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CSK Auto, Inc. was a specialty retailer of automotive parts and accessories in the western United States.CSK Auto became a publicly traded company in March 1998, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth.
Super Shops Automotive Performance Centers was an American chain of 165 aftermarket auto parts stores which operated from 1963 to 1998. The chain was founded as a single store on July 1, 1963, by Harry Eberlin, a United States Air Force Veteran and freelance auto-parts dealer.
Other television cars built by Barris Kustom Industries include the Munster Koach and the DRAG-U-LA for The Munsters, [7] [8] [9] an Oldsmobile Toronado turned into a roadster used in the first season of Mannix, a 1921 Oldsmobile touring car turned into a truck for The Beverly Hillbillies, the fictional "1928 Porter" for the NBC comedy My ...
During the '40s he spent many weekends driving to stock car races with his wife, Grace, and two daughters, Martha and Ann and a trunkful of racing parts for sale or trade. After several years of networking and getting to know the drivers and the market, he decided to take the next step, and in 1948 he started Honest Charley's Speed Shop along ...
The hood, which originally opened with one button inside the car, was replaced with two buttons on the car’s exterior. Then says he's worried the hood isn't secure.
Trak Auto formed part of the stable of discount operations owned by the Dart Group, the family holding company of Herbert Haft, and grew indirectly out of Dart Drug.Part of Dart Drug's strategy was to offer additional merchandise beyond the usual prescription drugs, health and beauty aids, and other merchandise that is typically found in a neighborhood drug store during the early 1970s.
That included 55 letters that Einstein wrote to his eventual first wife, Mileva Marić, dated from 1989 and 1903 and which make up almost half of all of the renowned physicist’s correspondence ...
An example of a matchbook ad for Muntz car lots in the 1950s. In 1934, Muntz opened his first used car lot, in Elgin, with a $500 ($11,000 in 2023) line of credit. [8] He was only 20 years old, and his mother had to sign the car-sale papers because legally he was too young to close his own deals. [7]