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Sort By: Price: Low to High Price: High to Low Most Popular Title Manufacturer Newest Oldest 50 per page 100 per page 200 per page 300 per page 500 per page Page of 3   1983 GM Annual Report List Price: $10.00 Our Price: $7.00 You Save $3.00! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! 1900-1917 Automobile Engineering Encyclopedia Vol. 5: Electric, Steam & Commercial Vehicles List Price: $15.00 Our Price: $8.00 You Save $7.00! Automobile Engineering Encyclopedia Vol. 5 only: covers electric, steam & commercial vehicles. If you own a car throughout the 1920's, these will still prove useful. Covers cars and trucks (lots on Ford) for 1900-1901-1902-1903-1904-1905-1906-1907-1908-1909-1910-1911-1912-1913-1914-1915-1916-1917 Automobile Engineering Encyclopedia Volume 5. 1908-1983 GM 75th Anniversary Hardback Book List Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $10.00! This is the General Motors 75th anniversary book.   This was commissioned by GM and Automobile Quarterly did the publishing, and every GM employee here in Flint Michigan got one FREE!  To the public back then though, they were $20.00. This has 223 pages and is a wonderful book FILLED with pictures, drawings, history on its cars and trucks...REALLY a great book.  As you can imagine, this book is pretty common around Flint but not often seen OUT THERE. 1941 WWII Machinery's Handbook List Price: $18.20 Our Price: $14.00 You Save $4.20! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This handbook contains over 1800 pages and would have been a definitive book for machinists during WWII. 1944 Floyd Clymer's Motor Scrapbook #1 List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This "In-Factory" 160 pg. book is a wonderful historical reference book which goes back to the dawn of the automobile. This book is in very good to excellent condition. 1946-1952 Floyd Clymer's Motor Scrapbook #3 List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This "In-Factory" hardcover book is a wonderful historical reference book which goes back tot he early years of the automobile. This book is in very good to excellent condition. 1946-1947-1948-1949-1950-1951-1952 Floyd Clymer's Motor Scrapbook #3 1984 VECON '84 Manual -SAE/IME Conference List Price: $6.50 Our Price: $5.00 You Save $1.50! This is an original manual issued by the Automobile division of The Insititution of Mechanical Engineers and The Society of Automobile Engineers and contains papers read at the international conference held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London. This manual is in very good condition. 1964 Automobile Quarterly Vol. 3 No. 3 List Price: $13.33 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $3.33! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). Big articles on Land Speed Records, the new Mustang and Cadillac for 1965, Paintings of Grand Prix, GM Prototypes, Cadillac History, 1909 Lancia Beta and more! The book is in excellent condition. ~ loc:base shelf 1964 Automobile Quarterly Vol. 3 No. 2 List Price: $13.33 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $3.33! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). Includes full-length articles on the Ford GT-40, Delahay, Pike's Peak, GM Cars of Tomorrow, 1912-30 Sunbeam Racing Paintings, Hanomay, Invicta and more! The book is in excellent condition. ~ loc:base shelf 1908 "Self-Propelled Vehicles" by Audel & Co-WOW! List Price: $33.33 Our Price: $25.00 You Save $8.33! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). Here are 600 pages on "The Theory, Construction, Operation, Care and Management of Automobiles". This book covers history, suspension, bodies, engines, and etc, etc. Over 600 illustrations, all from the dawn of the automobile, when Henry Ford was still basically an unknown, and Billy Durant had just formed General Motors here in Flint, MI. ~ loc:base box 1893 The Quarterly Illustrator Vol. 1 No. 1 thru No. 4 List Price: $26.67 Our Price: $20.00 You Save $6.67! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This is a bound volume of the first year of this magazine. The condition of this book is fair to good with a few pages loose. Also, I saw a few corners of pages have been cut out. The magazine is approximately 97% complete, but with no guarantees. ~ loc:base box 1961 "GM Engineering' History Book List Price: $13.33 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $3.33! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). Tells the whole history of GM Engineering. Quite interesting! Sixty-five pages in excellent condition. ~ loc:buick lit tub 1908-1954 GM Cars History Book List Price: $13.33 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $3.33! Issued by GM in 1954 as part of the November 1954 "50-Million Cars Celebration", this is full of clean frameable prints of famous EARLY GM models. 1908-1962 GM Cars History Book List Price: $13.33 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $3.33! Issued by GM in 1962 as a historical item during Chevy's 50th Anniversary, this is full of clean frameable prints of famous EARLY GM models. This 24-page book is in excellent condtion. 1960 Cobo Hall Auto Show Dinner Menu-Program List Price: $23.33 Our Price: $17.50 You Save $5.83! This dinner was held in Detroit on October 17, 1960, and the guest speaker was President Eisenhower. These are rare!You had to be at the dinner to get it! We may have any additional manuals you seek in stock at great discounts. Just visit us to do a one minute search or email us your inquiry. Early 70's Chrysler Corp "Golden Torque Wrench" Award! List Price: $40.00 Our Price: $30.00 You Save $10.00! This Master Tech Award was issued by Chrysler Corporation upon the student who scored the highest in his class at Chrysler's mechanic school. This is from 1972 or 1973 because of the shop manuals that I bought from the same man. This torque wrench has been used and the golden plating is wearing thin here and there. This is by Miller Special Service Tools, Model C-3940. 1930's-1950's GM Plant Shop Rules, & Ect. Books! List Price: $11.33 Our Price: $8.50 You Save $2.83! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). Here is a collection of early policy manuals and pension plan booklets-very interesting. These were handed to new hires to study. Includes Oldsmobile, Fisher Body, Wayne and more. 1897-1973 Oldsmobile 75th Anniversary, In The News, Vol. 1, No. 2 List Price: $13.33 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $3.33! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). Issued by Oldsmobile in 1973 as a historical item during their 75th Anniversary, this is full of pictures and articles of famous EARLY Oldsmobile models. This 23-page book is in excellent condtion. Plus an added extra 14 pages of "Highlights in Oldsmobile's History" 1944 GMI 25th Anniversary Celebration List Price: $20.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). 60 years ago, a celebration took place in Flint, MI, Oct 20-21, 1944. General Motors Institute celebrated 25 years. Now 85, it is called Kettering University and is still in good hands! 1908-1953 Buick First Half Century Book List Price: $50.00 Our Price: $35.00 You Save $15.00! Here is a book chronicling Buick's 1st half century of auto making. Packed with many picture and articles, this would be good for any collector. This was issued BY BUICK and given out to every Buick employee during the 1953 celebration.  This is a scarce item, especially beyond here in Flint Michigan. 1962 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! 1963 Buick Retirement Dinner List Price: $20.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $5.00! This is the small program for the Buick retirement dinner that was held on June 10th, 1963. 1969 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50 You Save $12.50! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! 1939-1964 Buick 25th Anniversary Dinner Program List Price: $20.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This dinner was held at the I.M.A. Auditorium in Flint, Michigan on Jan., 11, 1965, in honor of Buick's 25 year employees. 1965 Buick Management Dinner Program List Price: $20.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This is the small program for the Buick retirement dinner that was held on Dec., 15, 1965. Waitaminute!! Who lined up the entertainment at Buick's "Big-Cheese" annual? The band? "The Continentals". 1972 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50 You Save $12.50! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! "80 Years of Chevrolet Truck" Portfolio! List Price: $13.00 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $3.00! This portfolio was issued by Chevrolet in 1998. It contains a set of nine prints celebrating Chevy trucks manufactured from 1918 to 1998. This portfolio is in excellent condition. 1958 Story of GM Golden Anniversary Book List Price: $16.67 Our Price: $12.50 You Save $4.17! GM issued many of these little history books off and on, but this 84-page book brings it up to the 50th anniversary. This item is in good to very good condition . 1900-1981 Mack Truck Historical Literature List Price: $20.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). In 1981 Mack produced a company catalog, a brochure, and two reprints of historical truck brochures. You can get all 4 items in this auction. These items are in good to very good condition, with some scuffing on the catalog cover. 1973 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50 You Save $12.50! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! 1968 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50 You Save $12.50! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! 1967 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50 You Save $12.50! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! 1965 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture.  That is the way we took the picture of this one. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! 1964 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! 1961 GM Annual Report List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! GM Annual Reports began with the colorful covers only about 1947 and continue even today.  The 1946 and back issues didn't have any color photos and are quite rare today.   The 1958 issue is the most sought after for its great artwork that covers the front and back as one picture. These show color pictures of the following years models. So if you have a 1960 GM car, you would want the 1959 issue and so on.  There are collectors who try to gather every issue! Sixty Years of Chevrolet- 1st Edition! List Price: $40.00 Our Price: $35.00 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This was written by George Dammann and printed in 1972 by Crestline. This book is much sought after by collectors. This item is in very good condition. Alfred P. Sloan Funeral Memorial Handout-1966 List Price: $11.50 Our Price: $6.50 You Save $5.00! This is the original handout from the funeral of the longest-running CEO of General Motors in history. This item is in very good condition with some shelf-wear. 1944-1945 Chevrolet Executive Dinner Program W/Placecard List Price: $12.50 Our Price: $7.50 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This dinner was held at the Durant Hotel in Durant, Michigan on Feb., 25, 1945. Includes an original placecard for O.J. Atherton. 1943-1944 Chevrolet Executive Dinner Program List Price: $12.50 Our Price: $7.50 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This dinner was held at the Durant Hotel in Durant, Michigan on Feb., 17, 1944. 1953 or 1954 Chevrolet Corvette Original Postcard List Price: $12.50 Our Price: $7.50 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This is an original postcard showing a 1953 or 1954 Corvette. 1955 Chevrolet-Flint, 25-Year Employee Dinner Program List Price: $17.50 Our Price: $12.50 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This is an original program for a dinner honoring 25-year employees of Chevrolet-Flint, Michigan. This was held at the Durant Motel on June 12, 1955. 1944 Floyd Clymer's Motor Scrapbook #2 List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This "In-Factory" 225 pg. book is a wonderful historical reference book which goes back to the dawn of the automobile. This book is in very good to excellent condition. 1952 Floyd Clymer's Motor Scrapbook #4 List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). This "In-Factory" 225 pg. book is a wonderful historical reference book which goes back to the dawn of the automobile. This book is in very good to excellent condition. Fifty Years of Ford Progress List Price: $15.00 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $5.00! This fold-out brochure measures approximately 15"L x 11"W. This shows the progress of Ford from 1896 to 1946. This brochure is in good to very good condition, but has been folded and there are some small tears on the fold. Three OLD Theater Banners! List Price: $20.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $5.00! These banners laid folded up on a shelf in the basement of a 120 year old store in down town Imlay City, MI for probably 50 years. This item is in good to very good condition. VERY OLD Fireman's Helmet Badge! List Price: $15.00 Our Price: $10.00 You Save $5.00! Currently, sold out, but we may have more! Click Here to see if we have more of the same product. If this link does nothing, we are completely out of stock. (or use "Email me when Back-In-Stock" below). I don't know if "badge is the right word, but this is a thick, hard leather applique that went on the front of a fireman's helmet. This item is in fair condition. U.S. Bicentennial Souvineer Newspaper! List Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00 You Save $5.00! Here is the color July 4, 1976 supplement to the Detroit News and covers the nations 200 years of history! This item is in overall very good condition. 1947 Ford HFII-Tom Lilley Interview List Price: $12.50 Our Price: $7.50 You Save $5.00! This is the 8 page reprint of an interview with Henry Ford II that originally appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly". Interesting! This item is in excellent condition. Those Wonderful Old Automobiles By Floyd Clymer! List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $15.00 You Save $10.00! This is the 214 page, hardbound book by Floyd Clymer! Published in the 1953, this 8 1/2" x 11 1/4" book is in excellent condition. This book is meant to be neither an analytical study nor a definitive history of the American automobile. It has been compiled in a vein of automobile nostalgia by Floyd Clymer himself, and expresses his own experience and feelings regarding early cars in America. This book came from the local estate of an old-time car nut near Flint, Michigan. In Flint, it is easy to end up a "car nut", or 'enthusiast" as they say. 1978 Chevrolet Corvette 25th Anniversary Books & Memorabilia List Price: $12.50 Our Price: $7.50 You Save $5.00! This is an original sales brochure for the Corvette 25th anniversary book by Automobile Quarterly.