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    Alfa Romeo . . .

    . . . was the honored marque, their 100th anniversary.

    1929 1750 6C SS Zagato
    '. . . the current owner acquired the car in 1956 . . . '
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    Meisen---what? . . .

    . . . . Helder.

    Meisenhelder

    1919!

    Never heard of this maker before. Check out the side-mounted seat. (And lamp.) And the finishing. Looks like nickel-plate?
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    More Alfa . . .

    Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS by Bertone

    1942

    I'm sure the war and material shortages figured in here, somewhere . . . but its pretty startling how different the decoration on this car is from those on cars built just a few years earlier. Or after. Looks like the model for something a Hot-Rodder would be doing to his Merc' --- 10 years later.

    The bodywork is just spectacular. Like the hood. Those are two compound-curved surfaces meeting . . . in a smooth horizontal line. In black. No trim or ornamentation to distract or obscure anything. Ditto the grill 'shield.' Looks like a Salvador Dali clock . . . drooping down the front of the car. The nose, another exhausting collection of curves and creases and undulating surfaces, high-lighted by a few strips of brightwork.

    And none of this stuff was stamped out by a die -- it was all done by hand. And these guys are really showing off.
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    Duesie Detail . . .

    Love this shot.

    This is the cap of one of the doors on the big Duesenberg Phaeton above. The car has roll-up windows, like most cars. But look at the picture closely. No window felt. In fact, the window well isn't even visible. That's because this Duesenberg has a sprung-and-hinged polished stainless steel cover to close off the window well once the window is rolled down.

    Now that's what 'a Duesie' means to me --- simple, brilliant idea with absolutely over-the-top execution.

    Seeing details like that would have me crawling over this car for hours.
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    Jaguar D-type

    English missile car from the '50s. That's my kind of tail fin. Looks like a shark.

    Small, small . . . not much bigger than the 550 --- but this is cosmically faster. Rivets and spot-welds show up in the monocoque like a old-time warbird. Bitchin', bitchin' car.

    Can you imagine taking this thing out in traffic? Open exhausts, no roof, wrong-hand drive . . . and a road-full of Tahoes and F150s.

    Just add rain.
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    Siata

    Siata 208S

    Fiat 2-liter '8V' (aka Otto Vu).

    1953
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    Ford Roadster . . .

    . . . somewhere.

    212 MPH at Bonneville in 1957. Driver sits in that space in front of the motor. Uh . . . where's the radiator?
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    Yup, 'ere's a HEMI in it . . .

    . . . AND a radiator.

    But what's in the bottle?
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    Hi Rick,

    Thanks for posting up photos of my good friend's roadster. I was so bummed to miss Monty this year, especially missed not seeing his car at Pebble Beach.

    This is a true barn find by Tom. Several years back on our first cross country road trip in early 911s we ended up in SoCal at Tom's shop. What do we see when we get there? This car, covered with dust, just that day it was pulled from the barn it was put in more than 50 years ago following their Bonneville speed record. It was totally intact, even down to the remnants of the masking tape they used around the front of the tonneau cover. We were totally blown away to see this car that day. So cool to see it now on the lawn at Pebble.




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    Bikes at The Beach . . .

    I'm all outta sequence, now . . .

    Here are some bikes that were being offered out in front of the venue. I know even less about motorcycles than I do pre-war steam-shovels, so . . .

    1) 'Leather' drive?

    2) and 3) ARMY Harley hard-tail --- tons of these were available as surplus after the war --- Thompson soooo NOT included. Low-budget transpo for your returning Combat Vet = Birth of the Biker. Now, ride one of these for a few days --- over some pre-Interstate US highways! --- and you'd get drunk and go nuts, too!

    4) Indian 'Four-cylinder' --- check out that front suspension. Gulp!
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