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  • Rhinebeck Spring Dust Off Preview: The Foreign Cars

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    If you’re in New England this weekend, and you’re sick of the extended winter that we’ve been treated to and need a quick summertime car show fix, you’d be hard pressed to find a better car show than the Rhinebeck Spring Dust Off. Situated on the right bank of the Hudson River, the town of…

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  • Greenwich Concours Preview: 1990 BMW Z1

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    If you needed any more reasons to attend the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance this June, here’s one more reason: cars like this 1990 BMW Z1, one of the few magically federalized examples to be precise. During the next few weeks we’ll be looking at a number of cars that have appeared at the 2012 edition of…

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  • Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: 1980 Citroen Visa

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    At what other car show besides the Carlisle Import Nationals would you have a chance to see not one but two Citroen Visas? That’s right, this Visa was one of two present at the 2012 Carlisle Import Nationals, which perhaps represented a substantial fraction of all Visas in North America, while also representing two out…

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  • Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: 1991 Sterling 827SL

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    If you thought the Sterling was pretty much extinct on American roads, you were partially correct. By our experts’ estimates, there are less than 50 of these left in semi-regular use in the US, most of them in the northeast where this car enjoyed the “strongest” sales. This is only the third Sterling I have…

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  • Rhinebeck Spring Dust Off 2013 Preview

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    If you’re looking for a spring event that’s one part real-life automotive encyclopedia, and one part swap meet, you’d be hard pressed to find one more fun than the Rhinebeck Spring Dust Off. Organized by the Hudson River Valley Antique Auto Association, Rhinebeck is actually two cars shows in one, with hot rods and custom…

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  • Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: 1986 MG Metro Turbo

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    Continuing our survey of the rare machinery you’re likely to glimpse at the Carlisle Import Nationals on May 17th through May 19th, provided you spend the more than 10 hours required to see most of the field, here is likely the first MG Metro to appear at Carlisle. This MG Metro Turbo from 1986 was…

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  • Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: Peugeot 505 Turbodiesel

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    If you haven’t put the Carlisle Import Nationals on your calendar this year, now might not be a bad time to start making plans. And I don’t care what you have going on at the end of May, and whose graduation your relatives are guilting you into traveling to. Your cousin Scarlet can graduate from…

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  • Diecast Delights: ZiL 164 in 1:43 is Stylistically Socialist in Any Scale

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    The next piece of diecast awesomeness we’re going to ogle this week is this ZiL 164 by AIST, which came out just a few weeks ago. If you’ve never seen one of these, that’s quite understandable, as the Internet Movie Cars Database shows the ZiL 164 appearing only in hard-to-pronounce films that even I haven’t…

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  • Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: 1962 GAZ 21i Volga

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    It feels kind of strange writing about this Volga in the context of a Carlisle Import Nationals preview, because this was the car’s last appearance as a major classic car event before it was flooded in Hurricane Sandy in late 2012. This GAZ was the first Russian passenger car to appear at Carlisle, where it…

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  • Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: The 38th Saab 9-4X Built

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    The Carlisle Import and Kit Nationals is only 6 or so weeks away, and this is as good time as any to take a look at some highlights from last year. The 2013 edition of the only classic car event in the US of A where you’re likely to see a Tatra 613 just a…

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