Stewart Warner gauge advertising

For more tachometer ads see the Sun tachs: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/sun-tachometer-ads-from-1950s-and-60s.html and Airguide tach advertising http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/airguide-tachometer-advertising.html

Sunoco 260 advertising.. . makes me wonder why anyone would feel it necessary to advertise gasoline

A different kind of ad for Sunoco was the jacket: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/sunoco-260-race-gas-at-gas-station.html

A rare 1938 Diamond T streamliner has been located!

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/05/14/streamlined-seagrams-diamond-t-found-awaiting-restoration/

Like I recommend, read http://blog.hemmings.com/ regularly, Dan comes up with great stuff all the time!

Ed Zimmerly's Overdrive newpaper is now online in a digital format too!

http://www.overdrive-online.com/index.html

For the paper version, read this post for locations: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/04/overdrive-hot-rod-news.html

If you desired performance or dress up kits for your Falcon or Sunbeam Tiger, Shelby was selling them. How about a 46% more horsepower bolt on?

Buy or rent from Hertz, the Shelby GT 350H

Shelby American advertising in 1963-67

2 things... love the headlights.. but how about the editor missing the correct engine size for the Mopar hemi

The cover story isn't in this issue.. the pages were printed wrong and page 62 wasn't included to explain how to buy Dean's transporter

This is the Dean Moon Cheetah transporter.. and my December 1961 issue of Car and Driver doesn't have pages 57 to 65. It has pages 73 to 80 printed twice. See http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/update-on-dean-moons-awesome-hauler.html

The new owner of the transporter, (and finder of unique autos) Goeff has a copy of the Robert Lee Behme "$16,000 Transporter" article, the pages missing from my issue, and let me share them with you. Thanks to Dan of Hemmings http://blog.hemmings.com/ for connecting us!

Unsafe amount of tread

An innovative way to prevent thieves from stealing your car

One odd looking sports car, the Cunningham "Le Monstre"

Oldsmobile Delmont road test.. 12.8 mpg from a 455

STP ads from the 60's

The below column references the above advertisements typed letter, click on it for full size

STP most likely is best known as the sponsor for the Petty race team, and I bet you'll be surprised to learn that STP was the Chemical Compounds division of Studebaker (it's in the fine print... look at the 3rd ad very closely once you click for full size)

vintage Iskenderian ads

Vintage magnesium rims

Vertex Magneto ads of the 50's and 60's

Orbitron... could'a been yours if you'd seen this ad in August 1968

Maybe you'd heard it's been lost and found, and just was restored... http://www.theorbitron.com/

Ads for cool cars

The above and below are a two page ad... the above was on the right of the magazine spine, the below was on the left

Coincidently, a couple things about the 1903 Paris - Madrid race happened to fall in my lap at the same time

Louis Renault at 90 mph

Great shot

When artists get ahold of pop fashion... all sorts of strange things occur... like this Panhard

Castrol vintage ads

The vehicles Honda broke into automotive manufacturing with

Stats showed that deaf drivers were in a LOT LESS accidents

Louis Chevrolet lost his sense of humor, and the Vanderbilt Cup Race, when he spun out into the woods

A Motorama line up, GM's traveling road show of concept cars

Honest Charley ads for the catalog, 1963, 1963 1/2, 1968

Honest Charley's Speed shop... 1948 to 1990 Chattanooga Tennessee

For more than fifty years, Honest Charley and the distinctive trademark have been synonymous with quality styling accessories and superior customer service.

Founded in 1948 by Honest Charley Card in the foothills of the Great Smokey mountains in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Honest Charley's unique combination of automotive, performance and custom accessories and world wide distribution of the notably humorous Honest Charley catalogs served to establish Honest Charley Speed Shop as one of the most recognized names in the Automotive Aftermarket.

Honest Charley was one of the first advertisers featured in Hot Rod Magazine. The company was one of the first speed shops with coast to coast distrubution, and one of the first computerized automotive businesses.

Honest hisself was a fixture at both Daytona and at Indy for many years. Company expansion included Honest Charley retail stores and and distribution centers throughout Tennessee, Georgia and Florida supplying jobbers and dealers throughout the southeast.

In 1980 Honest Charley's Speed Distributors Warehouse was named SEMA's Warehouse Distributor of the Year.Honest hisself was the second inductee into the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) Hall of Fame. He was a lifetime member of USAC with member number 121 and an early member of the Indy 500 Old-timers Club.

In 1990, after more than forty years of industry innovation and dedicated service, Honest Charley discontinued operations at 108 Honest Street. However, the significance of Honest's legacy of always placing the customer first and his example of embracing all enthusiasts as family and friends continued to influence both the industry and all who knew him.

In 1998 the Honest Charley name and trademarks were acquired by the Coker Tire Company

http://www.honestcharley.com/

A Corvette built for Bill Mitchell (GM VP of styling staff)

It's my guess that if this turned up at auction it would fetch a million, or no one would want the ugly thing.

A couple cool old ads

A Dean Moon dragster, and vintage Moon ads

1934 Buick 91 ( right hand drive ) (one of 2 in the UK)... unrestored barn find!

Bought new (rhd) by a guy called Blenkinsop in 34 and stored in a barn in 1960 when he couldn't get tyres for it! Sold at auction 4 years ago to me! All original interior, paint, chrome (or lack of) etc. Overhauled mechanics and new tyres.

There where 7 Buicks imported new to Britain in 1934, of which 2 are 91's. The other car survives in Scotland http://www.oceanwheels.co.uk/new_site/index.php/Wedding-Luxury-on-your-Wedding-Day.html

He has the original engine but is running it with a Rover V8 at the moment. There is also a 33 or 34 Buick Hearse in a scrapyard somewhere in the UK.

I have the original spare wheel covers but unfortunately they don't fit over the 750x16 tyres I have, think I need 650x16's for the spares.

Thanks Rob!

Vintage Edelbrock advertising

see also: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/edelbrock-advertising-of-1952.html

The best trick rider you'll ever see. Period. ( Murphy's Law doesn't apply to this guy )

the El Camino turns 50!

Riviera Supper Club7777 University Ave., La Mesa, (619) 713-6777 will be having a El Camino car show to celebrate in June

Early Cobra advertising

reminds me of http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/imagine-carroll-shelby-handing-this.html