Posted on 06/08/2009 5:28:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes. I guess that window was called different things in different places. We here in NY called them fly windows. Great feature; I miss it.
Regards,
My memories aren’t so distant in this regard.
A few years ago I helped my father restore a 1957 Chevy Bel Air 2 door sports coup. (Yup, you got it, no post)
We didn’t put a stock 283 in there, instead we opted for a 330hp 4 bolt main 350 that came out of a 25th anniversary edition Corvette, teamed up with a Tubo Hydramatic 350 transmission.
We finished it off in a candy apple red pearl coat on the body and a white pearl coat roof.
She is a beauty
Mine was a 1968 Chevelle SS396 Convertible for $3150 (The sticker price was $3800).
Oh well. I understand a ghetto baby carrige (i.e.; Target shopping cart) piloted by a metrosexual on roller blades will make a fine 21st century equivalent - when the modern young man picks up his male date and heads for the tofu hut for a Boca burger.
Is that still legal?
I heard Rush shilling for GM. Someone has a sense of humor.
You know, I hadn't really thought about it, but now that you mention it under an Obamalamadingdong administration it's probably a capital offense......
It does bring back the good old days and I really get a kick out of watching Pinks All Out.
Rush had a advertising contract with GM, so it is not shilling, but money that makes Rush comment.
Our neighbor's son was killed a year ago when his Z350 hit a tree at 80mph. Nobody quite knows what happened but he is still dead and the family has been devastated ever since. This is the time of year when it happens, teens standing at the threshold of college and the next chapter of life, end up closing the book. Sad.
OK.....I did not save a one of them. Stupid me.
1-!961 Chevy Impala, 4spd, 348 cid.
2- 1966 Chevy Chevelle SS, 4spd, 396cid
3- 1967 Chevy Nova SS, 4spd, 327cid.
But, I re-bought some nice GM super cars. Happy ending!
My muscle car as a teenager was this street sleeper:
'62 Studebaker Lark. Had the big police pursuit motor in it with a Holley 4bbl. Would pass anything but a gas pump. Brakes were dicey (the old single-shoe drum brakes all round) and the steering was l-o-o-o-s-e. But it would go.
My dad wound up selling it to a couple in California who are going to do a ground-up restoration on it.
140 mph on I45? This guy is very lucky he didn’t kill someone.
Promoting something for money is shilling. I have no problem with it, in fact I like the irony.
The point I was trying to make was that GM, in regards to he history of America, has taken on a status not unlike a person and or patriot.
Like the Pennsylvania Railroad and Pan American :-)
My idiot son wrecked his car TWICE in the week between graduating high school and going into the USMC.
Thankfully he is not a bad driver and both were minor crunches (although the bills were not minor). But a little more speed and a little more miscalculation and he could easily have wrapped himself around a telephone pole with fatal results.
I think those nice friendly DIs at Parris Island will probably instill more sense into his thick head than I ever could.
It already has.
Hear, hear! Makes me think of my high school's parking lot. Y'know, by the time that '79 Firebird rolled off the assembly line, most of the "good" '57 Chevys were already in the hands of collectors, restorers and hot-rodders. I remember seeing an old lady driving a '57 2-door BelAir back in the early '80s. The car was in *very* rough shape, but she had cardboard signs that read: "CAR NOT FOR SALE!!" taped to the insides of the rear quarter windows.
Zero's legacy will not be a kind one if he manages to push the '55-'57 Chevys, early Mustangs, Corvettes and other beloved classics off the roads permanently.
I got 15 MPH. My father wouldn’t buy the 442. I use to kick the butt of a GT-500 Shelby.
My brother had one at that time too. It was kind of copper colored. Pretty car and could move. I had a 1969 firebird and would give my eye teeth for it again. I loved that car.
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