Words Richard Heseltine Photography Ted7 | June 2020, Classic & Sports Car How Ford and Ghia’s Probe concepts beckoned the future, but almost became lost to the past You cannot help but look on, moon-eyed and mouth agape. The few words that leave your lips
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These cars were a mission statement:
Ghia’s Gilda: Siren Song for An Era
By Winston Goodfellow | Photos By Evan Klein | January 24, 2013 Fabulously Unadorned The Gilda’s sleek shape shows Savonuzzi’s design sensitivity and wind-tunnel testing. What makes cars like this “art” are details such as the arrow-shaped door handle and a superb use of colors.
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The Petersen Museum Visits Scott Grundfor Company
Our friends over at the world class Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles kindly paid us a visit recently and got a brief tour from Scott which centered on several rooms of our restoration shop, private showroom and main facility located on the quiet Central
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Donning the Blue Blazer: What It’s Like to Judge at the Pebble Beach Concours
Original Article – Car & Driver – 2015 With 2015 marking its 65th year, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance, held on the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links, is the world’s premier vintage-car event. The coveted Best of Show trophy at the Concours is
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Gullwings flock to Arroyo Grande
A world-renowned craftsman restores some of the most valuable cars ever produced. BY ROBERT A. MCDONALD Tucked in the hills south of San Luis Obispo sits a brown, barn-like building filled with some of the most beautiful and expensive cars ever built. Some of them
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David Douglas Duncan and “The Secret SLS”
Prototypes are the products of an intense automotive design process. They are ideas given physical form and meant to test the culmination of those ideas. Most serve their purpose and end as scrap or become forgotten embodiments of a larger production that ends up relegated to a warehouse collecting dust rarely, if ever, to be seen again. Occasionally one is found on flaccid tires, fading away in a dusty, shuttered garage, whereupon aficionados immediately elevate it from “ancient junk” to “treasured artifact.”
The Zero Mile Gullwing By Dennis Adler & Scott Grundfor
“The Star” Magazine, January/February 1997 Every so often something truly amazing comes along in the automotive world. In 1954 it was the Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a sports car so strikingly advanced that it became the symbol of Mercedes’ postwar renaissance. Among countless Americans moved by the
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Reimschuessel’s Treasury of Tools By Scott Grundfor
Today, starting a new Mercedes-Benz dealership requires a multimillion dollar investment, but this wasn’t always the case. In the 1960s a technically qualified individual could become a dealer on a shoestring. Among those who did so was Bert Reimschuessel. In 1965, when Daimler-Benz reacquired the
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