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The Fords want their punch bowl back. No, not Betty Ford’s family; they’re most likely off the punch for good. This would be the other Fords, the ones who make the cars. It seems that Dearborn’s first family unwittingly auctioned off the punch bowl that Henry won as a trophy in 1901 when he drove […]
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Tagged Alexander Winton, automobilia, ford, Ford Sweepstakes, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Daily, Henry Ford, Henry Ford's punchbowl, trophies, Winton
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Outside of the greater Detroit area, automobile production concentrated in several areas: Buffalo, New York; Auburn, Indiana; Kenosha, Wisconsin. Perhaps none of those areas, however, can lay claim to as many automobile companies as the greater Cleveland area, a metropolis known for its industrial strength. Honoring all the various Cleveland-built cars thus falls naturally to […]
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Tagged Bizzarini, Cleveland Ohio, concours d'elegance, Glenmoor Gathering, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Daily, Jordan, Peerless, Stearns-Knight, White, Winton
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Many engine builders pursued customers in both the automotive and aviation fields, Lycoming perhaps the best known among them. It wasn’t for lack of trying that Glenn Curtiss is omitted from that list today, as we see in Keith Marvin’s story in SIA #76, August 1983, recording Curtiss’s efforts to place the OX-5 V-8 in […]
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Tagged Benjamin F. Gregory, Curtiss, Curtiss OX-5, Glenn Curtiss, Marmon, one-offs and homebuilts, Prado, SIA Flashback, Wharton, Winton