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Weather Update - April 22, 2008
Just outside Dog Rump Creek is my shop (The Carburetor Doctor) in sunny Stony Plain, Alberta. I thought you might enjoy the view from my front door on this beautiful spring day, shortly after opening up this morning.
Classic Car Ads Redux
I came across a real gem at the Powerama swap meet today in sunny, warm Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. There is an outfit from Calgary that is producing licensed, poster sized versions of classic GM, AMC and Chrysler ads. These aren’t mere blow ups of magazine ads, but are lovingly restored […]
About The Old Car Manual Project
If you’ve been to oldcarbrochures.com or tocmp.com in the last few days you’ve either had slow access, or none at all. This is because we moved the site to a new web host in the hopes of having better service, and ended up with hardly any access at all. Bottom line with web […]
New Old Car Brochures
Now that the new oldcarbrochures.com site has been up for a month or so, it has accumulated hundreds of brochures for American, European, Asian, Canadian and other cars and trucks - about 24,000 images so far!
If you have old brochures that you would like to share with the world, you can register at the site […]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Everyone!
Here’s a wonderful postcard I received from Mano Forsman, a major Old Car Guy and avowed ‘53 Cad lover from Sweden (click to enlarge):
The Earliest V8’s
It’s often said that Chevrolet’s first V8 was Zora-Arkus Duntov’s 1955 small block, but in fact, Chevrolet had toyed with the design (and gotten it’s fingers burned) back in the teens. Chevrolet over-reached with the first V8 and most of them were replaced under warranty, having proven to be notorious duds. (Apparently, the shirts […]
