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Found at Hershey 2003 - Chocolate Field North - 1934 Buick Series 40 Sedan. It was so long ago, I don’t remember the asking price, but the seller did scribe a chalk note onto the left front fender stating, essentially, that it was a barn find.
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Fellow friends of the cargo carrier, here’s another find from the 2008 Hershey meet: Buick’s 1968 Sportwagon. Look closely and you’ll spot the “Skyview roof,” Buick’s official name for this treatment, whereas Oldsmobile had the Vista Cruiser - these were the only two GM wagons with a raised roof and extra glass. Sharing basic Skylark front [...]
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If you’re just turning 21, you have no idea what you missed. The station wagon was the ultimate creation for both kids and adults. Dad could haul just about anything smaller than a full-size GE Frigidaire, or enough lumber to build that tree fort you just had to have (what, you didn’t have a tree [...]
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In the realm of the Hemmings Nation, car collectibles that don’t have wheels are hunky-dory, too. Here’s a handful of cases that we digitally glommed while strolling the vendor universe at Hershey. I think that in truth, all of these may have been offered by the same vendor. The first is an cast-iron sign from Gulf [...]
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Ah, Hershey. The gift that keeps on giving. When the thermometer is on the wrong side of 20 degrees, and the streets are filling up with what the Weather Channel likes to call “wintry mix,” it’s a good time to revisit Hershey’s fields. Here’s a memory that’s had me kicking myself - a collection of [...]
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You never know what you’ll find for sale in the car corral at Hershey, as witnessed by this incredibly rare early Ford V-8. It’s a 1936 Ford with a cabriolet-styled body that was crafted by the German coachbuilder Gläser. Gläser was mainly known for the early Porsche 356 bodies that they built. Although only a handful [...]
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I was going through my Hershey photos, and found one that I’d been meaning to follow up on. This 1955 Champion had been parked in the car corral with an asking price of $22,000. A note in the windshield said it had been given a body-off restoration, and that it included a spare fuel pump, [...]
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