Archive for November, 2008


Crawford museum plans 100th birthday party for four cars ...
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 2 hours ago
"This was the first muscle car," he said. If the Simplex was the Corvette of its day, the Ford Model T, known as The Tin Lizzy, was the early Volkswagen ...

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Let's blame it all on the 1950s
Miramichi Leader, Canada - 52 minutes ago
The biggest change in society in the 1950s was the growing desire by just about everyone to satisfy their wants, as opposed to their needs. From cars to TVs ...

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Mountain of Snakes (Part II)
Huffington Post, NY - 1 hour ago
I noticed that the number of 1950s American cars had diminished even in the few years since my last trip, giving way to smaller Russian designs. ...

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Bevy of motor classics glint at rally
Indian Express, India - 1 hour ago
Gurgaon: Gurgaoncar lovers had a field day feasting their eyes on old beauties of the 1950s, as cars and two-wheelers rolled out on the streets for a ...

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16 years of cruising in Cleveland
Cleveland Daily Banner, TN - 1 hour ago
For most members, their love of cars is not limited to Volkswagens. Some are also into muscle cars, others are into racing and all share a love of "the ...

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5000 line sidewalks for Christmas Parade in Santa Paula
Ventura County Star, CA - 6 minutes ago
Paez said every part of the parade has become much bigger since she started bringing her children to the Main Street event in the 1950s. ...

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Graham Marlette: Let's not reward 'Big Three' for their failures
Durham Herald Sun, NC - 1 hour ago
... back in the 1950s, it was reported that GM cornered the copper market and withheld this vital component from all of the independent car manufacturers ...

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Banking On Memories in Coalwood, W.Va.
Bristol Herald Courier, TN - 1 hour ago
Bill Bolt worked several years at the machine shop in Coalwood and helped make rockets for the real-life Rocket Boys in the 1950s. The kids of Coalwood, ...

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Have band, will travel ... in restored muscle car
Beckley Register-Herald, WV - 1 hour ago
By Mannix Porterfield In fact, Customs Chariots owner Beckie Brogan says, when she and her husband spied the 40-year-old muscle car Ford produced in a brief ...

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch,  United States - 1 hour ago
We almost never saw alligators in the 1950s. We saw more alligators, but not many, in the 1960s. Hunting, legal and illegal, had decimated the population. ...

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