Ufffff the the opportunities we have to pass up sometimes Dylan.

I'll try and get this Tin Lizzy on HD vid soon ......Thanks for comments.

 

Six months ago there was a ’67 Chevelle on ebay with a bid of $65,000 and the reserve was not met.

Back in the late ‘70s my best friend had a mint ’67 Chevelle. It was factory baby blue with a baby blue ragtop and matching interior. One night good ol’ Joe Tequila grabbed the wheel and put us into a bridge abutment. The only damage to the car was a bent lower control arm. My friend left the car at my house and the next day we hooked it to my case tractor and dragged it to the landfill.

Another friend was moving and wanted to sell me his 1969 + ½ Z-28 dirt cheap. I did not have the money back then.

When I was 14 years old I got my first car, a 1957 Bel Air. For the next few years I had acquired Many ’57 Chevys. I had two ragtops, one of which was canary yellow and had a Corvette engine. I had a ’56 Bel Air, a ’58 &’62 Impalas, some Mercs, an Olds, a ’54 Packard and other odds and ends. People were throwing them away back then. I came real close to obtaining a 1954 RR Silver Dawn for $2,400 but I was in grade school and had limited funds (I did all the tunes ups on it for extra money however). One spring day when I was 16 years old, my dad got mad because there was no room to park. I had 8 cars parked in the driveway and didn’t have a drivers license yet. He and I stripped them for copper and parts and sold them for scrap. We did keep one, ‘The Blue Bomb’, for hauling wood.

If we knew then what we know now it would be well worth hanging on to those cars of the past. They just don’t make them any more.

ps. As seen in the photo the Blue Bomb has leaf springs, a must for hauling wood. You can't haul wood in the newer unibody crap, they break in half, trust me.

 

That Blue Bomb would still be regaaaaaaaaded as very valuable piece of machinery
up here in wood hauling Country.......ayuh

 

Wow, TBT.. nice post and nice wood wagon!

Yep, I kick myself over that Chevelle all the time. It wouldn't have fetched $65k not being all original (the '67 didn't come with a 427), but it was still a sweet ride.
It looked almost identical to this one. It was that same color, too.



It reminds me that i need to go catch up with the builder. I think I'm gonna stop and see his daughter after work today. She's quite a cool girl. She was Valedictorian of her class and was racing cars since she was like 6yrs old (quartermidgets). She went to college at Penn State but dropped out to go back to racing school.
We actually went to the Prom together when I was a sophomore and she was a senior. She drove us there in this chevelle.
Believe me, that was a sight to see. A 17yr old girl in a prom dress and no shoes... racing everything in sight.
Aaahh... memories...

They've built a lot of '55 and '57 Chevy's. Her dad's personal '55 was a nitrous monster. Then he had a chopped '34 Ford Coupe with a built 406.

 

Two words


car ****

Ya sure can't beat the ***** & build quality of some of these old beauties.

My brother in law back in Dublin has a Shelby Cobra
Another awesome muscle machine, similar to this one

 

Car **** is right!!

Yep, those Cobras are cool as hell. There is a guy in town here that drives one around quite a bit. A light blue one.
I like how people say chit like "Yeah, but It's a kit car"... like it doesn't count as a cool azz car because it's a kit???
Buncha jealous people who don't have a sweet kit car, I'd say.

 

Actually some of the KIT Cobras are structurally better since the fabricated tubular
steel construction means you can put in new HI PERF ENGINEERED 700 + HP motors
without twisting the frames.........in the originals .....not possible you'd bend the
chassis. The orignal 427 std put out 425BHP , competition was around 485 BHP
with 165mph and 180mph respectively.

Vinces ....my BIL's was an original that that had a rotted frame ........so he went with
part kit "tube frame", part original, and the motor is a 427 newly engineered putting
out around 725..........it's fricken' sickening to ride around in and he's a nut ta boot !
Your ears are ringing for days after a joy ride in it.

 

That is awesome....
It's like the best of both worlds, really.
I bet that thing hauls major azz!!
What a rush....

 

Yep! I traded a factory ’56 ragtop with a factory Hurst 4-speed for the Blue Bomb because my dad did not want me to have a V-8. The Blue Bomb started out as a cherry, light blue, businessman’s coup. We sat on a milk create to get more wood in.

There is not a lot out there now that turns my head but this would just about snap it.
Can you say, supercharged 6.2 liter LSA V-8, based on the LS9 V-8 from the recently released Corvette ZR1, powerplant that produces 556 hp (415 kW) and 551 lb·ft (747 N·m) of torque?

Smok’em if you got ‘em.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_CTS-V

700 HP upgrade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBaSnXlgZlY

 

TBT, those CTS-Vs are so sweet.