so I decided what the heck

[rpmcarter]

http://images.craigslist.org/5Ia5Ne5Jb3F33J93Nbc9c0f64617a049012a6.jpg

I am famous for destructively ruining a car like this.... so I decided to snoop around and see if I can find it. Looked just like this but black and red

 

[73vertproject]

hmmmm...... :s

 

[rpmcarter]

LOL.... it's not that bad 73vert. I'm from a bi-radical family. Half Chebbies and half Fords.

But the story is a good one.


bought a 56 Chebbie ...very straight car... recent beautiful rolled an pleated interior, had a running but weak 265, a 3spd was in the floor. A guy in the trailer park was a mechanic at the chebbie house in Nashville. He "special ordered" a 1960 Impala...black, red interior, "factory 4sp, bucket seats, console, FOUR O NINE and three deuces. He had wrecked it one night while absorbing mass quantities of beer. I paid that guy every week for no telling how long to pay off the 500.00 dollars to get that 409 and 4spd for my 56! Now that black 60 would be worth near 300k it may have very well been one of one. Since he had the inside track on the 61's coming out with the 409 he was able to get the late 60 order with the set up.

 

[rpmcarter]

LOL... 41 views.... no response...MUST be Chebbie HATERS

 

[TheJ]

I think it's cool but I'm kind of confused. Did you just buy that or are you reminiscing of a 56 you used to have?

 

[rpmcarter]

Oh didnt mean to make it a guessing game.

I've started searching for my old car. the link to the white one is just a teaser reference.

If my old 60 is sitting in someones backyard.... you never know. I imagine it has been parted out since it was a bucket seat car. I've located a decent 409!!!! My old 60 would be worth FAR more than a 56 due to her make-up. I've been admonished by Chebbie aficionado's about the destruction of said car.... course back then the 60 was "an old man's car"... I couldnt be cool in that.


In 61 the 409 set a record of 13.19 in an Impala by Don Nicholson at NHRA WinterNationals "out of the box"

 

[TheJ]

Oh ok I see, I quite like the old impalas. I like all of the different car manufactures (especially if its not mainstream and overplayed). I'm just not a fan of the arrogance of some of fanboys.

 

[rpmcarter]

There has been Mustangs, 65 66 67's somewhere in my family for years. I have the first fastback of any of them. Myself and the older brother had a few Chebbies my last one was a 65SS. I dont care for the 60 overall. But the wife LOVES them. So I thought its a needle in a haystack search but what the heck I'll look for it. May even put up an add on CL in the Nashville area. Like you I enjoy classics of any kind and appreciate other's choice for themselves. Now I WOULD possess a Roadrunner, GTX SuperBee given the opportunity.

 

[TheJ]

There has been Mustangs, 65 66 67's somewhere in my family for years. I have the first fastback of any of them. Myself and the older brother had a few Chebbies my last one was a 65SS. I dont care for the 60 overall. But the wife LOVES them. So I thought its a needle in a haystack search but what the heck I'll look for it. May even put up an add on CL in the Nashville area. Like you I enjoy classics of any kind and appreciate other's choice for themselves. Now I WOULD possess a Roadrunner, GTX SuperBee given the opportunity.

I hear you about the GTX and Roadrunner. An old neighbor of mine had a lime green (sublime) roadrunner when I was a kid and it was awesome. My favorite Mopars are the 69 Coronet and 73 Cuda.

 

[rpmcarter]

I can recall the first hot rods that changed an impressionable kid into a car guy. Oldest brother had a 55 Chebbie, his friend had a 67 Chevelle 396 4spd car... then one day after hauling hay we were at the service station hanging out and big brothers friend rolled up in his BRAND NEW burnt orange Roadrunner with a 440 and a 4spd.... oh MY GAWD. Even at 11 I KNEW that was something special!! They were doing a little testing to see just how far off the ground it would pull the wheels... I'm here to tell you that was an awesome sight.

Him and my brother shipped out to Viet Nam shortly after that, they were MEN at the old age of 18..... I dont know if the ole boy came back or not.

 

[73vertproject]

It would be cool if you were to find it, even if it's a Chebby. lol

Actually I'm a fan of most late 60's and early 70's hot rods. And I can picture the testing of the Roadrunner, 'cause when I was a teen we had a gas station back home where we all hung out and talked and practiced Hotrod 101.

Man, those were the days.

 

[Don65Stang]

This is my first reading of this thread and a post herein due to the arm twising plea earlier.

Nice lines on the car. I hope you find it.

 

[rpmcarter]

yeah 73 .... it would indeed be cool. A long shot at best ...but I'm hoping for one of those lost dog kinda stories where man hunts for long lost companion... come to life where it tracks down its owner after 38 years........ lollerz

yeah I miss tha ole service station.... I'd watch my dad whittle and chat with the others, my brothers and his boys would talk about cars and trucks. Strongest thing ever drank was an Orange Crush. Now on Saturday night I DO believe a few stopped by my granddiddy's place for some PUNCH. I DONT miss hauling hay and cutting tobacco though

 

[73vertproject]

Haulin' hay and cutting tobacco. That brings back memories of bailing hay and building grain bins. Man, I swear I can smell that fresh cut hay right now. Drinking age was 18 back then, and the 3 table bar on the road home would serve us when we were 17, coming back into town. Two cheeseburgers and two beers and it was lights out for us, until the next morning when we hit the road before sunrise....

 

[rpmcarter]

Dang Doc....very cool. Yeah I can still feel the sticky tobacco leafs and the smell of the hay. I miss Tinhuhcee in the fall with the tobacco barns burning. We'd be up at 4 to milk cows and be back to tha house for breakfast at 6.

I tell my 15 yr old these stories and I might as well be reading her stories out of Aesop's Fables. She has really never been there knows nothing but the good life.