KPH speedo's

[Mr70]

I recently bought literature from Doug Martz who is selling items on Ebay today.
There is a guy right now that sells reproduction car parts indoors at Jefferson every year,named Brad,that handed me a CPX Auto Parts flyer revised with his name on it.
His address shows 7552 W.Appleton Ave.Milwaukee Wisc.,but the Phone number is disconnected.

[scuncio]

That's sad...CPX was a cool place. I remember unloading a couple of nice Chevelle cowl hoods to CPX for $150 a piece so it's obviously been a while.

[William]

I unofficially worked at "7552" from '85-'97, leaving when Doug moved to NV. He busies himself by going to about every swap around trolling for rare literature/promo items to peddle on ebay.

Everything reminds me of a story and this is no exception. In the '70s Doug had a wrecked '69 convert rebuilt as a Z11 [who cared in those days?] and set to collect all of the promo items related to it. An inveterate card player, he had a local promotional company manufacture hundreds of decks of cards with the Z11 post card photo on the back, many of which were sold through Old Cars. I've seen them displayed as "rare promotional items"; you would think the 1976 copyright on the carton would be a clue.

Many names familiar to the hobby passed through the doors: Normann, Drueck, Cunneen, Esse, Hampton, Bulaw, Dyer, Pearse, to name a few and in the summer there were always neat cars around in addition to the '67 Z/28 and ZL1 that lived there.

As I said, all gone now.

[vintagegz]

thought I should sneak in here, 1978 was the first year for metric speedometers in Canada. Before that time we built CKD (Complet Knock Down ) cars that were sent to Europe, South Africa , South America and Australia. These would of had metric speedometers from the factory. Domestic Canadian cars were labelled Drive 1, cars built in Canada for shipping to the U.S. were Drive 5, export overseas were usually Drive 3. Drive 3 cars would have a metric speedometer. Hope this helps, your friend in the archives.

[Belair62]

William...why would you let Normann and Bulaw in the building ? ........BTW I think it's great to have George Zapora contributing...

[William]

They agreed to pay triple-list price...

That's a joke BTW. Doug was so cheap Z&Z or Heartbeat would often buy our entire Hemmings ad for our asking prices.

Z&Z was an experience. Heaps of parts everywhere. We were in his office talking about Z11s and he mentions he has one, a BB/4-speed. It was parked about 20 feet away and you absolutely couldn't see it.

[Xplantdad]

William...where was Z & Z...? I vaguely remember a place like that in SoCal...it started out in Garden Grove...then moved to the city of Orange...same place?