I'm worried about how much I like these.

K

I gotta say Chris.....I love your eye for detail! To say nothing for your cars:worship:

@Tim G, is that the brass hat car we were just talking about?

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Someone said side pipes only look good on C2 Vettes. I beg to differ.

@Tim G, is that the brass hat car we were just talking about?


Tim, that is the car ordered by the St. Louis plant manager. As plant manager, he wanted a white stinger instead of black and chrome valve covers.

The man knew what he was doing, as the white stinger is perfect with the white top and complements the blue as well. As for chrome valve covers, I've never understood why they weren't all chrome ?? Painted covers on their flagship model... :crazy:

Me either, Mitch. The tri-power 427 was one of the prettiest engines ever built, why put orange valve covers on it.

"Sleeper"?

Exactly, imagine if Pontiac elected to have blue valve covers.

----A little late to this discussion. I have 2 sidepipe big blocks left. I did have a 65 fuelie white coupe with 4.11s and OEM off-road under car pipes (N11). The sound out of those pipes at any decent RPM was off the charts, It wasn't the noise but a combo of the solid lifters, cam and gear. Had several 435s that were off-road under car exhaust and they were similarly cool, yet not the same as that mouse motored coupe.....Bill S

----66 with 65 rocker trim, humm. And then there's the hood, headlight alignment and no engine callouts at all. Pretty car though....Bill S

Price reflects the condition:

https://www.admcars.com/1966-chevrol...ims-c-1402.htm

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What if . . .

It's my understanding only the L-89 Aluminum Head 427 Tri-Power came with Chrome Valve Covers in 1967 Corvettes. Supposedly only 16 or 18 were built from the factory. Bill

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The Uniroyal tire is still around.

It is located on I-94 near the Detroit Metro Airport.

K

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In 1977 Gary Hoonsbeen, Minneapolis, purchased Polk County’s first automobile, a 1902 Oldsmobile, and after 5-1/2 years of work, restored it to near original condition. In 1985, he drove it from San Fran to New York in 38 days, averaging 12 MPH

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the 1986 Subaru XT Turbo was the most aerodynamic production car sold in North America with a drag coefficient of only 0.29, which was only bettered by two other vehicles in the entire world

What are these little winglets on the front fenders?

I don't recall ever seeing those before.

K

When we did the original Volt we were at 0.284. We were good with that because it allowed us to round down and advertise that it was 0.28.

The only problem was when we starting auditing the first production vehicles they were checking at .285, which would require us to round up to 0.29. We launched a very in depth investigation and were re-checking everything aero related (which includes every little skeg and bump, whether on the front or the rear of the car).

As it turns out those first production cars were building 5mm high. We retrimmed them out, dropped them the 5mm and got our 1 count back.

K

I haven't mentioned this publicly yet - but my wife recently purchased a 2019 Volt as her daily driver.

She is tickled to death. She is the least technical person I know, but she is calculating her mileage and figuring out the cheapest times to charge, and playing around with when to drive on the battery and when to enable the engine. All the data displayed in the car encourages you to be a hyper-miler whether you are inclined in that or not.

This is a woman that is so frugal she will turn the lights out while I am in the room. She keeps the thermostat in the bedroom at 59 degrees.

But - if she's happy, I'm happy. Literally.

K

When you ordered the front spoiler on the 70/71 Cuda - that's what you got. Ridiculous aren't they?

Good for her, Keith - and, as luck would have it, she'll have someone Volt-handy nearby along the way! Great car, too - we had a couple, went for a third and they'd been cancelled. Darn. More fun than one might think - never put a tire wrong!