Seemed like pretty often, a sleigh turned up at auction around Christmas time. Since most of the auction houses have temporarily closed and moved online, I haven’t seen any this year. But several have appeared…
Category: Vehicles
Looked like a parking meter, but it was actually for riders
Posted in Advertising, collectibles, Equipment, and Vehicles
The thing had the shape and look of one of those parking meters that we’re constantly pumping with quarters and nickels to stave off a parking ticket. But I could see that this one was…
Every now and then on Facebook, a relative of mine posts a photo of himself or herself standing next to their new BMW or Mercedes or a bright red Hummer. Showing it off is a…
A mesmerizing old Ford truck & the highway it calls home
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, travel, and Vehicles
To me, it was a no-name highway, a stretch of lonely road that I took each December to buy pecans from a market not far off I-75 south when I visited my family in Georgia.…
“Wind Song” perfume as lure for women to buy ‘54 Chevy
Posted in Beauty Products, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Personal items, Vehicles, and Women
The first image I saw was a small bottle of perfume, its top enveloped by a large printed bouquet of ribbons on a card. Beneath it, I read three words that were incongruous with the…
It looks like a home phone but this one’s for the car
Posted in collectibles, Equipment, and Vehicles
You couldn’t tell how the phone was used just by looking at it. A home phone was the first thing that came to my mind, even though it looked rather strange. The phone was in the…
Things that make me go “Wow!” and “Huh?”
Posted in Carvings, collectibles, Home, Toys, and Vehicles
Most of the time when I’m previewing items at auction – usually in the hour before the action starts – I amble through the aisles, stopping at a table here and there, picking up stuff…
When I walked through the door of the auction house, a group of men had already taken their places around the two cars to my left. The shiny blue Mustang and white Corvette Stingray had…
I knew I needed new tires because my handyman had already done the penny test on the tread of the Michelins that had come on the used Mazda 6 I had bought in 2014. It…