coachbuilt Packards at the Dana Point Concours de Elegance

 in the middle of the gauge above, on the left it says "Park" and on the right "City" ... and in the below photo on the far right the gauge has "Drive" and "Pass"

I've never noticed anything like that before. Also unusual is the radio, it's the middle gauge. I don't recall ever seeing a radio that fits into the look of the other gauges so well.

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1920 Mercer Raceabout ( Not many Mercers at car shows... glad to find one!)

 as unusual as the speedometer is, the shifter below with it's shift pattern on the bell... that is something I've never seen another like

 two spares... because when these 20's cars were on the roads, they had to share the roads with horses that were always dropping horse shoe nails

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1955 stock race car (Grand National series) of Tim Flock, a Chrysler 300, worlds fastest stock sedan at 130 mph... when Nascar meant stock car

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