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Released from the military in 1972 after four years with the Navy Seabees, serving in Vietnam and Cuba, Dan Bower's long interest in old cars was rekindled. His father gave him two boxes full of old service manuals that he had acquired when he had attended General Motors Institute (GMI) in Flint, Michigan during the late 1940's. These, coupled with the purchase of a small but nice collection of 1920's and 1930's auto catalogs from an old collector in late 1972, launched Dan into a small hobby business. Soon his first "literature for sale" ad appeared in Hemmings Motor News (HMN).
The response from friendly old car people from all over the U.S. was so satisfying that he began to look for manuals and literature in earnest, setting up as a swap meet vendor for the first time at the 1973 Sloan Museum Summer Fair in Flint, Michigan.
Throughout the 1970's Dan was familiar sight at swap meets in Michigan and Ohio, sometimes turning up at far-flung shows such as Hoosier at Indy, Fall Carlisle in 1974 and the first Spring Carlisle in 1978. In those days he routinely ran ads in HMN, Cars & Parts Magazine, and many display ads in Old Cars Newspaper, all under the moniker of D. Bower's Auto Literature.
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