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Now that  Jaguar and Land Rover have left the building at Ford’s ex-PAG facility in Irvine, and one wing is being cordoned off to be Taco Bell’s new headquarters (seriously), what will they do with this row of vintage turfbusters left to collect dust in the parking garage? We hope they make it to Tata’s new facility on the East Coast and not sold for pennies on the dollar at an auction somewhere.
14/11/2008
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Sometimes we get some cool submissions for Lost and Found that we just can’t run because the image quality is so poor. Our Photoshop wizards can do some awesome stuff, but they can’t perform miracles. But all is not lost: The Internet doesn’t demand the high image quality that print publications demand, so we can pop ‘em grainy photos up here.
Such is the case with the photos that Robert Dalziel of Maspeth, New York, sent us. Along with the photos came no background...
07/11/2008
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So I’ve been having this issue with my 1970 Land Rover Series IIa. It only runs with the choke wide open. McGean thought it might be a vacuum leak, but I sprayed all kinds of carb cleaner around the base of the carburetor and every vacuum port to no avail.
Alert reader Dave Murrell sent me what he thinks is the issue:
I can’t help replying as I have had the same “choke required” to idle issue with my Series III on a number of occasions. I’m willing to bet you...
07/11/2008
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So in the November HCC Lost and Found, I presented a photo submitted by a reader of a 1966 (or thereabouts) Shelby G.T.350 station wagon, along with a claim that Ford actually built two Mustang station wagons around that time. Yeah, I wasn’t too sure of that claim, but it’s a neat concept, and I thought I’d throw it out there just to see what kind of responses - either backing up or disproving that claim - I’d get.
First one came from Jeff Pearce of Harrisville, Utah,...
06/10/2008
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In the comments to the post on Myron’s Almquist-Crosley, Tim Morgan mentioned he recently bought an Almquist Saber on a Crosley frame at auction, though it’s only partially finished. Tim wanted to get some pics up for the gang to see, so I had him send those pics along.
Looks like a good start, though I’m wondering what purpose that household electrical junction box serves…
Tim said he has a couple other projects to plow through before starting on this one. We hope...
02/10/2008
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One thing I discovered while researching the story on the AMC Ambassador limousine for the October issue of Hemmings Classic Car is that very little historical research has been done on vintage limousines. The Professional Car Society technically accepts them, but their main focus is on ambulances and hearses, not limousines, so few PCS members own limos. About the only avenue of research for vintage limousine researchers lies in the fact that the coachbuilders that crafted the limousines...
30/09/2008
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The photos of Bobby Rockwell’s custom Hudson roadster in HCC #43 triggered a groundswell of photos and information on similarly restyled Hudsons, all apparently influenced by Charles Martz of Aurora, Missouri, who built his own custom Hudson, then wrote a book about it (”Build Your Own Custom Sports Car”) and saw his project featured in the January 1952 issue of Motor Trend.
What happened to Martz’s custom Hudson is unknown, but we keep on hearing about others,...
20/09/2008
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The Lost AMC Dealership series has kinda taken a back seat this summer, though we have received several submissions that we just haven’t taken the time to assemble into blog posts yet - our bad. But then Jim Kelly, the editor of Pacific Business News (a newspaper related to Hemmings through our common ownership by American City Business Journals), told us he had scheduled an interview with Bob Reierson, of Motor Supply in Honolulu, one of only five dealerships on Steven Clark’s...
03/09/2008
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Here’s a little bit of fun brought to us by the letter Q the folks at Shorpy, the 100-Year-Old Photo Blog. According to the captions, it’s a photo taken of the Semmes Motor Co. garage in Washington, D.C. The original information with the photo indicated it dates from 1916 or 1917, but as the photo poster informs us, the nearest car has a 1926 license plate, so it actually dates from about a decade later.
Now the fun part begins. As I’m putting this post together, the normally...
01/08/2008
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A while back in the pages of HCC’s Lost and Found, we triggered quite the outpouring of interest in the pictures of the Ames-bodied Model T that reader Bill Mansfield sent in. With the help of a few Ames aficionados, we were able to identify that body as either a Model 825 or 826, likely the latter.
But now Roland Tatro of Arlington, Massachusetts, is left wondering whether Ames provided the body for his father’s old roadster.
I have attached the picture of his car that he owned in...
17/07/2008
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We’ve mentioned the George Grantham Bain Collection here on the blog before, and now, via the Shorpy blog, we’ve come across another photo from his collection that proves interesting for Studebaker-philes. According to the description of the photo, the church at 143 W. 48th St. just south of Central Park once housed the First Church of Christ, Scientist, but by 1908, when Bain took this photo, Studebaker (which began automotive production in 1902) had converted it into a...
08/07/2008
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It’s been far too long since we reached into our grab bag o’ fun Lost and Found overflow pile, but we came up with a good one today. Marty Pelker of All Starts Auto Glass and Accessories in Lincoln Park, Michigan, found two oddballs while out in his neighborhood. First, the Centipede, an Oldsmobile Toronado-based airport limo.
That is, we think it was meant to be an airport limo. Like the ones Ben Merkel photographed in Hawaii. But adding that flashy Centipede graphic along the...
05/07/2008
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On a recent photo shoot with McGean near his old stomping grounds (White Plains, New York), we happened to pass the former home of Tappan Motors at 300 N. Broadway in North Tarrytown, New York, while scouting photo locations. Tarrytown may strike a chord with some of you - just down the hill was the site of the former Tarrytown GM assembly plant.
We didn’t find out what the building’s becoming, but we did hear that it most recently was a gym and still had the plate glass windows...
04/07/2008
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So we’ve covered AMC dealers, Willys-Jeep dealers, Kaiser-Frazer dealers and Studebaker dealers in our Lost Dealership series, and now with this email we received the other day from Kevin Callanan of Winter Park, Florida, we can start looking for former Berkeley dealerships.
Callanan’s father, Skip Callanan, had gained a reputation racing MGs, but in the late 1950s had started Scuderia Mosquito, a racing program for Berkeleys, while the general manager of Robert E. Lee Enterprises...
30/06/2008
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 The annual car show organized by the Greater New York Region of the AACA, held at the gorgeous Westbury Gardens on Long Island, attracts its share of public-safety vehicles. One reason why, we think, is that the attendees include members of the Calverton Cruisers, a car club made up of former law-enforcement officers from Long Island.
Among the cars that appeared was this 1959 Chevrolet Biscayne two-door sedan, which we were assured is an actual Nassau County Police Department radio car that...
24/06/2008
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And why not include Studebaker dealerships in our Lost Dealerships series? Gary Faules forwarded us a link to Belle’sDaddy’s Flickr account, where we found a couple photos of a 1964 Studebaker Lark Cruiser posed in front of Smiley’s Studebaker Garage on Route 29 on the northern end of East Greenville, Pennsylvania, circa late 1976 to early 1977, well after South Bend had given up on the auto industry.
Belle’sDaddy, better known as Alan, said he used to buy parts for the...
21/06/2008
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Stephen Spencer wrote in with a tip that the former Ravenna Motors, at 2700 NE 55th St., just outside of Seattle, Washington, has now become Ravenna Volvo. No picture of the dealership in its AMC days, though the buildings appear as though they date back to a time before the Swedes took over.
And our own Jim Donnelly, an expert in all things New Jersey, informed us that the former Shore Nash and Shore Rambler on Route 38 in Lumberton, New Jersey, is now an Exxon gas station. Shore Rambler very...
13/06/2008
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Stephen Spencer wrote in with a tip that the former Ravenna Motors, at 2700 NE 55th St., just outside of Seattle, Washington, has now become Ravenna Volvo. No picture of the dealership in its AMC days, though the buildings appear as though they date back to a time before the Swedes took over.
And our own Jim Donnelly, an expert in all things New Jersey, informed us that the former Shore Nash and Shore Rambler on Route 38 in Lumberton, New Jersey, is now an Exxon gas station. Shore Rambler very...
13/06/2008
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Stephen Spencer wrote in with a tip that the former Ravenna Motors, at 2700 NE 55th St., just outside of Seattle, Washington, has now become Ravenna Volvo. No picture of the dealership in its AMC days, though the buildings appear as though they date back to a time before the Swedes took over.
And our own Jim Donnelly, an expert in all things New Jersey, informed us that the former Shore Nash and Shore Rambler on Route 38 in Lumberton, New Jersey, is now an Exxon gas station. Shore Rambler very...
13/06/2008
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Stephen Spencer wrote in with a tip that the former Ravenna Motors, at 2700 NE 55th St., just outside of Seattle, Washington, has now become Ravenna Volvo. No picture of the dealership in its AMC days, though the buildings appear as though they date back to a time before the Swedes took over.
And our own Jim Donnelly, an expert in all things New Jersey, informed us that the former Shore Nash and Shore Rambler on Route 38 in Lumberton, New Jersey, is now an Exxon gas station. Shore Rambler very...
13/06/2008
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Stephen Spencer wrote in with a tip that the former Ravenna Motors, at 2700 NE 55th St., just outside of Seattle, Washington, has now become Ravenna Volvo. No picture of the dealership in its AMC days, though the buildings appear as though they date back to a time before the Swedes took over.
And our own Jim Donnelly, an expert in all things New Jersey, informed us that the former Shore Nash and Shore Rambler on Route 38 in Lumberton, New Jersey, is now an Exxon gas station. Shore Rambler very...
13/06/2008
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Stephen Spencer wrote in with a tip that the former Ravenna Motors, at 2700 NE 55th St., just outside of Seattle, Washington, has now become Ravenna Volvo. No picture of the dealership in its AMC days, though the buildings appear as though they date back to a time before the Swedes took over.
And our own Jim Donnelly, an expert in all things New Jersey, informed us that the former Shore Nash and Shore Rambler on Route 38 in Lumberton, New Jersey, is now an Exxon gas station. Shore Rambler very...
13/06/2008
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In his extensive travels around the country for his upcoming book, Forgotten Fiberglass, Geoff Hacker recently came across the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in Monument, Colorado, notable here if only because of its former status as a Kaiser-Frazer dealership.
It seems that the local community of artists took it upon themselves to save the building and sign for their use and turned it to another purpose, while keeping the historic nature of the building (at least that’s what the locals told...
11/06/2008
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In the comments to the post about the lost Brattleboro, Vermont, AMC dealerships, Carl van Deusen left behind a little bit of info on the former Sheffield Motors in Sheffield, Massachusetts, located at 800 N. Main St. He also said he could put me in touch with the son of the former owner, George Ullrich, who works just up the road at Sheffield Pottery. Indeed, he did, and I received the above photo and some great information from George.
Sheffield Motors was built and founded by my grandfather...
09/06/2008
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Pioneer Garage, circa 2005
In the comments on a previous post in the Lost AMC Dealership series (a church, a fast food joint and a Jeep dealership), Ed Niekrasz mentioned that his uncle and father ran a Jeep dealership - Pioneer Garage in Peabody, Massachusetts - and that he had some pictures of the dealership going back to the turn of the century. We told Ed we were interested in learning more, and he sent along the following photos and captions:
My Dad is one of the dealers heading to...
06/06/2008
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