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Wardsweb
06-23-2002, 06:13 PM
This was my Grandfather's car. He bought it in Dec 1954 while working for GM.

http://wardsweb.org/cars/belair_images/during_thumb.jpg

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Richm
06-23-2002, 06:39 PM
I am thinking it didn't look like that when your grandfather drove it?

Nice ride. I have played with a little of everything, lead sleds, etc., but have always wanted a 67 Z.

I think it all started while reading the latest Car Craft in the late 70's. There was a picture of a 67 Z talking about it being the rarest of rare. Shot my mouth off and said someday I will find and buy one. So had to live up to it. I had the drive to Phoenix (from Iowa) but finally got one.

Need to quit messing around in the house and get busy working on the car. I used to cut up and hot rod everything I owned but have settled down and become a "purist".

Rich
Wardsweb
06-23-2002, 06:54 PM
Know what you mean. From a 69Z to Hemi Mopar, I was a horsepower junky. Now to many hobbies and not enough time. That and I find wrenching loses some of it's excitment as I get older. That and I don't want to deal with it if it's to hot or if it's to cold... yada... yada... yada.
bully
06-23-2002, 08:39 PM
Gorgeous job on the Chevy.
Always had a jones for a 66 Chevelle SS 425/396. They made mebbe 50 or 200? Not very many. I had a friend in HS whose dad had a 67 Yenko Chevelle 500 hp 427. Of course the kid got to drive it, actually his dad gave it to him like when we were seniors in HS, and the car was only a couple years old. Rip-snort.
That's when I had a 63 Galaxie 500 XL with the 405/406 with the three two-bbls. With the 3:1 rear end, that car would run up to almost 160 mph, we did that on the ol' two-lane KS highways. Crazy crazy crazy 'cause y'never knew if ol' farmer Bill was gonna be pulling a heavy load just over the next little hill and a tractor-trailer rig comin' along just at that time, too.
Those were the days, my friends, we thought they'd never end.

Well, I do have my old SHO to brighten my driving chores now.

pete