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Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Car Guy Emeritus Tim Allen Is Back for Second Season of Shifting Gears
Comic Tim Allen will be back for a second season of his latest television sitcom Shifting Gears, it was announced yesterday. The show features Allen as a widowed dad coming to terms with his estranged daughter when she has to move back in with him following the breakup of her marriage. The daughter is played by Kat Dennings, perhaps best known as one of the 2 Broke Girls. Why do we care? Because Allen's character Matt Parker owns a classic car restoration shop and cool cars feature prominently in all episodes. In the pilot, daughter Denning returns in the 'stolen' Pontiac GTO in which she stormed out of her dad's life at age 18. In the shop are all manner of cool cars, from a 409 Chevy Bubble Top to a '55 Chevy Bel Air, a '68 Camaro, and even a Volvo 122S. Many of the cars in early episodes were from Allen's personal collection. 'It's all my classic cars,' Allen told an interviewer for NerdTropolis when the show debuted. 'Some of the old Home Improvement stuff is in there in the background if anybody notices.' The restoration shop is an analogy, too, for the restoration of the relationship with his daughter. Get it? Having watched six episodes of the first season I can say all the elements are present for a successful show, but the characters need to get comfortable with themselves and each other for the comedy to feel more genuine. Here's hoping everything gels. Season 1 was on ABC and also available on Hulu, where you can watch all episodes from the first season. Season 2 will air on ABC and, a day later, on Hulu. No air date for Season 2 has been announced yet.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
This Ultra-Rare 1957 Chevrolet El Morocco Convertible Is Heading to Auction
A 1-of-10 Chevrolet El Morocco convertible is heading to auction on May 17 in Indianapolis, with no reserve price or estimate from the auction house. That means that almost anything could happen, though the same exact car sold a few years ago for nearly a quarter of a million dollars, and it's likely to do so again. The car is a modified Chevy Bel Air and inspired by a 1955 Cadillac Eldorado, built in 1957 by Canadian millionaire Ruben Allender, who wanted a Cadillac but smaller. In total, 34 El Moroccos were built, according to MotorTrend, though sources vary on how many were the 1956 model year and how many were the 1957 model year. Just 10 are known to still exist, according to Mecum's auction listing. More from Robb Report How the Layali Diriyah Pop-Up Is Redefining Luxury Retail-in the Saudi Desert Heesen Unveils a New 180-Foot Superyacht Just in Time for Your Summer Trip A Brand-New Glass House Floating Above Palm Springs Lists for $10 Million This example was completely restored to Concours-level quality, and since then just 78 miles have been driven on it. It is powered by a 283-cubic inch V-8 making in the realm of 220 horsepower, though the El Morocco isn't intended for speed of any sort but cruising, and likely only cruising to your local Concours event. The El Morocco can also simply be admired with the engine shut off in a garage. The transmission is a two-speed Powerglide automatic. This El Morocco was part of the Marv Seisel Collection in California, and was rescued by Seisel after a long search for El Moroccos that began in 1971. The owner of a meat store in San Diego, Seisel spent more than a decade looking for El Moroccos, at one point becoming convinced that none of the original 34 survived, according to MT. But then he found one—a hardtop version—in Columbus, Ohio, in 1983, and another, a convertible, in Columbus in 1990. Seisel found a third El Morocco—another convertible—in Texas in 1999. It is the first convertible Seisel found in Columbus that is up for auction now. All three of Seisel's El Moroccos were restored by Tel Pawney at D'Elegance in Fallbrook, California. El Morocco convertibles when new were $3,650, or about $42,200 in today's money accounting for inflation. The price now of several multiples of that reflects its rarity and condition. Click for more photos of the 1957 Chevrolet El Morocco convertible. Best of Robb Report The 2024 Chevy C8 Corvette: Everything We Know About the Powerful Mid-Engine Beast The World's Best Superyacht Shipyards The ABCs of Chartering a Yacht Click here to read the full article.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Junkyard Is A Graveyard Of Rotting Chevys
⚡️ Read the full article on Motorious Resurrection Auto has just purchased a junkyard's worth of classic cars. This collection is home to over 150 classic Chevy cars from 1950-1966 and trucks 1950-1988 as well as one random 1969 Corvette driver seat that sits on top of the hood of a Chevy Bel Air. The dense mass of cars is best described by the owners as 'Junk, but good junk,' indeed they have found some 'good junk'. Watch the latest Motorious Podcast here. Of the 150 total, they do not have 100-percent of the cars in their possession, and are unable to showcase anything that has not yet been transferred to their property due to the safety concerns of the original owner. However, the two state that they will be continuing to transfer the cars from the original owner's property to their own and say that we can expect new videos concerning the cars to be uploaded every few weeks. Most of these cars are currently being sold as either full cars or being parted out. While some of the cars don't have all of their original parts they have plenty of parts cars that may serve as fine donors to make the car of your dreams a reality. It's not news to anyone that American muscle cars are some of the coolest and most valuable cars out there, and unless you're a Mopar kind of guy/gal. So, it is astonishing that these guys were able to find an entire junkyard worth of them. It's not even like they're all junkers either, with some hard looking and just a bit of love you can make yourself a true vintage classic car.
