We needed to catch our breath after running into this during RM’s Auctions America sale at Auburn last month. The basic car is a 1926 Buick Master, only this one had been fitted when nearly new with custom ambulance bodywork by the Hoover Body Company of York, Pennsylvania. The Buick apparently did the bulk of […]
In the late 1930s, the cab-over-engine truck design had long been discarded in favor of more conventional truck designs, which sacrificed the maneuverability and maximized cargo space of a COE for the space for larger engines capable of hauling bigger payloads. But when many of the truck manufacturers began considering and building COEs yet again, […]
We’re still sorting through the numbers from the Monterey auctions, putting together coverage for our various titles. While looking over the spreadsheets, I happened to notice that these seven vehicles all had one thing in common: a selling price of exactly $55,000. So, the natural question is: If you had had $55,000 to spend in […]