Al G said..

Geez that is in super original condition sweet pic Al

mmmmmmm yeah brother been full on getting the house on the market & packing stuff stored - God's backyard has my name all over it might get to finally see that beautiful wagon in the flesh too

Macaha said..
Yes we as a family have sat on that front bumper and had a photo taken.

Yeah really, cool Mac,she's an old 1938 Chevy Sedan!

Macaha said..

Al G said..

Macaha said..
Yes we as a family have sat on that front bumper and had a photo taken.

Yeah really, cool Mac,she's an old 1938 Chevy Sedan!

Yes in 07 but I didn't see it there xmas 15 I think its gone.

Might of rusted out to badly or someone bought it maybe

Al G said..

For the very young, the Corvair was quite remarkable and it's such a pity that they did on go one to fix it's problems rather than scrap the whole thing, it's the car that bought about that famous saying by the well known consumer advocate Ralph Nader "Unsafe at Any Speed"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed

In may ways the corvair was GMs answer to the beetle invasion, but rather than a puny air cooled flat 4, it had an air cooled flat 6 that made some decent power, quite a few even made there way into some very fast VWs (they ran in the opposite direction to VW motors, but there was a kit that you could use to reverse their direction).

The one early VW feature they should never have copied was the swing axle rear suspension, in a light and underpowered VW beetle is was simply a manageable nuisance, but in the larger more powerful Corvair, it was deadly and if the Car had to change direction suddenly, the back ends would get what was know as "Wheel Tuck" and a roll was usually the result.

It's also ironic that one of the things that draws us to this thread, those beautiful big 60s era tail fins and bold chrome encrusted front ends were another thing that Ralph Nader had a hand in seeing phased out.

The caddy tail fin evolution was interesting, it hit its peak in 59, then they slowly disappeared over the next few years.

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But I will always remember that as a kid, none of these upright tail fins impressed me, for some reason, it was the horizontal bel air fins that I preferred and I still prefer them

Al G said..

aaaaaaahhhhhhh classic later model Impala ..... and it looks like she has the equally classic 327 under her knickers too

thePup said..

Al G said..

aaaaaaahhhhhhh classic later model Impala ..... and it looks like she has the equally classic 327 under her knickers too

Right on the cash Pup,she's a 1966,327 Caprice very similar to the Impala just got the pillars,geez they're big cars.I used to have a 62 Impala loved it,they get that sway up on the highway like you're in a boat

North Shore Hawaii 2015

Inside that bus I posted the other day