1958 Ferrari sells for $8.25 million
This Ferrari, along with nine other top-selling cars at the 2013 Scottsdale collector car auctions, together raked in about $39 million.
Prime time in Scottsdale: Hagerty breaks down auction results through Friday: Significant sales include 1958 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider, 1982 Chrysler LeBaron convertible
The Arizona collector car auctions are in full swing, and we’ve seen some big sales already. Join Hagerty classic car experts Rob Sass and Dave Kinney and Andy Reid of
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Smuggler’s Notch, Vermont, 1958
Ski season again, and as is tradition, we’ll mark that time of year with some carspotting photos of skiiers hitting the slopes in Vermont. In this Vermont Landscape Change program photo, we see the parking lot of the Smuggler’s Notch Ski Resort sometime in the 1957-1958 season. What do you see here?
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Boston, 1958
From the City of Boston Archives on Flickr come these two shots of Worthington Street in September 1958 and the cars lining the one-way street. What do you see here?
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Packard
Packardbakers tend to get ignored because they inhabit this gray area where Packard enthusiasts scoff at their Studebaker underpinnings and Studebaker enthusiasts aren’t entirely sure what to make of their Packard nameplate. Yet this restored 1958 Packard for sale on Hemmings.com shows how stunning a Packardbaker can be when somebody simply appreciates one for what it is. From the seller’s description:
This 1958, 2-door pillarless coupe was 1 of only 675 produced in 1958. The car recently ha…
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Packard
Packardbakers tend to get ignored because they inhabit this gray area where Packard enthusiasts scoff at their Studebaker underpinnings and Studebaker enthusiasts aren’t entirely sure what to make of their Packard nameplate. Yet this restored 1958 Packard for sale on Hemmings.com shows how stunning a Packardbaker can be when somebody simply appreciates one for what it is. From the seller’s description:
This 1958, 2-door pillarless coupe was 1 of only 675 produced in 1958. The car recently ha…
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Ogden, Utah, 1958
While Charles Cushman‘s shot of East 25th Street in Ogden, Utah, taken in August 1958, may be a little fuzzy, making identification of the various cars in the shot a little more difficult, it’s full of color and vibrancy, something most modern day street scenes lack. What do you see here?
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Plymouth Suburban
Who needs an SUV? They almost never go off-road (parking on the lawn while hosing down the driveway doesn’t count), and they certainly don’t have the panache of the original suburban warriors’ chariots – station wagons such as this 1958 Plymouth Suburban for sale on Hemmings.com. Nicely refurbished, it’ll haul plenty of kids, soccer balls, and luggage for your cross-country vacation. Just don’t put those lame happy family stick figure stickers on it, okay? From the se…
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Studebaker Silver Hawk
How long will a good restoration last? Sure, the post-restoration automobile isn’t likely to be used and abused as a daily driver, so one would imagine that a restoration would keep for many more years than a new car remains in service. Yet everything ages and decays, and the quality of a restoration surely has an effect on how long it will last. That said, this 1958 Studebaker Silver Hawk for sale on Hemmings.com looks like it was redone much less than 10 years ago and wouldn’t take much fr…
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Hereford, Texas, 1958 and 1971
The Portal to Texas History has quite a few photos of the city of Hereford, Texas, particularly of the fire equipment used there, including these shots, taken in 1958 (above), when Hereford’s Fire Department was housed within city hall, and again in 1971 (below 1, 2), a couple years after the department got a place of its own. What do you see in these shots?