Tag: muscle cars
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Elements of classic cars
My love of old cars is certainly enough to drive me to the Mecum Spring Classic auction every year, but I also go because it gives me a chance to practice my photography. You can walk right up to the cars, close enough to touch them – though out of respect for the owners, I keep my hands…
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Living vicariously through wealthy car collectors
If I could I’d own a house with a twelve-car garage, each bay filled with a classic automobile. I’d drive around all the time in my various cars – posh prewar grand tourers, spry little sports cars, tall-finned and chrome-laden coupes, at least one ginormous 1960s cruisemobile, and a couple old pickup trucks for good…
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Argus A-Four
Let’s get the details out of the way first, because few are available anyway. The Argus Camera Company of Ann Arbor, Michigan produced the Argus A-Four (or, as the camera proudly declares across its face, argus a-four) from 1953 to 1956. The A-Four takes good old 35mm film. Its plastic and aluminum body holds a…
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My favorite cars from the auction
These are the cars I liked best at the Mecum Spring Classic car auction, in no particular order. I’m not sure what struck me about this 1970 Pontiac Catalina. Maybe it’s my irrational love of station wagons. Maybe it’s that this one wears its black paint so well. Maybe it’s the “400” badge on the…
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Woozy from the exhaust
My lifelong love of cars has been much more about automotive design than engineering or driving. I certainly appreciate a fast car or one that stays glued to a twisty road, but just looking at cars makes me plenty happy. And so when the Mecum Spring Classic came back to Indianapolis last week, I picked…
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Captured: Chevrolet
If you guessed that this badge is attached to a late-1960s Chevrolet, you guessed right. Specifically, it flanks a 1968 Chevy Bel Air station wagon. I love the ’68 Chevy, especially the hardtop Impala coupe and sedan. My mom’s best friend had one of the sedans in midnight blue and I loved riding around in…
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It’s all in the details
When I was a kid, it was fun to guess the make, model, and year of the cars I saw on the roads. In those days, automobile manufacturers freshened their basic designs every year between major redesigns. Those freshenings often involved some pretty obvious sheetmetal changes – new taillights, revised fenders, that sort of thing.…
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The muscle car auction
I saw my first 2010 Camaro in the parking lot at work the other day. I felt that familiar twinge of excitement I used to get as a kid over each year’s crop of new cars. I was young long enough ago that cars were still facelifted every year, and you could easily tell the…