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A Lifetime of Cars of a Lifetime, Part 2

November 7, 2017 By pete

By Brandes Elitch
From the archives, October 21, 2014

In last week’s story we related how our hero discovered a Bugatti while in military service in France and brought it home to Florida. He towed it to California to begin restoration at the same time he was a graduate student at Stanford University. He then acquired a Lancia Aurelia Spider and joined Hayden Shepley’s American Lancia Club as member number 7. We pick up the story in 1970 after he has graduated, married and is living in Carmel Valley, California. [Read more…] about A Lifetime of Cars of a Lifetime, Part 2

Maseratis in Paris

February 25, 2014 By pete

Bonhams: Maserati Mistral (sold for 110k euros) and Bora (sold for 91k euros)

Maseratis at Retromobile, 2014

Captions and Photo by Alessandro Gerelli

Retromobile 2014 was a huge success with more than 90,000 visitors in five days. A major factor contributing to this success was the very high level of the cars that could be seen, both in the exhibition itself and in the auctions that are held during the opening.

Italian cars have attracted the attention of everybody, but this year the presence of Maserati was of particular interest. [Read more…] about Maseratis in Paris