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Too Cool Not To Post

Posted by christiancarguy on 12 March, 2010
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NEW CHEVY BILLBOARDS
POSTED AROUND  DETROIT

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Are You Too Young To Remember These Auto Accessories?

Posted by christiancarguy on 7 July, 2009
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My Uncle sent this to me
I came across this phrase yesterday ‘FENDER SKIRTS.’
A term I haven’t heard in a long time, and thinking about ‘fender skirts’ started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice, like ‘curb feelers’
And ’steering knobs.’ (AKA) suicide knob, Neckers Knobs.
Since I’d been [...]

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What Was Your Father’s Car Like?

Posted by christiancarguy on 13 June, 2009
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About 1970 my father traded for a 1938 Nash that had been stored in a barn since the fifties, only had about 20,000 miles on it. We went out there to pick it up and brought a wrecker. We opened the barn and there she was, quite a sight. It looked like an old gangster [...]

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New Government Motors Product Design Plans Leaked

Posted by christiancarguy on 4 June, 2009
This post was filed in Automotive, Government, History and has 10 comments

Flint, MI.-CCG News Service
By: Jax
 The CCG News Service has unearthed the new designs for these Emissions free, Green, Labor and Fuel Friendly 2010 sedans as proposed by GM (Government Motors). Head designer, Fredrick W. Tone, who currently resides in Flint, Michigan, Flint’s Tone was quoted as saying “this design harkens back to earlier design [...]

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True Warriors…”Too Cool Not To Post”

Posted by christiancarguy on 9 May, 2009
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Look carefully at the B-17 and note how shot up it is - one engine dead, tail, horizontal stabilizer and nose shot up.. It was ready to fall out of the sky. (This is a painting done by an artist from the description of both pilots many years later.) Then realize that there is a [...]

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