By Brian Rabold / Originally Published August 20, 2015 / Hagerty / Mecum Auctions returned to Monterey in 2015 for its seventh sale there and ended up recording the highest total of the event’s history. In all, 380 of 657 vehicles sold (a 58 percent sell-through rate) for $44.6 million. The overall figure was a third higher than ...

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Thanks to the Stadt Der Rosen VW Klub for making the drive from Pasadena to enjoy a day with family and friends at the April 19, 2015 Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show. The club’s Volkswagens looked great and we hope to see them out again on June 7th having just as good a ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published April 28, 2015 / Hagerty Wheels, tires and stance make a huge difference in the appearance of any car. Swap steel wheels for a set of mags or alloys and it’s like looking at a completely different car. In no particular order, here are some of the most iconic post-war wheel ...

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The Beverly Hills Car Club isn’t exactly in the 90210 zip code.  In fact, they’re about 30 minutes east… without L.A. traffic.  But old is gold at this specialized classic car dealership, and we recently had the chance to sit down with their Sales Manager, Sean Porrazzo. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF… PSM:  When and ...

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By Larry Printz / Originally Published September 2, 2014 / Hagerty We all have owned cars that evoke memories. One mention of their names can flood our minds with images of happier times. But more often than you realize, car and truck names have meanings that their manufacturers never intended. Cracking open the dictionary reveals what ...

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English-speaking car lovers may disagree on how to pronounce it, but they seldom argue about what a huge impact Porsche has had on the automotive industry.  Few realize, though, that the first car ever designed by Ferdinand Porsche was electric.  By 1948, when Porsche introduced the Type 356 as their first production vehicle and the first sports car to bear the Porsche name, Ferdinand already had several decades ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published May 9, 2014 / Hagerty The classic car world is possibly one of the most opinionated collecting pursuits known to man, and nearly everyone seems to have an opinion on relative values and desirability. Each car on this list has at one time or another been deemed by “experts” ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published April 4, 2014 / Hagerty As Americans, we’re used to our performance cars coming in relatively large packages— Tire-smoking muscle cars with big-block engines that proved there really was no substitute for cubic inches and no replacement for displacement. Or was there? The cars on this list are all ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published March 28, 2014 / Hagerty The attrition rate of cars from the mid-disco to late Reagan-era is huge. And while we’d love to see someone somewhere driving any one of the cars on this list, in truth, we can’t remember the last time we saw any of them.  Here ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published February 21, 2014 / Hagerty The classic car world is full of “coulda, shoulda, woulda” stories of people who had the opportunity to buy something when it was affordable only to see it sail out of reach. If you didn’t buy a Shelby Cobra during the Nixon administration for ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published November 20, 2013 / Hagerty In this age of ultra-short product lifecycles where a three-model-year run unchanged is an eternity, it’s tough to imagine the same basic design being produced for three separate decades or more. Here are six cars well known to most Americans that all had tortoise-like life ...

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Little girls love their daddies. She wants to help you work, but she can’t come to your office. She wants to drive with you, but she can’t quite see over the dashboard. So she holds your tools and hands you the ratchet or the filter wrench when you need it. Surprisingly she never wanders off. ...

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