If you are looking for that hard to find part, a unique Christmas gift for the car enthusiast in your life, or you need to clear out your garage of parts, books, literature, and automobilia, come to the Petersen Automotive Museum Garage Sale and Swap Meet on Saturday, December 4, 2010. Filling the upper floors of the Petersen Museum's parking structure, the event will feature a mix of items from the Museum, along with a car sale corral and vendor area for those looking to sell vehicles and automobile or motorcycle items.
Bring your automobiles, motorcycles, and related parts, books, literature & ephemera to sell! Vendor booths are just $30 for a 15' x 30', and $20 for a 10' x 20' booth (sizes are approximate) with a limited number of covered spaces available for $10 more. Due to space availability, only automotive and motorcycle related items will be allowed. Table, chair, and power rental is available for an additional fee. For those wishing to sell their car, truck, van, race car, project vehicle, motorcycle, or other wheeled vehicle, spaces are available in the car corral for $30 per car or truck, and $20 per motorcycle. Any year, make, or model is welcome.
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Dakota Digital has released its VHX Series of Instrumentation. The first product from the series to debut is an application for the 1957 Chevy. The VHX Series of instruments features lighted needles, back-lit faces and full character message centers for all displays. The products utilize solid state sensors and precision stepper motors for increased accuracy.
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A new LED retro-fit for 1967-1969 Ford Mustangs has just been introduced by Technostalgia. The new kit converts the aft lighting on classic Mustangs to super-bright LED, as well as adds sequential turn signals and RapidFire brake lights, said the company. The sequential turn signals light each of the three light segments in sequence to indicate the turn direction.
The RapidFire brake lights flash the lights three times followed by a bright, constant light. They will repeat any time the brake pedal is pressed. The new kit includes LED arrays, LED driving electronics, necessary wiring, stainless steel brackets and an LED turn signal flasher.
Both the turn signals and the RapidFire brake lights can be turned off individually by the end-user. According to the company, installation of the kit takes less than 30 minutes.
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Wilwood Engineering has just released its new 11-inch Internal Drum E-Brake Rear Kit, which is designed for use on original muscle cars, street rods, classic trucks and other specialty vehicles that are running smaller diameter rear wheel sizes.
The kit will work well with all 15-inch diameter
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The new Select Series damper from RideTech is a steel-bodied, monotube damper that offers two sets of independent internal valve stacks, which allows the user to choose between a soft “cruise” mode and a firmer “sport” mode for handling performance.
In default mode (no power applied) the lower valving
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CPP’s new Complete Rear Dual Adjustable Coil-Over Kit is designed to convert your 1963-72 Chevy truck to a corner carving, performance driving vehicle! Our kit includes our new Totally Tubular Trailing arms, coil over springs and dual adjustable coil over shocks and all the mounting hardware to make this rear suspension
Get that cool street rod stance and track proven performance for your 1963-87 Chevrolet C10 Truck! Our Complete Front Coil-Over Conversion Kits include dual-adjustable coil-over shocks, spanner wrench and bearing kit, our Totally Tubular™ upper and lower control arms, and all the mounting brackets and hardware for a simple bolt-on installation.
Sue Vanderbilt in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Seville “Baroness;" the show car that she styled for the Feminine Show. When you look back at General Motors’ rich design history, one of the most talented individuals, who made her career as part of GM’s vaunted Creative Design Team, was the late Suzanne E. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was one of the original Damsels of Design – a group of eight, great talented female designers that the famed Harley Earl hired during the early days of the 1950s.
Throughout history, the Oldsmobile story has inspired many automotive historians with its rich and celebrated heritage which started right in Michigan’s capital city of Lansing.
I remember a particularly exciting year in 1978 when Oldsmobile introduced their new line of vehicles and automotive catalogues to the buying public. My first impression was that Oldsmobile was using 1978 to create a family-oriented lineup of new cars. The company used its advertising and marketing to highlight many traditional family values
The year 1966 was a great year for automotive sales in the U.S. Many car manufacturers were doing very well for the economy and in 1966 the average cost for a new Dodge vehicle sold for $ 2,280 and the price of gasoline for 32 cents a gallon.
The Chrysler Corporation was also doing very well within the automotive markets with its popular Dodge Dart models. The 1966 Dodge Dart models made their debut in Dodge dealerships on September 30, 1965.
Based on a 1956 Chevrolet 210 Sedan, this recently completed mild custom was built to showcase the timeless factory “Tri-Five” heritage. With a new GM Performance ZZ4 power plant backed by a factory-fresh GM 700R4 transmission, it is equipped with rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel Wilwood disc
To ensure that Shelby American would have its 1966 GT350 models in dealerships when Ford released the new ‘66 Mustangs, Shelby ordered an additional 252 cars from Ford’s San Jose plant at the very end of 1965 production. These ‘change-over’ cars (often referred to as ‘carry-overs’) were essentially Shelby-spec ’65 GT350s, and received the same performance modifications,