Does that price include a full tank of gas Mr Reynolds? I tried the number and the lady who answered was pissed, and had no idea what a Biscayne was?
Ad says it has an Impala engine.So all 348's were Impala engines and all small blocks Corvette engines?
i have a lot of little books {magazines} & love to look at the cars for sale in the back,one of my favorites is a 1950 Barris clone merc for $1,250 or $950 with chevy V8 trade. I can't get the guy to reply to my letters!
It's fun reading the ads in the back of little books and old hot rod magazines, where people were selling parts and cars. Stuff like "32 Ford coupe, tuck and roll interior, full chrome suspension, no motor or transmission. Asking $ 400." But back then I was making 80 cents or a buck an hour, so it might as well have been $ 40,000. Don
In 1962 I had a damn good paying job(1.35 hr). If I took home 65.00 a week it meant I worked a crapload of OT.
back in the 70's i was looking through some old car mags (60's) and found a subscription that didn't have a experation date.. called the # and got the price listed. i think it was car craft for a year. can't remember what the cost was...
I'm old enough to remember when our whole phone number was 2019, no prefix or area code. Cedartown GA still had some one, two, and three digit phone numbers and an operator who came on the line and said "Number, please" up until they went to the 7 digit phone numbers in 1961. My Aunt Willie's number was 336 and the number for Moore's Drug Store was 4.
I remember checking newspaper ads as recently as the early '90's and seeing dealership ads with subsections for "windwagons" and "fishing cars"..... my weekend relaxation used to be cruising the "back line" of used car dealers, seeing what kind of weird old shit they might have.... when i joined the Navy, my base pay was $551 a month..... start deducting taxes, Social Security, etc etc.... the "back line" was as good as it GOT! bought my '60 Starliner then, after trading in a '68 RoadRunner (!!!)....
I am definitely not that old, but I find it interesting. When my parents built their house in the 60s, the numbers were 7-digit, but people often used a word for the first two. Instead of "774-8344", people said "Spruce 48344". (IE, PQRS were on the 7th dial spot.) I guess it made it easier for the operator at one time? Although by then, they should not have needed to talk to an operator to dial.
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