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Sunday, 27 May 2012

rare, unique, or one of a kind...? An unmarried beautiful young woman fashion designer with an impressive inherited car collection, in So Cal

Setorii Pond, was raised by her grandparents, Robert Pond (Navy pilot turned business man) and Jo (Italian benefactor of beautiful genetics) and grew up with the cars. “ My Grandparents and I collected the cars together as a family; each car has a fun, heartfelt and unique story all its own. Some of my favorite cars are the Ferrari 250 TR, Austin Martin AR1, Tucker, and Jaguar XJ13."

Some of the more interesting (at face value, not kowing the stories behind them) cars in the collection, a 1938 Bugatti T57C, a 1931 Auburn boattail speedster, a Muntz Jet, a Fiat Jolly, a Delorean, a 1961 Ferrari 250 Testarossa, a couple Ferrari Daytonas, a 1967 GT40, the 1926 Rickenbacker Super Sport boat tail, a 1943 Studebaker Weasel (WW2 military transport) , a Tucker and a Vector W8

http://thepondcollection.com/ for the photos and listings of the cars

I had misssed in my looking through Driven.UrbanDaddy.com that they had posted about Setorri's book twice http://driven.urbandaddy.com/2012/03/15/the-art-of-setorii/ and http://driven.urbandaddy.com/2012/02/28/the-collector-2/

Monday, 14 May 2012

I didn't know the full name of the Tucker model was Torpedo 335

Sunday, 20 March 2011

Nik may not be blogging at Carrosantigos right now, but he's posting cool photos at 21studs.tumblr.com

That kid is probably riding a motorcycle right now

Wonder why they are loading that car from the 2nd floor to that delivery truck

Model T tool kit

Who? takes a bug on a deer hunting trip?

I'd like to know what's in the crate

The Nash with sleeper cab. I've seen one at a car cruise, it's not bad!

DeNiro, Taxi Driver, such an ironic sign over his arm

That is Ray Brock, but where is the steering wheel? If this were a right hand drive the speedometer would also be on the right.

Michigan junkyard, 1968

This is some cool stuff! See more at http://21studs.tumblr.com

Monday, 21 February 2011

The Robert Lee Museum collection has been stuck in legal limbo so long, little remains, finally, the last 27 cars have been traded to the local govt

This Tucker is going to get fixed up, maybe superficially restored. All about the Tucker here: http://www.streetcustoms.com.br/revistas-carros/noticias/tucker-1035-de-roberto-lee-sera-restaurado.html

At one point in its history, it was placed on the chassis of a 1947 Cadillac Series 62, complete with the Cadillac’s drivetrain, firewall and dashboard. Some alterations to the body were also made, and it has suffered from random acts of vandalism over the last couple of decades. The city of Caçapava plans at least a cosmetic restoration of the Tucker prior to installing it in a municipal museum

Robert Lee was killed in 1975, the museum closed in 1993. The cars have been pilfered, vandalised, and neglected for 18 rainy years. See more about the abandoned museum: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Robert%20Lee

The way the local government was finally able to make a breakthrough in the war between the inheritors, was to trade the rotten brats a deal where they could develop all of the properties in the inheritance if they gave up the remains of the car collection. All the self centered dorks wanted was money, now they can make money off housing developements where the museum once was.

learned about it from http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/02/15/long-neglected-tucker-exhumed-headed-for-restoration

Sunday, 20 February 2011

Tucker's 2nd try (The Carioca) was from a De Sakhnoffsky design, and potentially would have been made in Brazil

cover illustration of the Carioca from Dec. 1955 Car Life magazine found on aldenjewell's Flikr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/3516254868/

read all about it: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Tucker_Carioca or check out the project at Rob Ida: http://www.robidaconcepts.com/carioca.html

Saturday, 12 February 2011

Possibly the only tucker to race is NASCAR

it's all written up, from Dan at Hemmings http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/12/24/seeing-really-is-believing-a-tucker-did-indeed-race-in-nascar-and-we-found-the-photo-to-prove-it/ helmed by Joe Merola of Braddock, Pennsylvania, at the 1950 Poor Man’s 500 at Canfield Speedway in Ohio.

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/07/11/new-nascar-tucker-photo-surfaces/ for an update from July 2011

Saturday, 1 January 2011

Barnfind Tucker

Was in the barn for 50 years, only has 10,000 miles

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/10/26/spectacular-finds-from-the-forties/

Sunday, 19 December 2010

Tucker cars, only about 40 made, why would one be in a used car lot?

From the HAMB thread http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477

Monday, 15 June 2009

Amazing what I found in the classifieds

Above, Dean Moons car

A Tucker

E Rickmans car ( he was Hot Rod magazine staff photographer for years )

A boat tailed Auburn that once belonged to Cary Grant

A Barris custom that was a Car Craft feature

Hot Rod magazine cover car

Crower Cams owner's Hudson, which I think is the above photo

Stutz Bearcat Roadster, still legendary 90 years after it was built

Bill Stroppe's winning race car, (if you don't know who he is: http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2008/10/01/hmn_feature16.html )

I didn't waste my time showing you all the ads selling cars that were freatured in Hot Rod, most as cover cars and show winners... there were so many.