Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Ford Econoline camper van

From the seller's description:

1965 Ford Econoline Camper Van. It is in great condition and is in great working order. There are no major rust issues and everything is in working order. Not many of these vans are still around, and very few have as little rust as this one does. Camper top was done by "travel top", but I am not sure exactly when, Camper conversion looks to be from the late 60's to early 70's. I have never had any issues with the van and it has always ran strong. At one point it appears someone had a furnace of some sort in the rear, that has since been removed and that area now acts as storage. Could have some work done to turn it in to a true camper or just drive it and have fun with it as it is. I spent a lot of time looking for vans, as such I am welcome to any wishes for an inspection. This is great example of the early econoline vans, and is a blast to own.

Price

$18,500

Location

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Availability

Available

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New regulations could allow American cars to come back from Cuba

Photo courtesy Gavin in the UK.

Regulations passed last month designed to ease trade restrictions with Cuba could permit the Forties and Fifties American cars still prowling the streets of Havana to make their way back to their homeland either for restoration or for good.

The regulations, announced with much fanfare for their provision lifting restrictions on the amount of Cuban rum and number of Cuban cigars travelers can bring back from the country, also include a number of other provisions encouraging joint medical research, permitting grants and scholarships, and allowing certain U.S. citizens to again open bank accounts in Cuba. One of those provisions authorizes items that were previously exported to Cuba to be repatriated into the United States.

“This authorization will allow recipients of authorized exports or reexports to Cuba to return the items to the United States… including for service and repair,” according to a memo from the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. “Irrespective of involvement in the importation of these items, persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction are authorized to service and repair such items.”

The OFAC is the government entity responsible for administering the Cuban Assets Control Regulations – that is, the Cuban embargo. As the office pointed out in the memo, the repatriatization authorization is new; previously U.S. citizens could only import goods made in Cuba, and a limited number of goods at that. Returning the goods to Cuba would still require specific authorization from OFAC.

As written, the new regulation would plausibly allow Cubans to send their old American cars to the United States for restoration – perhaps a welcome option to the Cubans given the scarcity of restoration and maintenance parts that has led to Cuban mechanics’ famous resourcefulness – and even allow them to sell their cars to Americans – perhaps less likely given how attached many Cubans have become to their cars.

A request for detailed comment on the regulation from OFAC officials has so far gone unanswered.

Alongside OFAC’s new regulations, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security made some amendments to the Export Administration Regulations, one of which will allow Cubans to freely purchase restoration and maintenance parts for their old American cars from the United States.

“BIS will generally authorize exports of certain consumer goods that are sold online or through other means directly to eligible individuals in Cuba for their personal use,” the memo reads. So no chain parts stores in Cuba just yet, but those aforementioned Cuban mechanics shouldn’t have to rely on Russian diesel engines any longer.

The regulations went into effect Monday, October 17.

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Rolling Bones Hot Rods coming to the Saratoga Auto Museum

A gathering of Rolling Bones creations at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2011. Photo by Peter Vincent.

Hot rodding was born as a pure pursuit of speed, but as factory efforts caught up to and finally outstripped modified old cars, the hobby became as much about looking good as going fast. Few cars better express the aesthetic of vintage velocity than those that come out of the Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop in Greenfield Center, New York.

The fellows behind The Rolling Bones, Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell, have developed a formula for taking early Ford sheet metal and turning it into a driveable sculpture that immediately brings to mind land-speed racing in the 1940s. Further, artful use of vintage parts and preserved decay (“patina”), both real and simulated, gives the impression of a long history dating back to hot rodding’s golden era in the immediate post-WWII years.

Of his shop’s work (and philosophy), Ken said:

We’re not interested in building street rods with new or reproduction parts. Plenty of other guys do that. Our cars are aggressive, but they’re approachable. These cars make people smile; you want to hear them run and see them move. You can drive them during the week but they’re almost a full out race car.

Anybody can make something look dirty. It takes an artist to make something look old. Great hot rods are works of art. Like a painting, when you look at it, a serious hot rod will tell you enough of its story to grab your emotions, then let your imagination take you as far and as fast as you want to go. We build stories, Rolling Bones hot rod style, one story at a time.

Dick DeLuna’s ’34 five-window with Cockshutt tractor nose perfectly demonstrates the Rolling Bones aesthetic. Photo by Kurt Ernst.

Until now, your only hope of seeing some Rolling Bones creations was to intercept them during their yearly caravan to the Bonneville Salt Flats or to chance upon one or two at a gathering of vintage-style performance cars like The Race of Gentlemen or The Hot Rod Hill Climb. Luckily, the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York has just announced that a full 18 of the shop’s creations will grace its Golub Gallery, beginning with a November 11 unveiling and wrapping up March 26, 2017.

To attend the opening reception, or to learn more details about the scope and duration of the Rolling Bones exhibit, contact Brandon Salls at (518) 587-1935 or brandon.salls@saratogaautomuseum.org or visit SaratogaAutoMuseum.org.

 

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New regulations could allow American cars to come back from Cuba

Photo courtesy Gavin in the UK.

Regulations passed last month designed to ease trade restrictions with Cuba could permit the Forties and Fifties American cars still prowling the streets of Havana to make their way back to their homeland either for restoration or for good.

The regulations, announced with much fanfare for their provision lifting restrictions on the amount of Cuban rum and number of Cuban cigars travelers can bring back from the country, also include a number of other provisions encouraging joint medical research, permitting grants and scholarships, and allowing certain U.S. citizens to again open bank accounts in Cuba. One of those provisions authorizes items that were previously exported to Cuba to be repatriated into the United States.

"This authorization will allow recipients of authorized exports or reexports to Cuba to return the items to the United States… including for service and repair," according to a memo from the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. "Irrespective of involvement in the importation of these items, persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction are authorized to service and repair such items."

The OFAC is the government entity responsible for administering the Cuban Assets Control Regulations – that is, the Cuban embargo. As the office pointed out in the memo, the repatriatization authorization is new; previously U.S. citizens could only import goods made in Cuba, and a limited number of goods at that. Returning the goods to Cuba would still require specific authorization from OFAC.

As written, the new regulation would plausibly allow Cubans to send their old American cars to the United States for restoration – perhaps a welcome option to the Cubans given the scarcity of restoration and maintenance parts that has led to Cuban mechanics' famous resourcefulness – and even allow them to sell their cars to Americans – perhaps less likely given how attached many Cubans have become to their cars.

A request for detailed comment on the regulation from OFAC officials has so far gone unanswered.

Alongside OFAC's new regulations, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security made some amendments to the Export Administration Regulations, one of which will allow Cubans to freely purchase restoration and maintenance parts for their old American cars from the United States.

"BIS will generally authorize exports of certain consumer goods that are sold online or through other means directly to eligible individuals in Cuba for their personal use," the memo reads. So no chain parts stores in Cuba just yet, but those aforementioned Cuban mechanics shouldn't have to rely on Russian diesel engines any longer.

The regulations went into effect Monday, October 17.

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