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Midwest Auto Specialties

If you are a gearhead of a certain age, you may remember a speed shop before Summit Racing Equipment. This was the former Midwest Auto Specialties of Ohio, and they were a national catalog house by the 1970’s, and began in the 1950’s. By the early 1980’s under pressure from the new Summit Racing Equipment and a few others, the owners cashed out.

They may be gone, but those heady days are not forgotten. We are offering a reproduction of two famous catalog covers from 1968 and 1970 imprinted on Tees, hoodies, blankets, mugs, banners and all kinds of swag for your man cave or racing trailer. The 1970 cover is the first appearance of their famous drag racing tiger, replete with cigar and racing helmet!

Get yours today at our Fine Art America Store here and here!

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NEWS FLASH! Famous Parts Manuals Coming!

In a major acquisition, HRM has obtained the rights to distribute the manuals of an eBay seller who has retired, after selling these manuals on eBay since 2003. They had spent many months and years digitizing this media all those years ago, and wanted to be sure this resource was kept available to the car crafting and restoration community.

We have several available now, and will be adding more in 2019. We are updating and compressing each manual, and adding to the resources on the disk beyond just parts manuals. Things such as tech tips, repair tips or manuals, vendor catalogs and more add to the value on every disk.

Currently available on eBay (check the Online Store button for info) are:

Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Jeep, MG/MGB and AMC. More are coming soon!

Cover page of AMC parts manual showing bookmarked Index
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NEW Shopping Site To Be Released Soon!

FIRST, let us apologize sincerely to the many customers (too many) who have had problems with our online store in 2017. It seems the payment function was broken, and no good way to fix it. BUT, we are transitioning to a new format in 2018 to allow Digital Downloads! We see the writing on the wall as optical disks slowly disappear. This new store will appear over the next few months, and we appreciate your patience. In the meantime, you will always be able to find the physical disks on eBay by searching for auctions by user CSOA.

We will post a new column when the new shopping site is ready for downloads, and explain the process to ease the transition. One nice side benefit of Digital Downloads: if you are in the garage and stuck on the bench and need a resource, you can download the info with your smartphone, and have it on the screen in minutes! Is this progress or what?! Of course, getting the grease off the phone is YOUR problem, sorry 🙁

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NEW! In The eShop: Hydra-Matic Super Turbine 300 Slim Jim DynaFlow Jetaway Turboglide Flashaway Manuals!

 1964 Oldmobile Slim Jim Transmission

We are pleased to announce the latest release from the Backyard Engineering Team!

The result of several months effort, it covers the older GM Hydra-Matic and related automatic transmissions used in General Motors and other vehicles from 1948 to 1969. This manual features Adjustments, Rebuilding, performance modifications, and real world tips and tricks.

It also is an invaluable reference for sourcing parts and services for your automatic transmission rebuild.This fantastic manual is only available right now, exclusively in our NEW online eShop!

By popular demand, we have developed our online bookstore so that you can securely purchase without the added hassle of an auction site.

Enter the Bookstore!

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NEW! Just Released: Turbo-Hydramatic 375 400 425 Manuals!

1974 C3 Corvette Turbo-Hydramatic 400 Transmission (on left)

We are pleased to announce the latest release from the Backyard Engineering Team!

The result of several months effort, it covers the heavy duty Turbo-Hydramatic automatic transmissions used in General Motors products from 1964 and up. This manual features Adjustments, Rebuilding, performance modifications, and real world tips and tricks. It includes special attention to the FWD versions in the Eldorado and Toronado, and tips on the “Switch Pitch” versions.

It also is an invaluable reference for sourcing parts and services for your automatic transmission rebuild.This fantastic manual is only available right now, on eBay.

This is a list of currently available products for worldwide shipment:

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NEW! Just Released: Turbo-Hydramatic 200 250 325 350 375B Manuals!

1970 Pontiac Turbo-Hydramatic 350 Transmission

We are pleased to announce the latest release from the Backyard Engineering Team!

The result of several months effort, it covers these lighter duty Turbo-Hydramatic automatic transmissions used in General Motors products from 1968 and up. This manual features Adjustments, Rebuilding, performance modifications, and real world tips and tricks.

It also is an invaluable reference for sourcing parts and services for your automatic transmission rebuild.This fantastic manual is only available right now, on eBay.

This is a list of currently available products for worldwide shipment:

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NEW! Just Released: Vintage 1931-1942 Transmission, Differential and Rear Axles Service Manual

 Divco Milk Delivery Truck: Yes, it is covered!

We are pleased to sponsor the latest monumental release from the Backyard Engineering Team!

After years of work, they have restored one of the greatest jobber service manuals ever produced. Covering almost every domestic USA vehicle produced from 1931 thru 1942, this manual features Gearshift Adjustments, Transmissions, Differentials and Rear Axles. Brands include Warner Gear, Spicer, Timken, Brown-Lipe (“Brownie”), Clark, Fuller and more.

The car and truck brands covered include:

Buick Passenger Cars
Cadillac Passenger Cars
Chevrolet Passenger Cars
Chevrolet Trucks
Ford, Mercury, Lincoln and Lincoln Zephyr Passenger Cars
Ford Trucks & Buses
Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth Passenger Cars
Dodge Trucks
Plymouth Trucks
GMC Trucks & Buses
Oldsmobile Passenger Cars
Pontiac Passenger Cars

Auburn
Autocar Truck
Available Truck
Brockway Truck
Condor Truck
Corbitt Truck
Dart Truck
Day Elder Truck
Diamond T Truck
Divco truck
Fargo (Dodge) Truck
Federal Truck
Graham
Gramm Truck
Hendrickson Truck
Henney Truck (Packard)
Hudson
Hug Truck
Hupmobile
Indiana Truck
International Truck
Kenworth Truck
LaFayette
LaFrance Republic Truck
LaSalle
Mack Truck
Mack Junior Truck
Moreland Truck
Nash
Nelson-LeMoon Truck
Packard
Pak-Age-Car (Stutz & Diamond T) Truck
Pierce-Arrow
Reo
Reo Truck
Sterling Truck
Stewart Truck
Studebaker
Studebaker Truck
Terraplane
White Truck
White Horse Truck
Willys Passenger Cars
Willys Truck

This fantastic manual is only available right now, on eBay.

This is a list of currently available products for worldwide shipment:

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NEW! Just Released: Ford Automatic Transmissions

Just released this past weekend, and now available exclusively on eBay!

Ford Automatic Transmissions Service Reference Disk on CD, covering:

C3, C4, and C5 including the rare 1970 only C4S with manual shift valve body

C6 from 1966 thru 1996

FMX from 1958 and up

AOD all non-electronic versions, including how to swap and replace the C4 and C6!

A4LD including Ranger and Bronco

SPECIAL: Finnish Language version of the A4LD Service Manual

Don’t forget, we offer always FREE worldwide shipping!

Check out this NEW release and our others below:

Ford Automatic C4 C4S C6 FMX AOD A4LD CruiseOmatic

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Welcome To Hot Rod Service Manuals!

Hot Rod Service Manuals on CD or DVD are the easiest way to help restore or repair your vintage car, muscle car or hot rod.

Whether you have  a GTO, Mustang, Super Sport, GT, GTX, Roadrunner, 442, Hemi, GTS, ‘Cuda, Challenger, RT, Charger, Superbird, Daytona, Mach I, Mustang II, AMX, Javelin, Dart, Gran Sport, GSX, Camaro, Heavy Chevy Chevelle, Ralley Nova, Chevy II, Sport Fury, Chrysler 300, Impala, BelAir, Corvette, Pontiac 2+2, LeMans, Tempest, T-37, Nomad, Wildcat, Riviera, Ralley 350 Cutlass, or a home built street machine or rat rod, you need a reliable source of reference material to get the job done.

New manuals are constantly in development. We currently have reference manual disks in PDF format for the following components:

Transmissions:

Muncie 4 Speeds M20 M21 M22 SM465

Borg Warner 3 Speeds

Borg Warner 4 Speeds

Borg Warner 5 Speeds

Tremec 5 Speeds

Tremec 6 Speeds

Ford Toploader 3 Speeds

Ford Toploader 4 Speeds

GM PowerGlide

Mopar Chrysler TorqueFlite

Mopar Chrysler 3 Speeds

Mopar Chrysler 4 Speeds

Carburetors:

Carter

Rochester

Autolite Motorcraft

We ship for FREE, Worldwide!

Look no further than the following auctions listed below, currently hosted on eBay:

Welcome To Hot Rod Service Manuals!

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