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Four-Links – birth of the Mini, AMG honors its history, early housecars, PVGP...
* AROnline has been digging into their archives for tales of the beginnings of many an interesting car, including Alec Issigonis’s most well-known work, the original Mini. * What’s perhaps most...
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The pinnacle at St. John’s
One of the biggest classic-car stories of 2011 was on the books before 2011 even began. It was already known that following decades at lovely Meadow Brook Hall, the Concours of America was moving to...
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Indy 500-winning Miller Bowes Seal Fast Special hammers for $2 million
In only its third year on the peninsula, Mecum Auctions continues to parade an impressive array of collector vehicles across the block of its Monterey event. This time out, the sale consisted of over...
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Class of ’86 – Benz Patent-Motorwagen replica
Thinking outside the box for this week’s entry in the Class of 1986, let’s take a look at a vehicle built that year, but not for use on public roads, not for mass consumption, and certainly not to...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL
As seller Dave Wolin tells the story of this 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL replica for sale on Hemmings.com, he found the fiberglass shell of a body in a backyard in the San Gabriel Valley where it had...
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1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL alloy-body gullwing: The ultimate barn find?
Alloy-bodied 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL gullwing sits in a California garage among old computer equipment. Photo courtesy of Rudi Koniczek In case you think all of the good barn finds are gone, here’s...
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What’s the barn find of the year for 2011?
An unrestored, 9,800-mile 1931 V-16 Cadillac leads a row of barn-find cars at the Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance I think we can all agree, this is the year the unrestored car came into its own....
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Late dispatches from Fairfield
As Jeff Koch mentions with his unused driving impressions, we often write materials that don’t make it into print. In the next Hemmings Motor News we’ll have four pages of coverage from the recent...
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Class of ’86 – the Hershey contingent
As habitual Hemmings Blog readers will recall, we started the Class of 1986 series as a response to the discussion around the appearance of a Plymouth minivan on the show field at the AACA Eastern...
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Mercedes-Benz recreates its finned flier for historic racing
Images courtesy Mercedes-Benz After the 1955 Le Mans disaster, Mercedes-Benz withdrew from Formula One and sports-car racing, but continued to campaign its anvil-like sedans (and sports cars) in...
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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...
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Elvis, Warhol and more: Celebrity cars at Bonhams
Images by Theo Graphics, courtesy Bonhams. k.d. lang images by Evan Klein, courtesy Bonhams. If we were to believe everything we see, then we must surmise that Elvis Presley at one point or another...
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Alloy-bodied 300 SL gullwing and 250 GT California Spider added to Gooding’s...
Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy of Gooding & Company Gooding & Company recently announced the addition of two more European exotics to its upcoming Scottsdale sale. The first of these rare...
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The top 10 Hemmings Blog posts of 2011
Photo courtesy RM Auctions As we do every December, we’re pausing today to take a brief look back at the past year, recounting some of the biggest stories from the collector-car hobby that crossed our...
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Auction overflow: Canada’s Collector Car Productions
Editor’s Note: You’re most likely to find our auction coverage in the pages of our print magazines, but David Traver Adolphus had plenty of writeups left over from a recent auction in Canada and thus...
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The amazing restoration of the second 300 SL ever built
When Mercedes-Benz rolled out its new-for-2013 SL at the North American International Auto Show on Monday, it would’ve been really cool to show off the very first SL ever produced, in order to...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – gullwing mold
I know what I would do with this Mercedes-Benz 300 SL-shaped mold for sale on Hemmings.com – create a life-size gullwing-shaped Jell-O fruit cake. What would you do with it? From the seller’s...
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Alloy-bodied gullwing tops Arizona auction sales at $4.62 million
Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Gooding & Company As with the Monterey auctions last year, Gooding & Company has once again taken the top sale for a blockbuster auction weekend by selling...
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Silver Arrows to race at Goodwood Revival
Photo courtesy Goodwood Revival They were the most dominant Grand Prix racers of the 1930s, designed and driven by giants in their fields, cars so outrageously engineered their power levels weren’t...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL
On the one hand, I would like to be the kind of person who would drive this 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL for sale on Hemmings.com every day. Who cares about depreciation through mileage accumulation, or...
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