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I figured while I was poking around the Los Angeles Public Library’s photo archive, I’d sate another obsession of mine and search for old photos of dealerships and auto factories. Didn’t find nearly as many as I did photos of trucks and cars.
Photographer Dick Whittington snapped the above photo, described as
The Paul G. Hoffman Co. [...]
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Even before I first picked up a copy of SIA, I’d heard or read these stories elsewhere, and now after reviewing SIA #39, March-April 1977, I see that they both originated in that same issue. The first, by Bob Hall, details the early history of Toyota Motor Corporation and how it borrowed a competitor’s technology [...]
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* Nash/AMC will forever be associated with Kenosha, Wisconsin, due to the assembly plant located there. Yet after the merger with Kelvinator, Nash’s headquarters moved to Detroit, and for a brief period of time, Nash/AMC actually had a second assembly plant in El Segundo, California, thus the naming of Nash Street just south of LAX. [...]
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* We had a nice little confluence of events this week. First, Geoff Hacker sent us a link to his buddy’s fiberglass boats site. Why should we care? Because these little watercraft have a lot of the same over-the-top design cues that we love in our 1950s cars. Then just a couple days later, Mechanix [...]
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