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  Dogs have many human-like traits and one of them is a need to travel, to see new things and new horizons.   They share this wanderlust...

  The “bought new and still in the family” car story is an easy one to write.   Cars are disposable by design so the chances are...

  Car shows are good events by their very nature.   They offer a window to the past for people of all ages and some of the...

  Canada has an annual holiday in May called the Victoria Day weekend and it is held one week before the US Memorial Day weekend...

  MSCC MAY 21 STAR OF THE WEEK: SOME MOPAR MAGIC AT A SMALL TOWN SHOW   Small town car shows are the best because they’re more...

  The Mako Shark is one of the ocean’s fastest killers because of its sleek body design that cuts through water like a razor-sharp knife.   The...

  The early 1980s suffered from the residual effects of the late 70s.   Cars were regulated beyond comprehension so they were choked off, smog-proofed slugs with...

  There are two types of car guys.   'There are the car guys who own exactly what they want and then there are the car guys...

  One of the biggest symptoms of mid-life crisis is a guy who buys a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to change his image.   Many of these new Hog...

  The name Monarch may be unfamiliar to most US car guys because it was a Canadian Ford brand that was built for a slightly...

  Didsbury, Alberta hosts one of our favorite annual car shows on our MyStarCollectorCar list.   It is one of the earliest major shows in our area...

  MSCC MAY 14 STAR OF THE WEEK: ’67 CHARGER—YES THERE WAS A CHARGER BEFORE 1968   The ’68 Charger changed the game for Mopar B-Bodies.   B-Bodies were...

Car guys choose a very hazardous route when they take a vehicle that is an assembled mass of parts and disassemble it into many...

American Graffiti debuted in August, 1973 and no one could have predicted that a simple look back at 1962 would turn into a piece...

  Vintage station wagons have become rock stars at car shows in the 21st century because most of them have disappeared off the face of...

  We tend to divide into camps as car guys.   You have the Chevy guys, the Ford guys, the Mopar guys, the rat rod guys, the...

  VW vans are largely associated with children of the 60s who owned them for magical mystery tours to Woodstock and other psychedelic destinations during...

  Hank Van Erp was born in Bowden, Alberta.   Bowden is a small town of about 1200 people where everybody knows everybody and news travels faster...

MSCC MAY 7 STAR OF THE WEEK: ’62 IMPERIAL—WHAT MILBURN DRYSDALE WOULD HAVE DRIVEN IF HE WAS A SINGLE DUDE There was one constant back...

  There are hundreds of thousands of photos in the MSCC archives and most of them have been taken with three main cameras.   A smaller number...