Saturday 06th August 2016,
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MOPARSHOP Season opening Easter party

MOPARSHOP Season opening Easter party

Mopar Fans!   YOU are invited to our annual Season Opener Party! Family-friendly atmosphere, nice cars and good music included. We expect at least 50-70 old Mopars, as usual, on our season opener partys, but this is more a people meeting than a car meeting! Everyone insterested in Mopars is welcome! It doesn’t matter if you [...]

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Rapid Roy Blumenhagen at Langley Speedway, Canada

Rapid Roy Blumenhagen at Langley Speedway, Canada

Here is another local hero! Rapid Roy Blumenhagen and his red Oldsmobile Cutlass. Often sponsored by Kirby Hairstudio, although it does not look as if Rapid Roy was a frequent customer there, he later switched to a Camaro, which looked more than a cheapo batmobile wannabee and lacked the class of the Olds!   [...]

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The DS, a fifty-year-old goddess, part I

The DS, a fifty-year-old goddess, part I

Yes, the DS is nearly fifty. It appeared at the Paris Motor Show, on October 6, 1955. Drawn by Flaminio Bertoni, the DS astonished everybody: it was 20 years ahead. Everything about this car sent its rivals to the museum: hydro-pneumatic suspension, front disc brakes, front wheel-drive, hydraulic gear change, intense use of plastic and [...]

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The DS, a fifty-year-old goddess, part II

The DS, a fifty-year-old goddess, part II

Bertoni died in 1963, but he had had time to draw a new front end for the DS. It came out in 1967, and once again, the audience was amazed. 4 headlamps took place under a glass panel, conferring the big Citroen an aggressive look. The central 2 lamps rotated the same direction as the [...]

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