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CRUISIN' THE DUB-A GREAT CAR GUY FUNDRAISER FOR THE MS SOCIETY
One of the best things about the old car world is the community spirit-individually car people are very much inclined to help out when the help is needed. That's why there were no surprises when a Red Deer Alberta Canada Thursday night drop-in car show included a trip to the local A&Ws to support an MS fundraiser.
A&W is synonymous with nostalgia-my older sister met her future husband at an A&W just after she bounced the fender of her Austin A40 off their drive-in support pillar.
A&W Canada combined a burger promotion that added a dollar per burger to the coffers of the MS Society...they knew that the car guys would come through with their support and take a trip down memory lane at the same time.
MS is an ongoing battle for its victims (having a family member affected by MS has taught me that) so even though the MS Cruisin' the Dub day is over here's a link to the MS Society site for more information.http://mssociety.ca/en/releases/nr_20100825.htm
Jerry Sutherland @mystarcollectorcar.com
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CLASSICS IN THE REAL WORLD-A TALE OF TWO BLUE CARS
We found these two blue cars in a parking lot - one is recognizable by just about anybody on the planet as an automotive icon, while the other one is...
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MY STAR SPECIAL FEATURE-BACK TO THE 40S:1947 DODGE TEST DRIVE
I have always had a soft spot for the post-war late 40s Detroit automobile look which looked eerily like the pre-war early 40s Detroit look. You can’t send Cadillacs into combat zones and DeSotos made poor amphibious assault vehicles, so Detroit became lead manufacturer for the war effort in 1941.
Forget cars, the free world needed Sherman tanks until 1945.
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IN THE HEADLIGHTS-DEAD CELEBRITIES AND THE CARS THAT KILLED THEM
James Dean was a moderately talented actor whose best career move was death by Porsche. He managed to parlay this move into a “live fast-die young” legend which reached well beyond his brief career.
Many theories circulated about his death including a very popular Christine theory which postulated that Dean’s Porsche was possessed by a negative spirit which wreaked havoc on the lives of people who had contact with the car, or any parted-out post wreckage components of the car.
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