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Coches Antiguos
‘Think Americans are the only ones crazy for old Detroit iron? We hear from from a hotrod club in Sweden, drag racers in England, Mopar drivers in Germany, innumerable nutso Aussies and Cadillac nuts...
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Not-so-baby Bugatti
As long as we’re on a Bugatti theme today; our Spanish isn’t so wonderful, but we think that Argentina Auto Blog is reporting that Argentine Bugatti replica specialists PurSang Argentina has delivered...
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Coches de los muertos: a pair of barn find Argentine funeral cars
We recently made the acquaintance of Fernando Aguerre, a surfer who lives in California, but who also keeps a sizeable car collection in his native Argentina. While all of the cars in his collection...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1935 Ford roadster
Occasionally, somebody not familiar with the Hemmings brand will ask us if we’re just a regional magazine, and of course we inform them that we’re not just national, we’re global, as shown by today’s...
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Four-Links – Gurrini, Whites on two, Cheetah the bus, IKA
* Bob Gurr previously sent us several of his photos from old L.A. area used car dealerships, so we were pleased to see Dean’s Garage’s quick profile on Gurr, the designer and Disney Imagineer, this...
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Carro de cacería mayor: An Argentine barn find hunting Ford
It’s been a year since we heard from Fernando Aguerre, so we decided to check in on him and the restoration of his two 1942 Cadillac funeral cars. He noted that the flower car is just about done, and...
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Argentine flower car restoration continues
As promised, Fernando Aguerre, he of all the cool barn finds in Argentina, sent along a picture of his flower car restoration’s progress. Here he notes that it’s going from the mechanic’s shop to the...
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Argentine flower car restoration finished
When we last heard from our friend Fernando Aguerre regarding the pair of Hermida y Nazzi-bodied Argentine Cadillac funeral cars, he was well under way with the restoration of the flower car. Now...
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Vintage Racer Offered in Scottsdale
Photo by Whitefly, courtesy of RM Auctions You probably may not know the who, when and where with regards to the above image, but we’re also aware of the fact that some pretty astute readers can...
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Four-Links – Swan Car and Cygnet, Burt Munro and world’s fastest Triumph,...
* David Greenlees at The Old Motor announced this past week that the Louwman Museum in The Hague will bring both the Swan Car and the Cygnet (not the Aston Martin Cygnet) to Pebble Beach later this...
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Racing Heroes – Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio. Photos courtesy Daimler Media Archive. In the world of Formula One, the benchmark driver to which all others continue to be compared is the Argentinian great, Juan Manuel Fangio....
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Four-Links – Bison, Warhol, GAZ, SEAT
* We didn’t have much solid information to go on when we discussed the GM Bison concept truck from 1964 a couple years back, so we’re grateful for what little additional scraps of information we could...
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Juan Manuel Fangio’s body to be exhumed
Fangio and Andreina Berruet at a cafe near Monza in 1957. Photo courtesy of the Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. Juan Manuel Fangio accomplished a great many things in this life. Before...
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The DNA Results Are In; Fangio Had at least One Son
Despite the very brief reign of Miss Colombia, whose Miss Universe tiara was snatched away moments after erstwhile comedian Steve Harvey read her name as the winner, there was other recent news from...
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