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SIA Flashback – 1960 Pontiac X-400: Show Car Built to Go!

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If the Pontiac X-400 looks a bit familiar to those of you who subscribe to Hemmings Classic Car, that’s because it appeared in those pages a few years ago – in HCC #34, July 2007, to be precise. Yet it appeared earlier in the pages of Special Interest Autos – in SIA #97, February 1987 […]

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Tagged Bill Mitchell, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Hemmings Classic Car, Jim Jeffords, Joe Bortz, Latham supercharger, Pontiac, Pontiac Bonneville, Pontiac X-400, SIA Flashback, supercharger  
 

Four-Links – RIP Bill Tritt, traffic signals galore, Martians on Vespas, Pontiac Phantom

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* News came to us through our friend Geoff Hacker that fiberglass pioneer Bill Tritt died last week at age 93. * After this week’s post on the Iowa Highway System, circa 1960, we came across Caution Optional, Ed T.’s blog on traffic signals and the enthusiasts who collect them. * Martians on Vespas? Will […]

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Tagged automobilia, Bill Mitchell, Bill Tritt, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Ford Model T, Forgotten Fiberglass, Glasspar, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, ice autos, motorcycles and scooters, one-offs and homebuilts, personalities, Pontiac, Pontiac Phantom, road trips and cruising, snowmobiles, traffic signals, Vespa  
 

McDorman’s Chevys net $7 million

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Mecum’s Bob McDorman auction at Bob McDorman Chevrolet in Canal Winchester, Ohio, November 9, hauled in $7 million (excluding buyer’s premium) for about 150 cars in McDorman’s collection. Mecum reported that 1,000 bidders turned out for the one-day sale, which included a wide array of Chevrolets from pre-war to the present as well as some […]

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Tagged auctions, Bill Mitchell, Bob McDorman, Bunkie Knudsen, Chevrolet, Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet Corvette, Florence Knudsen, Hemmings Daily, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Mecum, museums and collections  
 
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