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Just a bump of this 16+ year old thread . . . to fix all the photos that were hosted on "PhotoBucket"

Just a bump of this 13 year old thread . . . to fix all the photos that were hosted on "PhotoBucket"

40cpe - Correct! aussiesteve - Nope ... The Secrest Collection was in the Tulsa Oklahoma area. 2ndgeer - Good guess ... This barn was definitely in the Guadalupe / Nipomo area ... but I can't confirm it was actually part of the Tognazzini family dairy farms.

Sold yesterday for $319,000 ...

Yes ... all of these photographs were taken at the same location ... an old dairy farm in the Central California Coastal town of Guadalupe ... I'll let the pics tell the rest of the story ... Enjoy!

From what I have gathered (from the replies in this thread and from elsewhere on the Internet) ... After Mr. Secrest's death in 1995, the collection was broken up (i.e., the cars were sold piecemeal) and Don Thelen purchased most (if not all) of the remaining parts from Seek's wife Corrine &...

Found a couple more pics taken that same day in August of 1976:

G.M. - Very, very nice!

Bruce Lancaster - Nope ... I'm neither the author (Ray Miller) nor the photographer (Glenn Embree) of "The V8 Affair". As a teenager in the 1970s, "The V8 Affair" was one of my favorite reads ... it (as well as a couple of Lorin Sorensen books) was really the impetus behind my love of Early...

G.M. - I just noticed your post :o ... this is exactly the kind of info I was hoping for with this thread! :) I assume your '32 Cabriolet was the restoration that Mr. Secrest recently acquired (and "Big Virg" & "Mr. Brown" were restoring) in August of 1976? Please post some pics of your...