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.