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When Bentleys Go Awry
Browsing though the listings at Anglia for this month’s Auction News, I found the following story in two pictures: 1989 BENTLEY TURBO R SPECIAL. FITTED UPGRADES INCLUDE LATER STYLEÂ WHEELS, STAR...
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Lordstown, Ohio, early 1970
It’s a safe bet that images like this one won’t get passed around very much during the Chevrolet centennial. This is an Anchor Motor Freight haulaway rig, one of some 1,500 contracted out to General...
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Miniature Maranello masterpiece
It’s logical that when you make replicas of cars that could hold their own in a museum case, creating the truck that would have hauled them around has the potential to be spectacular. Mark McCourt was...
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Eufaula, Oklahoma, 1940
Shorpy pointed out the above photo from February 1940 on Main Street in Eufaula, Oklahoma, the other day, and while searching for the original, we came across the below shot of another car transporter...
View ArticleAlmuck, this one’s for you
If you don’t know almuck, he’s one of our frequent contributors and constantly reminds us to keep an eye out for pictures that include Studebakers for our carspotting series. It’s a much taller order...
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Falcon, Falcon, Falcon, Falcon, Falcon, Falc…
I was all set to repost this photo of a truckload of Falcons for our resident Falcon-spotter, Art Fink, but he already saw it and sent it along over the weekend. Still worth posting anyway. Photo...
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Hudson, Hudson, Hudson, Hudson, Hudson, Hud…
If you’ll recall the post featuring all the Falcons on a truck, we had a good discussion about body lengths and how the cars fit on transporters. With that in mind, we came across these two photos on...
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Four-Links – motorhome landspeed, transporters miscellany, get ready for...
* While we knew that Alex Tremulis had set a land-speed record for motorhomes at 97 MPH, we didn’t know until reading this week that the record had been pushed up to 137 MPH since then. A team of guys...
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Commer transporter leads collection of seven Ecurie Ecosse race cars to auction
The Dick Skipworth Ecurie Ecosse Collection heads to auction. Photo courtesy Bonhams. Over a span of nearly 20 years, Scottish racing team Ecurie Ecosse fielded an almost countless number and variety...
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Snake and Mongoose haulers and funny cars don’t meet reserve at $1 million,...
Snake and Mongoose transporters and funny cars. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. By almost anyone’s definition, it was an ambitious lot. One high bid would have been enough to take home the original...
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The Hisso and the hauler: Remembering the early days of old-car transport
Bill Ingler’s 1924 Hispano-Suiza in its Sarasota, Florida days. Photos courtesy Bill Ingler. In the new issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Bill Ingler of Scottsdale, Arizona tells a story...
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Open Diff – What are your experiences shipping cars?
A Porsche 911 is pulled from a burned Passport Transport van. Photo courtesy WKRN-TV. On February 15, a Passport Transport trailer hauling a load of collector cars caught fire on I-65 in Williamson...
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San Antonio, Texas, 1965
True, we don’t do a lot of new car dealership photos in the carspotting series – not enough variety to keep the troops entertained – but used car dealerships are fair game, especially when they’re as...
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