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Dshift

Lifer
Mar 28, 2025
1,165
5,584
Germany
ebay.us
Do you maintain a private collection?
No not really, I do all the media(photography, videography, racing covering etc.) for different companies, collectors and race teams. But I am deeply involved in more aspects, so I could actually help some find an otherwise unfindable car, for example, or get any information one could need.
 
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Dshift

Lifer
Mar 28, 2025
1,165
5,584
Germany
ebay.us
That Melkus is pretty rare, I see some exotic machinery near New Orleans, but never a Melkus.

I have '79 MGB, worth about as much as one Ferrari wheel. But, with the top down, I feel like a million bucks!

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This has a lot more character than half the supercars on the market! I wanted to show a bunch more very rare cars, like Sebastian Leon’s Peugeot 3008 from the Dakar race, for example, which as of a couple of weeks ago is somehow street legal 🤣, but I got hit hard by the photo size limit again… I figured it out at the end but it’s just too much work to find and re- export a bunch of 50mb+ photos… also tried using the url way but still doesn’t work for some reason..

Here is a link to the Dakar Peugeot if anyone wants to see it:

 

irishearl

Lifer
Aug 2, 2016
2,531
4,791
Kansas
This has a lot more character than half the supercars on the market! I wanted to show a bunch more very rare cars, like Sebastian Leon’s Peugeot 3008 from the Dakar race, for example, which as of a couple of weeks ago is somehow street legal 🤣, but I got hit hard by the photo size limit again… I figured it out at the end but it’s just too much work to find and re- export a bunch of 50mb+ photos… also tried using the url way but still doesn’t work for some reason..

Here is a link to the Dakar Peugeot if anyone wants to see it:

You showed a lot of lovely cars, but that one was meh.:)
 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
22,962
58,341
Southern Oregon
jrs457.wixsite.com
Definitely my favorite of the bunch! This reminds me of the Concours d'Elegance that my father and I used to attend at Pebble Beach.
My grandfather owned an auto body and repair shop in Waterbury Connecticut and they got a lot of the carriage trade, Dusenbergs, Auburns, Packards, Cords, etc.
 

Sig

Lifer
Jul 18, 2023
2,063
11,698
54
Western NY
Ive been into cars for many decades.
I started with my 1970 GTO in 1987. During that time my friends and I did dirt track racing. We built several cars for that. Then I started buying junkers and putting them back on the road....then selling them.
That turned to building old muscle cars back to their original shape. Which usually involved sourcing very hard to find parts. That was the best part of it.....other than finding some old "barn finds".
My current daily driver is a 600hp 2014 BMW M4 that ive "tweeked" a bit. :)
I'll get some pictures up soon of some muscle cars. Here's the BMW.
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