Featured Vendor Wrap Up: The Key Club
February 2, 2023
The Pomona Swap Meet Featured Vendor, The Key Club, rolled in with all their cleanest g-body classics! We would like to congratulate the Key Club on celebrating their 6 year anniversary! They brought out an impressive lineup of Chevy El Caminos, Monte Carlos, Cutlass Supreme, Buick Regals, & more. The Key Club had amazing energy, food, ...
Featured Car Club: Key Club
January 3, 2023
Introducing the Key Club The Key Club was founded by Art Gonzalez and his partner Cisco. Art Gonzalez is the CEO and president of the Key Club. The Key Club is based out of Pomona California, where the original chapter was formed. They also have chapters in San Diego, Japan, and London! The Key Club ...
Original Parts Group Incorporated Celebrates 40 Years
November 21, 2022
OPGI Celebrates 40 Years in the Restoration Business This Year! Celebrating 40 years of manufacturing and retailing the highest quality restoration parts and accessories for classic GM brand cars, Original Parts Group Inc. (OPGI) offers the widest selection and best service on everything from interior and body parts to engine parts, sheet metal, bright ...
Junk in the Trunk: Auto history’s leading rear ends
July 26, 2022
BY Diego Rosenberg / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED July 11, 2022 / HAGERTY 11 July 2022 Despite the proliferation of video chat and Zoom calls in recent history, the fundamentals of interpersonal communication involves face-to-face interaction. When it comes to automobiles, we aren’t all that different. Manufacturers tend to design them “from the front,” as people digest ...
Building Dreams with OPGI
June 17, 2020
Building your dream car can be a great escape from reality, and let’s be honest in today’s reality we can all use an escape. Original Parts Group Inc. is proud to say that you can continue to count on them for all of your GM restoration and performance needs. OPGI has been the parts provider ...
EVENT INFO – SUNDAY, AUGUST 11
July 16, 2019
The world famous Pomona Swap Meet is California’s premier classic car marketplace! Rain or shine, we swap. Thousands of classic cars for sale and on display! That’s right… with over 15 miles of classic cars, parts, accessories, and automobilia, we’ve got something for every car enthusiast. Whether you’re coming to buy, to sell, or just ...
Cal-Rods: Don’t Call it a Comeback…
March 30, 2018
They’ve been here for years. In fact, the Cal-Rods Car Club of San Gabriel Valley was started in 1954 by a group of students at Baldwin Park High School. Over sixty years later, the club is still going strong with 400+ members, some of whom will be showing off their rides at the Pomona Swap ...
Are You Following Us? Our 5 Favorite Posts From October
November 6, 2017
Whether you come to every Pomona Swap Meet or you’ve never actually made it to a show, you can find new and original content straight from Pomona on our Facebook and Instagram. Here are our five favorite posts from October 2017: 1. We’re so excited about our 2018 calendars that we released them early this year! If you’re a fan of ...
Are You Following Us? Our Favorite Posts From March
April 1, 2017
Whether you come to every Pomona Swap Meet or you’ve never actually made it to a show, you can find fresh content straight from Pomona on our Facebook and Instagram. Here are a few of our favorite posts from March 2017… and this time around we thought we’d focus on the Car Clubs! 1. We caught some of the Lady ...
Cal-Rods of San Gabriel Valley – Featured Car Club Follow Up
November 13, 2016
The Cal-Rods Car Club of San Gabriel Valley had a great showing at the October 16, 2016 Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show, with their unique display of classic cars and trucks. They showed the crowd a ’32 Ford Roadster, a ’95 Chevy Monte Carlo Pace Car, and plenty of cool vehicles from the ...
Five muscle machines that broke the mold
June 20, 2016
By Jim Koscs / Originally Published April 25, 2016 / Hagerty / In the ’60s and ’70s, “muscle car” most often meant a midsize American coupe with a high-performance V-8 and rear-wheel drive, period. But as Detroit performance started making a comeback in the late 1980s, and with V-8s on the decline, carmakers began stretching that ...
Sale of Texas Barn Find Collection filled with memories, tears and a sense of relief
July 18, 2015
By Jeff Peek / Originally Published June 17, 2015 / Hagerty / Sally Kosmatka tried to find the words, but she had to pause mid-sentence. “When I think about it for too long …,” she said as tears welled in her eyes. “I’m sorry.” Her husband, Jack, reached over and patted her leg. Without saying a word, ...