By Jim Koscs / Originally Published February 5, 2015 / Hagerty If you’ve ever thought of “going off the grid,” don’t think for a minute that cruising the country in a full-on RV with granite countertops, built-in flat screen TVs and WiFi could ever qualify. To do it right, there’s really only one vehicle for the job, ...

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Alright, at 71 years of age we know Victor Duran isn’t the oldest regular at the Pomona Swap Meet. But, he’s been coming to Pomona for 25 years. You can find him on Road 17, Spaces 5 and 7, at every single show. And with over 40 years of experience in the parts industry, Victor knows ...

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By Jeff Peek / Originally Published November 17, 2014 / Hagerty VEHICLE: 1970 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia WHAT WENT WRONG: We aren’t sure if fictional lumberjack Paul Bunyan ever owned a classic car, but considering that his best friend was a big blue ox named Babe, we’re guessing ol’ Paul had all the horsepower – oxpower? – he’d ever need. ...

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We appreciate the Oil Drippers Car Club for showing up and looking great at the October 19, 2014 Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show. What a fantastic group of people with a nice variety of VWs. Buses, Ghias, Squarebacks, Bugs, Things, and Fastbacks, they had it all and we love the work they put into ...

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By Larry Printz / Originally Published September 2, 2014 / Hagerty We all have owned cars that evoke memories. One mention of their names can flood our minds with images of happier times. But more often than you realize, car and truck names have meanings that their manufacturers never intended. Cracking open the dictionary reveals what ...

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“Oil Dripper” is a common saying in the Volkswagen community, due to the understanding that many vintage VW’s leave a trail of oil wherever they go. Therefore, Oil Drippers was a natural choice when a couple of Volkswagen enthusiasts from Norwalk, CA needed a name for their newly formed VW club in 2000. Their next ...

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We get visitors from around the world at the Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show… so we get a lot of questions about shipping cars home.  Sometimes home is just a few states away, but sometimes it’s across an ocean.  No matter how far you’ve come, if you buy a classic car on the ...

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By Larry Printz / Originally Published June 3, 2014 / Hagerty Can a great car repair your relationship or, better yet, save it? It’s possible, if you buy a car that fits your personality. We’re here to help, with five collector cars that set the mood and can help restore the romance in your relationship. 1932 ...

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Meet Scott Stuart, owner of Pedal Werks. Scott specializes in restoring and customizing foot pedal assemblies for any and all Air Cooled VW chassis based vehicles. Scott’s a long-time friend of the Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show (look for him on Road 34, Space 5), and we recently had the chance to catch ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published March 28, 2014 / Hagerty The attrition rate of cars from the mid-disco to late Reagan-era is huge. And while we’d love to see someone somewhere driving any one of the cars on this list, in truth, we can’t remember the last time we saw any of them.  Here ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published November 20, 2013 / Hagerty In this age of ultra-short product lifecycles where a three-model-year run unchanged is an eternity, it’s tough to imagine the same basic design being produced for three separate decades or more. Here are six cars well known to most Americans that all had tortoise-like life ...

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In auto news this fall, Volkswagen has finally decided to bring the Golf GTD to America! Just not quite yet. Why do we care, you ask?  Well, first, we’re a sucker for Volkswagens. And, second, we believe the novelty and customization options for the Golf line may just make them tomorrow’s classic car. Did you really think ...

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