Brian Wilson
 

Beach Boys.
Great music from the 60’s.

That’s a hard one for us 409 guys.

----Can you imagine any similar group today being so clean cut? Any of the grunginess I see today just seems odd to my 77 year old braincells (however many are actually left). I did love the BB"S back then as I thought anything in California was super cool. WOW has that thought changed....Bill S

Hopefully, he can rest in real piece now. Poor man had so many mental health issues, it's probably a miracle he lived this long.
We'll still be singing along with the Beach Boys until we join them.

My Jani grew up as a SoCal surfer girl and still refers to them as "My Beach Boys"

RIP Brian

One of my favorites:

https://youtu.be/fk6O_paS0hY

How the heck did you convince a surfer girl to move to boring, central Iowa...;)

RIP Brian...thanks for the tunes bud.Only Mike love and Al Jardine left.

All three Wilson brothers now gone. RIP Brian.

Didn't we all want to go live in the sun, fun and car culture of SoCal as young men ?? I'm with ya on the thought change as well..:no:

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Not all fame/fortune/good times as he sure had his personal struggles,
Thanks for the music Brian, RIP.

OHD706 CA Plate gleaming on brother Dennis’ ‘63 Split in pic, I had to try…
Sure enough, ‘66 LA Newspaper Ad below w/ 327 4-Spd noted, car known today?

RIP, very talented guy.

To hear Jani tell it her world came to an end at age 18 when her family moved home to NE IA. She still loves old Ford woody surfer wagons.

Ha, you never hear “split windows” called Fastbacks, but that’s what they were called back then.

Pete, thanks for posting that neat classified ad.

Speaking of woody surfer wagons …..

I’m sure Brian Wilson would appreciate all the woody wagons on the Santa Cruz pier.

And I’m pretty sure Jani would dig this highly patina 1940 Ford woody surfer wagon.

Pete, you are nothing short of amazing. Sherlock Holmes has nothin' on you :youguysrock:

And who's got Dennis Wilson's old phone number today????

That's wild finding the ad!!! So cool the stuff you find Pete!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RW8PFJTJJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTlfFlJ4o8

(Norm Grabowski in Monkey's Uncle credits, btw ...)

Brian, thanks for the tunes and memories. His music-vision was amazing. RIP.

Funny, I just found out that a friend of mine who was a music composer did the arrangement for the song Caroline, No for the Beach Boys. His wife called me yesterday to tell me. She just found the hand written score 2 weeks ago. I had no idea.

Just showed Jani these pix, boy did they stir up memories for her! Said in the mid-late '60s woodies like this were everywhere on the beach at Newport and Laguna.

She also related memories of taking the bus to see The Beach Boys at De Anza Theater in Riverside in 1965.

Thanks for posting Chris!! :beers:

Awesome!!

I wonder why the plate number was posted in the add, was it required?

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Not sure when it started/stopped but Plate #’s in For Sale Ads was a CA requirement.
As you can see w/ both Wilson bros ‘Vettes, searching old CA vehicles today works well but 4x things required for success; #1- you need to know the Plate of course, #2- the vehicle needs to have actually been advertised back in the day, #3- the Newspaper page w/ Ad needs to have been scanned in recent years by the Newspaper groups which only a tiny amount of a percentage of papers have been, #4- you have to find the old Ad searching which usually involves sifting through tons of non-relevant results.
Got any old CA Plates you want to try Tim?
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~ Pete

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IIRC, in CA back in the day, the plate remained with the car when it was sold. Don't know if that's still the case or not.

Never knew this, now I can hear The Beach Boys singing back up



https://youtu.be/pLTJwndYNyE?si=llruXBfhYtlBh-2o

Very interesting on the plate number required for advertising. I’ll have to check out my ‘67 with an original ‘67 Black Plate.

Pete, this one was put on in April of ‘67. The car left California in 1990.

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Sorry Tim, I tried but no luck searching CA Plate UYM 972 or UYM972.
What dealer delivered your ‘67 Coupe new also what options/engine/trans?
Any chance you have the original owner’s phone # and/or any subsequent CA owners?
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~ Pete

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John Geer in Sacramento. It’s a 350 horse with blue leather and a smog pump. It was sold to an Air Force pilot and probably to another pilot in 1973. It left for Albany NY after that in 1990.
Thank you for trying the search.

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Trying quickly, Greer Chevy looks good w/ lots of results to sift through also appears like April ‘67 when they opened their Sports Car Headquarters? I’ll zero in on the timeframes and search for any specific Ads but what’s the build date, just wondering how long it may’ve been on the lot before selling or is it known to have been ordered by the pilot?
Have you shared this car in another thread here that’s better to post in than this Brian Wilson memorial, although he and Dennis both being Midyear owners as the other two Ads would probably like it anyway?
I’m just on the way out but here’s one generic John Geer Ad now, I’ll look deeper again later.

:hmmm:
~ Pete

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