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:: Fisher Body Craftsman
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:: Book review: American Road Racing - The 1930s
:: The War Years: 1940s
:: The Serious Collector
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:: Citroen - Introducing Front Wheel Drive
:: The Memorable 1950s
:: Book: Caribbean Capers
:: Hidden Literature
:: 1965 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
:: Checker Motors
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:: Special Cars: 1975-1995
:: GMC Trucks
:: Vauxhall in England - GM Overseas - 1
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:: Packard: Ask the Man Who Owns One
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:: The Winners Book
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:: Favorite Press Kits
:: Selecting your literature
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:: From Airplanes to Super Cars
:: The British Contribution
:: Press Kit
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:: GM in the 1950s
:: Octavia and Felicia
:: English Ford
:: Maintaining the MGB in the 21th Century, Barrie Jones, 2009
:: Leader Card Racers - A Dynasty of Speed, Gordon Eliot White, 2009
:: Fun on Wheels
:: Prestige, Status & Works of Art, Selling The Luxury Car 1888 - 1942
:: Chassis 141: The Story of the First LeMans Bentley
:: German Luxury: Two Thoroughbreds & Their Lifestyle
:: Top 10 Collector Cars for 2010-2020
:: An Introduction to Collecting Car Brochures
:: Subcompact automobile: Ford Fiesta
:: Out-of-print-book: A Century of Automotive Style
:: My Auto Literature Collection
:: Automotive Magazines
:: Plymouth 1935-1936
:: History of the Corvette
:: Preservation of literature
:: Z. Taylor Vinson - An era ends
:: Hendrick Motorsports Museum
:: Happy 50th Birthday Corvair!
:: Diamond T
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:: Original Paint Chips
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:: Wallace Wyss - Artist Profile
:: America's Packard Museum
:: Ford's Road Leads To Mustang
:: My Super Beetle
:: Citroen SM (1970)
:: Unanticipated Investment
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:: How To Decide Which Car You Should Restore
:: The End of the Affair
:: Printed brochures soon to be a memory?
:: Don't Forget Dealer Literature
:: Automotive Books
:: The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild — An Illustrated History
:: GM Concepts
:: Change Creates Nostalgia
:: Racing (Part 1)
:: Collecting Automotive Literature
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:: Pre-World War II Brochures
:: Showroom Postcards — 1930s through 1950s
:: Ferrari SP1. More Than Unique
:: Fiat
:: The Making of Shelby Cars in Detail
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:: 356 Porsche Literature FAKES!
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:: From Boxy to Fins
:: How I Met John Conlon
:: One Historian Mourns the Passing of the Black and White Glossy
:: Thanks Dad!
:: My Story
:: Review: Two Press booklets on the Rolls Phantom Drophead coupe
:: Collecting for Fun and Relaxation
:: Rolls-Royce and Bentley
:: Packing for Shipping
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:: Collecting 'Down Under'
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:: The Dawn of the Auto
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:: Remembering Oldsmobile
:: Original Paint Chips
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:: Trucks of the 1930s and 1940s
:: BMW
:: Collecting Memories
:: Auto Books - 50 Years
:: Imperial is Back
:: Mitchel DeFrancis: Automobilia Enthusiast
:: Lincoln As Art
:: The Golden Age of Press Kits
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:: Happy Halloween
:: Styled — For — Tomorrow
:: Automotive Archeology
:: Paint, Upholstery, Data & More
:: 14 Steps: From Our Shop To Your Maildrop
:: Cadillac Memories
:: British Luxury
:: My IHC Fever
:: A Collector's Story - Fifty Years and Counting
:: 1907 "Washington Times" Race
:: Postwar Studebaker
:: The Popularity of AMC / Nash / Rambler
:: Mazda Miata Memories
:: 2020 'Think Tank' Results
:: Letteratura Di Automobile
:: Magazines Are Literature
:: Camaro Fever
:: Grandad's Cars
:: Star Cars — Year 2020
:: Australian Auto Literature
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:: David Greeney: Automobilia Collector
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:: Meeting Tarun Thakral
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:: Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild
:: Rick Lenz - 10 Years Later
:: Best of Buick
:: Comments on Packing
:: Diamond T
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:: Original or Fake?
:: The Rolls-Royce
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:: World of Auto Literature
:: Z. Taylor Vinson
:: Junichiro Hiramatsu
:: Ed Whitt
 
 
 
April 2011 Issue
 
ARTICLE
Memorabilia by Make
By Robert McLellan
 

So you have searched for brochures, press kits, press photos, books, dealer albums, postcards and magazines for your car. But have you reviewed the Memorabilia section to see what is available? You will find collectibles such as toys, models, videos, posters, coins, annual reports, label pins, calendars, drinking glasses, mugs, decals, color transparencies, company letterheads, CD-ROMs, cassette tapes, coachbuilder renderings, factory invoices, stamps, maps, competition catalogs, comic books, coloring books, bandanas, stock certificates, badges, golf balls, pencils, parts and more...

Here is a sampling:

 
M E M O R A B I L I A
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Alfa Romeo - 1983

Alfa Romeo - 1990

AMC - 1963
     

AMC - 1965

American Mercedes - 1906

Audi - 1999
     

Bentley - 1987

BRM - 1960

Cadillac - 1985
     

Cadillac - 1904

Cadillac - 1967

Cadillac - 1931
     

Chevrolet - 1968

Chevrolet - 1967

Chevrolet - 1967
     

Chevrolet - 1998

Chevrolet - 2002

Chevrolet - 1951
     

Cunningham - 2001

Datsun - 1974

Dodge - 1972
     

Dodge - 1972/73

Dodge - 2001

Duesenberg - 1934/35
     

Ferrari - 1986

Ferrari - 1960

Ford - 1966
     

Ford - 1934

Ford - 2002

Ford - 1953
     

Ford - 2001

Ford - 1934

Honda - 1992
     

Jaguar - 2001

Jeep - 1997

Jeep - 2004
     

Kaiser-Frazer - 1949

Lincoln - 1922

Locomobile - 1998
     

Maybach - 1998

Mercedes-Benz - 1969

Mercedes-Benz - 1999
     

Mercury - 1963

Mercury - 1998

Mercury - 1992
     

Mercury - 1977

Mini - 2002

Monteverdi - 1968-72
     

Nash - 1951

Nash - 1957

Nissan - 1976
     

Nissan - 2004

Packard - 1916

Plymouth - 1960
     

Plymouth - 1972

Pontiac - 1985

Porsche - 2001
     

Rolls-Royce - 1992

Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce - 1985
     

Saab - 1970

Scion - 2005

Stanley Steamer - 1908
     

Volkswagen - 2000

Wartburg - 1966

White - 1965
     
 
MEMORABILIA
Acura
Alfa Romeo
AMC
American Mercedes
American Traveler
Audi
Avanti
Bentley
BMW
Brilliance
BRM
Brush
Bugatti
Buick
Cadillac
Chevrolet
Chrysler
Compound
Crane-Simplex
Cunningham
Daihatsu
Datsun
Delage
Dodge
Duesenberg
Essex
Ferrari
Fiat
Ford
Franklin
GMC
Hispano Suiza
Honda
Hyundai
Imperial
Infiniti
International Harvester
Isotta-Fraschini
Jaguar
Jeep
Kaiser-Frazer
Knox
Lagonda
Lexus
Lincoln
Locomobile
Mack
Marmon
Maxwell
Maybach
Mazda
Mercedes-Benz
Mercer
Mercury

MG
Mini
Mitsubishi
Monteverdi
Moskvich
Nash
Nissan
Oldsmobile
Packard
Peerless
Pierce-Arrow
Plymouth
Pontiac
Pope-Hartford
Porsche
Rambler
Renault
Reo
Rolls-Royce
Saab
Scion
Standard
Stanley Steamer
Star
Stearns
Studebaker
Stutz

Suzuki
Talbot-Lago
Thomas
Toyota
Vauxhall
Volkswagen
Wartburg
White
White Steamer
Wills
Winton
       
 
 
 
The Automotive Chronicles, April 2011
 
 
 
 
 
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