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When Gus told me he was on the production team for a collector car auction I insisted he get me a ticket.  Seeing classic cars is like traveling back in time. I picture the families that use to own it, the conversations that took place, the adventures, the everyday moments like going to the grocery store. It takes me back to a time I only see in movies, a time when life was simple.

All the cars were so unique from each other with amazing details. I decided to photograph what makes each car special.

Decades later we call these cars a work of art.

When I saw this black Chevy I was taken back to my childhood. My dad use to have one and he loved it. I remember when a random man came to our door and offered him cash for it. I can recall the look of…

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It’s Thursday evening at the courthouse square in Crown Point, Indiana, and the summer long classic car show has begun.  It starts at 4 p.m. and goes on all night.  The parking spaces around the square are filling up with Cougar, Chevrolet, Corvette, Mustang, and Roadster automobiles to name a few.  There are cars from the 1940s to muscle cars.  It’s a lot of fun.  The cars are in mint condition.

A hot road owner told me that there may be as many as 100 vintage cars filling the square.   They understand the attraction to the classic cars and they enjoy talking about the work they have put into them.

Drivers do a slow ride around the square to see the cars that are here tonight.  Some of the people, like me,  walk around the square to get a closer look.

Father’s Day is this Sunday.  If you are searching for a gift for dad…

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Chronicling America – Horseless Carriages and Ford’s Model T

Source:  Library of Congress – www.loc.gov

The information and sample article links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in the Chronicling America: American Historic Newspapers digital collection (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/). Use the Suggested Search Terms and Dates to explore this topic further in Chronicling America.

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Jump to: Sample Articles

Important Dates:

• November 28, 1895. Gas-powered Duryea automobile wins the Times-Herald race in Chicago.
• 1896 American gasoline powered “motocycles” manufactured by the Duryea brothers.
• February 1902. Miss Anne French, Washington’s first woman driver.
• February, 1904. Automobile rivals the drawing room for romance.
• June 23, 1909. New 1909 Ford Model T crosses finish line first in New York to Seattle automobile race.
• 1909-1927. Ford Motor Co. begins to mass produce its Model T, a reliable and inexpensive automobile.

Suggested Search Strategies:

• [Try the following terms in combination, proximity, or as                 phrases using Search                   Pages in Chronicling America.]
• Horseless       carriage, automobile, motor trucks, horseless vehicle, Ford Model T,       motocycle.
• It       is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a       particular event in order to narrow your results.

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Sample Articles  from Chronicling America:

• “Motocycles Race,”St. Paul Daily Globe (Saint Paul, MN), November 29, 1895, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
• “One Ride in a Horseless Carriage,”San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), May 31, 1896, Page 27, Image 27, col. 1-4.
• “The Motocycle To-Day,”The Sun (New York, NY), October 11, 1896, Page 3, Image 3, col. 3-4.
• “Thousands Witnessed the Start,”The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), July 14, 1899, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
• “The Advent of the Automobile,”Virginian-pilot (Norfolk, VA), July 23, 1899, Page 9, Image 9, col. 3-6.
• “It Is a Paradise, Cries the Washington Chauffeur,”The Washington Times (Washington, DC), February 2, 1902, Magazine Features, Page 2, Image 26, col. 1-5.
• “Motoring to Matrimony,”The Saint Paul Globe (Saint Paul, MN), February 14, 1904, Page 4, Image 4, col. 1-3.
• “Motor Motions,”Goodwin’s Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), January 9, 1909, Page 13, Image 11, col. 1-3.
• “Ford Still Leads Race,”The Yakima Herald (North Yakima, WA), June 23, 1909, Page 1, Image 1, col. 3.
• “Ford Car Crosses Tape to Cheers of Crowds,”Daily Arizona Silver Belt (Globe City, AZ), June 24, 1909, Page 1, Image 1, col. 3.
• “For Hundreds of Years Has It Been Tried,”Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, CA), September 12, 1909, Page 1, Image 33, col. 7.
• “Standard Parts for Ford Cars,”San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), June 19, 1910, Page 57, Image 57, col. 2.
• “A Packard in Big Cottonwood Canyon,”Goodwin’s Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), July 1, 1911, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
• “Automobiles on Farms Promise to Soon Make Horses and Mules Useless Expenses,”El Paso Herald (El Paso, TX), March 30, 1912, Week-End Edition, Page 6, Image 6, col. 4-5.
• “The Motor Horse,”The Day Book (Chicago, IL), October 1, 1912, Page 28, Image 28, col. 1.
• “Story About Henry Ford, A New Kind of Millionaire,”The Tacoma Times (Tacoma, WA), January 10, 1914, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1-4.
• “Justice, Not Charity,”The Daily Missourian (Columbia, MO), November 7, 1916, Page 2, Image 2, col. 2-3.
• “Automobile is Now Necessary,”The Beaver Herald (Beaver, OK), July 24, 1919, Page 7, Image 7, col. 1-2.
• “99,967 Ford Cars,”Graham Guardian (Safford, AZ) , December 3, 1920, Page 1, Image 1, col. 2.