Cool stuff there, I've got a number and also have the 427 GP issue. The editor pulled up in front of our high school one day in a 1969 Boss 429 Mustang, popped the hood and started taking pics and interviews with the kids. Good ole EYCI, East York Collegiate Institute made it in the magazine. As mentioned leaned more to imported cars in the early years. It was a low budget undertaking but the advertisements are really interesting to me because of the Canadian and often Toronto content. 

A historian released a digital copy a few years ago 1959-72, but nothing beats thumbing throw an old magazine. Shipping 100 magazines isn't going to be cheap but your price is right.

Dang, I snooze I lose.

Those are truly unique. I have the odd issue. I think that magazine was published into the mid-70s.

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If I remember right some of of it was edited by Bruce McCall who later became quite famous with his National lampoon work with odd machinery and weird takes on social behaviour.  Brilliant stuff! If you ever see his fake ads for cars  that he did for the Lampoon you knew you were dealing the a guy who actually knew cars very well

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 I remember from decades ago a National Lampoon issue from 1975 that featured a multi-page fake brochure of a fictitious 1930's model car with flowing artwork, beautifully done, and tongue-in-cheek ad copy with comments about the depression. The great flowing automobile was blowing past panhandlers with the caption, "Brother, can you spare a dime?" while the capitalist wheeling the car is oblivious to them.  It sounds like the same Bruce you are referring to.

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If I remember right some of of it was edited by Bruce McCall who later became quite famous with his National lampoon work with odd machinery and weird takes on social behaviour.  Brilliant stuff! If you ever see his fake ads for cars  that he did for the Lampoon you knew you were dealing the a guy who actually knew cars very well

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 I remember from decades ago a National Lampoon issue from 1975 that featured a multi-page fake brochure of a fictitious 1930's model car with flowing artwork, beautifully done, and tongue-in-cheek ad copy with comments about the depression. The great flowing automobile was blowing past panhandlers with the caption, "Brother, can you spare a dime?" while the capitalist wheeling the car is oblivious to them.  It sounds like the same Bruce you are referring to.

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 Yeah, that's the guy.  He really knew his cars. Very interesting and slyly satirical stuff.

Here's what everybody wants to see, dug up my original post from 4 years ago:

https://canadianponcho.activeboard.com/t61496727/1967-pontiac-427-canada-track-and-traffic-february-1967/

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Dang. I knew I shouldn't have gone outside to do yard work!

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 Wow I thought you had a special app that allowed you to scoop the good stuff, but I guess if you did you'd have a much bigger house eh?

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 Naw, Todd has a big car shed to fill!

That would be a worthwhile project for sure. Last year I volunteered (during the coldest part of the winter,) to scan about 35 years worth of old  school yearbooks. 2300 pages later I was done and I was almost insane with repetition boredom but they are available again to people. 

So if I could get my hands on these I would do that as they are probably the best source of contemporary Canadian flavoured car info that would be out there, with the articles and ads giving a lot of insights.

I have pm'd the new owner of these to see if he might be willing to part with them after a while so we shall see... 

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That would be a worthwhile project for sure. Last year I volunteered (during the coldest part of the winter,) to scan about 35 years worth of old  school yearbooks. 2300 pages later I was done and I was almost insane with repetition boredom but they are available again to people. 

So if I could get my hands on these I would do that as they are probably the best source of contemporary Canadian flavoured car info that would be out there, with the articles and ads giving a lot of insights.

I have pm'd the new owner of these to see if he might be willing to part with them after a while so we shall see... 

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 You sound as busy as "that Stevenson character" who scanned all the Beaumont Assembly Manual stuff

Like his endeavor, that and the Track & Traffic would be pretty well be the only source for these unique Canadian resources.

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 When I read what Ken wrote, I thought there is a guy who understands boredom! But it's been so rewarding, I've had so many guys who were excited to get those manuals. I still am grateful every time I think of it that my friend at the GM office was a quick enough thinker to pull them out of the garbage can.

Yeah, I'd look at it as some kind of public service in preserving history.  I suspect that most collections of old magazines like that sit in a box in somebody's basement, to eventually get tossed out to be recycled some day when that person isn't around anymore.  Preserving them in the digital world seems like the way to keep them out there and share them with the world.

But it would be a lot of time and effort for sure.  Then there would likely be some expense involved in keeping a website running.

I know the brochure site takes digital donations from people.  A few of the brochures on the site are ones that I own, scanned and emailed to them to contribute to the site.  One was a '60 Chev police car brochure and another was a '72 Plymouth police car brochure.  There were a few others but I can't even recall what they were at this point...

Haha... It's not a job that I could take on at the moment as I don't have a good working scanner at home.  ...and not in the office these days, not that I'd use office equipment for a personal use such as this... 

Hey, waitaminute... you're the retired guy here...