LegendaryFinds.com Road Tests New Website For Car Buyers

LegendaryFinds.com Road Tests New Website For Car Buyers

Popular Site Features Hot Rods, Classic & Custom Cars, Race Cars and Sports Cars Displayed in an Innovative Format.

Santa Cruz, CA — Vintage and exotic car sales website LegendaryFinds.com recently announced an upgrade of its website to enhance car browsing.

An innovator in gathering car ads from across the Internet, the website now incorporates software which can instantly display notable cars as they become available online—thus providing car browsers and buyers with a distinct advantage. The site focuses exclusively on hot rods, custom cars, race cars, classic cars and sports cars.

On the Internet for years, LegendaryFinds.com caters primarily to true connoisseurs of cool and unique automobiles, says website owner Lars Mapstead.

“A car collector myself, I realized early on that the Internet lacked a dedicated website for this growing and knowledgeable segment of the automobile marketplace,” he says. “Internet skills used in my other businesses translated perfectly in helping create this website. For me, it has been a real labor of love.”

An entrepreneur and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Mapstead is also the guiding hand behind several prominent social networking and gaming sites.

“Next to devising an efficient way to locate and display these beautiful cars, our key innovation is to provide quick links to each car ad’s origin,” notes Mapstead. “We also enable users to pass favorite finds on to fellow car buffs using Facebook and other social media.”

The team at LegendaryFinds.com own and drive every style of car featured on the website including hot rods, custom cars, classic cars, race cars, and sports cars. Having driven and owned many different types of cars they know what it takes to create a great driving experience, as well as a good investment, says Mapstead.

“Personal ownership and road experience helps immensely, especially in our selection of top daily featured cars,” he adds.

Carmel 2012 and Gooding Preview

So day 3 in Monterey and Carmel, I thought I would take less pictures today but over 400 more to oogle at, wow so many amazing cars, it really is overload, and still 3 more days to go. I tried to buy some Ardun Valve Covers at Bonhams that was signed by Arkus Duntov, but got outbid the high bidder was $3500 wow crazy just for valve covers…
Anyway enough of my chatter on to the good stuff.

 Carmel 2012  and Gooding Preview

 Carmel 2012  and Gooding Preview

 Carmel 2012  and Gooding Preview

 Carmel 2012  and Gooding Preview

 Carmel 2012  and Gooding Preview

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What is your Dream Car ? Best Answer wins a Legendary Shirt !

Everyone has their favorite and for me it changes over time.

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My car collection kind of runs all over the place, I love traditional Hot Rods and Customs but also enjoy racing vintage sports cars, I enjoy my Stock classics. I have a Packard , Jaguar and Corvette Roadster. There is nothing sweeter than the sound of my Ferrari Dino, or my 57 Alfa. Like I said I am all over the map, and this site reflects my taste in cars. I enjoy sharing my passion with my friends and really anyone is who is into cars. I want to hear what your fantasy cars are, if you could have anything. The person with the best answer will win a Legendary Shirt, I pick whos got the best answer icon smile What is your Dream Car ? Best Answer wins a Legendary Shirt ! Here is a link to Some of my current cars Thanks to all you guys for making this site rock. I love to hear comments it makes me feel like I am connected with the people who read the site.

1954 Facel Comete for sale

Needs a lot of love this 1954 Facel, but its quite intersting you dont see too many of these around.

 1954 Facel Comete for sale

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1956 Other Makes Lago T14LS

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I love these cars because you never ever see them ! This one has been Vintage raced and has a nice roll cage built in. Get it back on the track !

Seller States:

1956 TALBOT LAGO T14LS

The number of exotic and exciting cars being built by the French soon after World War II was rather limited. Talbot Lago, one of the more famous names in Grand Prix and car history on the other hand, introduced such a car at the Paris Auto Salon in 1955. Designed by Carlo Delaisse who was the chief designer for Letourneur et Marchand. Typical of many French cars the detail found can be intoxicating, the gas cap being a perfect example of fine design. This Talbot Lago is a 1956 T14LS, chassis number 140019. The history, as we know it is as follows. In 1971 the car was imported into England and registered with OUG2 license plate, considered a cherished number. It was registered to a Simon Francis Phillips, from London SW7, around this time. That plate got removed and presumably placed on another of his cars and it became registered with PRK38K around 19th Feb 1976. The next registered owner was Mrs. Hilda Lewis, 47 Grosvenor Square, London W1A, a very posh and expensive part of London. The next owner was from here, John Heil. John bought the car in 1988 and imported it to the USA. John Vintage raced the car a little at some of the Palm Springs Vintage car races in that time period. At that time he had the car set up for that purpose, including a roll bar (removable) and competition seat belts and the obligatory catch and vent tanks for oil and water capture. The car remained in his and his family’s possession until we acquired the car from his estate recently. The car has a BMW V8 of the BMW 507 style, the same as what went into the Talbot Lago America. This engine has been in it since prior to arriving in England in 1971, as the original English log book shows it as having this motor with engine number 21900, the same number as it has today. We have redone the interior completely and it is superb, finished in very nice leather and Wilton Wool style carpeting. We have redone the interior to what we believe is back to original style and standards. The paint is very good but is by all accounts about 20 years old. It is finished in French Blue with Black interior. Because of the nature of the cars history we took the liberty of changing the wheel colour to Black to give the car a more masculine look and posture, which it has done admirably. This car is a perfect candidate for somebody who wants to not only have a very rare car, as it is 1 of only about 60 built, how many are left we don’t know, (quoted production numbers do vary slightly) but a car they can utilize in many of the Historic driving events that are available, such as the California Mille Miglia, Colorado Grand etc (please verify eligibility for any events if this is impoortant to you). We have copies of the English registrations and the build sheet from Talbot along with numerous records and articles relating to the car.

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