Automotive Print Sale
1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham
April 02, 2023
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A car that lived up to the brand’s “Standard of the World” maxim
The Images were taken at 2022 Cobble Beach Concours d'Elegance. The awards received for this vehicle are: 1:st place American Production Post-War pre 1974, National Association of Automobile Clubs of Canada Hobbyist of the Year Award and The Outstanding Post-war.
Owner: Vernon Smi...
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1928 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Super Spinto
December 15, 2022
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Chassis 1353, built in highest performance Super Spinto trim, with a boattail cabriolet body by LeBaron. It was a luxury car, produced from 1924 until 1931. It had a 7.3 liter straight eight, the most powerful mass-produced straight-eight in the world at that time. In this Super Spinto trim, the engine produced 160 hp and three-speed synchromesh tr...
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1968 Ford Mustang California Special
August 18, 2022
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Ford's introduction of the Mustang set the stage for the most successful new car launch ever. In 1965, its first model year on sale (admittedly longer than the usual calendar year given its April of '64 introduction), Ford sold well over 600,000 and then repeated that feat again in 1966. But sales dropped by more than 20 percent for 1967 and fell a...
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1920 Gray-Dort; Spectacular survivor
February 15, 2022
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Gray -Dort Motors was a Canadian automobile manufacturer in Chatham, Ontario, Canada from 1915 to 1925. It started as Canadian carriage works of William Gray & Sons Company Ltd, founded in 1855 by William Gray. In the mid-1900s Robert Gray began to build Ford bodies for the Walkerville factory.
In 1915, Robert Gray obtained the Canadian rights...
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1913 Mercer 35J "Raceabout"
November 05, 2021
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The Marvelous Mercer Motor Car
1913 Mercer Type 35J “Raceabout”
301 cid T-Head Inline 4-cylinder engine
34 bhp
4-Speed manual transmission
Front and rear semi-elliptical leaf springs
Hartford friction – type shock absorbers
Rear – wheel drum brakes
The Mercer Type 35 Raceabout of 1911-14 is the most legendary American automobile...
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