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Ran When Parked visits Thailand
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Ran When Parked visits Thailand

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Ran When Parked got to spend the better part of a weekend in Bangkok, Thailand, on our way back home from a business trip in China. Having never been to Thailand before, we were impressed by all of the old cars that are still on the road. Continue reading »

Topical advertising: Assembly lines
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Topical advertising: Assembly lines

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Automakers’ archives departments are filled with thousands of photos that will likely never see the light of day. Images of assembly lines are among some of the most obscure documents because they can’t easily be used in magazine advertisements and the auto media rarely has a need for them. Most often than not they were … Continue reading »

The 16th annual Monte-Carlo Historique rally
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The 16th annual Monte-Carlo Historique rally

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The 16th annual Monte-Carlo Historique Rally took place last week in southeastern France.  Organized by the Automobile Club of Monaco, it is open to cars that participated in the iconic rally from 1955 to 1980 and that were built between those years. Continue reading »

The 34th annual Epoqu’Auto vintage car show
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The 34th annual Epoqu’Auto vintage car show

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The 34th annual Epoqu’Auto vintage car show took place last weekend outside of Lyon in the Rhône department of France. There are many smaller car shows and gatherings in the area but Epoqu’Auto is said to be the largest event of its kind by a long shot so, rain and wind be damned, we drove … Continue reading »

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The 2nd annual Ventabren Retro Passion show

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Ventabren Rétro Passion, a burgeoning car club that hails from a small village outside of Aix-en-Provence, France, held its second annual car show and swap meet last weekend. Unlike the Avignon Auto-Moto Retro show that took place at the same time, the show in Ventabren was informal and fairly small; there was no entry fee … Continue reading »

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The 20th annual Avignon Auto-Moto Retro show

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The 20th annual Auto-Moto Retro show took place last weekend in Avignon, France. It is held at the same venue as the Avignon Motor Festival but it is a much smaller show with less cars and less vendors. Continue reading »

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Mid-Ohio Vintage Races, 2012

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This article is typically (fashionably?) a couple weeks late, though part of it is because I had a hard time deciding what to say about the Mid-Ohio vintage races. There were too many cars to just mention a few and so it seemed appropriate to focus on the event as a whole. I have fond … Continue reading »

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Avignon Motor Festival 2012

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The 10th annual Avignon Motor Festival took place last weekend in the beautiful Vaucluse department of France. There are many other vintage car events in the region, but the Motor Festival is by far the biggest one. Continue reading »