Monthly Archives: December 2009

Hailed as “The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions™,” the Scottsdale event will feature a diverse mix of the world’s most desirable collector vehicles, as well as lavish lifestyle events throughout the week. After enjoying the car on the streets of Clovis and a trip south of the border with friends in search of Mexican guitars, Buddy gave the Impala to his father as a belated Christmas gift. More than a decade later, Clement, a Lubbock native, high volume Chevy collector and owner of the well known “Chevy Craft” shop, purchased the Impala after researching the car and confirming it had indeed belonged to Holly. After about five years of the car sitting in the shadows at Clement’s shop, news broke that Buddy Holly’s car was back home in Lubbock. read more  Read more... (141 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)

Send a link to this post ‘ DOTS Volvo Amazon Looks Crusher In The Eye, Crusher Blinks First! When I heard that a white Amazon sedan was spotted in the yard, I suspected it might be a car I’d featured in the Down On The Street series . Sure enough, it turned out to be this battered but plenty solid 1966 Volvo Amazon sedan , which once lived just a couple of blocks from my house. Even though I don’t have any room for another car, I showed up to this auction with enough money to meet the minimum bid (which is pegged to scrap prices; Pick-N-Pull now pays $175 for a junk car, so the bids at this auction start at 200 bucks) and a commitment to rescue this Volvo in the event that nobody bid on it. This isn’t your typical high-tension car auction ; only a dozen or so cars go under the auctioneer’s non-existent hammer each week. read more  Read more... (173 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)

After cutting production at its plants and extending scheduled shutdowns last year, including at its Fort Wayne Truck Assembly Plant, along with employee buyouts, the company continued to bleed red on the ledger books. Don Ayres Pontiac GMC Honda on Lima Road, Mendenhall-Roy Chevrolet of Grabill and Gene Reeg Motor Sales of Columbia City each received one of some 1,100 letters Fed-Ex’ed to dealers around the country that their contracts with the company wouldn’t be renewed when they expired in October 2010. On a brighter note, General Motors’ Fort Wayne Truck Assembly Plant announced a large expansion and avoided the chopping block for plant closures. In September, GM announced it would add a third shift to the 2,500-employee plant by bringing in 700 additional employees, many of them from a closed plant in Pontiac, Mich. read more  Read more... (147 words, estimated 35 secs reading time)