter in California was apparently fired after he — during a live news segment — climbed atop classic, privately-owned cars, even seemingly damaging one of them in the process.

If you are into old cars then definitely take an auto-rickshaw out to the Vintage Collection of Classic Cars. Extensive collection of valuable old cars and many of the most unique autos ever created! Fine specimens of beautiful automobiles. A vintage car is, in the most general sense, an old automobile, and in the In today's terms, a vintage car is defined the same as a classic.

...snip... Weaver was a teenager in March 1968 when his dad offered to “buy me something new.” They lived in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and first visited Grabiak Chevrolet “down the road,” where the 19-year-old spotted a black 427 Corvette coupe that he “was interested in getting.” Except, “My God, the insurance was over $1,000 a year,” which was “a fortune” in those days. “So we went up to Yenko [Chevrolet] to see about getting a Camaro.” They entered a candy land of “at least 50 Z/28s, different colors, different gear ratios—4.10s, 4.56s, 4.88s.” Weaver recalled it like it was yesterday. “I...

Always wanted an old classic, this one has been sitting in a barn for over 30 years.

The Monterey Car Week auctions are where the beautiful members of the landed gentry go to blow obscene amounts of money on cars, and at yesterday’s RM Sotheby’s auction, one of them took Cobramania to new heights. This 1962 Shelby 260 Cobra known as the CSX 2000 just commanded $13.75 million at auction. ... RM Sotheby’s has a ton of detailed information on this legendary car, but it is notable for being the very first Shelby Cobra. It arrived in the U.S. without a motor in February 1962, and Carroll Shelby and his partner Dean Moon then threw in a...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – More than 60 classic cars were on display Saturday, for the annual Pierce-Arrow Society National Meet. Owners of the classic automobiles traveled from as far as California to participate in the event. Over 10,000 guests turned out to get a glimpse of the vintage antiques. Made in Buffalo, Pierce-Arrow vehicles played a big role in the automobile industry. Founder of Pierce-Arrow Museum, James Sandoro told News 4, “Pierce was a leader…

I just finished following the thread highlighting the Chevy small-block history. My wife and I recently went to the Good Guys show in Pleasanton CA. There were lots of BEAUTIFUL cars there. I think that every '69 Camero ever made was there. Every one more beautiful than the last. But, we noticed that everyone there was our age. Less than "older than dirt" but able to remember Vietnam. I wondered what will happen in the next 20 years when we are all gone. Will cars of the 50's, 60's, 70's be a thing of the past? (I stopped counting at...

CANTON, Ohio, - A 102-year-old woman who brought her 1930 Packard 740 Roadster to an Ohio car show said she still changes her own oil and spark plugs. Margaret Dunning of Plymouth, Mich., said at the 18th annual Glenmoor Gathering of Significant Automobiles at Glenmoor Country Club in Canton the car was in rough shape when she bought it in 1949 but it has since been restored with four upholstery jobs and 22 coats of hand-rubbed lacquer, the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal reported Monday. Dunning said she still often finds herself crawling under the car, which was the first vehicle...

Legend has it that a Modesto, California couple purchased the car in 1950, only for the wife to be widowed shortly thereafter when her husband died trying to save a drowning woman. The distraught lady placed the sleek Chevy in storage for 12 years, but later traded it for a new 1962 Rambler ($1650) from a nearby dealer: he recently sold the same car for $60,000. And surely worth it, the car dealer decided from the start to preserve it, so he barely took it out of the garage for 45 years... thus the all-original mint condition and an...

KANKAKEE, Ill.- A 1958 Buick has been unearthed almost 40 years after three young men walled it up under an Illinois house as a practical joke , observers said. The Buick Special was abandoned in Kankakee, Ill., in 1971 when it broke down and its owner couldn't afford the repair costs, The Chicago Tribune reported Sunday. A local dealer had no use for it and gave it to the three jokesters, who bricked it behind a wall in the basement of a house one of them owned, the newspaper said. Daniel Newman, 65, one of the perpetrators of the gag,...

GEORGE SWEEPER, who has nurtured his 1968 Jaguar E-Type for nearly 40 years, has come up with a new defense of the British brand’s reputation for poor reliability. “There may have been many bad ones made,” he concedes. “I got one of the good ones.” Mr. Sweeper recalled a road trip that he and a friend made from New York to California in 1981. “We drove 58 hours to Oakland,” he said. “We drove and drove and drove. We saw the sun come up. We saw the sun go down. We went to the bathroom at the same stops. We...

Someone who bought a rare Bugatti, Jaguar or Ferrari in top condition would have done better during the downturn than an investor in almost any other asset, industry observers say, including stocks, fine art or even gold. “There has been a flight into real assets,” says Historic Automobile Group founder Dietrich Hatlapa, a former Baring Securities and ING banker and collector who designed the HAGI Top, a new index that tracks the prices of a cross-section of historic cars. “People want something they can look at and touch in the evening, rather than a piece of paper in the...

As the British lads would phrase it: 'those Chinese wankers!' Beijing refused to admit a colonnade of around 80 beautifully restored Dutch classic Volvo cars that partook in a well-led rallye. They simply sent those guys to the nearest port to ship them back to Holland. Why? Because of a fear of spies? Political upheaval? No. Officials said: 'those cars are just polluters. And our air already is quite polluted. So we won't allow it to be even more polluted by those eighty cars'. Nice people, those Chinese. So environmentalistic. So human. So Greenpeace. So alert. And so friendly. So...

The 'biggest American car show in the world' opened in Västerås in central Sweden on Thursday. More than 10,000 cars are expected for the Big Meet 2008 show. The annual event started 31 years ago and was founded by Kjell Gustafsson who has seen it grow from the humble beginnings of 40-80 cars in a parking lot in Anderstorp. "Just to keep the show going over three days costs 1.5 million kronor ($252,000). 160 officials work with this. That is around the same as the Hultsfred festival," Gustafsson said to Di.se. The Big Meet 2008 show will take place over...

Wayne Davis will be saying goodbye to 75 old friends on April 19.Over the past 20 years, the Southlake resident has bought and restored almost 80 classic and muscle cars -- from a 1953 Oldsmobile Fiesta convertible to a 1989 Ferrari Mondial t Cabriolet -- and now he has decided to sell most of his personal collection at auction.Davis, 57, said it is time to retire. He plans to travel the country's two-lane highways in a few of the cars he decided to keep."I want to get out and enjoy them a little bit, do the Route 66 deal from...