M2Pilot
M2Pilot Reader
1/23/11 7:13 p.m.

I spent a pleasant hour or so at love2xlr8.no/broch1.html

mattmacklind
mattmacklind SuperDork
1/23/11 8:00 p.m.

I guess I will join in the canoe references:

M2Pilot
M2Pilot Reader
1/23/11 8:30 p.m.

In reply to mattmacklind:

I don't think this qualifies as a canoe. It's a link to scanned copies of older American car brochures,advertisements,etc. I'm not aware of anything for sale at the site. Check it out mattmacklind, if you still think it's a canoe, let us know.

stuart in mn
stuart in mn SuperDork
1/23/11 8:40 p.m.

That site must have been mentioned on Jalopnik or something recently - it's been around for some time now, but all of the sudden in the last few days I've seen it mentioned on several boards. It is pretty good.

A couple other interesting sites are the Old Car Manual Project and the Old Car Brochure Project. http://www.tocmp.com/ and http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado SuperDork
1/23/11 10:09 p.m.

M2Pilot's also a regular reader (260something posts), so I vote no canoe.

mattmacklind
mattmacklind SuperDork
1/24/11 1:07 p.m.

OK, I didn't follow the link because I saw "love2" in it. I missed the Xlr8 part and assumed it was one of those recent weird random posts with possibly innapprorpriate links. Sorry, my bad. I also didn't know canoe was for things for sale, I thought it referenced things that were totally out of place or "spammish".

Tom Heath
Tom Heath Webmaster
1/24/11 1:47 p.m.

"Canoe" is the unofficial way to indicate a spam post. Typically they're selling things, but sometimes they're phishing. They nearly always post (and are identified and summarily deactivated) within the first 3 days of registering. We deactivate them rather than delete so the same email address can't be used again.

This one doesn't appear to be a canoe, but the link isn't working for me either. M2 pilot has a good track record of genuine posts.

jrw1621
jrw1621 SuperDork
1/24/11 3:59 p.m.

Premature-e-canoe-ulation.

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