No more “Legendary Sports Cars” calendar
Oxman Publishing has apparently given up on their “Legendary Sports Cars” calendar.
It’s one of the seven calendars I got every year. —Essentially as wall-art.
Thankfully, they still have their hot-rod calendar (see link), so I ordered one the other day.
It always looks great. About 11 x 17, color, and excellent printing.
I got a “Classic Cars” calendar from Hemmings once, and sent it back.
It looked awful. The dot-screen was wide open — so bad it distracted.
The “Legendary Sports Cars” calendar looked great too, but I suppose I was one of its few buyers.
The other Oxman calendars are -1) sprint-car racing, -2) world auto racing, and -3) classic Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Sprint-car racing I have no interest in, I’m not into the macho Harley schtick, and I got the world auto racing calendar once, but it was too much like an ad circular.
My other 2010 calendars are —1) the Audio-Visual Designs black-and-white All-Pennsy Calendar, —2) an all-Pennsy color calendar, —3) my O. Winston Link “Steam & Steel” calendar, —4) a muscle-cars calendar, —5) my Norfolk Southern Employees Contest calendar, and —6) my Ghosts WWII warbirds calendar.
My Audio-Visual Designs black-and-white All-Pennsy Calendar I’ve got since 1968. I usually get two — snail-mail, and they sell out almost immediately.
The second is a Christmas present for my railfan nephew in northern Delaware, a Pennsy lover like me.
For a long time that was my only calendar. Then I started getting the Oxman calendars.
The All-Pennsy color calendar is hard to get — not many produced. Too late last year, but I managed to snag one this year from Amazon®.
It was originally produced by a company that went bankrupt. When it did, I got my 2008 All-Pennsy Color Calendar from eBay for peanuts — about four bucks instead of $12.95.
My O. Winston Link calendar is a replacement for a Three Stooges calendar, which I thought was a waste. Single frames from movies. Worst was the frame with Curly gaping over the edge of a tall building, probably at the studio floor three feet below. The Stooges’ shadows were on the set painting of a city skyline.
I think last year was the first time the Link Museum in Roanoke produced the “Steam & Steel” calendar.
I wasn’t sure there’d be one this year, but there is.
Hard to find at their web-site, but found it.
Ordered it the other day (Saturday, September 19, 2009).
I got the 2009 Link calendar to replace the 2009 All-Pennsy Color calendar I couldn’t get.
It’s a great calendar, prints of O. Winston Link’s depiction of the end of steam locomotive operation on the Norfolk & Western Railroad in the middle ‘50s.
My muscle-cars calendar was a replacement for railfan calendars I’ve purchased in the past; paintings by Ted Rose and Howard Fogg.
Rose was dramatic, but with Ted Rose ya got 12 different railroads, and I’m partial to Pennsy.
Fogg was even worse. Very dramatic, but at least three or four watercolors of Colorado narrow-gauge.
Narrow-gauge is okay, but I prefer Pennsy (standard-gauge).
I almost dumped the muscle-car calendar, but can’t. Nothing better or comparable. What about Can-Am or Trans-Am racing about 1970?
I got the Norfolk Southern Employees Contest calendar a few years ago the replace -A) a Ducati (“dew-KAH-dee”) motorcycles calendar, which was printed poorly, and -B) John Deere farm-equipment calendars, which looked great, but depicted farm impliments.
I’d been hoping for Johnny Poppers; the fabulous two-cylinder farm-tractors John Deere produced in the late ‘40s and throughout the ‘50s.
Once-in-a-while they’d depict one in the calendar, amidst a surfeit of threshing machines.
The Norfolk Southern Employees Contest calendar is well-produced and attractive, but can be rather moribund. There’s apparently only so much ya can do with train-photography, and it shows in the Norfolk Southern Employees Contest calendar.
I was gonna dump it, but no more “Legendary Sports Cars” calendar.
My WWII warbirds calendar I’ve gotten for years. It’s my best one. HUGE, dramatic, and extremely well produced.
Two footnotes:
• “Pennsy” is the Pennsylvania Railroad, no longer in existence. It merged with New York Central Railroad in 1968 as Penn-Central, and that tanked in about eight years. “Pennsy” was once the largest railroad in the world. —My railfaning began on “Pennsy.” (I’ve been a railfan all my live.)
• “Narrow-gauge” is three feet between the rails —Standard-gauge, what ya see nowadays, is 4 feet 8&1/2 inches. Narrow-gauge could have tighter curvature — less grading. (As such it was mainly used in the Colorado mountains.)
It’s one of the seven calendars I got every year. —Essentially as wall-art.
Thankfully, they still have their hot-rod calendar (see link), so I ordered one the other day.
It always looks great. About 11 x 17, color, and excellent printing.
I got a “Classic Cars” calendar from Hemmings once, and sent it back.
It looked awful. The dot-screen was wide open — so bad it distracted.
The “Legendary Sports Cars” calendar looked great too, but I suppose I was one of its few buyers.
The other Oxman calendars are -1) sprint-car racing, -2) world auto racing, and -3) classic Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Sprint-car racing I have no interest in, I’m not into the macho Harley schtick, and I got the world auto racing calendar once, but it was too much like an ad circular.
My other 2010 calendars are —1) the Audio-Visual Designs black-and-white All-Pennsy Calendar, —2) an all-Pennsy color calendar, —3) my O. Winston Link “Steam & Steel” calendar, —4) a muscle-cars calendar, —5) my Norfolk Southern Employees Contest calendar, and —6) my Ghosts WWII warbirds calendar.
My Audio-Visual Designs black-and-white All-Pennsy Calendar I’ve got since 1968. I usually get two — snail-mail, and they sell out almost immediately.
The second is a Christmas present for my railfan nephew in northern Delaware, a Pennsy lover like me.
For a long time that was my only calendar. Then I started getting the Oxman calendars.
The All-Pennsy color calendar is hard to get — not many produced. Too late last year, but I managed to snag one this year from Amazon®.
It was originally produced by a company that went bankrupt. When it did, I got my 2008 All-Pennsy Color Calendar from eBay for peanuts — about four bucks instead of $12.95.
My O. Winston Link calendar is a replacement for a Three Stooges calendar, which I thought was a waste. Single frames from movies. Worst was the frame with Curly gaping over the edge of a tall building, probably at the studio floor three feet below. The Stooges’ shadows were on the set painting of a city skyline.
I think last year was the first time the Link Museum in Roanoke produced the “Steam & Steel” calendar.
I wasn’t sure there’d be one this year, but there is.
Hard to find at their web-site, but found it.
Ordered it the other day (Saturday, September 19, 2009).
I got the 2009 Link calendar to replace the 2009 All-Pennsy Color calendar I couldn’t get.
It’s a great calendar, prints of O. Winston Link’s depiction of the end of steam locomotive operation on the Norfolk & Western Railroad in the middle ‘50s.
My muscle-cars calendar was a replacement for railfan calendars I’ve purchased in the past; paintings by Ted Rose and Howard Fogg.
Rose was dramatic, but with Ted Rose ya got 12 different railroads, and I’m partial to Pennsy.
Fogg was even worse. Very dramatic, but at least three or four watercolors of Colorado narrow-gauge.
Narrow-gauge is okay, but I prefer Pennsy (standard-gauge).
I almost dumped the muscle-car calendar, but can’t. Nothing better or comparable. What about Can-Am or Trans-Am racing about 1970?
I got the Norfolk Southern Employees Contest calendar a few years ago the replace -A) a Ducati (“dew-KAH-dee”) motorcycles calendar, which was printed poorly, and -B) John Deere farm-equipment calendars, which looked great, but depicted farm impliments.
I’d been hoping for Johnny Poppers; the fabulous two-cylinder farm-tractors John Deere produced in the late ‘40s and throughout the ‘50s.
Once-in-a-while they’d depict one in the calendar, amidst a surfeit of threshing machines.
The Norfolk Southern Employees Contest calendar is well-produced and attractive, but can be rather moribund. There’s apparently only so much ya can do with train-photography, and it shows in the Norfolk Southern Employees Contest calendar.
I was gonna dump it, but no more “Legendary Sports Cars” calendar.
My WWII warbirds calendar I’ve gotten for years. It’s my best one. HUGE, dramatic, and extremely well produced.
Two footnotes:
• “Pennsy” is the Pennsylvania Railroad, no longer in existence. It merged with New York Central Railroad in 1968 as Penn-Central, and that tanked in about eight years. “Pennsy” was once the largest railroad in the world. —My railfaning began on “Pennsy.” (I’ve been a railfan all my live.)
• “Narrow-gauge” is three feet between the rails —Standard-gauge, what ya see nowadays, is 4 feet 8&1/2 inches. Narrow-gauge could have tighter curvature — less grading. (As such it was mainly used in the Colorado mountains.)
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