By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Check out this awesome ‘48 Caddy! More pics after the jump!

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By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

So last week at Hershey, we got an earful on the issue of Chrysler Town and Country cars in the Classic Car Club of America. Whatever your position on the issue, there’s no denying that T&Cs are some of the most sought-after and prestigious postwar American cars, especially the convertible versions. So it’s not unusual to find one, beautifully restored with a few personal touches, on Hemmings.com. What is unusual is to find one on Hemmings.com, but physically located in Paris, France. We’re pointed to the seller’s website to find out how it found its way in the land of Simcas and Renaults. Continue reading at Hemmings

Ben Levy sent me a link to some photos he took at the Chi-Town Kruze, a huge classic car cruise and show that takes place near Chicago’s Lakefront. I really loved this ‘48 Dodge, the "Orange Rufy." That’s not paint, that’s Rhino Hide! It’s got a 502 Chevy crate marine motor, Turbo 400 trans and Ford 9" rear end. More pics after the jump, and be sure to check out this video about the car.

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Back in 1999, Edmunds bought a 1948 Cadillac Fleetwood, chopped it up and converted it to office furniture. Ok, maybe I could forgive them for a little wretched dot-com excess (not Jen, she is seriously pissed off). But then they brag about it in their goofy office tour video. Seriously, what’s up with that? Is nothing sacred? Couldn’t they just stick with the Aeron chairs?

Seeing one of these cars is kind of like seeing a unicorn: it just doesn’t happen. But Autoblog tells us that one of the original 51 Tuckers, built in 1948 by doomed visionary Preston Tucker, sold on eBay yesterday for a couple of hundred grand. This one was converted in 1964 to run a Mercury Monterey driveline, including a 390 V8 in place of the original Tucker’s rear-mounted Franklin aircraft engine. This is the kind of radical engine swap you could never get away with today on an original Tucker, which is valued in the hundreds of thousands.  But it’s clear that the conversion actually makes this ultra-rare classic a lot more feasible as a driver: with the 390, it’s something you could actually work on and enjoy, rather than just a giant paperweight.