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Friday, June 3, 2011

We lost one, but let it be remembered by saving others

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Sleeping beauty blog posted a couple incredibly low mileage barn finds

911 SC with just 421 miles.. think that's nuts?

The have this http://velocesleepingbeauties.blogspot.com/2010/03/beauty-kept-under-wraps-since-new.html with just 38 miles on it, a 1979 Porsche 930 with 38 miles on it

Muira SV with 1024 miles on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUV3BDJbCo&feature=channel

Probably from the Sclumph collection, is this Bugatti type 40

These Rolls were found in Canada

By the Eureka mine in Death Valley National Park

See a lot more over at http://velocesleepingbeauties.blogspot.com/

Not too far gone to save, because in Pakistan, there are only about a dozen VW Kombis / microbus remaining in the 6th largest country in the world.

From what I recall of my talk to Romano, the VW's were never built in Pakistan, and never imported as a car dealership item for sale, they only came into the country when Churches brought them in to use as kids school buses. So very very few ever came into the country. When there is no dealerships with parts to use for repairs, they don't last long, and never as long as you'd expect. Once a motor has a major problem, that's it, and the motors get replaced with modern easy to find diesel engines. If I have any of my info wrong, please correct me so no one gets misinformed!

images via: http://picasaweb.google.com/vwclubpk/VWCOPShutterbug#

For the most incredible resurrections of other 21 or 23 window VW mini bus:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/1957-deluxe-vw-23-window-bus-pulled.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/not-too-far-gone-to-save-because-in.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-happened-to-bury-this-1950-vw-213.html

Barn finds and dozens of private junkyards, they are still out there.

Via: http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/fieldcars/

Had you heard about the Peter Max collection of Corvettes?

above photos Tony Cenicola / nytimes.com

Above photo David Allee / nymag.com

36 vintage Corvettes in a parking garage in Brooklyn.

One Corvette for each year they were made, starting with a pearl-white ’53 (one of only 300) and ending with a red 1989, they were the prize in a contest sponsored by VH1, the cable music channel, in 1989. The contest awarded the whole lot to one winner, Dennis Amodeo, a carpenter from Long Island. HE sold the whole bunch for $500,000 to Peter Max who intended to paint them all as rolling art, but never got around to it. So the Vettes sat and gathered dust for about 20 years. They recieved a lot of publicity... but no love or interest from Peter.

The collection was a promotion envisioned by Jim Cahill who realized the VH1 audience was a good target demographic for any year Corvette and the contest would boost ratings. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/automobiles/collectibles/14corvette.html and http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/11902/

If you want to see more Corvette collections: http://www.corvetteblogger.com/index.cfm?mode=cat&catid=0858DC6A-96E9-F603-0D61AE51B9511412