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Planes and automobiles part deux
As I mentioned a few days ago, the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome also has quite a few cars in their fleet. Here is listed just a couple that are kept in the museum and driven on the airfield during their...
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Hupmobile, Omaha
It’s not just the old Studebaker dealerships that continue to attract interest. Dan Miller, a resident of Omaha, Nebraska, sent along several pictures of an old Hupmobile dealership (we assume; it...
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On Deck: 1935 Hupmobile
Wayne Kilpatrick has only ever owned one old car in his life, his 1935 Hupmobile 531D. Why? His dad had one, up on blocks, during WWII when Wayne was a kid. It took him 50 years to find another, a...
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The Iconic Hupp 20 at Worldwide
We all have cars we’re unreasonably in love with, and I’m not alone in having my buttons pushed by the original Hupmobile, the 1909 Model 20. I don’t recall where I came across this February 1965...
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From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – cars on roofs
So while the meme might go by the name Crosleysonnastick, we can broaden that to carsonnastick and even broader to carsmountedhighforadvertisingpurposes. Though the latter doesn’t much roll off the...
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SIA Flashback – The Designers, Part I: Amos Northup
While we won’t republish the entire series of famous automotive designer profiles that Michael Lamm wrote for SIA (for the entire series and more, check out A Century of Automotive Style), but the one...
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SIA Flashback – Cord Redux
As promised in the story at the heart of last week’s SIA Flashback, Arch Brown and Bud Juneau followed their 1936 Graham story with a look at Graham’s latter years as a carbuilder and at how Graham...
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What a 1920 Hupmobile has to do with the founding of the National Football...
Photos by the author. On a recent family day trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, the first large display we saw when entering the hallowed hall took me a bit by surprise. It wasn’t...
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The Hagley Museum to present “Driving Desire”
1927 Hupmobile Eight ad, emphasizing the car’s style and straight-eight engine. Photos courtesy Hagley Museum. Designing cars and manufacturing them is only half the battle. To succeed in the...
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New Hershey auction proves that even The Finest cars can be affordable
1923 Hupmobile Series R-11. Photos courtesy The Finest Automobile Auctions. With a name like The Finest Automobile Auctions, one would assume that the upstart company’s debut live sale, tied to The...
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