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Whittell Duesenberg to cross the auction block at Gooding

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Image by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Gooding & Company The automobiles of Auburn, Indiana, drew a coterie of flamboyant buyers, but few of them went so far over the top as George Whittell Jr., who inherited two gigantic California fortunes that underpinned his life as a rake and adventurer. George loved cars. He especially loved the […]

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Tagged auctions, coachbuilt cars, Duesenberg, Duesenberg Model J, Full Classics, George Whittell Jr., Gooding and Company, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Daily, Murphy  
 

Feel the Elegance – 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III

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Claims of survivor automobiles can often be debunked by the tell-tale trail of an orbital sander, or yellowed plastic interior bits that belie the like-new condition of the exterior paint. Worse yet is a glaring tin-pot head of a modern grade zero hardware store bolt holding on a fender. Not so with this 460-cubic-inch V-8-powered […]

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Tagged auctions, Gooding, Gooding & Company, Gooding and Company, Hemmings Classic Car, Lincoln, Lincoln Continental, Lincoln Continental Mark III, originals, Scottsdale, survivors  
 

Mercifully Aged 1961 Mercedes 300 SL Roadster

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Back in the salad days of the Nineties dot-com boom, we eked out a living painting sets for television and movies. Tasks included making many new things look old, which included building a ship set inside a restored WWII-vintage Liberty ship. Why? Glossy new stuff looks phony on film, because glossy new stuff does not […]

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Tagged auctions, Gooding, Gooding & Company, Gooding and Company, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Hollywood, Inflation, Mercedes 300SL, Mercedes-Benz, patina, Scottsdale  
 

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