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L’art et l’automobile gallery heads west
Exotic automobilia your thing? How about this Mercedes-Benz T80 painting by Carlo Demand est. $1,000-1,500? Back when he began selling old-car models, brochures and paintings out of Luigi Chinetti’s...
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Vintage Literature: antique tool and part catalogs
Photographs by the author. Maybe you just picked up some obscure tool at a swap meet and are now wondering what it is. Perhaps the ahooga horn on your Model A is missing its identification plate, or...
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Vintage tune-up guides and charts can be fun, low-buck collectibles
Photos by author. Once we are finished paying top-dollar for dealer brochures, ads and factory literature, what other interesting items are available that can be enjoyable to peruse but also...
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Oldsmobile’s complimentary cassette tape: a 99-cent time machine
Photos by the author. This past weekend I came across this “Oldsmobile Complimentary Tape Cartridge,” and for 99 cents, it had to come home with me. We already know that many automakers produced...
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Unravelling an automotive inheritance: Homemade shop tools
The air-hose reel my grandfather (maybe great-grandfather) fabricated who knows when is not only useful and well made, it holds a secret. Photographs by the author. Some families pass along photo...
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Touring: A collision filled, tire-puncturing good time in your living room
Touring, the Great Automobile Card Game. Image by the author. By definition, the word touring means to take part in a tour. When the buggy went horseless, it also took on the definition of a body style...
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Oddball automobilia: Collecting car-related objects other than the usual oil...
A Rolls-Royce mustache mug. Photos by author. Automobilia comes in a variety of forms, with the most common items being vintage signs, scale models, license plates, gas pumps and oil cans. But there’s...
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Trinkets, doodads and geegaws for display… forever
Here are just a few examples of the things I’ve acquired over the years. Photography by author. Over the past few years I’ve blogged about vintage tools, dash gauges, and other car parts that could be...
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Car-themed album cover art
Hey Little Cobra was on the Billboard charts for 14 weeks in 1964 and the song peaked at number 4. Photos by author. Cars have been sporadically used as the subjects of album cover art by artists in...
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Tales from the $1 table
Over the years, when scanning the selection at swap meets and sales, I’ve learned to even pay attention to the items that lurk on the $1 tables, as they can sometimes be of interest to the vintage...
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