Staged photo.:biggthumpup:

pretty cool wagon.

was it a big block?

I saw a '68 Impala, same as the one shown on the line in post 360 over the weekend, same colors, and the vinyl top had a 6 inch wide molding attached to the trunk lid. It's present on this car also. Half the width was ribbed while the lower half had the same grain as the vinyl roof and painted black. I was admiring it and the owner approached and explained that it was an option and the standard vinyl top was not extended down as far and didn't receive that molding. He claimed that option was extremely rare since I had never seen one, I bought it. Can't find that option in the option list so maybe he was mistaken??

Like this?

Exactly Lee, thanx for that pic...even the same colors again. I thought that was a pretty cool piece of trim.

----Leave it to Lee!!!...….Bill S

chevy engine room

pretty wild daily driver

imagine today letting kids sit all over your restored pacecar

72 chevelle ss new on showroom floor.

With square hood stripes. Interesting.

Some dealers added stripes at their own bodyshops, and weren't terribly exact about it. I worked at a Chev Olds dealer in the 70's and masked quite a few new and used cars for stripes. In those days,I wasn't as accurate as I am now..................:)

It appears to be a non-cowl hood with hood pins.

That '72 SS Chevelle was talked about before.The dealership painted the stripes on after taking delivery on it's standard SS non flapper hood,which did include hood pins during 1972.

I would have added the stripes in my teenage days.....today, no stripes is way better.....the stripes hide the beauty of the car.....JMO.

Dan

I love those vintage photos of your z28. They really are a great trip down memory lane. Thank you for sharing them.

--
Rich
Supercar, classic car dealer.

1973 Chevelle Laguna circa 1980
 

Triple Black, original 4-speed car with swivel buckets and console, round gauges. At this time it had a transplanted BBC and M21 replacing the original 350-Saginaw

1970 Z28 Saved circa 1993
 

Found in a one car garage with a Nickey counter L88. It lives on!

Love these old pics!

1969 Impala SS 427 Convt, 425 H.P.
 

Here are pics from 1987 of my 1969 Impala SS L72 Convt w/46k original miles, I just bought this car and can't wait to get it home.

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W:eek2:W on it being an L72 4-Spd!
Big congrats and looking forward to seeing more when you can.
:beers:
~ Pete

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Very nice!!!! Seems to me I have a copy of an old ad from the Auto Shopper from back around this time with a white/red L72 convert. I NEED to see if I can find that ad and see if it is the same car..... Congrats is an understatement!

I was just offered my 69 SS427 convertible back from the person I sold it to in 2008. Unfortunately it is just too cost prohibitive to restore and not be upside down in. No rust body and frame on a California car but just missing too many parts.

Rick, Yes it was listed for sale in the Nov 1986 Auto Trader for $13k

Which is likely why I did not buy it back then. Another dumb decision. LOL

I made a mistake, it was listed in the Nov 1986 issue which I do have along with the complete dealer file.

Sorry for the poor quality pictures of pictures.....these were the cool cars in town back when I was in high school. All photos are from the late 70's / early 80's.
Real 73 Z28 Turbo 400 - guy just sold it last year
The photos with the guys standing around were taken right before they headed to the Street Machine Nationals in 1984-ish time frame.
57 Chevy ran a 327 4 speed - local guy (74 Camaro guy in other photo) still has it under resto
Real 72 Chevelle SS 402 4 speed
1963 Falcon Sprint running a 289 4 speed
74 Camaro LT running a 350 4 speed - love the snorkel scoop!
71? Camaro LT running a 400 small block 4 speed - was the fastest street car around
My brothers 69 Camaro SS 350 4 speed
69 Mach 1 351W 4 speed

Just some old pics

here are some of my old cars, wish I had kept some of them!

still have this black 68 camaro! if I brake the 69 427 camaro before SCR22 I will bring my 68! :)

Still have this one!

are they real? some serious race cars if so.

Looks like some good photo shop work to me.

Looks like a picture of model cars.

That Chevelle looks identical to the one we bought new a Doc Stewart Chev in Clovis, NM ... Sad thing is we had it less then a year ... got orders to return to Vietnam and we sold it. I wasn't going to take it up to Wisconsin where my younger brother lived. So it was gone and we got a 64 Chevy station wagon -- loaded everything including wife and daughter. Dropped them at my parents and I was off to sunny Southeast Asia ...

the closer I look at it, I think you are right.

the vegetation looks like the stuff I had for my lionel trains!!

Please don’t throw any rocks.

My dads 1969 L78 we have been restoring how it looked in the late 70s and how it looked the last time it was driven in 1983. How it looks currently as well.