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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Nik may not be blogging at Carrosantigos right now, but he's posting cool photos at 21studs.tumblr.com
0 comments Posted by st at 7:13 PM
That kid is probably riding a motorcycle right now
Wonder why they are loading that car from the 2nd floor to that delivery truck
Model T tool kit
Who? takes a bug on a deer hunting trip?
I'd like to know what's in the crate
The Nash with sleeper cab. I've seen one at a car cruise, it's not bad!
DeNiro, Taxi Driver, such an ironic sign over his arm
That is Ray Brock, but where is the steering wheel? If this were a right hand drive the speedometer would also be on the right. 
Michigan junkyard, 1968
This is some cool stuff! See more at http://21studs.tumblr.com
Monday, February 21, 2011
The Robert Lee Museum collection has been stuck in legal limbo so long, little remains, finally, the last 27 cars have been traded to the local govt
0 comments Posted by st at 8:48 PM
This Tucker is going to get fixed up, maybe superficially restored. All about the Tucker here: http://www.streetcustoms.com.br/revistas-carros/noticias/tucker-1035-de-roberto-lee-sera-restaurado.html
At one point in its history, it was placed on the chassis of a 1947 Cadillac Series 62, complete with the Cadillac’s drivetrain, firewall and dashboard. Some alterations to the body were also made, and it has suffered from random acts of vandalism over the last couple of decades. The city of Caçapava plans at least a cosmetic restoration of the Tucker prior to installing it in a municipal museum
Robert Lee was killed in 1975, the museum closed in 1993. The cars have been pilfered, vandalised, and neglected for 18 rainy years. See more about the abandoned museum: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Robert%20Lee
The way the local government was finally able to make a breakthrough in the war between the inheritors, was to trade the rotten brats deal where they could develop all of the properties in the inheritance if they gave up the remains of the car collection. All the self centered dorks wanted was money, now they can make money off housing developements where hte museum once was.
learned about it from http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/02/15/long-neglected-tucker-exhumed-headed-for-restoration
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Tucker's 2nd try (The Carioca) was from a De Sakhnoffsky design, and potentially would have been made in Brazil
0 comments Posted by st at 9:16 AM
cover illustration of the Carioca from Dec. 1955 Car Life magazine found on aldenjewell's Flikr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/3516254868/
read all about it: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Tucker_Carioca or check out the project at Rob Ida: http://www.robidaconcepts.com/carioca.html Saturday, February 12, 2011
it's all written up, from Dan at Hemmings http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/12/24/seeing-really-is-believing-a-tucker-did-indeed-race-in-nascar-and-we-found-the-photo-to-prove-it/ helmed by Joe Merola of Braddock, Pennsylvania, at the 1950 Poor Man’s 500 at Canfield Speedway in Ohio. Saturday, January 1, 2011
Was in the barn for 50 years, only has 10,000 miles
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Tucker cars, only about 40 made, why would one be in a used car lot?
0 comments Posted by st at 10:46 AM
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Classifieds, all sorts of amazing finds; Duesenburgs, '35 and '39 Bugatti type 57-c, Tucker, Lincoln
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Above, Dean Moons car
A Tucker
E Rickmans car ( he was Hot Rod magazine staff photographer for years )
A boat tailed Auburn that once belonged to Cary Grant
A Barris custom that was a Car Craft feature
Hot Rod magazine cover car
Crower Cams owner's Hudson, which I think is the above photo
Stutz Bearcat Roadster, still legendary 90 years after it was built
Bill Stroppe's winning race car, (if you don't know who he is: http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2008/10/01/hmn_feature16.html )
I didn't waste my time showing you all the ads selling cars that were freatured in Hot Rod, most as cover cars and show winners... there were so many.
