Used Autos | Used.org

Simeone Demo Days 2024

Posted on by

Select Saturdays throughout 2024

The Simeone Museum announced the Simeone Museum’s 2024 Demo Day calendar! This year, they’ve revved up their schedule to bring an even more exciting lineup of events that celebrate the art, history, and engineering of classic automobiles. Each Demo Day will offer an immersive experience with expert talks, live demonstrations, and opportunities to get up close and personal with these automotive treasures.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ONLINE

Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum
6825 Norwitch Drive
Philadelphia, PA … Read the rest

The Endangered Sampan

Posted on by

This 1950 De Soto sampan provided tourist and local transportation on the Big Island of Hawaii until about 1976, then later at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Charles Furman brought it to California in the early 2000s.
Photos: Charles Furman, Gordon Cline, Lance Yoshimura, Jim Cocores

There was a time when one of the treats that tourists looked forward to when visiting Hawaii was a ride in a sampan. Not any more. For starters, these jaunty, colorful people-movers were never … Read the rest

Parts & Projects: L&M Auto of Colorado

Posted on by

More than 50 years ago, in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, LeRoy and Rosalie Martinez founded L & M Auto. In the beginning, it was just a body shop; LeRoy did the bodywork, and Rosalie did the bookkeeping. From that original body shop, the couple has expanded to several businesses that include a salvage yard, towing service and used car lot. All the businesses except the used car lot are located on Road 8 South in Alamosa, Colo. Today, their son, … Read the rest

‘Rolling Sculptures: European Art Deco’ at the Savoy

Posted on by

1934 Bugatti Type 57 Atalante Coupe (On loan from Stahls Auto Collection, Chesterfield, MI)
Savoy Automobile Museum

CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA – Savoy Automobile Museum in Cartersville, GA announced the opening of thier newest temporary exhibit, Rolling Sculptures: European Art Deco. Art Deco became a worldwide movement focused on the future, modernizing industrial innovations by embracing a style of elegance and sophistication. It impacted nearly every visual medium. The Art Deco period occurred mainly between the two world wars. The fluidity and … Read the rest

Old Cars Reader Wheels: 1926 Ford Model T Touring

Posted on by

Jack Sparks was lucky enough to spot this touring T at a garage sale back in 1995. After a lot of hard work it has become quite the heirloom.

I bought the T at a garage sale in Dallas in 1995. It was disassembled, had been sand blasted and primed. I wired the body to the frame to haul it home. I started working on it in 2015. The previous owner had bought a lot of

… Read the rest

10 questions for Darin Roberge from Motorwerks Marketing

Posted on by

Darin Roberge runs Motorwerks Marketing, a public relations company that offers a wide range of services. “We like to say that we can offer basically any service that you can dream up (and a lot of stuff that you can’t),” he says.
Motorwerks Marketing

GILBERT, Ariz. — Motorwerks Marketing might not be a name a lot of folks in the collector car hobby are familiar with. In a way, that’s the way company founder and CEO Darin Roberge likes it.… Read the rest