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Swaystones my friend, you need to get yourself a photobucket account. That's what I use, but I am sure there are similar sites in the land of the French.

Thank you very much latebloomer

BTW , I DID have /already had a photobucket account -;
Since you named it on IORR , I got 34 spams on my Yahoo mail box

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latebloomer
Swaystones my friend, you need to get yourself a photobucket account. That's what I use, but I am sure there are similar sites in the land of the French.

Thank you very much latebloomer

BTW , I DID have /already had a photobucket account -;
Since you named it on IORR , I got 34 spams on my Yahoo mail box

Yikes! Not sure how that happened...

THE AGE ............................. 21 September 2013



ROCKMAN

The 100 Hotest Cars of All Time, at least according to Popular Mechanics magazine.

Number 1:

Ferrari 250 GTO (1962-1964)


[www.popularmechanics.com]



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THE AGE ....................................... 25 September 2013



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THE AUSTRALIAN ....................................26 September 2013



ROCKMAN

I own a jaguar V-12 but I can't afford to fill the tank.

Lookee! Here's a tank fer ya!
A rock solid bucket o' bolts!

Byaself.......



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whatevah... just wanted to no that i got the right commode. i mean abode.
and you very quickly obliged. Tanks!

that was from a life time ago ... I'm less wiser than that now ....



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THE AGE ....................................... 25 September 2013

I remember that back in the mid 70's , one of the employee who was working at a factory next to my parents' place had the same kind of van ,with kind of "hippie paintings & customing ";the guy had long blond hair ...I had a crush on him but I was only 14 ,so he would just politely say Hi !



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I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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See how you do at guessing cars from the 1950's. Kinda fun, even though I failed miserably.

[www.americantorque.com]

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See how you do at guessing cars from the 1950's. Kinda fun, even though I failed miserably.

[www.americantorque.com]

Thanks a lot for the link ,latebloomer
Kinda fun, for sure but I failed miserably ,too /as well :;

We do need Mr Edith Grove to give the right answers , don't we ?



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Thousands travel to Nebraska for Lambrecht Chevy auction [autos.yahoo.com]

PIERCE, Neb. (AP) — A handful of barely driven vintage Chevrolets fetched more than half a million dollars on Saturday at an auction that drew thousands of car buffs from around the world to a small northeast Nebraska town.

Bidders and gawkers crowded shoulder-to-shoulder for the auction in a muddy field just west of Pierce, a town of about 1,800. Spectators in helicopters and airplanes circled overhead as the lead auctioneer, Yvette VanDerBrink, inched down the auction line on a wooden platform hauled by a pickup.

Event organizers said an estimated 10,000 people traveled from as far as Norway and Brazil to see the sale in person, and more than 3,800 had registered online to bid at an auction website by mid-day Saturday.

The auction of more than 500 old cars and pickups was expected to continue on Sunday. Organizers said they hadn't yet totaled the bids for the roughly 50 most high-profile, low-mileage classic cars and trucks, which were auctioned on Saturday. As of midday, six of the most valuable models had sold for a combined $545,000.

The collection belonged to Ray Lambrecht and his wife, Mildred, who ran a Chevrolet dealership in downtown Pierce for five decades before retiring in 1996. Unlike most dealers, Ray Lambrecht stashed many of his unsold cars in a warehouse, at his farm and other spots around town if they didn't sell in the first year.

The first vehicle sold — a sky-blue, 1958 Chevy Cameo pickup driven 1.3 miles — secured the largest bid at $140,000. Another bidder spent $97,500 on a red and white 1963 Impala with 11.4 miles on its odometer, the manufacturer's plastic on the seat and a yellow typewritten window sticker displaying its original price: $3,254.70.

Lyle Buckhouse, a retired farmer from Hankerson, N.D., poked his head Saturday into a 1963 Chevy Corvair with 17.2 miles on the odometer. Moments later, the self-proclaimed "Corvair guy" was hunting eagerly for the bidder-registration tent.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Buckhouse said. "That's why I came down here. You just don't know what you're going to see."

Bob Esler, the owner of Bob's Garage in Westfield, Ind., bought a four-door 1964 Bel Air station wagon for $30,000. The car had 326 miles.

"This is one of the cars that I had my eyes on," Esler said, as he leaned against his new purchase. "I want to use it to haul all of my customers around."

"How are you getting it back home?" a friend asked.

Esler shrugged. "I haven't figured that out yet," he said.

Preparations for the two-day auction began in June. VanDerBrink, the auctioneer, said she took calls from as far as Iceland, Singapore and Brazil before the event.

The two least-driven cars, a 1959 Bel Air and a 1960 Corvair Monza, have one mile on their odometer. The oldest vehicle with fewer than 20 miles dates to 1958; the newest is a 1980 Monza with nine miles.

Some bidders used the auction to hunt for rare parts for their collector cars and trucks, while others came to watch the spectacle.

"What drew us here as much as anything was the story," said Ernie Turcotte, who drove with his son, Jeff, from central Massachusetts to look for fenders and running boards for his 1955 Ford F-100. "I don't understand how it even happened. But here they are."

Ray Lambrecht opened the downtown dealership with his uncle in 1946, on the corner of Main Street and Nebraska Highway 13. The U.S. Army veteran quickly established himself as an unusual salesman: He gave his lowest price up front, without negotiation, and encouraged hagglers to try to find a better deal elsewhere.

In 1954, he drove then-Gov. Robert Crosby down Main Street in a parade celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Nebraska as a territory.

The most valuable vehicles were stored for decades at a nearby warehouse, until a heavy snow collapsed the roof. Some were damaged, but many were saved and moved elsewhere. The models at the dealership were among the best preserved, even as the building gave way to bats and holes in the roof.

Ray and his wife, Mildred, retired in 1996. Ray, 95, and Mildred, 92, still live in Pierce, but their health has declined. They decided to sell the collection so others could enjoy the cars and pickups, said their daughter, Jeannie Stillwell, who lives in Florida.

As cool as it is reading that all of those brand new old cars existed....
the line that made me smile the biggest was " the newest is a 1980 Monza with nine miles "
I owned that car, one like it anyway. I loved those Chevy Monzas and had kind of forgotten about them, but they were great fun. They were small lightweight cars but they had big engines which made them very quick and fast... and those hatchbacks were great!... it made for many many fun night and were perfect for drive-in movies....

I had 2 monzas, the first one lasted me about 4 years until I totaled it, trying to fly it one night, but I liked the car type so much that I bought the 1980 version a week later to replace it.

Good ole Monza car..... I called it my Monzaratti




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....There's no boat section so I guess this is the next best place







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-Buick lives in Sweden!it is said....this must be a pic from Sweden:



2 1 2 0

How would a Plymouth 1973 with a cyclone spoiler ,a Pensy gearbox with booby unserwide ovals look like ?



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

.............................................................ROCKeeeee



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When I find the pics & my scanner works again, will share the car I learned to drive on, a '59 grey-blue Mercedes with black leather seats & my first car, a cream-colored '67 Mercedes with a sunroof...think this crowd would really appreciate them. Both had stick shifts on the column & the '59 was a semi-automatic, shift but no clutch. No, I wasn't rich, my dad used to acquire old Mercedes when they were past their prime & tinker. I got a whole education in car repairs from them, too!