Does anyone else collect car brochures? I do, in fact I have a few dozen of them.

These are just some...




Here is a complete (almost) list of what I have:

1974 Buick Lesabre
1975 Dodge Monaco
1976 Ford LTD
1976 Pontiac Bonneville/Catalina
1976 Pontiac LeMans
1976 Oldsmobile Full-line
1977 Buick Full-line
1977 Ford Wagons
1979 Chevrolet Wagons
1979 Ford Wagons
1980 Ford Wagons
1982 Ford Wagons
1984 Pontiac Parisienne
1987 Honda Full-line
1987 Plymouth Voyager
1989 Plymouth Acclaim
1989 Plymouth Horizon/Reliant
1989 Plymouth Gran Fury
1989 Plymouth Sundance
1990 Chrysler Town & Country
1991 Toyota Corolla
1996 Buick Full-line
1996 Chevrolet Caprice
1997 Ford Crown Victoria
2000 Chevrolet Impala Taxi Package
2003 Ford Crown Victoria
2004 Ford Taurus
2005 Chevrolet Aveo
2005 Chevrolet Cobalt
2005 Chevrolet Impala
2005 Chevrolet Malibu
2005 Ford Focus
2007 Saturn Aura


Also, if anyone would like to see a paticular brochure in more detail, I would be happy to take pictures of it and post them here

Yes, I collect car-literature, too. I own the biggest collection of VW K 70-literature in the world


Some years ago, I decided to concentrate my search only on that model, so I gave away all the other stuff, I got over the years. The not K 70-related stuff was not much, I've swapped or sold it, the last years mainly at eBay.

How did I not guess?

Easy to get the new ones Max, but where and how did you get the old ones?

Does rpcm also write in the forum? I don't think so. As you can read in his profile, he has also a big collection of brochues.

A few old magazines and literature I've also collected for my dream-car, the Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3

Ebay my friend

Although I did buy a few at the Oldsmobile Museum's gift shop.
It is located right accross the river from the skyscraper my dad works in, in fact I should go back there some time and take some pictures of the cars.
They have a beautiful selection of Oldsmobiles from ranging from 1897 to 2004. You would simply love it CCF
The reason the Oldsmobuile Museum is located here in Lansing is becuase until Oldsmobile's demise in 2004, Lansing was the official headquartes for the brand, and many factories produced Oldsmobile cars here. For this reason, it is quite common to see tons of Oldsmobiles, old and new, roaming the streets of our city.

More info on the museum:
http://reoldsmuseum.org/

By the way CCF, are there any brochures in the list that you'd like to see more closely?

Often the people complain, that eBay causes higher prices. This goes not for the most car-literature, which is on the market.
I made the experience, that today at eBay the prices for car-literature are much lower, than at dealers on classic-car-markets or flea-markets in the 90ies.

Oh yes i would



The Caprice one no doubt! oh and the Crown Vic one!

Max...?

Sorry for slow response CCF. It's just that my parents arrived home with a new car in the middle of my posting, so I became a bit preoocupied with that as I'm sure you can understand

Anyway, more info about that topic soon

No problem! very nice brochures, mmm the Caprices are excellent, that Wagon with wood panelling is really nice and the Crown Vic interior is superb too, those seats seem to be very comfortable i dont know how can someone drive an automatic car with such seats, i would fall asleep!

By the way did you say "new car" ? you have a new car now?

Yes, it is. In fact I saw a Caprice wagon just like today (while driving around in our "new" car), it was blue with wood paneling. But the funny thing is, it had a canoe strapped to the roof that was longer than it was

On a similar note, I saw a 1995-96 Caprice taxicab (still in use) while driving today also.





I know I thought that too. There is actually a very funny commercial I saw on TV about that exact topic, and it is even with the same car (well, it's actually a Lincoln Town Car, but it's pretty much the same as a CV )

Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3YlZAfdGFE






Well no, it is 19 years old but it is "new" to us

Anyway I'll post a new topic all about that in a moment (with pictures)

Well but tell me what car it is!!!

http://forum.imcdb.org/forum_topic-3726-Our_new_old_car.html

by the way, did you like the commercial?

I did, it was quite funny

I was lucky to find a brochure for the 1997 Acura RL. It's very nice but it will lay on my desk or sometimes my floor (room can be messy ) because I have too many books in my bookshelf. I have been studying it and have learned lots of neat stuff about my car. I plan to keep it forever. .

Nice, Joseph
You know, come to think of it, we have 8 cars, and I have 30+ bruchures, but none of my brochures are for any of the cars we actually have!