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10 Steps to Buying a New Car: If you are trading in your old car..

If you are trading in your old car to a dealer, you will probably not get as much money toward the price of a new car as you would have if you’d sold it yourself to a private party. However, trading in offers some advantages. You can solve all of your car buying problems in [...]

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VINtek Celebrates 20 Years In Automotive Finance Industry Continues to Pioneer ELT, Direct-to-Consumer Auto Finance Technology

–VINtek, a provider of automotive collateral management and electronic lien and title (ELT) services for automotive finance lenders, marks its 20-year anniversary in August with more than 1,200 auto finance customers, including four of the top five banks and the largest credit union in the world, two patents for its business processes, three locations and [...]

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Dodge 5.2 Liter V-8 with Multiport Electronic Fuel Injection

In 1992, Dodge unleashed its new 5.2 liter V-8 with multiport electronic fuel injection and upped its performance ante from 165 to 230 horsepower in one fell swoop. For ’93, there’s even more fast iron in store. The 5.2-liter Magnum V-8 is joined by a big brother motor with 5.9 liters of displacement. That’s 360 [...]

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1937 Cadillac Fleetwood Sedan

When Jim Drummond of River heights bought this 1937 Cadillac Fleetwood Touring Sedan from his friend, the late George Ewing, back in 1990, the car included an amazing amount of history. Originally purchased by Ben Winks of Waterloo, Iowa on November 9, 1936, this beauty sold new for a whopping $2,770.50. Winks died in 1939, [...]

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Lincoln’s Vision

Sometimes the story is about the relationship between the owner and the car. Sometimes the story is about the owner’s vision of what the car could be. And sometimes the story is the car itself. Then, of course, you have Calgary’s Murray Hoines and his ’49 Lincoln where the story is a little of all [...]

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Where Does All the Horsepower Go?

When a car manufacturer  advertises that a V-8 engine delivers 250 horsepower, what does this mean? Technically, the term horsepower means the capability for doing so much work in so much time. One horsepower is defined as 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute. So, the power necessary to lift 33,000 pounds one foot in one [...]

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How to Pick the Car

For comfort and convenience. Only you can determine whether their added cost is worth their convenience. Sound Systems – Controlled audio systems have progressed a far piece from the old squawk box in the dash. Now offered are AM-FM stereo radios, hi-fi tape decks in mono or stereo, and fore and aft speakers that can [...]

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Buy Selectively During “Gas Wars”

An oversupply of gasoline stocks generally causes competitive price reductions that spread among stations in an area until prices change almost daily. Such a “gas war” opens excellent buying opportunities if you keep alert for price differentials. Certain areas of a city, suburb, or strip of developed highway consistently lower prices first and reach a [...]

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Take Full Advantage of Competitive Gimmicks

Marketing practices among oil companies are fiercely competitive. This scramble for your patronage has spawned the trading stamps, glassware premiums, TV bingo cards, and a wide variety of other gimmickry. You can benefit from one or more of these promotions. If trading stamps are offered, by all means keep them. Their cost is built into [...]

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