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Four-Links – rally Falcons, DeSoto plant demolished, Montlhery, Moskvitch restored

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* Speedhunters this week posted a great collection of photos of Holman-Moody-modified V-8 Ford Falcons used in European rallies in the mid-1960s. * No, that’s not yet another pic of a tornado-ravaged town in the Midwest. Instead, it comes from The Detroit Bureau’s report on the demolishing of the DeSoto plant on Wyoming Avenue between […]

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Tagged Chevrolet, Chevrolet Corvette, Chevrolet Corvette C5-R, demolishing automobile factories, DeSoto, Detroit, factories, ford, Ford Falcon, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Holman-Moody, Le Mans, Montlhery, Montlhery Vintage Revival, Moskvitch, Moskvitch 403, racing, rally racing, restorations, Russian vehicles, shows, exhibitions and events  
 

Four-doors and fins in ’59

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Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees recently posted the above everyday traffic shot taken sometime in 1959 on Woodward Avenue in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, not far from where the zoo is today. Anybody recall exactly where the Beckwith Evans was located then? And anybody want to take a stab at identifying all of the […]

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Four-Links – classics star in On the Road, Vinsetta Garage closes, Kaiser’s XJ002 Bolide, quad-engine Mustang

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*From Telstar Logistics comes a post with news that filming for a movie based on Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” was taking place in San Francisco this past week, and that a few streets of SF were lined with all sorts of immediate pre- and post-war cars. Looks like I’ll have to move that book […]

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Tagged Detroit, drag racing, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, ford, Ford Mustang, garages, Gary Weckesser, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Jack Kerouac, Jeep, Jeep XJ-002, Jeep XJ-002 Bolide, junkyards and abandoned vehicles, Kaiser, Kaiser Jeep, Mach IV Mustang, On the Road, racing, San Francisco, trucks and Jeeps, TV and film cars, Vinsetta Garage, Woodward Avenue  
 
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