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What’s this Old Car Hobby all about?

What’s this old-car hobby all about? Did you ever wonder about that? People have been collecting old cars for a long time. In 1918, both The Saturday Evening Post and The Country Gentleman recognized the Silver Anniversary of the American automobile industry. Car dealers of the day ran promotions offering to trade new cars for pioneer automobiles. The cars that were turned in illustrated that people were already starting to collect automobiles and view them as historic artifacts.

By the early 1930s an old-car event called the Automobile Derby was being put on in

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