Posted on 08/02/2009 5:52:19 PM PDT by Daffynition
Each August, Chevrolet Outdoor Billboards line Woodward Ave in Detroit for Cruise Weekend. These billboards feature classic Chevrolet muscle cars & great tag lines!
If you put any one of these cars into production today—just as they came off the line way back then—they could not build them fast enough to keep up with demand. I want someone to build me a new 1971 L88 Vette, Blk/BLK...
That Chevy is really pretty. I have my ‘57 Lincoln now, it’s out in the garage - just sitting there, lol.
Just drive it to church on Sundays? LOL
Did you happen to see the new aftermarket SOHC 427 w/aluminum heads and intake on the market? If this was coming out of the Ford factory I bet their stock would skyrocket!
YES! Oldsmobile forever!
“Itt’s got 1,367,000 miles on it and counting.”
Sounds like it’s just getting ‘broken in’..
:)
I hear ya tho..I wish I had keep many of the cars I’ve had in the past.
57 chevy, 59 chevy, 65 malibu convertible, 55 Ford Victoria,48 plymouth coupe, and many more.
Just think of the money I’d have invested by now!
:)
yep.
I live just north of Detroit and once the weather turns summer, well, cruise nights are every F'n weekend everywhere. Restaurants, bars, even churches will host a cruise night.
Summer time in S.E. Michigan is cruisin' season.........
Oh yeah.
And the 67 Firebird 400 that I posted earlier.
The boyz usually keep track of this stuff for me ...I’ll look on netflix. Thank you! ;)
That's all????????
A few points about Earl. First, he tried, in 1957, to bring in women engineers, claiming that women knew what they wanted, and that women would increasingly be decision makers in buying cars. Second, he was trying to get GM to "go small" with some of their cars, while maintaining quality. GM fought him on this, as larger cars meant larger profit margins. Earl did not want to make econoboxes. Here is a prototype Monza from the early 1960s. It freaks me out how ahead of it's time it is:
Third, he fought the bean counters that took over GM tooth and nail until his retirement. The Corvette, the 57 Chevy Bel Air, the Chevrolet Apache pickup, and many others came from him.
I think the maddest I ever got at GM was when they brought in the actor to play Harley Earl in those Buick commercials. I believe Earl would have spit on the Buicks they were advertising. Those vehicles were what Earl fought against his whole career.
The thing I'm saying is that visionaries and engineers like Earl knew where autos were going, and were trying to take us there. The MBAs and bean counters wanted to maximize profits by creating a cartel with Ford and Chrysler and stifle innovation. Imagine if in 1960, GM had gotten ahead of the Volkswagen and Toyota invasion with quality small cars. Imagine if they had brought in female engineers to design cars specifically to appeal to women.
If you loved the cars in those billboards, say thanks to Harley Earl. Almost all of them were his babies.
The Woodward Dream Cruise is the world's largest one-day celebration of classic car culture that attracts over 1 million visitors, and more than 40,000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collector and special interest vehicles.
It's the Oldsmobile F88. GM killed it because the Corvette was being designed that year. All of the cars were supposed to be destroyed. A GM employee crushed a junk car and hid this one for years. It fetched 3 million at an auction in 2005.
Earl was USA’s Dr. Ferdinand Porsche ... designers who worked under Earl went to Porsche, IIRC. And don’t forget, the Russian Arkus-Duntov who made Devane617’s Corvette a powerhouse.
It may just be easier to invade Cuba and take their Chevy inventory as reparations. ;)
Those are all great cars and nostalgic, but remember:
When “rustproofing” didn’t exist and your quarter panels had terminal cancer in a few years? Remember when all the chrome lining fell off around your wheel well?
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