from Hemmings Classic Car08.2010   Recently, as I was about to get into my 1930 Lincoln Judkins coupe after an evening event, someone asked me, "Do you live far from here? Will you be able to make it home tonight?" I replied, "Yes, I'll make it home fine. In fact, I could drive this car to California if I wanted to." (I live in Ohio....
Published February 7 2020
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Hardbound,288 pages,  400 colour photographs, 12-1/2 by 10 inches. ISBN 1-85894-216-0. Published by Merrell Publishers Ltd., London. Available at Amazon.com. Swiss professional photographer Michel Zumbrunn has long been known for his fabulous and unmistakable studio photographs of automobiles. His work has been published in leading m...
Published February 7 2020
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My warm-weather friends enjoy reminding me at this time of the year that my Classics are stored away while they continue to enjoy theirs. That, indeed, is the price many of us pay for living in a four-season climate, particularly one with several months of snow. The snow can be beautiful, but most of us do miss driving our cars. For m...
Published February 7 2020
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There are two types of Bentleys, a W. O. Bentley is fast, fierce and manly. Its successor is an all together different breed, it is not fierce but rather fast and yet quiet. It is what sports car were eventually going to become. Maybe that is why the successor Bentley is known as the “Silent Sports Car.”   tarting in 1921, W. O. ma...
Published February 7 2020
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Our Classics with their big displacement engines sometimes are very difficult to start when they have been run for a while or when they get hot. There can be several reasons for this and hopefully some of the following suggestions will help you solve the problem. Most of them are just common sense but when you are by the side of the r...
Published February 7 2020
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Copyright © 2012 Ed Miller, All Right Reserved It was beautiful and fast but also impractical. There was no room for luggage. Weather protection consisted of a flimsy rag top and side curtains. When erected, ingress and egress were all but impossible. Occupancy was strictly limited to just two. The marketing department felt it would d...
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  Book by Joëlle de Syon and Brigitte Sion.Reviewed by Ferdinand Hediger Hardbound, 325 pages, text in English, profusely illustrated in black/white and color. 10 by 13-1/3 inches, ISBN 2-8321-0156-9. Published for the International Automobile Salon of Geneva by Slatkine Publishers, Geneva. Available from specialised bookshops at $...
Published February 7 2020
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from Hemmings Classic Car12.2009   Click here for the history of CCCA Judging  Some clubs, like the H.H. Franklin Club, which promotes touring over judging, do not subject cars to judging...but that's a story for another time. Like most car clubs, though, the Classic Car Club of America judges cars. Let's take a look at how. Back i...
Published February 7 2020
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Time to start thinking of getting our Classics ready for the road. Good performance is dependent on several factors, one being spark plugs. It is easy to remove your spark plugs and clean them. The condition of the spark plug tells a multitude of stories about your engine. Spark plugs with encrusted black carbon is the most common prob...
Published February 7 2020
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All cars before 1927 and most of them until 1932 were originally equipped with non-safety glass because that was all that was available. In 1927, Stutz introduced a form of safety, or non-shatterable glass into its cars. Cadillac in 1929 was the first to make safety glass standard equipment throughout the entire line. Regardless of whe...
Published January 1 2020
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