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A Packard from the Netherlands, now in Texas

December 23, 2017

Auction

The year 2018 kicks off with the Public Collector Car Auction & Show in Fort Lauderdale, Texas from January 5 to 7. It’s going to be a great auction, according to the catalogue, with lots of premium USA-cars, like Cadillacs, big Chryslers and the like.

Also in the catalogue is this Packard, which turns out

Netherlands, Packard, Pennock, USA

A Packard in Denmark

December 12, 2017

Auction

At the moment there is an online auction going on in Denmark, of a small collection of classic cars. One of them is this 1929 Packard 640 Club Sedan.

The car was imported to Norway from the USA eight or nine years ago and has since then been extensively renovated with original parts.
The engine

Denmark, Packard

A bunch of old Packards in Iowa

September 7, 2017

Auction

This may look like a barnfind, but strictly speaking, it is not. Because most of these cars have been standing outside the barn.

What we see here is a few of a total of 91 classic cars, being the Estate of John Francis Klapp, who passed away on May 17th 2017, 71 years old.

barnfind, Estate, Packard, USA

The world is orange

August 9, 2017

Featured

Just as couture and for instance furniture, the automobile industry is submitted to the laws of fashion. Especially the colours of cars are strongly influenced by the taste of the public. And the public is being influenced by fashion designers. Remember all the brown cars from the late 70’s? And then around 1990 we

auction, Bugatti, buggy, fashion, Packard, Porsche

On auction

A heroic failure: the Australian Leyland P76 V8

Posted: January 22, 2020

British Leyland was already in big trouble when they decided to design a full-size saloon car for the Australian market. And guess what? It was even a pretty good car. But still, production stopped within two years. In the 1960s and ‘70’s the Australian car market was dominated by the large cars, like the Ford […]

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Asbestos-law blocks import of classic cars in Australia

Posted: December 10, 2017

Australia wants no asbestos at all within its borders. But now this zero-tolerance policy is affecting the import of classic cars. Fifty of them were intercepted at the border this year, their owners face huge costs to make their cars comply with the regulations. Basically, this is about two problems. One is that the Australians […]

The famous Bothwell Collection is to be auctioned

Posted: September 2, 2017

The Bothwell Collection is on sale. Bonhams will be auctioneering around 50 pre-war race cars and some horse-drawn streetcars on Saturday, November 11th in Los Angeles, California. Collector Lindley and his wife Anne Bothwell made their fortune growing oranges in California. They were avid classic car collectors and were, in fact, classic car pioneers. They […]

Daughter Tiffany takes over Dan Kruse’s auction house

Posted: September 4, 2019

A family take-over in Texas, USA: Tiffany Kruse starts her own auction house Republic Auctions. She more or less takes over from her dad, who has managed Dan Kruse Classics since 1972. San Antonio based Dan Kruse Classics has been one of the premier classic car auction houses, the business started as early as 1972. […]

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OldtimerDAILY

A Packard from the Netherlands, now in Texas

A Packard in Denmark

A bunch of old Packards in Iowa

The world is orange

A heroic failure: the Australian Leyland P76 V8

Asbestos-law blocks import of classic cars in Australia

The famous Bothwell Collection is to be auctioned

Daughter Tiffany takes over Dan Kruse’s auction house

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