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It’s okay to drool: 1953 Maserati A6C54

1953 Maserati on Hemmings.com

We really should do a Hemmings Find of the Day feature here on the blog. There’s so many wicked awesome vehicles for sale in the Hemmings online classifieds, such as this 1953 Maserati A6C54, currently being offered by Fantasy Junction in Emeryville, California, for $1.95 million.

One of 52 such cars built, this one was sold new in the United States, is believed to have been raced by Fangio (then again, Fangio is believed to have raced every red mid-century Italian car…), and at one point in the late 1950s had a Chevrolet engine – presumably a small-block – under the hood as it raced in New Jersey. It was then used as a street car in the late 1960s, restored in 1989 and spent some time in Japan in the 1990s before coming back to the United States for a second restoration.

It’s a good thing I didn’t write the classified for this car. I would have left it at, “This car is pure sex.”



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Four-Links – Kripple Kart, McQueen on bikes, GAZ truck racing, this week in junkyards

Kripple Kart

* What would you do if you suddenly found yourself disabled? Not a pleasant thought, to be sure, but something to think about. Especially after reading Kripfink’s experiences with that same situation. Ultimately, though, he didn’t let his paralysis keep him from enjoying hot rods and building one of his own, the 1954 Ford panel delivery that he christened the Kripple Kart.

McQueen reviews bikes

* O’Clair pointed me to this post on Knucklebuster that reprints an article from the November 1966 issue of Popular Science in which Steve McQueen reviewed a handful of contemporary motorcycles.

GAZ truck racing

* Europeans will race anything. Thanks to our friends at BigLorryBlog, we now know that in Latvia and Estonia (Elbonia?), they race GAZ 51, 52 and 53 trucks around dirt/forest courses. Awesome.

this week in junkyards

* A couple friends of Hemmings recently blogged about their junkyard trips. First, the longrooffan headed out to find a circuit board for his BMW E30 and ran across a few finds (as well as a few clunkers, complete with glassed-out engines). Next, CarDomain’s Jen Dunnaway visited what seems to be the world’s most sensible junkyard, All American Classics in Vancouver, Washington.

helicopter carrying a Beetle

* Them boys over at x planes keep finding photos that include cars in with their aircraft. One of the latest shows this Doman LZ-5 lifting a VW Beetle convertible to display its lifting capacity. Wonder why they didn’t try the Chevy in the background?

kustom drifting in Finland

* And finally, another incident of unexpected racing in Europe. This time, it’s a bomb/lowrider/kustom drifting around the Tykkimaki Circuit in Kouvola, Finland. If all the participants drove lowriders, I might start to care about drifting.



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All About the Isle of Man and the Legendary TT


The TT is more than a race, it is a competition that embodies everything about what good racing is. It’s a motorcycle race held on the Isle of Mann, a rocky crag off the coast of Ireland that’s actually part of England, and 224 people have died during the running of the race over the years. It claimed another rider this year.

The race is so deadly because it’s held on public roads which are closed down for the competition. The 37-mile loop is made up of ancient roads that are narrow, bendy, and normally lined with stone walls and other very dangerous stuff.

This year, Los Angeles Times reporter Susan Carpenter was there for the event and wrote a nice piece about the island and the race itself. If you have only heard about this insane, 200-mph dash through the old countryside of Europe, her piece will fill in the details. If you have not heard about it, read this puppy and you’ll be wanting to go watch next year. Click here to read Carpenter’s account of the race.



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