Buy On A Budget And Get Value For Your Dollars You don’t have to buy a motorized roller skate to realize good gas mileage. Some of the new midsize cars are so efficient; they beat some of the smaller compact offerings. One of the leaders in the MPG race is the Hyundai Sonata, rated at ...

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Happy New Year! So far we welcome the New 2011 Year with drier weather conditions. Hopefully, this La Nina predicted year will have sunny, dry and beautiful weekends for car shows all over the west coast, especially SoCal. As with ringing in the New Year, we also ring in new taxes and new legislation for ...

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Collectable Cars Could Be A Good Investment As a born gear head, I’m always looking for auto and truck related articles and matters that might be of interest to our readers. Some recent articles on collector cars as an investment caught my eye. I have a couple of collector cars, and I often wondered how ...

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Old is Gold Do you ever long for the "good old days"? Those days of old, when you could actually work on your automobile? Days when you could change spark plugs, put in points and condensers, install new instruments, cables and wiring or just change the oil and filters. The days of old where you ...

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Robert and Teresa The machine I’m referring to is a human dynamo named Robert Cooper. Robert and his wife Teresa run Cooper’s Products, specializing in cleaning and polishing products for the trucking, automotive and general purpose markets. When you visit the Pomona Swap Meet, a trip to Robert’s booth on Road 34, Space 2 and ...

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Ordinarily, the Pomona newsletter articles focus on the automotive industry. However, we felt that since this was the holiday season it would be appropriate to include cooking tips gained over year after year of cooking dry, hard, turkeys. It’s a good thing that the pilgrims didn’t attend my first thanksgiving dinner. They probably would have ...

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I talked to a gentleman the other day that absolutely, positively loves what he does. Ed Economy is one of our long time vendors at the Pomona Swap Meet. Ed sells vintage Volkswagen parts. He not only sells VW parts, he gives you the history of each part he sells....

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Every so often I get the uncontrollable urge for that new car smell or in my case, that new truck smell. When this happens, I start finding all kinds of faults with my existing loyal, reliable vehicle. I mean, it has scars, dings and scratches representing years and miles of service. ...

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We at the Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show know that the heart of the classic car industry is the auto enthusiast themselves. Their lifeblood may be the car show and/or cruise they may promote and/or attend with a car club. For this reason, we are pleased to be able to invite a "Featured Car Club" to the Pomona Swap Meet. ...

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You want wheels? You want tires? Nobody can service your needs better than our long time vendor PAUL’S WHEELS AND TIRES. Paul Ruiz, owner, has been in business and at the Pomona Swap Meet for over twenty years. Certainly long enough for those of us looking for quality and experience to realize that this is ...

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Cecil Weipert, Barry Margolis and Bill Strall, Sonny Dolezel Bill’s 1949 Packard, Sonny’s 1966 Mercury Pickup, Cecil’s 1964 1/2 Mustang and Barry’s 1968 Cougar Convertible Our last newsletter introduced you four young at heart cool guys. These gentlemen planned to drive their classic autos from Florida to Chicago to connect with old route 66 and ...

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What could be more beautiful than a Canadian sunset? A Canadian sunrise of course! That is, unless you are one of the thousands of Canadian motor heads, then your idea of true beauty is a fully restored, totally customized 1932 Ford Roadster. Recently, our Pomona Swap Meet Vice President, Kim Cross has been receiving copies ...

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