CAR COLLECTOR 1981 FEB - GT350H, '61 CHEVY SS, MARMON
Within this hard to find issue you will discover the following topics: 1) BERTA AND THE BENZ---How Frau Benz (and her young sons) saved the company 2) BOB PITCAIRN'S 1966 SHELBY GT350 H---A Hertz (not Hurst) Shelby that is not for rent 3) "LOUISE HESSLER, OUR CAR IS READY...AGAIN"---The tribulations of restoring a 1940 Buick Super convertible sedan 4) 1910 ISOTTA-FRASCHINI MODEL 1M RACING RUNABOUT---Racing in a 12-liter four in the days before the Kaiser War 5) COLLECTOR CAR OF THE MONTH---1930 Ruxton four-door sedan with a 2-page color pullout 6) THE COST OF TRANSCONTINENTAL TOURING IN 1920---Sixty cents a gallon is a fortune if you earn $.90 an hour 7) RETROMOBILE SHOW IN CANNES---Jan Norbye takes us to a unique car show on the Cote d'Azur 8) CHEVY SUPER SPORT---1961, The First Year, a chapter from Terry Boyce's new book 9) ECONOMIC REPORT: The German Sports Car Company: Porsche 10) CLASSIC CARS: Housing Two Hundred Horses--Marmons 11) POSTWAR CARS: Kaiser Frazer (2): Good Buys from the Fifties 12) MERCEDES MUSINGS: The 3-1iter Six Engine of the Fifties 13) LICENSE PLATES: Registering Your Collector Car in Canada 14) Auction news 15) Restoration tips Plus other collector car items.
COVER: The cars on this month's cover are: (top) a 1940 Buick Super convertible sedan owned by Tom Murray of Hudson, Ohio; a l910 Isotta-Fraschini Model IM in lhe Hillcrest Motor Company collection in Beverly Hills, California; and a 1937 Hotchkiss photographed for us in France by Jan Norbye.