Daggers Club of Orange County
September 25, 2012
The Daggers Club of Orange County came out to the August 12th Pomona Swap Meet as our Featured Car Club. It sure was great getting to know them all and seeing just how passionate they are about their classic cars and club. Thanks for coming out and see you all soon. ...
Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show – October 14th
September 21, 2012
Come one, come all, come early and stay late. We have it all to sell, show, swap and shine. We have over 20,000 folks coming here to show their wares, their vintage cars, classic cars, muscle cars, hot-rods, collectibles, just about anything on wheels will be here. We even have some folks who expect to ...
Swedish Wheels Magazine Article
September 18, 2012
Thanks to Bo Bertilsson for covering the Pomona Swap Meet for Wheels Magazine and writing the above article. Below is the translated article. Most Swedish car enthusiasts who are going to visit California plan to visit the Pomona Swap Meet to locate parts or check out cars for sale. The Pomona Fairplex, where the ...
Coy’s Wheels – Going Above & Beyond
July 26, 2012
There are a lot of great car movies, but one that continually tops people’s lists is the Fast and the Furious. This car movie is a fun adventure and covers a lot of different genres – it’s a love story, there is an element of danger and, oh yeah, there are cars. Duh! If you ...
Stevenson’s Paint, a Half Century of Expertise
July 26, 2012
If you could get into your time machine and travel back a half century, you might happen to run into Vern Stevenson’s local hardware store, where you would find the usual array of things you might need to fix up the place. But what you also might find is that Vern knew a thing or ...
Daggers OC Car Club – Custom Cars & Custom People
July 26, 2012
We are excited to have the Daggers Orange County Car Club joining us at the August 12, 2012 swap meet, as our Featured Car Club. Daggers is a small, but unique club whose members enjoy building, customizing, chopping and painting any pre-1965 vehicle and then building and customizing them some more. When I met some ...
Automotive Scavenger Hunt at the Pomona Swap Meet
July 26, 2012
Well, the Falcon Garage of Palmdale High was at it again, attending the June 3rd swap meet. This time the students brought friends, or should I say competitors. Tim Green, the auto shop instructor at Palmdale High, brought his students to participate with students from the Mark Keppel High auto program, led by Jim Horton, to an automotive ...
Return of the “Inland Vans Berdoo”
July 26, 2012
For those who don’t remember the 1970’s, there was a time when vans were extremely popular and that was the Disco era. It used to be that people eschewed things like Corvettes and high-performance vehicles and, instead, went out and bought a big box on wheels and turned it into a personal statement. Vans weren’t ...
Old car hobby doing well — at least ‘parts’ of it
June 26, 2012
Each July the tiny town of Iola, Wis., is invaded by a sea of humanity and old iron. Many in attendance come strictly for the swap meet, which covers about 4,500 spaces. Old car hobby doing well — at least ‘parts’ of it This article was published by Old Cars Weekly News and written by ...
New oil and old cars
June 21, 2012
This article was in Old Cars Weekly News and written by William C. “Bill” Anderson, P.E., he has been involved with the automotive hobby for more than 40 years and is an author, magazine editor, car show judge, and engineer. Through Anderson Automotive Enterprises — www.andersonautomotiveenterprises.com — he restores and appraises cars. Oils are always ...
Dr. Detail is in the House
May 21, 2012
This issue of the Swap Meet newsletter has a thread that weaves through the stories, where people get their start because life has thrown them a curve ball and they step up to the plate and knock that curve ball right out of the park. Such is also the case with Dr. Detail, who started ...
Steel Techs’ Benchmark Workbenches
May 21, 2012
The story of John, Nancy & Rick Eastburn from Steel Tech Fabrication is not unlike what happens with so many Americans today. John was employed as a heavy equipment operator, earning union wages and doing a great day’s work for a great day’s pay. But with more and more people deciding that imported junk is ...
