New Event Date – Mark Your Calendars
May 25, 2011
GREAT NEWS – JUST ADDED!! An additional event date has been added to the 2012 schedule. On March 4, 2012, we will be promoting another edition of the Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show at the Fairplex, Pomona. Mark your calendars now for our complete 2012 schedule: January 15, March 4, April 15, June ...
Featured Vendor
May 25, 2011
Sandi and Pete Rojas holding a classic skirt You Wanta Buy a Skirt? Come On Out To The Pomona Swap Meet! No, we’re not adding a clothing line for our customers, although you can certainly buy our popular t-shirts and hats emblazoned with our famous artwork. What you can’t buy is a mini, maxi, gingham ...
Featured Car Club: Southlanders Edsel Owners Club
May 25, 2011
The Iconic Ford Edsel Come See The Car That Had Its Reputation Destroyed By Madison Avenue Hyper-Hype Before It Was Ever Shown The Pomona Swap Meet will host the Southlanders Edsel Owners Club at the June 5th Swap Meet. This group of owners will gather at the meet to show off their beautiful Edsel automobiles ...
Hefner Products, Inc.
April 7, 2011
Don’t Get Tied Up in Knots, Forget Those Ropes Jim Hefner & Son Kevin Ropes are for dopes; they get frayed, they unravel, they are hard to untie once the granny knot is set and they sometimes loosen up endangering the load. The answer is the beautiful, ubiquitous tie-down strap; the easiest, strongest, and best ...
Nuts & Bolts
April 7, 2011
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 ...
Happy New Year!
January 7, 2011
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 ...
Collectable Cars Could Be A Good Investment
January 7, 2011
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 ...
Old is Gold
January 7, 2011
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 ...
The Clean Machine
November 24, 2010
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 ...
A Little Brine Makes Everything Fine!
November 24, 2010
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 ...
Love Those VW’s
October 6, 2010
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....
Changing The Smell Isn’t So Swell!
October 6, 2010
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. ...