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1920 Hudson Super 6 Touring Saturday Lot #5009.1

During World War I, the United States government recruited automaker Hudson to produce a new engine for the Army’s tanks, which were also being produced in the automaker’s assembly plant. When the war ended, Hudson could put the engine in its autom...

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1948 Tucker Torpedo Saturday Lot #5008

Preston Tucker’s automobile company, the Tucker Corp. of Chicago, built only 51 of its three-headlight, rear-engined Torpedos. One of those 51 American classics is being offered at a Barrett-Jackson auction for the first time in a decade. In 2002, a ...

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1960 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible Saturday Lot #5008.2

For the 1960 model years, Pontiac built more than 80,000 Bonnevilles. Nearly half were four door Vista-roof hardtops. More than 24,000 were two door coupes. Some 17,062 were convertibles. “There’s a few of them out there,” admits car collector Go...

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1957 Desoto Adventurer Convertible Saturday Lot #5008.1

The current corporate link between Chrysler and Fiat is far from the first alliance involving the Detroit carmaker and an Italian automotive business. It really wasn’t all that long ago that Chrysler owned Italian sports car builder Lamborghini, and,...

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1928 Daimler P.1.50 Vee Front Royal Limousine Saturday Lot #5007.2

Daimler began, as its name implies, as the licensee of Gottlieb Daimler’s engines in Great Britain, as did Panhard in France. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, selected Daimler as the vehicle in which he learned to drive at the turn of the ...

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1930 Isotta Fraschini Tipo Cabriolet

Società Milanese Automobili Isotta, Fraschini & C. was founded on January 27, 1900. The firm was focused on the assembly of Renaults before advancing to production of its own namesake automobile. Early on, they focused on production of high horsep...

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1939 Packard 1707 Convertible Victoria Saturday Lot #5006.1

The V12 engine occupies a unique place in pre-war American technological progress, and although the V12 and its long banks of spark plugs are mostly a memory, the attraction lives on. Innovative minds at Packard designed and built a V12 engine in 1916,...

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1947 Bentley Mark VI Coachworks By Franay

In the 1930s, France was the center of the automotive universe — at least as it involved art deco styling with teardrop-shaped and ornately trimmed coachwork. Here the likes of Figoni et Falaschi, Saoutchik, Franay, Bugatti, Chapron, Labourdette, and...

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2007 Shelby’s

In January 2006, the Ford Motor Company offered the bidders at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale an opportunity to own the very first 2007 Shelby GT500 off the assembly line. Sure, the winning bidder would have to wait a while to claim his or h...

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1955 Studebaker Speedster 2 Door Hardtop Saturday Lot #5009.2

Chevrolet had finally put its small block V8 engine into the Corvette, and had shown Corvette-based concepts wearing Oldsmobile and Pontiac badges and styling cues. Ford had introduced its new two-seat Thunderbird. Chrysler didn’t have a production s...

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