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ALFA ROMEO SPIDER re bodied in approximately 1957 by Zagato as a Zagato Coupe. Perhaps it should be called a Spider Veloce Zagato. To my understanding it is the only one and is noticeable in that it does not have the horizontal accent crease of the longer, but also short wheelbase, of the real Sprint Veloce Zagato. It is genuinely a 750 series spider chassis and any examination of the rear bulkhead from the interior proves that. To me, it was my old friend Fred’s eccentric Zagato. It surprises me that this car uses the Bertone sourced license light trim piece of the "production" Sprint Zagato. I have NO idea if this car has glass windows or not.

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1904 Type A Franklin. That is its official name. The use of the incorrect Q term is, and always has been incorrect. What is true is that it is a transverse front engine placement of that great, reliable and record breaking manufacturer of air cooled fine cars, Franklin in Palo Alto in 1995. I adore this car.

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MG SA CHARLESWORTH four door tourer of about 1936 in Palo Alto in 1995

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1948 Singer 9  with my Mother with her cousin’s car in1949. Note the American big heavy and protective Van Auken bumper over riders, necessary here where parking was mostly done by feel. Her cousin had it the rest of her life into the nineties.

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More from PIR  2003. yet, even MORE Film was damned expensive that weekend/

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Two AC Ace Bristols, an Arnolt Bristol, an Aston Martin DBR, a D Type Jaguar, a B24 Lancia, an Osca MT4 and a Siata 208 S at Sears Point September 1985

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Adorable little modified1906 Franklin Model G, This was originally the barrel nose model. A 1930 Chevrolet Standard 6 Coupe, a 1932 Pontiac V8 convertible coupe!!!!, a sweet 1931 Plymouth PA convertible Coupe, a 1948 Packard Clipper, a 1929 Packard 8, a 1938 Hudson 8, (for you Brits, this is what Reid Railton made Railtons out of.) a 1919 Chalmers, (smaller Chalmers model than I am used to thinking of.) and a 1923 Willys Knight, all at that auction at the Oakland Colosseum in September of 1975

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Oh WOW, What a selection! Splendid local cars at auction at the Oakland Colosseum in September of 1975; I want them all. 1927 Bentley short wheelbase beetle back. (I almost remember that that was not modified, but a factory production. Can anyone verify?) 1951 Jaguar 120 M FHC. 1953 Jaguar Mark VII, 1958 Mercedes Benz 300 SL. Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. and an adorable little doll of a Singer 9 LeMans.

A note on auctions in those halcyon days. Back them they were not fabulous highly produced events run by international art houses. Back then if you had some cars, furniture or a farm, you hired a local auctioneer and hoped.

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1948 Jaguar Mark IV at an auction at the Oakland Colosseum in September 1975. This bottle green car had belonged to a friend and I rode in it often in 1949, ‘50 and ‘51 in Alameda, Ca. What irony. I knew it when it was virtually new, took this picture of it twenty seven years later and then scanned and posted it forty three years later than that. Sigh. That means I have been doing this for seventy Damn years!

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THIS IS NOT MY PHOTOGRAPH!!!!  MG R2, “The Flying Shingle” with Ken Miles, on the grid with MG R1 special at Pebble Beach, of course, in the rain.  Maybe this is the definition of the word atmospheric. Note on the photo. Though this picture is available from many sources, in many qualities on the net, this is not one of them. This is a copy of the original photograph that I made. I want to be clear, though, though I make it clear I only post my own photos, I did not take THIS photo, but i did not download it from spurious sources, either.

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Always pristine from new Alfa Romeo GTV 2000

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ALFA ROMEO GTA Correct, as properly prepared by Alfa Romeo

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Bye the way, no non factory reproductions are welcome

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Bright sun at Sears Point 2006

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Expensive wet metal at PIR

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More DELIGHTS at PIR 2003

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Miscellaneous shots from Portland International Raceways in 2003