Antique store find.......who knew!

My wife likes to rummage antique stores from time to time. She is a career flower gardener, and likes to look for old seed catalogs, and gardening magazines. There are some pretty good antique shops down in San Dimas around the Early Ford Store. Apparently she had some free time today, and went "antiquing". When I got home she handed me this little book. She said I didn't find anything, but this was in one of the magazine piles. Note she gave a DIME for it. I had never seen any "Spotlite Books" from Petersen. I thought, cool, something to check out while spending quality time in the bathroom, noting Bob McGrath's "Red Head" streamliner on the cover. I opened the little book, and about choked on my Oreo when I saw Lowe's Family Pick Up was on page 32! This little magazine was printed in 63, used the same pics from the HR article, with a different write up, and I never knew it exsisted. Check the contents page. My old hot rod was in good company. The GBP car is there, The "Draggin' Sports Car" is Big John's Vette, "Tony Nancy's Roadster" is a misprint, it's actually his Plymouth powered dragster. The coolest article is "Summers' Bonneville Streamliner". It is 10 pages on the single engine "Pollywog". Many pics with the body off showing the fantastic engineering. I'm going to enjoy pouring over this little treasure. Think I'll take the Mrs. out to dinner tonight! (She haddn't even opened the book!)

 

Way cool! Finding stuff like that is always a blessing. Best dime she'll ever spend.

 

How'd ya like to DOUBLE your money on that?

 

I'm trying to get an A roadster through an antique store i know...

 

Great find....that'll make your day!

 

a dime? wow! money damn well spent , im sure you told the wife nice score!

 

I love that pickup....awesome Dean.

 

Nice find, man don't ever p*** up those little multi dealer booth antique stores. Take a minute to walk in and thumb through the books and mags. And look around the cases too. My little sister found some really cool **** for my cars back in highschool, and none of it was repop. (Cost pennys for what it was really worth.)

 

Probably be more than a dime.

 

Day? Hell, it made my month!!! I may step up and spring for Sizzler!!

 

P***.

 

That is just unreal.

Imagine all of the antique outlets in the world...and not many copies of that mag still floating around. The odds of her walking into that one shop that that has a copy has to be about a trillion to one.

 

I always look through the Antique stores when i'm in Ventura. I always find cool ****...

 

I got one for you boys, I picked this up two days ago in Oregon.. Sorry for the bad webcam pictures, I ain't got a camera right now.. Copyright is 1931.

 

Shhhh, you are letting out my secret!

 

So that explains the avitar, do you still have the RPU? I've always liked it since the day I bought that issue of Hot Rod.

 

He was dunking it in his milk! Duh.

 

I got an old Henry Ford Shop manual -free

 

I'm considering taking her to Vegas tomorrow.

 

That A book is way cool. I'd sure give a dime for that!

 

Haddn't got there yet. That was my next stop.

 

It was 30 bucks for me.. Oh well..

 

Where ya' been dude? We beat that topic to death a month ago. Look up the thread "Somebody ask for this". It's all there.

 

I don't dunk 'em. Too hard to eat the middle stuff firrst when they are soggy.

 

The cool Sunoco can and the three mags were all antique store finds. Usually lots of old hand tools too.

 

Back in the 60's I was a kid putting model cars together. Didn't Monogram make a Model A roadster pickup street rod kit based on Lowe's pickup???

 

I think that kit was just a generic 60's hot rod pick up. Ideas taken from similar cars of the era. No one from Monogram ever spoke to me about my RPU.

 

"...do you still have the RPU?"

Covered here: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274041

 

Picked up a Chiltons from 1950 for 4.00 in the middle of all those smelly moldy old books one time in an antique store. Lots of stuff on those shelves if you take the time to look.