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• Four-Links – rally Falcon, KC foreign car sales, roadster renderings, baby cars

  
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  * Reason No. 1,684 to love Australia: This video that Street Legal TV found this week of a Ford Falxon XY GT tearing up some off-road rally courses. * The guy behind the BMW Isetta blog found this photo of his father selling foreign cars around 1960 in Kansas City. Can you name them all? * ...
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• Musea Art Contest (for early May)

  
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  The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of: Way back in time when animated cartoons were just starting out, a classic was done by Windsor McCay called “Gertie The Dinosaur”. Check it out on youtube. (Windsor McCay was known for the beautiful and elaborate Little Nemo newspaper comic ...
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• Hemmings Find of the Day – 1938 Ford Standard sedan delivery

  
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  It’s not hard to see why sedan deliveries have become popular among collectors in recent years: They benefit from almost all the parts availability of their passenger car cousins, yet offer more room for luggage for those road trips you want to take. We’ve even seen plenty of mom-n-pop businesses put them back to ...
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• SIA Flashback – Small Price, Big Value: 1930 Whippet 96A

  
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  Largely forgotten today outside of Willys devotees, the Whippet was at one time one of the leading inexpensive cars of the 1920s, as Alex Meredith related in SIA #146, March 1995. However, a number of factors – only one of which was the onset of the Great Depression – came together to cut the Whippet’s time ...
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• Ahrens-Fox fire engine sells for $125,000

  
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  1936 Ahrens-Fox BT Fire Engine. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. Fire equipment manufacturer Ahrens-Fox earned its reputation for innovation and premium quality by adhering to its founders’ credo of “Nothing too good for the fire service, only the best will do.” Considered by many collectors to be the ...
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• Life is Shorter Than You Thought

  
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  If the average human lifespan was 40 years, how would you live your life differently? by Jonathan Hilton  Day 31 Perception has a lot to do with the way that we live.  We all walk through life with no real idea when the game is going to be over and our flame will be snuffed out. I think that when you are ...
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• Cars of Futures Past – 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow

  
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  Photos by Daniel Strohl. The early 1930s were not a good time to be a manufacturer of luxury automobiles in the United States. America was in the grip of the Great Depression, leaving automakers like Packard, Cadillac and Pierce-Arrow struggling to generate sales. For Pierce-Arrow, it was particularly bad timing, as ...
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• SIA Flashback – Baby Cadillac: 1932 Chevrolet Cabriolet

  
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  In times of stress, both people and companies are known to take unusual action. Take the 1932 Chevrolet Confederate, offered during the worst year of the Great Depression, and – as Arch Brown relates in his story on the Confederate in SIA #145, January 1995 – marketed not so much as an entry-level car, rather as ...
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• Boyfriend was Unfaithful

  
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  I’ve been in a relationship with my partner for almost 4 years. We have a son who is just over 1. I thought we had a very good relationship – we just fit, we are very affectionate and have a great sex life. My partner has just come back on 2 weeks leave during his second tour of Afghanistan – something I’ve ...
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• Hate Crimes: Man Assaults Muslim Woman Following Reports of ‘Dark-Skinned’ Boston Bombing Suspects

  
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  Can we stop the violence? White folks not every “dark-skinned” person is out to get you. Man Assaults Muslim Woman Following Reports of Boston Bombing Suspects According to Raw Story A Muslim woman in Boston says that she was attacked by a white man on on Wednesday morning because he was apparently enraged ...
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• SIA Flashback – More Alike Than You Might Expect: 1936 LaSalle vs. 1936 Oldsmobile

  
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  While many a GM car shared a body shell over the years, that didn’t necessarily make them all that close – GM for many years proved adept at spinning off far-from-identical cars that shared a number of major components. However, as Arch Brown pointed out in this comparison of the 1936 La Salle and 1936 Oldsmobile ...
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