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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart (Post 1398199)

https://s26.postimg.cc/8typ3jp89/image.jpg

Ouch.

But true.

K

I can't believe nobody mentioned the "1970" front tag on the '69 Camaro press photo several pages back........

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Originally Posted by DW31S (Post 1398446)

I can't believe nobody mentioned the "1970" front tag on the '69 Camaro press photo several pages back........

I saw that. I wonder what the build date of the car was...Joe

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Originally Posted by Mr70 (Post 1398450)

Which one?

He is referring to this one which is one of three Chevy PR photos

https://s26.postimg.cc/3xmc3m1i1/image.jpg

https://s26.postimg.cc/rolplqwk9/image.jpg

https://s26.postimg.cc/8w9ui6fll/image.jpg

I am guessing . . . when the new body 1970 model was delayed, Chevy ordered these photos. There is a magazine photo of the "New 1970 Chevrolet Performance Cars" and in it is a 1969 Camaro SS. I will try to find it. . . . Here it is:

https://s26.postimg.cc/q9k4xfvll/01-_Kit.jpg

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Cool pics Lee and thanks again for all the great stuff you dig up and post here!
Wonder how the Cessna in the one pic was associated w/ GM, in use by them or maybe arranged by their Advertising Agency?
'68 Skyhawk 172-K - CN#17257706 - Lycoming 0-320 Flat-4 - N78652 - Current/Registered in the US by a VA Corp.

:beers:
~ Pete

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Originally Posted by PeteLeathersac (Post 1398461)

Thanks for the kudos Pete - greatly appreciated!

There are two "themes" that seem to go with auto ads created in the 1960s and early 1970s for "sporty" cars:" small airplanes and scuba diving. I could post lots of PR photos with them. I don't think there is any relationship between them other than what the ad agency is trying to have to photo say to a potential buyer.

https://s26.postimg.cc/8p51oaph5/image.jpg

https://s26.postimg.cc/ykos7ftux/image.jpg

Some do have a relationship like the one below - The Donzi is "Powered By Ford."

https://s26.postimg.cc/mzelzgsvd/444.jpg

Looks like a 337 Super Sky Smasher in the background ... maybe a 336 ... TAZ

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The hood emblem in the pic above got me thinking 69/70 Acadian so I looked closer.
Can't 'member ever seeing a Dealer Emblem mounted on a hood before?
:hmmm:
~ Pete

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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart (Post 1398488)

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http://s30.postimg.cc/x3pgw9snl/image.jpg

In late '68 and early '69 the cops were writing noise tickets on the chambered cars left and right. I don't remember swapping out any systems myself, but there were a bunch of chambered systems stacked on end next to my stalls in the service dept. of Schukei Chevrolet, waiting to be scrapped.

https://s26.postimg.cc/dg9z3kttl/p032r0gz.jpg

It's called a Gynandromorphic Lobster

https://s26.postimg.cc/bpvjfgbuh/image.jpg

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But the greatest real-life gunslingers have to be the pistol shrimp, aka the snapping shrimp, hundreds of species with an enormous claw they use to fire bullets of bubbles at foes, knocking them out cold or even killing them. The resulting sound is an incredible 210 decibels, far louder than an actual gunshot, which averages around 150.

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/absurd...pistol-shrimp/