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Carlisle Auctions
CARLISLE, PA – After more than a one-year hiatus from the automotive scene in Central Florida, Carlisle Auctions is announced its return to Lakeland and the SUN ‘n FUN Expo Campus in 2025. Based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Carlisle Auctions team brings its brand of classic and collector car excitement back to Polk County on February 7-8, with two days of fast-paced auction fun and over 400 planned consignments.
The auction starts at 10:30 AM each day and … Read the rest
Hot August Nights
RENO, Nevada – Entries are now open for the 2025 Hot August Nights Foundation’s Youth Automotive Challenge, taking place in August 2025 during the main Hot August Nights event in Reno-Sparks, Nevada. The Youth Automotive Challenge is a team-oriented competition where youth participants stand to win more than $ 10,000 in scholarships and prizes, plus access to industry professionals and more.
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In the fall of 1963, Pontiac ad man Jim Wangers sold the idea of the all-new Pontiac GTO squaring off against a Ferrari GTO to David E. Davis, editor of Car and Driver magazine. The challenge was to take place in Daytona, Fla., between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Wangers supplied two Pontiac GTOs for the match-up: a blue car and the featured red car.
Pontiac needed the publicity for its all-new GTO. Sales had only … Read the rest
Photos: Al Rogers; Story: Angelo Van Bogart
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Even into the 1950s, one of the raciest-looking cars built in any reasonable quantity was the 1935 and ’36 Auburn Speedster. And until that time, the most powerful engine in a street car remained the 265-hp Duesenberg Model J straight-eight, unveiled to the public in late … Read the rest
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By 1940, the Graham-Paige Motors Corp. of Detroit remained in deep financial trouble. Like other car manufacturers, the company had struggled through the Great Depression, which took the hardest toll on independent car makers. Many independents … Read the rest
Fox-bodies are cool! That’s a fact of life. We saw this sweet ‘Stang from the ’80s this summer at the 2024 Iola Car Show and had to check it out.
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