Just Plain Cool

Fierce Fiberglass – Bocar XP-5 Prototype

Following such illustrious American sports-racing cars as those produced by Briggs Cunningham during the early 1950s and predating Carroll Shelby’s British-American Cobra hybrids of the 1960s, Denver, Colorado’s Bob Carnes produced his Bocar sports car line. With background including […]

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Sold – 1947 Chevrolet Thriftmaster 3100 Pickup

A handsome example of North America’s first all-new postwar pickup truck design, this 1947 Chevrolet Thriftmaster 3100 ½-ton pickup was completely restored by a father-and-son team to factory-original specifications and completed in 2005. During the […]

One That Got Away

1993 Penske PC-22 CART Racing Car

This 1993 Penske PC-22 Indianapolis/CART racer is Chassis 001 and it was built at Penske’s Poole, England production facility. I first saw it in late 2012 at the suggestion of a contact I met at […]

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Sold-1959 Ford Galaxie Sunliner Convertible

While the Fairlane 500 was Ford’s top-level series when the company’s new-for-1959 models were publicly introduced in late 1958, the Galaxie superseded it shortly thereafter. Offered with a choice of six-cylinder and V-8 power and in four-door, two-door, two-door Victoria hardtop coupe, Skyliner retractable and […]

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Sold – Stellar 2003 Porsche 911 Carrera 2

From Porsche’s first water-cooled 911 series, known to hard-core fans as the 996, this stellar example is a one-owner car with only an approximate 25,000 kilometers from new. Equipped with many desirable options including the aggressive-sounding sport exhaust […]