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Classic Car Parts Classifieds Now Live!
The new classified ad site and online swap for The Old Car Manual Project is now up and running at classifieds.dogrumpcreek.com. This is a place where you can list your old car parts, literature and even cars, for free! It’s hosted by Dog Rump Creek Auto (another one of my projects) and is […]
Brazilian cars
David Marques of Brazil is working on a new site hosted by The Old Car Manual Project: brazil.tocmp.com
This is a fascinating and visually appealing site dealing with Brazilian cars, including the Brazilian-American makes that are just a little bit different from the US models.
Also check out David’s gallery of Brazilian car brochures at oldcarbrochures.com/brazil
Changes at The Old Car Manual Project
Since starting out nearly seven years ago with a few dozen pages scanned from my collection of 1950’s Holley carburetor manuals, The Old Car Manual Project has grown to tens of thousands of user-contributed pages of manuals, brochures, pictures and advertisements.
Some of the new things that we’re doing with the site are adding self service […]
Hidden truck treasures in the BC interior
A couple of weekends ago we went on a camper trip into the beautiful Kootenays of southern British Columbia. Packing up the trusty ‘76 GMC chassis C-class we ventured off in search of spectacular scenery and nifty old cars in hidden-away places.
As we usually do, we picked a random road to follow, heading […]
My new ride - 1967 Riviera
I’ve always liked Buicks, and I’ve had a few that I now regret having sold. So I couldn’t resist this one. It’s a little rough, needing a total restoration, but it’s got lots of chutzpah, due in large part to the Cherry Bomb exhaust and the ‘old school’ mags.
Plenty of Naugas died for […]
YouTube for Old Car Stuff
I’m working on a user-upload page for The Old Car Manual Project. It’s in the alpha-test stage, meaning I don’t know what I’m doing. Nonetheless, Fred (TOCMP’s intrepid links editor) and I are pounding away at it.
The idea is that Old Car Guys can register on the site and then upload their pictures, […]
AMC’s on TOCMP
Mike, who manages the excellent site Route 66 Rambler has contributed some fine brochures, ads and illustrations to The Old Car Manual Project. We have recently added Mike’s 1958, 1964 and 1967 Rambler brochures to the site, as well as some more Nash pictures.
1951 Ford F6 Fire Truck
Dale Bergeron of the Livonia, LA Volunteer Fire Department got in touch with me about a carburetor kit for the Holley 897 carburetor on their restored 1951 Ford F6 fire truck, which is still in use. It’s amazing how many of these old machines are still working. I guess that’s what happens when they’re […]
Early Bird Swap Meet - Lethbridge, Alberta
Sometimes southern Alberta in February is a dry, brown winter landscape, swept by warm Chinook winds. Not this weekend, however.
We camped out in our 1976 GMC-chassis Class ‘C’ in the parking lot of the Exhibition Centre, the only ones crazy enough to do so on this -20 degree night.
Having survived, we set up as […]
New on The Old Car Manual Project - Week of Jan 28, 2007
Front and Center for 1952 - BUICK
This is a short brochure for the last year when all Buicks featured the venerable straight-8 powerplant. Next year, only the base series 40 retained the smaller 263 CID straight 8. The big 320 was last seen in the Series 70 Roadmaster of ‘52.
Did you know that Flxible buses […]
