Anyone have some old Tradin' times laying around? chicago sales rag...

[SupremeDeluxe]

I must have recycled 1,000 Tradin Times, Auto Trader Classics, and Hemmings during my last move 10 years ago. I was getting married at the time, and my bride-to-be just didn't get why I needed them.

If I hadn't gotten married, I'd probably still have every Hemmings printed in the last 30 years.

[black69]

what is also interesting, the last owner of my car bought it out of the auto-trader back in 83, a local buy (45 minute ride). I bet tradin times was near the decline at that time. I just always thought auto-trader had picked over cars, that by the time it was ever printed with the pretty pictures, the good deals were gone out of it by someone that would see it before I did. With the tradin times, you felt like you got a time advantage as they printed them so often so you could not wait for the fresh releases to feel like you could be first. Craigslist is kinda like that in a sense.

The tribune always had some killer cars we all loved to see the ads for on the weekend. I miss those days. A bowl of some unhealthy cereal and the paper spread out on the kitchen table.

[Pro Stock John]

I just remembered I had a friend who worked for the Tradin' Times for a long time, I'll ask him.

[black69]

Well well well....It turns out the second owner had a weak spell and was between houses and did not want to see the car sitting outside, so tested the waters on selling it, but that never came to be (as it he did get a garage for it).

So the Tribune ad is the car I have. That was a great bonus!! THANK YOU for posting that!

He said at that OCT 1978 time period it got a hurst super shifter 2 but before that it had a hurst super shifter 1. Clutch was a racing clutch that if you did not take the car out and run it hard, it would start to chatter and it wore out your leg if you drove it much in traffic. That ad brought out more of his memories of the car at that time I did not know about.

But to get the original tradin times ad in 75/76 timeframe will be super cool to have with the price the original owner was asking before the cross-ram got sold off to the owner of Bill Jacobs Chevrolet.

[PeteLeathersac]

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Cool news the 10/78 Tribune Ad was Owner #2 advertising your car!
Best of luck finding the original owner Ad, if you happen to have his phone #, it could prove helpful searching.
Great O2 shared more info too, sure sounds like a serious car!
Love to hear more including original purchase also Nickey details plus anything of it today.

~ Pete

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[Pro Stock John]

I asked my buddy who used to work for the Tradin' Times, he left in 1999. He doesn't think anything is digitized. Maybe try putting an marketplace ad on FB and see if anyone local here has a big ol' stash.

[Pro Stock John]

So it sounds like my friend Randy Ailing owned your car in the past, he posted this on FB:

Found an old add from my X brother in law
When He was Selling his car I bought in 78
Just out of high school