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I see some fine objections here, and I sympathize, but I can accept hearing this kind of advice from my insurance company. A lot of insurers just don't want you because they are convinced your cannot be operated safely no matter what. So I may chuckle up my sleeve some, but I'm not yelling at Hagerty over it.

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I have to wonder what happens to wood spokes under hard four-wheel disc deceleration... Dad could remember Whippets pretty regularly shedding their tires and rims mid-corner and finishing the curve on the spoke tips.

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You know, the police have those electric guns made out of B-52 comms jammers that shut a modern car right off. If you have a Mallory dual-point, they can't touch you. Bet my foil has thicker tin than yours!

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Brilliant! I *knew* there was a reason Bill Shatner made ads for those darn things.

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I only notice one omission here, and it's way early in the narrative. The toothbrush, used to remove the frat urine and chicken bits? It can be easily slipped into the offender's guest bathroom medicine cabinet, where the girl he left you for will use it. And there you are.

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There's my girl. Ain't she somethin' though? I've always admired "Ask the man who owns one," too.

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How soon we forget how bankrupt GM went.

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I get a feeling that the Venn of Clarkson's and Adams's fans might look sort of like Queegueg's signature in the Pequod's logbook.

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No kidding! Those Dempsters are getting to be out of sight!

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Sure this is a "weird" auction. But, I'd like to point out that these are absolutely bespoke bodies. Superior Coach, in Lima Ohio, was often called "#4 of the Big Three," back in the day. I missed out on a Cadillac "flower car" (El Camino) at a mortuary in Clodd Ahia in the mid-70's, and to this day it's near the top of my "one that got away" list. Compute the price by the pound, like billionaires do. They are a bargain!

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"Mazda wants to electrify the Miata." Seriously. Who'd notice? (Why yes, my son has a supercharged Miata -- why do you ask?)

Studenorton · ‎21-06-2021

Fiat had an 850 Spyder that would fit inside the Opel, and then the Opel inside the Corvette, like Russian nesting dolls.

Studenorton · ‎19-06-2021

We "were encouraged by the sold-state electronics that had been demonstrated..." I should hope so. Are we to understand that other 1990 GM prototypes had vacuum tubes?

Studenorton · ‎09-06-2021

Great to see they've maintained that butt-up. tippy toe stance so beloved of the rest of their line.

Studenorton · ‎09-06-2021

[Narrator's voiceover]: "They missed the mark."

Studenorton · ‎05-06-2021

What did Edsel do to escape the distinction? Milburn, Baker, Studebaker and Detroit Electric all made actual electric cars. Why not those?

Studenorton · ‎04-06-2021

On the field at Meadowbrook, I joined a gaggle of fans with whom Buehrig was holding forth. He was witty, and self-effacing when he had to be. Asked why he'd done a certain thing on the Cord's look, he answered "Damned if I remember."

Studenorton · ‎21-05-2021

Closed cockpit, roll-up windows? Let's not be hypocritical.

Studenorton · ‎08-05-2021

At one time, the Postal Laws and Regulations "addenda" covered 13 feet on a bookshelf. When asked about it, a Postal Inspector revealed that not a single mailing rule had been written "on spec"; every one of them was in reaction to something a customer had gotten over on them -- once.

Studenorton · ‎08-05-2021

Now that our agents have seen how much enthusiastic cheating goes on among their clients, expect some close inspections on your next claim ...

Studenorton · ‎08-05-2021

I seem to recall, most of the Duesenbergs in the ACD museum showroom used to be from one guy's collection. He'd been a trucker, and would pick them up for sale by the side of the road for a few hundred each, when they were in their dark days. Now think about a typical midwestern rural route, and how many Firebirds up on blocks a guy would see in 30 or 40 years... There's an excellent chance these cars came to him, with "4Sale" in white shoe polish on the windshield.

Studenorton · ‎05-05-2021

"Double dipper."

Studenorton · ‎04-05-2021

His start at Indy in 1963 was anything but "inauspicious." He was driving a Novi. You don't do anything inauspicious in a Novi. Bobby vanished into the wilderness in 1996, and was missing in a bliz long enough for major networks to read his obituary. He'd dug a snow cave, and came hiking back in a couple days later. He did get fined for running his snowmobile in the park, though.

Studenorton · ‎03-05-2021

When a way-oversize big block lets go on the track, it can be a little dangerous even for spectators. But that's no match for the thrill of an electrical explosion. Why, it's as if no one had ever seen one before. I get a feeling it's going to call for a whole new layout at the strip -- or maybe, like everything else now, it's just for watching on TV.

Studenorton · ‎01-05-2021

Ha ha you funny. Go to gulag. You have ignored all the Bantam owners in Butler. THEY had the last real Jeep.

Studenorton · ‎28-04-2021

We put over 100,000 miles on a 1994 Cherk with the "Rambler Six". It got 21 MPG on the highway. Neither of the V-6's that replaced the straight six did as well. The new miracle worker gets 22. There's your "World of The Future." If you go to electric drive and still use a transfer case and drive axles, you're not actually an engineer.

Studenorton · ‎27-04-2021

Now that we can see how this system works, a lot of Ford guys are holding their breath for tomorrow AND the next day, and then those Lincoln fans have their brief moment in the sun. Certain Cadillac owners will be sitting up for midnight on Saturday morning! (It's only 5/00 for a second.) It's a fun formula, but we really should start sooner. That cute Buick aluminum V8 got short-changed, the day after Valentine's.

Studenorton · ‎26-04-2021

Came here to say! My 'favorite' hemi is the teensiest, the deSoto 276. We had a 1954 station wagon (not just "built like" a truck: when we were done, it was bought by a door company that ran a fleet of them). It weighed well over two tons with the marine decking and all that X-membering in the frame, yet still cruised at over 20 MPG (premium only of course at those compressions, but hey, it was two cents more) -- in the mid 50's. I'm surprised more of them have not been built up into competition motors. Elegant, stout design. "Nice boat."

Studenorton · ‎26-04-2021

"Suburban Coffee"! It could catch on...

Studenorton · ‎24-04-2021

That ship had a long history...most all of it bad! Can be seen under all its names at the Holland-America history site.

Studenorton · ‎24-04-2021

"Great idea, but it appears they stopped about 172,260 Austins too soon..."

Studenorton · ‎22-04-2021

A lot of endorsements and fast-deal articles went on, but Thomas Edison actually bought and drove a Studebaker Electric. He also owned a Columbia, a Baker, a Woods, a Bailey and a Waverley.

Studenorton · ‎17-04-2021

Studebaker's biggest factory V8 was the R3, called "304.5" because they'd finally had enough of being confused with other people's engines!

Studenorton · ‎16-04-2021

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/b9/2c/e9b92c50d0dadfffaafee32583455e90.jpg Link to a still shot of McCallum and the Godsal from the film. It doesn't look bad at all in that livery, just not up to the current standard. Have to admit, McCallum looked better then too. He's only 87, and has been on TV since 1953.

Studenorton · ‎15-04-2021

You ought to hear a postal clerk go on about stamp collectors. Cancel culture! Who CARES if the darn biplane is upside down?

Studenorton · ‎14-04-2021

What a big deal they were, too. There would be a brochure available for free at the gas station, and the winners of each class would have some in the car showroom. There was a Pure Oil performance trial each year, also widely followed. They were very showy about the scientific integrity of their test equipment.

Studenorton · ‎14-04-2021

I met Andy Granatelli. You shut your mouth about Tom! "In the old days, the drivers were fat, and the tires were skinny." --Jose Froilan Gonzalez.

Studenorton · ‎10-04-2021

The early Rampage was as close as Mopar had to a Ranchero/El Camino. It's not a huge market segment, but it has real staying power. As long as you can turn out the Cowboy-Cadillac with just a couple of custom body parts on one of your standard sedans, it's a license to print money.

Studenorton · ‎10-04-2021

Subaru offers the "Hill Holder" clutch and brake option that Studebaker once had. After several friendly accusations in the SDC magazine, a designer at Subaru fessed up. Subie has Studie's book of tricks. You might watch for a "Coupe Express" over there too!

Studenorton · ‎10-04-2021

I was in the market, the year the Avalanche came out, and ended up with a one-ton because there were NO 2-door pickup trucks available at dealerships. Just this year I have started to see a few new ones around, and assumed it was because big company fleet sales had "picked up." I agree, Jeep has missed a market segment here -- but all the others are busily ignoring it too.

Studenorton · ‎09-04-2021

What if "everything Chevy’s loyal truck buyers love about Silverado" was that outstanding V-8?

Studenorton · ‎09-04-2021

"Infrastructure" is coming whether you want it or not. A trillion here, a trillion there, and the problem is solved.

Studenorton · ‎07-04-2021

But you haven't really arrived until you master that diesel horn.

Studenorton · ‎06-04-2021

Mid-60's Econolines often stripped the splines of the wiper motor because those flat front ends offered so much wind resistance to the movement of the drive arm. Take a look at these arms -- they must be over three feet long! Put a full-sized wiper blade on there and they'd snap right off.

Studenorton · ‎02-04-2021

Well it hit me right where I live: my dad had a Cad of that year, and I had a first-year Toro. We always thought of ourselves as fairly successful men in our fields, but now I see we were both huge losers when it came to picking classics. Now I don't even want to tell what else I own -- might start a selling frenzy.

Studenorton · ‎01-04-2021

Preaching to the choir here I know, but for 60 or so years, generations of (us) junior-high-school boys have inked this very car on notebook paper when they should have been doing their sums, then daydreamed over it, technical specs and all. It is a testament to the human race that somewhere a little gang of guys get to actually build them. "What is it, Spade?" "The stuff of dreams." Still a little hope left in the world.

Studenorton · ‎01-04-2021

Looks like Poe's Law is going to spoil April Fools' for a lot of us. I keep hoping that the Buttigieg Mileage Fee will turn out to be a gag, because after that nothing's funny.

Studenorton · ‎31-03-2021

That is quite a snapshot. Turnbull and Seawright were the fastest women in the world, on water, in the 30's. There are many articles about them. Should be a movie somewhere. We should look for it.

Studenorton · ‎31-03-2021

"Tweeches," my friend. Tweeches own.

Studenorton · ‎27-03-2021

"Haggerty's." You're a funny man.