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  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...

The station wagon became an automotive symbol of typical family transportation during the baby boomer years. Station wagons were a practical kid-hauler and a predecessor...

    Car guys take cues from many sources.   'Various magazines were the inspiration back in the day because if it look cool on a famous builder’s...

  The car hobby is full of people from all walks of life.   'Most car guys come from average income households so the majority of them...

  MAY 2017 STARS OF THE SHOW: A LOOK BACK AT TEN YEARS OF THE RED DEER CRUISE NIGHT   Red Deer Cruise Night has been around...

  The St. Albert Cruisers host one of the largest annual car shows in Canada every August.   They call it Rock n’ August for a reason...

  There isn’t a car guy on the planet who didn’t have a favorite toy car or truck from the past.   It didn’t matter whether Santa...

MSCC APRIL 30 STAR OF THE WEEK: IT’S A BIG, BAD, BLACK ’68 CHARGER RT—THE EASIEST CHOICE EVER MADE There are literally millions of choices...

Bob Bownes is one of those guys who knows how to build a classic hot rod. He is the proud owner of a 1933 Dodge...

  I was a generous combination of hormones and bad decisions when I was 17 going on 18.   I was also the proud owner of a...