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Keith’s Blog: Ogden or Bust
At 8 a.m. on Monday, September 21, we will be at the Lewis and Clark rest stop just outside of Portland. There, we will join up with a group of Alfas coming from Seattle, lead by SCMer and road trip...
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Keith’s Blog: Fakes and Awards, Continued
Last week we talked about the 25th annual Collector Car and Boat Show in Lake Oswego, OR. There were 200 cars and boats and 5,000 spectators. Best Open Car was awarded to a beautifully presented Beck...
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Keith’s Blog: A Day of Cars and Boats
Last Sunday, the 25th annual Collector Car and Boat Show was held in Lake Oswego, Oregon. That’s a suburb of Portland and about fifteen minutes from my condo. It is organized by the nonprofit Oswego...
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Keith’s Blog: Monterey Postscript
I gave myself an assignment for this year’s Monterey Car Week. While I am familiar with the term “influencer,” I have never actually followed any. So while I monitored the goings-on in Monterey on...
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Alfanomics
Photos courtesy Bring a Trailer The Alfa Romeo 164 is an affordable and stylish Italian sport-sedan experience Ask car enthusiasts who built the first mass-produced sport sedan and most will give...
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Beach Bummer
Sometimes the worst vehicles create the best memories A wiggle of the temperature gauge caught my eye as the SUV sauntered into the sand. Did I see it move, slightly, off the comfortable middle point...
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1936 Cord Experimental Berline
FRONT 3/4 VIEW The too-high, too-straight hood terminates in a narrow and painfully undistinguished two-part grille, topped by a spindly-looking sculpture of no apparent merit. The transaxle gearbox...
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Evolution-ary Collecting
Photo courtesy Cars & Bids BUY: 2003–15 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Mitsubishi’s racing aspirations were part of its DNA from inception. Seduced by the World Rally Championship (WRC) series, it...
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What to do if your collector car is involved in a crash Every time you drive your collector car, you are taking the risk that it might be involved in a crash. No matter how careful you are, things...
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Mystery Photo
Photo submitted by Don Rose Winner: Sometimes a dry desert car still shows signs of being left out too long. — James S. Eubanks, Marietta, GA Runner-up: “Alfa Romeo Spider for sale. Body good. Tires...
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Bookends
Stuttgart and Abingdon, happy together I have a pairing I’d like to run by you. The first choice is a 2005 Porsche 911 C4S. As you’ll recall, I bought this car last December. The second pick is a 1964...
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Vochos Unidos: An Automotive Travelogue Through Mexico
By Rodrigo Gaya Villar, 308 pages, Carrara Media, April 2026, $54.99 Vochos Unidos is less a conventional automotive history than author Rodrigo Gaya Villar’s photographic journey through Mexico,...
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Neat Stuff
Classic Chronograph Luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer has partnered with Gulf Oil on a new watch called the Formula 1 Automatic Chronograph x Gulf. While the Formula 1 chronograph has been a mainstay of TAG...
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Keith’s Blog: Were You Watching Pebble Beach?
I’ve been going to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance for more than 30 years. For a few of those, I was the emcee for part of the morning activities, interviewing owners who had cars entered. I have...
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Keith’s Blog: The Best Monterey Guide
There may be many “Guides to Monterey,” but the SCM one is the best. It’s our 21st year of producing it, and in its 106 pages your find event descriptions, hot tips and even recommendations on where...
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Keith’s Blog: Down on Main Street
Last week we began the story of driving our Porshe 911 C4S from Portland 244 miles down Interstate 5 to Grants Pass, OR, population 39,194. We were headed to Cruise The Rogue, the revival of a...
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Keith’s Blog: The 911 Meets an Animal Burger
Grants Pass, OR, is a city of 40,000, 244 miles south of Portland. The Rogue River, famous for its whitewater rafting, runs through it. But I wasn’t aware that it had a car culture that stretched back...
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Keith’s Blog: 52 Years in the Forest
This year marked the 52nd annual Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance. It is the longest running concours in the Pacific Northwest, held on the bucolic, tree-lined grounds of Pacific University. This...
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End of the Line
The Lotus Esprit Turbo S4 was the last 4-cylinder turbo model — and the best The S4 is the final, best-developed (and longest-lived) phase of the Esprit, which was launched in 1976 as a replacement...
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Pursuing Perfection
Photo courtesy Cars & Bids Park a Lexus next to your S-Class, but let that V12 SL go Buy: 2001–06 Lexus LS430 The second-generation Mercedes-Benz W126 will forever be my choice as the best...
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