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Land-yacht! Driving a 1970 Chevrolet Caprice 350 IN THE UK! Is that wise?
YouTube ^ | July, 2, 2025 | Ian Seabrook

Posted on 07/02/2025 10:57:11 AM PDT by Fai Mao

Ian takes a 1970 Chevrolet Caprice for a test drive on narrow UK roads.


TOPICS: Hobbies; Humor; Travel
KEYWORDS: chevrolet; classiccars; delta88; driving; livingroom

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1 posted on 07/02/2025 10:57:11 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Fai Mao

I loved my Caprice. The future held better things...A brand new Monte Carlo...


2 posted on 07/02/2025 11:01:26 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Fai Mao

My Dad bought a 77 Caprice Classic brand new.

OMG what a piece of crap.


3 posted on 07/02/2025 11:04:30 AM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: Fai Mao

Look, a real car!


4 posted on 07/02/2025 11:04:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Fai Mao

Chuckle… definitely NOT a “ Land Yacht”…

It’s a big, beautiful, badass AMERICAN Detroit Steel machine from a muc better time.

I had a 68 Impala SS, the Caprice’s Ballsy cousin.

My 75 Pontiac Bonneville WAS a Land Yacht… and the 400 cu in power plant moved her down the road very nicely.

And both were affordable for an average working American with a factory job at a family to feed.

They were easy to work on in the driveway, and most American men knew how to fix their own cars back then.

I’d put either of those machines up against anything on the road today for comfort and power, and ease of maintenance.


5 posted on 07/02/2025 11:04:58 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.,)
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To: Fai Mao

I had a 2 door Caprice with a 396. The cars name was “Low 1, Wa Wa Boogie”.

As a teenager I really got great use out of the back seat, especially with the Catholic girls:)


6 posted on 07/02/2025 11:07:04 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (If the left was so damn smart why can't they answer simple questions?)
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To: NFHale
My dad had a 1973 Delta 88, and THAT was not a "Land Yacht", it was a "Land Dreadnaught"!!!!

I loved driving that huge car! When you drove on the highway, the car would gently float up and down.

7 posted on 07/02/2025 11:14:07 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: NFHale

I drove a ‘72 Impala with that engine. You didn’t steer it . . . you aimed it. Great car. The ‘73 Buick Regal and the 1979 Old 98 were nice too. For newer cars, the ‘94 Caprice or Roadmaster were fine.


8 posted on 07/02/2025 11:15:36 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (<i>"Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Fai Mao
In the mid 1980s I bought a 1973 Chevy Impala off my uncle for 300 bucks. What a great car! Built like a frigging tank! I think that had a 350 engine in it too. The poor man's Cadillac.
9 posted on 07/02/2025 11:19:48 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Don't worry,pray.)
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To: Fai Mao

What was that 1959 car with what looked like 2 155 rounds or Jayne Mansfield breasts sticking out from the rear bumper?

A Buick, or Oldsmobile?


10 posted on 07/02/2025 11:20:25 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Fai Mao

My dad had a 70 Buick wildcat convertible with the 455.
He then got a 73 Buick Riviera 455 in gold.
can you say 6 miles to the gallon.
But fun to drive, he lent it to me for graduation prom night.


11 posted on 07/02/2025 11:20:34 AM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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12 posted on 07/02/2025 11:21:57 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: rlmorel

Olds Rocket 425… great engine.

I had 26 cars in my lifetime; used to buy them used for a couple hundred bucks, Drive them until the wheels fall off, repair them, and then buy another one, lather, rinse and repeat

Better days for sure


13 posted on 07/02/2025 11:23:32 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.,)
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My first car:

1976 Plymouth Fury.
14 posted on 07/02/2025 11:24:40 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

The Chevy 350 block was an amazing motor.

You could squeeze a lot of horsepower out of it.

Infinite aftermarket parts, and combinations, to turn it into a beast.


15 posted on 07/02/2025 11:25:12 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.,)
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To: Fai Mao

My dad had a 71 Caprice 400ci. 6 mpg. Lol. What a boat.


16 posted on 07/02/2025 11:25:54 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Fai Mao

Leaned to drive in a ‘64 Impala. Love that line.


17 posted on 07/02/2025 11:27:45 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: 4yearlurker
The poor man's Cadillac.

That was when you could buy a Cadillac sized car with a powerful engine, without paying for a bunch of unneeded amenities. Those are the cars that hold up for 40 years.

Chevy Caprice/Impala
Chrysler Newport
Plymouth Fury
Dodge Polara
Mercury Marauder
Pontiac Catalina
Buick LeSabre
Ford Galaxie

18 posted on 07/02/2025 11:27:56 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (<i>"Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Fai Mao

The man I worked for, owner of a major medical corporation, drove a Caprice. Guy was a billionaire.


19 posted on 07/02/2025 11:28:44 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Fai Mao; Zhang Fei; All
I have to ping the Free Republic member who absolutely catches what this was like, in his signature—Zhang Fei:

(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)

I chuckle every time I see that!

20 posted on 07/02/2025 11:28:50 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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