Buicks at the AACA Museum
Eight outstanding Buicks from the collection of noted Buick enthusiast Nicola Bulgari will be on display at the Antique Automobile Club of America’s museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania through April of...
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Chapter 168.10 of the Minnesota Statutes 2005 makes for surprisingly good reading. This section on the registration of “collector vehicles” contains language we haven’t seen anywhere else–aside from...
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The New England Concours d’Elegance
The New England Concours d’Elegance, hosted and sponsored by Hemmings Motor News at Stratton Mountain Resort, is scheduled for July 20-22 Although we are calling it The New England Concours...
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Cadillacs, La Salles and Ferraris wanted
Hemmings needs outstanding examples of Cadillacs, Ferraris and BMW motorcycles for a special display at the New England Concours d’Elegance in July. photo courtesy Hemmings Classic Car As a follow-up...
View Articlepress release on the New England Concours d’Elegance
Get the word out: HEMMINGS MOTOR NEWS PRESENTS THE FIRST NEW ENGLAND CONCOURS d’ELEGANCE AT STRATTON MOUNTAIN RESORT BENNINGTON, VT – March 28, 2007 – the three-day collector-car extravaganza will...
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Spectacular La Salle
This stunning La Salle was among the field at Hilton Head photo courtesy Richard Lentinello While roaming the show field this past Sunday at the very pleasant Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance, we...
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Leader of the pack
For a car that wasn’t around all that long, La Salle had a strong, impressive history at the Indianapolis 500, serving as pace car three different times – its first year, 1927; in 1934 and here, for...
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SIA Flashback – Moxie’s Four-Legged Productmobiles
We’ve seen the Buick-based Moxiemobile puttering around the swap fields at Hershey (and the Rolls Royce-based Moxiemobile a couple years ago at Amelia), but never got the entire story on the added...
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Monterey Preview: Mecum
Stop number three on the Monterey auction plate is Mecum Auction’s second showing during the famed weekend. Keeping their end of the two-day affair exciting, Mecum has secured consignments from the...
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Gilmore Car Museum Campus Welcomes New Ford Model A Museum
Image courtesy of MAFFI.org Located in Hickory Corners, Michigan, the Gilmore Car Museum Campus (aside from its own compilation of vintage vehicles) has an impressive lineup of individual marquee...
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Gilmore Car Museum Expanding Again
Located in Hickory Corners, Michigan, the 90-acre grounds of the Gilmore Car Museum has seen an explosion of activity within the last two years. It’s a long list, beginning with the recently completed...
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Cars I’ve Loved and Hated – Michael Lamm’s Unauthorized Auto Biography,...
All text and photos copyright Michael Lamm, 2012 You’ll recall my recent confession that I lost money on most of the 17 cars I owned in high school. “Owned” might be too strong a word; some cars...
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La Salle braves the rain to win Best of Show at New England Concours d’Elegance
Though we didn’t have a Cheeriest Disposition award to give to Roger and Edie Labaw at this year’s New England Concours d’Elegance, we did the next best thing by presenting them with the Best of Show...
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Four-Links – bullpen carts, Ratso Italiano, Riviera ragtop, regal Riviera
* With the baseball playoffs upon us, what better time to take a look at the various bullpen carts used throughout the years to ferry relief pitchers from the bullpen to the mound. Reader Jim Camery...
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Authentic Moxie Mobile to appear at Ocean Reef Vintage Weekend
It’d be useless for us to mention that an authentic Moxie Car, believed to be the last such original promotional vehicle in existence, is coming to a Florida show late this month, without explaining...
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SIA Flashback – More Alike Than You Might Expect: 1936 LaSalle vs. 1936...
While many a GM car shared a body shell over the years, that didn’t necessarily make them all that close – GM for many years proved adept at spinning off far-from-identical cars that shared a number...
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The patent art of Harley Earl
More than four decades after his death in 1969, Harley Earl remains a Mt. Rushmore-scale personality in automotive history. He helped create what we know as automobile styling and design. Perhaps more...
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HMX – an incredible gift from a talented artist
Longtime HCC readers may recall Jack Carroll’s 1939 La Salle coupe from the March 2005 issue. Stunning car, and a great owner, so it was my pleasure to photograph the car (longtime Hemmings Motor News...
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Recommended Reading – La Salle: Cadillac’s Companion Car
It was only in production for 14 years, but during that time La Salle made a powerful impact that wasn’t soon forgotten. That’s because it offered buyers distinctive high style in an affordable...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1940 La Salle 52 Coupe
Sometimes, success is not a good thing. Take once-proud automotive brand La Salle, for example: The division was killed off after the 1940 model year not because of lagging sales, but because General...
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From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool –“Accent the mass, don’t hide it”
If there’s a car made that HarborIndiana can’t photochop into a town car, he hasn’t seen it. Yet while he makes sure every car can be chauffeur driven, as we’ve seen in a couple previous looks at his...
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AACA pares down the 10 most significant antique automobiles
All images courtesy Antique Automobile Club of America. Lists! As we get toward the end of the year, we’re gonna see a whole lotta lists, including a few from us here at Hemmings over the next several...
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Prewar Motoring – Driving a 1935 La Salle through D.C. traffic
Randy Denchfield’s 1935 La Salle Convertible Coupe. Photos by author. This past May, while driving up to New York City to visit my family, I made a detour to the Washington D.C. area to photograph...
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