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Four-Links – DeSoto anniversary, 1929 L.A. Auto Show, Two-Lane Blacktop...
And I didn’t send a card! Yesterday marked the 46th anniversary of the last DeSoto, and CR4, an engineering blog, has the details. As far as anniversaries go, today marks the 56th anniversary of...
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Guptill’s kicks off 2008 cruise-in season; yes, we did see small cars
Earlier this week, we all hurried out of the office to head over to Colonie, New York, for a summertime tradition – the Guptill’s cruise night. I hadn’t gone since 2004 or 2005, but not much has...
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Four-Links – stolen Citroën, save this Minor, Franz Ferdinand’s car, hot...
* I don’t want to make this a regular feature of the Saturday Four-Links, but this is the third week in a row we’ve come across a stolen car while putting the Four-Links together. In this case, it’s a...
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Family albums ‘n four-speeds – the old car photo treasure hunt continues
My request for old car photos from family albums continues to harvest great scenes of American life from throughout the past several decades. The latest batch comes from a variety of sources, starting...
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Behind Chuck Morris’s grille is not an engine… only another fist
First there was Truck Norris. Now, H.A.M.B.er lexman24 has christened his bright orange small block-powered Morris Minor gasser “Chuck Morris.” You know the drill: Let’s hear your best “Chuck Morris”...
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Gullwing takes top honors at Euro Auto Festival
The spotlight was on Jaguar E-types and the Austin-Healey Sprite/MG Midget twins, but it was a Mercedes-Benz that put an exclamation point on this year’s Euro Auto Festival this past weekend. A 1955...
View ArticleThere’s a coupe joke in this, I’m sure…
When you think about it, older cars could make for perfect chicken coops – their floors are usually rusted out, they’re repositionable as long as their brakes aren’t frozen, and they already have...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Morris Minor 1000
It’s obvious the seller of this 1958 Morris Minor 1000 on Hemmings.com has thought quite a bit about either restoring or restomodding the car, which remains in decent condition despite the wear and...
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“I think it could’ve been the best selling car in the world”
Or so goes the opinion of Martin Wainwright, an author who has written about the Morris Minor, the cheery little British car that sold more than a million copies, the vast majority of them in the...
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Rare 1961 Morris Minor Million heads to auction in Arizona
Post-restoration photos courtesy of RM Auctions. You don’t often hear the words “obsessively correct restoration” and Morris Minor in the same sentence. But not every Morris Minor is quite like the...
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We made it! 2015 America’s British Reliability Run
On Friday, October 16, 32 British cars left Quakertown, Pa., beginning a nearly 600-mile trip to raise money for sick children while making a point about the reliability of cars from Old Blighty....
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