Stuff from D. Sept. 22nd, 2008

The High River Show and Shine is this Sunday, Sept 28th.

Here’s the postcard about it (Its one of the last shows of the season!):

High River Show Postcard

The Car Crazy.ca fall car auction is this weekend Sept. 26 and 27. Here are the cars going across the block: http://carcrazy.ca/current_auction.php

“The Iron Garage” Cool Hot Rod/Camaro/Mustang shop in Stony Plain, Alberta (Check out the snap shots of the shop):

http://www.theirongarage.com/

3M buying Meguiar’s:

http://www.sportscarmarket.com/articles/archives/1643

Weird cars slide show:

http://en.autos.sympatico.msn.ca/showpage/bizarrecars.aspx?dub-gallery-photo-number=1

59 Thunderbird article:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/autos/story/4228108p-4867616c.html

Metal Tube Bending article:

http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/techarticles/0811rc_metal_tube_bending/index.html

Buick Dash restoration article:

http://www.hotrod.com/howto/hrdp_0808_1971_buick_gs/index.html

September issue of Max Chevy now online:

http://www.maxchevy.com/

Motorama article:

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/driving/story.html?id=1021e35d-dc0d-4f69-ba17-be030ef0524f

Mini Cooper crashes at Targa Newfoundland(ouch!):

http://www.wheels.ca/Motorsports/article/377285

Cheers, Darryl
http://members.shaw.ca/darryL68ss350/

Stuff from D. Sept. 14th, 2008

Hi, Here you go….

Pics from the Cruz Knights campout weekend in Bow Valley:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvr_dun/sets/72157607297247653/

Video of the Cruz Knights trailers driving by:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS0-nR8mR3Q

For the latest news on Race City go to:

http://www.racecity.com/

A group is getting together at City Hall to protest the Race City closure on Sept. 19th, 2008. See the
link for details: http://www.performance-shop.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=53804.0

Ranchero article:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/

autos/story/4221993p-4838997c.html

52 Chevy Panel Van modified for hand controls:

http://wheels.ca/article/asset/337445

58 Packard Hawk article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/automobiles

/collectibles/07RUST.html?_r=1&ref=collectibles&oref=slogin

New Jersey parking lots car show “Lead East”, 50’s party :

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/automobiles/collectibles/07LEAD.html?ref=collectibles

1960 Ford Sunliner article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/automobiles/collectibles/07EGO.html?ref=collectibles

1960 Ford Sunliner audio/video slide show:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/07/automobiles

/collectibles/20080907-ego-multimedia/index.html

1952 MG TD article:

http://www.globeauto.com/servlet/story/

LAC.20080828.WHENTHUSIASTMG28/

GAStory/specialGlobeAuto/home/?query=

Overhaulin’s Adrienne Janic’s 1968 Pontiac Firebird build up

(Article by Liz Miles):

http://www.popularhotrodding.com/features/0810phr_adrienne_janic_1968_pontiac_firebird/index.html

1958 Ford Thunderbird article:

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/cars/

story.html?id=b6b99496-97c9-48e2-9a4b-8becc1aa4672

1961 Ford Startliner article:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/autos

/story/4225187p-4862975c.html

1971 BMW 2002 article:

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/cars/

story.html?id=bf890969-722f-49f7-89dc-53423c94ed6b

1938 Oldsmobile Opera coupe article:

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news

/driving/story.html?id=37005f1c-c8c1-4511-8b84-1c631189314d

Found another source for automotive art at “Dennis Wiskow’s Auto Art Gallery” Here’s the link:

http://www.dwautoart.com/

Cheers, Darryl.

Stuff from D. Sept. 3rd, 2008

The local car community lost one of its own recently in a

tragic vehicle crash. I will always remember his smiling face at many a car event.

Doug N. Obituary link: http://www.legacy.com/can-calgary/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=116368983

My thoughts go out to his family.

I have added some more photos from my archives to flickr. You can get to them from here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvr_dun/sets/

The New Camaro and the New Traverse will co-star in a TV Series called “My Own Worst Enemy” on NBC this fall. Here’s a link

to the information about it: http://www.nbc.com/My_Own_Worst_Enemy/

Pair of Ford trucks article:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=4ff6edf9-5597-4fde-84f7-2e7ba2fc588d

Speeding tickets becoming costly:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/08/29/hinton-speeding-fine.html

Article on AutoFest “Shelby Cobra” and “Ford Fairlaine”:

http://wheels.ca/News%20and%20Features/article/334902

Article on Plymouth collector(Wow, that’s a Garage!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/automobiles/collectibles/31SHOWROOM.html?ref=collectibles

Interesting article on the “Blackout” Buick:

http://www.lfpress.com/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=242549&x=articles&s=wheels

GM 100 years Detroit News section:

The Timeline part is cool. I like the 60’s intro the best!

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article

?AID=/99999999/AUTO01/80714001/0/AUTO01&template

=theme&theme=AUTOS-GM-100

74 AMC Matador article:

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/cars

/story.html?id=5cbb8a28-a54f-402e-9064-653c23aa0b54

You can tell Christmas is coming. Both Halmark and Carlton have thier Christmas collectible ornaments out.

Carlton has a Concept Camaro and a 65 Corvette. Halmark has a 63 Corvette and a 70 Chevelle. Price is $19.99 each CAN.

Cheers, Darryl