The City of Pasadena, CA is home to the Rose Parade, a New Year’s Day celebration of flowers and pageantry more than a century old. The City of Roses is also home to a parade of classic automobiles celebrating the heritage of the Volkswagen car company. This procession is a weekly occurrence, organized by the ...

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I wake to the sound of a revving engine and wonder, what are the neighbors doing over there? It’s Saturday and they’re up early again to beat the heat. They’ve been hammering, pounding, bolting, and drilling on something for weeks now. I look over from my driveway not totally sure that what they’re putting together ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published January 30, 2015 / Hagerty Like most enthusiasts, we were heartbroken when the F-body Camaro and Firebird went away after the 2002 model year. And we were elated when the pony car came back in 2010 with a design that paid homage to the first-gen 1967 car without being slavishly retro. ...

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Join us in welcoming members of the Cruisin’ Brothers to the March 1, 2015 Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show, where they will be our Featured Car Club. The group is a fellowship of multi-ethnic gear heads from the Inland Empire of Southern California, who came together to celebrate their love for all things ...

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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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Selling a classic car can be tricky and can take time. While plenty of people need and are looking to buy a practical, everyday ride, a classic car is not a necessity. Fewer people can afford a nonessential second (or third or fourth) car so it can be more difficult to find just the right ...

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In the summer of 2000, a family friend set Tommy Jacobsen up with a job at Carson Trailer, Inc.  Tommy started on the sales lot, but after about a year, his passion for the industry landed him a management position.  Seeing Carson Trailer sell thousands of auto hauling trailers, Tommy recognized a gap in the market that ...

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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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Auto Obsession has been selling at the Pomona Swap Meet for about 15 years.  If you’re restoring a classic American car or truck, you’ll want to visit them on Road 27, Spaces 34, 36 and 38.  They specialize in restoration parts, and they offer just about every part that is being reproduced for American classics from ...

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A huge thank you to all the members of the Southlanders Edsel Drivers Club who made the trip to the June 1, 2014 Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show to show the crowd their unique vehicles. I’m sure everyone who ran across them enjoyed learning a little about the Edsel and sharing in the ...

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Okay, your classic car is finally ready to drive to Pomona and local cruise nights, but now you have to decide what to wear!  Sure, you could go with the oil stained t-shirt that you wear when you’re wrenching, or you could look good, by throwing on one of John Edwards’ Hawaiian Classic Car Shirts. ...

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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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