Based in Denver, North Carolina, Steele Rubber Products has been busy answering the needs of domestic collector-car owners with weather seal issues. Recently, Steele introduced a variety of Peel-N-Stick weatherstripping. Made of the same rubber compounds as their regular seals, the Peel-N-Stick seals come in a variety of lengths and configurations complete with adhesive for […]
You may remember them as “Pocket Cars,” small-scale die-cast cars sold in a blistercard that resembled a denim pocket, in the ’70s and ’80s. Made by Tomica, they were a sort of Japanese homage to Matchbox – opening features (the doors closed with a particularly firm click), sprung suspension, and fine detailing. Cars were a […]
If the 50th anniversary of the nation’s first automobile smog bill hasn’t been overly memorialized, well, we’re not surprised. Between emissions regulations, safety oversight, insurance premiums and OPEC, the law enacted in April of 1960 was the first, and maybe most important, factor in ushering the almost 20 years of low-performance Seventies and Eighties.
With the […]