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Harold

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  1. Sometimes the best bet is to look at the car yourself. Binghamton is not a bad ride (very scenic this time of year) from the Jersey shore and the round trip can easily be done in one day. I live in Freehold and have made this trip many times.
  2. Greg, I found 2 issues that may interest you: SoCal (1968) and San Francisco (1966). I attached pictures for your reference. Let me know if you're interested. Thanks, Harold
  3. I'll check later and get back to you tonight. I'm running a little late this morning.
  4. Greg, I would have replied sooner but for some reason I couldn't post anything on the forum last night and this morning. Anyway, I checked and don't have any issues covering Palm Springs. Thanks for writing, Harold
  5. Plymouth Traveler was a travel guide/product news magazine sent to Plymouth owners. Each issue focused on a different US city and included historical information and places of interest. There were ads for new Plymouths as well. They are fairly rare and offer an interesting look into the past. I've got about 35 issues from the 1960's-early 1970's; the pictures give you an idea of the format. Let me know if you're looking for a particular city or model year and I'll let you know what I have. The price is $12.00 each, postpaid in USA. Thanks for looking, Harold
  6. Plymouth Traveler was a travel guide/product news magazine sent to Plymouth owners. Each issue focused on a different US city and included historical information and places of interest. There were also ads for new Plymouths as well. They are fairly rare and offer an interesting look into the past. I've got about 35 issues from the 1960's-early 1970's; the pictures give you an idea of the format. Let me know if you're looking for a particular city or model year and I'll let you know what I have. The price is $12.00 each, postpaid in USA. Thanks for looking, Harold
  7. Genuine Motorcraft! You can't go wrong at $20.00 postpaid!
  8. Remember when Chubby Checker did the Limbo Rock....'how low can you go'? Well, I've bottomed-out at $15.00 postpaid for the pair. You can't go wrong at that price!
  9. Check the glass for code numbers down on the bottom corners. A glass shop may be able to decode them for you.
  10. This thread really jogged some memories. I saw a few surveillance vans in person at federal government auctions in the 1990's. One was a Dodge van that looked like a NY Telephone Company van except that it had it had the stripes and lettering painted on; the phone company used stick-on stripes and lettering at the time. The interior was paneled and carpeted and there was a periscope disguised as a roof vent. There were lots of wires where the electronic equipment was removed. I also saw a beat-up looking step-van at another auction. The inside had a desk and wiring remnants. The faded-looking lettering included a name with 'oo' in it (like Cook or something similar). The double-o was really a pair of peep holes that could be opened from the interior. Another time, I was at a van conversion shop in New Jersey and the owner was putting stripes on an otherwise plain green Dodge van. The owner told me the FBI owned the van and was concerned because it had been in the background on various TV news reports too many times and the government was worried that someone might figure out what it was. Last but not least, I once bought a 1985 Ford Torino undercover car from yet another Fed auction. In the glove compartment, there were 4 different New York registrations, all for the same car and plate number. One registration said DEA, fee-exempt. The other three had bogus names and addresses, each with a different ethnic connotation, presumably to match whoever was driving the car at the time.
  11. I was at a Mitsubishi dealership in the early 1990's and a new Montero took off by itself. It crashed through a showroom window, got hung up on the window sill, and was frying the tires until somebody ran over and shut the key. I saw the whole thing, and it was like watching a movie in slow motion. I worked at a Saturn dealer in the late 1990's and there was a just-introduced Saturn Vue backed up to the showroom glass doors. A young salesman jumped in to move it, didn't know it was in reverse, popped the clutch, and backed through the door.
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