This isn’t your grandfather’s soda shop! California Soda Blast has become one of SoCal’s premier media blasting facilities, catering to the automotive restoration crowd. And their also Pomona Swap Meet regulars… setting up on Road 25, Space 18 at every show. If you’re working on a project and you need help removing the old paint, bondo, undercoating, ...

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We featured Joe Yezzi’s Squarebody Syndicate and his friends on the Main Aisle at our October 15th show. The squares were rolling deep! Here are just a few of the sick trucks that made it out to Pomona: Brian Vowell brought his 1977 Chevy C10. The truck was built by Tre 5 Customs, and Brian ...

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BY BLAIR LAMPE / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 3, 2017 / NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE PARTS ASSOCIATION / Properly maintaining your car or truck’s tire pressure is a quick and easy task that pays off big time in the long run. Beyond promoting optimum fuel economy, it is of the utmost importance to ensure that your tires wear as they should, resist ...

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This is it… your last chance to win an official 2017 Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show event t-shirt is here! It’s easy to enter the drawing: just sign up for the Pomona Swap Meet Newsletter, then click on the “Win This Shirt!” link in the e-newsletter that we’ll send before our December 3, 2017 ...

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Whether you come to every Pomona Swap Meet or you’ve never actually made it to a show, you can find new and original content straight from Pomona on our Facebook and Instagram.  Here are our five favorite posts from October 2017: 1.  We’re so excited about our 2018 calendars that we released them early this year!  If you’re a fan of ...

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BY BLAIR LAMPE / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED OCTOBER 20, 2017 / NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE PARTS ASSOCIATION / You depend on your car to get you where you need to go, so when it doesn’t start, it can be a pretty big problem. There are a number of reasons why this might happen, but one of the most common is ...

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Go out on the street and take a look at your water meter and tell us what it might have in common with that really nice chopped Model A in your neighbor’s garage. Don’t know? Well, the answer might just be Harold “Hal” Hannemann, owner of Hannemann Fiberglass. Hal’s family has been making all sorts of things ...

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Let’s be honest. Huey Lewis said it, or rather sang it, best:  “it’s hip to be square.”  Driven by a shift in our hobby’s demographic, as more Gen-Xers and Millenials hit the scene, classic trucks are “in” right now, and there are none hotter than 1973 to 1987 GMC and Chevy C/K pickups, with their ...

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Whether you come to every Pomona Swap Meet or you’ve never actually made it to a show, you can find new and original content straight from Pomona on our Facebook and Instagram.  Here are our favorite posts from September 2017.  This month we’re splashing our focus on taillights! 1.  Weekend Cruise Inspiration.  (Facebook, 09/01/2017) 2.  Ten seconds to lift off.  (Instagram, ...

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In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Pomona Swap Meet is pleased to announce that the Pomona Police Department and the Pink Patch Project will be at our show on Sunday, October 15th! The Pink Patch Project is a collaborative effort by law enforcement and public safety agencies to bring attention to the fight ...

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BY BENJAMIN JEREW / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 16, 2017 / NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE PARTS ASSOCIATION / You probably wash your car regularly. Some people wash and wax weekly — even do interior detailing — but many forget the engine. After all, it’s out of sight and out of mind. Before picking up a pressure washer and just blasting away at the ...

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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Pomona Swap Crew will be going pink at our October 15th event! We’re happy to announce that the Pomona Police Department and the Pink Patch Project will be back on the Main Aisle, selling items to raise money for City of Hope’s breast cancer research and awareness efforts. ...

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