cool classics

[jdandy]

The humble Chevy Nova always seemed to be a favorite for souping up.

Stock 1966 Chevy Nova with custom wheels



Souped up 1966 Chevy Nova

[jdandy]

Back in the day, these flags meant something.

[tony-w]

Great looking cars, especially the Corvettes.

[jdandy]

Corvette.......Then and now. Corvette's introduction in 1953 made it the world's first fiberglass automobile. The six cylinder, Blue Lightning engine was actually a truck motor with a reworked manifold for a three carburetor set up. It's a long ways from the '53 C1 to the '09 Z1R.


1953 Corvette C1






2009 Corvette Z1R

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by jdandy

Back in the day, these flags meant something.

Especially when 409 or 427 were just above the flags.

[jdandy]

Originally Posted by Stillone

Especially when 409 or 427 were just above the flags.

No kidding!

[Still-One]

The thread plus the recent Woodward Dream Cruise had me thinking of the cars I had since after I graduated from High School. I have photos of just about all but have not scanned them. So, I went out to the web and found pics of each of the vehicles. All are the correct color, but some slight differences in options.
My first car was a 1965 Mustang 2+2 Black on Black with a little 289 2-barrel automatic. I did not have mag wheels on the one I owned, just stock wheel covers. I had this from around Nov of 67 to about April of 68.
The second car was a 68 Torino GT Gulfstream Aqua with a black interior 390 with a 4-speed. This I owned from of April 68 until about December of 68.
I traded the Torino towards a 69 Mach 1 Super Cobra Jet 428 Automatic. This was Indian Fire Red with a black interior. I owned this from December 68 until I totaled it in June of 69.
I purchased a 69 Lime Green GTO to replace the Mustang. My Goat did not have the concealed headlamps that where an option show in this pic.
More to follow.

[Still-One]

I only kept the Goat about 6 months and started looking for a used Vette. I found a '69 427 with Tri-Power and hydraulic lifters which was 400hp. This vehicle had the factory side pipes, black interior and 4-speed. I sold the Goat to my girlfriends parents and owned the vet until I was drafted in February of '71.
When I was discharged in Feb of '73 I purchased a '73 Blue/Green 454 Vette with s 4-speed trans. I should have kept this Vette but sold it and bought a 77 Blue small block with 4-speed. I had this when I was married in Feb of 78 and kept it until "we" bought a black over oyster 79. I kept this about a year and since I had purchased it with my GM discount at the time was able to sell it a couple years later for very little loss. I was out of these cars until about '84 when I purchased a 72 Red over black small block that I kept about 3 years.

[jdandy]

Jim.......You have had quite the stable of American Iron performance vehicles.

[PHC1]

Did someone say Corvette? I've owned a few myself over the years.
At one point I guess you could say I had an obsession with them and used to collect models of every year I could find. Of course the bad experience I had with my last Z06 made me change my mind about the whole reliability and specifically lack of customer service from GM.... It is rather odd that I had to call 7 local dealers to fix my Vette and not one of them could do it... You see, not one of them had a "Corvette" mechanic.

Can you imagine taking a Lexus, MB, BMW or Porsche for service for them to tell you they don't have a mechanic for that particular model. Crazy..... I still could not find a dealer that would fix the damn window that wouldn't go up and after being told to take it to the dealer 120 miles away where I bought it, I sold it at a loss swearing to myself to never to come back to the brand.