This 1935 Auburn 851 for sale on Hemmings.com has certainly led an eventful life, as the seller tells the story. Originally built in right-hand drive for export to England, its noble owner took it to Paris where the Third Reich seized it and presumably bombed around Europe in it before it somehow went back to […]

We hear plenty of fretting nowadays about overzealous zoning committees, out-of-sight scrap prices, indifferent inheritors and other causes for the disappearance of project car fodder, but John G. Tennyson’s article in SIA #94, August 1986, taking a look at one man’s outdoor collection of old cars, mostly Studebakers, shows us that these are not new […]

1940 Cadillac Usually when cars from an estate sale by an auction company that doesn’t specialize in collector cars come in, I’m not blown away. Typically, there’s a Model A, maybe a Mustang and a bunch of parts. But Apple Tree’s sale of the David and June Harcum collection, while relatively small, has some seriously […]