Four-Links - more Photoshopped old ads, the Flying Pink Avenger, Cash for Clunkers discussion, Lost Nash Dealerships

* Back in November, we saw Marc's photochopped old car ads, and now we've found a similar bunch of chopped ads over at the Los Boulevardos Club's blog, including the above 1958 Dodge Sierra slammed to the ground. For some reason I get a kick out of cars that look perfectly stock but lay rocker. Beware the autoplay music on the site.

the Flying Pink Avenger

* In the last few weeks, we've had pink cars and cars on high on the blog, and the Price of His Toys blog combined those two memes with this pink Avenger kit car that once resided on the roof of Parkhurst Motors in Belleville, Ontario. It's apparently gone now, but PoHT has some photos from when it was up.

old VW ad

* You're reading this blog, so you probably don't need to be convinced how ridiculous the proposed federal scrappage bills are. If you do need some convincing, the New Republic argues against it, as does Jalopnik, The Truth About Cars (or maybe not) and Amazons's Car Lust blog. And to keep up on the initiative against the so-called Cash for Clunkers bill, SEMA has an update on the new Feinstein-Waxman version. Jalopnik also reported yesterday that one of the scrappage bills died in the Senate, but another's still out there in the legislative process.

Hollywood Nash dealership, courtesy the LA Public Library archives

* We've included quite the amount of research on former AMC dealerships for our Lost Dealerships series lately, and Kit Foster wanted to remind us that the history of independent carmakers did not begin in 1954 and end in 1987; to that end, he informed us of Ken Havekost's listing of Nash dealerships, which could prove useful in combination with the listings of AMC dealerships.

1918 Chevrolet dealership, Livermore, CA

* And while we're on the topic of dealerships, GM's FYI Blog recently ran this photo of a Chevrolet dealership in Livermore, California, circa 1918. A quick search turned up no info on Smallcomb Motor Company, and the directional signs flanking the clock indicate that the dealership sat on a southwest corner of an intersection in Livermore. Today, there appears to be just one Chevrolet dealership in Livermore: Groth Brothers, which sits on the northwest corner of L Street and First.

UPDATE (22.May 2009): Alden Jewell of Yuba City, California, writes:

My dealership records show that Smallcomb Motor Co. was the Chevrolet dealer in Livermore until at least 1931, but I don’t know the location. Smallcomb also had the Chevrolet dealership in San Bruno CA from 1944 to 1962. Groth Bros. has been the Livermore Chevrolet dealership only since 1991, but they sold Olds and GMC from 1934 at their present location at 59 So. L St.

Thanks, Alden!