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VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Discussion in 'The Antiquated' started by Ryan, Jun 17, 2019.

  1. fbi9c1
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    Car is likely a studio or limo service car.
     
  2. 33Doll
    Joined: Sep 27, 2019
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    Corvairs are “Fug-ly!”
     
  3. Colin HD
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    Guys Guys!!!
    Come on, play nicely!
    I get picked up on a photo of an old Gas Station taken not being pre 65 and yet here you guys are arguing in the playground like a bunch of kids!!

    Starting to take the fun out of HAMB for me.
     
  4. Hey Rocket,
    Actually she was a Rolls Royce girl.
    Her car sold last year for $520,000!
    Liz-Taylor-Rolls-Royce-to-be-auctioned-1-660x330.jpg 1470e7ce515f7014966a889f5d49d97d.jpg
     
  5. 4everblue
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    Well I owned a 64 Corvette 365 hp and a 66 Corvair 140 hp. Two totally different cars. I trded the Corvette in on the Corvair as I was going active duty in the Navy. The Corvette was fast, sounded great and looked great. It rode miserable and was awful in stop and go traffic. It required way too much attention to keep it running right, would load up and stall if it idled too long and the valves needed setting way too often. The Corvair rode a hundred times better, handled damn near as good and was a much more user friendly vehicle. I remember I had the Corvette about a month when I met a guy in town that had owned one earlier. The first thing out of his mouth was "are you sick of it yet?"
     
  6. But James Dean in a Model T worked in the movie Giant!
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  7. Scarebird
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    My 442 was totaled by an elderly idiot in a Suburban, so I found a 68 Camaro that ticked all my boxes: RS/SS, 4 speed, Astro Blue, white ragtop - sat in it for about 5 seconds and hopped out. Friend inquired whether there was a tarantula inside - nope, just felt really cheap compared to the Olds.
     
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  8. fbi9c1
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    Well, having owned and raced 2 C1's with 360/327 FI before it, I knew exactly what to expect of my '64 365/327. It was not at all difficult to maintain, did not load up in traffic and handled like it was on rails. Sounds like you weren't used to driving and maintaining solid lifter cars. The guys at Harry Mann Chev. knew how to tune and keep them in top shape.
    No way did a tail heavy rear engine car handle anywhere near that. Even Porsches require special driving techniques to make that work as well as they do.
    My 61 Corvair in the 3 months I owned it looked nice but was a snore and it would come around on you if pushed too hard in the turns.
    Your experience may be different but I think real Corvette guys would agree with mine. Anybody who was sick of a C2, maybe belonged in a different vehicle.
     
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  9. joemac05
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    I owned a car once... got rid of it and got my horse back.
     
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  10. BornBuick
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    Just can't help myself with self restraint with this one .....

    .... After some detailed deliberation and minor disassembly, our adult evening shop teacher Mr. Mike Techart shown here with his astute class has apparently found this particular nailhead's problem even after enlarging the carb's AFB idle channel restrictor in an attempt to cure lean off-idle stumble but the problem continued ... so as Mike exclaims ... " Look here class I think I have found it, the point gap after all this has been wrong " ...

    THE POINT GAP IS WRONG-1.jpg
     
  11. Caprice89
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  13. wicarnut
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    1958 Hoosier 100, Jimmy Reece, Bignotti #14. I did not know they ran the pavement Indy cars on dirt, he finished 7th, info with picture. I was at Milwaukee, mid/late 60's (pavement) when AJ Foyt had the race won with his dirt car until a tire and or fuel problem forced a pit stop late in race[​IMG]
     
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  14. wicarnut
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    1958 pole winner, Dick Rathmann, Watson chassis, Lee Elkins owner[​IMG]
     
  15. swi66
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  16. wicarnut
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    Johnny Parsons car, Indy 1958[​IMG]
     
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  17. wicarnut
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    Pat Flaherty - Indy 1956.[​IMG]
     
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  18. swi66
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    Eddie Sachs, 1958, Indy[​IMG]
     
  20. swi66
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  22. bschwoeble
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    I believe that's East Pittsburgh, PA. Union Railroad trestle and Westinghouse Electric behind it.
     
  23. bschwoeble
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    Oh boy! 348 powered. Or, as the youngins like to say "a 348 big block".
     
  24. bschwoeble
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    Corvette haters will always hate them no matter what. I was fortunate to buy my first one new in 1964. Never had a complaint, other than having to sell it, to go to work for my Uncle Sam.
     
  25. fbi9c1
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  26. jimmy six
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    Not that I care but I’ve seen more Corvairs on here than 60 Plymouth’s a few months ago and I thought that was a lot.
     
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  29. Sky Six
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    Why in the world did you have to bring that up :eek:???
     
  30. john worden
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    I drove the family Corvair Corsa to high school and taught my two younger sisters to master the 4 speed at closed shopping center parking lots on Sunday. On weekends I entered slaloms and gymkhana with it. It was special fun driving in icekhana on frozen lakes. We had to keep the widows rolled down and carry a life preserver in the car. Yikes!
     
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