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A single classic-car marketplace crunched a year of search traffic and produced a map that reads like a territorial dispute. Ford and Chevrolet each claimed exactly twenty states, one nameplate racked up nearly four million searches on its own, and one New England state broke ranks entirely. The results say as much about how Americans shop for old cars as they do about brand loyalty. Read on to see where the lines fell.
Fifty-nine classic cars, from a 1919 Model T to a 1976 Porsche, were washed, polished, and readied for auction — the result of twenty years of quiet work by Cal Phillips, an Idaho farmer and World War II veteran who didn’t start collecting cars until he retired in 1994. His collection refused to specialize, mixing Model As and Studebakers with Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. Read on to find out how big the collection actually got, and what the auction ultimately raised.