Here is the beautiful 1934 Packard 1104 Roadster, with a freshly professionally  rebuilt engine

This car has been known in the hobby since the 1960’s, and has it’s original data tag.  It was restored just prior to winning an AACA first in 1979, and it has just had a tremendous amount of refreshing within the last 3 years, including rebuilt engine, recored radiator, new suspension, new brakes, and more, all done by well known professional restoration shops.

The front of the ’34 Packard Super 8 is a marvel of styling – the headlamp lenses are V’d at the same angle as the radiator shell. In the Packard world, the ’34 is considered the best year for styling.

Note the rumbleseat. Packard called this a 2/4 passenger car.

Speaking of the rumbleseat, here it is , beautifully trimmed in leather!

And here’s the driver’s compartment, again, beautifully trimmed in leather. The leather is of extremely high quality, and even though it’s been installed when the car was restored, it’s still very nice and soft, with only a couple of small age lines, visible in this photo.

Original dash and gauges in beautiful condition. Also note the Radio.

Look how nice the doorpanel and door sill wood are!

Another view of the dash.

Lovely doorjambs give an insight into the quality of the original restoration.

Here’s a close-up of the top, in very nice condition, done within the last 3 years. Also note the nice chrome rimmed rear window.

The mighty 385 cubic inch straight 8 Packard engine! This was just recently completely redone by the well known shop Tired Ironworks in California.

Very pretty indeed.

The driver’s side.  It has the oil filter converted to use a modern screw-in unit, which is a very nice feature.

Clean and correct all the way down to the frame!

As we look forward, it’s important to note that the radiator has been recored.

The undercarriage is clean, although not perfectly show detailed.

Nice and clean, but not quite to current maximum show standards

picked up a ding on the right headlamp.

Here’s a nice view of the trunk rack and the bumper.

Excellent runningboards

Lovely sidemounted wire wheels with proper covers and trim.

Excellent top bows

Another view of the beautiful dashboard

Note the senior Trippe lights, a nice feature. ( Senior refers to the fact that these are the more expensive lamps, with a bubble level on the crown of the lamp shell)

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phenomenal!

Here is the Beautiful  1939 Packard V-12  Roadster

There is nothing like a Packard Twelve – the 473 Cubic inch engine is a marvel of smoothness and quietness, the factory power assisted brakes stop the car surely, the factory power assisted clutch operates easily, and the independent front suspension is sure and safe. Of course, the brakes are hydraulic.  ’39 was the first year for the column shifter on the V-12 Packard.

The Roadster body style is quite desirable – seating for 2, with the rumbleseat carrying an additional 2 people!

Note the Senior Trippe driving lights, the bumper guards, and carefully integrated turn signals.

Excellent running board rubber, and look how nicely the doors fit.

Another view of a handsome car

Here it is with the top down, and the top boot installed

Every styling element works perfectly in profile.

Beautiful driving compartment, with luscious woodgraining, beautiful instruments, and the correct for ’39 deluxe steering wheel.

A closer view of the beautiful steering wheel and dashboard. Also note the nicely installed turn signal switch – OK per CCCA judging rules.

The leather is very nice, with just a bit of age showing on the lower driver’s cushion.

Here’s another view of the sumptuous interior.

Slightly less luxurious than the front but much more sporty and fun is the rumble seat, correctly done with leather, correct weighted armrests, and wool carpeting

Note the footrest.

Excellent doorpanels

Excellent top bows and inner top.

Radio and Heater.

Another view of the beautiful dash and gauges. Everything you see here works properly except the radio, which doesn’t make any noise.

473 Cubic inches of V-12 power – if you want to draw a crowd at a car show, just open the hood, fire it up, and enjoy listening to the people marvel at it. “It’s so quiet!”  “Is it even running?”

Here’s the driver’s side. Note the correct V-12 distributor cap cover and coils.  The engine is very clean, but would miss show points on the exhaust manifold porcelain. It’s a  beautiful engine, though.

This engine runs beautifully, firing on all twelve cylinders.  It will sit and idle for a very, very long time without even running warm.  Also note here the clean firewall and redone wiring in the correct cloth backing.

I love the Cloisonne Enamel Emblems on the hubcaps

More beautiful Cloisonne enamel, this time on the hood emblem.

Here is the famous Packard “Safe-T-Flex” independent front suspension. The undercarriage is reasonably clean but not show detailed.

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The re-creation of the GM motorama show to celebrate GM’s 100th year was yet another Pebble Beach Concours presentation masterwork!

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If I could have any Cadillac, it would be the ’59 Cadillac Cyclone !

And a great Corvette Choice would be the ’59 Corvette Stingray special – it’s amazing how much of this design wound up in the production ’63 Stingray.

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And the fabulous Buick Y-Job.

The ’53 Cadillac LeMans presaged many of the styling cues seen a year or so later.

The 1951 LeSabre, not given a brand.   I guess the 5 GM divisions had to fight it out for brand identity!

The Futurliner in the background, with the ’58 Firebird III.  Space- the final frontier!  Or at least the era of peak car/missile design! As we all stood on the field, in August of 2008,  who would have thought that by November GM would be planning for bankruptcy, and would file by June, 2009.  They made it to 100, but just barely!

The 1930 Cadillac v16 452 Convertible coupe by Rollston.  Sleek, disappearing top, and look at that windshield!

1932 Cadillac V-16 452 Fleetwood Madame X Sedan.  A great write up of this car can be found in the June, 1974 issue of “The Classic Car” magazine, the CCCA publication.

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A very unusual ’34 Buick 91 Club Sedan.

1937 Cadillac V-16 series 90 Convertible Coupe

1948 Buick Roadmaster Hercules Estate wagon.  I had one JUST LIKE THIS except it was a ’47 and it was a Super, not a Roadmaster.  Don’t you hate it when people come up to you at a show and say stuff like that?

this 1911 Rambler model 65 shows that Ramblers weren’t always compact cars!

1931 Cadillac V16 452 Convertible Coupe by Fleetwood

1935 Lincoln K LeBaron Coupe rolling on the field

1938 Cadillac V16 Fastback Limousine

The Tire King of Long Beach motors on the field in the 1932 Lincoln KB Sports Phaeton.

1934 Cadillac V16 Fleetwood Convertible Sedan

The 1932 Peerless V-16 Prototype with Murphy coachwork.

This was the 1931 Packard Twin Six Front Wheel Drive Prototype sedan.  It was top secret at the time, so Packard made a “generic” looking grille to fool the early motoring press Paparazzi.  The V-12 made it to production, the front wheel drive didn’t.

1963 Chevrolet Corvette Pininfarina Rodine.

This 1929 Mercedes Benz SSK Barker Roadster looks like fun!

This 1933 Duesenberg Weymann sedan was on the field in 2008.  I like this car a lot!

The 1907 Thomas Flyer New York to Paris racer – and of course the inspiration for the Leslie Special in the 1965 Film, “The Great Race”.

Another celebrity, the “Old 16” Locomobile Vanderbilt cup racer

1934 Bugatti type 50 Cabriolet

1904 DeDion Bouton Henri Binder Tonneau.  With tire protectors to keep the white tires from getting grass stains!

Just like 2020, the year 2008 with it’s financial crash turned into a Pacer of a year!   Not sure how this Pacer made it to the Concorso Italiano, but there it was!

Pebble Beach Concours is the epitome of the best – doing things right – looking sharp – being sharp!  And to that end, let’s look at some of the people who embody the sharp dressed concours entrant!

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Beautiful era-appropriate dresses in front of a beautiful Rolls-Royce!

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a Great Hat

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The Hat matches the car

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Stepping right out of  a photo from one of the original French Concours d’Elegance

The lady’s outfit matches her car!

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Looking the part with their Hispano Suiza!

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The Delage Owners and Friends looking sharp!

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The 1915 Outfit looked  great,  and went with her 1915 Packard.  The piece d’resistance  was the mother of pearl inlaid opera glasses !

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Even the Judges get suited up for the occasion!

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Here we are at the Pebble Beach concours d’Elegance – and why do we go there?  Because they have some of the most spectacular collector cars in the world  gathered in one place!  For one day, the entire history of the motorcar from the earliest beginnings to the 1970’s is on display.  Cars are driven, transported, shipped, and flown here from all over the world to compete and win, and in the process make for the greatest concours in the world.  Every year, I am astonished by the interesting cars on the field, as well as the variety and high quality. What other show could put on the most comprehensive display of Isotta Fraschini ever?  I’ve been every year since 1986, missing only a single year.  In 1986, Rick Cole had just started his auction at the Doubletree in Monterey, and there were about 20 spectators who woke up early for the Pre-dawn patrol on concours morning!  Now there are 6 Auction companies at Monterey, and zillions of “Dawn Patrol” spectators on the grounds by 5 AM !

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We didn’t know it when this photo was taken at the start of Thursday’s Tour d’Elegance, but this 1929 Mercedes S Barker Tourer would go on to win best of show.  The polished hood, pipes, polished decklid, Marchal headlamps and torpedo style runningboards go a long way to explain why everyone went crazy for this car!

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This 1932 Packard Twin-Six individual custom by Dietrich was a best of show contender too.

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This 1916 Locomobile model 38 collapsible cabriolet had been in storage from 1930 to 2010 ! and was a preservation class entrant.

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This 1935 Chrysler CW Imperial Custom Airflow is the only 1935 of this model left in existence! Note the first use of a curved windshield in any car, and it also pioneered automatic overdrive.

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1933 Chrysler CL Imperial Custom LeBaron Sedan, a trophy winner in class – Note the padded roof, landau bars and sweeping fenders.

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This 1931 Duesenberg J convertible coupe is a Murphy roadster with disappearing top, and a trophy winner in the Duesenberg class!

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1938 Lagonda V-12 Rapide drophead coupe. Note the body line carrying through to the fenderskirt

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1929 Rolls-Royce Springfield P-1 Drophead coupe by Fleetwood

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1931 Hispano-Suiza J12 by Saoutchik with Repusseau bumper.  Look at that bumper! I’ve never seen one, and it looks great

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Note the rearward slant of the windshield on this 1936 PIII Rolls H.J. Mulliner Sports Limousine, with V-12 engine.  Many aircraft of the 1930’s had rearward slanted windshields, apparently an aerodynamic theory of the era.  This car was owned for many years by field marshal Bernard Montgomery.

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1930 Delage D8C Chapron Cabriolet. Wow – note the cycle front fenders, and wing root style runningboards!

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1930 Duesenberg Convertible Victoria by Rollston

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The 1916 Locomobile model 38 gained a hitchhiker! – That guy is really smart, it is a fairly long walk from one end of the show field to the other!

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1932 Duesenberg J Judkins Victoria Coupe.  Note the low slung design and narrow windows.

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There were probably more Castagna bodied cars this year than any other because of the Isotta Fraschini feature. This, however is a 1933 Rolls Royce PII with a Castagna body.  The original owner started with an Isotta, and then had the Brewster body company transfer the Castagna coachwork to her new Rolls!

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1940 Packard 1807 Custom Super Eight Rollson Sport Sedan, First in class for American Classic Closed.

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The 1935 Duesenberg JN Rollston Berline, J559, trophy winner in class.  This car was recently re-united with its original engine that had been swapped with J500, a Murphy Roadster now owned by the LA County Museum system.  There’s a great story in the most recent CCCA magazine “The Classic Car” about the car and the effort to get the original engines back where they belong.

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A beautiful Duesenberg emblem

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Beautiful 1930 Cord L-29 Brougham. One of the front wheel drive pioneers.

1935 Lincoln K548 LeBaron coupe – a sleek V-12 5000 pound 2 passenger car, or 4 passengers with the rumbleseat

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The 1935 Duesenberg SJ Bohman & Schwartz town car, first in it’s class at the show.  Originally owned by Ethel Mars, of Mars candy.

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The styling trend had changed substantially from Duesenberg’s 1929 Introduction to 1935, when this car was built. Bohman and Schwartz took advantage of the streamlined look to its full extent.

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1939 Bugatti Type 57C Voll & Ruhrbeck cabriolet. One of my favorites of the show, and a first place winner in class.

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Here’s the front of the ’39 Bugatti – sometimes known as the “waterfall Grille” Bugatti.  Again, by the late 1930’s streamlining was the trend, and if you, the coachbuilder were confronted by a flat, vertical radiator, you had to adjust it!

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Very sleek 1934 Delage D8 S Fernandez et Darrin Cabriolet.  Dutch Darrin was brilliant, and this car is a great example, with polished aluminum hood and belt molding flowing the entire length of the car, and V windshield. Wow!

And speaking of Darrin, he had returned to the US after the dissolution of Fernandez et Darrin in Paris, and started building custom Packards. Here’s one of the earliest examples, a 1937 Packard 120 Eight Darrin Convertible Victoria.

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Here’s the 1934 Super 8 1104 Packard Coupe-Roadster, with the same owner for 60 years!  This is the Fifth appearance at Pebble, starting in 1958 !  It was recently given its first total restoration.

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1929 Packard 645 Deluxe eight Dietrich Runabout. Wow!

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1932 Marmon Sixteen LeBaron Sedan.  This car was once driven in the Monte Carlo Rallye.

Stay tuned for more photos later!

So Last year we went to the big ACD Festival at Auburn.  But on the way there is South Bend, Indiana, home of the Studebaker Factory and Museum!

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To get to South Bend from Chicago you have to take the Chicago Skyway – a mid-century masterpiece of tollway design.  And, over 50 years after being completed, they’re STILL collecting the tolls!

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And stop by the VICTORY BAR a couple blocks south of the Studebaker factory – which, sadly , is no longer victorious. But just imagine this cool stainless steel and glass place in 1947 or so, full of thirsty Studebaker workers just off their shift ( or just heading to work?)  full of confidence they would be building Studebakers for another hundred years.

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And part of the factory itself. Designed by Albert Kahn, the same guy who designed the Packard factory.  And then the 2 companies eventually merged.  Co-incidence?  or Conspiracy?  YOU make the call!

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The Studebaker Museum itself is in a nice new building. Check out the sign!

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If it had wheels Ab Jenkins would race it!

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This was the “Show” wagon for the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Made of beautiful inlaid wood and decorated with Nickle plating, gold and brass.  Takes the agriculture right out of the wagon doesn’t it!

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The absolute last Hurrah for Packard – the Predictor show car.  Pretty spectacular even today.

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Some Great Avanti stuff here.

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170 MPH.  that’s movin’ !

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A more recent Bonneville Contender. Note the 200.426 MPH on the fender!

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All this horsepower and they’re still running heater hoses!

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They say it better than I can.

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What’s the Airflow doing in the Studebaker Museum?  Well it’s actually a Bendix, also made in South Bend.

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Different.  But that’s what makes it South Bend – they’re daring to be different!

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Big Studebaker President – a very impressive car.

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Studebaker made these “Weasel” tracked vehicles during WWII.

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So one day back in 1961 or so, the car designer’s wife got him an electric razor for his birthday – and the rest is history!

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If your folks had a sliding roof Studebaker wagon – like mine did – then a close look at this car reveals it’s a styling prototype – same concept, but a bit more modern looking lines.

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Ok – some more detail of the “Skyview” wagon.

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Great looking concept, too bad it didn’t make it.

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Now THAT’s really unusual – a Porsche engine in a Studebaker.

Once again we went to the Holiday motor tour, put on by the so Cal Horseless Carriage Club of America!  And once again, it was a tremendous turnout of very, very interesting cars!  The rules of the tour say 1932 and earlier.  But at the start point, there are lots of interesting cars both pre- and post-war.

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Let’s lead it off with a Locomobile 48, a good looking car!

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The license plate gives us the caption for this one!

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When was the last time you saw an Essex?

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Or a cool Scotty Dog hood ornament?

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Beautiful Rolls Ghost

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And another excellent Rolls Ghost!

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It’s the title of a DEVO song AND a car – WHIPPET !

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An extremely original ’34 Packard Super 8

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And a great looking Stutz, I’m going to guess a 1927 Stutz AA with cabriolet body by Locke!

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Autocar truck, beautifully restored.

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A Leland Lincoln touring

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’32 Chrysler Imperial CH.

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Cool Appliance service ’32 Ford with lots of originality

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Nice ’41 Packard 160 Coupe

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You didn’t really think I could avoid the AMC’s, did you?

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Slammed to the ground ’61 Caddy was really cool.

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Beautiful Pope-Hartford.

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These people DROVE their 6 cylinder plymouth from Arkansas!  Wow!

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Very pretty brass era Model T – note the brass lamps.

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a custom speedster!

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Love the color on this Hudson pickup truck

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A Reo touring.

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This 1953 Chrysler Imperial Custom C58 with COLD FACTORY AIR CONDITIONING is absolutely beautiful, runs and drives almost like a new car, and is loaded with options and fully operational!  The Custom was the top of the line 6 Passenger Imperial, and it was Luxurious indeed, a worthy competitor to Cadillac, Packard and Lincoln! 331 Hemi V-8 Power, Air conditioning, power steering, power brakes, power windows, power seat, Solex heat-resistant glass and 15 Jewel Moparmatic steering wheel clock by Benrus!

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Air Conditioning was a very new feature for Chrysler , having just been introduced in 1953.  Almost every part of the Imperial design was different from the standard Chrysler, there are many, many differences that make this car special including the grille, side trim, fenders, and much more.  It is a subtle and tasteful design, and in person the high quality of the restoration shines through, I can’t emphasize enough how well this car was restored.

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An imposing view!  All the better because the chrome and trim looks like new!  This car was restored in the 1990’s and still looks fresh today!

Here’s a video showing the Imperial in Operation!

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 I spoke with one of the former owners about the car’s history.  He told me it came from Phoenix, Arizona originally, and stayed in the Phoenix area until early in the new century. It was always a nicely preserved, well cared for car, which had significant restoration work done in the 1990’s, including paint, chrome, and some of the interior.  The car was too nice to need a total restoration!  The 53,900 miles showing are thought to be original, as are the doorpanels.

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Black shows everything, and this car wears it’s black suit with pride, look how straight the bodywork is, and how deep and reflective the paint is!

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Absolutely stunning – better in person than in the photos if you ask me – and extremely rare.

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Jade Green Interior is gorgeous!  Note the horn center mounted Mopar-matic Clock!

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Gorgeous!

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Rich wool and leather patterned doorpanels, with lovely woodgrain accent. Note the power window switch.

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The lap of luxury in 1953 !

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Beautiful!

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Here in the back shelf are the Air Conditioning Vents.

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Fold-down armrests front and back!

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CHRYSLER FIRE POWER! Hemi power in all it’s 331 cubic inch V-8 glory!  That engine is both powerful and smooth! And the A/C Compressor is mighty impressive too!

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Excellent engine bay.

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The power steering pump is mounted to the back of the generator.  Note how clean and nicely maintained it is, with fresh looking hoses, fan belts and the like.

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This engine runs beautifully!  The transmission works great too, it’s a later Chrysler Torqueflite 3 speed automatic, upgraded recently.

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Beautiful wheels and Goodyear wide whitewalls!

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Extremely high quality restoration work over a dry Arizona car with the extremely rare Factory Air Conditioning!

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Been a long time since I was at the ACD club Festival – 1970 to be specific!  And, in some ways, it’s a time warp – downtown Auburn , the Auburn Hotel, have not changed at all.  It’s the same.  But in other ways, there have been some big improvements – the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum looks better than it ever has, the displays inside are spectacular, and the showroom looks like it did when it opened!

Art Deco styling at it’s Zenith.

ACD Cars in front of the Auburn Hotel, same as the last 60 years!

They Close down the Auburn town square, and let all the crazy car people take it over !  Nowadays they let non-ACD cars in the square too, but it seems like everyone gets along.  And, it’s a big crowd too.

Raymond Chandler called.  He’s looking for Phillip Marlow at the Auburn Hotel.  That is one seriously old-school hotel.

High performance autos from the ’30’s and the 60’s ! a 390 AMX and a Duesenberg!

A Duesenberg V-16 Aircraft engine from the WWI era. note the valve gear and rockers .  That’s quite an engine!  And it’s a great example of how nice the ACD museum is now!

A new display of race cars, this one a Duesenberg.

And the ACD museum people are getting mighty liberal, enough to allow a Packard 12 and display engine in the room!

So a bunch of the ACD members got together in 1981 and verified the urban legend of the buried Cords !

The Best of Show ACD Festival 2015, the Duesenberg Mormon Meteor!  they ran this car at the Duesenberg Thunder run too!

I really like what the ACD club does for the Best of Show winner – they drive the car right into the awards brunch room!

Gordon Beuhrig’s TASCA design concept, here in the ACD Museum.  Gordon Beuhrig’s granddaughter and E.L. Cord’s Grandson were honored guests at the ACD parade.

This was the year of the Duesenberg, so there was a tremendous turnout – 29 cars!  that’s not something you see everyday!

Rollston convertible victoria.

Murphy Convertible sedan.

Willoughby Sedan

Brunn Riviera Phaeton

Weymann fabric bodied Sedan

Best Exhaust Manifold ever.  The seldom seen 8 into 1 manifold for the supercharged Duesenbergs.

And a display chassis

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1937 Delahaye 145 Franay Cabriolet, one of the reserve best of show cars.  At the Best of show presentation, 4 cars are brought to the ramp, and then one is chosen to be the best of show.

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And, as the entire civilized world knows by now ( and by the civilized world I mean the people who are classic car enthusiasts ! ) this car, the 1924 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A F. Ramsier & Cie Worblaufen Cabriolet  won the Best of Show award.

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1961 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Pininfarina SWB coupe.  In Preservation class, a 2nd place winner and the object of a feature in the New York times, visible HERE.  Even the mainstream media looks at our hobby once in a while !

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A 1935 Auburn Speedster .

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The final Cunningham race car, the C6R.  LeMans in ’55 didn’t work out with an Offenhauser engine,  and it’s final entry in ’57 used a Jaguar engine and nose.

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Wow ! 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C Touring Spider.  There was a class for bodies by  Carrozzeria Touring, the famous Italian coachbuilder.

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My Favorite duPont  – the 1931 duPont Model H Merrimac sport Phaeton. Look at the body lines, the giant headlamps, and the rakish angle of the top.

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1931 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Touring “Flying Star” Spider by Carrozzeria Touring.

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A Reserve Best of show, 1953 Abarth 1100 Sport Ghia coupe.

This is a 1924 Mercedes Benz 630K Murphy Roadster.  Take a look at the clean line of this Murphy Roadster, and realize how advanced it was in the mid-1920’s !

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This 1929 Packard 645 Deluxe Eight Rollston Roadster  was entered by the TV “Gas Monkey Garage” guys.  More TV exposure !

The Actual Brock Yates Cannonball Sea to shining Sea Run Ferrari Daytona.  35 hours and 54 minutes coast to coast.  Subject of at least 2 movies in the 70’s.  Epic!  Biblical!  Worthy of mention wherever car freaks gather !

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The spectacular 1946 Delahaye 135 MS Pourtout Coupe Aerodynamique.

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Supercharger pipes are cool. 1928 Mercedes Benz 680 S Tourer.

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Here’s a detail on the ’38 Graham by Saoutchik.  Note how the door opens – it pops out, and then goes back parallel to the body.  Mind boggling for 1938.  Never to be matched until the 1968 Volkswagen van was introduced!

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A beautiful 1935 Packard V-12 Coupe-Roadster.  Packard coined the “Coupe-Roadster” bodystyle to let people know it had roll-up windows and was still a sporty convertible roadster.  Only 4 years earlier, in 1931, the Packard Roadster had sidecurtains and no side windows.

The Passey Family  Lincoln Locke Roadster.

1932 Austro-Daimler ADR8 Keibl Karoserriewerk Limousine.   A spectacular car fresh from the Nethercutt Collection.

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There’s a happy owner, and although he didn’t know it yet, he is on the way to a trip across the ramp to pick up a trophy!  The car is a 1923 Duesenberg Model A.

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And a Vault Cars Alumni car, a ’32 Lincoln KB.

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And the Gratuitous Hood ornament photo, a staple of Pebble Beach coverage.   This started with the ancient Romans – stay with me here, it’ll only take a little while to get this idea across – the ancient Romans built the coliseum for the gladiatorial games, and spectacles, and chariot races, and the like.  The Floor of the Coliseum was a false floor, built above a labyrinth of tunnels, cages, and ladders that led to trap doors in the floor.  So it was possible for a gladiator to pop up out of the floor unexpectedly to slay an opponent, or to fight a lion.   We now know that there are the same kind of trap doors on the 18th green of Pebble Beach, where the photographers are felled by people ascending the trapdoors and getting in the way of the photos!  Leading the photographers to go for the close up hood ornament shots rather than wait for the whole car to be visible!

We go back to Pebble Beach one more time, and again return amazed at the show and the unusual and beautiful cars on display! At Pebble Beach there are always cars that I’ve never seen before, and the best of the best restoration quality.

And we begin with the Dawn Patrol, in which everyone wakes up an hour earlier than usual, and eats the Hagerty doughnuts and drinks the Hagerty coffee, and waits for the Hagerty Dawn Patrol hats!  If you hadn’t figured this out, Hagerty insurance sponsors it, and it is obviously a very popular event!

Dawn breaks, with the unusual feature of a visible sky!  Usually it’s overcast. And this requires us to shoot from the water side so the light is working for the camera.

First car on the field, a Ferrari

The Incredible Fiat 8V Supersonic by Ghia. Wow!  Note the bumpers.

The “50 Years of Shelby Mustang”  Class made it’s way on the field!

The speedometer of a Ferrrari Lusso is in the center of the dash, so you need someone to ride in the center to tell you how fast you’re going!

In Preservation class, a 1926 Packard 236 Eight Phaeton

1920 Stutz Bearcat series H

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1929 DuPont model G Waterhouse Roadster.

1933 Lincoln KB Dietrich Convertible Sedan.

1938 Graham Model 97 Saoutchik Convertible.   Wow!

1950 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith  by H.J. Mulliner

Only 3 Venti-Ports?  too bad the original owner didn’t step up for the Roadmaster and get the 4th venti-port!  Alright, it’s not a Buick! It’s actually a Ferrari 340 Mexico Roadster,  for which the original owner ( and surely the current one!) stepped up indeed!

1935 SS Cars SS1 Saloon

Porsche’s entry into the World of Outlaws sprint car racing?  No, but it’s the earliest – 1955 – Porsche ever fitted with an aerodynamic wing by Michael May.

1953 Ferrari 212 Inter Pinin Farina coupe, in Ferrari preservation class.  There were an astonishing 9 cars in Ferrari Preservation class!

Ferrari California spyder

And speaking of Ferrari preservation class, here’s my favorite, the 1961 California Spyder that was hidden in a Garage in France for Decades, only to be auctioned off this year with a number of other  cars.  At one point it was owned by French film star Alain Delon, who was photographed with Hollywood starlets , and kept the car in Monaco, all very glamorous.  Later it was owned by Roger Baillon, a french businessman, who in later years hid the car in a garage covered with magazines.  They’ve obviously gotten it running, and they displayed it on the lawn with the stack of magazines that had been on top of the trunk!

A Cunningham

1932 Packard 904 Deluxe 8 Dietrich stationary coupe.  Wow!

A very interesting class of Mercury Customs was shown!

1936 Duesenberg J Rollston Convertible Berline.  Note the pontoon fenders, separate runningboards, and Packard Headlights, and Cadillac hood louvers,  all part of the original design by Rollston.

The shooter gets shot!  Pebble Beach is a photo shooter’s paradise, but it’s also a tangled web of intersecting photo angles – there are so many people taking photos at any one time that it’s hard to stay out of other people’s photos.  That’s why I like the early hours with the cars driving by, because there’s just barely enough room to get an un-obstructed photo of the entire car.

1930 Packard Speedster Phaeton. Packard’s factory  hot rod, with dual throat carburetor, finned manifold, and many other high performance features.

Here’s the Packard 626  Speedster Roadster from 1929 – one of only a handful built, and one of only 3 thought to remain.

The eventual first place winner of the American Classic Open Class, the 1931 Chrysler CG Imperial dual cowl phaeton by LeBaron.

1934 Packard V-12 1108 Dietrich convertible sedan.

75 Years of Lincoln Continental!  This one a 1962 Sedan.  The clean, modernistic look with minimal chrome was a tremendous change in ’61 when it was introduced.  Compare this with a ’61 Cadillac, Buick, or Chrysler Imperial, and see a design revolution.

1930 Duesenberg Murphy Convertible Coupe.

1934 Duesenberg Walker LaGrande Convertible coupe.  All three of the three Walker-LaGrande convertible coupes were on the lawn!

My favorite Bugatti of all time, the 1939 Bugatti type 57C Vanvooren Cabriolet. Note the windshield that cranks down to the belt line!

1956 Maserati A6G 2000 Frua Coupe.  Another of the French barn finds collected by Roger Baillon, now running and on the field!

1934 Packard 1108 Twelve  Dietrich Stationary coupe

An earlier Dietrich coupe, a 1928 443 Packard.

1970 Mercedes C-111

1911 Mercer Raceabout – the famous Austie Clark car.

1964 Ferrari 250 LM Scaglietti Berlinetta.  One of the Ferraris that raced at LeMans in 1965.

1931 LaSalle 345-A Fleetwood 7 Passenger Touring.  Being piloted by the owner of 59 years, and just fresh from its second restoration.

1934 Packard 1108 LeBaron Sport Phaeton.  Stunning!

It was DuPont Feature year !

1929 duPont Model G Merrimac special sedan – wow look at that Vee Windshield!  Owned by one of the duPonts.  Many of the duPont automobiles are in the hands of the duPont family.

It was Cunningham Feature year, so here is the 1953 Cunningham C-5R – recorded at 154 Miles per hour on the Mulsanne straight that year. If you’re reading this you certainly already know where the Mulsanne straight is !

1934 Duesenberg Walker-LaGrande.

It was Pope feature year, so here’s a Pope-Hartford

1913 Pope-Hartford

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This 1969 Camaro Z-28 is a spectacular – and real !  – Jerry MacNeish Certified! – and beautifully restored Z-28. Of course you know that the Z-28 option was the production version of Chevrolet’s Trans-Am series entry, with a high revving solid lifter 302 small block and  mandatory M-21 4 Speed! It’s offered now by the Vault Classic Cars dealership in Fullerton, California.

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Beautiful in Fathom Green!

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Here’s the certification – an important item !

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The Camaro Z-28 is right at the top of the musclecar world – it was the car everyone wanted when it was new,  and as time has gone by, it is regarded as one of the best of the era – lots of power, great noises from the solid lifters and cam,  Muncie 4 speed transmission, and styling that is just about perfect – beautiful yet aggressive.

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Here’s a Video of the Camaro Z-28 in Operation

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The bodywork is arrow straight, and the paint quality superb!

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Gorgeous !  And loaded with options, including:

• Z-28

• X33 Style trim group

• DZ 302 V-8, 290 HP. Original engine this car left the factory with.

• Hurst Shifter

• A01 Glass Soft Ray Tinted

• D55 Center Console

• D80 Front & Rear spoilers ( added )

• G80 3.73 Positraction Rear Axle. Matching numbers original axle.

• J52 Power Disc Brakes

• N34 Wood Grain Steering Wheel – original, NOT reproduction.

• N44 Quick Ratio Steering

• U17 Special Instrumentation – Tach – Guages – Clock

• U63 AM Push Button Radio

• V32 Rear Bumper Guards

• ZL/2 Special ducted hood

• Paint Code 57, Fathom Green Exterior

• Trim Code 723, Midnight Green Interior

• E70X15 Goodyear tires

• Rallye Wheels

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Wow! Note the Rallye Wheels

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Absolutely beautiful!

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As good in person as it is in the photos

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Excellent hood fit and gaps.

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Beautiful!

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The Original matching numbers DZ 302 engine !  Runs great, sounds great!

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Correct manifolds with smog equipment, stock and authentic throughout!

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The alternator is the correct numbers matching unit, the hidden VIN number below the cowl vent grilles is right, and the radiator support is original.

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The famous “Camel Hump” cylinder heads, so named for the 2 “humps” in the casting pattern.  They had the huge 2.02 Intake Valves and 1.60 Exhaust Valves,  the better to pour all that gas into the engine!   These heads are replacements, they’re dated a little later than the build date of the car.

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Another signature Z-28 item, the big heavy duty vibration dampener.  For those High  RPM blasts down the street!

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The detail is really great !

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Detail right down to the GM hoses !

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This Midnight Green interior is in spectacular condition, made even more amazing because it’s ORIGINAL ! That’s right, original seats, dashpad, Doorpanels,   Genuine original wood steering wheel, console and we think even the carpeting is original!  Amazing!

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Vibrant woodgraining.  Also note the console with guages, a great option!

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Another view of that great console with the guages and the Hurst 4 Speed shifter.

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Awesome Original interior!!

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Excellent doorjambs

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Excellent original doorpanels !

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That Steering wheel is beautiful.

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Beautiful trunk compartment.

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Wow!

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Here’s the trim tag – the original trim tag with original rivets.

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The undercarriage is nice and clean, although there are some minor signs of road usage.

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We can see the disc brakes, and a good shot of the subframe.

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Clean gas tank and axle.

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These are Dynomax turbo mufflers.

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7,000 RPM Tachometer.

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Clean Rockers. In this shot you can also see how excellent the floor sheetmetal is.

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Lovely solid rust free floorpans.

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Brand new Reproduction Delco Energizer R59 Battery

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A final look at the beautiful, authentic and correct and original Camaro Z-28 !

Offered by the Vault Classic Cars Dealership, Anaheim, CA, call us at 714-401-1047

International customers are welcome to buy! We’ve sent many cars overseas.

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The prospective purchaser of a vehicle may, at his or her own expense and with the approval of the dealer, have the vehicle inspected by an independent third party either on or off the dealership premises.  All Prices shown DO NOT include California Sales Tax,  DMV fees, smog certificate on post-1975 vehicles, Documentation fees, and any late registration fees owed to DMV. Out of state customers are responsible to pay sales tax and any other government fees in their own state.  Out of state customers are not required to pay California Sales Tax and DMV fees IF the car is shipped by ICC licensed carrier that issues a bill of lading.  If you fly in and drive it home, we are required to charge Tax and DMV for driving on California roads! All signed contract documentation must be received AND full payment received before the car will be released to the new owner.

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Sold AS-IS, with NO WARRANTY. Delivery F.O.B. Fullerton, CA.  This car is sold Mileage exempt, meaning it’s not possible to know the original mileage.  It is the buyer’s responsibility to either inspect the car in person or enlist the services of an inspector prior to sale.  The car may have minor or major flaws that are not evident in the photos and description. Federally required “buyer’s guide”,  marked AS-IS, NO WARRANTY is incorporated in this contract by reference.

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We are happy to work with legitimate overseas buyers, and we can assist with getting the car shipped to most international ports. Shipping is at buyers expense, the car is sold FOB Anaheim, CA. There is an additional $200 cost to flatbed the car to any  freight forwarder in the Los Angeles, CA area.  Call us during Pacific Daylight Business hours at 714-401-1047.

The Holiday motor tour was another fun event – low stress, relaxing, a good day out with the cars and the car people!

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there’s Kenny, the fearless leader, with the sign that everyone wants to see – the tour is ready to start!  It should be noted that we were dealing with serious weather conditions!  There are CLOUDS in the sky!  It was SO COLD that almost everyone had to wear a JACKET !   Even under these barbaric conditions, the tour went on, demonstrating the fortitude and strength of the old car hobbyists!

We finally followed the rules and brought a pre- 1933 automobile!

A great ’28 Auburn Speedster!

A regular car you’d think it just blew up the transmission!  But with a Stanley steamer, it’s just a sign that it’s running!  By the way, I’ve got a couple of Stanley engines for sale, click here  to see ’em!

A Model “A” Duesenberg hot rod, with Chrysler roadster body!

’32 Cadillac V-12 convertible sedan

3 Wheel Morgan – that’s gotta be a kick to drive ( ride? )

Oldsmobile,  I’m guessing a 1918 or so.

’31 Auburn

Packard model 18 touring, a veteran of these tours.

Late Lincoln “L” Touring

Here’s a perfect California shot – Palm trees, mountains, and a nice Model A Streetrod.  Well not quite perfect, there are those pesky clouds!

Real grapes of wrath type stuff on this Chrysler!

1915 Franklin Roadster.

Spectacular restoration on a LeBaron bodied Lincoln!

Lincoln dual cowl phaeton!

’32 Packard Dual Cowl Phaeton!

Now that is a cool hood ornament!

The gold standard of the Pre-1915 era, the Pierce-Arrow.

The hitchhiker has been in the bed of the truck for a LONG time !

Another giant of the horseless carriage era, the Thomas Flyer

Detroit Rock city?  No.  Detroit Electric,  a silent reminder to Toyota that the Prius isn’t the first electric car by a long shot!

Another electric car, didn’t get the ID on it.

That’s a big deal motorcycle, a Henderson X four cylinder.  Ridiculous horsepower with no – zero – nada – rear suspension.  those motorcycle dudes were even crazier back then than they are now!

pretty Indian V-twin motorcycle.

Super rare ’32 Nash.  I noted some disc brakes on the car.

We move solidly into the latter half of the last century with these Panteras!  Notice the modern wheels that are patterned after the originals.

This one reminded me of the street racing days – a ratty chevelle with some HUGE tires underneath – Look slow but go fast!

Ok I’ll stop with all these modern cars now !!

There, that’s better – a ’32 Chrysler CH, the big 385 cubic inch Chrysler.

Classic hot rod

’30 Packard Dual Cowl phaeton!

there’s Carburetor Karl riding the Pierce Motorcycle

Nice 1911 Cadillac.  Not too often you see one of these parked on the street in urban Los Angeles!

Or a big Pierce-Arrow?

As long as you were properly attired you could survive the harsh winter conditions of the tour!

We’re taking orders for the Southern California region of the Classic Car Club of America on the nameplates , books and Classic Car Parts .  Send your Check, Made out to the Southern California Classic Car Club, add 15% for Shipping and 8% California Sales Tax.

Send the Check PAYABLE TO Southern California Classic Car Club,   C/O Steve Snyder, Vault Classic Cars, 1164 E. Elm Ave, Fullerton, CA 92831. If you’d like to pay with paypal we can accomodate, send me an email and I’ll respond with a paypal invoice for the items requested.

SCROLL DOWN for photos and description of all the projects, as well as a price list.

CLASSIC CAR CLUB OF AMERICA Chrome License plate frame. These could legitimately be considered NOS, they're beatiful chrome on die-cast metal, made for the Club back in the 70's, the kind they just don't make anymore. They fit the "modern" style of license plate. We only have a few left. 1 to a customer, $50.00

Packard outside doorhandle retainer, 1933-1937. Stainless steel. $35.00

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# 644 Franklin Plate. 3-1/2" x 1-1/2 ". $25

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# 646 Auto-Lite Shunt Generator $18.00

# 647 Delco-Remy Large Oval 2-7/8 x 1" $18

# 648 Owen Dyneto Generator Plate 2-1/8x 1-1/4 $18

# 649 Owen-Dyneto Starter Plate 2-1/8x1-1/4 $18.00

# 651 Lincoln Hub Cap plate 1-3/4 diameter $ 22.00

# 653 Pierce-Arrow plate. 5-3/8X3-1/4

# 656 HISPANO-SUIZA PARIS, (BRASS) 9.7 CM x 6 CM $ 35.00

# 652 Pierce-Arrow service tag - this one is really pretty, with chrome base, black and red background, and white "write-able" surfaces to keep track of your service visits. 2-7/8x1-1/4. $25

#654 Hispano-Suiza, Paris - CHROME - 9.7CMx6CM. $35

# 658 Cadillac Patent Plate 3-3/4 x 2" $ 25.00

# 701 Purolator Decal water transfer 2-1/8" diameter. $10

# 711 Auto-Lite 2-1/4x1-3/16 $ 18

# 712 Packard Bijur Plate - 1-1/2 diameter. $22.00

# 6410 Delco-Remy Plate 2-3/8x3/4" $18

# 6412 Auto-Lite Plate (Brown Oval) 2-7/8x7/8 $18

# 6413 Westinghouse Generator Plate 2" x 1-1/4" $20.00

# 6414 Westinghouse Starter Plate 2" x 1-1/4" $20.00

# 6415 Hub Cap Wrench Plate - Duesenberg, Cadillac, Stutz. 7" length. $25.00

# 6416 Duesenberg / Cord ( Stromberg) Wiper motor plate. REQUIRES TRIMMING. $25

# 6419 Klaxon Horn Plate ( Arched Oval ) 2-3/4" x 1/2". $18.00

# 6421 Delco-Remy Plate ( Oval ) 2-7/8 X 5/8" $ 18

#6422 Pines Winterfront Plate ( Arched ) 2-3/4 x 9/16" . $18.00

Send the Check PAYABLE TO Southern California Classic Car Club,   C/O Steve Snyder, Vault Classic Cars, 1164 E. Elm Ave, Fullerton, CA 92831. If you’d like to pay with paypal we can accomodate, send me an email via the contact form on this website  and I’ll respond with a paypal invoice for the items requested.

CLASSIC CAR CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC.

PROJECTS ORDER FORM

PARTS

_____  PACKARD outside door handle retaining collar ’33-’37, Stainless. $35

_____  Classic Car Club License Frames – CHROME LIMITED QTY       $50

_____ California Classics Books – Vol. II and III only – LIMITED QTY  $29

_____  Packard EE3 Accel pump housings (require plating) LTD QTY!      $45

DECALS AND NAMEPLATES

____    # 644  FRANKLIN  Plate 3.5” x 1.5”                                                            $25

___      # 646  Auto-Lite Shunt Generator ( Oval ) 2-7/8 x 1”                       $18

____    # 647  Delco-Remy (Large Oval) 2-7/8×1-15/16”                              $18

____    # 648 Owen-Dyneto Generator Plate (Oval) 2-1/8×1-1/4                  $18

____    # 649 Owen-Dyneto Starter Plate (Oval) 2-1/8×1-1/4                        $18

____    # 651 LINCOLN Hub Cap Plate ( Round ) 1-3/4 diameter               $22

____    # 652 PIERCE-ARROW Service tag (door) 2-7/8×1-1/4 Chrome    $25

____    # 653 PIERCE-ARROW plate 5-3/8x 3-1/4                                      $25

____    # 654 HISPANO-SUIZA, PARIS (chrome) 9.7 cm x 6 cm              $35

____    # 656 HISPANO-SUIZA, PARIS (brass ) 9.7 cm x 6 cm                 $35

____    # 658 CADILLAC Patent Plate 3-3/4×2”                                          $25

____    # 701 Purolator Decal 2-1/8 diameter                                                 $10

____    # 711 Auto-Lite ( Small Oval ) 2-1/4×1-3/16                                     $18

____    # 712 PACKARD Bijur plate 1-1/2” diameter                                   $22

____    # 6410 Delco-Remy Plate ( Small Oval ) 2-3/8×3/4                           $18

____    # 6412 Auto-Lite Plate ( Small Oval Brown ) 2-7/8×7/8”                  $18

____    # 6413 Westinghouse Generator Plate 2”x1-1/4”                               $20

____    # 6414 Westinghouse Starter Plate 2”x1-1/4”                                    $20

____    # 6415 Hub Cap Wrench Plate – DUESENBERG, CADILLAC     $25

____    # 6416 DUESENBERG/CORD (Stromberg) Wiper motor plate      $25

(requires trimming)

____    # 6419 Klaxon Horn Plate ( Arched Oval ) 2-3/4x ½”                       $18

____    # 6420 DUESENBERG brake adjustment plate ( requires trim )      $25

____    # 6421 Delco-Remy Plate ( Oval ) 2-7/8x 5/8                        $18

____    # 6422 Pines Winterfront Plate ( Arched ) 2-3/4×9/16”                     $18

Subtotal                                               $______

Shipping 15%                                      $______

California orders 8% Sales Tax       $______

Total PAYABLE TO CLASSIC CAR CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA    $______

Send order to So Cal CCCA C/O Steve Snyder, Vault Classic Cars 1164 E. Elm Ave, Fullerton, CA 92831.   We can also take paypal orders if the buyer adds the 3% Paypal fee.

PHOTOS OF EACH ITEM ARE VIEWABLE AT WWW.VAULTCARS.COM

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The Southern California Region of the Classic Car Club toured the famous Gamble House in Pasadena recently – not only did we get a nice tour, but they allowed us to put our cars on the driveway for some great photos

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Great cars and stunning architecture, in the Craftsman style that was prevalent from 1900 to 1915.

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Not sure if I can add anything here !

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If  the house were a car and I was pitching it, it would sound something like this:  Brass Era antique, custom one of one coachbuilt, high horsepower, totally original and extremely well preserved! 1 family ownership since new, then to museum status.  Eligible for any event!

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Here’s the view from the porch !  Note the brick driveway, it’ll surface later in the presentation.

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Packard LeBaron

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What a setting ! They do not let just anybody drive on their driveway!

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Great!

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That’s where we all REALLY wanted to go, inside the garage !

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A good looking garage!

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there we are in front of the Garage – note the patterns on the doors, the entire house, including the furniture, had repeating design themes.  It cost $108,000 to build the entire property in 1908.  And it only took a year to build!

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A great car in front of a great garage!

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If you had a nagging feeling that you had seen this garage and driveway – look at the bricks – before, you’re right! It was Doc Brown’s garage in the movie Back to the Future in 1985 !  And the car was a ’48 Packard custom 8 Victoria, owned by my Dad and rented to Universal Studios for the film!

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They had the car for several months, and then they called us up because a scene had to be re-shot at the studio.  So we went to Universal, and from 6 pm to 2 am, they shot, shot, and re-shot.  At one point they wanted to remove the door of the car for a better shot, which didn’t seem like a good idea to my Dad !   Anyway, there I am with Lea Thompson, who was the co-star of the film. Those movie shoots are always fun.   At the end,  they only got about 4 seconds of all that effort into the movie!    And, philosophically, we’re now about the same distance away from 1985 as they were in the movie – 1985 to 1955 !   Time does march on !

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Every lamp, fixture, and decoration was specially designed and built for the house. They wouldn’t let us take photos inside, though.

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So we used our top secret low light ultra-unobservable hidden camera to get these details of the inside !  Note the glass tree pattern on the front doors, and the incredible woodwork on the stairs.

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beautiful glass in the dining room, backlit by natural light.

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Note the special window treatment, and the original copper drain lines.

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A close-up of the copper drain lines.

And here’s a live view of the Classics driving off the driveway !

Pebble Beach 2014 was a spectacular show  – 16 of the 19 known Ruxtons on the field, 20 of the Ferrari 250 Testarossas were there, and special classes for Tatra, Fernandez et Darrin Coachwork, Maserati Centennial, early Steam, and even Eastern European Motorcycles!  And, the amazing thing is that they can declare these classes with cars that are both rare and hard to get on the same field, and yet they appear for our enjoyment!  That’s the pull of Pebble Beach for you!

As you know by now, this 1954 Ferrari 375 MM with Scaglietti coachwork won the best in show award.  It’s the first time a postwar car has won the show since 1968 !  And, it’s quite a car – big 375 chassis,  a 4.5 litre V-12 engine, and custom coachwork for famous original owners, the director Rosselini , and gifted to the actress Ingrid Bergman.   It’s a watershed year for the postwar car collector to be sure.  And, I think it’s important for those of us who like the pre-war cars to be grown-ups about this, and to NOT act like Bill Murray, shown below in his famous Ghostbusters  movie rant!

Here’s the first car on the field, an American Underslung from 1910

1932 Ruxton with Joseph Urban paint scheme.

1968 Ford GT40 Mark III coupe.  One of only 7 built for street use.

1929 Ruxton C Baker-Raulang Roadster. The woodlites are a nice touch.

the 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K Streamliner – rebuilt by the Mercedes-Benz Classic center from a chassis that had been identified in the M-B Museum.

Slightly less streamlined is this 1910 Fiat S61 Racing.

One of the Streamlined Tatras

Ferrari 250 TestaRossa Fantuzzi Spyder

A Vault Cars Alumni – 1934 Packard Super 8 Sport Phaeton discovered as a restorable car almost a decade ago, now fully restored and rolling on the Field !

A trophy winning Duesenberg J Beverly sedan.

Ferrari 250 TestaRossa with Scaglietti coachwork.

1937 Packard Twelve Rollston Convertible Victoria

Hispano-Suiza

Ruxton roadster

1937 Mercedes Benz 540K Cabriolet A – which we’ll see later getting a trophy

Well I absolutely loved this – a PininFarina bodied ’46 Alfa-Romeo 6C 2500 S .  Look at those Portholes!  They really showed those Buick Roadmaster guys, with 6 Portholes instead of just 4 !  The last time this car was shown was at the Monte Carlo Concours in 1947 !

1935 Cadillac V-12 370 D.  This was a Southern California fixture for many years, it won a ton of trophies – including Pebble Beach first in Class ’77 – for Jack and Carol Frank. Now under new ownership, and good to see it out !

The pressure to finish the paint was so intense before the concours they didn’t have time to remove the masking tape on the headlights!  Ok, in reality they’re just protecting the polished brass until the moment of the arrival of the judges!

Another reason to enjoy Pebble Beach – an entire class for the 1914 French Grand Prix, which showed the technical direction for many years forward !  This car, a 1913 Peugeot  used dual overhead cams, 4 valves per cylinder, and only 3 litres, at a time when the big Fiat race cars had 15 litres!

Another favorite, a Maserati 5000 GT Touring.  A giant 5 litre V-8 with overhead cams was the race-inspired powerplant for this car.  Only 32 of the  5000GT’s were produced!

1933 Packard 1006 Twelve Fernandez et Darrin cabriolet deVille originally built for US Ambassador and Senator Dwight Morrow.

1929 Duesenberg J Murphy convertible sedan. The eventual winner of the Duesenberg class.

Streamline moderne personified in this 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 LeBaron Town Car – built new for Walter P. Chrysler’s wife!

this 1933 Cadillac V-16 was once owned by the actor Robert Montgomery and has been freshly restored.

1915 Pierce-Arrow 48 7 Passenger Suburban – I love the arched rear door – just the thing to enter the car while still wearing your top-hat, monopoly-man style!  It was originally owned by Milton S. Hershey, the Chocolate mogul.

1929 Rolls-Royce PI Brewster Riviera town car, as delivered by Brewster with gold trim and canework!  Because merely driving a Rolls Town car wasn’t enough,  it had to out-do all those OTHER people lining up at the opera house back in ’29!

A 1933 Packard 1005 V-12 Coupe – one of only 2 known.

The Bojangles Robinson Duesenberg 1935 – done by Bohman & Schwartz.

1938 Packard Darrin – the second Packard Darrin built, and built for Clark Gable!

1931 Bugatti Type 50 Million-Guiet coupe.   This car, in addition to being a stunning Bugatti, has Sting-Ray upholstery inserts.  No, not Corvette Sting ray, the ocean-going stingray creatures!

Legendary Lincoln Collectors Jack and Bill Passey pilot this ’33 KB on to the field.

Great looking Rollston SJ Duesenberg.

1936 Horch 853 Cabriolet

Fido watches the Horch drive by !

1933 Duesenberg SJ Brunn Riviera.

1917 Crane-Simplex  by Farnham & Nelson.  Dual cowl victoria phaeton , has to be one of the earliest dual cowl phaetons!  OK, I’m open to being proven wrong on that statement, but it’s pretty darn early!  Also note the guy with the red folder riding in the “mother in law seat” !  He’s braver than me, I would be very afraid of any right turns while occupying that chair!

1928 Chrysler imperial in preservation class.

At first I wondered why a Ford Model A was allowed on the field – only to find out later that it was built for Edsel Ford originally, and customized with Grebel headlamps and dual cowl for the rear passengers!

1929 Hispano-Suiza H6B Hibbard and Darrin Cabriolet

1936 Delage D6-70 by Figoni & Falaschi

This 1933 Chrysler CL Imperial custom LeBaron Phaeton found it’s way into the winner’s circle. Note the custom touches on this car compared to a “standard” CL. 1929 Jordan G Playboy Roadster.  Another car we don’t see too often.

Ruxton Phaeton .  Michelle took over the on-field photography while I was in getting the Judges Briefing!

Here’s the White Steamer couple, all dressed up for 1907

1934 Hispano Suiza J12 Fernandez et Darrin Cabriolet

“the Twins”  – well not really twins, but a pair of 1934 Hispano-Suizas from Fernandez et Darrin, ordered new by the Rothschild family.  J12 foreground, K6 background.

1933 Duesenberg J Fernandez et Darrin Convertible Victoria.  the Greta Garbo Duesenberg.  Wow.  Here’s my pick for the car of the day that should be in my garage!

Sadly, there was some guy clunking up the photo behind the beautiful Lalique mascot, and even more sadly, I am far, far too slothful to photoshop him out!

Female nudes have always been a popular source of inspiration for hood-ornament makers!

A good shot of one of the Tatras.

This Tatra, a later one from the Iron Curtain era, has a Czech officer uniform in the back!

1914 Grand Prix Mercedes

The insignia of Polish General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the original owner of this 1937 Rolls Royce Phantom III.

1911 Hotchkiss AD Amiet Enclosed Limousine – in the preservation class.  Take a minute and look at some of the design details!

1934 Packard 1108 Twelve by Dietrich, another winner’s circle inhabitant !

Here’s the 1952 Jaguar with aerodynamic factory modifications to take the speed record at 172 Miles per hour back in 1953 at Jabbeke, Belgium.  Jerry Seinfeld was observed walking by this car, muttering something about “hey, we had that Bubble Boy episode……………”

6 Weber Carburetors with 2 throats each – must be a V-12 in there!

Ferrari 250 TestaRossa display.

1930 Bohmerland Motorcycle from Czechoslovakia.  Originally conceived for military use, it looks very heavy-duty!

1964 Zweirad Union Kavalier type 115 , and, according to the catalog, was known as the “Tin Banana” !

An interesting accessory

The 1941 Hupp Skylark was the last car to make use of Gordon Buehrig’s brilliant Cord 810/812 design.  Hupp and Graham shared the body dies that had been purchased from the ruins of the E.L. Cord empire,  adapted for rear wheel drive and minor styling updates for the hood and grille.  It seems fairly well agreed by the auto historians that Hupp was done with production by 1940, with the final cars being sold in 1941.  Total production estimates range between 300 and 350 cars, with 319 being the most cited number.

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This car is in very nice condition, and it’s just acquired from long California ownership.  It has a nice older  restoration, it runs very well, and is fun to take on the road. The brakes were recently done, as well as other service work. It runs and drives really well, with good oil pressure, and cool operating temperatures.  It’ll sail down the freeway at 65 MPH !

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The Cord Profile is evident here.

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Here’s the factory introduction photo – ” On Display – Hupmobile Motor Cars”.  and on the license plate is the price – $1395.  There are some interesting details in this photo – the hubcaps match the ones on the car, the right door lock shows, and the headlamp shells  match our car.  This is a car that is a bit difficult to research, and few examples exist.  Only 319 are thought to have been produced.  So, it’s a rare car, and it’s nice that what we see on the actual car matches the factory photo.

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Wow!

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The metallic maroon paint is  nice, although I did note some  flaws – some chips here and there, as well as  paint cracks on the left front fender and roof.  It’s a nice but older paint job, it won’t win Meguiar’s best paint!

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They used the Westchester (flat back ) style body rather than the bustle-back Beverly style.  Note the excellent chrome bumper and California Year of Manufacture License plate.  It’s registered to the car and current.  And we’ll transfer it to the new owner if the new owner is from California.

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bodywork is super nice and straight.

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Nice Chrome and I love the foglights.

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Skylark emblem integrated with a propeller motif.  Tie in with the sky in Skylark?  I don’t know why they did that but it looks cool.

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Excellent and high quality wool broadcloth interior.

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Very nicely and correctly done.

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Nice doorpanels.  The interior on this car is really great!

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The Hupp Skylark engine turned dashboard in great shape! the steering wheel is correct and original. The horn button plastic appears to have shrunk or the outer ring is missing.

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Continuing the aircraft theme we have an Altimeter!  Which actually works! It’s a Taylor Auto-Altimeter mounted to the windshield divider.

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Here’s the speedometer, in excellent condition, as are all the instruments. Notice that the factory designated anything above 50 MPH as the “DANGER ZONE”.   Practically a triple-dog-dare to exceed that 50 MPH limit!  Which, by the way, this car will do with no problem. It runs great, and will keep up with highway traffic.

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Here’s the 6 Cylinder Hupmobile engine – with plenty of pep and running great!

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Stock and authentic.  Note that the car is titled to the engine number.

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A good reliable six cylinder engine!

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I noted the windshield frame has some corrosion shown here, both sides are this way.

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Reading the original advertisement gives an insight into the car.

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A very interesting and extremely rare car.

Offered by the Vault Classic Cars, Fullerton, CA. Please call us with any questions at 714-401-1047 .

International customers are welcome to buy ! We’ve sent many cars overseas.

THERE IS NO COOLING OFF PERIOD UNLESS YOU OBTAIN A CONTRACT CANCELLATION OPTION.  California law does not provide for a “cooling off” period for vehicle lease or purchase contracts. Therefore, you cannot later cancel such a contract simply because you change your mind, decide the vehicle costs too much, or wish you had acquired a different vehicle. After you sign a motor vehicle purchase or lease contract, it may only be cancelled with the agreement of the seller or lessor or for legal cause, such as fraud. However, California law does require the seller to offer a 2 day contract cancellation option on used vehicles with a purchase price of less than $40,000, subject to certain statutory conditions. See the vehicle contract cancellation option agreement for details.

The prospective purchaser of a vehicle may, at his or her own expense and with the approval of the dealer, have the vehicle inspected by an independent third party either on or off the dealership premises.  All Prices shown DO NOT include California Sales Tax,  DMV fees, smog certificate on post-1975 vehicles, Documentation fees, and any late registration fees owed to DMV. Out of state customers are responsible to pay sales tax and any other government fees in their own state.  Out of state customers are not required to pay California Sales Tax and DMV fees  IF the car is shipped by ICC licensed carrier, AND  a notarized statement of delivery is signed upon delivery.  If you  fly in and drive it home, we are required to charge Tax and DMV for driving on California roads ! Car is sold mileage exempt due to age, meaning it’s not possible to know the exact mileage on a car of this age. All signed contract documentation must be received AND full payment received before the car will be released to the new owner.

Sold AS-IS, with NO WARRANTY. Sold Mileage exempt, meaning it’s not possible to know the original mileage.  We encourage you to either inspect the car yourself or enlist the services of an inspector.  The car may have minor or major flaws that are not evident in the photos and description, and it is the responsibility of the buyer to inspect the car or have it inspected before purchase.

We are happy to work with legitimate overseas buyers, and we can assist with getting the car shipped to most international ports. Shipping is at buyers expense, the car is sold FOB Anaheim, CA. There is an additional $200 cost to flatbed the car to any freight forwarder in the Los Angeles, CA area. Please contact us with any questions during Pacific business daylight hours at 714-401-1047

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The Arizona Concours made it’s debut in 2014, and a spectacular debut it was. Held on the Sunday before the start of auction week, there were the beautiful surroundings at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, and an excellent experience for both exhibitor and spectator.  Let’s take a look at the Concours Action!

An Isotta Fraschini all the way from Pennsylvania

1913 National

1907 Panhard et Levassor

Do I really need to caption this?

They didn’t call it the brass era for nothing!

1940 Packard Super 8 160

1957 Maserati 300s.  Maserati was one of the featured marques.

1937 Maserati 6 CM race car.  This car made such a great sound in the parking garage when it fired up!

I think this is the first “Le Mans Start” concours ever conducted!  As entrants, we had to park in the hotel garage the night before, and then be at the car very early.  They let the cars go in batches of 10 so that there wouldn’t be backing up / stalling / idling while getting on the field.   It worked well – better than I thought it would – and it was kind of fun to mingle with the other car owners and hear the cars fire up.

1960 Maserati 3500 GT Spyder.

Wow!  a 1924 Hispano Suiza H6b with dual cowl phaeton bodywork by LeBaron! spectacular!

1936 Lagonda LG45 Drop Head Coupe with smiling owner in the background.  I would smile too if I owned this car!

’36 Delahaye 135 MS competition cabriolet

The eventual Best of Show winner, a 1925 Hispano-Suiza

1939 Bugatti 57C Galibier

1932 Packard 900 light Eight convertible coupe

First place in Class 1934 Packard 1104 Coupe.

When was the last time you saw a 1927 Locomobile?

This car was purchased on these very grounds a few years back  – the Arizona Biltmore hosts one of the Auctions during auction week.  This is a ’34 Buick 96C Convertible coupe, a first place winner in class.

1037 Packard 1508 Dietrich convertible sedan.

41 Packard 180 Darrin

’36 Auburn Auburn 852 SC Cabriolet

1937 Cord 812 Custom Beverly.  Note the very cool “Arizona CONCOURS”  License plate.  They gave one of these out in every goody bag.  It’s a replica of the old Arizona copper license plates, made back when there was so much copper coming out of the ground in Arizona they didn’t know what to do with it!  It’s probably one of the coolest show goody bag pieces I’ve seen in a long, long time.

The Trophies were cool too.

And there we are with our favorite car, the 1930 Packard 745 with body by LeTourneur et Marchand.

Cord L-29 Cabriolet

Love the license plate promo piece

Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL. My Friend’s dad had one of these back when I was a kid – that was when it was maybe a $20,000 car.  If someone had said they would routinely sell for over a million we would have thought they were a lunatic!

Ferrari 330 GTC. Nice!

Wow.

More Wow.

Big Antique Alfa Racer.

53 Caddy Eldo

An early Countach, – a periscopo updated with wing and flares.  I want it !

1951 Schroeder / Stevens special – brought to the concours by Mr. Schroeder!

SS100.  Now that’s a fenderline.

An Arnolt-Bristol.   There was this guy named “Wacky” Arnolt who married up the Bristol chassis with custom bodywork,   but he must have been pretty smart to get this car produced !

The awards ceremony started precisely at 1:59 PM.  Note the crowd,  and they managed to hold the crowd for the entire presentation. As someone who goes to a few concours events, that’s an impressive thing to start on time and hold the crowd.

This was the lawn of glory for the first place winners in their class.  Note the resolute set of the jaw of the driver of the Panhard et Levassor.  Also note the little Scotch terrier dogs, named after Scotch whiskeys!

Those guys with hats & jackets off to the left are the judges.  They are surveying the lawn of glory, so that they might choose the winner of best in show!

The Hispano-Suiza ,  the Best in Show Winner.

OK how’s this for the new slogan for the Arizona Concours?   ARIZONA CONCOURS!  HOT WEATHER  ! HOT CARS !  HOT WOMEN!   Yeah,  I bet they don’t call me to write copy for them in 2015 !

The HCCA Holiday Motor Excursion happened again, starting at the Irwindale Raceway Parking lot and winding through the scenic byways of the Pasadena Area.  For some reason, this year’s tour was a monster, it seemed like the attendance was way, way up.  More cars than I could count.  The Justice Brothers collection of sprint and racing cars was opened to the tour participants, which was really a treat.

Ok.  Fess up.  did you have a hangover on New Year’s day?  Did you fight it off by watching the Rose Parade on TV?   Well if you did, then you saw this White tour bus, one of the Glacier National Park tour buses.  On the Parade, it was paired up with one of the yellow ones from Yellowstone National park, and of course full of Rose Parade dignitaries.

The driver’s meeting used to be done by hollering.  Now it’s more high tech, with this guy holding up flashcards.

Jay Leno, our hobby’s most famous ambassador,  took advantage of the quiet presentation of the driver’s meeting to throw out a few jokes and comments,  and everybody laughed.

Tour Buses were popular this year!

An ancient Pierce Arrow Motorcycle under it’s own steam!

Fun to see this old fire truck in action.  It really sounded good, a big deep grumbling exhaust note.

A beautiful Rolls Ghost

A Franklin from 1915.

While we’re on Franklin’s here’s a later one with faux Radiator shell.  hard to find the water opening, though!

Lovely Pierce-Arrow Club Sedan

Stutz Roadster

Doble Steam Roadster

Lincoln “L” Roadster, wearing it’s Pebble Beach tour of Elegance sticker on the headlamp.

A REO touring.  Obviously, REO stands for Ransom E. Olds,  and was built by the company Mr. Olds founded after losing control of Oldsmobile.

That looks like FUN!  just watch your elbow on the exhaust pipe!  I think that’s a Studebaker, but I’m open to being corrected on that.

Show us your Tatra’s !  ( I might have used that one before, but it was on a DIFFERENT Tatra, so there! )

A close look at this car revealed sheetmetal valvecovers peeking out of BOTH sides of the hood louvers.  Alvan Macauley would not recognize it!

’33 Lincoln KB Judkins Coupe.  I think that’s the very original Stetson car.

Here’s a Studebaker.

A 1923 Cadillac Phaeton

How About a Maxwell ?

Or a ’29 Packard Dietrich Dual Cowl?

Epitomizing the Brass Era is this Pierce-Arrow Touring.

A nice Lincoln “L” touring full of holiday excursionists!  Note the anti-aircraft angle of the pilot rays!

Another spectacular Rolls Ghost

Bentley Touring, another car that looks like fun!

An Early Buick.  Parked on the street, just like it might have done back in the pre WW1 era.

Here’s the tour lineup at the Justice Brother’s compound

The Justices were Sprint car racer’s back in the day, and they’ve amassed one of the nation’s premier collection of sprint and midget cars!

Race Cars too! The top fuel dragster and funny car were Larry Minor’s cars.

How about a Roth VW powered Trike?  Betcha didn’t expect to see THAT on a Horseless carriage tour!

This reminds me a lot of the old Movieworld cars of Stars museum, which was in Buena Park, CA back in the 70’s.  Ed Roth and Von Dutch hung out there, and built stuff like this right on the premises.

More Sprint cars.

This was used in the Mel Brooks movie “Spaceballs”  – although I bet there wasn’t a “Justice Brothers”  Sticker on the fake engine pod in the film!

Here’s a big outlaw sprinter with the giant wings mounted to the roll cage.

Here’s an early one.  Note the dirt tires, and total absence of roll bar.  The rollbar was the driver’s  cloth-helmeted noggin !  This type of racing was extremely dangerous.

An early streamliner dragster.

A later Streamliner dragster, looks like 70’s vintage.

Here’s a display Offenhauser engine,  a staple of the sprint car world.

A Czechoslovakian JAWA speedway bike.  We’ll show those eastern European commies what’s up by painting it with a metalflake American flag!

We close our Holiday Motor excursion with this photo of a stunt airplane!  Looks like a Pitts biplane.

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The 1954 Kaiser-Darrin was Dutch Darrin’s late career design masterpiece.  The man who outfitted Hispano-Suiza, Rolls-Royce, Packard and Minerva Automobiles as the design chief of Hibbard and Darrin, Paris,  the man who created the famous Packard Darrin as the leader of Darrin, Hollywood,  teamed up with the Kaiser company to make this fiberglass beauty!  He took advantage of the new wonder material to get curves and shapes that were un-available to the sheet metal fabricators of the time, and it resulted in one of the prettiest cars ever built.

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This particular car was purchased from the brother of the original owner!  It’s a 3 owner car, and it has been preserved and maintained rather than restored.

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What a profile!  Darrin was a genius!  The doors slide forward into the fender.

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The Sliding doors are a brilliant design feature!

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Beautiful from every angle.

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Beautiful!

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Sporty!

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More beautiful lines.

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The Kaiser-Darrin emblem and badge

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The license plates are included with the car!

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Full instrumentation, including tachometer, and everything works, too.  Note the lovely steering wheel emblem.

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Very early use of the padded dashboard feature.

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The interior is almost entirely original.  The bucket seats were revolutionary in 1954!

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Beautifully preserved original, with some patina showing.

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The Transmission is a 3 speed manual, with overdrive.  The overdrive works great!

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Here’s the trunk, note the jack and the convertible top peeking out.

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Here’s the original top with side curtains.  Included with the car is the correct material, which is an unusual grain, to re-do the top.

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As you can see, the interior is extremely well preserved, but does not look new anymore.

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The “F” head 6 cylinder engine makes a lot of power, and pushes this very light car along surprisingly fast!  The F-head uses an overhead valve for the intake side, and a valve-in-block for the exhaust.

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This car runs and drives great!  Plenty of power, excellent transmission and brake operation.  It is an absolute pleasure to drive.

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A great running  car!

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This car has been painted once, and there are some places, such as the one shown here, that have paint and gel-coat / Fiberglass cracks showing.

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Hard to see in this photo, but there are some paint / gelcoat cracks showing here on the front fender also.

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Another view of the paint / gelcoat cracks on the front fender.  The paint is shiny and looks good, but does have these various flaws.

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It’s a beautifully preserved car with excellent ownership history. It runs great, and it’s a pleasure to drive – and to accept the accolades from everyone who sees it on the road!  It’s not a showcar, and it has some cosmetic faults, but it’s a great car and can be enjoyed as it is right now!

Offered by the Vault Classic Cars Dealership, Anaheim, CA, call us at 714-401-1047 .

International customers are welcome to bid ! We’ve sent many cars overseas.

THERE IS NO COOLING OFF PERIOD UNLESS YOU OBTAIN A CONTRACT CANCELLATION OPTION.  California law does not provide for a “cooling off” period for vehicle lease or purchase contracts. Therefore, you cannot later cancel such a contract simply because you change your mind, decide the vehicle costs too much, or wish you had acquired a different vehicle. After you sign a motor vehicle purchase or lease contract, it may only be cancelled with the agreement of the seller or lessor or for legal cause, such as fraud. However, California law does require the seller to offer a 2 day contract cancellation option on used vehicles with a purchase price of less than $40,000, subject to certain statutory conditions. See the vehicle contract cancellation option agreement for details.

The prospective purchaser of a vehicle may, at his or her own expense and with the approval of the dealer, have the vehicle inspected by an independent third party either on or off the dealership premises.  All Prices shown DO NOT include California Sales Tax,  DMV fees, smog certificate on post-1975 vehicles, Documentation fees, and any late registration fees owed to DMV. Out of state customers are responsible to pay sales tax and any other government fees in their own state.  Out of state customers are not required to pay California Sales Tax and DMV fees IF the car is shipped by ICC licensed carrier that issues a bill of lading.  If you fly in and drive it home, we are required to charge Tax and DMV for driving on California roads!  All signed contract documentation must be received AND full payment received before the car will be released to the new owner.

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Sold AS-IS, with NO WARRANTY. Delivery F.O.B. Fullerton, CA.  This car is sold Mileage exempt, meaning it’s not possible to know the original mileage.  It is the buyer’s responsibility to either inspect the car in person or enlist the services of an inspector prior to sale.  The car may have minor or major flaws that are not evident in the photos and description.  Federally required “buyer’s guide”,  marked AS-IS, NO WARRANTY is incorporated in this contract by reference.  CONDITIONS OF SALE, 4 PAGES, are incorporated in this contract by reference.  Buyer must provide seller with a copy of government-issued identification such as a driver’s license or Passport.  Funds must come from the person shown on the identification, not a third party. .

We are happy to work with legitimate overseas buyers, and we can assist with getting the car shipped to most international ports. Shipping is at buyers expense, the car is sold FOB Anaheim, CA. There is an additional $200 cost to flatbed the car to any  freight forwarder in the Los Angeles, CA area.  Call us during Pacific Daylight Business hours at 714-401-1047.

Why is this man Smiling?  Because he bought this 1930 Lincoln with Judkins coupe bodywork  in 2009 from the Vault Classic Cars, and proceeded to improve it a little bit.  Here we see him winning First Place in the Lincoln V-8 custom body class, at Pebble Beach!  Good Job, Dave!

Show us your Tatras!  This one a 1940 Tatra T87 Sedan

This is about 6:30 AM on the entrance ramp to the show.  Look at the crowd!  It is just amazing how many people want to see the cars roll on the field.

There was an entire class for BMW 507’s, with entrants from Malibu to Zurich!

And there were 27 Alfa 8C’s in the Alfa 8C tour of the Rockies class.  an absolute embarrassment of riches,  astonishing that so many Alfa 8C’s were on the same field.

Living as I do in southern California, which is the epicenter of the Porsche 911, where 911 ownership is a CC&R requirement to live in certain neighborhoods,   I must admit to some surprise to see them on the field.  But, then, stepping back and thinking about it, the 911 was a very important design, and lives on even today.

The first place winner, a 1912 Packard model 30

An entire class was dedicated to Vanvooren Coachwork, this one a Hispano J-12 Cabriolet.

Cadillac V-16  Fleetwood Coupe

A White Steamer model F  Roi des Belges Touring.  Roi des Belges means the King of Belgium, presumably he commissioned such a body style on a car.

A beautiful Auburn Speedster

Here we have a Porsche 911 RSR Coupe in the Porsche 911 Competition class

1933 Cadillac V-16 452C Fleetwood Convertible Sedan.  Note the 4 blade bumpers and super art deco ornamentation on this car. Stunning.

This was the Lincoln Feature year, so we saw many of the cars named after honest Abe.  Here’s a ’42 Continental, a very, very rare car, with unusual one year only styling.

A  1969 Lamborghini Islero “S”   I love those Campagnolo Wheels.

Spectacular styling on this Alfa 8C 2900

These guys really need to stop buying their door support struts from Autozone!  I have better luck with the ones from NAPA!

Rolls Silver Ghost

A ’67 Competition Corvette L-88 in the preservation class

1938 Packard V-12 1608 Brunn All Weather Cabriolet

1933 Marmon Sixteen LeBaron Convertible Coupe

1934 Packard V-12 1107 Coupe

Is that a car dealer from St. Louis chomping on an un-lit cigar?  Or someone impersonating Barney Oldfield?  It’s a Barney Oldfield Re-Enactor to be sure.

Heart Front Brewster, brought to Pebble by the president of the Brewster society!

1931 Chrysler CG Imperial Phaeton. Note the dual pilot rays.  While I was getting the Judges Briefing,  Michelle went out and got some really nice photos with the early morning overcast and the absence of crowds which allows the ENTIRE CAR to be seen rather than only the radiator shell.

1967 Rolls-Royce Phantom V State Landaulet.

C’mon guys, you couldn’t just throw out the ultimate Rolls  cliche, a jar of Grey Poupon?  above it all, are we?   Note the TV with knobs!  Also, the plaque on the burlwood cabinet above the TV says ” This car was loaned  to the Bermuda Government by Dr. Erle Heath for use by HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH OF ENGLAND on the occasion of her visit to Bermuda, February 1975.  Ok, so that’s why the TV has knobs – the remote had not been invented yet!   Dr. Erle Heath was also a CCCA member, who used to go on the Caravans wearing the most outrageous golf attire – if it wasn’t salmon, lime green, or bright red, or electric blue – or a combination of them!  then you knew it wasn’t Erle!   He would take 16 MM films of the Caravans and show ’em at the dinner each night.  I wonder whatever happened to those films?

Here’s one of the nicest original cars around, a 1933 Lincoln KB Judkins coupe, once owned by the Stetson Family of cowboy hat fame

Yikes!  I guess the message here is ” look upon me and be afraid, pedestrians!”

The giant eagle hood ornament of the American Underslung.

1929 Duesenberg LeBaron Dual Cowl Phaeton, a Class trophy winner as well as winner of the Most Elegant Open Car.

1933 Duesenberg J Murphy Convertible coupe with disappearing top.

The Very, Very First production Duesenberg model A , still in the original family’s ownership, and with a stunning restoration, a class trophy winner!

1922 Duesenberg Fleetwood Phaeton – another super early car, this one the second one off the line!

Here’s another 3 generation car,  but this one is being shown by the Grand-daughter of one of Pebble Beach’s judges.

1921 Lincoln L Brunn Phaeton.  One of the earliest Lincolns, note the radiator shell, the horizontal grille shutters, and the ornamented headlight rims.

Here’s the Presidential Lincoln,  with Plexiglass roof and a folding windshield so the President can stand up while riding in it.  Compare to today’s presidential car, the “Beast” which does not allow for the world and the president to interact!  A more dangerous modern world and less attractive cars!

First in the Duesenberg Class, a 1929 Duesenberg J LeBaron dual cowl phaeton.  Note the early style V-core radiator without the radiator shutters.

In the French Motorcycles class, the first place winner was this 1937 Peugot 515 SP with Sidecar.

There was a very interesting class for Indianapolis 500 Roadsters, this one the 1960 Epperly Mid-Continent Securities Special Roadster. This was one of the “Lay Down”  engine roadsters, so named because the Offenhauser 4 cylinder engine was mounted flat on it’s side for better weight distribution.

Alfa Romeo 8C.  Spectacular!

Here’s a beautiful 1933 Packard 1005 V-12 Coupe-Roadster, winner of second place in the buzz-saw class of American Open, Packard. The car that won first place went on to win best of show, so that tells you how tough this class was!

Stern of Visage and Heavy of Foot, the spectators took one look at the driver and scattered rather than be keel-hauled by this 1913 Mercer Raceabout !

According to the Tire Baron of Long Beach, this car in bare Aluminum took 4 days to polish!  It is a 1929 Lincoln “L” Aero Phaeton by LeBaron. not super obvious in this photo is the tail fin!

1938 Buick Series 40 Lancefield Drophead coupe,  the first place winner in it’s class.

Let’s take a final look at the Best of Show winner for a minute and think about why it is so exciting.  – Custom Dietrich coachwork on the V-12 Chassis – 1 of 1 custom touches – pontoon front fenders – rear fender skirts – dual rearmounted spares that make a long car look even sleeker and longer – and the cowl-covering hood that extends nearly to the windshield.  Wow.  Impressive when new, impressive now.

The big mystery of the StutzCaddy when we bought it was,  ” Who Built it?”  do any photos survive?  We spent a full day at the Nethercutt Museum reading car magazines from about 1949 to 1955,  and another review session at a private auto library to see if any photos had been published. The sport custom movement produced a LOT of cars during that time, even a few with 3 tailfins.  But all that looking did not yield one photo of the car.

Eventually we sold the car, but then I got an email from the daughter of Dr. Elwood Needy, a dentist in Missouri, who had built the car along with his father from 1949 up to about 1953!  She said Dr. Needy was eager to talk to me about the car, and so we spoke on the phone!

And here it is, a “new” sport custom freshly completed!  The original 1951 Bulletnose Studebaker Grille really looked great!   Dr. Needy’s Dad had started the project in 1949, using a ’32 Stutz 7 Passenger Limousine as the mechanical basis for the car, and ’49 Cadillac sheetmetal pieces.  they used a sheetmetal shop that did fabrication for McDonnell Aircraft, as well as a relative who’s blacksmithing talents were used on the doors and structure.   Unfortunately Dr. Needy’s dad passed away in 1952, with completion of the car at about 90%, so Dr. Needy finished up the car as a tribute to his father. Talking to him cleared up so many un-answered questions – especially about the front end design! and confirmed many of the things we had deduced about the car.

There’s a great side view of Dr. Needy with the car!

And a great detail of the grille!

And there are the spectacular triple tailfins!

Dr. Needy’s Dad with the 32 Stutz donor car

The creators of the fabulous StutzCaddy – Dr. Elwood Needy and his dad

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And there is Dr. Needy’s Father’s headstone, with an engraving of the car !  The headstone manufacturer was right next to the sheetmetal fabricator that the Needy’s used, so they were very familiar with the car, and it looks like they got the details right.  And, it’s a fitting tribute to the man who envisioned such a spectacular automobile!

The Sport Custom movement was in it’s heyday just after World War II, and it produced this fabulous creation, the CaddyStutz!  Sport Customs were custom built cars usually on an American chassis, with 2 seat roadster coachwork and a one-of-a-kind flair.   In the words of respected automotive historian Ken Gross in an article written for the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours program: ” Viewed today, sport customs represent a triumph of individual automotive expression. They don’t resemble other cars of the period, they’re often much more fanciful. They don’t look like more conventional custom cars, or even much like one another. Rarely seen, they still turn heads and fascinate people”.

We had a great time waking it up and getting it out and about in the world again!  Here it is at the 2013 San Marino Motor Classic, with me at the wheel !

The Spectacular CaddyStutz Sport Custom!  With Stutz DV-32 Engine and chassis!  The custom bodywork was very well done, and is presented here in mostly bare metal.  This allows us to see the construction details and the high quality lead filled bodywork, impossible to re-create today!

We date this sport custom to the early 1950’s – Although the chassis is from 1932, The sheetmetal is based on a 1949 Cadillac. We think they had a nearly complete ’49 Caddy to use, because much if not all of the body components are ’49 Cadillac.  Sport Customs have become appreciated for the special design creations they are  – there was a class for this type of car at Pebble Beach in 2012 !

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Two Tailfins are just not enough.  No.  we need THREE of ’em!   Note how the bumper was done to match the center fin!  The bodywork on this car was really well done and carefully thought out.

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Note that the gas tank filler is underneath the center fin.

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The genuine article,  The Stutz DV-32,  so named for the number of valves!  8 Cylinders and 4 valves per cylinder!  One of the most exotic powerplants of it’s day – indeed, dual overhead cams and 4 valves per cylinder were only offered by Stutz and Duesenberg in the US,  and Alfa Romeo and Bugatti in Europe.  I’m talking about Production cars you could drive on the street!  There were a handful of DOHC 4 valves in racing cars of that era, but the point is this – in 1932, this was the height of technology and sophistication.

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This is a late production DV-32.  The Serial number is within about 40 of the last known DV32 Serial number, and the carburetor is a downdraft Stromberg EE3  dual throat carburetor.   The earlier DV32’s had the updraft Schebler unit.

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Mind boggling!  Only about 400 of these engines were ever made.  Not only exotic, but extremely rare, too!  Oh, and we got it running!  It starts right up, it has good oil pressure, and doesn’t make any bad noises.  We have driven it about 3/4  mile in total.  The tune-up could be better, It backfires sometimes due to a sticking valve,  but I can tell you it was a thrill to fire that thing up for the first time in many years!.  You should trailer the car rather than drive it to wherever you live.

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That’s a rare – and correct – carburetor for this car, a Stromberg EE3

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Lots of Cord Instruments.  The steering column and steering wheel are ‘ 49 Cadillac items.

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We have re-united the original seat with the car.  The frame was in great shape, but the foam and fabric was tired, so we had it redone in exactly the same pattern as it was originally.

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The build quality is very high – the body is beautifully constructed, the doors fit and open perfectly.  Whoever did this car did some extremely high quality bodywork.

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Here it is in action!

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The Chassis is  DV32 Stutz – note the worm drive rear axle.  The chassis was shortened to 115 inches of wheelbase to accomodate the more modern bodywork.  The transmission is a Warner Gear Transmission, not the original Stutz transmission.

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A fantastic example of the Sport Custom !

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So We’re starting backwards here – this is the Left Coast end of the Coast To Coast Caravan, with the cars lined up on the Marin Headlands just past the Golden Gate bridge.  An epic journey by epic people in epic cars!  Ok, I won’t use that word again!

This was the beginning for us, with the famous route 66 Summit Inn in the background, just over the Cajon Pass.  For people from the Los Angeles area, this is the demarcation point that says ” you just left L.A,  and have entered a strange, unfamiliar world !

Zion National Park beckoned us on the way to the Caravan

We parked on the outskirts of Zion and took the eco-friendly tour buses into the park.

This is, no kidding, the view from the Road out of Zion – it’s a tunnel built in about 1930 that was carved out of the mountainside, and they were thoughtful enough to include arched windows!

That yellow sign means business, it’s about 1,000 feet down the cliff!

Not very many people know that Pablo Picasso visited Zion National park in 1922,  and was ejected by the park rangers and told never to return after taking hammer and chisel to these rocks !  However, Cal Coolidge stole his idea and commissioned Mr. Borglum to carve Mt. Rushmore, with more identifiable faces!

So now we’re in Park City Utah, where we saw this lovely ’35 Packard, with the optional chrome headlamps and grille shell.  The “L”  stands for “Lincoln Highway”  , which was the theme of this tour.  We stuck as close as possible to the original Lincoln highway route.  Did you think “L” stood for something else?  Well then shame on you!

And again in Park City, a very unusual ’31 Chrysler CG Phaeton, with even more unusual right hand drive.

So here is the beauty of the open road.  I was so inspired by this view that I reached for the camera, and fired away.  What could go wrong, with 20 miles of open road ahead and not a single car in the way?   Well when you try to do too many things at once, quality suffers.  In this instance, the little grooves between the yellow lines on the road , which are there to WAKE YOU UP  when you cross the yellow line,  caused the hubcap to leave it’s little retaining clips, and go rolling under the tire and skitter to rest alongside the road.   It’s still a great picture though!

Anyone who thinks driving a 65 year old car across county is a crazy idea hasn’t met these people!  Fortunately my earlier hubcap experience kept me from veering too far off in their direction!

The East Ely Train Station, home to the Nevada Northern Railway Museum,  a very cool place.

The Classics lined up at the train station – we got a ride in the train, dinner, and the best part, a tour of the locomotive shops

If Edward Hopper had visited this place, he would have had a field day.  It really is stuck in time, like it was still about 1925 or so.

They have 2 working steam locomotives, and some diesels, too.  they also have a non-working restoration project locomotive that, for the low, low donation cost of $1.2 million, could me made to run again!

This bearded dude is the guy who runs the museum.  He’s really good at PR,  he’s been on the “american Restoration” show several times,  and he is a very entertaining speaker, which, if you have been on other railroad tours, is quite a rarity.

Here they are loading Pizza on our train.

Here’s the Hotel Nevada, where the Club stayed.  It was contemporary with our cars, built in 1929.  at 5 Stories, the tallest building in Nevada at the time.   This was viewed from the train window on the way up the hill.

And in, shall we say, “soft focus”  is the Hotel Nevada at night, on the train trip back.

Here’s the original reason for the railroad – to take the product of the copper mines out to the world.  Those tailing piles are the result of over 100 years of mining.  The headlights at the upper left are the giant ore dump trucks picking up their cargo.

At the end of the line, they had a wild west show with cowboys and villains and dance hall girls.  The old west town is off to the right.

Good guys?  Bad Guys?  not sure!

When was the last time you saw a 1930 Packard 740 Roadster in a coin-op car wash?  Here is just such an event in Ely, NV.

The wild west people still at it!

The Hotel Nevada, “western hospitality”.  I liked the place, although the gunshots and the drunk guy hollering at 4 in the morning did add a bit of, ahh, Western Character to the proceedings!

Clearly they’ve outgrown their quarters, and brought their perspective on the art of high quality auto restoration somewhere else.  I understand there’s quite a wait to get into their shop !

Looking like a giant corrugated insect, the snowplow rests comfortably on the track.

A ’37 Packard 12 Formal Sedan .  Larry is my new hero, since he inspired me to break my lifelong policy of “no bumper stickers”.  He had several bumper stickers, including “Wall Drug”.  For those of you who never drove through South Dakota on Vacation, Wall Drug was a giant tourist emporium alongside the road.  If you went there, their employees would walk up and down the street, and install a “Wall Drug”  bumper sticker on your car whether you wanted one or not!

So I got the tour flyer from the San Diego Region advertising a tour to Barrett-Jackson!  Wow, I hadn’t heard about a San Diego Barrett-Jackson sale!  I just have to go!  Oh, wait, it’s Barrett JUNCTION Cafe  !!  D’oh!

Actually, this Cafe was a fun place with good food,  a great roadside restaurant.

The whole tour was a very relaxed drive through back country San Diego county, on nice, clear, 2 lane highways – the old highway 80,  and some of the current 94.  Driving the older cars on an uncrowded period correct road is a lot of fun, it was a great day out.  Here’s a beautiful ’40 Cadillac Coupe in Antoinette blue –  it looks black in the photo, but it’s really not.

Here’s the fearless tour leader’s Packard V-12 Limousine

Here’s a lovely Chrysler Town & Country.  Behind it are the Corvettes from a Corvette club that used the Barrett-JUNCTION as a lunch stop!

Here’s a nice ’39 Packard Super 8 sedan!

A beautiful Pierce-Arrow V-12 Victoria coupe.

A beautiful 1937 Packard V-12 coupe-roadster.

And a Coral Blue and Vanderbilt Grey ’47 Packard.

This is why going on the road is so interesting –   this building was the old Feldspar milling building, and now it’s full of old trucks and machinery of the Motor Transport Museum.  they have a nice website, including lots of photos of the inside of the building and more close-ups of the contents here : http://www.motortransportmuseum.org/

Rows and Rows of old trucks.

And old buses

WWII era in the foreground, looks like a Deuce and a half,  and WW1 in the background, a Mack C Cab.

A ’57  Reo .  I know this because I read the sign!

This fine specimen is for sale!  it’s on their website for only $1,400!

Here’s the dope on the Feldspar mill, where the motor transport museum is now located.

Old machinery in a peaceful environment.

How about a steamroller!

They have giant engines, too.  I would have loved to go through it, but after finding their website, it was almost as good as going inside.

As many of you who follow the Vault Classic Cars website know, the Pasadena Holiday Motor Tour is a tour put on by the local region of the HCCA, for cars 1932 and older.  Seeing as how it’s now April, and people have been sending Emails asking when I will post this tour, I guess it’s time to do it.  Just consider me somehow related to your neighbor who leaves his Christmas lights up until about now!   And, then let’s consider this lovely 1926 Cadillac Roadster, new to the area.

How about a Franklin?

Here’s a  Late Pierce-Arrow Sedan.

Or a late Lincoln L,  I think it’s a 1930.

Rolls-Royce Ghost touring car

Duesenberg Model “A” dual windshield tourer

Model T Fords reflect the brilliance of the assembly line concept!

8 Cylinder Auburn Speedster

Buick Special Speedster

1934 Buick Convertible

Stutz Roadster

1917 Detroit Electric Convertible

Pierce-Arrow V-12 Convertible coupe

Cadillac Touring

1914 Cadillac

Here’s a  Packard  touring

Here is a model A Ford Engine with cutaways and color coded.  Believe it or not, it runs on just the one cylinder,  so you can see all of the internal parts working.  Not sure about the lubrication,  maybe they set it up really loose so it doesn’t need any!

there’s a wild looking engine.  overhead camshaft, 4 valves per cylinder. Pretty advanced.  If the tags on the firewall are to be believed and my Italian translation ability is up to snuff, , it’s a FIAT aircraft engine.

’31 Auburn, and the very, very rare 1932 Corvette prototype.  Who knew Harley Earl was so advanced back then?  Just like the 90 MPG carburetor, all of the advancements were kept under wraps and doled out to the un-suspecting public a little at a time.

Well who am I to make fun of those People who drive MODERN cars, ( newer than 1932 )  when I, Myself drove a ’37 Buick!  Indeed, I suffered the withering gaze of disapproval from the tour organizers, who, even through their disdain, gave me a tour map anyhow!  Sorry guys, I’ll drive something more year-appropriate next year.

this bus was full of post-1932 drivers, but they were let out for an excercise and doughnut break!

Hard to look much better than a ’32 Packard Dual Cowl Phaeton.

Model 18 Packard

Model T’s just keep on runnin’

Buick Touring

Stutz Touring

Packard Standard 8 Sedan, 1929

1932 Cadillac Convertible coupe

Here’s what the Lawn and the Lodge look like at 5:30 AM, August 19, 2013 !  It’s dark, and it’s early!

The very moment before the first car arrives on the field.  The orange Hats are the Hagerty “Dawn Patrol” hats – they sponsor coffee, doughnuts and hats for the early birds.

Here’s the first car across, an Alfa Romeo .  I leave it to you to decide if the photo in the dark techique is photographic impressionism, or just lousy focusing!

There’s a little better view

Here is the larger swan car, in the special “Maharaja Class” – which had some spectacular cars of the Indian Maharaja’s on display.  Note the eyes that light up, and the red-eyed dragon head horns just to the side of the license plate!

Here’s a better look at the dragons, the glowing eyed swan, and the feather texture on this car.

The baby swan car!

1954 Chrysler New Yorker Ghia Coupe – one of the early results of the Ghia – Chrysler collaboration.

1934 Packard V-12 Coupe-Roadster

1932 Packard 906 Twin Six Dietrich Convertible Sedan, once owned by Al Jolson.  Rendered in photographic impressionism!

1927 Packard 343 Eight Murphy Roadster – one of the very earliest disappearing top designs.

1933 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Figoni Coupe

1938 Delage D6-70 LeTourneur et Marchand Cabriolet.

1913 Turcat-Mery MJ Bolougne Torpedo.  Note the windshield profile on this car!

1939 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster

1965 Shelby Cobra 427 Prototype Competition Roadster

The spiritual predecessor to the Cobra, a 1952 Allard J2 Roadster

Here’s another Maharaja car, a 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 Barker sports torpedo tourer.  Note the hunting guns mounted on the runningboard!

This 1913 Mercer Model 35J Raceabout was the Class winner in the Mercer Class

1937 Bugatti Type 57C VanVooren Cabriolet

The Coolest ’47 Cadillac 62 ever – in the Saoutchik class.

1903 Packard, which won first in class.

1948 Norman Timbs Emil Diedt Roadster – entered in the “American Sport Custom” class

worth a second look, wouldn’t you say?

the “Dragonsnake” Cobra in Cobra Feature year.

1958 Pegaso Z-103 Touring Berlinetta

1939 Paul Planette Coachcraft Mercury Roadster

1940 Seward Allen Coachcraft Roadster

1901 De Dion-Bouton Motorette Vis-a-Vis.  The Vis-a-Vis part means that if you have more passengers, they would sit on that cushion above the front wheels, and they would face the driver.

1932 Packard Deluxe 8 Sport Phaeton.

1934 Packard Super 8 1104 Phaeton

The Tire King of Long Beach makes his entrance in a 1912 Mercer 35C Raceabout.

1921 Mercer Series 5 Raceabout

1928 Packard 443 Roadster in preservation class

1931 Packard 845 Deluxe 8 Dietrich Sport Sedan, first in class winner

1941 Packard 180 Darrin

1948 Packard 8 by Vignale, the Italian coachbuilder

1911 Fiat Tipo 6 Holbrook 4 passenger Demi-Tonneau

The Maharaja Duesenberg – 1935 Duesenberg J Gurney Nutting Speedster

1947 Frank Kurtis – Paul Omohundro Comet Roadster

1930 Duesenberg “J” Murphy Convertible Sedan.

1932 Lincoln KB Dietrich Coupe

1957 Dual Ghia Convertible Coupe.

The Pebble Beach Poster Car, a 1936 Hispano Suiza J-12 by Saoutchik.

1928 Mercedes Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo, the Best of Show winner – although we didn’t know that yet when this photo was taken!

Here’s the 1935 Duesenberg SJ by Gurney Nutting – If I could put any of the cars on the field in my driveway, it would be this one. pretty darn spectacular.

This is a 1930 Delage convertible Victoria by Figoni, in the Maharaja Class.  It had lots of great features like cycle fenders, individual running boards, and dual rearmounted spares.

The 1948 Lloyd Templeton Mercury Saturn “Bob Hope” Roadster.  Wow, there’s a long name.  the “Bob Hope” part of it came because the famous entertainer really liked the car and wanted to buy it, but the owner wouldn’t sell it to him!

1952 Maverick Sportster in the American sport custom class.

In honor of Carrol Shelby’s passing – the Shelby Cobra Class.

Our hobby’s most famous spokesman, Jay Leno, looks at a 1911 Franklin D Race car.

Here’s a view of the Maharaja Class, Rolls Royce.  The car in the foreground is owned by the current Maharaja of Rajkot – who searched out his family’s car, and bought it back!  It had left India before the sale of classic cars out of the country was made illegal.

This Beautiful 1941 Packard Sport Brougham by LeBaron was entered in the preservation class.  It’s original and in beautiful condition.

1931 Duesenberg Derham Tourster – winner of first in class, and a best in show contender.  How is best in show picked?  it’s not a secret – every Class team leader gets a vote, and every honorary judge gets a vote.  They pick from the first place class winners.

the 1935 Hoffman X-8 Sedan.  That’s what I love about this show, they can actually find cars that I have never heard of.  When you have been going to car shows since the age of one,  that’s a difficult thing to do!

Ahh.  The Goddess of Speed. My Favorite hood ornament.   Or the doughnut pusher if you ain’t got no class!  You stay classy, Pebble Beach!

This Poodle would pose on command. While wearing a little dog  hat!  I have to give my wife Michelle credit on all these field photos,  she got some really interesting photos while I was in the judging meeting – and, frankly, she focused the camera better and got shots that I wouldn’t have noticed – like this one!

Wow!  A Polished Aluminum 1929 Graham Paige Model 837 leBaron Sport Phaeton.  Again, where have you ever seen one of these?

1931 Chrysler CG Imperial Waterhouse Convertible Victoria

1929 DuPont Model G Merrimac Speedster.  Note the woodlite headlights.

A very unusual hood ornament on the DuPont,  Flying birds.

1919 McFarlan type 125 Touring, with era-appropriate costume wearer in front!

1904 Oldsmobile Model N “French Front” touring runabout.

The “Gullwing” 1931 Marmon Sixteen leBaron Club Sedan.  In this photo, the open hoods look like Gullwings.  Ok, I guess if I have to explain the joke, it just wasn’t funny!

Here’s a better view of the Marmon, on it’s way to winning a class trophy.

Another great hood ornament, the Lalique “Chrysis”

In the Saoutchik class, the Hispano Suiza Dubonet “Xenia”.  Astonishing!

Here is the staging lane for the awards presentation.

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The CCCA held another spectacular event, the Annual Meeting, in the Dallas / Ft Worth Area,  Grapevine, TX to be specific! We went to some fantastic private  car collections, we dined in style at Billy Bobs, and absorbed the Texas culture fully!   The super high quality car photos are courtesy of Doug Handel, the photographer who took these beautiful shots for the North Texas Region as the cars rolled in.

And there were spectacular cars, like this 1929 Packard 640 Dual Cowl Phaeton!

And there were some spectacular events, like the longhorn cattle drive right down the original main street of Old Fort Worth!

This girl charged $5 per ride.  On the bull, that is !

Here’s a 1939 Buick Series 90 touring Sedan

1938 Rolls Royce Wraith Limousine with body by Cockshoot.

1940 Packard Darrin Convertible sedan, a 100 point car and winner of the Warshawsky best of show award

1941 Cadillac 60 Special

1939 Packard V-12 1707 Touring sedan

1937 Ford Darrin Cabriolet

1948 Chrysler Town&Country Sedan

V windshield Dietrich Super 8 Stationary Coupe,  1932.

1929 Duesenberg J Dual Cowl Phaeton by Murphy

What’s different about this 1928 Packard 443 Phaeton?  Rear mounted spares!  And the fact that the owner’s father bought this car brand new!

1931 Chrysler CG Imperial Club Sedan – owned by the fearless outgoing leader

1932 Packard 900

1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III V-12 Sports Saloon by Park Ward.

We stopped at the White Elephant Saloon, a fine establishment!

I point out my usual state at Billy Bob’s Saloon!  As I found out later, Asleep at the Wheel is a country band.  At Billy Bob’s, they have BOTH KINDS of music, COUNTRY and WESTERN !

1941 Cadillac 60 Special, this one in Dark Green

1931 LaSalle Roadster

1934 V Windshield V-12 1108 Convertible Sedan by Dietrich

1930 Packard Roadster 733

1938 Packard 1601 Cabriolet by Graber

1933 LaSalle Coupe 345C

1932 Packard Sedan 901

1932 Stutz 8 Bearcat speedster

1934 Cadillac 355D  Stationary Coupe, Fleetwood.  Look at those bumpers!

1935 Pierce-Arrow 845 Rumbleseat Coupe

1929 Stutz Coupe, M/SC by Lancefield.  Note cycle fenders!

1940 Packard 1803 160 Sedan

1941 Cadillac 60 Special

1940 Packard 180 Club sedan – a doppelganger for one we just sold over here at the Vault, but it’s not the same car!

1941 Cadillac 62 series convertible coupe

Here’s just a portion of the spectacular Sam Pack auto collection that we visited.  Sam Pack is a well known Ford dealer, with 5 dealerships.  His collection is incredible, with examples of almost every type of collector car.

The Judged portion of the Annual meeting was held inside the meeting room of the hotel, which was really great – nice, warm, and dry!  However, it’s awfully dark for photos, which is why I’m grateful to Doug Handel for sharing his professionally done outdoor photos of the cars.

This Mobil Oil Pegasus sign has to be the holy grail of sign collecting.  I could conceive of a late night black helicopter raid with acetylene torches and chains to lift this baby off its 14 story high perch!   This sign is on top of a building in downtown Dallas.

The mascots of the magnolia building seem to be having a Janet Jackson style wardrobe malfunction!

The continental building is in the process of being restored.   The artwork includes Cowboys, Indians, and Mayan Man-Beasts.

Here we are in one of the other collections we visited, that features pre-war sports and racing cars – jewel like cars in a jewel – like setting!

Here’s a Triumph Dolomite, – look at the outside exhaust!

On part of the tour, we drove through Highland Park – I think I saw J.R. Ewing on the porch!

The Holiday Motor tour is held every year in Pasadena.  It is a loosely organized deal, with one apparent rule – the cars that go on the tour have to be 1932 or earlier.

This tour epitomizes why I enjoy Classic Cars – It’s a relaxed, pretty drive, with like-minded people who all suffer the same mental condition of being attracted to old cars!  And not just any old cars, really old and interesting ones!  There are no trophies, no judging – judge not, lest ye yourself be found to not have your slotted head screws lined up!  And, being pre-’32, there had better not be any Phillips head screws in evidence!

Here’s a Lancia tourer.

In case you forgot your fire extinguisher

We’ve been informed that this Packard Super 8  745 roadster still carries it’s original lavender paint and upholstery!

Here’s a mid-20’s Cadillac coupe

And a Brass Model T with Acetylene lamps and crank.  The steel headlamp case with brass rim and vent make me think this is a 1914. But the “Modern” cowl and louvered hood indicate 1915.  I’ll leave that discussion to people who know more about Fords than I do!

WOW!  Here is the “Indian” – a 1 of a kind custom, the vision of the owner.  Take a minute to look at this, with giant brass headlamps, pontoon fenders, external exhausts and wire wheels. Wild!

Here’s a super rare body style, a Packard 120 Victoria Coupe.

How about a 1929 Bugatti?

No Map for you!   The tour organizers enforce the Pre-’32 Rule with the issuance of maps.  If you have a postwar car, they can’t keep you out of the parking lot, but they just won’t give you the tour map for the tour on the way out of the parking lot.  It’s sort of like the soup guy on Seinfeld – ” No Map for you!!!”

’39 Packard V-12.

What appears to be a hibernating bear in the backseat of this Pierce-Arrow is actually a Raccoon Coat!

A Stanley Steams into the staging area.  I was unaware that Santa had traded in the sleigh and reindeer for more modern transportation, but you see it here now!

Here’s a ’29 Cadillac Convertible coupe

Here’s Jay’s Cunningham speedster.  If you have to ask who Jay is, then you’re just not paying attention!

Here’s a big old Leland Lincoln – must be pre-’27, not the absence of front brakes!

Stutz Roadster, approx 1920 or so.

The Tire Magnate of Long Beach brought this Crane-Simplex touring car.

Here are the cars rolling into the first stop, a park, where the nice people from EGGE sponsored doughnuts and coffee.  EGGE manufactures and supplies lots of mechanical components for our old cars.

Photographers can be really annoying, such as when they step right in front of slow moving traffic to get the shot!

1913 or so Packard Touring.  That’s how mellow this tour is, you can bring your dog, too!

Stop for a minute and look at the profile of this car – note the height and Slant of the windshield.  Whoever ordered this body from Walter Murphy originally must have told them ” I want it to look like the advertisement!”  And, the Advertisement for the Duesenberg Murphy roadster showed an almost  impossibly low windshield !

the only stock and un-rodded 1932 Ford coupe left in existence!

Here’s another great preservation car, a 1927 Packard Touring, with Right hand drive, sold new in Argentina.

a 1932 Lincoln KB LeBaron roadster. This is the car that was on the “Pawn Stars” show,  now owned by a prominent local collector.

A Jeffery.  Hardcore – and I mean really hardcore – AMC enthusiasts will know that Jeffery was built in Kenosha,  and was a distant ancestor of American Motors.  More stuff that nobody really needs to know, but it’s stuck in my head anyway!!

A beautiful  Lincoln “L” Judkins Coupe.

What antique car event would be complete without a Locomobile?

Note the Mother In Law Seat on this Ford Roadster!

Here’s a lovely ’28 Cadillac dual cowl Phaeton

The Motorcyle dudes make a big showing at the Holiday motor tour, too!

In our final shot, we see the Bear family coming out of hibernation in their Pierce-Arrow!  The reason the coats were on the seats and not on the people was the temperature – about 70 degrees and sunny.  Just to rub it in a little bit for our eastern friends!

We’ll start with some photos taken on the Pebble Beach Tour – the Thursday tour, 69 miles long, that showed us the scenic wonders of the Monterey Peninsula.  This is taken at the first rest stop.  The car is a 1914 Packard 3-48  Seven Passenger Tourer

Here’s the Vault Classic Cars entry, a 1931 Lincoln Willoughby Razor Edge Brougham, in the Preservation class. This car is astonishingly original, and we made it through the whole tour with no problems!  For a great article about the car, CLICK HERE to see  the Wall Street Journal website, written by Donald Osborne.

Here’s a 1929 Bentley Speed Six Fixed Head coupe, with body by Gurney Nutting.

Spectacular Graber Bodied 1938 Packard 1601 Cabriolet.  This car was shown last year in the preservation class.  It’s obvious they’ve been busy in the intervening year!

1929 Duesenberg Murphy Roadster -you Duesenberg guys look close, this car was the first Murphy Roadster, and there are a number of unique details, including the top mechanism.

1931 Stutz DV-32 LeBaron Speedster.

1969 Mercedes-Benz 600 Presidential Landaulet

1923 Stutz KLDH Bearcat.  This was the year of the Stutz, and there were an amazing number of them in attendance

1931 Packard 845 Deluxe 8 Waterhouse Convertible Victoria

1913 Stutz Series B 4 Passenger Touring

1929 Duesenberg J Dual Cowl Phaeton

1936 Auburn Supercharged Speedster 852

1929 Minerva Type AM Convertible Sedan with Murphy body

1934 Duesenberg J Murphy Convertible Coupe

Look at the Dashboard on this 1950 Delahaye 135M Guillore Atlas Cabriolet ! Wow!

How about a 1948 Dodge, with custom body by Derham?  It’s a really interesting car.

Or this 1952 Cadillac Special Roadster, which was originally built for a GM executive.

The 1954 Packard Panther – it’s a fiberglass body on a Packard Chassis with Supercharger!

After an un-eventful 69 mile tour on Thursday, here we are on the lawn on Sunday Morning with the ’31 Lincoln!  I’m all badged up and ready for the day!

Here is the actual Mille Miglia winning Mercedes Benz 300 SLR from 1955.  This is the car that Stirling Moss drove to victory in the Mille Miglia. That’s what is so great about this show – they declare a Mercedes Benz feature year, and the best of the best cars attends!  This car sounded awesome, too.  They kind of hammered the throttle while driving on the golf cart path, that was fun to hear.

A 1932 Rolls-Royce PII by Windovers, shown in the preservation class.

Wow! What a great looking ’31 Lincoln!

a 1938 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Touring Coupe rolls on the field.  I didn’t get my usual early morning entry ramp photos because of having a car in the show.

1916 Stutz Series B Bearcat

1928 Mercedes S Murphy Speedster – the car that participated in the famous Muroc dry lake race against a Duesenberg.

1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Brewster Newport Town Car

1939 Talbot-Lago T120 Baby Sport Cabriolet d’Usine.  the “Cabriolet d’Usine” means it was built by the Talbot Factory.

1933 SS Cars SS1

1937 Railton Rippon Brothers Special Limousine.  As you might know, the Railton was an English car that used Hudson Chassis and engines.

That’s all for now,  I’ll post more photos tomorrow in this space!

The San Marino Motor Classic burst upon the scene, with a full featured concours d’elegance.  There were a large variety of classes, including racecars!  Here’s the Blakely Oil special Offenhauser Roadster.

How About Historic Hot Rods?

And of course CCCA Classics, like this Marmon Sixteen!  There were more than 80 Classics on the field, and over 225 cars in total!

A beautiful Delage

This multi-trophy winning Cord Convertible Coupe ( we do not use the term “Sportsman” around here, because the Cord Factory did not! ) only had a short drive to attend the show

there’s a big 1940  Cadillac V-16 series 90

The Petersen Museum brought their spectacular Front Wheel Drive Ruxton Roadster.  Yes, those colors are authentic on a Ruxton,  the company used eye-catching color schemes to generate publicity for the introduction.

A very rare 1934 Jensen

A beautiful 1940 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet

Ahh, Grasshoppers, how do we know this is a 1939 Packard V-12, rather than a 1938?  By the presence of the alternately painted and chromed grille shutters!

A lovely 1932 Auburn V-12 Phaeton.

An Awesome ’38 Cadillac Sixty Special

1928 LaSalle Roadster model 303

There’s a beautiful 1934 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow

An extremely rare 1932 Ford with custom body  by Drauz.

1928 Auburn 8-115 Speedster

1935 Auburn 851SC Cabriolet

The nervous owner preps his ’47 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet for show

1930 Packard 745 Dietrich Convertible Victoria from the Margie & Robert Petersen Collection.

1929 Auburn 8-120 Speedster

1937 Cord Custom Beverly 812SC

1927 Locomobile

1932 Auburn 12 Speedster

here is something you don’t see every day – a ’34 Mercedes 150 Roadster – with MID ENGINE!

1961 Alfa Romeo

1961 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster

1911 Maxwell – look at all that brass!

1911 Pope-Hartford

1922 Duesenberg Model “A” Touring

1947 Chrysler Town & Country Sedan

1933 Stutz DV32 Monte Carlo being judged.

1929 Rolls-Royce  Ascot Touring

1934 Cadillac Convertible Coupe

The spectacular 1937 Derham bodied Lincoln V-12

1940 Packard Darrin 4 door convertible

1935 Packard Super 8 dual cowl phaeton

’64 Tiger Sunbean LeMans. look at those Weber carburetors!

1903 Packard

1913 Mercer

Jay Leno brought his 1931 Duesenberg Murphy Disappearing Top Roadster

From Southern Colorado we moved on to Taos & Santa Fe.

We had a great coffee stop at Navajo Lake, which is created by the Navajo Dam, shown here.  It was at this point we realized that we should have driven OVER the dam, not DOWN THE FACE of the dam.

The coffee stops were great – the Rio Grande Region put on a great spread from the vintage trailer!

The beautiful water of Navajo Lake

We had to put our feet in the water!

There’s a great looking ’35 Packard V-12 Limousine , using the wise Caravaner’s technique of letting the heat out of the engine bay while stopped.

Another Wise Caravaner, this time with a Pierce-Arrow V-12.

A 1930 Lincoln Judkins Berline at the Lunch stop in Chama, NM.

The 1924 Bentley Classes up the joint at the Alpaca farm.

The Alpaca farm was a hoot – those critters really go after you – if you have food for them.

There’s a ’34 Packard Eight Sedan, which made the whole tour with flying colors

Good Lookin’ Auburn

Lovely ’47 Cadillac Convertible

The ’35 Packard Super 8 Coupe.  This was taken at the lunch stop, where we had the best Southwestern food I have tasted.  And, it was at a place that was so out of the way, you’d never find it unless somebody told you about it.  That’s the great thing about a Caravan, the organizers know the area, and introduce you to the great places!

Here’s our fearless leader’s Packard in the courtyard of the Las Galandrinas Adobe, which dates to 1710.  Adobe is basically mud, sand and straw in a very exact formula. Even if you mix it perfectly, it does not last forever, they have to Re-Mud it every year, sometimes more frequently if it rains a lot.  Again, Adobe ranch enthusiasts make us car people seem really normal and rational!

Our tourguide in the red hat explains the intricacies of mud construction to us.

OK, now I’m REALLY lost!  I thought the Caravan was staying on the NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT!

An old pickup in the Artist colony of Galisteo.  Based on the rust, it might not be an original New Mexico truck!

Here is the Miracle Staircase at the Chapel of Loretto in Santa Fe. It apparently violates some really good rules of physics by not having a center post.  It was built by an itinerant carpenter for the original nuns, who were afraid of going up to their second floor on ladders.

CCCA National Fearless Leader’s Rolls-Royce

The “here it is” sign on route 66 is really famous – the store that it advertises was kept alive by the owner’s relative being in the Senate, and making sure they got their own offramp when I-40 went through.

Note the little rabbits on top of the sign.  When you’ve been driving for a long time, you start to zone out, and something like this seems really interesting, as well as deep and philosophical.  Wow. HERE IT IS.  Applies to almost everything! Or nothing!

The outdoor sculpture garden at Shidoni Art Gallery was really super. These giant Copper Giraffes would look great in the yard.

If your taste runs to the abstract, there was plenty of that sort of thing too.

Here’s a clothesline with sheetmetal clothes.

This is what happens when you don’t maintain your Adobe

This place was off the beaten path, but they had more old glass bottles on display than I have ever seen.  This was in the bustling metropolis of Cerrillos.  It had a real ghost town feel to it, very quiet.

Here’s an “Earthship” house on the outskirts of Taos.  they’re partially underground to save energy, and they are done in an unusual style.

There’s the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge outside of Taos.  Pretty spectacular.  When it was built in the 1960’s it was literally a bridge to nowhere, the road going west did not exist yet.

We had some prairie dogs outside the hotel.

Here’s some more great route 66 stuff, the Largest teepee in the southwest!  Cool.

The CCCA had another Caravan, this time in New Mexico, which went through some spectacular scenery and beautiful cities.  We saw lovely artworks, rode on a steam train, and saw a western music bar-be-que show at a ranch.  It was a great trip, made better by the fact that the Vault Classic Cars ’47 Packard Custom Super 8  made it there and back with it’s customary reliability, comfort and factory overdrive assisted  interstate cruising power!

Here we are, checking out the WigWam motel in Holbrook, AZ, on the way out to the caravan. I did not realize this, but you can actually stay in this motel! The other old cars in the background are props, and you can park in between them to get to your, uh, concrete teepee.  This is some serious original route 66 Stuff.

Here it is at night

And there are many roadside stores that didn’t make it past the interstate bypass of the towns.

Nothing like roadside dinosaurs to put a smile on the weary traveller’s face.

What Route 66 trip would be complete without a stop at the petrified forest?  That tan thing that parallels the pavement and goes off into the vanishing pointis a petrified tree.

Ok, here are some Caravan Cars – this is on the first day, from Albuquerque to Los Alamos.

Our fearless Caravan Leader rolls down the road with V-12 power!

this Packard 626 was a really tastefully done car, and it made the whole trip on 6 cylinder power and a vacuum tank! Awesome!

Here’s a ’41 Cadillac 75 peeking out from the bushes at the cliff dwelling area, Bandelier national park.

And there are the actual cliff dwellings!  Makes Motel 6 look like the Taj Mahal!

A spectacular view, near the “Ghost Ranch” area of New Mexico, made famous by the paintings of Georgia O’keefe.  You could, I suppose, make the argument that I should be paying attention to the road, and not taking photos while driving.  But, lookit, we’re on the correct side of the road, and making that turn just fine!  one of the great things about this caravan was the un-crowded roads!  Even if I HAD been veering, the consequences would have been minimal!

Here’s the railyard in Chama, the Cumbres & Toltec narrow gauge line.  They’re not running now because their trestle bridge burned down.  Railroading is a tough business!

Speaking of a tough business, how would you like to try to restore this steam locomotive?

Here’s a cool old bridge over the Blanco River, with the Cormorant leading the way.  We;re on the way to Durango, Colorado here, to ride the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Here’s our Locomotive at Silverton – they run the tracks right up the street !

And there we are on the Parlor car platform.  That was a great place to take pictures.

Here’s the place we had lunch in Silverton.  the bar and tin ceiling were unbelievable! You know, the Victorians were supposed to be all uptight & prim & proper, but take a look at the giant nude lady painting in the reflection!  Maybe they weren’t so uptight after all!

Taken from the rear platform of the parlor car, note the little train go-kart following. That guy’s job is to make sure that nobody fell out of the train, and that the hot cinders from the coal fire of the locomotive do not start a fire in the beautiful countryside.

That’s a heck of a view of the train!  When you think about how they built this track back in the 1880’s, it boggles the mind!

There’s the hardworking locomotive.  Note at lower left how close the river water is to the tracks.

Ok, if you think car collectors are eccentric, how about collecting railroad go-karts?  Maybe they call ’em inspection carts,  I’m not sure.  But the whole club was on the siding, waiting for us to pass by.

A family eats their lunch on the trestle bridge.  Look how high the water is.  Hope they don’t fall in!

Rafters, taken from the rear platform of the Parlor Car.

Another Locomotive prepares to turn around.  Seeing all these Locomotives in operation was really fun,  they have 6 operable steam locomotives.  If you like old machinery, this is a kick.

Old buildings in Silverton.

Right down main street.

There’s the giant waterfall on the way back down.

So our original Locomotive brakes went bad on the way down. Even though these trains have a dual braking system,  to their credit they decided to stop the train and figure it out.  It took ’em a couple of hours to decide that the train following us would pull around, and take both trainloads of people back down.  Even though it was a delay, watching the steam engines up close was  interesting.

Those original engineers were pretty smart – they put a big water tank with a catch tube  right next to a raging torrent of water, so they could fill up the locomotive with water on the trip.

AAAAAAHHHHGGGGG  the train is about to hit us!  Ok, not really, this was the locomotive with the bad brakes they were trying to hook to the rear of the train.

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