Mark J. McCourt

4 weeks ago | hemmings.com | Mark J. McCourt

MG is known and beloved around the world for the inexpensive and characterful sports cars it built for more than half a century. While the earliest examples constructed under the watch of Cecil Kimber at The Morris Garages in the 1920s were largely rebodied, performance-tuned examples of regular production Morris models, the first MG to exemplify the all the traits the marque would become famous for was the 8/33 M.G. Midget Sports Series “M,” a.k.a. the M Type.

4 weeks ago | hemmings.com | Mark J. McCourt

It must have been a strange sight in a Buick dealership 51 years ago, where you might find a 176-inch-long, sub-2,300-pound Manta coupe imported from Germany sitting next to a 231.5-inch-long, near-5,000-pound Electra 225 sedan built right here. These strange bedfellows were General Motors’ way of helping boost Buick dealers’ foot traffic and giving its Flint division a more economical range of smaller models to sell.

1 month ago | hemmings.com | Mark J. McCourt

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1 month ago | hemmings.com | Mark J. McCourt

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1 month ago | hemmings.com | Mark J. McCourt

By Adolfo Orsi–Historica Selecta; autobooks-aerobooks.com; ISBN 99788896232163; $109.95; ★★★★ stars We anticipate the seasonal arrival of the latest Classic Car Auction Yearbook because this title is arguably the most important resource for those who follow the public sale of premium collectible vehicles at auction.