Category: One Day in the Shop
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One Day in the Shop… August 25, 2009
A brief look at one of the more unique cars ever to come through the driveway at Phil Reilly & Co, on the day that Jay Eitel brought his Ford hot rod by for the crew to ogle. Jay was an engineer and inventor, best known for creating the cherry picker, those trucks with a…
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One Day in the Shop: September 20, 2013
Three Big Bugattis and a Little Peugeot Every day at Phil Reilly & Co was something special, some days more so than others. This day was probably just another average one, though a search of the archive contains over 600 photos from that month in 2013, so it could go either way. Two of these…
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One Day in the Shop: a Trio of Alfa Romeo Straight Eights
The shop on Paradise Drive was one of the few places in America where you might find more than one pre-war Alfa Romeo supercar on the same day. Phil Reilly & Co was a specialist in the cars Vittorio Janos designed for Alfa and in today’s image from June 24, 2008, we see the 8C…
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One Day in the Shop: Too Damn Hot.
It is murderously hot here in the Sacramento river valley. This is all I have for you today, a little bit of Maserati content. Stay cool, friends.
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One Day in the Shop: June 17, 2009
Today’s image, a Cisitalia D46 in front of an Alfa TZ2, with tons of talent all around. This image features a large chunk of the top talent that was in place on Paradise Drive in 2009, and strikes me as appropriate timing, because I’m currently finishing up some work on an Abarth… a car from…
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One Day in the Shop… August 12, 2009
The Alfa Romeo TZ2 restoration was finished on this day, a few days after my 40th birthday. This team portrait includes, from left to right, Tom Smith, Ivan Zaremba, me, Chuck Mathewson and Rolly Boorman. Others worked to complete this project too; I think Phil Reilly & Co had around 12 or 13 employees at…
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One Day in the Shop: May 25, 2012
Two Hispanos, a Bugatti and a U-16 Miller… A typical day at Phil Reilly & Co, on Paradise Drive in Corte Madera, California. The variety of projects under way at any given point in time was remarkable, with this snapshot in time featuring four pre-war powerplants and a hint of the future in the back,…
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One Day in the Shop… June 2, 2010
A post-war Jaguar, a brass-era Isotta-Fraschini and a pre-war Bugatti Type 35B. Man, what a place to work. I remember when I first got the job, I couldn’t really get my head around the way that the guys working there were used to it. The types of cars that came in and out, day after…
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One Day in the Shop…September 20, 2013
A new and recurring post topic: What was going on in the shop that day? Here’s the concept: I pick an image from the archive. It will be an image of some cars that were in the shop at Phil Reilly & Co between 2005-2015, hopefully some interesting cars, and I will write about what…
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