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October 12, 2012 · 5:45 am

One Last Look at the Cars of the War Eagles Air Museum

Before we leap into the Z3 roadster and continue motoring on up the Mesilla Valley, let us take one last look at this remarkable automobile collection . . . at an aviation museum, no less.

Remember that classic wolf-atop-a-castle badge on early Volkswagen Beetles? That’s the crest for the city of Wolfsburg in Northern Germany — home of the factory in which Beetles were made from 1951 to 1959. See below for a view of this little piece of nostalgia.

Also spotted below is a beautiful example of an early Morgan sports car, a Packard, the timeless curves of an E-Type Jaguar, a Buick decked out as a staff car for a three-star general, and more great views of that Auburn Speedster (with a really great looking babe behind the wheel in one shot).

: Jaguar E-Type

: 1936 Packard

: A Radiator Grill that Could Double as a Snow Plow

: MG TF Grill

: The Auburn Straight Eight Exhaust Lines

: Putting the “Boattail” in Auburn Boattail

: Hot Babe in an Auburn Speedster

: Wolfsburg Volkswagen

: A Patriotic Ford

: Morgan +4

: Buick Staff Car

: Ford Model A

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October 10, 2012 · 5:45 am

The Car Side of the War Eagles Air Museum

Lest you think that the War Eagles Museum is solely about aircraft, today and Friday we take a look at some of the classic automobiles in this amazing collection. Here you’ll see everything from the Auburn 851 Speedster (affectionately called the “Boat Tail” Auburn) to classic T-series MGs to Rolls Royces, tail-finned Caddies, and even an early Newport Pagnell DB-series Aston Martin (a 1962 DB-4).

If you love cars, you’ll love the pictures for today and Friday:

: Very Rare 1958 Cadillac Biarritz

: MG — Morris Garages

: MG TF “Midget”

: In Aston Martin-Speak DB stands for David Brown

: Ford and the World Fords with You — Rolls and You Roll Alone

: 1908 Overland

: Nicely Equipped Garage

: MG MGA 1600 Roadster

: Auburn Headlight

: Auburn 851 “Boattail” Speedster

: BMW Motorcycle

: Putting the “Old” in “Oldsmobile”

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October 8, 2012 · 5:45 am

And the War Eagles Keep on Coming

Continuing with that road trip in the roadster from last week, we once again stumble amongst the classic aircraft on view at the War Eagles Air Museum.

Hope you’re not yet tired of seeing all these great vintage aircraft. I know I never get tired looking at them.

One note of interest reference the inverted gull wing you see on the Voight F4U Corsair (of Baa Baa Black Sheep/Pappy Boyington fame) — that interesting design feature had absolutely nothing to do with aerodynics and everything to do with providing enough ground clearance to keep that massive propeller from hitting the ground.